Democrats (Harry Reid) Blocking All Legislation From Republicans

The truth is the Republicans have sent nearly 40 bills to the Senate for a vote but almost none have made to the floor - Harry Reid has blocked them all. Exactly who is it doesn't have any new ideas and who is standing in the way of our country moving forward.

I really am very sick and tired of having so many 'experts' tell me the Conservatives don't have any plan for improving our country when just the opposite is true. They have presented many but none have be given a vote. 

The problem is the clear voices in congress are too few and the establishment legislators, some Republicans and most Democrats, are so ingrained in the status quo, they rule the day. And on top of that, the press has their collective thumbs on the scale printing only the news that they believe will benefit the liberal agenda, even to the point that they manage the information.

If this means I'm angry, you are right. Am I wrong here to believe it's the progressive Democrats that are blocking any meaningful legislation that might benefit the general population and make the agenda of the Democrats look self servicing? Am I wrong here to be angry that so many 'reasonable' people in the press demagogy or out right lie about what the Conservatives want and have done for the country?

Am I wrong to be angry when it seems the Conservatives are always held to standards higher then the progressive Democrats? Why is it always the responsibility of the Conservatives and the Republican to be the adults in the room, making the hard decisions that might actually work to save our country, while the Democrat run wild destroying our economy and driving the entire country into the abyss? And it's the Republicans that are standing in the way?

Think about this, why should the Republicans have a plan in opposition the ObamaCare, our health care system works like it is, it isn't perfect but still the best in the world. Why not just say no to ObamaCare when the majority of citizens don't the damn thing in the first place?

The Truth about Republican Obstructionism
Source: Peter Suderman, "The End of Policy," Reason Magazine, August 14, 2013.
August 20, 2013

Washington is in a post-policy moment. Congress passes little of substance. Few bills make it to a vote, and those that do are intended as messages, symbols or stunts, rather than policy reforms. The president makes speeches gesturing toward policy reforms, but they largely repackage old ideas. The true subtext of those speeches, meanwhile, has less to do with the policies themselves and more to do with the gridlock and obstructionism that the Obama administration sees as blocking legislative advances, says Peter Suderman, a senior editor at Reason Magazine.

The last presidential campaign was not fought over new ideas and initiatives, but over policies past. A vote for Romney was a vote to undo the big-ticket policy measures of Obama's first term. A vote for Obama was a vote to keep them, and try to make them work.

• The stasis has not escaped notice. And a convenient conventional wisdom has developed, blaming Republican Party obstructionism for refusing to cooperate with Democrats to get the gears of legislation turning again.
• GOP obstructionism is not imaginary, but this self-serving narrative misses the point. It is not unreasonable for Republicans to decline to cooperate on an agenda they do not support.
• And if it seems like they rely heavily on blocking tactics, that is because, as a minority party that controls one half of Congress, they have few other tools at their disposal. Republicans can stand in the way. And so they do.

The real problem is that Republicans do not have a policy agenda of their own. They have opposition to the president, and a lingering taste for tax cuts, defense spending and domestic surveillance. And that's about it.

Democrats have ridiculed Republicans for their limited agenda, but they too are stuck in a rut. Yes, as the party of activist government, there is always something more to be done, but the president's party seems nearly as drained of policy energy as the GOP, resting on recycled ideas and expansions of existing programs.

This is what really lies underneath the recent policy stagnation -- not obstructionism, but exhausted party agendas with nowhere left to go. The truth is that both parties have largely achieved their long-term policy goals and neither has a strong sense of what to do now.