Another Democrat promise gone.

Wasn't there an issue in the 2000 election where they tried to get the vote count times extended? The main reason the USSC said that the votes were final and that the law had to be followed as to when counts were to be completed.

Well, we've listened to interminable complaints about this Administration's ruining the nation by running the National Debt to astronomical levels. They never seem to have believed that a war can be fought without casualties and the money to maintain an effective military. They've whined about Intelligence failures, but are quick to hamstring those operations by pinching pennies. Its been frustrating, but now the Democrats control the Congress by a narrow margin.

The size of the National Debt must no longer an issue, because this Congress is proposing unbelievable increases in governmental spending. Of course, no Democrat would expect to benefit from Pork. LOL. The most radical of the Congressional Democrats would prefer big expenditures for social engineering and political correctness, to minimal spending to keep our military in the field against an enemy whose explicit goal is the destruction of the United States and infidels everywhere. They've become so addicted to obstruction and defamation that a challenge to Executive Privilege is a higher priority than actually doing the business of Congress.

Perhaps now the left-wing rhetoric will chill on the National Debt, Pork and, in the fullness of time, how all national political figures MUST be saintly public servants who would never take advantage of the privileges that come with power. Naw, they are so self-deluded by their hatreds that they won't change at all. They'll run hypocritical and negative campaigns slandering/libeling the GOP, conservatives, and even one another.

I certainly won't stop trying to get taxes raised and the crooks who are currently in office arrested and jailed for their crimes. Never.

See, ash, when you lie to people over, and over, and over again, they stop trusting you. That's what Bush did to me and the rest of the country, and payback time is coming quick.

Cycloptichorn

Be honest at least. You never trusted Bush because he was a Republician. It didn't matter what he said, you already didn't trust him. So the fact that you claimed he lied and lied had nothing to do with it.

What the f*ck do you know, Baldi?

I voted for Bush in 2000 and voted Republican in 2002. It wasn't until they started lying leading up to Iraq that I questioned, loudly, 'what about OBL???? For god's sake!' When I saw Bush say 'we're no longer concerned with Bin Laden,' I knew something was rotten. And I was right.

Don't give me that 'you're a partisan' bullsh*t. You know as well as I do that it has been lie after lie with these guys, all in the name of 'protecting you.' It's the ultimate nanny state, the thing you all claim to hate. But you just keep lapping it up.

Cycloptichorn

Oh yeah! Run on the promise to raise everyone's taxes. To make that "palatable" you might promise that anyone making under $15K/year is exempt from the income tax, and will receive a $2000 refund check each year until they top $20K/year. Will you be up-front about the basic policy of redistributing the wealth as a means of making our system more socialistic? Sure, that ought to buy you a whole lot of votes across the country.

No expenditures or taxes to support the military during a time when the nation is under attack by extra-national terrorists, but run up the National Debt to advance your political dreams of Utopia. What's Obama and Hillaries take on raising taxes, and increasing the Budget to support "needed" social causes instead of providing national security.

I am a GOP partisan and a conservative. I believe that entrusting the Nation's future to the Utopian schemes of whiners on the Left would be both dangerous and a disaster for our country. On the other hand, I also believe that there are responsible thinking individuals in most political parties. People, regardless of the political identity and philosophy, all remain people subject to all the good and bad qualities that our species in known for. I don't expect that everyone of any political stripe is ALL good, or ALL bad.

You can't seem to get beyond name calling and seeing Republicans, conservatives and this administration as stereotypes. What you call thugs and thieves, others see the finest military organization in the history of the world whose discipline and humanitarian values puts our enemy to shame. You seem to think that all Republicans are super-wealthy gangsters, or mentally defective. You are quick to label a complex world in bright and absolute colors that suit your personal ideas of right and wrong. In that thin world, there are no honest mistakes nor accidents, but everything must be explained in terms of devious conspirators plotting, always plotting. Yep, I'm partisan, but you, your partisanship consists only of self-delusion justifying your need to hate and slander.

in your second sentence you refer to the left as whiners but cyclo can't get beyond name calling and sterotypes. Are you sure you're a buddhist? Because you sound like an evangelical....

Good thing that no one gives a damn what Bush supporters such as yourself say any longer, Ash, as you've been proven to be on the wrong side of so many issues.

You state that



All this shows is the depth of your intellectual dishonesty. I was of course referring to the political leadership, not the military, as you knew but instead chose to take a cheap shot at my patriotism - a not unique tactic by those of your bent.

Your failure to address any of the moral problems evidenced by your leadership robs you of any and all authority on matters political. In 2006, your party suffered the worst mid-term loss of any part in history, and there's zero reason to believe that '08 will be any different.



Not all of them; just ones such as yourself, buddy. And I certainly am under no illusions that you are super- anything except for perhaps -dense and -gullible.

Cycloptichorn

If you have evidence of theft, then produce it so that the accused can be tried in a proper court of law. There is no crime of "thuggery". If that means the willingness to use military force on behalf of the nation's interests, then most U.S. Presidents were "thugs", regardless of their Party affiliation. Even the saintly President Carter was willing to secretly send U.S. troops into a sovereign nation during peacetime to conduct a military operation; Jimmy Carter ... war-mongering thug ... absolute nonsense, of course.

Frankly, I don't know how patriotic you are, nor is it my place to judge. It is evident though that you blindly hate conservatives, Republicans, and those who disagree with you and the purity of your ideals. You somehow seem to think our government should place your notions of ethics and morality above their Constitutional responsibilities and duty. That is very hypocritical, when you refuse to see or admit the faults, errors, corruption, greed, and self-serving of those whose words resonate with your selective idealism.

You call me a mentally defective gangster, but I'll not go down that path. You see, I don't have a similar opinion about your values or behavior. I think you are sincere, but blinded by your hatreds and unwillingness to accept that people are a mass of complex and often contradictory opinion. I harbor no illusion that you will change, but your delusions are what will continue to defeat your icons at the polls because most Americans, I believe are more open and fair-minded than the radical left.

BTW, The GOP "suffered the worst mid-term loss of any party in history"? You really need to take a look backward into our political history. In the last election the Democrats won a number of Congressional seats, but none of those victories were by wide-margins. The successful Democrats tended to be moderates, not the from the radical left wing of the Party who have been most vocal in their criticism of the Administration. The Democratic Congress, even now appears unwilling to radically change the course of the War on Terrorism in ways that would please A2K critics. In the Senate, the Democrats have the thinnest of margins.

Cyclops, lets stop the personal bickering. We should be above that sort of thing, even if our political philosophies are so far apart.

would have done well to have stopped there, too much to ask for it seems.

So, they attach a lot of pork to spending bills, they extend votes, they appoint unethical members to important committee positions... what else have they done to spread the corruption in D.C.? Oops, I mean stop the spread, that's what they promised wasn't it?

Asherman. Yep, some smart ass Dem must have been keeping notes about how the GOP Congress managed its reign since 1994.

It would never occur to me equate our politicians with our military. The fact that they are blurred for you is disturbing.