Reply #28: Look, you might name a few more bills. He still didn't accomplish much. [View All]

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His record for a 2 term President that came into office with surpluses and stability are not very impressive at all.

The only agenda that got any real pursuit was national security... a whole 8 years and all he had to show for it was a bunch of shit that was crafted out of a reaction to his own failure to prevent a terrorist attack to begin with. The bailouts were the same thing if you really think about it.

The only domestic agenda item that Bush got passed that had any real punch behind it were the massive tax cuts. And they had to use reconcilation to do that.

I guess what you are saying is, the Democrats could have randomly put holds on every bill and acted like complete children when the Republicans were in total power before. But they didn't. We don't do that. We govern. Sometimes we make deals to govern. And it doesn't matter if we are right and they are wrong if the fucking bill doesn't ever get passed.

But I guess we shouldn't make deals on principle. We should pride ourselves on being tough and telling everyone how fucking pure we are, because we wouldn't make a deal with the evil obstructionists! Sure, the 9/11 workers never got a damn dime. But we sure were TOUGH and PRINCIPLED, weren't we?