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Originally Posted by j8ear
It doesn't pain me in the least. All though most of what you offered is irrelevant (polls, delay, Katrina, etc....), I agree whole heartedly that Bush has spent far to much. Almost like a democrat? Imagine where we'd be if the left controlled things.
It's strange that this doesn't please you?
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That's a pretty cheap shot. Our last democrat president was fiscally sane. Our current Republican is an economic H-bomb. But, hey, go ahead and dance out the ol' "Democrats want to spend all yer hard earned money" straw man. I'm just not going to dance with it.
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Originally Posted by j8ear
Maybe the only real solution is one party counter acting the other with either one in the executive and the other in the legislator.
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Could be. Maybe the mid-terms will give us a shot at that.
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Unfortunately the democrats are probably finished in this country...they evolved from the slave advocating party into the party of the working class industrial economy protecting, and are now the party of fringe lunacy, social experimenation, poverty pimping, government solving advocates with not one success to show for all the money they've extorted and then squandered.
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Sigh. Folks, I'm afraid j8ear might, in a sense, be right about this. And I mean that literally: I'm
afraid he might well be right.
Say what you will about the Republican machine, it's smooth, efficient, and, until this month anyway, remarkably unified. It was probably the unity of the right that had this whole Neocon Ascendency take place over the last decade or so. The left is completely fragmented, continually hijacks itself with fringe players screaming at the top of their lungs. It's no wonder that moderate middle America equates the left with environmental vegetarian abortionists--those are the ones promoting the "left agenda". There's no single voice, just a collection of shrill individuals. The public is left to make up its own mind about what the "party" (though I don't mean strictly the Democrats) stands for. I think it's entirely possible that the Democratic Party as we know it may never rise from the ashes. That may be a good thing.
Now: "not one success to show for all the money they've extorted and squandered" is just another cheap shot, given the practices of the current administration. Let's not talk about lying to America and Congress for the funding for a pointless war that has killed thousands with no objective or exit strategy, hm?