Election 2006

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According to reps the dems will raise taxes on everyone and surrender to the terrorists. So I suppose I'll take that as the bench line. If they do this will people admit dems sucked? That they weren't the best choice?

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Well, I don't think I'm going to let the Republicans decide what MY criterion are for judging the success of the Democrats.I wouldn't mind if they raised taxes on the wealthy, for example. Hell, I wouldn't mind a tax increase for my income bracket, even, if it meant that the deficit would improve.And the notion that the Democrats are going to "surrender to the terrorists" is just stupid.That is just Rovespeak for "Anybody who disagrees with the white house on how to deal with terrorism wants to surrender to them."That, of course, is a load of bollocks.

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A lot of conservative pundits are all of a sudden coming out against the war tonight... what timing.....
But now they are saying we should pull out because "nation building" is against conservative values.

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You know why they are doing this, don't you?This is how they've thought all along but kept their traps zipped because their very survival as Right Wing toadies would be in serious jeopardy if they contradicted Bush and the NeoCons.

The Senate is now under Democrats' control!!!I can hardly believe it.Edited by schrafinator, : No reason given.

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The Democrats have certainly failed in their duties as minority party to be vigorous and robust during that last few years.

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With a white house and republican congressional leadership that never had any intentions of listening for two seconds to anything an Democrat said unless they agreed with them, exactly how do you expect they should have done more?They were completely shut out.

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That is pretty well the status of any minority party.

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It's been my understanding that since George W. Bush has been president with a NeoCon Republican majority in Congress, the extent to which the minority party had been very nearly completely marginalized was unprecedented.Not just marginialized, even. Vilified, demonized.There used to be a tradition of bipartisanship in congress being seen as "good".The NeoCons threw all of that out. Edited by schrafinator, : No reason given.

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The founding fathers were arguably shut out of power and villified. They banded together in cause. I'm not suggesting that the dems should have started a revolution, but they could have stuck together and made their presence known in a solid opposition.

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Well, they (Harry Reid) shut down the government on Nov 1st, 2005 until the Intelligence Committee followed through on it's promise to investigate the Pre-Iraq intelligence.They did what they could to keep Bolton out of the UN, and he only got in through an end-run around the confirmation process.They prevented Social Security from being privatized, which was the centerpiece of Bush's domestic policy.