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Originally Posted by Antitrust32

Pretty sure the dems didnt sit on thier hands when Bush II was trying to pass his most important measure.. one that would have been better than anything I've ever heard a Dem propose. Social Security Reform.

I think this is an apt comparison.
Everybody with half a brain realized that the Republican plan for social security was a giant sack of crap, but did the Dems come up with their own plan to solve an obvious problem? Nope. They just complained about the Republicans' plan.
In fairness to the Dems, they were right to complain about the Republican plan which - given the turn in the stock market in the years after it was proposed - would have been a complete disaster, but they should also have proposed a reasonable alternative that called for raising the retirement age, etc. As far as I know, they never did that.