Hypocrites all

It was interesting to me yesterday that Obama got on TV and acted all outraged over the NRA victory on gun control (expanded background checks on gun purchases went down to defeat in the Senate). But face it - he, like all of the Senators that voted no on the gun control issue, are owned by big business interests. I would have been far more interested in what the POTUS had to say if he had thrown a few bankers in jail after the banking scandals of the past few years. His sponsors are just different than the Republican sponsors. Douche-bag.

Regarding the President's budget proposal, including cuts to Medicare and Social Security...

From Daily Kos

We can't win here, so lets do the GOP's work for them.

So says a "longtime Obama aide," according to Politico:

    "We're not going to have the White House forever, folks. If he doesn't do this, Paul Ryan is going to do it for us in a few years," said a longtime Obama aide, referring to the 2012 Republican vice presidential candidate who proposed a sweeping overhaul of Medicare that would replace some benefits with vouchers.

Seems this person forgot Paul Ryan was on a ballot last year. Verdict rendered.

You know what? Fine. If we lose the White House and both houses of Congress, then by all means, Paul Ryan should go ahead and get his druthers. If the American people vote for the Ryan budget, then by God they should have it. That's the way the political system works in a democracy. You run on a platform, you win, you get to implement your platform. If the American people don't like it, they only have themselves to blame for voting for it. They asked for George W. Bush's party, platform and leadership and boy did they get what they asked for.

Do you think Paul Ryan would ever come out and say "Fellow Republicans, we had better go ahead and raise the minimum wage because if we don't, Bernie Sanders is going to come along and do it in a few years?" Ridiculous.

If Democrats run on something and win, then they should implement what they ran on. What Democrats should not do is run on a platform, win, then turn around and implement the policies of the side that lost. That doesn't make any sense. It makes a mockery of the political process. It treats Democratic voters like a bunch of rubes. If Republicans want to cut Social Security, let them run on it and win. We don't need to do their work for them.

No, we won't have the White House forever. That is why we should do what we stand for. What we get elected for. If the people want Republican government, then they should vote for it and get what they deserve.