@EddyFree
Your response exemplifies exactly what I have been saying on other threads. "He doesn't need to "win" this...He wins by losing...They know he "tried", that's all that matters". Anything to get him or the Dems elected. Doesn't matter that they don't get anything done. Doesn't matter that this major issue is still with us. Just matters that he tried. And, because he tried, I will vote for him.And, the stagnation continues.
Isn't anyone interested in finding people to elect that FIX the problems, not just try? I know what you are going to say - it is the Repubs that block everything. Yep. That is politics. No one gets to come in and put out their agenda and everyone bows to the leader. Our system is not set up that way. It is set up on compromise and finding middle ground to get things done. You come in with your agenda, find out who is with you and who is not, then start to work on those you need to win over. Then you "politic", you negotiate, talk, coerce, whatever to assemble enough votes to get your program through. Ted Kennedy was a master at this. He would work, negotiate, prod, threaten, whatever, to get people lined up behind his legislation. He got bi-partisan legislation passed. Reagan rallied the masses to such a point that no Congressperson who even thought of re-election would stand against him. He got bi-partisan legislation passed. That is politics. Obama just puts out a program, if it passes, great, if not, it is because the Repubs stalled it. Nothing gets done. And the stagnation continues. The only time that the Dems got anything done was when they had a Democratic Congress to support Obama. And that was taken away by the voters. Twice. First in the House, then in the Senate. Which should mean that the VOTERS, the most powerful people in the land, were not completely enamored with the Democratic agenda. Yet, most votes were right along party lines - no compromise, no negotiation. Just puppets who are owned by their political parties, voting right along the line. So now we have to wait until we get a Democratic Congress again to get anything done?
The Dems win and the stagnation continues.God save America! I am not sure that anyone else can!