D.C. Dysfunction: The Right’s Fault?
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“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government cannot pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that, “the buck stops here.” Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.” ~ Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006
“The problem is, is that the way Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion for the first 42 presidents — #43 added $4 trillion by his lonesome, so that we now have over $9 trillion of debt that we are going to have to pay back — $30,000 for every man, woman and child. That’s irresponsible. It’s unpatriotic.” – Barack Obama, July 3, 2008
Times, how they do change.
Washington’s “dysfunction” and “gridlock” are reasons to celebrate.
Washington’s “progress” and “functionality” are what screw us over.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/27/opinion/my-state-needs-obamacare-now.html?_r=0
Almost one in six Kentuckians are without health insurance. SC’s rate is about one in five. Their governor realizes the need for health care reform, ours does not.
Give the ACA 10 years and we’ll see who’s better off, a southern state that accepted both the Medicaid expansion and state-run exchange, or a state that refused to do either. Whose health care costs will be lower? Will Kynect have a higher approval rating than the federally-run exchanges? Whose economy will have the larger improvement?
I agree with Governor Breshear’s sentiment. It is law. Get over it and get out of the way.
Laws can be changed, that’s the beauty of the Constitution! The problem is that Politicians only care about re election by any means and not the will of the People.
Forty years ago, Steve Beshear was a progressive member of the Kentucky House of Representatives. He was later elected Attorney General, then got more votes running for LtGov in 1983 than any other statewide candidate.
He took some bad advice from national Democratic advisers when running for Governor in 1987, and finished way down the primary list. After more than 20 years lost in the wilderness of a major Lexington law firm, he ran for and won the Governor’s office in 2007.
It is nice seeing him getting back to his roots.
It’s representative government. Just read the comments on this site on a daily basis to see the dysfunction D.C. so accurately reflects.
There is no ‘left’,so…