Fareed's Take: We've downgraded ourselves

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Fareed's Take: We've downgraded ourselves – Global Public Square - CNN.com Blogs

Congress is more polarized than ever before...and that polarization has resulted in paralysis. More than two years into the Obama Administration, hundreds of key positions in government remain vacant for lack of Senate confirmation. The Treasury Department had to handle the global financial crisis, recession, bank stress tests and automaker bailouts, as well as its usual duties, with about a dozen of its senior positions - almost its entire top management - vacant. Senate rules have been used, abused and twisted to allow constant delay and blockage.

The filibuster, historically employed about once a decade, is now a routine procedure that allows the minority to thwart the will of the majority. In 2009, Senate Republicans filibustered a stunning 80% of major legislation. Given how the chamber is composed - two Senators per state, no matter how thinly populated - people representing just 10% of the country can block all legislation.

Is that how a democracy should function?
 
Smart guy.

Honestly?

No crop failures. No huge earth ending disasters. American workers most productive in the world. No shortage of highly educated and skilled people. And companies are making huge boatloads of cash.

Where's the disconnect?

Two things.

Corporate greed.

Tea Party.
 
Fareed's Take: We've downgraded ourselves – Global Public Square - CNN.com Blogs

Congress is more polarized than ever before...and that polarization has resulted in paralysis. More than two years into the Obama Administration, hundreds of key positions in government remain vacant for lack of Senate confirmation. The Treasury Department had to handle the global financial crisis, recession, bank stress tests and automaker bailouts, as well as its usual duties, with about a dozen of its senior positions - almost its entire top management - vacant. Senate rules have been used, abused and twisted to allow constant delay and blockage.

The filibuster, historically employed about once a decade, is now a routine procedure that allows the minority to thwart the will of the majority. In 2009, Senate Republicans filibustered a stunning 80% of major legislation. Given how the chamber is composed - two Senators per state, no matter how thinly populated - people representing just 10% of the country can block all legislation.

Is that how a democracy should function?

Now the lefties are going to blame republicans because Obama couldn't get enough key appointments confirmed to avert the financial crisis? The financial crisis started when Barney Frank let Fannie Mae collapse while he was telling Americans that Fannie was doing fine. Filibuster too? Will the whining ever end?
 
Hay, if you libs cant seem to function, just move along and let the grown ups not on drugs give this thing we call leadership a try.
 
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Fareed's Take: We've downgraded ourselves – Global Public Square - CNN.com Blogs

Congress is more polarized than ever before...and that polarization has resulted in paralysis. More than two years into the Obama Administration, hundreds of key positions in government remain vacant for lack of Senate confirmation. The Treasury Department had to handle the global financial crisis, recession, bank stress tests and automaker bailouts, as well as its usual duties, with about a dozen of its senior positions - almost its entire top management - vacant. Senate rules have been used, abused and twisted to allow constant delay and blockage.

The filibuster, historically employed about once a decade, is now a routine procedure that allows the minority to thwart the will of the majority. In 2009, Senate Republicans filibustered a stunning 80% of major legislation. Given how the chamber is composed - two Senators per state, no matter how thinly populated - people representing just 10% of the country can block all legislation.

Is that how a democracy should function?

Now the lefties are going to blame republicans because Obama couldn't get enough key appointments confirmed to avert the financial crisis? The financial crisis started when Barney Frank let Fannie Mae collapse while he was telling Americans that Fannie was doing fine. Filibuster too? Will the whining ever end?

Well yeah..

If you can't fill the spots in your cabinet to do work..guess what? Nothing happens.

And Fannie Mae had nothing to do with the financial crisis.

John Thane did.

It would be impossible for you to understand just how.
 
Smart guy.

Agreed he's a smart guy, but disagreed that the fault is all due to "corporate greed" and the Tea Party.

Democrats now feel they need to mirror the Tea Party's tactics and are becoming unyielding on any cuts to entitlement programs like Medicare. Republicans, emboldened by the success of their bullying, have closed ranks more solidly around a no-tax agenda.

But the only solution to America's debt dilemma will need to involve both cuts to entitlement programs and higher tax revenues.
Obviously the problem is a highly polarized Congress with each side unwilling to budge off their special interest agenda to do what is necessary for the good of our nation.
 

Now the lefties are going to blame republicans because Obama couldn't get enough key appointments confirmed to avert the financial crisis? The financial crisis started when Barney Frank let Fannie Mae collapse while he was telling Americans that Fannie was doing fine. Filibuster too? Will the whining ever end?

Well yeah..

If you can't fill the spots in your cabinet to do work..guess what? Nothing happens.

And Fannie Mae had nothing to do with the financial crisis.

John Thane did.

It would be impossible for you to understand just how.

Plenty happened fuzz face. That's the problem. How many commie former arsonists like Van Jones did Barry have in mind for his "green jobs" board only there ain't any green jobs? The problem ain't the lack of appointments. It's the fools he appointed.
 
You gotta laugh though. As a former editor for Newsweek (Fareed) Zakariah wasn't qualified for much else when they let him go so he took up a position as a wine editor for Slate. What goes around comes around, he went from a wine columnist to a whining columinist.
 
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You gotta laugh though. As a former editor for Newsweek (Fareed) Zakariah wasn't qualified for much else when they let him go so he took up a position as a wine editor for Slate. What goes around comes around, he went from a wine columnist to a whining columinist.

Publish some of my posts...
 
Fareed's Take: We've downgraded ourselves – Global Public Square - CNN.com Blogs

Congress is more polarized than ever before...and that polarization has resulted in paralysis. More than two years into the Obama Administration, hundreds of key positions in government remain vacant for lack of Senate confirmation. The Treasury Department had to handle the global financial crisis, recession, bank stress tests and automaker bailouts, as well as its usual duties, with about a dozen of its senior positions - almost its entire top management - vacant. Senate rules have been used, abused and twisted to allow constant delay and blockage.

The filibuster, historically employed about once a decade, is now a routine procedure that allows the minority to thwart the will of the majority. In 2009, Senate Republicans filibustered a stunning 80% of major legislation. Given how the chamber is composed - two Senators per state, no matter how thinly populated - people representing just 10% of the country can block all legislation.

Is that how a democracy should function?

Now the lefties are going to blame republicans because Obama couldn't get enough key appointments confirmed to avert the financial crisis? The financial crisis started when Barney Frank let Fannie Mae collapse while he was telling Americans that Fannie was doing fine. Filibuster too? Will the whining ever end?

Don't you ever tire of playing Polly Parrot? "Awk, Whitehall want a cracker, awk". This thread provides more examples of the Republican effort to stall recovery in concert their Party First, the end is justified by the means, ideology.
 

Now the lefties are going to blame republicans because Obama couldn't get enough key appointments confirmed to avert the financial crisis? The financial crisis started when Barney Frank let Fannie Mae collapse while he was telling Americans that Fannie was doing fine. Filibuster too? Will the whining ever end?

Don't you ever tire of playing Polly Parrot? "Awk, Whitehall want a cracker, awk". This thread provides more examples of the Republican effort to stall recovery in concert their Party First, the end is justified by the means, ideology.

Why do you hate the middle class and support Obama on holding the country hostage until we eneded up getting our credit downgraded?
 
Now the lefties are going to blame republicans because Obama couldn't get enough key appointments confirmed to avert the financial crisis? The financial crisis started when Barney Frank let Fannie Mae collapse while he was telling Americans that Fannie was doing fine. Filibuster too? Will the whining ever end?

Don't you ever tire of playing Polly Parrot? "Awk, Whitehall want a cracker, awk". This thread provides more examples of the Republican effort to stall recovery in concert their Party First, the end is justified by the means, ideology.

Why do you hate the middle class and support Obama on holding the country hostage until we eneded up getting our credit downgraded?

I don't hate any class, even those like you who have no class. Thanks for proving once again that the New Right accuses others of what they do. Holding the country hostage and stalling economic recovery is a classless act by radical Republicans.
 
We are a Constitutional Republic not a democracy.

I wouldn't expect someone name Fareed to understand that.
 

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