Gee after 3+ years our president has noticed that DC hasn't changed much. Or is this just a new start for the election run. Using the 2008 topic. Opinions wanted...

Obama: DC 'feels as broken as it did 4 years ago' - Yahoo! News

Of the 6,484 comments, some are not from the Dem party while some are. This is but a sample sense far to many don't bother going to the sites I post .

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Et tu Brute • 1 hr 57 mins ago
Washington D.C. - the largest congregation of liars and thieves ever assembled on the face of the Earth.
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Skipper58 mins ago
and [--OBUMMER--] and his crooked party are the bigers liars

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thegreek52 mins ago
go to another nation live there ......

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candi50 mins ago
thegreek, you go, no one would miss you.
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m • 2 hrs 20 mins ago
Thats because most people in DC are more worried about getting re-elected than fixing things.
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"There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation... One is by sword... The other is by debt."

John Adams 1826

Yeah well he is right. I think this is why congress has approval rating lower than the taliban. They do nothing but partisan gamesmanship. Both sides do it but I would say the right has been particularly stubborn in working with this POTUS. Just look at their last game. Two weeks and millions of dollars to vote to repeal the HC bill that they knew upfront wouldn't happen. The congress is completely broken down. No excuses needed. It's just a fact.

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Truth, Justice and the American way

Humm as I look in my User CP all of the threrads seem to have Mikeyy doing the replies.

So I don't need to bother with any of them till another member gets involved.

And if you keep trolling me.. Well just stop it.

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"There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation... One is by sword... The other is by debt."

John Adams 1826

I think someone needs to get back on their meds

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Truth, Justice and the American way

Yep. Worried about ousting Obama so they can't pass any bills.
Get rid of all the Republicans in the house and replace with Democrats. Keep the Senate as is or ad a few Dems and we will be doing great.

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Hell hath no fury like a right-winger without facts.

I think the President is correct in his assertion that DC is as broken as it was 4 years ago. I don't think, however, it's entirely fair to lay that at the feet of the President and blame him for it.

The President was a bit naive when running four years ago. I think many of us were. I think the majority of us WANTED things to be different. We WANTED to have a more cohesive and cooperative Legislature. We WANTED to have everything dialed back a bit and get on with the business of governing. The problem is that both parties, the Democrats and the Republicans, have become too partisan to be interested in governing. They're really only interested in being reelected.

Both parties still look at the other as the enemy. They still view compromise as a negative instead of a responsible reality. They still view compromise as weakness. They still view compromise as giving political points to the other side. In all this shuffle, the American people are still being treated like pawns or merely ignored.

I think it is broken, and I think it will continue to be broken as long as we buy into this left/right liberal/conservative democrat/republican paradigm instead of an American paradigm based upon consensus and compromise.

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The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.

-- Hitler, April 11 1942

Oh, and that would work well.

What we need is term limits. Been said before, will say it a 100 times more. They get comfortable, know who they can go to to get the votes for their pet projects, and the only time they seem to buck up and take notice of their constituents is when they are up for reelection.

If something along those lines isn't done soon, DC will ALWAYS look like it does now.

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"Try and fathom the hypocrisy of a Government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured, but not everyone must prove they are a citizen".

Gee you guys think alike, just get all Dems and everything will work itself out, right? So just dump some 52% (or what ever the percent is center or right) of society and you can have your wish.

I hate to break this to you salty but not all of the Dems are Dems. After you relieve the percent that is other than left, you will have to deal with the real Liberals, the Progressives.

There to I have to agree with you dabateman, but this won't happen as it has gone so far for so long.

Plus if Obama does win it will set this non working govt. thing into a whirlwind. Which will lead to total disorder and possible total failure.
As I have said we need to work together many times. There has to be some middle ground, but in your list you left out the major factor, the real people who back this POTUS, the Progressives whom are the very elite.

You know the ones who made statements like "there are to many people on this planet so some need to die" now this was a whle ago but their thinking hasn't changed nor their misguided logic.

And that is what worries me a little.

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"There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation... One is by sword... The other is by debt."

John Adams 1826

Nice words, dabateman, but I fear all is lost unless we repeal and replace some Republicans.

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Hell hath no fury like a right-winger without facts.

with CU in place term limits would finish the deterioration of society. We would be one big corporate nation.

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