Quote Originally Posted by Lemur View Post
The overwhelming goal, as declared on the record by the Speaker of the House, was "to make Obama a one-term president."

That has failed.
Quote Originally Posted by Xiahou View Post
By and large, there was no change in Congress. How is that pressure to do anything differently?
Because the overwhelming goals of the last four years have failed.

  1. Obama will not be a one-term president.
  2. ACA (Obamacare) will not be repealed. And no population in any nation has ever repealed universal health care once enacted.

So the status quo in 2012 is remarkably different from the status quo in 2008 or 2010.