The phrase, eating your own, comes to mind. I almost feel sorry for them, but they brought this upon themselves. Oops. Correction: Bush did it.
I can’t help but feel sorry for my old Republican friends in Congress who are fighting for their political lives. After all, it must be tough explaining to voters at their local Baptist church’s Keep Congress Conservative Day that it was their party that took a $155 billion surplus and turned it into a record-setting $400 billion deficit.
How exactly does one convince the teeming masses that Republicans deserve to stay in power despite botching a war, doubling the national debt, keeping company with Jack Abramoff, fumbling the response to Hurricane Katrina, expanding the government at record rates, raising cronyism to an art form, playing poker with Duke Cunningham, isolating America and repeatedly electing Tom DeLay as their House majority leader?
How does a God-fearing Reagan Republican explain all that away?
Easy. Blame George W. Bush.
I would love to see a true Independent Party…..but it can’t just be anti-Republican or Democrat. It has to have ideas and a way to make them work that sets it apart from the other 2.
I’ve never been a fan of the *mushy middle*…..but both radical left and radical right should be jettisoned, in favor of a more middle approach to problems, especially domestic problems.
The biggest problem with this is that far to many Americans think the 2 party system is enshrined in the Constitution. I guess thats to be expected from people who can’t name their own Senators or find their own states on a map.
Daryl thanks for the numbers. I added up the different deficits in sdf’s chart, and it simply doesn’t match with the numbers you gave, so they are using different definitions of debt. For example, Clinton’s total is closer to 500 billion than 1.5 trillion.
#21 – I guess thats to be expected from people who can’t name their own Senators or find their own states on a map.
Comment by joshua — 9/17/2006 @ 10:00 pm
Not to pick on you personally Joshua, but you comment helps illustrate my point. It isn’t terribly surprising that we don’t have a better public dialog or that the electorate is widely disengaged.
We could say that most voters are stupid (can’t find own state) or don’t care or whatever else… But maybe this disengagement could be attributed to the widely held belief that American voters are deserving of public scorn and ridicule. Who wants to stay and play in a sandbox full of bullies with inflated egos?
We could say that most voters are stupid (can’t find own state) or don’t care or whatever else
Yes, but I bet they could tell you who got voted off survivor last night.
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Why DO you hate america so much?
#24 – Yes, but I bet they could tell you who got voted off survivor last night.
Comment by gquaglia — 9/18/2006 @ 12:39 pm
Is that show still on? I can’t even tell you what network its on.
>>Elections are won with ideas, not messages of hate.
Haw, Coming from a member of the party of choice for hatemongers, one would think you’d prefer to keep that under the carpet….