…and the fact of the matter is that the ARRA increased science funding.
I don’t see how you can call the Democrats incompetent when Obama’s first term was the most legislatively productive Congress since WWII. Done in the face of record partisan obstructionism. Steve Benen: We are, after all, talking about a two-year span in which Congress passed and the president signed the Affordable Care Act, the Recovery Act, Wall Street reform, student loan reform, Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, new regulation of the credit card industry, new regulation of the tobacco industry, a national service bill, expanded stem-cell research, the Hate Crimes Prevention Act, the most sweeping land-protection act in 15 years, etc. …
Some of these efforts have been years in the making. In the case of health care reform, politicians have been talking about a major overhaul for a full century, but it took this Congress and this president to get it done. I’m tired of this lazy “A plague on both sides” nonsense. Sure the Democrats could be better. But objectively their performance has been more than respectable given their constraints and heck ignoring their constraints as well.
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