How come Liberal Congress so Inept - I thought no one could be this bad?

Answer 1

Congress has to deal with the fact that the President still has veto power over everything they try to do. Until there is a real majority in Congress, the Democrats will not be able to start to right all the wrongs of Bush's administration.

Answer 2

The Congress is not inept. The current Congressional majority was elected with the idea that they would check the president's idiotic concept of democracy. (I imagine the founding fathers are turning in their graves at Bush's assertion the other day that Congress should just fund the war and not have any say in policy making regarding the war! As if to say, "Just sign your name at the bottom and I will fill in the amount and decide how to spend the money later.") The problem is that the country is divided and thus was not able to elect enough Democrats to rein in this president.

OHBROTHER discusses how Bush only vetoed the one piece of legislation. To him and others similarly mis-informed, it's not the vetoes he has actually made, it's the threatened vetoes or the threat of vetoes that shape the legislative process and what Congress (without 2/3s to override, or 60 votes to consider it in the Senate) can and will do. The House passed a piece of legislation last week again calling for troop withdrawal which will probably never see the light of day in the Senate much less the president's desk unless there are 60 Senate votes to bring the measure to a vote because the president threatens to veto it.

Answer 3

UH.....congress has been inept for much longer than they have been in power........but if you want to discuss inept.....Dont the republicans stand for small government and fiscal responsibility?....yet while the GOP congress AND the whitehouse, niether were accomplished, which is rather odd since President Bush never Vetoed a bill for the first six yrs. Were they so inept that they couldnt push thru legislation with their own rubber stamp president?........Its an institutional problem not a matter of which party controls it.

Signed....lifelong republican

Answer 4

Inept is a good word to describe all of the politicians. They are bought and sold by special interest groups. And the President is the worst of the bunch. You could probably ask this question every two years and still be right.

Until we vote the status quo (Republicans and Democrats) out of Washington and our state legislatures, we will see more of the same.

Vote against all incumbents. Maybe the politicians will finally get the message that American voters are and have been sick and tired of how our country is being run.

Answer 5

The Dems do have a majority in the House but more importantly they do not have a 2/3s majority or the magical 67 vote majority in order to over ride a presidential veto. It has been interesting as of late seeing more Repubs in the House moving away from GW. With 21 Repubs up for re-election in 08 in the House, and over 70% of the American people against this presidents policies, I think we'll see even more House Repubs getting distance from George.

Answer 6

The only thing the President has vetoed is telling the terrorist when we will draw down from Iraq. So those that are saying the President can veto whatever they do, Flap doddle, give him something to veto then. Those that can't legislate, investigate. They are more interested in playing "gotcha". If they want to investigate something why don't they investigate Finestein and her funneling billions of dollars in Government contracts to her husbands companies. Why do they complain about Haliburton, that employees tens of thousands, and not Finestein's husbands companies that produce military hardware. Go figure.

Answer 7

One big reason is because Bush uses his veto power often so the blame can't go to the Liberal Congress totally!


Im a conservative!

Answer 8

8 months, *****. We've put a budget on the war, raised the minimum wage, and tried to control immigration.


12 years, *****. In which time the Republican Congress was in power. What all did they do??? They only worked 3 days a week, and only passed Bush's "blank check".




What do you say about that???

Answer 9

I don't see the problem with Congress as being partisan, it is an equal opportunity of failure system right now!

Answer 10

America is lucky they are so inept and have Presidential penis envy.

Imagine the damage that would be done if they actually were able to pass some of the atrocious bills they propose and weren't so busy trying to play President.