November 7, 2006 will be a day long studied in Republican political history. What went wrong? Certainly voter turn-out and quality of candidates were factors in yesterday's loses. However, probably the single most important reason the Republicans lost was the war in Iraq.
Many people in America seem to have lost patience with the important work that our men and women in the armed services are doing in Iraq and around the world. The organizations and nations that produce terrorism have long term plans to dismantle the United States and destroy our way of life. Yesterdays' vote was one successful step in their plan. America must also have a long-term, patient strategy to defeat our enemies.
In our "microwave media" culture, we have lost touch with the patience necessary to accomplish something as enormous as winning the War on Terror. The media has convinced us that we need resolution immediately and if it does not come then the content of the mission must be flawed.
Fostering and supporting democracy and freedom around the world must always define American foreign policy. Only 20 short years ago we were inspired by Ronald Reagan's vision for defeating communism and his charge that "democracy was on the move" around the world. That is still America's destiny. That is our generation's mandate.
Once all the election numbers are counted and evaluated to death, America will be able to take a deep sigh of relief that the campaign season once again is over. But we all know that 2008 is around the corner and presidential campaign announcements have already begun. Let's resolve to continue the message to our elected officials that we want more than rhetoric and cheesy campaign TV commercials. We want to hear real ideas; we want to hear the right ideas.
While the Republicans bandage their wounds and the Democrats party their way into power, let's choose, as the informed voters of America, to insist on statesmanship and diplomacy in our elected officials. Let's decide as a nation that we will unite around the principles of freedom. Let's reread our U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Let's begin now to register more people to vote and exercise a right that so few people in the world enjoy.
And let's pray. Let's ask our Creator, the God of all time, to continue to bless the United State and continue to make our nation a beacon of hope to the world.
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First we WON the war in Iraq! We won it hands down, and very quickly. We disposed of Saddam, now sentenced to death by hanging, and disbanded the Iraqi army. That "Mission Accomplished" speech Bush made was absolutely correct. Since then we've been conducting an occupation.
Bringing democracy to Iraq? Been there, done that, too! For heaven's sake, man, first we set up an interim government in Iraq, which conducted an extremely successful democratic election, with more of the Iraqis voting than Americans normally vote in US elections. So -- what's the problem in Iraq, and why has the American public become so dissatisfied? Isn't the problem one of continuing, and growing, civil disorder in Iraq?
The problem for the American voters who finally rebelled isn't a matter of "cut and run" as the Republicans would prefer to define it. It's not that the public is turning against our troops there. After all, many of them are our own kids! The problem is that the occupation is being handled so ineptly by the Bush administration. When have you even heard them admit that this is an occupation, or that an occupation is different from a war? The way out of this mess is simply a matter of setting goals and then reaching them. We've already reached the goals of getting rid of Saddam and establishing democracy in Iraq. So what's next? Solving the problem of civil unrest and dissatisfaction, which would go a very long way towards ending the need for us to continue to occupy Iraq, not continuing to insist that we're fighting a war and acting accordingly. Failed policies don't succeed when you keep repeating them. The Bush administration has to start listening to its generals and military experts instead of ignoring them. They're the ones who know what needs to be done and how to do it!
this was a repudiation of bush's policies, which aren't very republican.
propaganda isn't working so well, i'm relieved to find. and the election shows that there's more than one way to interpret christianity. the republican party cannot define christianity.
Even so, this is a nicely written piece.
~~ insist on statesmanship and diplomacy in our elected officials. ~~
If Bush had practiced these ideals rather than engage in imperialistic terrorism, there wouldn't be that mess in Iraq. Yes, let's insist on those ideals but let's insist that Republicans set a better example.
~~ Fostering and supporting democracy and freedom around the world must always define American foreign policy... That is still America's destiny. That is our generation's mandate. ~~
It is not now nor was it ever our mandate. Quite the contrary George Washington and the Founding Fathers said that we must never get involved in other nation's affairs. That is and has always been our mandate.
~~ winning the war on terror ~~
Imperialism upon Iraq, continued threats against Iran and North Korea, Hitlerian bullying and unilateralism are manifestations of terrorism and imperialism. These are not examples of diplomatic altruism or beneficence and demonstrate no rationality whatsoever.
~~ pray ... to God ~~
Nowhere in the Bible is it suggested in any way that Christians are authorized to engage in imperialism or terrorism. Jesus did not order anyone to kill in His name or to cloak themselves in the mantle of piety as one engages in murder.
It is OK to pray for good things such as healing the sick, feeding the poor, housing the homeless, and caring for those in need. If Jesus was a member of this board He would readily agree with what you have just read.
The best way to fight Terrorism is to STOP meddling around in other people's countries, especially in how they govern or distribute their wealth. I have always agreed that Saddam was a problem, but with our resources, couldn't we have come up with a simpler method? Maybe we could've bought him off. The Vice-President's 'former' company was headquartered in Baghdad, surely there was a better way.
Now, however, we are embedded in a very foriegn land, breeding more instablility (and terrorists). We are not going to be able to make changes there quickly, they think about things differently. Like religion, they don't believe in freedom of religion; they believe you are what you were born. Or respect, they can't respect someone who won't respond in kind; if they capture one of ours and cut his head off, they will only respect us if we take two or three of theirs and do worse things to them. We are not capable of that kind of retaliation (I'd hope). Still, we cannot leave either, the country will fall into further disarray and only fracture into a larger Syria, a larger Iran, a larger Saudi Arabia. And, a lot more dead Iraqis, which seems to be un-avoidable at this stage.
What we need is someform of mediation or arbitration; another country (or group of them) to step in and help all sides communicate their wants and help find some common ground.
More than the war though, or perhaps combined with it, was that the American public was fed up with the corruption, the arrogance, the dishonesty, and the fiscally irresponsible exhibited by congress. They were offended with the attitude of congress that expected that they could do nothing whatever on a domestic agenda, bombard us with one scandal after another, and still be re-elected.
This election was a wake up call. Both sides have two years to begin to shape up. Nobody expects things to get perfect overnight, but we do expect them to at least stop fighting and backstabbing and start tending to the nation's business. They can listen this time, or they can get this again next time. It's up to them. If today is any indication, some of this message is getting through.
This is the sort of rhetoric that the administration has been using to control the electorate. It's no longer effective, and yesterday proved how tiresome the idea of a war on terror has become.
I'm also tired of the "right ideas" rhetoric. Left vs. right is as rediculous as red vs. blue, us vs. them.....it's time to put divisive language aside and work toward building consensus.
ARE YOU SERIOUS?
You need to stop eating paint chips for breakfast!
REPUBLICANS to eat the manuer they've been serving us for years!
CLUES FOR THE CLUELESS:
1. Bush deserted his unit during Vietnam and was reportedly AWOL (Absent Without Leave) for over a year from his assigned unit: The Texas Air National Guard, or as it's referred to by other military outfits, the "Champagne Division."
2. Bush has spent over 359 billion and counting on IRAQ, leaving states to face the largest budget crises in decades and forced to cut off public services; now with the federal deficit at ta new high Bush wants to award more tax breaks to the wealthy.
3. DONALD H. RUMSFELD
4. ASHCROFT
5. Halliburton, Cheney, $87 Billion. Mission Accomplished
6. Where's Bin Laden" Bin Laden's brother is in United States of America, studying Law at Harvard University, and Law Officials were ORDERED to protect his sorry "A" double "S" WOW! Cozy arrangement!
1. In exchange for large U.S. oil companies gaining access to occupied territories, Bush reportedly gave $43 million of your tax dollars to the Taliban in May of 2001 - only 4 months before their September 11th attacks on the United States!
2. Bush had no concern about terrorist attacks on the U.S. before 9/11/01 (see #12 for more info).
3. Bush wholeheartedly supported the infamous "Patriot Act," which infringes on most of your constitutional rights. In addition, he is an outspoken supporter of the "Patriot Act II."
4. The Bush Regime failed to protect the people of Baghdad from looting, riots, bombings, and other undue circumstances, following the fall of the city - so that the oil ministry would be heavily guarded by U.S. troops.
5. Bush pulled the United States out of the Kyoto Treaty, a global warming agreement between major world powers, signed in 1997.
6. Bush banned federal aid to any international group offering abortions or abortion counseling, even if their funding from those projects came from other sources. THE HYPOCRISY HAS SPOKEN… although the Bush Regime has been attacking abortion rights in the U.S. too...
7. Bush used his presidential powers to repeal the Alternative Minimum Tax for corporations. All taxes paid under the AMT since its 1987 inception were refunded to the corporations. Does anyone else smell Bush's campaign finance scheme?
8. CRIMINAL ALERT!!! Bush appointed Elliott Abrams to the National Security Council. Abrams was convicted during the Reagan administration for Iran-Contra ties. Do you really feel safe with a convicted criminal helping to oversee national security?
9. Bush proposed to nominate the attorney responsible for the court case that weakened the Americans with Disabilities Act, Jeffrey Sutton, to judgeship in a federal appeals court.
10. Bush turned the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks on the U.S. into a scheme to justify severely limiting civil rights and attacking the Constitution (see #3), and to avert public attention from the extreme economic threats the Bush Regime has invoked upon the millions of middle-class, working-class, and poor Americans, while giving break after break to large corporations and rich individuals.
11. Of Bush's proposed $2 trillion tax cut 43% goes to the wealthiest 1% of Americans.
12. After Bush's "election" was officially announced, President Clinton requested numerous meetings with Bush - specifically to discuss terrorists threats and making them a priority of Bush's Regime. Bush refused to meet with Pres. Clinton, but allowed one of his staff "underlings" to talk to Clinton instead. Not surprisingly, Bush never bothered to find out what Clinton had to say.
13. Bush cut $35 million in funding for doctors to receive advanced pediatric training. Is this him saying, "No child left behind, unless they're ill"??
14. Bush has already packed the federal courts with radical conservative judges - Charles Pickering, Pricilla Owens, and Miguel Estrada - to name a few...
15. Bush loved Enron! To prove it, he appointed Thomas White as the Army Secretary. White is a former Enron executive who conveniently sold his stock after an Enron official contacted him. Oh yeah, and he is under criminal investigation for the Enron thing!
16. Bush used his infinite "wisdom" to completely halt international negotiations designed to monitor and prevent the production of biological and chemical weapons.
17. Bush refused to federally fund the continued clean up of a uranium-slag heap in Utah. Oh well, the large Mormon population there doesn't care if their kids come out with birth defects and die at a young age - do they??
18. The Bush Regime took an anti-human rights stance in the U.S. and abroad, by treating basic human rights as an obstacle of setting up civic security. Who needs freedom anyway?
19. Bush leaves abused and neglected children behind by cutting $15.7 million that was supposed to aid states in investigating their cases. As long as they're educated, who cares how they're treated, eh, Dumbya!?
20. Bush used the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks on the U.S. to create the Department of Homeland Security. Ironically, Hitler also created such an office, the Reichshauptsicherheitamt, or "Main Office of Homeland Security," and look where he took Germany. True Americans, BEWARE!!!
21. Bush lied to the American public and Congress about the Taliban's motives in the 9/11/01 attacks in order to gain approval of extremist foreign policies and shield their eyes from the true dangers of the "Patriot Act."
22. Bush repealed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, while spending billions of tax dollars building a large national missile defense.
23. Bush shows his true opinion on affirmative action, by appointing outspoken affirmative action opponent Kay Cole James to direct the Office of Personnel Management.
24. Bush nominated a lawyer for a teen sex video distribution company, Harvey Pitts, to head the Securities and Exchange Commission. Isn't that an abomination, Dumbya?
25. Bush and Cheney both refused to testify under oath - or by themselves - to the 9/11 Commission. What do you think they are trying to hide from the public?
26. After screwing up that nation's economy to the point of a record high number of jobless Americans, Bush cut $200 million in funding to help retrain dislocated workers. Oh well, if they're jobless, they can't pay their inflated working-class taxes, now can they?
27. Bush proposed a measure to use eminent domain to the government to seize private property for power lines.
28. Bush took steps to abolish the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
29. After the U.N. questioned Bush's "war on terrorism," the Bush Regime decided the nation should act with a small group of other nations stupid enough to believe the "weapons of mass destruction" fables.
30. More judicial horror... Bush nominated the leading critic of the separation of church and state, Michael McConnell, to a federal judgeship.
31. Bush's oil buddies celebrated when he nominated J. Steven Giles as Deputy Secretary of the Interior. Giles was an oil and coal lobbyist!
32. After brother Jeb "guaranteed Florida" in the 2000 elections, thousands of eligible voters in the state were mysteriously turned away from the polls. Bush and co. denies this ever happened, takes the election, and screws the world...
33. Bush cut $60 million from a Boy's and Girl's Clubs of America program for public housing.
34. Undermining a Clinton-era agreement, Bush gave $95 million to North Korea for their nuclear programs and waived the part of the agreement that required inspections to ensure no weapons-grade plutonium was being hidden.
35. Bush adds another passionate opponent of civil rights to his list by nominating Terrence Boyle to a federal judgeship.
36. Looking for a little more waste in America? Try Bush proposing to ease environmental considerations for permits for refineries, nuclear plants, and hydroelectric dam construction.
37. Bush nominated Linda Fisher - an executive for Monsanto - to the Environmental Protection Agency. Monsanto is one of the largest farming and pesticide biotechnology companies in the world.
38. "There is no gap in gender pay," implies Bush Council of Economic Advisers appointee Diana Roth.
39. Bush cut $700 million in capital funds for public housing repairs.
40. Promises, promises... Or outright lies! Bush promised $15 billion in AIDS funding for Africa in his 2003 State of the Union Address, then "accidentally" left it out of the budget.
41. Bush eased field-testing controls of genetically engineered crops.
42. In a Supreme Court Case, Bush opposed affirmative action at Michigan State.
43. Just because he can't read more than 5 words at a time, Bush is working to ensure you won't be able to - by cutting federal spending on public libraries by $39 million.
44. Faith-based idiocy! Bush created $4 million in federal grant money for HIV and drug abuse prevention programs - but only for religious groups and non-secular equivalents.
45. Eliminating workers' rights and environmental safety, Bush renegotiated a free trade agreement with Jordan.
46. Big business buddies love this one: Bush proposed to reverse a federal regulation to protect 60 million acres of national forest from logging and road building.
47. More Iran-Contra ties... Bush appointed unindicted high-level Iran-Contra figure, John Negroponte, as the United Nations Ambassador.
48. Even more Iran-Contra ties... Bush appointed unindicted high-level Iran-Contra figure, Otto Reich, as the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs.
49. In these scandalous times of war crimes committed by Americans with possible ties to the executive staff, it's not hard to figure out why Bush renounced U.S. support for an International Criminal Court and aggressively campaigned to exempt all American personnel from its jurisdiction. He threatened to pull American support from all U.N. peacekeeping operations unless he got his way...
50. More reductions for the good of the corporations... Bush cut 28% of government funding for researching cleaner, more efficient automobiles.
51. Too bad Bush isn't an endangered species - he might not have nominated an advocate for repealing the Endangered Species Act, Bennett Raley, as the Assistant Secretary for Water and Science.
52. Bush ran from his duties, so he's not a veteran. That's probably why he cut the Veterans' Administration budget by $25 billion.
53. Many of Bush's buddies own oil companies, so it's not at all shocking that he cut government funding to research renewable energy sources by 50%!
54. Nuclear Bush undermined the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Comprehensive Test Ben Treaty by supporting testing of new nuclear weapons and refusing to rule out a nuclear first strike on non-nuclear nations.
55. Bush doesn't like women, or so one can assume following his closure of the White House Office for Women's Health Initiative and Outreach.
56. Who cares about the environment? Not Bush, he cut $500 million from the Environmental Protection Agency's budget.
57. More hatred of women!? Bush suspended U.S. support for the U.N.'s family planning programs and stopped short of supporting the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
58. How about all-out opposing the U.N.? Maybe Bush is just like his Under-Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, John Bolton, who opposes nonproliferation treaties and the United Nations.
59. Bush has refused to release federal funding designed to provide for stem cell research projects.
60. Thanks to Bush, federal employees can have Viagra but no contraceptives, due to his cut of a program that provided prescription contraceptive coverage.
61. Create an international offensive against the spread of AIDS? Nah, Bush refused to participate and helped his buddies in the pharmaceutical business capitalize by increasing costs of life-saving medications.
62. Bush suspended rules requiring rock miners to clean up sites on Western public lands. Gee, do you think your tax dollars will end up paying for the clean ups?
63. A little controversy in the Bush Regime... Bush allowed Interior Secretary Gale Norton to auction oil and gas development tracts off the coast of eastern Florida. Which one(s) of Bush's oil buddies benefited from this!!??
64. More cuts for the poor... Bush cut a federal program to provide childcare to low-income families transitioning from welfare to work. Anybody checked into the cost of childcare lately? Apparently, Bush likes to keep poor Americans poor.
65. Bush's America will stay uniformed about potential consequences from chemical plant accidents, thanks to his cancellation of a proposal to increase the public's access to the information.
66. Undermining world peace, Bush condoned the Israeli reoccupation of Palestinian territory and rejected the U.N. Security Council's resolutions that provide a framework for conflict resolution between the two. The resolutions have been supported by previous U.S. administrations.
67. Bush's Solicitor General nominee, Ted Olsen, has lied repeatedly about his involvement in the "Arkansas Project," which was designed to "bring down" Bill Clinton.
68. Bush compelled Interior Secretary Gale Norton to send letters to state officials soliciting suggestions for opening up national monuments for oil and gas drilling, coal mining, and foresting.
69. Bush abolished rules mandating energy-saving regulations for central air conditioners and heat pumps. What was that about an energy crisis?
70. Bush cut the Community Oriented Policing Services program.
71. Oh, oil buddies! Bush wants to redraw the boundaries of national monuments to allow for oil and gas drilling "outside" of them.
72. Bush further assaulted the AIDS epidemic by gutting the White House AIDS Office.
73. More controversial nominations... Bush nominated David Lauriski as Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health. Did we mention Lauriski used to be a mining company executive?
74. Bush proposed $1.2 billion in funding to help find alternative renewable energy. The catch? The funding comes from selling leases in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge - for oil and gas drilling. Want to bet his oil buddies are getting a bargain!?
75. Bush thinks the American Bar Association is "too liberal," so he will no longer seek their guidance or recommendations for federal judiciary appointments.
76. Bush further attacks women - this time Asian women who were forced to work as sex slaves in Japan during WWII - by seeking the dismissal of a class-action lawsuit against Japan.
77. Bush proposed a bill to prevent groups from suing to have an animal placed on the Endangered Species List. Again, too bad Bush isn't an endangered species.
78. Convicted of murder? That's okay, you can get financial aid for college. However, if you've ever been convicted of a misdemeanor drug charge, Bush has made sure you will never get financial aid for college.
79. Once upon a time there was a 2004 deadline for automakers to develop PROTOTYPE high mileage cars. Nevertheless, just like the June 30, 2004, Iraq deadline, Bush has pushed the prototype deadline up indefinitely. Maybe this one's because his oil buddies fear losing revenue if people actually get more than 30 or 40 MPG...
80. Bush censored the environmental concerns found by scientists his administration hired - to make it look like global warming is not a major threat.
81. "The terrorists are coming, the terrorists are coming!" That's all that our Chicken-Little-In-Chief cares about. Therefore, Bush proposed eliminating a federal program to help communities prepare for natural disasters. The program had been developed and successfully used in Seattle. Never mind that! "The terrorists are coming, the terrorists are coming!"
82. Bush just can't bring himself to help the poor... He reduced the Low Income Home Assistance Program, which is designed to help individuals in need of assistance paying energy bills, by 40%.
83. Bush blocked efforts to create international regulations to enforce fair labor, consumer rights, and environmental protections. He is still pursuing a global economic agenda to further the spread of transnational corporations though.
84. Bush 2000 campaign pledge: To invest $100 million in rain forest conservation. This was a promise the "compassionate conservative" didn't keep. More like "conservatively compassionate," if you ask us!
85. Bush has health insurance buddies too! Or so it seems, after he slashed the Community Access Program by 86% for public hospitals, clinics, and providers of care for people without insurance.
86. Another broken promise... Bush failed to increase public education funding and failed to fund the so-called "No Child Left Behind Act." It seems every child gets left behind, except those whose rich mommies and daddies send them to private or boarding schools.
87. Bush 2000 campaign pledge: To regulate carbon dioxide emissions. He didn't, decided it would be "too costly." This from the guy who has created the largest deficit in history!
88. "We the People" used to be an educational program to teach about the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and citizenship, in schools. Bush eliminated its funding. Oh well, since he's tromping on the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and can take away anyone's citizenship without due process, I guess it's not important for American children to learn about such things.
89. Bush hates fish too! He proposed to eliminate marine protections for the Channel Islands and the coral reefs of northwest Hawaii.
90. Reading is (no longer) Fundamental, or at least Bush thinks so. He proposed to eliminate the RIF program, which provides free books for poor children. Maybe he's afraid they will learn to read more than 5 words at a time.
91. Who says Bush isn't anti-American? He announced plans to open up Montana's Lewis and Clark National Forest to - you guessed it - his oil company buddies for drilling.
92. Benefiting big business even more... Bush repealed workplace ergonomic rules designed to improve worker health and safety. Ironically, now big businesses won't have to pay for the long-term side-effects of ergonomic injuries.
93. Bush eliminated the Wetland Reserve Program. It was designed to encourage and reward farmers for maintaining a wetlands habitat on their property.
94. A little arsenic in your water? Bush repealed a set of Clinton-era regulations to reduce the maximum allowable level of arsenic in drinking water.
95. The Iran-Contra and helping daddy... Bush sealed documents from the Reagan and Bush, Sr. administrations that would have further revealed illegal dealings. Hmm... Is this paying daddy back for the 2000 election??
96. More assaults on the poor and middle-class... Bush signed a bill to make filing for bankruptcy even harder for members of the "lower-classes." No mention of his rich buddies though. So that's why they get the biggest tax breaks!
97. Bush wants to eliminate minimum wage, thus the enforcement thereof. Anyone for legalizing American sweat-shops??
98. Bush finally realized the giant tax cuts for the rich had an effect on the economy. What does he want to do about it? He wants to take away benefits from children and the elderly to compensate.
99. There used to be rules against the government granting contracts to companies that violated workplace safety, environmental, and other federal laws. Not anymore! Bush wiped his butt with them and flushed them down the toilet.
100. Bush sure does talk big Spanish to Hispanic voters. Just don't let them know he was behind blocking government rules to require federal agencies to offer bilingual assistance to non-English-speaking individuals.
101. He stole another election.
102. He cannot learn from his mistakes. Hopefully he won't last another 4 years (like, um, maybe Congress will come to its senses and impeach him...)
I fear that this country's is headed down the road of all great nations in history -- oblivion.
To paraphrase from the movie, A Few Good Men;
"You think you did something good Tuesday? All you did was weaken our country."
Your version of it, I sincerely hope so.
I don't really need (or want) to say anything else to this article.
Why didn't the party mount a serious challenge to Hillary, for example? The New York State contests for governor, attorney general and comptroller were a laugh; with the later getting elected even though everyone knows he will probably be impeached by the Republican controlled senate in early 2007, in the first case of the senate ever doing an impeachment and having to make up the rules as they go along. We had a retiring Republican governor (ok a pro-choice Republican but still a Republican) and we literally gave up that seat without a fair fight!
No this was the year of the Teflon party. One single sex scandal tainted a whole party, but when someone committed blatant acts of corruption he gets reelected because he was a Democrat. Such is life. The Republican party lacks solid leadership, everyone is either tainted or in hiding. That is what went wrong!
The Republican's arrogance and the fact that they are completely out of touch with the country is what happened. it did not help matters that GW Bush drove them off a cliff on Tuesday because he wanted things his way no matter what happened. he had to be forced by the electorate to change his own party had no success and would not even challenge his direction except for a small few and then they just let him claim executive right and bypass anything he so chose.
David .........so people on the left are not interested in diplomacy or statesmanship? You think Bush is? What a laugh that is!!! He has a hard time speaking correct Engilsh let alone being diplomatic.
There are other countries in the world who have proven democratic models--particularly those in Europe--that are every bit as suited to carrying such a beacon should any country be in the market.
Most of the elections were very close, which tells me of a disappointment in the performance of those that were in power, more than in just the ideas. We will be watching to see if those now in power can take advantage of this opportunity the electorate has given them. I hope it all goes well.
The more adamant Costello gets, the more aggravated Abbott gets, until they both see the monster, then Abbott gets mad at Costello and asks him why he didn't tell him there was a monster in the room.
This is exactly what happen inside the Republican party. Conservative members kept trying to tell Rove and company that there was a monster in the room, but the administration kept brushing them off. When Novemebr 7th arrived and the monster started dancing and singing ( much like Peter Boyle's Frankenstein's "Putting On The Ritz" in "Young Frankenstein" ); then everyone from the President on down started asking why nobody told them there was a monster in the room.
Here's hoping that everyone involved becomes "statesman-like" as a result of all this. Then maybe we all could start dancing and singing.
You're comment proves my point. Thanks.
What got them the most were the scandals. There were just too many of them. People are deathly tired of a new scandal every few weeks that highlights just how far ethics have fallen in congress. I don't think they so much voted for Democrats as they voted against this continued climate of corruption by Republicans.
As a voter I'm tired of a bunch of people who draw good pay for three days a week of work during which they do nothing. Let's get everyone back on track and remember in the end who both parties actually work for. Hint: it's not Halliburton and special interest groups.
Did you align (identify) with Jack Nicholson in "A Few Good Men"? I got a different point entirely from that movie! What about "A Clockwork Orange"?
Let's attempt to be more judicious in our choices of where and when, shall we? Let us lead by example, with carrots instead of sticks, and choose our battles on the basis of actual altruism, rather that greed and revenge. But, most of all, let us lead with competence!
BTW, care to apologize for your previous prognistication?