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In reply to the discussion: I'm sensing a letdown... [View all]pasto76
(1,589 posts)talk about a simplistic world? HA! apparently you and the OP think we live in a world where holding posting on an obscure message board is going to have any kind of affect on this world.
welcome to reality. the GOP controls the House. Legislation (remember those checks and balances things) cannot pass without passing a house vote. Period. So what that means in the REAL world? means not everyone will get a tax increase that deserves it. means we wont get all the cuts from DOD that we should have.
it also means - relevant to the 'debt crisis' or not, that SS and/or medicare will likley take a hit.
What Im sick of is all you people who 'know better' than the goddamn DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT, who actually lives this bullshit every day. I guarantee he'd love to make all of your 'progressive' dreams come true. But the we were unable to give him a democratic House. Its REALITY. DEAL. or start campaigning for 2014 and maybe he can have a year of actually getting shit done.