It's funny being in the majority party now. A lot of the same knee-jerk response that I saw in leftist folks towards the Bush administration is now on the right wing side aimed at Obama.
I see the wisdom in what the GOP was doing by just saying "no" to whatever he did. You don't need to make a cohesive point to mobilize your base. You just need to cycle through the same points about how whatever it is that the majority is doing is eroding the values of the minority.
So for the GOP it's (regardless of the bill):
- this bill will hurt businesses
- this bill will raise taxes
- this bill will put goverment in control of your life
- this bill will increase government
- this bill really won't fix the problem
And for the democrats it's:
- this bill erodes civil liberties
- this bill crushes the middle class
- this bill sends little timmy out onto the street to die
- this bill erodes important social infrastructure
- this bill won't fix the problem
But change doesn't necessarily mean improvement. Change for the sake of change is stupid.
I had high hopes for this healthcare reform and while it is somewhat of an improvement it's still basically nothing - and considering how much shit get added on to it and how long it took to get even this POS passed I have zero hope for anything meaningful.
nope and its been a problem in the passed. whats fucked up is obama campaigned around no closed doors administration and once elected completely shit all over that