Muscatine

Yea...that was with a little tongue in cheek. However, what the website shows is the truth.

Yup. The evidence is there regardless of what America thinks. What are we to do then. If one will not work with the other, it's another last 2 years of the bush tenure.

Bush?  Why are you still fixated on Bush?  He's gone.  It was Clinton that kicked down the door on "free trade".  Now, I grant you our country has traditionally been all for free trade, but that was a long time before Bush.  Most attempts to restrict free trade have been disasters.  Your obsession with past President Bush seems kind of goofy.  Almost "progressive".

By the way, all newly-elected presidents except Zachary Taylor, Richard Nixon and George H. W. Bush were accompanied by control of at least one house of Congress.

Hiroad. Lessons we should learn of our past is why I remind others of the foibles of our presidential history and that we as a nation need to dissolve the venomous bipartisanship and bridge this deep divide. If we don't know by now that a good conservative is desirable to what we have had, then they don't quite understand the meaning. I cannot give way to a bashing of the leader at hand unless we are reminded of just what he started with. I have noticed in my short time here, just how much disdain there is for obama, though I don't like him, nor any policy that seems counter productive, including the three new free trade deals. I will not sit quietly while we point out  one screws up,  but not the others. That being my main issue with how bad our economic situation is, must be reconciled with the 7 bush passed. I absolutely detested the man his last 6 years in office. I listened to his promises as I have all the others as far back as 1958. I was a young woman mesmerized by JFK. My first son was born May 29th 1959 the same day as JFK birthday. I saw so little of the man I admired to start, from his first year, to his death. The next man in office, johnson made me want to cringe. Then Nixon and agnew demolished our economy. Lies, cover ups, both resigned in utter shame and then Ford came to the rescue. There was little wrong with ford in my eyes but that he pardoned nixon. I always felt under different circumstances ford would have been elected a second term and shown America what a good conservative could do. Carter made me cringe then. I always felt he was a dolt. My hero was elected in a landslide and held a nation together after the messes left by his predecessors. I realize Reagan wasn't the greatest president we ever had, but he did make a nation in dire needs feel whole again. Be it his grandfatherly tone and sage like wisdom, or his innate ability to lead, he did make a difference. From read my lips, to S&L bailouts, then we got clinton. What a bag of bull he was. But he was able to work with the gop to get the nation moving again. Together they rebuilt some financial strength and put more people to work than before nixon. Though  I did not and do not like the man, he did preside over the greatest growth and global progress for America history. I'm sorry hiroad, but bush took it all away and led the republican party down the drain in my eyes. he was about the worst so called conservative I have ever seen. What he left in his wake was never fully realized until you lost a good job to the depth of free trade and how much of that he gave to corporate America. I realize free trade is ageless and hard to change, but by God the way it was written to benefit corparica can be changed and should. Free trade isn't all bad, just the way it was written was. I don't know if bozobama is just too stupid to see it and fight for it, or if he's just one more in a lengthening line of cheats and liars willing to hand our future over to those corporate liars, theives and greedy cheats. That's not prgressive sir, it's wise to want the best for our nation. It'a all about the lessons.