Quote from: kroz on April 21, 2015, 06:46:43 AM
Excellent response to my foolish post, wally!! 

Nothing's foolish about it.  Under normal circumstances there would be little sense in trying to put forth a pice of legislation that has no hope of ever being enacted into law.  When up is down and down is up and we're all running late for the TEA party,,,it's a Madhatter World run by a dope smoking Catapiller!  (Now that's what a reallly foolish statement sounds like!   )

Quote from: supsalemgr on April 21, 2015, 06:26:38 AM
Good points. By controlling both the house and senate the GOP can make democrats, including Obama, go on record. It is the last thing they want going into 2016. Harry Teid protected them for six years, but that party is over. Let Obama whine!

Imo, you can make Obama and the democrats go on the record all you want. It's meaningless to the 40% of Americans whose sole interest lies only in what Santa Claus is going to do for them and not what is best for the country as a whole.

We certainly have a divided country. It is looking like Barack and Hillary are on the way to resurrecting the Democratic Party by pushing it left. There are now 100 million on means tested welfare (not sure, but don't think that includes SS, SSI, Medicare) and the GDO is now pegged at 70% consumer spending, which is sick. That is all part of the "New Economy," redefined by the left wing. If I take my food stamps and buy a bottle of Jack, I have just added to what used to be called the Gross National Product. In reality, that purchase is overhead, expense, to the nation. Same if I am stuck in traffic, burning gas and wasting time. According to the government accountant, I have just contributed to the GDO.  It's sick.

Believe this following article was written four years ago:
http://spectator.org/articles/38190/liberalism-dead
We had the left on the ropes, but, like Lazarus....

Quote from: MACMan on April 21, 2015, 07:04:18 AM
Imo, you can make Obama and the democrats go on the record all you want. It's meaningless to the 40% of Americans whose sole interest lies only in what Santa Claus is going to do for them and not what is best for the country as a whole.

And this is the sum of all fears!   RUSH was taken by surprize in 2012 and coined the term "low information voters".  We all are preaching to the choir, sharing each and every particle of insight into both the system and the individual players.  So many, doen't even know basic things about their goverment and who does what or our Constitution and what the law really is and what powers are limited and why.

I am so concerned about the "retard effect" that I am driven to fish! (just go out on the lake and do something a bit more productive than betting on who will ultimately win the paper, rock scissors that's become how we choose our candidates, as well as the President and all our Leaders)

But  I don't give up. I come back somewhat refreshed with a glimmer of renewed optimism!

I'm an old guy...but it seems that so many of the younguns who will inherit whatever we do now, just don't seem to care about anything more than what they can get for themselves and they don't even attempt to connect the dots about how much politics and goverment impacts even this basic desire of theirs coming to fruition.