So next time there is a GOP president and a Dem Senate

[WI_DEM]

Do you think the Dems will learn anything by the way the GOP has been screwing Obama? and fight that republican president tooth and nail or will they say, "We won't do the same thing they did to us."??????

[hughee99]

1. Dems have already learned their lesson...

the problem isn't that they don't know what to do (with a Dem Senate and a repuke President), it's that they haven't had the spine to do it. Unless they grow a backbone, we'll see no differences.

[WeDidIt]

2. You have to add one ingredient to the Dem Senate side of the mix

[babylonsister]

3. Do we want the Dems to vote against Americans' best interests, ever?

I don't. I think the rethugs are providing an example of how not to act.

[RaleighNCDUer]

7. You forget the part where the Republican agenda is NOT in

Americans' best interests. Half the stuff the republicans do SHOULD be ground into legislative dust - but the Dems will say "we're better than that" and give them whatever the fuck they want.

[babylonsister]

9. So you think we should be more like the rethugs? I don't. nt

[RaleighNCDUer]

11. So do you think we should pass whatever crap the republicans put

in front of us in the interests of comity?

There ARE times when it behooves us to be oppositional and contrary.

[babylonsister]

12. I didn't say that, did I. But the Dems work for us, the people. To stop

any form of governance for spite just doesn't cut it. It's disgusting to see in the rethugs, and I'd be disgusted if the Dems did it.

[RaleighNCDUer]

14. I suppose you don't believe in strikes, either.

sometimes, the only way to stop them from doing wrong is to stop them from doing ANYTHING. And if your idea of 'being like the republicans' is standing up and FIGHTING the other side every step of the way, then damn right, I want us to be more like the republicans. I've spent damn near my entire adult life watching the republicans get their agenda passed and damn the consequences, while the democratic agenda has been whittled down and compromised away or even been supplanted with the republican agenda - remember NAFTA and 'welfare reform'? - because we have not been able to FIGHT.

Why do you suppose that disparity exists?

[Winterblues]

8. I believe Republican Policies are not in America's best interest.

I believe it would be against the best interest of America to vote for ANY Republican Policy. Just as Republicans feel about Democratic Policies. They feel completely justified through their delusions. I believe we have solid evidence of the Damage Republican Policies have done to America and the world as a whole. I believe the exact opposite is true for the Republicans. I don't think they can document any Democratic Policy that has caused harm to Americans. That being said almost half of the people in this country are Republicans/Conservatives. A divided nation can not stand. I cringe every time Obama reaches out to the other side but in my heart I know it is for the best. We just have to make change in more incremental adjustments. Some people consider a year to be a long time but in the life of a country it is actually quite short. It may take more than a decade to actually realize change for the better.

[HopeHoops]

4. The Dems aren't that arrogant and petty.

All the GOP cares about is political posturing and kissing their corporate sponsors' asses. Both mean saying "NO" to anything Obama wants, even if he proposed banning abortions, eliminating all gun restriction laws, and eliminating corporate taxes.

[Ozymanithrax]

5. No, the philosophy of the Democratic party is different...they believe the country must be governmen

Citizens needs a functioning government, no matter what party holds the white house.

[n2doc]

6. As others have noted, a significant number of "democrats" are DINOS in the Senate

And those 10-20 DINOS will be more than happy enough to "get along" with the repubs.

Now, will any one Senator place blanket holds on all repub nominees? Or on all legislation? That is the question....

[Tim01]

10. Dems are not fighters. nt

[butterfly77]

13. They will pretend that they won't..

they act like they are going along with the Dems then Wham! they will be back at it full force.

[DainBramaged]

15. The Dems will not want to hurt anyone's feelings

and will lead by example..........



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[Overseas]

16. Didn't seem to learn from the GOP multimillion dollar smearing against Clinton.

Instead of impeaching the Bush Cheney Gang for launching a war on false pretenses and pushing massive torture use the Democrats held back.

They seem to have pretended that impeachment would have been divisive for our country, even after the GOP had spent millions trying to impeach the Democratic president for lying about sex.

At the time, I wondered if the GOP wasn't perhaps doing the messy grotesque impeachment play because they had a real tyrant in the wings and wanted to sour the country on impeachment proceedings. And I was right.