Comment Re:Love how he had all these great ideas (Score 0) 417
It's not checks and balances if the entire goal of the House is to make the President fail.
But it's OK with you if the entire purpose of the Senate is to make the House Of Representatives fail?
The entire purpose of our structure of government is to make it adversarial. That IS checks and balances. You conveniently forget things that actually do get passed and signed, and focus only on your frustration when the agenda of one person is disliked by a majority of the people in the country, and by congress. That's the whole point. If I were elected to an executive branch office, and said out loud that my entire agenda would be to do things you, personally, find deplorable, wouldn't you want to see that agenda fail? No? You'd like to see the agenda you dislike succeed? Why is that?
Just because the previous President fucked the goose doesn't mean that your party can't strive to learn the mistakes of the past and do better.
Again, that's the whole point. The current president is putting on a display of policy absurdity and stunning lack of competency - and so of course the legislative branch (including many in his own party) are pushing back against his positions. The majority of the country profoundly dislikes the health care finance law they rammed through on 100% partisan grounds. The majority of the country find his foreign policy positions to be complete feckless, and clumsily handled even if they approve of them. The point is that exactly such things were plainly going to happen given his ideology and stated positions on a wide spectrum of things. People saw that while he was first campaigning for office. You're suggesting that despite knowing he was going to be a disaster, and despite there being very good reasons to oppose most of his positions on everything within his constitutional purview (as well as the things he's doing that are well outside his role), that everyone should just go along for the ride? Gotta love that about the lefties: "We should all get along a work in the spirit of compromise, by doing what we say." No. Obama and his party have solidly earned the opposition they've cultivated, and the recent mid-term election demonstrates once again how tone deaf they've been. Opposition to them as they acted in that mode isn't a problem, it's a solution.