Eight years? where did you get that, the GOP had the house and the senate from 94 to 06, the democrats ran on change in 06 and took the house and the senate, we've had 3 1/2 years of democrat control, 1 1/2 years of complete democrat control, when did everything start to go bad?, I mean really bad?
Most democrats like to tell you how great it was when Clinton was president, he got so much done, yeah he did, after the house and the senate got taken over by the GOP.
Both parties are fucked, 6 years with Bush and GOP running the house and senate did nothing but go to war, people got pissed and voted out the GOP from both the presidency and the house and senate, but we are still fucked and the war continues and having a date that we are suppose to pull out has become a tool of Al Qaeda. We have out of control spending and increased government bureaucracy, it's a mess. And people say the Tea Party are a bunch of nuts, I think the people that make fun of the Tea Party are idiots, because they are just people that are responding to a fucked up situation and doing something about it, instead of posting on a forum defending the idiots in office.
If you think that Obama is doing a great job, keep thinking that, here's a list of the friends he keeps.
When Illinois State Senator Alice Palmer decided to retire in 1995, she hand-picked local left-winger Barack Obama as her successor. In order to introduce Obama to influential liberals in the district, she held a function at the home of Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn. This was, really, the beginning of Obama's political career, and it linked him forever with Ayers and Dohrn, with whom, as his campaign has acknowledged, he continues to have a friendly relationship.
Ayers and Dohrn were famous radicals, and fugitives from the law, in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Dohrn, actually, was the more famous of the two; she was the head, as I recall, of Students for a Democratic Society or one of its factions. Dohrn was crazy. She is the only public figure, to my knowledge, to approve publicly and enthusiastically of the Charles Manson murders.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardine_Dohrn
Ayers was a would-be murderer of soldiers and policemen, but he wasn't a very good terrorist. He had the ill fortune to be the subject of a profile in the New York Times on September 11, 2001, in which he said that he didn't regret his attempted murders and only wished that he had planted more bombs.
It's when you read about this kinda shit that you know that we should back the Tea Party