re: #185 buzzsawmonkey

What “GOP policies” might you be referring to? Please note that when the GOP did in fact have Congressional majorities, it still expended effort to obtain some bipartisan consensus—more than it should have, in my opinion, since the vulgar, arrogant churlishness of the powermad Democrats dominating two of the three branches of government show quite clearly that they feel absolutely no obligation to the country or to elementary decency to reciprocate this courtesy.

Honestly, I’m beginning to think that you are completely detached from reality. Do you remember anything that occurred before Obama was in office? The GOP used budget reconciliation to cram down all 4 of Bush’s major tax initiatives without Democratic support.

The 2001 Bush Tax Cuts [HR 1836, 3/26/01]
The 2003 Bush Tax Cuts [HR 2, 3/23/03]
Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005 [HR 4297, 5/11/06] The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 [H. Con Res. 95, 12/21/05]

Each one of these bills had a multi-trillion dollar impact on the budget, now and in the future, and were passed with almost no Democratic votes due to the use of reconciliation. So don’t tell me that Bush was “Mr. Bipartisan” because it’s a complete crock of shit. How about some intellectual honesty?