Thw senate has been passing bills...If the republicands in the house aren't taking them up it it isn't because democrats are not doing anything, it's because they are unwilling to work with a senate and president that represent the voice of the people.
The Democrats in both the Senate and the House have refused to submit a budget proposal to be discussed on the floor in 3 years... so I don't know what bills youre passing... that might fit the description of trivial that you spoke of earlier...
You might have a point if democrats all voted exactly the same. Since they do not, your point fails. Further, cooperation is a two way street, blaming one side for not compromising is silly.
No, I have a point, you fail to get it, since you lack a true understanding of the political process, and the history of the bodies politic involved...
It's the president's responsibility to make sure the House and Senate work together to get things done... That's in the constitution as his duty... It's historically been the precident that the President submits a budget, and with only slight tinkering, it gets passed through both houses rather easily...
This president came into office with a chip on his shoulder, and tried to dictate without cooperation, and its come back to haunt him... After in 2009 and 2010, when the Democrats tried to run away with the lead they had, they offended so many who were there and trying to participate but were ignored that when they won back the House, they've fought tooth and nail to prevent that from occuring again...
So now, that we have a divided congress, its the president's duty to get the two of them to cooperate and pass the necessary legislation... regardless of how who voted, he's supposed to finagle whichever deals he can to get some to concede to this and some to concede to that, and a few strays from each party emerge to get legislation through... he has not done this...
He continues to try and push heavily liberal legislation, without consulting both parties how they would consider the legislation before crafting it...
It's a HUGE constast with how Mitt Romney lead in MA, despite a legislature with an 85% opposition party legislature... He'd bring in key electors from both parties including the speakers of the house and senate, and he'd bring in outside bodies with no political pursuation one way or another... they'd all discuss what they wanted to pursue, and he would demand the details of how it would work, he'd consider all sides, and craft a policy most could agree on, then present it... and they would pass nearly every time...
It's how he;
- balanced the largest budget deficit in MA history, taking that $3B deficit to being a $2B rainy day fund by his second year in office... WITHOUT RAISING TAXES
- Welcome Home Bill, which increased combat pay and many other benefits to the families of the state's national guardsmen
- Melanie's Law, which stiffened the penalties for drunk drivers, requiring breathalizer interlock ignition devices installed in the cars of repear offenders
- The nation's only universal healthcare law which didn't raise the costs on the taxpayers, or require a large overarching bureaucracy to manage it... bringing MA to having BY FAR the most insured citizens of any state in the union
- Eliminated Bi-lingual education, increased standards for teachers, and several other initiatives which brough MA schools back to being the best peforming in the nation...
and many other actions, including wrestling control of the Big Dig, the nation's largest construction project in history, away from the Turnpike Authority and Mass Highway, and getting it on schedule for completion at a rate sooner than was projected at the time, and for much lower costs than were projected at the time, by suing contractors for faulty work, and working to identify overexaggerated estimates for work...
Not bad for someone whose greatest criticism in office was that he was never in the state...
As we have already seen in this very post, you are quick to misstate how government works to suit your own purposes. Complaining that some one points out this misstatements is not going to be an effective tactic. Much better is actually dealing with reality.
LMFAO... no we have not seen it... you incorrectly interpreted the political process... exempting the president from responsibility on legislative action...
Again, reference Article II Section III, the presidential powers...
Much better to learn from someone who knows than to ignorantly insist false platforms are solid...
It is the president's responsibility to solve the differences between both houses of the legislature, in order to get the necessary legislation through congress...
So either, he doesn't feel anything is necessary right now... or he lacks the clout to be able to accomplish anything... Neither of those options are acceptable in the leader of this country...
Barack has been a lame duck for 2 years... something which has only happened to Andrew Johnson following impeachment... (most presidents are only a lame duck after being elected out of office... but even Bush was able to pass TARP after doing so...)... This notoriously weak president has fostered the same malaise that the US was in under Carter, which makes sense since Obama is a Carter protege'...
Again, yet another contrast with Mitt Romney, who has ALWAYS proven heavily effective at managing crises... And even on his way out, during the depths of the anti-Bush sentiment... he was able to pass the controversial groundbreaking healthcare plan and sign it into action...
Let ne restate this, all Ryan has succeeded in passing in his entire time in congress, that he was the primary sponser of, is 2 trivial bills. You don't get credit for passing things that do not pass.
LMFAO @ the only budget to pass either legislative body in the congress in 3 years as being trivial...
If it was so trivial, then why did the president chose to target him, by playing politics and inviting him to be in the front row, as he attempted to sucker punch him with a lambasting of his budget proposal, which backfired, when Ryan got up during the question and answer session, and put the president back on his heels...
The same thing happened when Ryan knocked the president around during the Healthcare debates... Ryan then went up to him, squeezed his hand while looking him in the eyes, and backed him down, to where the president had to look shifty and shady, and sneak away...
There's a history of confrontation between Ryan and Obama... that Ryan has persisently shown he's gotten under the presidents normally teflon skin... The weakness... Ryan is a smart knowledgeable guy, who the president can't attempt to browbeat with his hollow talking points and posturing about being more knowledgeable about... Ryan is smarter than the president, and it shows...
Ryan has not passed a budget. Making excuses for his failure is not going to change that fact.
Ryan did pass a budget... His budget passed the House of Representatives this year... the only budget to pass either body of the legislature since 2009... That's on the president & the Senate if they could not pass one... (The Democrats in the Senate and the House have not even submitted a budget, that's how disfunctional they are)
