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American politics

This is such an important issue. Him being eloquent and a democrat really did get liberals pretending he wasn't a war mongering bastard. I despise Trump but my parents home country of Pakistan is a lot less fudged under him than it was under Obama when innocents were being droned to death on a regular. Also see Libya and Somalia. And guess what, less western intervention gives the death cult less ammo to radicalise idiots to harm innocents over here.

I never forgave him for that, but I think it is important to see the underlying reasons, namely that he did not have control of congress or the senate for long spells of his term, thus had to (IMO) make some insane compromises just to get any of Obamacare done. No excuses whatsoever, drones and proliferation were a terrible thing, but we can never, ever ever forget who got the second wave of that brick going and sustained it for too long. Dubya.
 
That's not actually true, for the first 2 years he had a majority in both houses before a huge swing (largest in 70 years) in the house of reps (retaliation against his presidency?) and even after that he had a slender majority in the senate for 6 of his 8 years.

The first two years = dogfight.He basically had nothing.
 
McConnell was actively working against him from the off. As was all of the dark money cabal - De Vos, Poch's,etc.

In saying that Trump seems to roll back some Obama policy every week, so it would appear that he got more done than people remember.
Most of what he rolls back are executive orders. The same thing Trump is (rightly) criticised for using instead of proper legislation.
 
The first two years = dogfight.He basically had nothing.

I'm not sure what you mean? The democrats had a majority in both houses and he had the opportunity to pass bills. He then suffered one of the largest swings of all time in the house of reps - presumably because voters weren't happy with how things were going.
 
I'm not sure what you mean? The democrats had a majority in both houses and he had the opportunity to pass bills. He then suffered one of the largest swings of all time in the house of reps - presumably because voters weren't happy with how things were going.

You do know the state the US was in when he got elected, right? Before he could even set to doing anything he might've actually wanted to do, his first order of business was to correct the financial situation in the US and prevent it sliding into an abyss. In essence, he carried the can for the disastrous tenure of his predecessor, who was clearly interested only in his own "people" (what a shock). Economic matters take time to sort out -especially the ones the US was dealing with at the time. So, his first two years were spent trying to sort that mess out as well as looking for some sort of bipartisan moves to bring the factions together; this proved too difficult given the time.
 
You do know the state the US was in when he got elected, right? Before he could even set to doing anything he might've actually wanted to do, his first order of business was to correct the financial situation in the US and prevent it sliding into an abyss. In essence, he carried the can for the disastrous tenure of his predecessor, who was clearly interested only in his own "people" (what a shock). Economic matters take time to sort out -especially the ones the US was dealing with at the time. So, his first two years were spent trying to sort that mess out as well as looking for some sort of bipartisan moves to bring the factions together; this proved too difficult given the time.
Spot on Steff.
 
Have you ever seen a budget bill? It's always give and take, always compromise, always a fudge compared to the initial bill.

It's the only way budgets ever get through.

I know you're sharper than the above comment, and I also know you're better than to think I don't understand the concepts at work. Political systems want you to believe they work on compromise over backroom bullying, threats and coercion. There is, in the US at any rate, literally zero "bipartisan coming together" right now, it is all about forcing things through using whatever threats and underhanded tactics you can. Now, I will admit that to some this can be termed "compromise" but not me. It is coertcion.
 
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