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A sign that not all voters are thundering morons.
I'll be honest... Obama could have been doing a better job on the economy. But, quite frankly, the same could be said of the House and Senate as well, as they're more interested in pointing fingers and calling the other side a bunch of nasty names instead of sitting down and trying to work things out. It's like a bitter divorce proceeding that's been going on for decades, and the only thing they've ever agreed on is sending the kids off to bullshit wars because they're worried about what the neighbors might think.
But they've become so diametrically opposed to anything the other side brings up (except for tiny, worthless shit that means fuck all in the end), that it's impossible to get anything done unless one side or the other has an overwhelming advantage.
The Republicans want to be the banker in the world's largest game of Monopoly, only instead of operating by the normal rules of the game, they unilaterally declared that whichever player has the most money doesn't have to pay rent at any square they land on, and oh by the way, they're keeping the till in the bathroom, and if you argue with them on anything relating to finance, they'll flush the entire stock of money down the crapper.
The Democrats are somewhat more reasonable in that they want to still play the game, but still haven't figured out that (a) you're playing a game with the crazy kid from down the street... you know, the one who sets fires, and traps stray dogs in trash cans and (b) not only is he crazy, he changes the fucking rules any time he wants. But since the Democrats lost their fucking spines a couple of decades ago, and have only seen them on the odd weekend since, it doesn't matter. They're going to continue to play the game, thinking "Oh, we can still win this. We'll just keep playing, turn after turn, and eventually the Republicans will come to their senses."
Except the Republicans are now claiming God told them to set fires and trap stray dogs in trash cans, and it's only going to get worse because there isn't enough mood stabilization medicine in the free world to fix them. For every sane Republican politician who isn't a moral hypocrite, there are fifty who think that if we pray real hard to the invisible man in the sky, thefree hand of capitalismright hand of God will fix the economy and get rid of all the illegal immigrants.
And now the Democrats need anti-depressants because they realize there's no way they can win the game, but they're just too invested to walk away... they've spent all this time playing, and they got three of the railroads and everything. But they can't take two turns in a row, because that's against the rules, so will the Republicans please come back to the table and roll the dice?
I'll be honest... Obama could have been doing a better job on the economy. But, quite frankly, the same could be said of the House and Senate as well, as they're more interested in pointing fingers and calling the other side a bunch of nasty names instead of sitting down and trying to work things out. It's like a bitter divorce proceeding that's been going on for decades, and the only thing they've ever agreed on is sending the kids off to bullshit wars because they're worried about what the neighbors might think.
But they've become so diametrically opposed to anything the other side brings up (except for tiny, worthless shit that means fuck all in the end), that it's impossible to get anything done unless one side or the other has an overwhelming advantage.
The Republicans want to be the banker in the world's largest game of Monopoly, only instead of operating by the normal rules of the game, they unilaterally declared that whichever player has the most money doesn't have to pay rent at any square they land on, and oh by the way, they're keeping the till in the bathroom, and if you argue with them on anything relating to finance, they'll flush the entire stock of money down the crapper.
The Democrats are somewhat more reasonable in that they want to still play the game, but still haven't figured out that (a) you're playing a game with the crazy kid from down the street... you know, the one who sets fires, and traps stray dogs in trash cans and (b) not only is he crazy, he changes the fucking rules any time he wants. But since the Democrats lost their fucking spines a couple of decades ago, and have only seen them on the odd weekend since, it doesn't matter. They're going to continue to play the game, thinking "Oh, we can still win this. We'll just keep playing, turn after turn, and eventually the Republicans will come to their senses."
Except the Republicans are now claiming God told them to set fires and trap stray dogs in trash cans, and it's only going to get worse because there isn't enough mood stabilization medicine in the free world to fix them. For every sane Republican politician who isn't a moral hypocrite, there are fifty who think that if we pray real hard to the invisible man in the sky, the
And now the Democrats need anti-depressants because they realize there's no way they can win the game, but they're just too invested to walk away... they've spent all this time playing, and they got three of the railroads and everything. But they can't take two turns in a row, because that's against the rules, so will the Republicans please come back to the table and roll the dice?