When the Republicans controlled the Senate, it was all their fault.
When the Republicans controlled the Congress, it was all their fault.
Now that the Democrats control the Senate, its still the Republicans fault.
Now that the Democrats control the Congress, its still the Republicans fault.
What am I missing with your logic?
2007-12-11 02:05:25 · 21 answers · asked by vinny_says_relax 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
UpToBat save your educational rant. I live here in DC and know quite a bit about the fed government. But I agree, we should all be more involved.
2007-12-11 03:17:40 · update #1
Yes. The Republicans are obstructionists, the Dems don't have the numbers for an override, and you know it.
2007-12-11 02:09:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋
On the contrary, although Republicans controlled the congress AND White House for six years, everything, to you, was Clinton's fault.
Now we have a situation where the Democrats have a slight majority in congress, similar to what prevailed during much of Clinton's Administration (from the opposite perspective-Repub Congress, Dem President).
Did you Cons blame anything that went wrong in the 90's on the Republican congress, or was it Clinton's fault??
So you can pretty much answer your own question. Classic Republican hypocrisy.
Give us six full years of a Dem Congress AND President, like you had from Jan. 2001 to December 2006, and then we'll talk.
2007-12-11 02:16:16 · answer #2 · answered by celticexpress 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
First of all, the legislative branch of the U.S. federal government is called the Congress. Congress is composed of two houses: the House of Representatives, and the Senate.
We live in a democracy that allows us to vote each member into office. We have the right to hold our Senators' and Representatives' feet to the fire when they do things we don't like them to do. Write and call your Congressmen when important issues are coming up to be voted on or they are disappointing you.
It is all the Democrats' AND Republicans' fault AS WELL AS OUR OWN for not being engaged in what happens in our government BY, OF, and FOR the people.
We are the government and should take responsibility too.
Yes, I am just as guilty as you, for like you, and Pontius Pilate, I seem to have washed my hands of it all and thrown away my responsibilities.
We all should start by demanding laws to be enacted to force Congressional members to behave ethically in all matters, so that businesses and other governments do not pose undue (purchased) influence on these mortals.
I consider myself to be middle-of-the-road in my politics. Who in government doesn't have a hard left or right lean? I think the middle is where sanity would prevail, but politics has been polarized in this country.
Bottom line is: we could all stand to become better citizens and be more involved.
2007-12-11 02:34:43 · answer #3 · answered by up.tobat 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
When Republicans had majorities in both houses and the Executive, Republicans shut out Democrats and were therefore completely responsible for the mess we find ourselves. Democrats now have both houses but have an Republican Executive that chooses what part of the law applies and does as it pleases. Therefore Republicans again are responsible.
2007-12-11 02:18:46 · answer #4 · answered by aries_jdd 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
While the Democrats have a simple majority, they don't have the 2/3rds majority needed to override a Presidential veto. Add to that the fillibustering and you have something that isn't the fault of the Democrats at all, is it?
2007-12-11 02:23:06 · answer #5 · answered by slykitty62 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
VOTE Out ALL Incumbents in Nov., What they are asserting and offering as what's suited for US ISN"T & HASN"T BEEN. in many strategies that is TREASON. Failure to fulfill Their Oaths of workplace. No racism here.and that i might like our farms restored & returned by way of Mugabe and team. each and every physique's hungry with the aid of fact they at the instant are not working them producing nutrients to any ones delight.
2016-12-17 14:28:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dems don't control the Senate, they don't have a filibuster-proof majority, and the President can veto anything they pass, which he has done, because there are not enough Dem votes to over-ride his vetoes
if we purge the Senate of a few more Republicans, then the Dems will be *in control*
2007-12-11 02:10:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 3⤋
I thought the senate was split 48-48-2.
Makes it hard to accomplish much. O I notice you didn't include the no-op that at the top either.
2007-12-11 02:11:33 · answer #8 · answered by madjer21755 5 · 6⤊ 0⤋
I think both parties are playing the good cop bad cop routine and the joke is on the American people. We are the inmates but the lunatics and madmen are running the asylum. We need to run most of them out before they destroy us and our country with them! Arent all of you growing tired of their little games and empty meaningless rhetoric that does nothing and solves nothing? We have been had people!!
2007-12-11 02:13:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Considering as it is the republicans in congress that block to over ride every veto president bush hands back to them, yes, that is the republicans fault.
2007-12-11 02:10:19 · answer #10 · answered by Kevy 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
about your (simplistic) logic ...
... what does fixing the blame solve anyway?
this is the kind of garbage that got 'the cowboy next door' in office in the first place, try to stay on point
2007-12-11 02:14:17 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋