Gridlock?

12:04 am EST April 7th, 2006 | Politics | 4 Comments

I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like this. It’s one thing when we had a Republican congress and a Democratic president who fought over the budget to the point of Newt Gingrich shutting down the government that ended up benefitting President Clinton… but the Republicans now run the White House, Senate, and House and they can’t get the budget or tax bills passed – nor the immigration legislation. Are they serious?

Once again, the government cannot work for the people when you elect people who hate the government.

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4 Responses to “Gridlock?”

Repack Rider says:

April 7, 2006 at 1:04 am

Time for the “uniter” to go to work.

Wait. I said “work.” My bad.
Dugger says:

April 7, 2006 at 8:04 am

I love how you re-write even short term history. Tell me how it is Republicans and New Gingrich shut down the government when it was Clinton who vetoed a spending bill. Looking forward to your logic contortions on that one.

Dugger
Frank_D says:

April 7, 2006 at 12:04 pm

Slightly OT, but old lberals never die…
Heh
buma says:

April 7, 2006 at 1:04 pm

“The tax cuts, central to President George W. Bush’s domestic program, would have extended the maximum 15 percent tax rate on capital gains and dividends beyond 2008, when the lower rates are set to expire. Without congressional action, capital gains taxes would jump to 20 percent and dividends would be taxed as regular income.”

So duggerfrank–
Is this just a case of those Republicans being for the tax cuts, before they were against them?

With solid majorities in both houses, what keeps Republicans from doing anything and everythng they want? They don’t need a single Dem vote. You don’t suppose any Repubs have a social conscience, do you? Or actually being concerned about not representing their own constituents (by ‘constituents’ I mean the voting public, not corporate sponsors). Why that’s tantamount to being objectively pro-terrist.