The only problem with Hanson's argument is that all the things he listed in paragraph 4 are really true.
And the denial evident in the responses to teh article is astounding.
Get your butt kicked in 2008: learn nothing
Get your butt kicked in 2012: learn nothing.
What's your response to the two debacles: spew teh same empty rhetoric and animosity that got your butt kicked the last two elections. You are the very definition of doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Barack Obama won a moderately close victory over Mitt Romney on Tuesday. But oddly, nothing much has changed. The country is still split nearly 50/50. There is still a Democratic president, and an almost identically Democratic Senate at war with an identically Republican House, in a Groundhog Day America.
Obama's win did not really reflect affirmation of his first term, given that the president made only halfhearted efforts to defend Obamacare, the stimulus, huge Keynesian deficits and his attempts to implement cap-and-trade. So if there is a second-term agenda, even Obama supporters don't quite know what it will be.
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Moral of the story:
BRING BACK MICHAEL STEELE!!!
Regards,
John Lepant Brighton CO
*slowest, worst recovery since WWII
*average household income down > $4k
*stock market set to dive with angst over dysfunction
* MASSIVE O-debt
* taxing "the rich" will kill jobs and really net little
* nobody wants O-Care, and its REAL costs are starting to bubble up
* militant Islamists resurgent-- whoops!
* soaring food prices; doubled+ gas prices
And THIS is "moving forward"?!