Originally Posted by Malorn
Congress's inability to compromise? Dems had a majority in both houses. They could have passed whatever legislation they wanted to.
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Between Frankin's delayed seating and Kennedy's death Dems had 58 votes in the Senate for about 3 months. Of the 2 independents, one is one of the few socialist in federal government, the other is Lieberman, who campaigned for McCain in 2008.
The individual mandate is a conservative free-market idea dated as far back as Nixon. It was part of the GOP plan against Hillarycare in the early 90s.
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He vowed to cut the debt in half in his first term. Instead he's doubled it. He's ignored all the recommendations from the debt committee he commissioned. His irresponsible handling of the debt lowered the country's credit rating. The republicans elected into congress in 2010 to actually start being fiscally responsible wanted to turn that round and he opposed them too.
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You understand that not raising the debt ceiling would have put us into default, lowering credit rating even more? That S&P specifically stated it was
"political brinkmanship" that caused them to downgrade. The increase in debt as been about 50%, not 100%.
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Then he added health care at the worst possible time to add it and made insurance premiums go even higher and employers hesitate to hire. Then he wants to tax those employers to pay for more entitlement programs for his own social justice crusade in an attempt to buy votes with handouts.
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What? Most of Obamacare doesnt go into affect until 2014, which would lower premiums.
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He vowed to close guantamamo within the first year - and nothing stopped him from doing so. He's the commander in chief. It's a military base. It is 100% in his power to close it.
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It isnt that simple actually. Where is he going to put them?
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He vowed to end "dont' ask don't tell" and took his sweet time, backing off the issue and it took Libertarian pressure on gay voters to get him to finally do it. He tries to tiptoe around everyone and avoid rocking the boat and he has succeeded in doing nothing but halting economic progress in this country. He has nothing to stand on, and instead of campaigning on a 4-year record of being President he's going to spend most of his time blaming others and demonizing Romney. That wont' be received nearly as well as his "hope" and "change" message of 2008.
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You mean he is a moderate? Why, yes he is!
The economy hasn't halted
The whole quote:
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You’ve heard about the controversies within the bill, the process about the bill, one or the other. But I don’t know if you have heard that it is legislation for the future, not just about health care for America, but about a healthier America, where preventive care is not something that you have to pay a deductible for or out of pocket. Prevention, prevention, prevention—it’s about diet, not diabetes. It’s going to be very, very exciting.
But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.
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The House then passes the bill onto the Senate. Not the brightest thing for a Speaker to say, but hardly as damning as some people seem to think.