“Voters typically take a rosier view of the economy when their preferred party is in the White House. In the 2006 exit poll conducted in the last midterm of the Bush years, 76 percent of those backing Republicans said they economy was in good shape, while 73 percent of those who voted for Democrats said it was in the tank.”
The onset of the Great Recession the very next year, 2007, proved the Democrats were right on that one.
It may be the one major delusion in this country that we think politicians give a good damn what the voters want. They lie to get elected, produce and broadcast propaganda 24/7 to keep the gullible and undereducated in the dark. They tease the more optimistic with ideas they don’t believe or have no intent on pushing forward unless the big money backers approve.
We are becoming more and more distanced from our government and that is exactly what they want. The politicians have become the ruling royalty while the citizen voter have become their dupes.
Voters don’t want bipartisanship - they want results in their daily lives
Before Battling Democrats, G.O.P. Is Fighting Itself
That’s all you need to know, courtesy of today’s Gray Lady.
Boner is on record as saying it’s not his job to be friendly with Obama, so it immediately becomes adversarial. McConnell has held his hatred a little closer to the vest lately, but he has recently said “We need to embrace the energy revolution”, and so begins Koch payback. They are not there to govern and move this country forward. They are there to remain in office by any means possible.
Also:
Top GOP Senator Complains Obama Not Ready To Compromise
Isn’t it incredible? Put them together and what do you get?
“Obama not ready to cooperate with people who have pledged not to cooperate”
All of this gleaned from actual voters? Or, is this AP fairy dusting the media fallow ground for the next season of recriminations?
Is it data from that electorate which rose up and reared their populist head to the tune of 36% nationally, achieving the lowest turnout in modern history?
The Teahaddists and the Evanjihaddists will feel they are owed for bringing the senate a two year supply of fuel for the clown car.
Compromise will be little to none.
Fear, fear the black man with a pen will be the mantra of the GOP.
Says the hyper-partisan purity troll.
It’s almost as though Ron Fournier—well-known right-wing ass-kisser deluxe-----is still running the AP.
This story is such fatuous twaddle that it beggars description.
He has, numerous times.
I read the article twice, pretty sure I did not see anything called out that the voters want Obama and congress to compromise on.
what I read was a high level mish-mash of weak sauce statistics stating voter perception in both parties. The article even admits that this is about voter perception as they left the polling area.
So why the totally mis-leading title? I thought there might actually be some new information here…
Back to your usual half-baked insults already, SooperDooperMan?
Tell me, to what party am I a hyper-partisan?
Here’s the definition, as you seem to have absolutely no idea as to what the term actually means:
Extremely partisan; extremely biased in favor of a political party.
This should be good.
Cuz TPM?
Your epic cognitive disconnect is the most entertaining aspect of this comment string. Well done.
Speaking of disconnect, evidently you don’t know what the term “partisan” means , either.
[crickets]
The cognitive disconnect?
Is that TCN never mentioned a political-partisanry.
The accepted CW then is to whom you are partial.
All else emanates from that truth.
So yes. ‘This’ should be ‘good’.
jw1
Definitions. They mean things.
Extremely partisan; extremely biased in favor of a political party.
Multiple things. In almost all cases.
partisan
[pahr-tuh-zuh n, -suh n; British pahr-tuh-zan]
noun
I digress.
All else emanates from the partisanry.
jw1
LOL. That was some funny shit.
Are you guys about done beating this dead horse?