Originally Posted by Owain
Disaster? Things are roaring along. Over 3% GDP growth in three consecutive quarters which we have not seen in 12 years, the stock market is about to crash through the 24,000 point mark, unemployment is way down, business and consumer confidence is rising.

On the other side of the aisle, you have a pair of sexual harassers in the form of Conyers and Franken.

I think Republicans have the better part of the bargain here.


First, economy always lags well behind policy. If it was doing well now (it's not, for most people) it would be attributed by those who know a thing or two about economics to Obama's admin, not Trumps.

Second, you should really try looking at the bigger picture for once. The new tax plan is pretty horrid, and passing it one-sidedly will also quite possibly create huge backlash that does to the GOP what Obamacare did to the Dems - and might even be worse.

If the GOP has the better part of the bargain, well that might be true. The point here, is that all that good stuff applies only to them and a select, connected few. What happened to shrinking govt? Hopefully your memory isn't so short that you've already forgot about that important component. Enlarging govt while raising taxes on the bulk of us isn't exactly what was promised, nor will it win them any new friends. There will always be a few diehards, who can point out the sexual failures of people like Franken and Conyers, while somehow ignoring the Moores and Trumps of the world - but placing future electoral hopes on there being enough others with similar selective thinking is reminiscent of French proclamations of eventual victory because the Maginot Line is impenetrable.

For who could be free when every other man's humour might domineer over him? - John Locke (2nd Treatise, sect 57)