Quote Originally Posted by Dave Severson View Post
You know I'm not that great putting thoughts into words.... I don't think Obama can take all the blame or all the credit for anything that's happened since he was elected! The 2010 vote was both good and bad, brought in a lot of the tea party candidates with some good ideas, but also some way out in left field radical ideas that will never make it into law.---Though many of their issues did make good campaign trail fodder and sound bites.

I don't see anybody in government right now I trust with a check book, certainly not the President or the Congress!!!! Don't really see where I implied that compromise meant doing everything Obama's way, certainly not the way I see compromise, anyway. The President has some good ideas, the Congress has some good ideas, and all of them have some really lame ideas for straightening things out. The art of compromise would be to take the good points from both sides, iron out some of the differences and get some legislation working that is good for all of the country, not just this segment or that. But, I'm enough of a realist to know that seeing as how this is an election year, neither side will give an inch on their position... I guess if you don't pass any laws you can't be accused of passing bad laws!!!!!

It's up to the voters this year, time to make a big statement to Congress about what is expected of them and that ineptness will no longer be tolerated! I just hope that the campaigns aren't just all about super rich "giving" their money to the super poor. I think that whole argument is nothing more then a smoke screen to hide behind so that no politicians aren't subject to accountability for their poor performance! Politicians are shrewd in their rhetoric, they know full well if they can get the populous ranting, raving, and pointing fingers about the emotional issues that everything else will be forgotten! People have got to make the candidates stick to the real issues and present their plans for a real solution. If they can't do that, they don't deserve your vote!!!! Seems the people in Congress now can really talk the talk--we need to send them home and get some new blood in their that can walk the walk!!!!!
I think you understate your communication skills, that's why I asked for clarification. Although I thought it a curious twist when you referred to Tea Party ideas from radical LEFT feild. And you violated one of the rules of modern commentary........NEVER use the word "radical" in the same sentence with the word "left".

We're going to be beaten to death with a "do nothing Congress" message from our President for the next several months. I would think we'd have a better informed electorate if in any discussion of that by our vaunted communication media if the facts about some 15 so called jobs bills have been advanced from the House, only to die in a pigeon hole on the Seanate leaders desk. If compromise and action are the appropriate goals, wouldn't advancing those bills to committe or floor in the Senate be action, and debate be an effort to compromise? How does refusing to even consider a legitimate bill advance the case for compromise/action? Where's the 60 Minutes, hard hitting investigative journalism? And where is the investigation by a "fair" media into why the Senate leader hasn't done anything about fulfilling the Constitutional obligation to submit an annual budget for over 1000 days. Not a fig leaf amendment attached to another bill, an actual budget. A corporation can't get away with abusing it's share holders with any such malfeasance, but the guys who write laws about that?

There may be other examples of less significant "obstruction" on both sides, but these two, especially in our current economic state, are, or should be, a couple biggies. I'm not hearing any bitching about it. I guess I'm too radical................