[Zipporah]

It certainly is a dilemma for conservatives. I long for the days of gridlock. At least the Republicans in Congress would stand up and fight, as it is we are basically screwed. The insane spending spree must stop. And what is troubling, the will of the people is being dismissed. It's not by the people nor for the people.

[Kevin Curry]

I long for the days of gridlock.

Gridlock isn't all bad. George Will did a great piece on gridlock about ten years ago. He essentially said that for conservatives gridlock accomplishes in the short term what they desire for the long term. A government unable to get much done is preferable to one that find it too easy to get things done.

[olliemb]

Did you scream about the increase salaries of congress every year? Did you scream about the increase taxes in 1992? Did you scream about the pork barrelling added to bills?

Remember the war, recession, corporate wrongdoing, and the effects of 9/11 affected the deficit. And remember the surplus was in projected monies, it was not money held in escrow or in an account or in savings--it was projected monies. The economy is improving, jobs are picking up and we have not had a terrorist attack since 9/11 and we have not cowered in Iraq or AFghanistan. A few more years the effects of the tax cuts and the success in the war will be evident but if we vote for a democrat, it will be the democrat that will ride that wave of success and believe he will do a bill clinton and take credit for it.


Remember the president does not have a line item veto. The president does not have 60 votes for cloture either.

[BigSkyFreeper]

At least your coming to your senses that the problem is a less than conservative Congress and not a less than Conservative president. LOL

[nopardons]

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

You cavalierly forget all of the things Clinton &CO. that Congress had no part in.

[Richard Kimball]

At least the Republicans in Congress would stand up and fight, as it is we are basically screwed.

Would they? I'm not sure. Also, a Bush defeat could easily bring in enough Democrats to cause serious problems, as a Bush defeat means a lot of Republicans didn't show up to vote. I do fear Bush is going to end up spending September and October trying to get his base back.

[Bernard Marx]

bump for later

[Krodg]

And what is troubling, the will of the people is being dismissed.

You are wrong here. The problem is you seem to think that you are speaking for the people. The people have been heard. Whether you like it or not, the people have decided to go with the two party system. You seem to be the one that's out of tune with the people.

It's not by the people nor for the people.

It is by the people and for the people....you just don't like the outcome!

[BigSkyFreeper]

It certainly is a dilemma for conservatives.

It certainly is a dilemma for YOU if you want to play with fire by voting for Tancredo, and end up with Democrats in the White House, in Congress, and Bill Clinton on the USSC bench.

Well, I am not going to be a part of your little "dilemma".

The insane spending spree must stop.

The last time I looked, the lionshare of the spending went toward rebuilding the military. Are you saying the gutting of the military and defense budget under Clinton was justified?

[Walkin Man]

I long for the days of gridlock. At least the Republicans in Congress would stand up and fight...

I agree. If the Rat party would have proposed some of the things President Bush has done, the GOP would be outraged and would have fought them to the death.

But because their own party leader is behind the massive deficit increases, amnesty for illegal aliens...etc, they throw their ideology overboard and become the Rat-lite party.

If this is the result of Republican control of the House, Senate and White House, BRING BACK GRIDLOCK NOW!

[jmstein7]

"I long for the days of gridlock."

You mean the days where the likes of Ruth Bader Ginsburg got appointed to the supreme court?

Idiot.

[tillacum]

I personally think x42 is after Kofi's job. With 97 in the whitehouse and him heading up the un, the two will rule the world. I believe that is one reason she spent so much time travelling the globe during the last 4 years of his occupying the oval office.