Has the hatred between Democrats and Republicans reached this point yet? Right now I’m so disgusted with both parties. The refusal to solve this budget crises yet again is beyond stupid. It’s time to clean out the knuckleheads in Congress (both parties) next election. If everyone’s taxes sky rocket then will happen for sure.
Don’t laugh. This scene could easily be in our own Congress. The tensions over this fiscal cliff are just about to boil over.
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No. Hell, it’s been years since they interrupted the president.
I’m worried this is going to lead to another ‘it’s both sides’ fault!’ thing. Because I find that disgusting in a lot of ways.
I’m not sure I would call it a budget crisis, but it’s definitely stupid, and even worse, it’s completely phony and motivated by political considerations rather than economic ones. That said, I expect it’ll get resolved.
There was a lot of that in 2010. Would you say that made Congress smarter or dumber? Because I’d say it made Congress much, much dumber, and I am not sure that throwing them out would bring the results you think it’ll bring.
I’m not sure what it will take to restore reasonable compromise in Congress. It seems like any effort to reach out to the other side gets met with scorn by their own party. Heck, Boehner got jumped by his own party for even suggesting the tiniest compromise last week.
I can’t see it getting better until the voters make it clear that unyielding partisanship stops. How that happens is beyond me.
Somehow a compromise has to be found. Governing by just letting things happen isn’t acceptable. Jumping off a fiscal cliff will hurt everybody.
The “hatred” of which you speak exists largely on the internet. You aren’t going to see brawls on the floor in Washington. You may see more sharp rhetoric than usual, but things are unlikely to escalate beyond that.
That also happened in mid-2011, which is why all of this stuff is going on. But again, I’m hard-pressed to see this as a both sides problem. On the whole, it isn’t.
Not to say there were no partisans in the past because there obviously always have been. But a lot of voters elected unyielding partisans in 2010. It was obviously a winning strategy. And of course some Democrats, not totally unreasonably, concluded that they needed to elect some partisans for their side if they didn’t want everything they support to be completely demolished. It’s hard to get from that to “we need compromise!” Particularly when one side has traditionally wanted its representatives to compromise and the other hasn’t.
But if that happens it’ll be over in a day and that’s no fun. In keeping with the maturity and dignity we’ve come to expect from Congress, I say that they should be issued Nerf guns.