For the months leading up to the election your group has been marching in lockstep. I was told over and over that Iraq was going to save the day for Republicans.
If the GOP had handled the spending and illegal immigration issue better, the traditional republican voters would have been more understanding on Iraq.
Just like friends don't let friends drive drunk, friends shouldn't let their politicians govern themselves into political suicide.
Don't take this personally as you're a very solid freeper, but you and many others have a reflexive response to shoot the messenger.
Oh, FGS, grow up and learn to make up your own mind. Do what the rest of us do, read and make up your own minds.
BTW, if I believe half the crap I read on here, I'd be nuts by now.
Don't take this personally as you're a very solid freeper, but you and many others have a reflexive response to shoot the messenger.
And you and your "group" see everything in a bad light if you don't personally agree with it 100 percent. You and your inflexibility had a great part in what happened today.
I don't get this "spending" thing, I really don't. I haven't spoken up about it before, but I keep hearing it. And it just isn't true.
For projects, I've had to go over the Federal Budget several times in the past couple of years. Discretionary Spending, for the most part, has held to a level below inflation + growth. The only real increase in discretionary spending has been on the military and homeland security.
The only area where Bush has increased spending more than marginally is the Medicare Drug Benefit which, let's be frank, was a dumb idea - but, putting the Democrats in power would simply have meant a more expensive one.
The only "out-of-control" spending I've ever seen actually discussed at length is the various earmarks which, for all that they might piss people off, amount to a fraction of the Federal Budget overall.
The people fixated on spending are missing the forest for the trees.
Did you see what Bush is going to do next? Negotiate with the RATs on illegal immigration. Thanks, third-party voters for costing us Montana and Missouri. Thanks, Repubs who sat this one out to "send a message." Message received, and it means amnesty.