Obama has proposed a budget, again. Republicans voted 100% against the last one. They have promised to again?

Lying. "you forget his first 2 years when Democrats had control of the house and Senate " Wrong. They never really had a super-majority in the Senate so the GOP could and did threaten to filibuster pretty much everything.

Remember, Kennedy had brain cancer and wasn't in session most of the time. So only 59 Senators, not enough for cloture. Then he died and the GOP won the special election.

Probably took three years to put together based on all the earmarks he wanted in it.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.