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Well I can't argue with this one.
One of them being the fact they sat back and let our side do the complaining of Republicans for them
Don't get my wrong .. I agree our party needs to get their act together ..
Yes, the spending is getting out of control .. which is one reason why dems would tack on $$$ amendments to Bills that had nothing to do with the Bill ...
The immigration issue needed to be fixed .. but having Pat Buchanan and others go on TV & radio and make comments like we should round them all up and throw them out at once .. only scares people into the opposite direction
There was also a reason Harry Reid would quote Michael Savage on the Senate Floor
We have to realize that the Dems managed to get their act together and out smarted us
They knew to stick together even though most of their candidates were running as conservatives
The NOW hags and NARL knew to shut their traps during the election process while the likes of Casey, jr went around claiming he was pro-life
Notice how we didn't hear the women in Hollywood screaming at rallies about how Bob Casey was going to rape women if he was elected
The Dems also knew to keep their traps shuts or quickly file amendments to their tax/expense forms whenever a scandal of theirs started to brew
They also knew how to run and win this campaign on sound bits .. which is why they followed candidates around with camcorders
So yes, I agree that our party did lose their way from the promises they made in 94 and that needs to be corrected
But we also need to think outside of the box .. for if we don't .. we are bound to get stuck in that box
The revision of Bankruptcy Laws as well is a prime cause. It was a pure giveaway - written by the credit card issuers, the credit counselors, and predatory lenders. Then, the perceived connection to Big Oil (even if not true) and higher gas prices. And then ineptness during Katrina - well, perceived ineptness.
All of these things, plus the war made unpopular by the MSM - added up to certain disaster.
My problem with all of the above? Utterly pathetic attempts by the President, his Administration, and leaders of the House and Senate to beat back the MSM and DemocRAT attacks. If they don't learn how to fight back, we will stay in the Minority for a long long time. To hell with decorum. They need to go back to "What would Teddy Roosevelt do?" and "What would Ronald Reagan do?". Conservatives are pissed because the Republicrats kept giving in, spending money left and right on stupid initiatives, and growing government by obscene amounts.
I'm afraid we are devolving from a country of laws into a country of pc. We don't even want to offend lawbreakers any more and the pc group is sliding us down that chute. We WILL lose this country as we and our fathers have known it unless real conservatives save it soon.
Republicans totally missed the boat..We forgot 9/11 and all the ideology behind it--That is the Issue of our times and Republicans and Democrats worried about some rep in Florida writing porno emails! God help us!
It's worse than that. Here's a little pop quiz: when is the last time the national debt decreased?
Answer: the fiscal year ending 12/31/1960. Yes, Dwight Eisenhower's last year as President. During DDE's 8 years in office, the national debt decreased 3 times.
The only reason Clinton afficiandos can say that there were budget surpluses during his 8 years was because of the bookkeeping magic the Federal government performs. (Think of Al Gore and his lockbox).
There was one year (ending 9/30/2000) where the national debt went up only $18 BILLION (that's Billion with a B), and I guess you could say that was close, but no cigar.
http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdhisto4.htm for 1950-2000 http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdpenny.htm for 2001-2004