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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  3468 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Republicans Take Control Of Senate With Win In North Carolina : NPR

But really - name three things Congress has accomplished since Obamacare. And no, endless iterations of Benghazi investigations don't count.

Look around, man. Your country is legalizing weed and gay marriage. Absolutely - crazy fuckers are electing crazy fuckers attempting to turn the clock back to 1955. But really - what did Michelle Bachman accomplish? Have you seen the Tea Party do anything other than shake a few bones at people?

I get wanting to be upset about this. I feel ya. Maybe I'm jaded - but I remember the Gingrich Revolution. They fuckin' shut down the government my freshman year at college. End effect? A buddy's dad lost 3 days wages. What did they get out of it? Whitewater and the Lewinsky prosecution.

Look at that through your long lens of history. Yeah, the world would have been a much better place if Clinton could have moved with more of a mandate. But whatever broad visions Obama had he's long since spent. You've got global drones on one side and giant Mexican fence on the other - one side wants to sell social security to the highest bidder, the other wants to fine you for not buying bullshit, terrible useless insurance.

Pretend there are two bulldozers. They both want to tear up the landscape - a landscape you kinda like. is having them slammed against each other, pushing with all their might but getting nowhere really the worst outcome you can imagine?