A Tale of Two Cities

[telemann.livejournal.com]

Boy, what a contrast between President Obama and Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell's speeches after Tuesday's midterm election. Dumping President Obama is McConnell's highest priority (his words, not mine). So this is what America has to look forward to: gridlock. Despite voters saying in poll after poll they want Congress and the President to work together, the message just doesn't sink in.

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[luvdovz.livejournal.com]

Look, the more of this post-election stuff I witness (and take part in), the more I'm afraid your side might turn out to be accused of utter butthurt. I was surprised that my expectations to see these forums getting flooded with triumphalist conservative exclamations, got overwhelmed by liberal lamentations instead - of the saddest "but you're not gonna work with us; where's your integrity/responsibility/bipartisanship, no oh no!" sort.

Dude, the world hasn't ended yet. Maybe just take a break from this subject and give it a rest for a while. Without even noticing these sort of statements have most certainly been giving ammo to your opponents who are probably sniggering under their breath and who would've probably laughed-out-loud if they weren't still so drunken from the victory party. ;)

[udoswald.livejournal.com]

the message just doesn't sink in.

Why should it? The Republicans made it very clear before the election that they had no interest in working with Obama and the Democrats. They promised they would bring the government to a grinding halt (more so than before). Some people contacted by pollsters may have assured themselves that their Republican vote was just a plea to get the parties to work together but they're lying, either to themselves to the pollster or both. If Americans really wanted a situation where the Democrats and Republicans were going to work together, they wouldn't have voted for a slate of Republicans who promised the opposite at every opportunity.

Sometimes no IS the answer.

[geezer-also.livejournal.com]

As I see it, the problem lies in the fact that "compromise" means you do exactly what I want.

[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

Despite voters saying in poll after poll they want Congress and the President to work together, the message just doesn't sink in.

That's because we're talking to Obama and I guess he's just too dense to get it.

[drcruel.livejournal.com]

McConnell and the Republicans are gambling that they can put off dealing with the important issues-you know, the ones on which they took no policy positions during the election season, which is pretty much all of them-blame their lack of substantiative policy-making on the Democrats, and thus have another tidal wave of white anger with which to dethrone our traitorous (Kenyan Muslim) President in 2012. McConnell said it's his top priority, after all. They think inaction plays in their favor-who knows, they may be right, they've filibustered everything the Democrats put forward and blamed us for inaction for the last 2yrs.