You honestly think that Democrats now are comparable to the GOP then, ignoring ENTIRELY that when Obama was president the GOP held both houses of congress...JUST LIKE THEY DO NOW. You act like the GOP all of a sudden gives a shit about procedure when Mitch McConnell has spent the last decade and some change shitting on the Senate and stealing court vacancies (including a SCOTUS seat). But all of a sudden, i'm supposed to believe that the GOP is so hamstrung by controlling the entirety of the government that Democrats just swooped in and locked the government down like 2010-2016. How fucking dumb do you think I am Mick? Did you really think that was going to make any sense at all to...well, anyone who pays the most cursory attention to the news?
I think we're done here. You're clearly not trolling for any reality based takes.
Obama had a majority until he lost it. The Republicans opposed him when he had it, and perhaps the most frustrating thing is that those midterm results indicate it played into their favor. Trump inflamed that base for all those years on the back of FOX and the birther myth. Tell me, Dawn. Did it hurt him? Did it hurt the GOP?
The same will be true for Trump if the Democrats can stop being crazy and stupid long enough for everyone else to see how crazy and stupid Trump is. But that's not their strategy, and just as it was with the Republicans, unfortunately, this "strategy" amounts to little more than a perpetual tantrum where they play Matadors to the other side, taunting them into their boldest and most undiluted form of opposition, which in turn riles their base, and hopefully pays dividends at the next election.
Real conservatives would never support this. You don't tear families apart when you're a conservative. That's the line. If they cross that merely as a matter of legislative tactics and negotiation, then what the fuck do they even stand for, anymore?
You're upset. That's exactly what the Democrats want. They don't want to go into November on this economy without an identity politics wedge issue, or they'll get creamed, and they know it. They're going to fan these flames.
What they're NOT going to do is reasonably handle illegal immigrants inside their counties or municipalities where Trump's reach is most feeble. What they're NOT going to do is make any meaningful concession to Trump on his wall. Well, that's what he got elected on, Dawn. He
won. That was one of the three pillars of his platform. So who is
truly being anti-Democratic?
This is the political Olympics, and the sport is who can pour more gas on which side.
Not at all. You must not be in academia, because the power of the president has been criticized by the left much more than ever under recent years. Fact of the matter is that it has been historically demonstrated that the executive is the primus inter pares. Its power in practice transcends the control of congress and the supreme court. This is not me being "conservative" - I am just stating that its the reality that we have allowed to solidify.
Trump got elected, and suddenly the left grew a conscience about executive power. It's practically cold-fusion.
Yeah, I know how this bullshit partisanship game works, and that's why I'm done with it, and done with partisan hacks. All the asshole partisans who pretend not to be down-the-line voters, to the man, they appeal to the genuinely open-minded centrists like me on principle when they're not in power...then when they're in power they ditch those principles. In the meantime, I am importuned from the other side.
Rinse wash repeat.
Kind of tired of being used. Ready to popcorn.gif and watch. After all, the centrists sure as hell aren't in the driver's seat.