why does everyone blame Republican for the current mess, but defend Dems for doing nothing or blocking bills.?

Dems won't even pass a budget.

The by law, the budget comes from Paul Ryan's budget committee. If he truly wanted a budget passed he would make it bi-partisan. Destroying Medicare and social security is not a program that Democrats will sign on too. The only reason fellow republicans voted for it was because they knew it has zero chance of passing the Senate. Only wackos like Paul Ryan would vote to end medicare and medicaid, most republicans depend on the senior vote to be re-elected. Obama suggested that the house and senate combine and form a joint committee to come up with a bipartisan budget proposal, that was called Simpson Bowles. Ryan served on that committee. Ryan voted against the bipartisan plan and killed it. The heart of Simpson Bowles was a combination of spending cuts and tax increases. When Simpson Bowles died, Democrats did compromise and passed $1 T in budget cuts with NO tax increases. That plan passed the Republican house. That was the 2011 Budget Control Act. So the next time Republicans say Democrats won't agree to spending cuts, spit in their face. Obama offered to reduce the tax increase for the Fiscal Cliff to just half that suggested by Simpson Bowles, and Mitch McConnell laughed (yes he did) on the floor of the Senate. There are 2 sides to every issue, but only one party is obstructing all progress.

Remember, Obama accepted Boehner's plan and the House Republicans shot it down. Let's make this clear: the Republicans shot down the plan of their Republican leader.

You should also look at the speeches made by other Republican leaders in Congress, who have said that they would rather go over the cliff than compromise with Obama.

However, I agree with you. There is plenty of blame for both parties. But it's false to say that Dems are doing nothing but blocking bills. Nor is it true that Republicans are working harder than Democrats or that they are not blocking bills (again, from their own leadership).

Compromise.

Why not? With NO POWER, the Republicans are still declared "to blame" by YOU for example.

Here's EVERY option now on the table (there are more versions with various details, but they all fit one of these three:)

a) Immediately implement the plan the Democrats wrote in the Obama White House with no input whatsoever from any Republican. House Republicans already passed bills to prevent this yet every Democrat claims it will be the GOP's fault if the plan the Democrats demanded actually gets done.

b) Immediately implement PART OF the plan the Democrats wrote in the Obama White House with no input whatsoever from any Republican, then implement the REST OF THE SAME PLAN a year later. This is the ONLY alternative to plan a) that ANY Democrat says it will accept.

c) Don't implement the plan the plan the Democrats wrote in the Obama White House with no input whatsoever from any Republican. Democrats CLAIM THIS IS WHAT THEY WANT - but

> THEY WROTE IT.

> THEY PASSED IT.

> THEY are standing in the way of stopping it.

Democrats OWN this - 100%

simply by fact it rather is the republican way of existence distinctly now. i detect it a giggle that the congress approval score is so low while it rather is rather all around Bush's fault. the certainty that no longer something is getting accomplished has to do with the certainty that Bush can no longer artwork with people. a stable president has to have the means to flow social gathering lines and get issues accomplished. Bush is obviously incapable of successfuly doing this. Blaming Clinton and Congress and shifting accountability for his or her own strikes is rather something republicans have mastered. Now it rather is all unraveling and that they are stumped on what to do approximately it. EDIT: additionally no longer purely this yet their customary attack classified ads are not working like they could desire to. could desire to it rather is that everybody is wising up approximately this type of element?

Dems are doing what the Republicans did when the Dems were in the majority. Politics is compromise, and neither side (when in power) is willing to do that.

Until we get our increased taxes, and make our representatives do their *whole* job, they will let us take it in the a**.

If it okay to raise taxes on some then it okay to raise it on all....a nation of Equals under the law.

The cliff is about blaming someone for the inevitable economic collapse, not preventing it.

Fiat Economics always fails.

False premise. The cliff only exists because the GOP tried to be clever. Remember how please they were to see it included in the legislation?

The GOP has been abusing the filibuster in the Senate and fighting amongst themselves in the House. Yet your take away is that the Dems need to do something? Hahahahahahahahahahahaha.....

Because the O man now believes he has his mandate to finsh his work. He could care less about the economy. It is all about raising the taxes. He is a true believer of "fixed size pizza" economics. The same with his minions.

See, a deal is EASY---Simple extend the status quo until things improve. Isn't happening.

why do people find politics so interesting?