C-SPAN call-ins..

[kentuck]

So much disappointment.

And that is from the Democrats. The Republicans are much worse.

Steve (the conservative) is reading from a Fred Barnes article about the meeting the President had with the Republicans and what a great job Paul Ryan did at that meeting. Funny, I don't remember it that way but perhaps he dreamed it?

I truly believe the President is trying to do the right thing. However, he is attempting to give equal weight to both Republican and Democratic ideas, regardless of merit. That simply will not work.

Some older lady just called in and said he was lacking "balls". She voted for him but she was looking for an FDR. She was terribly disappointed.

The President seems to think the American people know the truth. They don't. They only know what they are told, at least, the majority of Americans. The President goes out of his way not to tell the truth about what is happening, for fear of offending the Republican Party. It simply will not work.

[merbex]

1. That 'older lady' knows that an FDR was exactly what the country needed

NOT another neo-liberal.

People aren't stupid.

They know a 'blueprint' existed for getting out of a depression~ they also know that the blueprint left by FDR wasn't even dusted off.

Nope, no dusting, just disparagement~ and that's from the so called OUR SIDE in the WH

Waves of disappointment where I live and who I talk to.

[mrcheerful]

4. Yet they continue to vote for the party that started dismantling FDR's blueprint from the day FDR

using the blueprint causing the depression to last longer then it should have if FDR's blueprint had been used. People seem to forget that happened also. I also remember while in office Clinton also got a lot of flak for not doing enough which got worse after the R's won the mid terms, liberals were upset because Clinton didn't take the country back to pre Reagan years. People were upset when Clinton reformed welfare and signed NAFTA into law but few people remember Clinton made a compromise with the R's who had a veto proof majority, I remember how everyone said well Clinton caved again.

The problem with politics is that the people are never satisfied with the president while in office until after an R takes office then they remember how great the D president was, also remember the D president is held to a higher standard then the R. Then you have the party's makeup, R's march lock step together and D's are like herding cats and they never agree on anything until they feel they have no other choice. I figured out a long time ago that R stood for benefits for the rich and D's were put in place to slow the R's down. It's just politics and its a dirty business because everyone looses except those who were born to families that lives don't depend on government unless its corporate welfare that allows them to line their pockets.

Is it fair? No, but neither is life or else everyone would have been born on third base. Frustrating when your stuck on first base and all you see is everything you believed was safe turns out to be not as safe as you believed it was. I was born when Ike was president grew up with JFK, RFK and Mlk were killed, saw Johnson make mistake after mistake starting with Vietnam, spent my teen years with Nixon/Ford became a man when Carter was elected and Survived the Reagan/Bush years and nothings has really changed politically because 1 party has spent my life time trying to take from the poor and give to the rich while the other party at best could only do damage control.

[Vinca]

2. The older lady made a whole lot of sense. Then, of course, there was the other one

who started out sounding sane and ended up with the Mexican drug lords storming the border.:rofl:

[malaise]

3. I haven't watched for a while

but like clockwork I see Grover (of bathtub fame) coming up shortly.
:puke:

[iwishiwas]

5. Grover N. is on now bashing the unions and lying. No surprise.

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