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StrangerThan -> RE: Harry Reid: 'I had nothing to do with' bad economy... (9/7/2010 6:52:14 PM)
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ORIGINAL: popeye1250
I was watching CNN tonight and they said one of the polls said that respondants favored Repubs by 49%
Dems by 40% and they said similar polls are comming "in waves."
Rick Sanchez said it's shaping up to be a "political tsunami" in November and it will be, "even worse than the Democrats think it will be."
And "the dog" Obama broke his leash yesterday and was barking at people.
And try to find one (1) Democrat who's up for reelection who voted for Obama's healthcare program! You can't! They're all invisable!!!
Here's what I think will happen.
If republicans win the house but not the senate - which right now is the most likely scenario, legislation will be stalled, both sides will talk about working for the American people while what they mostly do is point fingers at each other, play the blame game and jostle for position in two more years.
If republicans win both house and senate, unlikely given that only a 3rd of the senate is up each election, it will be put up or shut up time. They've talked a lot about cutting spending. Well, that was tried before under someone, maybe hoover and it led to the depression. The rock and the hard place we are in is one where we can';t really cut spending much and can't borrow much more either to spend. So despite all the talk about winning both, I'd be willing to bet strategists will be happy to win the house and leave the senate in the hands of the democrats. Otherwise, they're are suddenly going to be held to the fire, wherein they'll offer legislation they know the president will veto for the purpose of having him veto it so they can use it against him in the next election.
The same shit will go in reverse. And we'll go round and round and round and the rhetoric will be scathing. It'll be that way because there is no quick fix for the economy. We are a service oriented economy now like it or not. It won't recover until people feel good enough to spend. People won't feel that way until the economy picks up and the fear of losing jobs and homes starts to fade. The rather monstrous sea of credit that was opened to the public by virtually every administration since Reagan, no longer exists. Homes no longer carry equity like they did. In fact, a good percentage of people owe more than their house is worth these days. The credit card industry has been undergoing a painful retraction in the past couple of years. Even good customers who never missed a payment saw limits reduced and rates raised last year before the looming reforms that took effect earlier this year.
I honestly don't know what the answer is. Cutting taxes isn't going to do it. Spending isn't either this time around because we have so much debt to service.
So both are talking out their ass in my opinion. Both are lazy and assume victory gives them a mandate of sorts to run with their agendas. If swapping congress out completely twice in 14 years isn't a signal, I don't know what is. That signal is, we're tired of the bullshit. Do something that actually benefits us rather than increasing the bureaucracy, increasing the amount of money coming out of my pocket, and hell, you don't even have to give me real hope, just tell me my job will be there tomorrow if I work hard.
I don't know why that is so difficult for people in Washington to understand. Dems promised change. The only real changes I have seen is 1) we have a different party controlling the purse strings and they are just as incapable as the party that left and 2) the agenda went from fucking people over for one cause to fucking them over for another. We have states suing over health care, going to court to battle over immigration with another 19 or 20 states slated to join them in the battle, the economy in ruins
and the funny thing is, if you listen to the cock suckers in washington, it's all someone elses fault.
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