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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If the Dems that we currently have available take over the government for even a day, you'll be seeing the inside of a Gulag long before you ever see Conservatives in power again.
I don't think that GW Bush would ever have the guts or courage to use the veto pen, ESPECIALLY if the DimWits controlled either the Senate or the House. Bush has an overriding obsession to pander & capitulate & appease those on the LEFT who despise & revile him. The only critics that he publicly chastises & scorns is his conservative majority base that elected him for two terms. We thought we were getting a conservative.... what we actually got is a bona fide CINO and big government spender and one-world globalist. GW Bush doesn't have the guts or courage to enforce our nation's immigration laws, deport the illegal immigrants or build an effective fence to stop the illegals... I don't care if we don't stop 100% of them... I would settle for stopping 95-98% at this time.
Bottom line is, there is not a bill that reaches his desk that he isn't eager to sign.
There are two types of people in congress; dems and those who enable them. Those would be the ones we put there, time and time again!
I agree. Yeah, things could be worse, but the Pubbie version of "better" is not much better . I'm reminded of the old joke that ends with the punchline: "coffee break's over-back on your heads!" Depending on which party is in power, we are either ankle-deep or shoulder-deep in sh!t. Either way, we're in sh!t.
Me Scarborough..I don't know if your pea brain can handle macroeconomics (somehow I doubt it) but this Leavey/Stuart article from Foreign Affairs might help...
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20050301facomment84201/david-h-levey-stuart-s-brown/the-overstretch-myth.html
The Congressional Republicans have screwed up so badly, that I really don't care.
I hate to say it, but would this Congress been more fiscally conservative if Gore won?
Clearly the country needs the balance of power of two major parties. in retrospect, gridlock isn't so bad. Too bad the Rats couldn't have gone the way of the Whigs before the need to counterbalance the excesses of the Republican majority.
Absolutely. But politics is not all about green eye shades. If it were, Gore would have been the one.
Republicans in Congress have been reduced to the argument that they are the lesser of two evils. All the wonderful promises they made in 1994 in order to gain control of Congress have been pissed away. Even if the Democrats remain worse, Joe Scarborough makes the telling point that they're no longer that much worse. Which is a devastating commentary on just how bad the Republicans have become.
If you keep re-electing Republican majorities regardless of what depths they fall to, regardless of how much wasteful spending they engage in, regardless of how high they run up the deficit, regardless of what new entitlements they approve, regardless of how many "Bridges to Nowhere" they build, regardless of how they trample on our freedom of speech, etc., etc., then don't be surprised if they continue in that mode. After all, it works to get them re-elected, which is all that really matters to most of them.
As Benjamin Franklin said, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."
As I read your statement, I had to wonder which lunatic fringe did the Republicans take themselves to? The right "fringe" of the Republican Party consists of both Christian conservatives and secular conservatives.
Muleteam1
Ha ha ha ha hahahahahahaha, just take one more for the team. If we don't, things will really really really be bad this time. I hated Clinton, but I will take an enemy I know, rather than a mole within the "conservative" party. With the Republicans in charge of Congress, and the Dims in the WH, we had the best of Republican party. The R's and D's both have become enamored of power, and spending. I will vote against every incumbent that runs.
The Pubbies in Congress have done the Animal Farm thing on spending. Their loss in 2006 of the House has some merit. In fact, it might help the Pubbie candidate for Prez in 2008, since the responsibility for what ails the public square would be shared. But, but, I can't quite go there. This RINO is too cautious ... it may be a deer in the headlights thingie.
Me also. There's much in this government I disagree with, but I'm not immature enough to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
And replacing Stevens
Your self-absorbsion is foolishness in the eyes of history. There are times when can / should walk away from a party over a small number of issues. But this is not that time in history.
Again, our soldiers in the field deserve better then to have the ilk of the Democrat party currently running any branch of Gov't. You are obviously to self-absored and self-assured to understand this however.
The senate is the senate, and the house is the house. Confusing the two is a mistake.
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