[Kevin Curry]

We didn't have " gridlock ", when Clinton was president and had a GOP majority in both Houses.

Of course we did. The week that Clinton shut down the government in a head-to-head with Gingrich over the budget was gridlock in its most intractable and dramatic form. It was that incident that inspired George Will to write his piece extolling the virtues of gridlock as a buffer against government.

If we can't have a consistently conservative government, it is to our best advantage to have a stymied and hamstrung goverment. That at least fulfills in the political arena Hippocrates' wise dictum to doctors, "First, do no harm."

[Texasforever]

Kevin, you knew what Bush stood for before his election. The only thing he has done is to follow through on every campaign promise he made. You know that and to pretend otherwise, is dishonest and makes your entire rant suspect. On every issue from, Medicare prescription drugs, to education, to the CR and finally to the immigration proposal he campaigned OPENLY for legislation. You say you voted for him in 2000 and given the fact that you had to have known those things, why didn’t you vote for gridlock in 2000?

[nopardons]

The GOP and Newt got pilloried and worse for that, or have you forgotten it all ? And WHAT did that get us ? NOTHING!

Clinton went around Congress and did all sorts of things, or have you forgotten?

Kerry may not be Clinton,but he has Clinton advisers and Kennedy ones too and Dukakis ones too; or have you forgotten ?

Kerry would hand over our troops to the UN, or have you forgotten ?

Then, there are the presidential EOs that can and shall be signed, or have you forgotten ?

You like the " DO YE NO HARM " line? Then stop doing HARM, by posting this kind of codswalllop.