Posted by Pocketfullofshells:
The above is a perfect illustration of how partisanship is dividing the nation. One side wants the other to "suffer", while the other blames every ill on a Democratic president who isn't, in the final analysis, doing a whole lot that his Republican predecessor didn't do, advocacy of health care reform being the one exception.
Deficit spending, bailing out industries, keeping the war going, etc. all started under Bush and have been expanded on under Obama.
There are no tenth amendment conservatives in our federal government, at least none that have enough power to do more than rant. There are no fiscal conservatives to speak of on either side. Obama has talked of change, while carrying out and expanding on the same economic policies he inherited. He has advocated doing something about our unsustainable and costly health care system, but it's unlikely that the federal government is going to be able to enact anything that will reduce costs and make health care more accessible, or at least it seems unlikely at this point. That, too, has become a partisan shooting match, with both sides shooting nonsense jacketed slugs and pure road apples of falsehood at each other, the one trying to regain power while the other tries to hold on to it, neither one showing a real interest in what is best for the nation.
Doesn't the Declaration of Independence mention replacing the government periodically? Maybe the time has come. Let's start a don't vote for any incumbents movement.
