Nope. Forty-two is correct. There have been 43 presidencies, held by 42 different men.

Are you really saying that votes of 96-3 and 87-9 compare to threats of filibusters followed by votes of 78-22 and 58-42?

William Timmons, the Washington lobbyist who John McCain has named to head his presidential transition team, aided an influence effort on behalf of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to ease international sanctions against his regime.

The two lobbyists who Timmons worked closely with over a five year period on the lobbying campaign later either pleaded guilty to or were convicted of federal criminal charges that they had acted as unregistered agents of Saddam Hussein’s government.

Step 2) Introduce SPECIFIC MEANINGFUL LEGISLATION that will GUARANTEE: the young KNOW Democrats are good Republicans are bad. Example – GREATLY EXPAND student loan program.

Step 3) Introduce SPECIFIC MEANINGFUL LEGISLATION that will GUARANTEE: that AA’s will KNOW D’s are good R’s are bad. Example – Oliver, I’ll leave this one to YOU and OBAMA.

Step 4) Introduce SPECIFIC MEANINGFUL LEGISLATION that will GUARANTEE: that Hispanics will KNOW D’s are good R’s are bad. Example – I’ll leave that to the Latino Caucus of the party.

Step 4) Introduce SPECIFIC MEANINGFUL LEGISLATION that will GUARANTEE: that WORKING CLASS people will KNOW that D’s are good and R’s are bad. Example – Increase the minimum income level before taxes start. Let workers join Unions easier so they can have a vehicle to the Middle Class.

Step 5) Introduce SPECIFIC MEANINGFUL LEGISLATION that will GUARANTEE: the MIDDLE CLASS people, and ALL AMERICANS, will know that D’s are good and R’s are bad. Example – Ensure that ALL AMERICANS have AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE – INCLUDING A PLAN THAT GUARANTEES that if laid off or fired or whatever – your health care premiums will continue to be paid. NO AMERICAN FAMILY must be destroyed because of catastrophic health care costs. (Personally – I’d introduce UNIVERSAL health care – like EVERY country in the western world except the Stupid US of A!)

You get the IDEA – Introduce SPECIFIC LEGISLATION that GUARANTEES a MAJORITY of AMERICAN’S KNOW their bread is buttered when they vote Democrat.

Funny how this withering little example of comity pales in comparison to the complete stupidity that was the Gingrich congress antics. That was when I stopped being a Republican.

Welfare Reform and Supreme Court Nominations. And that’s just off the top of my head.

I’m sure there will be those on both ends who refuse to even attempt to work with folks on the other. A situation that 8 years of Bush and a rubber-stamp Congress have certainly exacerbated. I certainly hope Obama is able to pull the sides together and be an actual “uniter not a divider”.

But I’m sure there will be those who absolutely want him to fail. To be a one-termer. And will work actively to bring that about without any thought to how doing so is actually counter-productive to their own goals.

I’m sure there will be those on both sides who don’t want to work with the other side. But consider this. The right spend gobs of time and money working to impeach Clinton because of what he did in his private life. The left took impeachment of Bush for actual violations of the Constitution “off the table”.

Yes, there are those on the left that can be vindictive and childish. But it’s a trait more often practiced by the right.

So while the left paints Bush as one of the worst presidents ever there are lots of legitimate reasons as to why. And, as you say, the right will have to find increasingly crazed ways to to do so to Obama.

First, translated Dennis: Yeah, we’ve controlled the Congress for 12 of the last 14 years and the White House as well for the last eight but you guys keep picking on us!

Second, at what point? At exactly the point where the Dems in Congress blocked legislation, threatened filibusters at every turn and didn’t cave every time the White House said it wanted something.

Oh, that’s right. None of those happened.

Besides, how that prick not getting what he wants could possibly have been detrimental to the country, or the world, I don’t know.

I know politics ain’t beanbag, and voters supposedly like divided government and all, but still…

What Dennis said. Huh? As fun as it will be to see the relative positions of the respective partisans reversed, its not as if there isn’t quite a bit of precedent for it. I’m sure righty partisans will continue to refer to Obama as “The One”, much like lefties referred to Bush as “Dear Leader”, and righties will use any excuse to paint Obama’s presidency as worst ever, in increasingly crazed ways, just like the lefty partisans did with Bush. Lefty partisans will defend Obama, sometimes in valid, sometimes not very valid, ways. In other words, much like the last 8 years with the chairs reversed.

Please refresh memory, Sean. At what point over the last 8 years would you say people on the left were not completely and insanely obsessed with seeing George W. Bush fail, no matter what the cost to country?

Um, at every point over the last eight years.

At what point in the last sixteen years would you say the people on the right were not completely and insanely obsessed with trashing the reputation of the last legally elected president?

Fixed.

Please refresh memory, Sean. At what point over the last 8 years would you say people on the left were not completely and insanely obsessed with seeing George W. Bush fail, no matter what the cost to country?