Posted on 10/28/2006 12:42:14 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
The real question for voters in November is whether Democrats will be able to do to the entire legislative branch what they've done to their party. The agenda-less party is infected with a paralyzing negativity born of its singular hatred for President Bush. Will that mindset be permitted to seize control of our legislative branch? Will disgruntled conservatives collude to make this happen?
How many times have you heard Democrats decrying the Bush administration for having no plan to win the peace in Iraq? We might have executed the initial phase of the war masterfully by removing Saddam Hussein, they now grudgingly concede, but we didn't anticipate and plan for the problems that would arise after his removal.
Putting aside a debate over that assertion, let's apply the same standard to their agenda for America today. Shouldn't we ask: "Democrats have a potentially masterful plan for removing Republicans from majority control, but what is their plan for action if they win?"
Let's just look at the most important issues: the war on terror, including Iraq, the economy, social issues and immigration. In each category, they either have no plan or are unwilling to publicize it for fear Rovian Republicans will pick it apart and expose its flaws.
On immigration, no matter how poorly Republicans have performed, the Democrats' approach would be significantly worse. They would open the borders wider, discourage assimilation further and promote amnesty harder.
On the economy, they would increase domestic spending even more. And in their compulsion to punish the "rich," they would raise their taxes at the inevitable expense of choking the life out of our robust growth
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I don't know why the gop ran a mudslinging campaign when the economy is good, the governance has been pretty good except for maybe 100 billion in excess spending which is a rounding error in 2.5 trillion.
The gop has no intention of learning anything. They will simply continue to do what is best for the USA and that will mean a south border wall and some type of guest worker program without citizenship, tax cuts, good judges, and the best avaiable policy in Iraq (there may not be a good option here).
"Treading water" means that you've made no new accomplishments. I mention this because you clearly don't know what the phrase represents.
Passing tax cuts into law, killing Kyoto and the CCCP-U.S. ABM treaty, jailing Saddam Hussein, banning partial birth abortion, and deploying missile defenses (land, air, and sea-based) is not, by any stretch of the educated mind, somehow "treading water."
So yes, you are asking for too much. You are asking for things that can not be, or in denial of what has already been.
And yet, the GOP hasn't been "treading water."
Tax cuts. Saddam Hussein jailed. Taliban overthrown. Missile Defenses deployed. Kyoto dead. ICC dead. U.S.-CCCP ABM treaty dead. CAFTA passed. Partial Birth Abortion banned. Conservative judges stacking the federal bench appointments, etc.
You need a better schtick if you want to trick a few loyal conservatives into flipping over to whatever fringe Party you are promoting today...because misusing phrases such as "treading water" will hardly win you any friends or converts.
No. You don't understand the correct use of the phrase. It's **not** "treading water" to have accomplishment after accomplishment, achievement after achievement, month after month.
I even posted a non-stop list of factual accomplishments to you in this very thread, above...yet none of this is sinking into your skull.
Whatever. You need a more accurate, more descriptive phrase to explain whatever your complaint of the moment might be if you want anyone to think that you are something more serious than a mere moody crank.
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Actually the fed raises interest rates to combat inflationary pressures. I have never seen anyone find something bad about everything the way you have. You complain government is too big, then complain government hasn't done enough to lower the price of prescription drugs. You want the congress to break up the 9th circuit court... just how do you think they should do that?
Sounds like democrats whining that Bush didn't prevent Katrina.
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