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Y&R Discussion Group
Backman promises $2 gasoline. The President has no control over gas prices.
Most of them say they will do away with the Health care plan. I seriously doubt that would happen.
Why does no one wonder about the potential of actually getting done what they will say they will do. So much depends on the Congress. Obama has had some successes with his promises but Congress has stood in the way of many.
Just curious. Anyone else wonder about why this is never mentioned?
The Republicans both scare and befuddle me. They say they want less government intrusion in our lives - yet they want to tell us who we can marry, what we can or cannot do with our own bodies. They want less judicial activism - then turn around and sue to get on the ballot in Virginia.
And speaking of Virginia -
The Republican Party of Virginia will require all citizens of the state voting in the Republican primary on March 6, 2012 to sign a loyalty oath before being permitted to cast their votes.
Put plainly, anyone who shows up at the polling place must sign a form wherein he or she swears to support the Republican candidate who wins the nomination. Refusal to sign the pledge results in revocation of the right to vote in the Republican primary election.
And they think one of them will get elected??
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There are two stipulations: The 2010 election was a dress rehearsal for 2012 and, the scarier of the two, whoever the Republicans put forward is going to be an even worse choice than 2008 McCain/Palin.
Having watched the opposition's freak show this past year, leading up to the Iowa caucuses, I see little causing Obama concern. They've done nothing but scare people. Their only plans are obstructionism and make Obama a one-term president. They are over-playing the anti-incumbency card.
There was a generational and cultural change in politics in 2008. Unfortunately that change failed to show up at the 2010 elections, which gave us the obstructionist Tea Party House of Representatives and a few nasties on the state level. (BTW, where are the jobs?)
I can only hope that it doesn't happen again in 2012. I will say that the Republicans are working overtime to make sure there will be a large turnout. Between their "voting only with photo ID" movement and some of the scariest Republican candidates within memory, they truly are scaring people. Talk about shooting themselves in their collective foot!
I predict we will see a reinvented, vigorous and organized Democratic Party.
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The minute Obama was elected, the Republicans stated their number one priority was to make him a one-term president. Even when he prepared something as innocuous as a back-to-school address to promote education, ''outraged'' conservatives tried to manufacture controversy by claiming Obama was attempting to ''indoctrinate our children with socialist propaganda.'' We've had four years of focus on the president's birth certificate, government shutdowns, and other forms of pure political theater.
When nothing is too extreme and no tactic is too low, it's not surprising Republican candidates have continued to put partisanship ahead of finding solutions to the important issues and challenges facing the country.
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