Aug 8th 2011, 2:52:28
It is a little of everybodys fault for taking so long and making it so messy but here is my take as a right leaning american.
to single out the tea party as "holding it up" is ignorant, they got voted in to change the system, as that was the platform they ran on , and they were trying to change the system.
to blame it on republicans is meh, they really messed up by extending bush tax cuts while he was still president and they paid for it in Obamas first 2 years. that being said, they did propose a few bills here but they were too much cutting of entitlements that the dems wouldnt let go of.
the democrats did eventually;y come around and step up to the plate after all of the mess and obama was quick to take credit for bringing them together. but what is funny is that in the 2 years that the democrats ran congress they passed 0 budgets, passed 0 finance reforms raised the debt limit numerous times without increasing taxes AND extended the bush tax cuts (that were intended to be ended in the middle of bush's 2nd term) i think everybody here can do that math on that one, it wont add up.
that being said they all have a stake in this for different reasons. but its laughable that they are trying to blame a tiny part of the far right for holding this whole thing up when it could have been passed 2 years ago with absolutely nothing the republicans could have done about it. similar to Obamacare. except somehow that still got caught up and the republicans were to blame...
to single out the tea party as "holding it up" is ignorant, they got voted in to change the system, as that was the platform they ran on , and they were trying to change the system.
to blame it on republicans is meh, they really messed up by extending bush tax cuts while he was still president and they paid for it in Obamas first 2 years. that being said, they did propose a few bills here but they were too much cutting of entitlements that the dems wouldnt let go of.
the democrats did eventually;y come around and step up to the plate after all of the mess and obama was quick to take credit for bringing them together. but what is funny is that in the 2 years that the democrats ran congress they passed 0 budgets, passed 0 finance reforms raised the debt limit numerous times without increasing taxes AND extended the bush tax cuts (that were intended to be ended in the middle of bush's 2nd term) i think everybody here can do that math on that one, it wont add up.
that being said they all have a stake in this for different reasons. but its laughable that they are trying to blame a tiny part of the far right for holding this whole thing up when it could have been passed 2 years ago with absolutely nothing the republicans could have done about it. similar to Obamacare. except somehow that still got caught up and the republicans were to blame...
Surely what a man does when he is caught off his guard is the best evidence as to what sort of man he is. - C.S. Lewis