Actually, in some ways, we might have been better off--so much worthwhile legislation was left on the cutting room floor because of the need for 60 votes to cloture Dem obstruction with filibusters.Originally Posted by hoosier
How would things have looked if we had applied that popular vote logic to w's executive decisions from 2000-04?That's what I usually do, but this was, after all, RUSH!
OK, he says--I summarize: Round off the popular vote in the election at 54-46% for Obama. Round off the stimulus package at a trillion or so. Assume that the Obama voters prefer spending for Obama-esque programs, and the McCain voters prefer stimulus by tax cutting. The compromise would be: let Obama spend 540 billion--54% on whatever the hell he deems stimulating; Use the other 460 billion--46% for tax cutting. He advocates the bulk of this going to cuts in corporate taxes and upper income Americans who comprise most business owners, as they are the ones creating jobs. That's about it.
On the other hand, the 49.99-50.01 thing might have shot down the War on Terror and the tax cuts.
You know, the x factor here is the God damned America-hating leftist mainstream media--which in 2000, 2004, and especially 2008, not to mention 2006, horribly skewed the election results by hoodwinking a bunch of decent right-thinking people into voting for candidates who weren't representative of their core views and values.
It's all fun and games and conjecture--right up until the time Obama's deviation from Bush's anti-terrorism policies gets a few thousand--or maybe a few million--killed.
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