did you want Bush's SS privitization to succeed?
Did you want Bush's Tax cuts "to the rich" to succeed?
I find it absurd how those who spent the last 8 years bashing bush are now calling for anyone to support Obama. :lol:
The way I see it, is that when people on the left wanted certain plans to fail, they were attacked as being un-American, unpatriotic, etc.
Now that a leftist is in the white house, after 8 years of bashing those who wanted Bush's policies to fail, the right is actively hoping that Obama's policies will fail and are now being attacked as un-American, unpatriotic, etc.
What this tells me, more than anything else, is that people on both sides are raging hypocrites. If someone on the left wanted Bush's policies to fail, labeling those on the right as unpatriotic for wanting Obama's to fail is hypocricy.
And conversely, if those on the right, like Rush, labeled lefties as unpatriotic for not supporting Bush's policies, they are hypocrites to now do the same thing while using the same defenses as those on the left did for the last 8 years.
I don't agree with either side being labeled as "unpatriotic" or "un-American" because they want policies they disagree with to fail. I was against it for the last 8 years, and I'm
still against it now.
Now, on a personal note, even when I disagree with a policy, once it is passed, I hope it will succeed. What I want more than anything else once legislation passes that I adamantly oppose is that
I am the one who is wrong, and that my fears will NOT come true.
The Iraq war was just such a case. I opposed entering that war but once we entered it, I wanted (and still want) nothing short of complete success.
So if I want a policy to fail, I want it to do so in congress. I do not want it to pass. But once it
does pass, I hope that
I'm wrong
more than I want the other side to be wrong.
In essence, I'd rather hope that my predictions fail, not the policy.