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willbeurdaddy -> RE: GOP plans wave of White House probes (8/27/2010 5:19:44 PM)
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If we Americans ever learn to stop defending our two, equally corrupt and equally incompetent political parties we might actually be able to have a better-run government.
Seriously, try and have a political conversation with someone, anyone, without using the words "Democrat" or "Republican." This means you'd have to actually talk about competence and results--not simply blame one party and defend the other.
You'd also find that virtually no-one in this country is happy with the federal government. If we all stop blaming either Dems or Repubs, we have to blame the government itself instead of one of the parties.
Bush and the Republican Party promised fiscal responsibility, small federal government and strong national security. They delivered 7 of the ten biggest deficits the country has ever seen (starting with a surplus, no less), created an enormous new entitlement program (Medicare D) with no way to pay for it, oversaw the largest expansion (and most intrusive) of the Federal Gov't since the New Deal, and had the biggest national security failure in the history of the country. Add the near total collapse of the economy and two disastrous wars and you get the picture.
Obama and the Democrats promised to investigate the Bush Admin's extra-Constitutional transgressions, deliver serious HCR which included single-payer like the rest of the civilized world, serious Wall Street reform, transparency in how the government operates, and lead the country "in a fundamentally new direction." On these promises the Dems swept control of both houses and then Obama kicked the shit out of McCain/Palin. They delivered: watered-down reform, continuation of the totally corrupt Bush/Paulson TARP bail-out of criminal banks, lame HCR which arguably helps insurance companies more than anyone else, opaque as usual governance and no "new direction" in sight.
Wake up, people. Both parties lie to their supporters and fail to deliver--over and over and over again. As long we keep defending these a-holes, they'll just keep promising "change" every four years and never deliver it.
Arguing about politics and policy is a good thing (it's actually what democracy is all about). Arguing about which group of organized criminals should next be "in power" is an absurd game than never changes anything. Ever.
Rant over.
Good, because we all tend to live in the real world where the government IS two parties, one of which will have somewhat more power than the other. Thats what we have to deal with regardless of whether the choice is the lesser of two evils, and evils that you are hyperbolic about to begin with.
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