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The sequel in this fair and balanced editorial seems to be writing itself out there on the innertubes.
It's aptly named "George W. Bush...miss me yet?"

But I'm not buying it, not for a penny.
Barack Obama is causing me to rack up some serious buyer's remorse but in my book George W. Bush is still George W. Bush.
He's not looking better, not by comparison, not by any stretch.
It's just that President Obama has failed to leverage any of the political capital that swept him into office.

An inept driver doesn't make the drunk driver who just went wobbling by a few minutes ago look any better.
If that were the case there would be very few DUI arrests because there's no shortage of numb nut drivers on the road today.

I don't know what the payoff is for a rehabbed George W. Bush, aside from maybe better speaking fees.

And when you add up all the baggage from President Bush's support structure, the Republican Party, you're forced to remember exactly what it was that sent you screaming into the night the first time around.

Obama lacks the support structure that currently enables Republicans to earn tackle football hits and injuries in a touch football match.

Truly, if the Dems had twenty more folks like Alan Grayson, Al Franken and Anthony Weiner, they could rule the world.
But this doesn't excuse President Obama's lack of ability in getting tough when it's called for.


McCain?
Pondering it All might have hit the nail right on the head with his assessment of McCain. There's just that one thing that kept a lot of people from voting for him. It's something which reflects on his ability to make wise choices, it's SARAH PALIN.
But President Obama cannot rely on the excuse that Republicans are "filibustering America".
That explains much but excuses little.
It's the president's duty to interpret the actions of the GOP minority for what it is, and explain to the American people what's going on.

The GOP has simply been the master of their message.
Obama and the Dems have failed miserably in this regard.
And that's why some of us are tempted to take another wistful look at the good old days of George W. Bush.

I have the cure for that.

Then there is the issue of financial reform...

Of course lots of people are dissatisfied with the result. However they are not in agreement about what is wrong or how to do the bill differently.

It is worthwhile to consider that some peole who have no vested political interest are fairly positive about the bill.

Steven Davidoff--Professor Davidoff...isciplinary research in law and finance.

OK... so I admit that Davidoff has actually written several books about the subject of Law and finance, and he actually read the entire bill... Surely that is enough to disqualify his opinion in the face of the expertise of Doug Thompson.

Notice that I didn't say that careening bus should be filled with Republicans. There are plenty of Democratic seat reservations in there...

Obama-Care (AKA Romney-Care) is not my ideal solution, but what it will accomplish in terms of universal access to insurance and insured's rights will be treated by history as being on par with Medicare. Twenty years from now, only the politically insane (IE. the Libertarians) will still want to rescind it, and the vast majority of Americans will still be laughing at their ideas.

There are many things I miss at this site (particularly the great people and their opinions I have come to appreciate through the years)...these repetitive naysaying columns of Doug's are not one of them.

while it is true there are a majority of people sporting the democratic party label .... it is quite obvious to anyone who has read anything about Washington politics that not all of them are rigid partisans ... the Democratic Party affords a much larger tent for more diverse views than the Republican Party and thus it is not a clear cut matter that anything offered as legislation is a sure thing as in trying to convince conservative Dems to vote the party line

If one looks around at what Dems and Repubs have done to the country, one would have to wonder if they are laughing to avoid crying.;-)
Yours,
Issodhos

One has to wonder what the party excuse would be if Dems held 100 percent of the House, Senate, and the White House. It does get old.
Yours,
Issodhos

Good idea, let's try it and see.

It could certainly happen, Ardy. Not this election cycle but just a few down the road. Without the bulldog determination of republicans to filibuster President Obama into a failed presidency it is entirely possible that we would have seen much of the change promised by Barack Hussein Obama during his campaign. The Birthers, Baggers, Deathers, and Taxers have set an agenda to "take back their country". Okay, let's say they do...then what? They have no plan to fix anything, just a plan to stop democrats from trying to fix anything. The anger that democrats have faced will multiply when republicans do even worse. It's all about jobs now. Until a lot of Americans get back to work and get some money in their pockets they are just gonna get madder and madder.