And maybe even the Senate.
The Democrats think that they can win in 2006 is in my judgement a flawed argument.
I have seen no credible evidence at all in the last six years or so that they can think at all.
The Democrats can argue and can lose arguments and that's about it.
I see no proof that the Democrats can think at all.
Throw the bums out.
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The following has been around a few times--don't know if you saw it or not. Good for a grin anyway.
Democrat - REPUBLICAN OR REDNECK?
Here is a little test that will help you decide. The answer can be found by posing the following question:
You're walking down a deserted street with your wife and two small children. Suddenly, an Islamic Terrorist with a huge knife comes around the corner, locks eyes with you, screams obscenities, praises Allah, raises the knife, and charges at you.
You are carrying a Glock cal 40, and you are an expert shot. You have mere seconds before he reaches you and your family. What do you do??
DEMOCRAT'S ANSWER
Well, that's not enough info rmation to answer the question! Does the man look poor? Oppressed? Have I ever done anything to him that would inspire him to attack? Could we run away? What does my wife think? What about the kids?
Could I possibly swing the gun like a club and knock the knife out of his hand? What does the law say about this situation?
Does the Glock have an appropriate safety built into it? Why am I carrying a loaded gun anyway, and what kind of message does this send to society and my children?
Is it possible he'd be happy with just killing me? If I were to grab his knees and hold on, could my family get away while he was stabbing me?
Does he definitely want to kill m e, or would he be content just to wound me? Should I call 9-1-1?
Why is this street so deserted? We need to raise taxes, have a paint and weed day and make this a happier, healthier street that would discourage such behavior.
This is all so confusing! I need to discuss it with s ome friends over a latte and try to come to a consensus.
REPUBLICAN'S ANSWER
BANG!
REDNECK'S ANSWER:
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! Click.
Daughter:! "Nice grouping, Daddy! Were those the Winchester Silver Tips or Hollow Points?"
Son: "Git-r-Dun Pop! Can I shoot the next one?!"
Wife: "You ain't taking that to the taxidermist!"
... to the problems caused by Republicans.
When the House, Senate, White House, and Supreme Court are all controlled by one party, it becomes very difficult to correct the problems caused by that party.
But then, one is compelled to wonder whether the Democrats really want to win. Case in point: Lieberman.
Then, there's the repeated rubber stamping of Bush's radical reich wing agenda. Third, their idiotic campaigns in which they allow Republicans to tag them with lines such as "representing vested interests", "party of the elitists" or other nonsense which, ironically enough, are more apropos to the Republicans. And since they persist in turning the other cheek, the Republicans invariably win.
Of course, there's still the Diebold factor. So, in truth, I do not see a Democraps ... woops, Democrats victory.
Democrats have a tough time being honest about the dangers in the world. Hell, a fairly large chunk of them aren't even sure that radical Islam caused 9/11. So naturally, all other derivative policy arguments they try to make become twisted and many times just plain bizzare.
Look at that guy Clark Kent who posts to this site. You will never see a bigger user of the Straw Man. For example, he pretends that the war in Iraq is all about "Profit".
People like this are whats known as Unhinged. It doesn't engender trust. Especially the trust necessary to occupy the higher offices of the government.
Sure it is, Ayane. The current 38% approval rating for Bush says it all.
IF BUSH HAS DONE SUCH A GREAT JOB WHI IS THE ECONOMY IN SUCH POOR SHAPE! OH I REMEMBER NO WE HAVE GONE TRILLIONS IN DEBT & BORROWED FROM SOCIAL SECURITY TO WHERE IT IS IN EVER PRESENT DANGER, FOR BUSH TO PLAY WAR!!!!!!!!!
It is not a pretense as conservative Republican Kevin Phillips said the same thing about Bush's war in his book American Theocracy. Pat Buchanan, William F Buckley, and even the John Birch Society said the same thing.
But the economy has record low unemployment, and record high GDP levels. GDP growth exceeds Europe at every measured interval. The DOW is hovering next to its all time high.
You are lying when you talk in the hsyterics of ALL CAPS shouting like a crazed loon foaming at the mouth "BUSH LIED".
7 trillion in long term debt is perfectly manageable with an 11 trillion GDP and 2 trillion federal budget.
This mindset is exactly why liberals don't confront terror. They are too worried that Europeans won't like them anymore...
Regardless of the individual inhabiting 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the US has a reputation as world policeman. This circumstance has evolved since the establishment of the United Nations in 1945 in the only Allied country left whose infrastructure hadn't been critically injured in the war. By default, the USA and the USSR, with their seemingly unlimited resources, emerged as superpowers that inevitably led to the Cold War as both attempted to impose their agendas on the world stage.
We have reached a point in history where the USSR's example has been wounded but not killed. The dissolution of the Soviet Empire has scattered the seeds of destruction in the fertile earth of Eastern Europe and the Middle East. The sheer inability to track this threat should be enough to frighten even the most hardened observers.
There can never be a more efficient intelligence network than information from physically present informants. Whether these informants are American, British, French, Iraqi, Egyptian, whatever, it is imperative for the welfare of our country we be able to anticipate the movement of missing, unaccounted for nuclear material.
There is profit to be made in Iraq, this is true. The national interest of the USA is not all altruistic. There is a goodly amount of concern for the survival of our economic and political interests as well. Are we not allowed to survive?
Nevertheless, it should be remembered that the US is not alone on this globe. Although America will never be, nor ever has been, as respected as we would like to believe we deserve, we do have to interact with the international community.
The Democrats, with their socialistic agendas, and the Republicans with their capitalist agendas, form a balance of power in the US that has always been delicate and difficult. In the past, before the advent of the personal computer (which brought the knowledge of all man directly to your desktop) we depended on our representatives to tell us about the outside world. They determined what we needed to know, how much, and how little was good for us. Without that filter we are all discovering the ugly truth, and the end result is the heavy schism in American politics today.
Can the Democrats win in 2006? Logistically, it would be difficult but not impossible. History tells us that stranger things have happened. What we need to be more concerned about is, what are we as Americans going to demand of the newly-elected Congressmen, whichever party they inhabit, that will ensure our continuance as a country and our growth economically?
I relinquish the floor.
I just love it when people tout low unemployment numbers, especially considering that umpteen thousand of those "employed Americans enjoying this booming economy" are pulling down $200 a month from their benefit-less, overtime free jobs at Wal-Mart, McDonald's, or some other corporate feed-lot for poverty. Get behind the numbers, people!
As far as the Dems versus the Repbubs goes, there is really very little difference between the two. For all the republican rhetoric about the dems softness on terror, Bush would have been hamstrung from the get-go had he not been given a blank check by both parties in both houses of Congress in the months after 9-11.
Of course, most democrats, when pressed, would claim that they issued that check to be cashed in Afghanistan, only in pursuit of Al-Queda, but come on, did any of those morons READ the Patriot Act?
The republicans on the other hand, well, there are reasons that the elder statesmen among them are turning on Bush and his master Rove. For starters, the fact that the government has grown more under this republican president than it ever did under Clinton. Then there's that pesky, staggering debt - to countries like China of all things, imagine that - which some feel might be a tad irresponsible. Oh, and then there's that small issue of the founding document of our republic - the Constitution, which has all but been used to roll up whatever Bush has been smoking for the last three years.
Wake up! Whether republican or democrat, or (like me) independant, we are all Americans, and if we don't bring our leaders to heel, we'll all be dead in a generation or two, if not from war, than from environmental catasrophes.
This editoriall has been brought to you by me, thank you for reading.
NAmaste
"Look at that guy Clark Kent who posts to this site. You will never see a bigger user of the Straw Man. For example, he pretends that the war in Iraq is all about 'Profit'."
I would ask Ayane what she thinks the war in Iraq is all about. I've been asking that question for some time now, and, as yet, I haven't seen a sensible answer.
Also, Ayane, the national debt is $8 1/2 trillion, not $7 trillion. You seem to have lost $1 1/2 trillion somewhere, but - hey - who's counting, right?
And what's this "straw man" stuff? Is that the latest buzz term that your puppeteers are telling you to use these days? At least Clark Kent is a man who thinks for himself and expresses his points of view very effectively. And of course, that is exactly why you have singled him out.
And as for the economy, the Dow hasn't moved out of its present trading range for years. The unemployment data - as is well known - does not reflect the true level of people out of work, or - more significantly - it does not indicate the many workers who have been forced to take lesser jobs. Nor does it reflect the insecurity that is rife in the workplace these days. You're right in one respect, though, the economy has been very, very good for the top 1% in this country, the very same ones who are pulling your strings......
I mean, since they've held a majority in congress for so long, in addition to the presidency, why is the economy in the tank?
They completely overhauled FEMA and Homeland security and got such GREAT results with Hurricane Katrina... One year later, the gulf coast is still a shambles and we have almost no control over our borders or our ports.
WHEN was it Bush put on his little pilot costume and proclaimed "Mission Accomplished"? I guess it depends on what his mission was... If it was alienating our former allies, de-stabilizing the entire middle east and endlessly pouring 30 BILLION dollars a month down a rathole then- Hey- "Mission Accomplished!"
Ayane- where do you get your data? That's some pretty creative accounting. Where I come from, taking the nation from a surplus to a 7 trillion dollar debt is NOT a good thing.
First, Lieberman... I live in CT and have had the honor?, of meeting him - and if you can get a straight answer from the man, when three of us couldn't, I salute you!
We are getting the support of President Bush for Senator Lieberman and also getting recorded messages from PRESIDENT???? Clinton also in his support- -by the way, he approves all these messages! You may well get your chance to vote for Lieberman as he'd made it very clear that if he doesn't get the nomination, he's running Independant, so we'll see....
Next, our wonderful, fake unemployment records. People who aren't counted: The Disabled, Retired persons, people who've been laid off and have run out of unemployment, homeless people. Quite a few people, no?
And there's the ones we do count, the Walmart employees who don't have insurance and are not making ends meet - also the fast-food workers, the convenience store workers, etc's....... they're employed, but don't make much money, not nearly enough for themselves to live on, nevermind their familys.
My husband and I volunteer at our local Food Bank - which is "not' Federally or State funded - we do all the food drives, and if we don't get things in the food drives, we don't have them. People are allowed to go once, maybe twice per month and we don't have a regular building, a church in town has generously offered us a space the size of a closet which is terribly hot all the time, and since I haven't worked a winter, I'm expecting pretty cold in the winter too.
Our local Rotary club helps out a bit, but starting over 2 months ago, the people coming in for food, tripled at least - lay-offs. These folks aren't scamming anyone, they truly don't have any or much income, they first have to go to our local Human Services (who's got their income on file) and ask for a slip of paper to go to the food pantry to get food!
Embarrassing for people it really is, to say the least, the ones we get for the first or second time, either can't even look at you (kindness from us helps out some... and we are) but then you hear their storys, and they aren't pretty. They end up in tears, men and women both, it's hard for them and the food we can give them will not begin to last even half a month, but it's sure better than nothing.....and they are so pitifully grateful....
Oh, and our food pantry, is only open twice per week, for an hour and a half! Lines before we open till we close and we do make sure everyone is waited on, even if we have to stay later. What a terrible position for people to be in - and this is a GOOD economy? I don't think so....
It is if you are a wealthy corporate elitist.
Republicans, in the House especially, have done a great job of stifling Deomcrats and democracy. 1000 page bills get introduced for review minutes befor a vote, debate on controversial bills is scheduled late into the night when the media isn't on watch... I could go on and on.
The good news for Dems is that moderate, and even some conservative, Republicans have realized that Bush is a liability and have started to split from the party.
Bottom line, most Americans think this country is headed in the wrong direction under Bush & his loyal band of Republicans. Time to pay the piper.
"Kerry, Hillary, and so many others changed their tune, not based on new evidence, but based on partisan politics..."
How about the fact that it eventually dawned on all of them and most of us that the administration had misled the world and actually lied about the reasons for invading a non-hostile country.......
The Republican, the Democrat, and the Real American all reach for their guns. Meanwhile, the Moderate fumbles with his tie as he tries to decide who to hide behind.
The Real American acts first, since she is the most decisive, and carries her weapon in the open. She shoots the Republican, because he is a treasonous bastard, and likely to be second fastest on the draw.
Then she shoots the Democrat, who is slower on the draw because he likes to pretend he doesn't carry a gun. He is also a treasonous bastard who doesn't give a damn about the Constitution, which the Real American has sworn to protect against all enemies foreign and domestic.
Then she kicks the Moderate in the ass to clear her field of fire, and aims at the foreign terrorist.
"I don't give a damn how y'all choose to run your own country, but if you come over here with that shit, I will kill you. So, are you here to do business, or did you come here to die?"
The lesson for the Moderate:
Always hide behind the Real American. That way you won't get kicked in the ass!