All indications are that President Obama is going to cave to the GOP minority yet again. He will give them their tax cuts for rich people at a cost of $700 billion over the next ten years despite our gigantic budget deficits.
The congressional term isn't over. Democrats still have a huge house majority and 58 seats in the Senate, plus they have the Presidency. Yet again and again, they give in to the GOP despite the fact that it seldom gets them any GOP votes at all. The President appears to have a pathological need to "compromise" and after nearly two years still somehow hasn't figured out that the GOP's doesn't give a fuck about compromising.
The GOP's idea of compromise is "give us everything we want". The Democrats are too spineless to really fight them on it. Obama gives away compromises before debates even start. For example, he abandoned any advocacy for a public option in health care reform before the reform debate even began. The Democrats simply refuse to play hardball and that's all the Republicans play. Despite what Obama and the Democrats gave away on health care reform before serious debate even got going, they didn't get a single GOP vote despite ultimately passing health care reform that bears a strong resemblance to GOP proposals from the '90s. Naturally that resemblance didn't stop today's GOP from calling the bill a socialist nightmare. Newsflash: reality has nothing to do with GOP rhetoric. Center-right bills are labeled socialist and a President who bends over backwards to accommodate them is called the most liberal President ever.
The GOP congressional leadership has publicly stated that their #1 priority is to make Obama a one term President. That's right. Their top priority isn't jobs. It isn't improving the economy. It isn't ending the wars, improving health care, or any other actual issue effecting Americans. It's to get rid of Barack Obama at all costs. They vote against anything Democrats want simply to deny them a victory, regardless of whether or not a bill is good for the country.
The congressional GOP simply does not give a shit about the country. That's the reality. It's time congressional Democrats and President Obama woke the fuck up and realized it.
I'm sick and tired of having two significant political parties in this country, a far right wing party led by unrepentant scum who don't give a flying fuck about the country but fight tooth and nail, no holds barred for what they want and a center right wing party led by spineless twits including the President.
