Quote:Not good. He spent all of his early political capital on obamacare instead of single payer and after that he's been opposed by a Do-Nothing republican congress that stopped the country for being able to implement any legislation to actually help people.

 

So for what he did do, it was garbage, I'd like to think he'd have done more things that were better if he had a cooperative republican party across the aisle willing to take his hand, but who knows.

 

I absolutely love this argument.  By a cooperative republican party, you mean one that bends to his wishes, right?  Because any time I see this "do nothing" congress, it's usually a label attached to only 1/2 of the congress.  The house has actually done quite a bit, passing budgets and other legislation that has been sitting on the Senate Majority Leader's desk.  Oddly enough, he's NOT a republican, but you knew that.  The Senate has been a bigger roadblock than the house, but let's just ignore that to run cover for your guy, right?

 

From day 1 of his presidency, there's never been a legitimate attempt to work with republicans.  His entire focus has been on dividing them.  During the heat of the ObamaCare debate, he made it clear that there wouldn't be any concessions coming from his administration.  Heck, look a his signature piece of legislation, and you see a program that was completely put together, rammed through congress, and only supported by democrats.  That has worked out splendidly so far. 

 

We'll also just ignore the pesky little fact that for the first 2 years of his administration, he could do pretty much anything he wanted with majorities in BOTH houses of congress, and he decided to go all in with ObamaCare, foregoing all other issues in favor of his beloved, all knowing government taking control of 1/6 of our economy.  There were other much bigger issues he could have tackled, but he chose this one, while ignoring things like unemployment, energy independence, immigration reform, or a host of other missed opportunities.  Between ObamaCare and blaming Bush for everything, that pretty much encapsulates his entire presidency to date, unless you want to toss in the fact that this administration loves to call themselves a force for unity as they go out and target individuals and organizations with the full force of the government.  For being such a unifying presence, he sure knows how to divide a nation. 

 

As far as "single payer" goes, judging from what a tremendous job they've done with the implementation of ObamaCare so far, we're fortunate he didn't get what he really wanted.  It's already a colossal failure.  That would just add an exclamation point to the ineptitude that is the Obama administration. 

 

Jimmy Carter probably sends Barry a thank you card every day for making his presidency look not so bad in comparison. 

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