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Originally Posted by Ustwo
I am upset with the republican party as a whole as they backed off of the tough talk after the 1994 'revolution' (thanks Bill) and have done very little meaningful reduction in government.
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That's because your party is being run by people who do not believe in what your party claims to, and used to, believe in - namely fiscal conservatism. That's really not a bad concept, but unfortunately, somehow the leaders of your party have redefined it to mean "shift funding from what we don't like to what we do, and call it budget cuts, and then lower taxes so we end up with a net loss."
The old republican party would never have endorsed that approach.
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I do think he is handling the war on terror quite well
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I'm curious as to your reasoning there - how can you think that when the terrorist who attacked us is still running loose and we're making little to no effort to catch him - and in fact we're spending much more energy in Iraq, who didn't attack us, than we are going after bin Laden, who did.
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, I think the whines about losing civil liberties is a bunch of B.S. No one here is really outraged it just a new angle for the left to work on hoping it will 'stick'. Its been a constant stream of attacks to the point its just noise.
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Sorry, I am outraged. Any time you take the constitution and say "we must not deviate from the instructions of this document unless we REALLY feel like it" you are making a mockery of the founding philosophies of this country.
Stripping people of thier civil rights is NOT defending America because it is changing America into something that its founders, and its citizens, would never want.
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I find it amusing how Bush is called an idiot and later the same people claim he is able to pull of moves that would make Machiavelli proud.
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Why? With Rove as the puppeteer a goat could pull off shenanigans like that. Bush IS dumb. Either that, or he's a damn good actor. But you don't need a smart person when that person is the figurehead who is being controlled by people sitting in the wings, namely, Rove, Cheney, Rumsfeld, et al.
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Its been hysteria on the left since they lost power and lost control of the debate and while I'm glad they have been exposed to the American people for what they are at last, I am sad that the facade of civilitiy and in some cases sanity is gone.
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This is an example of the hypocracy your party is famous for. I've never noticed any republicans giving a democrat a break when he's in power. Don't whine when the democrats do the same thing to you. I also find it interesting that right after you accuse the democrats of whining you whine that they're being mean to your president.