Republicans have announced plans to gridlock the lame duck session of Congress unless they get their way on extending the Bush tax cuts. Does anyone besides me think this is an unreasonable position? The past two years have been the most divisive in my memory with an incredible gap growing between liberals and conservatives. Had liberals followed similar policies between 2000 and 2008, the outcry would have been deafening. Saying 'no' is not a policy, it is demagoguery, and voters should recognize it as such.
There are people of good will on both sides of the aisle, but their voices are drowned out by hard line politicians. Getting reelected appears to be the only purpose our representatives recognize. Enacting laws that reflect the will and the well-being of the people is not a consideration. In 2010, Republicans ranted about changing the guard in Washington, and Obama did the same in 2008, but it looks like the same old thing to me.
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