Posted on 09/09/2006 9:58:46 AM PDT by george76
Americans foresee "more gridlock" in government if Democrats take over the House and/or the Senate after elections this fall, a CNN poll shows.
And while the poll shows a majority of Americans would favor probes by a Democratic Congress into Bush administration actions, most Americans oppose impeaching President Bush.
Seventy percent expect "gridlock and stalemate" while 27 percent believe there would be "cooperation between the two parties." Three percent had no opinion...
69 percent said Bush should not be impeached or removed from office, with 30 percent saying he should be impeached or removed from office.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
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http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2006/images/09/08/rel21e.pdf
Why anyone believes polls is a mystery. The polls are slanted, psychologically gauged to produced a known response. Citing polls is like citing beelzebub - a waste of time.
Gridlock sounds good to me.
Noting wrong with gridlock. Won't allow Bush to continue his wasteful spending in the budgets he submits to the crooks in congress.
And best way to clean up congress? Not term limits, not campaign finance reform. IT'S GETTING RID OF AIR CONDITIONING!
BUT WE'LL VOTE FOR THE DEMS. ANYWAY BECAUSE DAMMIT WE'RE MAD!!!! WE'RE MAD ABOUT....UHH....HMMMMM....WELL...I KNOW THERE'S GOT TO BE SOMETHING...WAIT...UMMMM...WE'RE MAD...WELL THE NEWS SAYS WE'RE MAD SO THERE'S GOT TO BE A REASON!!!
Then they'll be mad when the Congress they elected refuses to work with the president and nothing much gets done for 2 years. But they will be too stupid to know who to blame.
"Public expects gridlock if Democrats pick up seats "
Yippee! No AMNESTY! for at least two more years.
BUT...as the clock ticks and more anchor babys are made...the Reconquista steams on
slowly, but surely, to victory.
if Democrats win the House...
John Conyers will take over the Judiciary Committee and he has promised to launch impeachment hearings.
Neither will tax cuts be extended, Social Security reformed, conservative judges confirmed, no line item veto, no chance of ANWR getting passed like might happen if the GOP increases it's majority. No eminent domain reform, no John Bolton confirmation, no faster permitting of gasoline refineries, no medical liability reform, no UN reform, most of which have passed the House, but then been bottled up by Harry Reid in the Senate which means they'll need to be voted on and passed again in the new Democratic controlled House if they take control, which means it will all be killed.
And you can kiss the Sensenbrenner bill on immigration goodbye. There will be no chance of forcing some toughening of the borders on the Senate if the Democrats control the House.
And please don't tell me you actually believe a Congress lead by left winger extremists like Pelosi and Murtha as majority leader (Which all accounts said is who she will push for to be the m.l.) and one with Charlie Rangel as head of Ways and Means will be an effective check on over-spending. PLEASE!!! If you think spending is high now, wait and see what these socialists will try to get done.
And to correct what you say, most of the wasteful spending that ends up in budget, i.e. earmarks, don't come from the president, they come from Congress. That will only get worse under the big govt. liberals running Congress. Bush has actually submitted budgets recently with some pretty tight spending controls. It was only when they got to Congress that they became bloated back up. Yes, Bush should have vetoed, but that's why he needs the line item veto he won't get from a Democratic Congress so he's not forced to veto entire budgets and start a budget war with his own party just to cut out some individual spending items.
No, gridlock is not what will ensue but endless investigations of the president, an attempt to defund the continuing liberation of Iraq and a total stop to anything conservative getting through Congress.
You REALLY ought to be careful what you wish for on this one. I don't think you've fully thought out just how ugly the next 2 years will be with these extremists in control of legislative power. It sure isn't going to result in less government and lower spending like you seem to think. At least we have a shot at forcing some of that on the GOP if they retain power. We have no hope of anything we want getting done with that commie witch Pelosi running things. Better a half a plate of what we want and half of what we don't, than a plate full of dog sh-t.
If the Democrats don't take control of Congress in November, they will go into the 2008 unbelievably damaged and demoralized. I've heard some Democrats say, including Carville, they should not even continue as a party if they don't win in November. That may be a little extreme, but the point is they will have a tough time fundraising for 08 and their grassroots will be terribly demoralized which will put the wind at the GOP's back for the presidential race. On the other hand, if they win, Democrats will be back on top of the game in D.C. I don't really think you want to see them put into that position where it will be said they "made Bush irrelevent" and that they go into '08 with morale and fundraising at a high ebb. Think about this one a little more.
Burning the village to save it didn't work in Vietnam. It doesn't work in politics. You just end up shooting yourself in the foot. You have a right to your anger. I join you in some of it though I think it's entirely overblown seeing how much conservatives have gotten from the GOP and Bush. But a few issues upsetting us should not cause us to be so ready to turn over the apple cart and put the seditionists and Al Qaeda emboldeners on the left in charge of the government. And make no mistake, if the Dems. take over Congress, Al Qaeda will crow saying it is what they think they've done to us in Iraq that allowed this to happen. They will think they have done great damage to the president and see that as a huge victory. We simply cannot allow Al Qaeda that kind of gloating and moral victory in a time like this by handing power to people who openly side with the enemy against our president. No way. The stakes are too high to say "Good, Bush deserves to lose." Al Qaeda has heard the Dems. talking about their "strategic redeployment" (read: retreat) from Iraq. They will take Democratic control to mean Americans are ready to flee with our tails between our legs from Iraq and will step up their efforts to bleed us to make it happen. We cannot send that signal to our enemies. It won't be Bush that loses, but the nation. We just can't afford that luxury right now. The stakes at home and abroad are just too high.
You must be kidding...you think Pelosi and Murtha (Who will be the majority leader that Pelosi is pushing for) aren't for amnesty, nor Harry Reid and Dick Durbin?? LOL, the GOP controlling the House is the only thing STOPPING amnesty. You must be kidding if you're claiming the open border, amnesty-now Democrats won't hit the gas peddle on amnesty. LOL. Who do you think these pro-illegal alien creeps at their rallies are threatening to vote against in November. THE REPUBLICANS! That's what they say! They don't say "Democrats, we're not going to vote for you because you're against amnesty." LOL, it's the Republicans they're saying they'll get rid of because they know they're the ones standing in the way of amnesty! Get real!
I wonder what percentage of these "adults" also can name the 3 stooges but not the 3 branches of government as measured in a different poll.
Of course I don't wish for the dems to take over but if they do, it will be interesting to see just how radical of a left turn they make. The hope is that they muck things up so much that people realize that the left can't be trusted at all and vote them out the next go around. People still don't seem to understand just how out of touch the left.
What can we expect from the ignorant brainless fools.
Well what do ya have now?
With this pathetic leadership(Hastert and Frist) the only thing that gets passed is pork.
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