uneducated sexual predators for office
I am pretty disgusted by the GOP's attempt to misconstrue Kerry's statements as an attack on the troops....seems clear that they are just jumping on this with opportunistic ferver on the off chance it will confuse people into thinking the Dems do not respect our military.
However, this is the same play that the Dems ran when they used Mark Foley to paint the whole GOP as soft on sexual predators.
Does anyone believe that the Dems truly have contempt for the troops or the the GOP is full of child rapists? I don't - but it is apparent that both sides are opportunistic, devoid of ideas and desperate to control the house/Senate.
So .....who is the lesser of the two evils? Maybe I will let my one year old fill out my ballot
posted by Ty Webb @ 9:59 AM
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The problem is that we have the party of bad ideas versus the party of no ideas. You pick the side from where you stand and the other party is the other choice.
I am personally very, very, very happy that the Democrats will be picking up seats (and I hope many seats) next week. If they do not, then the message will not be sent clear enough to the Republican party.
We the people, formerly of the Reagan Republican Party, want a government that is small government, taxes less and spends less, and stays out of our bedrooms. Sounds simple right? Unfortunately the Bush administration got it wrong and has left many of us without a party who represents 'OUR' core values.
Sucks....the republicans wasted a golden opportunity.
I agree with the comments about the "Republican" party. I want seats to be lost so that the message is sent.
On the Kerry thing, he did not mean it the way it is being portrayed. That being said, he's a jackass for trying to pull off such a subtle joke, and not apologizing for it immediately. How can he possibly be surprised that people would jump all over him for what he said, on it's face?
Amen, brother Nym. The thought of Pelosi and gang in control of one or both houses of Congress frightens me, but the GOP must be chastened. They came in with so much promise and, aside from welfare reform, they accomplished nothing besides an astounding and historically unprecedented expansion of government and government intrusion – polar opposite from why they were handed the reins of power in the first place.
Witness the vast increases in the federal payroll, the giveaways to constituencies “faith-based” and otherwise, and the ballooning of outright pork. Witness the urgency with which the highest deliberative bodies in our national government publicly insert themselves into the intimate affairs of individual families (Terry Schiavo). Witness the righteousness that the “values” wing of the party is hell bent to legislate on the rest of us with Constitutional Amendments to prohibit all types of improper behavior like burning flags and loving Steve till death do you part. If these people stay in power much longer its only a matter of time before we see a Constitutional Amendment To Ban The Sticking Of Chewed Gum On Furniture, complete with a huge new federal program of Chewed Gum Marshalls to protect the undersides of our desks and chairs, as well as federally funded faith-based programs to get each of us on the straight and narrow path to spitting our used gum in the trash can where it rightfully belongs.
They were swept into power in 1996 under the “Contract With America”, a solemn promise to rein in our government, make it leaner, more efficient and more accountable. Oh, and let’s not forget term limits. A big part of their plan to make government responsive to voters was term limits. Whatever happened to those? Power happened. Their sole interest has now become the propagation of their own power. Our ever-expanding government is symptomatic of a political class too eager to shower as many constituencies as they can with cash and entitlements as they chase the votes that will keep them perpetually in power.
I am more convinced every waking day that the new Republican Party has become the old Democratic Party. To Hell with them. From now on I vote for the opposition, regardless who they are.
As far as Kerry is concerned, I think the man is an idiot. He said one of the dumbest things any politician could ever say, even one with his storied history of dumb things said. Whether you give him the benefit of the doubt on the intention behind his comment (and I do), the fact is that the choice of words that came out of his mouth was appalling and appallingly stupid. When its that bad you don’t defend it, you don’t qualify it and you don’t explain it. The only smart thing to do is to apologize and apologize fast. Had I, instead of Kerry, been standing at that podium I would not have needed to see the tape later that day, or hear about it on talk radio the next morning, or get pilloried for four days by anybody who heard it. No, I would have realized as soon as the words spilled from my mouth that it didn’t sound right. I would have stopped mid-sentence and said, “I’m sorry folks, but what I just said back there was plain dumb. It’s not what I meant to say and I apologize. What I meant to say was....” Then I would have finished my speech and gone quietly underground till November 8th.
But not John Kerry. First he tried to defend the comment with some convoluted legal-ese. But the court of public opinion is not run by lawyers. So then he assumed that well-practiced, self-righteously angry, finger-wagging tone of his to chastise “those who never served in uniform” on the other side of the aisle, as though his service somehow priviliges him to offend service members intentionally or not. I guess that’s Kerry’s version of a black man using the N word.
I cannot blame the GOP for this one any more than I can blame the Dems for Mark Foley. Politics is a high speed, full contact sport, and few play it faster and with more contact at the ‘echo of the whistle’ than John Kerry. If the other team scored a touchdown because he blew an assignment then he deserves to run some laps on Monday. Gaaawwwd, I still can’t believe I voted for that fool in 2004, but that should show you just how disillusioned I’ve become with the Republicans.
-Ico
Ico, I may agree with your comment about always voting for the opposition. Almost every time I have voted for the current party in power, I have regretted it.
I think the only problem is that the Republicans are not going to lose enough seats to actually lose control of either house of Congress. I guess we will see.
The protest/message to the GOP - sent by losing seats or control - is fine.....however, as a result we will see gridlock and congressional investigations on a staggeringly large scale now.
If the stock market truly likes gridlock we should all benefit ;-)
And what would you call the 109th congress if not gridlock, Ty? It has, without eqivocation, been the most inactive and ineffectual congress in the history of our country. According to Dana Milbank, this Congress had only passed 400 measures as of September. That falls woefully short of the 1948 Congress, which had heretofore been considered the gold standard by which inactivity and gridlock were always measured. That congress passed a whopping 1,191 measures, almost 3x the body of work our lazy crop of politicians has produced. Read more here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/07/AR2006090701343.html
No matter what government emerges from next Tuesday's poll, it can't possibly be as ineffectual as the 109th congress, so gridlock is the last thing I am worried about. At the very least the next congress will be more moderate. Indeed, many of the Democratic challengers are moderate and in some cases even conservative by previous Democratic standards. For the past two years the extreme wing of the Republican party has had the leverage to torpedo moderate legislation while attempting to pass more extreme measures that had little chance of seeing the light of day. Hence the inaction we have witnessed. A more balanced arrangement in congress, regardless of which party holds the leadership posts, will force the parties to work more closely together and may even force Bush to start governing from the center and compromising with the other side of the aisle as he so famously did in Texas. This may actually produce better results than we have seen with the 109th. But we'll have to see.
-Ico
Agreed. Gridlock is much better than succesful legislation to expand the government.
hmmm so we are so cynical and pessimistic that our hope for this congress is gridlock? something is very sad there.....
BTW - gridlock is one thing on stuff like TSA expenditures, highway bills etc. but I would like to at least have a gov't that can confirm or reject new judicial appointments and perhaps act decisively on nat'l security legislation
This government may be gridlocked in terms of passing bills, but SOMEHOW they are spending all of our money.
one thing that I would like to ask those libs who believe the 2000, 2004 and other elections were 'fixed'.....
why did the military-industrial complex, haliburton, the Bush brothers or the vast right wing conspiracy NOT rig this election too? since the were able to do it previously? why did they stop?
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