You're being down voted for telling the truth, which is extremely inconvenient. Notice all the debate in this thread is about partisan score keeping and no one

You're being down voted for telling the truth, which is extremely inconvenient. Notice all the debate in this thread is about partisan score keeping and no one is able to explain why they want these rules back after all their predictions of terrible doom failed to happen. They need them back so they can claim doom was just around the corner if they hadn't been passed. The longer they went without being in effect, the more difficult it would be to explain why the doom never came to be. It is 100%, Grade A partisan score keeping to preserve future doomsaying without being called out on this absolutely failed predictions. Looks as bad for the doomsayers as a Bush administration's doomsaying about Weapons of Mass Destruction piling up in Iraq, ready to attack the US if we didn't invade. Incredible what people will let their partisan brains twist reality into. Of course, when this is used against them in the future, they'll scream like banshees, claiming it's unprecedented. This is the power of a brain addicted to partisanism.