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Meet the new party of no
U.S.News & World Report ^
| 2/28/05
| Gloria Borger
Posted on 02/26/2005 12:59:36 AM PST by neverdem
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posted on
02/26/2005 12:59:36 AM PST
by
neverdem
To: neverdem
"If we become the do-nothing party, we become the default party," says Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh, a "red state" Democrat. "We only win leadership when the other guys fail if we stand for nothing." Sure, he asks, "should the president be required to put forward a program first? Absolutely. But then should we have an alternative? Yes."Well, Evan, nobody's stopping you.
The quickest route to Social Security reform is a few of the younger Senate dems waking to the reality that, along about the time they've risen to leadership roles in Congress, the existing system is going to hit the wall. If a half a dozen of them broke ranks on this, we could have Social Security reform pretty fast. It wouldn't take many.
The "do nothing" approach suits the Kennedy types, who will be gone before the reckoning, but younger 'rats have an interest in an honest solution unless they want to close out their careers dealing with a shambles. But so far, they show every sign of following their senile leadership over the cliff. Can't think beyond the next election.
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posted on
02/26/2005 1:12:05 AM PST
by
sphinx
To: neverdem
The dem's don't give a rat's patootie about anything but the pursuit of power. The fact that the voters have figured this out is a problem.
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posted on
02/26/2005 1:15:56 AM PST
by
hershey
To: neverdem
The party of NO and HATE .
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posted on
02/26/2005 1:20:00 AM PST
by
Deetes
To: neverdem
To: Political Junkie Too
Hey Demwits, Social Security reform?
E-I-E-I-NO;
MARCO! POL-NO!
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posted on
02/26/2005 2:48:13 AM PST
by
libs_kma
(USA: The land of the Free....Because of the Brave!)
To: neverdem
I wish the GOP/Rove pushed this real heavy during the election. It was an obvious Rat tactic of using anti-war popularity of going against the administration a year ago.
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posted on
02/26/2005 3:13:38 AM PST
by
endthematrix
(Declare 2005 as the year the battle for freedom from tax slavery!)
To: neverdem
MARCO! POL-NO!
LOL, very witty of the author to think of this analogy. Amazing to see a piece like this in the MSM.
Although, like everyone else, she overlooks the real reason "Hillary Care" failed, because the plan stunk. If Bush and co. come up with a lousy plan on Soc. Sec. it will fail too; if they come up with a good one it may well get enacted. And she is right, the Dems really look esp. dim suddenly seeing NO PROBLEM with Soc. Sec., nobody, but nobody is buying that angle.
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posted on
02/26/2005 3:18:27 AM PST
by
jocon307
(Vote George Washington for the #1 spot)
To: Political Junkie Too
No mention of the video. IHO, it's no coincidence. However the Rat play book is obvious!
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posted on
02/26/2005 3:21:02 AM PST
by
endthematrix
(Declare 2005 as the year the battle for freedom from tax slavery!)
To: jocon307
It wasn't the author.
See link in post #5
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posted on
02/26/2005 3:22:26 AM PST
by
endthematrix
(Declare 2005 as the year the battle for freedom from tax slavery!)
To: neverdem
"They knew what Bush stood for," says Bayh. "We run the risk of losing our credibility if people don't know what we are for." Nice words but were they spoken before or after he voted against Condi Rice for Secretary of State in a naked attempt to appeal to the lunatic left.
One is to presume this was positioning for the 2008 primaries.
Let them make all the grand statements they want.The American people know what they are for and their credibility has already been lost by their unending political maneuvering in lieu of leadership.
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posted on
02/26/2005 3:22:53 AM PST
by
carlr
To: neverdem
Its like they used to say in the 60s: "If you aren't part of the solution, you're part of the problem." The Democrats have become the problem.
(Denny Crane: "There are two places to find the truth. First God and then Fox News.")
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posted on
02/26/2005 3:29:59 AM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: neverdem
Remember that time Clinton lost his sanity and went to some podium saying:
"The Republican anwer was no, no, No, NO, NOOO! NO No!!NOOOOOO!"
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posted on
02/26/2005 3:43:12 AM PST
by
SkyPilot
To: neverdem
It is not a party. It is a crime syndicate. Listen to their words. Watch their deeds.
Criminals are anti-freedom, anti-life.
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posted on
02/26/2005 3:50:52 AM PST
by
PGalt
To: neverdem
"The rationale is inevitably tactical: Democrats are the opposition. They do not control any branch of government."
Except the courts, and Bush is trying to fix that problem.
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posted on
02/26/2005 4:12:00 AM PST
by
gakrak
("A wise man's heart is his right hand, But a fool's heart is at his left" Eccl 10:2)
To: jocon307
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posted on
02/26/2005 4:26:32 AM PST
by
wolficatZ
(. <'*((((>< Garden of LIfe - Primal Defense ><))))*'> .)
To: neverdem
And of course, there is the Capital One punch-line, perfect for the Dems:
"What's in YOUR wallet?"
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posted on
02/26/2005 4:27:33 AM PST
by
tiamat
(Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints.)
To: neverdem
Registration as a Democrap requires that the applicant agree to be implanted with the DARE gene. Then the JUST SAY NO becomes as easy as breathing!
To: hershey
The dem's don't give a rat's patootie about anything but the pursuit of power. The fact that the voters have figured this out is a problem.When you've become a party of selfish perverted desire.
When you are willing to fight for things most know in the heart's are the antithesis to good and right.
When all you do is bitch and moan about what the other side is doing.
You will never rise to a position of "respected" power under those circumstances or choices.
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posted on
02/26/2005 4:36:28 AM PST
by
sirchtruth
(Words Mean Things...)
To: carlr
Ummmm, Sen. Bayh, isn't much of the problem the fact that so much of America has determined exactly for
what the Democratic leadership stands?
Such as:
- Representing the anti-American elite in Hollywood, academia and the media?
- Representing the privileged wealthy who feel entitlements to power like Soros, Kennedy and Heinz-Kerry?
- Representing the subculture sewer of abortion, pornography and immorality?
- Representing racial bigots like the NAACP, MeCha, and CAIR?
- Representing the peace at any price Marxist front groups like A.N.S.W.E.R.?
- Representing the lunatic fringe of environmental and social revolutionary-terrorist groups such as ELF, ALF, PETA and the Global Warming crowd?
- Need I go on?
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posted on
02/26/2005 5:17:16 AM PST
by
Vigilanteman
(crime would drop like a sprung trapdoor if we brought back good old-fashioned hangings)
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