He could save even more time by creating an avatar that says that. Then he would only have to type one letter. Who says us Liberals aren’t efficient problem solvers?
That’s a questionable metric, since “bad decisions” are not an objective measure. I tend to agree that this particular decision is a poor one, but I am reasonably confident that if you were to list ten bad bad Republican decisions I would not agree with you that all fo them were bad.
With the Romney budget proposal there’s no way we can afford the renovation. The money has to go to the Pentagon. The cost of each new F-35 has ballooned to over $200 million. If we don’t have each and every one the security of the entire country is at risk.
The Republicans don’t want to spend money on anything unless it is designed to kill people.
Yes, but that’s not necessarily an endorsement - it could just mean that you and the House Republicans are ugh.
So, I take it no one actually read the article, because as I explained in post #67 the discussion you guys are having is not consistent with the facts of that article.
They are not discussing the Capitol Dome or appropriations bills; they are discussing partisanship.
Want some popcorn?
Extra butter, please.
Do you have any other memes than this? It seems like every time you post, it’s “Obama did it too” or “Liberals also lie cheat and steal” or “If a Democrat did it, there wouldn’t be the same outrage.” The latter, especially, is fallacious since it depends on contrafactual analysis. In fact, frankly, I think it’s fallacious for being untrue: if Obama refused to release his tax statements, yes, we would be as angry as when Romney refuses to release his. Go ahead: prove otherwise…
As soon as you stop beating your wife!
Just to emphasize a bit: The Republicans controlled the US House of Representatives from 1995 through the beginning of 2007. But as others have pointed out, the critical need for Dome repairs was not obvious until 2011.
[/Snarky Washington Insider Voice] “Look, if the Contractors want this work done, they’re going to have to get in there and make some donations and request the job. We can’t just fund this project wihtout knowing who is going to do it and what they’ve done to deserve it. Get the right guys in there shaking the right hands and suporting the right candidates and you’ll have yourselves a deal.” [\snarky Washington Insider Voice]
A project like that is a goldmine for getting in the contruction donations, and given that it’s DC, there could also be Union votes, which Republicans pretty much can’t get any other way. they are not going to just fund this and watch it go to Fair and Open Competition. Watch and learn.
I sincerely hope that my disgust comes through in the tone of this post. Don’t for a moment imagine that I like this, I’m just telling it like it is.
P.S. Wasn’t there scaffolding all over the Dome just a couple of years ago? Was that just them assessing the damage? Or is this something new brought on by the earthquake? I seem to recall a great pic of the workers on the scaffold watching the space shutle go by a few months ago as well. . .
And if Obama didn’t close Guantanamo, you’d (collectively) be just as angry as when Bush didn’t close it?
Cause, you know, that one I can kinda disprove.
This ploy is known as the “Ooh Shiny” argument (argumentum ad shinineum").
I wasn’t aware that Congress stepped in to prohibit Bush from closing Guantanamo.
Not really. The claim was “It seems like every time you post, it’s “Obama did it too” or “Liberals also lie cheat and steal” or “If a Democrat did it, there wouldn’t be the same outrage.” The latter, especially, is fallacious since it depends on contrafactual analysis. In fact, frankly, I think it’s fallacious for being untrue: if Obama refused to release his tax statements, yes, we would be as angry as when Romney refuses to release his. Go ahead: prove otherwise…”
So how to rebut that claim?
They didn’t. And of course, Congress did pass a bill to make it difficult for Obama to close Guantanamo… which Obama signed into law.
How about, if you don’t have a way of defending Republicans when they do something stupid, without dragging in stupidity on the part of Democrats some time in the past (or, hypothetical stupidity), don’t defend them. If you want a thread to highlight something stupid done by the Democrats, have at it.
Maybe stop derailing threads with barely relevant sidetracks.
The evaluation in your article was not about the capital dome. It was about a new visitors center. At no point in your article does it even mention the rotunda, other than to state that it is where tourists have gathered for decades.
But I bet you knew that.
Let me get this straight… no matter what is going on, no matter what the risk to the public is, if someone complains about the Republicans, you will say that it doesn’t matter, and the point is irrelevant, because nobody complained when the Dems were in charge? That really seems to be what you’re saying. In the brief window that the democrats were in charge they didn’t get it fixed, despite no evidence yet asserted that it was deemed a public safety until last year, and thus it is 100% their fault. That seems to be what you are saying.
The Senate passed the amendment to prohibit the transfer of Guantanamo detainees by a vote of 90 to six.
If the criticism is that Obama saw that handwriting on the wall and wasn’t willing to veto a bill that included both an overwhelming rejection of his Guantanamo policy and pay raises for the troops, then fine. Obama certainly is a practical politician and not an ideologue who is unable to recognize when he’s lost a fight.
It seems your criticism on this issue is, at heart, a disingenuous charge that both Obama and his supporters have failed to be single-minded zealots in pursuit of a goal that has not been successful. Sorry we haven’t lived up to your standards of being more like single-minded fringe politicians, like perhaps a Dennis Kucinich, who will pursue a cause no matter what.
Theory nothing, campaigning with the stated philosophy that government is the problem doesn’t provide a party with the incentive to make government work any better if elected.