Posted on 04/23/2006 5:59:31 PM PDT by SirLinksalot
Who cares if GOP loses Congress?
By Joe Scarborough
Who really cares if Republicans lose Congress? Certainly not GOP leaders in the US House.
As the Wall Street Journal reported, the Republican pigs running Congress are wasting more money than those big-spending Democrats ever did.
Last month's deficit was the highest ever. But while Rome burns, Republicans obsess over their earmarks.
Conservative Republicans. What an oxymoron.
There is nothing conservative about the party to which I once proudly belonged. Like millions, I am disgusted by my party and their leaders.
A handful of responsible adults still understand the need for reform. But don't tell that to GOP bulls who have been trying to spend money like drunken sailors since they were empowered by the Revolution of 1994.
Some revolution.
A decade later, Republicans have given America the biggest deficit ever. The biggest debt ever. The biggest trade gap ever. The highest spending increases ever. A 110% increase in the education bureaucracy. A 100% increase in the Justice bureaucracy. An 88% increase in the Department of HHS. More pork projects than ever before. More earmarks than ever before. More reckless spending projects than ever before. A bigger, more wasteful government than ever before.
Why the hell should conservatives work to put these whores back in their perches of power?
Could Nancy Pelosi's Congress be worse?
Not on the spending level, because George W. Bush would have the courage to veto her outrageous spending bills. Sadly, he has shown no such fortitude with his own party in charge.
It is disgusting. It is also a problem I diagnosed two years ago in my book. But Republicans weren't listening then and they won't listen now.
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He said the party he 'once' belonged to.... guess he's joined the dark side for real since going to MSNBC.
If voting that way wouldn't guarantee Hillary in '08 I'd agree with you.
Listen, staying home isn't the answer, you'll just become discouraged and possibly depressed.
There is a better way.
Call in sick from work.
Go to the bar, at 7:00 AM
Spend the day drinking, I mean ALL day.
Go to the race track in the afternoon, or maybe the casino.
Eat fried fatty foods and suck beers.
End your day by going to the nudie bar.
Grab a cab home.
You'll feel like crap on Wednesday, but you would have anyway.
I agree the situation is bad for the GOP. My point was that FReepers, unlike regular voters, should be smart enough to understand that voting third-party, or not voting (it amounts to the same thing) are very destructive responses -- are at most good for the ego, but otherwise very irresponsible and dangerous.
No, you are demonstrating profound egotism and immaturity.
The entire country may pay the price for it, and I want to wake people up to the danger before it's too late.
However, our leaders really do need to remember who voted for them and why. It's possible that if we do have a victory in 2006, it may not be as big as it could have been. I hope I'm wrong.
I hope you're right and the anti-GOP FReepers are just venting. But they sound really serious.
Probably most FReepers are pro-GOP even now. But they shouldn't allow the spoilers to dominate any of the relevant threads, which they often seem to.
Oh 99% are not anti-GOP...they are very pro-GOP. If they were anti-GOP they would sit back and say nothing.
What you doing instead is attempting to keep citizens from waking up to the real danger of foreign invasion.
It's really happening, but many are closing their eyes, and trying hard to believe that Republicans will rescue them if it gets REALLY bad someday. Ha.
I don't believe the current GOP will rescue us. I fully understand how weak they are on this issue. But the Rats would make the problem even worse. As a Christian, you should understand that we have to work with man in his fallen state, not expect virtue just because we insist on it. There is a difference between weakness, as in the GOP, and ill will, as with the Rats.
I am certainly not trying to "keep citizens from waking up." I've actually done some things to wake them up about foreign invasion. I agree that "many are closing their eyes," but don't blame me for that.
You should direct your fire at the open-borders crowd, not at people like me who agree with you but have a different idea of the right response.
Hmmm. If you Google "The definition of insanity" you get 198,000 references, the overwhelming majority of which attribute the quote to Benjamin Franklin (though there are a small number which instead credit Albert Einstein). Based on the evidence, it appears likely that it is a legitimate 200+ year old quote rather than a spurious modern quote. As to its popularity, I do see a lot of left wing sites quoting it, but also plenty of right wing sites.
It seems like a fairly logical proverbial saying, which is why I used it myself. Do you have some objection to its contents, or do you just exhibit an automatic visceral rejection of any saying which has every come into contact with a leftist?
OK, fair enough.
We might not have had Reagan, were it not for Carter.
He was going to use it for the ports deal.
For ports, yes; against pork, no. How sad.
Yeah, this ridiculous amnesty plan (a.k.a. "guest worker" program) is yet another way in which the Republicans disappoint.
Many loyal American conservatives agree.
Bump!
Yep.
The term "useful idiot" is ringing in my ears and I think I would rather be taking my grandson out and teaching him how to fish.
Who'd have thought you'd have better odds at getting the expected results from casting for fish than after casting your vote and getting a tricameral?
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