Media's Presidential Bias and Decline

[classicman]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Says who? You?

Here is the problem with your line of thinking. Nothing can be done without Congress. All those guys have been getting elected by those big corps for years.
Nothing any of those fools promise you can be done without Congress.

The D's will have control in all three. There will be no checks nor balances. The R's will be steamrolled repeatedly. Virtually anything the D's want, they will be able to get/pass/enact.
I just hope they make the right decisions.

As far as the taxing big corps... Some is better than none. There must be a balance. We cannot hammer them with huge tax increases. They will move overseas, then paying ZERO taxes, reducing the revenue stream that the tax was intended to increase.
That will also close facilities, creating an increase in unemployment, further reducing the tax revenue stream.... Same thing goes with taxing the "rich". If you are at the lower end of the tax scale, it sounds great, but the money has to come from somewhere and if you drive off those paying...Who is gonna pay the bills? This snowball theory is what I'm concerned about.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by classicman

The D's will have control in all three. There will be no checks nor balances.

Well, there's still the filibuster, which is a brake. But I agree that one party rule is bad.

People complain when power is shared between the parties, because it results in gridlock. The alternative is a monopoly on power, hubris, bad government, and voting the bums out. Rinse repeat.

Personally, as a Dem., my ideal would be for a Dem Pres, a Dem majority in the House, and a Repub. majority in the senate. With a Supreme Court full of libertarian leaning moderates who routinely cross back and forth over traditional party lines as they rule.

[classicman]

Originally Posted by glatt

Well, there's still the filibuster, which is a brake. But I agree that one party rule is bad.

The D's are VERY close to gaining the 60 necessary to overcome a filibuster.