Who here does not - NOT - want to see a rehash of 1990's political culture?

[Writer]

The posturing. The narcissism. The ideological arguments grounded in no reality whatsoever. The tit-for-tat extremism on the floor of Congress as well as on political television. The rehashing of 1960's/1970's cultural struggles played out by a bunch of elites. The purely rhetorical arguments and avoidance of any practical action.

I sure as hell don't wish to see that again. While the Democrats have moved on with Obama, the Republicans are still stuck in the Newt Gingrich era of dysfunctional politics. It's the same bogus nonsense - only now attached to new heads.

I'd like to know if there are others whose stomachs also sour at the thought. I don't want to return to that era - how about you?

[DURHAM D]

1. drivel much?

The right wing drove the conversation in the 90s, as they do now. I have no desire to run hide from their bullying and lies.

[Ozymanithrax]

2. I definitly do not want to see the President hunted in the Congress...

as he was in the 90's. I don't want to see Republicans accusing the President of stealing their ideas (triangulation).

[jobycom]

3. I'd like to see Obama gain some of Clinton's skills.

The only problem I had with the 90s were the actions of the Republicans. They found the most conservative activist in an already reactionary party and made him their leader. They were so bad the old 60s conservatives started abandoning them. Barry Goldwater died denouncing Gingrich.

Clinton was great. With a lesser skilled president, Gingrich would have won the budget battle and we'd all be looking at Glenn Beck as the most liberal voice on television. Not that anyone would be able to afford television. Obama could learn Clinton's political skills and pick up his economic policies, and we'd be in better shape.

So I don't know. I'd rather not live through the Republican side of the 90s, but the Democratic side was fine with me.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

4. I don't want the political culture of the last nearly 40 years!! n/t

[xchrom]

5. I don't want to relive the neoliberal legislation

That wound up getting passed in the 90s by a dem prez and a
Repuke congress.

Not the answer you're looking for - but that's mine.

[Jennicut]

6. I don't want to relive the nonsense of some of the 90's arguments.

But have the Rethugs gotten any better then that time period? I distinctly remember a lot of people in my classes talking about the Lewinsky thing in college and we were all pretty sick of the whole thing and just wanted Clinton to be able to govern. At least that backfired on the Repubs as did the shutdown of the govt.

[ibegurpard]

7. it went away?

you can be an ostrich and stick your head in the sand but it doesn't change the fact that you are up against an enemy that has no intention of entering the era of "post-partisanship."

[chieftain]

8. It is the recurring bad dream of my life.

I'm reading Washington Rules. It contains extensive quotes from Fulbright's book on Vietnam, The Arrogance of Power. You would not have to change one word of the excerpts to update what he said in the late '60's about US policy. I'm 64 years old and one of my fondest hopes was to not have to relive the idiocy of the Vietnam War. Yet here we are again. Republicans spouting phony patriotism. Weak-kneed Democrats posturing to be thought as tough as the craziest anti communist or anti-immigrant or anti-gay or anti-feminist or anti Islamist or anti whoever the latest scare industry has targeted for their vitriol and lies.I refuse to give into the RW bastards but I sure wish the American people would wise up to their tactics.

[quakerboy]

9. We never left it

Not for an instant. They are hunting Obama just exactly the same way they went after Clinton. They seem to have to lie more, as there seem to be fewer items in reality that they can sink their teeth into.