In is article, Obama challenges the GOP to "put politics aside" and vote yes for the new payroll tax. In the recent weeks, the House Republicans have basically been refusing to compromise with the presidents demands. Obama believes that the people of this country need this tax in order to improve their living, and to get us out of the recession. However, the Republicans will continue to disapprove of anything that Obama proposes, and it seems like Obama has had enough. Read more...
I've had enough too. I've said this in a lot of my posts, politics today are too juvenile. The people in Washington are too stubborn and our country is not getting anything done. I think that Obama's comments are completely in bounds, he has a great point that might be necessary to save our nation. #everybodyloveeverybody
This article irritates me and the only reason I am going to comment on this is so i get points for it, here i go. This is absolutely ridiculous, I truly believe that the republicans are just being childish and saying no because they are not getting what they want whether its good or bad for the country. There are 160 million people in this country who need this tax and unemployment benefits so that can have a decent living while they go through these hard times.
What is the GOP's endgame here? I don't understand what they want to accomplish, other than getting Obama out of office. It seems to me that they're willing to run the country into the ground, to chalk these four years up to a loss, to help their chances in the 2012 Presidential race. There has been an unprecedented refusal to compromise on the part of the GOP. Unprecendented action requires unprecedented circumstances, the only of which is the President's race. Never before has Congress been so disfunctional, so petulant, and so ineffecient, and never before has the public been so discontented. Usually references to the "American People," which Obama used in spades in his speech, seems like disengenous political posturing, an effort to paint a group as opposed to the will of the public, and something that I find generally obnoxious. But in this case, Obama's accusations are legitimate, as the GOP has hijacked the entire country, and all because a black man is in charge. While Obama is issuing desperate entreaties for compromise, scrambling to save his country and people, the GOP members are ironing the Confederate flags, drafting their notice of secession.
Everybody gather round the table, lay down your cards and just battle the game out. Oh wait...its not a "poker game" according to Obama, yet its being handled as one. To Extend or Not To Extend. It sounds as if both sides act as if they have something lose. I second my friend Fred Ditz when he states that the republicans are being "just childish". It shouldn't take this long to figure out a decision, yet this seems to be quite an important one due to all the people it will affect in the future. Obama has to take a harder approach to this and allow both sides to stop bickering and come to a conclusion.
In is article, Obama challenges the GOP to "put politics aside" and vote yes for the new payroll tax. In the recent weeks, the House Republicans have basically been refusing to compromise with the presidents demands. Obama believes that the people of this country need this tax in order to improve their living, and to get us out of the recession. However, the Republicans will continue to disapprove of anything that Obama proposes, and it seems like Obama has had enough. Read more...
ReplyDeleteI've had enough too. I've said this in a lot of my posts, politics today are too juvenile. The people in Washington are too stubborn and our country is not getting anything done. I think that Obama's comments are completely in bounds, he has a great point that might be necessary to save our nation. #everybodyloveeverybody
ReplyDeleteThis article irritates me and the only reason I am going to comment on this is so i get points for it, here i go. This is absolutely ridiculous, I truly believe that the republicans are just being childish and saying no because they are not getting what they want whether its good or bad for the country. There are 160 million people in this country who need this tax and unemployment benefits so that can have a decent living while they go through these hard times.
ReplyDeleteWhat is the GOP's endgame here? I don't understand what they want to accomplish, other than getting Obama out of office. It seems to me that they're willing to run the country into the ground, to chalk these four years up to a loss, to help their chances in the 2012 Presidential race. There has been an unprecedented refusal to compromise on the part of the GOP. Unprecendented action requires unprecedented circumstances, the only of which is the President's race. Never before has Congress been so disfunctional, so petulant, and so ineffecient, and never before has the public been so discontented. Usually references to the "American People," which Obama used in spades in his speech, seems like disengenous political posturing, an effort to paint a group as opposed to the will of the public, and something that I find generally obnoxious. But in this case, Obama's accusations are legitimate, as the GOP has hijacked the entire country, and all because a black man is in charge. While Obama is issuing desperate entreaties for compromise, scrambling to save his country and people, the GOP members are ironing the Confederate flags, drafting their notice of secession.
ReplyDeleteEverybody gather round the table, lay down your cards and just battle the game out. Oh wait...its not a "poker game" according to Obama, yet its being handled as one. To Extend or Not To Extend. It sounds as if both sides act as if they have something lose. I second my friend Fred Ditz when he states that the republicans are being "just childish". It shouldn't take this long to figure out a decision, yet this seems to be quite an important one due to all the people it will affect in the future. Obama has to take a harder approach to this and allow both sides to stop bickering and come to a conclusion.
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