Why are voters inclined to blame both Obama and the Republicans?

Because both Obama and the Republicans are aligned to screw the voters.

Obama a little less than the Republicans.

So, the voters can only be disgusted with both Obama and the Republicans.

Who ever wins, the voters lose. It’s pretty simple why the voters dont understand
the ‘conflict’ when both parties to the ‘dispute’ agree on screwing the voters.
It’s easy to understand as well why the voters are opposed to both sides, because
neither has the interests of the voters foremost (or even vaguely) in mind.

“Why Did Congress Waste Six Months?” cries the headline.

Here’s one:

“Why Did Obama Waste These Voters?”

1. The Debt and Fair Taxes: Washington Post-ABC poll Washington Post-ABC
poll, Spring 2011: 72 percent supported raising taxes on the rich including 68
percent of Independents and 54 percent of Republicans. Obama twice
‘bargained’ to extend the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy. Obama never stepped
forward to lead on this issue - even with 72% of Americans supporting it. In
fact, he ‘negotiated’ the continuation of Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, not
once, but twice – first with McConnell and then again with Boenher.

2. TARP & Financial Bailout: Over 70% of us opposed the bailout. Obama
accelerated it with Geithner and Bernanke - both Bush carryovers embraced by
Obama.  Geithner is soon to receive his ‘bailout’ from the financial sector (as he
soon ‘retires’ from the Obama administration). Obama will have to wait until
he’s defeated in 2012, either in the Democratic primary or in the general
election.

3. Health Care: 72% of us supported “a government­administered insurance plan
- something like Medicare for those under 65—that would compete for
customers with private insurers.” Supporting Max Baucus, Obama blocked
hearings on single payer and chocked off true health care reform. Instead he
supported a private-sector, for-profit health insurance ‘reform’ that provided
insurance companies fabulous guaranteed profits (that’s why you heard no
opposition from them) – profits in the form of hundreds of millions of new
‘mandated customers’ (fined, if they don’t ‘buy in’). For those who cant afford
the exorbitant private sector for-profit rates, taxpayer money will pay the
difference directly to the insurance companies. The private for-profit insurance
companies? Oh, they are guaranteed by law an ‘overhead’ of 20%. This Obama
did with Democratic majorities in both Houses majority, Senate majority and as
a nominally Democratic President, effectively flushing away six-plus decades of
Democratic public policy.

4. Afghanistan: 64% of us opposed expanding the war in Afghanistan and
wanted to disentangle from Bush-era ‘War on Terror’ and ‘preventive war’
policies. Today, still over 60% of Americans oppose the war. Obama continues
it. More troops will be in Afghanistan when Obama leaves office than when he
‘began the draw down’. For the War Department, more money will be squirreled
away in Defense than when he took office – just this year, a six percent increase
was injected to ‘absorb’ the 3% ‘cut’ they may get (to ‘fight the deficit’).

Answer: Because Obama cares not one whit about America’s middle class or
about the Democratic Party or the Democratic Party principles.

It’s true that our national government is dysfunctional and incompetent. However, the affliction does not stop there as evidenced by the current madness on display in many of our states. Add to that what passes for leadership at the various levels of local government and the overall picture becomes bleak indeed! Unfortunately, these people get into office by our votes and if we are so stupid as to allow this to continue by insisting on the continuation of this fascist, undemocratic, and progressively authoritarian system then we get what we deserve! What is most disturbing is that at least 40% of the population is chronically, and most probably terminally, ignorant and have been duped into believing that the absurd antics of the governing class are actually beneficial to them! Thus the confederacy and the t-baggers!

Everyone here knows about this, but what can actually be done about a Congress that is too busy thinking about its reelection. Voting again??????

E,J. we know why Congress does nothing.That is our Fake Democracy at work.
Now go photocopy something.

The Republican Party should be classified as a right wing anti-American extremist
group, and it’s leaders arrested and incarcerated in Gitmo.

DaveZx3.
Very well said!

Billy Pilgrim - laid out as you have done, the almost
total disconnect between what the American people
favor and what the Legislative Branches of government
enact, or try to enact, is startling. 

Obviously, we have little if any representation in
Congress.  But we still have, I think, the vote so
why are we voting into office people who do not and
will not represent us in keeping with our interests.

I remember the newsreels during the ‘30’s and early
‘40’s of Hitler speaking to the German people,
spouting his what would be death-dealing policies and
the German people, arms raised, cheering him on.  I
realize how easy it is to bamboozle people into
believing anything and I fear the American people are
no different.

There are many things that a majority of Americans
want. Single payer health insurance; fiscal
responsibility; defense cuts; a simplified tax
system; an increase in the highest marginal tax rate;
strengthening of Social Security and Medicare; a long
term energy policy; campaign finance reform;
disengagement from Iraq and Afghanistan.

The only recourse we have is at the voting booth.
Even that is in question given the dubious nature of
how many ballots are counted.

We have to stop voting in politicians whose
allegiance is not to the people, but rather to the
elite.

A viable third party is needed.

Dionne starts this article with,  “The House Republican strategy to link a normally routine increase in the nation’s debt limit with a crusade to slash spending”

NORMALLY ROUTINE INCREASE IN THE NATION’S DEBT LIMIT?????

What an asinine way to start an article, when over 60% of the public think that the idea of routinely increasing debt limits is a BIG PROBLEM.

Then Dionne goes on to say, ” What’s even worse is this entirely artificial, politician-created crisis has kept government from doing what taxpayers expect it to do, which is to solve problems that citizens care about.”

I think I read where about 65% of the public favor a balanced budget amendment, a problem citizens care about, obviously.  That number has not gone down since Jimmy Carter was in office. 

This is how you can tell we DO NOT live in a democracy.  When about 65% of the population want something to happen, and for over forty years, it still does not happen. 

Perhaps Dionne could clue us all in on why we should just f..king increase our debt year after year after year.  What is the end purpose of such a strategy?  I ask that expecting an answer.  What is the end purpose of a strategy of increasing debt virtually forever? 

Debt far in excess of ability to pay is ipso facto default.  The idea that you can increase debt forever is included within the strategy that you can print fiat money forever to pay off that debt. 

This idea that you can spend fake money endlessly, and no one will ever have to actually pay anything real, is absolute economic delusion. 

There are only two reasons to follow such a strategy. 

1. Politicians don’t understand that everything has a real cost, nothing is free, and you can only defer the real cost payment until later, while paying today with fake money.  Even if this is true, they should do the will of their constituencies, who constantly favor balanced budget, no debt approaches to government. 

2. Driving America into excessive debt is the strategy being used by the forces which used to think they could defeat America militarily, but now understand it is much easier to defeat America economically.  A nation in default is at the mercy of it’s creditors, which will be the IMF, World Bank and the globalists who control them.

I believe it is number 2.  That America is being driven into excessive debt for the purpose of destroying and overtaking America.  I think there is a case for treason when it comes to those who wish to constantly raise debt ceilings endlessly. 

I think the enemies of America (and freedom) need America defeated by any means possible, as soon as possible, because America poses a real threat to the furthering of the agenda of these global elitists. 

Every single issue coming to the front right now has a component capability of destroying or deteriorating America’s capability to defend herself or her allies, primarily Israel and Britain. 

An ancient but virtually unknown link between these three nations, Israel, Britain and America, in addition to the identity and links of the forces that consistently come against them, especially in modern times, is key to understanding the issues that confront the world today. 

One could almost imagine the OT prophecies of The King of the North and The King of the South coming against Israel in the last days as being perfectly played out at this point in time. 

The increasingly intense division that we see in the world today must be indicative of something big going on.  Especially when you see unlikely alliances starting form, such as Hezbollah and much of socialist Latin America.  What could be more unlikely than communism/socialism and Islam coming together?  Only due to the total hatred of their common enemy. 

Hate, more than greed, is really what rules the world today.  Greed is merely the tool used to fuel the ideology of Hate.  I think we will soon see the intensity of all this hatred.

Merely “look dysfunctional and incompetent”?

HokaHey!

Exactly.

Is there any mystery why the voters are becoming disgusted by Washington’s
incompetence and lack of concern about the pain that so many Americans are
experiencing?  The Congress plays political games to feed the 24/7 media
propaganda machine that is complicit in this Kabuki dance and the pundits
continue pander to their fans.