When Senators John McCain and Barack Obama ran last year for the Presidency of the USA, they both promised that if elected, they would end the partisan bickering and work with both sides to get things done and accomplished. McCain and Obama claimed they both had a record of working with the opposite party to get things done and can reach out to both sides.
Well, Barack Obama won the election, was swore in, and to this day, I'm still waiting to see when this political infighting will stop and everyone in DC will start working together to fix our nations' problems. Instead the White House, The Congress and The Senate has become a game of "Red Light, Green Light." The dems saying it's go with their programs and spending and the gop acting like traffic cops and saying stop.
Right now, President Obama and the democratic majority seem determined to enact this overhwleming amount of spending on programs from healthcare, banks, energy, which many economists worry to bankrupt this nation. The GOP, on the other hand, is doing nothing to stop it.
It seems both parties have finally lived up to their animal symbols that represent then, that being an elephant for the republicans and a donkey for the democrats. What I mean by that is by the way both groups are acting. The republicans, like an elephant, are saying "Hey we're a bunch of lard-asses, just gonna sit here on our big, fat butts and do nothing." And the democrats as donkeys are saying "Hey, we're a bunch of jack-asses, gonna do all this crazy and insane spending we won't be able to pay off to go on our program and earmark shopping spree."
Is there no reasoning or rationale left in Washington, DC. It seems the working down the aisle together bi-partisanship we were promised by both sides was never meant to be. Or was always a myth and we've should've known better?
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I believe that bi-partisanship has not existed since 2001. I hate to say it, but when George Bush took office, bi-partisanship died. We had bi-partisanship in the Clinton-era and we got stuff done. But once George Bush and the Republican Congress were together, bi-partisanship failed. When the Democrats took back the Congress in 2006, they didn't care about working with the President, and partisan politics has continued to today. It's sad what this country has come to.
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