Originally posted on 11/07/2012:

Quote Originally Posted by SBR_John View Post
The real problem is the Democrats have convinced folks its ok to run up trillion dollar deficits and there is no paying the piper. The electorate is not holding their president accountable.
The fact that you can you honestly say this, yet not bring up the fact that the trillion dollar Iraq and Afghan wars were started with no plan to pay for them speaks volumes.

You don't make wholesale changes because an incumbent president is re-elected with 50.2% of the popular vote.
Bush was re-elected with 286 electoral votes and 50.7% of the vote in 2004
"I earned capital in this campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it," Bush told reporters. "It is my style."