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Oh yeah

 George Bush.  I couldn’t think of anything George Bush did.  Well, there *was* that Iraq thing.  That’s what happened while George Bush was president.  I knew there was something…… We’re all tired of the gridlock.  We want something to happen.  The problem is, some of us would like the democrats to be successful and accomplish everything they’d like to do.  Others of us would like the republicans to be successful and accomplish everything they’d like to do.  We all want the same thing, we want an end to gridlock; we just each want it our own way. So if gridlock were to suddenly break loose, still about half the population would be delighted and half would be pissed off, either way it went.  But gridlock is not likely to let up any time soon.  Even when both parties want the same thing, neither wants the other party to get credit for it.  If we continue with divided government; the house and senate blocking the president; even bipartisan bills get voted down unanimously by the party in power, even if everyone agrees that it’s a good idea.  Maybe if they stall long enough, they can get the job done when it’s their guy in power and be the ones to get the credit. When we get to this point, we not only have gridlock on any new ideas, we can’t even pass the day-to-day stuff our government needs to do its job.  (I’m such a socialist, I think government *has* a job and should do it.) This is the point where I would suggest a solution if I had one…  
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I’m feeling philosophical about presidents

 We didn’t like it much when Reagan was president.  Tax cuts for the wealthy.  Trickle down.  A rising tide lifts all boats….  Big deficits. I don’t think we noticed much about George Bush, the elder.  Nothing really stands out. We liked it when Bill Clinton was president.  We had budget surpluses for his last four years.  All we had to do is not screw it up.  He couldn’t keep his dick in his pants, but that wasn’t a big deal to us, we had peace and prosperity.  Others couldn’t wait to get rid of him and were thrilled when Bush got elected.  Now we could have someone “responsible” leading our country.  We hated it when “W” got elected.  We didn’t think he was very smart, but hoped he would be smart enough to surround himself with smart people.  I think he did, but that still didn’t work out so well.  He and his big-money cronies kind of wrecked everything.  Wall Street gone wild.  Tax cuts for the wealthy.  Trickle down.  A rising tide lifts all boats….  Oh well, we survived. Obama got elected and we were thrilled again.  He inherited a fiscal disaster, but we thought he could turn it around.  He did get it headed back the right direction, but not all the way back to budget surpluses.  Meanwhile, slogans appeared like “Our country will never be the same again.”  So many people hate Obama, they can’t wait for him to be gone.  Oh well, they survived. Now there is another election.  We think another eight years of progress under a democratic administration will have the economy sorted out again.  We’re concerned a republican will get elected and they’ll have their way with the economy and give it all way to their friends again.  Republicans are afraid another democratic administration will wreck the country even more than the last eight years did.  The election will finally happen.  About half of us will be relieved and the other half will hate it. Oh well.  Either way, we’ll survive and so will all the people who think they won’t.