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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI may have found our problem in two quotes (IMO)
I don't make many OP's but...
Nov 7, 2008 - "In accepting his (party's convincing) victory, Obama ... pledged a message of bipartisanship going forward"
Nov 5, 2014 - "McConnell issues stern warning to Obama"
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I may have found our problem in two quotes (IMO) (Original Post)
Doctor_J
Nov 2014
OP
I dont think McConnell is going to find a cooperative President to deal with, this time
randys1
Nov 2014
#1
And giving in to the party that put us in that position was the right thing to do?
Doctor_J
Nov 2014
#4
randys1
(16,286 posts)1. I dont think McConnell is going to find a cooperative President to deal with, this time
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)2. Their agendas overlap considerably anyway
TPP, XL, CCPI, drilling. The point is that the Dems never fight.
babylonsister
(171,070 posts)3. So in accepting victory, Obama should have put
on boxing gloves and gone against repubs, when the country was going to hell economically in a handbasket? We were on the brink of a depression iirc, caused by dimson, but correct me if I'm wrong.
Yea, he sucked.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)4. And giving in to the party that put us in that position was the right thing to do?
the 2008 voters didn't vote for compromise.
babylonsister
(171,070 posts)6. How long have you been paying
attention? How could both be accomplished at the same time? We hired a man, not a magician.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)7. So apparently McTurtle is a magician
We hired a man, not a magician.
Then why do Repukes get more done with tiny majorities than we get with huge majorities?
Broward
(1,976 posts)5. Didn't FDR put on the boxing gloves?