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How would you grade the Dems so far?
San Francisco Chronicle ^
| 5/24/7
| Heidi Swillinger
Posted on 05/24/2007 9:30:18 PM PDT by SmithL
Read the story that prompted this column
Mike Flaherty, San Carlos
An F, for failure to de-fund the war. Instead of playing commander-in-chief with timetables, benchmarks, etc, they should have used their constitutional power of the purse if they were at all serious. F for leadership, F for integrity and F for execution. Harry Reid does receive a C+ for most disheartening comment made by a U.S. senator in time of war and for furnishing aid and comfort to the enemy.
Julie Bennett, San Francisco
C-. It's their turn, and I feel like they are wimping out. They are asking the right questions, but when they get the same weak answers they aren't taking the next step. Flex that power!
Lucretia Marcus, Alamo
Fs all across the board. The Democrats were elected to stop the war in Iraq and to get our troops home. They have failed that promise. I am utterly disappointed and disgusted at their actions. They are no better than the GOP.
Janice Hough, Palo Alto
Grading the Democrats when Bush has veto power is like trying to grade a student when the teacher rewrites all their papers. Although if we are grading on a curve, they should get an "A" just for showing up.
Patricia Erickson, South San Francisco
C+. Expected reforms watered down.
Bill Witt, Palo Alto
For now, the Democrats get an F.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cultureofcutandrun; dembulbs; failures
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posted on
05/24/2007 9:30:19 PM PDT
by
SmithL
To: SmithL
How about a C for cowards; T for traitors: S for surrender.
To: SmithL
Janice Hough, Palo Alto Grading the Democrats when Bush has veto power is like trying to grade a student when the teacher rewrites all their papers. Although if we are grading on a curve, they should get an "A" just for showing up.
She really gets offended at this whole 'democracy' thing we've got going here.
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posted on
05/24/2007 9:33:05 PM PDT
by
kinoxi
To: SmithL
gee....a better question would have been....How do you grade the Democrats as Socialists?
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posted on
05/24/2007 9:35:42 PM PDT
by
goodnesswins
(We need to cure Academentia)
To: SmithL
I give them a “B+”. They haven’t screwed things up nearly as bad as I thought they would.
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posted on
05/24/2007 9:37:26 PM PDT
by
REDWOOD99
To: SmithL
Do years of being anti-American, mean-spirited, and dim-witted make one ugly as well? That’s not an attractive group.
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posted on
05/24/2007 9:44:35 PM PDT
by
hometoroost
(TSA = Thousands Standing Around)
To: SmithL
Lucretia Marcus, Alamo The Democrats were elected to stop the war in Iraq and to get our troops home. Lucretia.M from Alamo got played by Nancy.P
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posted on
05/24/2007 9:45:14 PM PDT
by
TeleStraightShooter
(The Right To Take Life is NOT a Constitutional "Liberty" protected by the 14th Amendment)
To: SmithL
H.L Mencken put it best when he said “Nobody ever went broke underestimateing the intelligence of the American people.”
It doesn’t seem that many of us are very well informed about how our government works.
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posted on
05/24/2007 9:45:51 PM PDT
by
telebob
To: kinoxi
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posted on
05/24/2007 9:46:10 PM PDT
by
TeleStraightShooter
(The Right To Take Life is NOT a Constitutional "Liberty" protected by the 14th Amendment)
To: ExTexasRedhead
Dingy Harry Reid gets a F for Fink!
Nancy Pelousey gets a B for “baloney”
Teddy Kennedy gets a D for “Drunk”
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posted on
05/24/2007 9:53:42 PM PDT
by
o_zarkman44
(No Bull in 08!)
To: SmithL
People in the Bluest of Blue states gave the Dems a big fat thumbs down. Hardly grading from the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy Central.
Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
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posted on
05/24/2007 9:54:11 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: SmithL
I would give them an A+. They have snookered Senator Kyl, our best and brightest, into destroying the GOP for a generation and insuring them of continued and even enhanced majorities in both houses of Congress. You just cannot do much better than they have done. I could not have come close to predicting such a momentous victory.
To: SmithL
Rantings from the moonbat capital of the world, as the looney leftists try to throw democracy, the Constitution, and the Democrat Party under the bus. These two guys might not be crazy, though:
Chuck Fleischer, Corte Madera: I am a registered Democrat and I rate our current Democrats with a D. All I see in the national leadership is strutting their stuff rather than building a consensus and moving the country ahead. The fastest way out of Iraq is to jump in with both feet and get it over. Let us not drag it out or walk away, because those people will bring it here. I am very disappointed in the speaker and Sen. Reid.
Scott Abramson, San Mateo: F. Though I hear Osama and his boys give them an A+ for their efforts to declare an Iraq Surrender day.
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posted on
05/24/2007 10:07:57 PM PDT
by
hsalaw
To: Goreknowshowtocheat
I would give them an A+. They have snookered Senator Kyl, our best and brightest, into destroying the GOP for a generation and insuring them of continued and even enhanced majorities in both houses of Congress. You just cannot do much better than they have done. I could not have come close to predicting such a momentous victory. Exactly.
To: o_zarkman44
You are way too kind. Of course, what I would call them can’t be printed on FR.
To: ExTexasRedhead
That Karl Rove is just a genius. He engineered the dim takeover because he knew how badly they were going to screw things up which would cause a republican president to be elected 2008 and get in a new repub congress.
The dims are in real trouble in 2008. If their base is this pissed off in the epicenter of modern liberalism, SF, they are toast, unless they can get the minimum wage 20 bucks an hour.
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posted on
05/24/2007 10:58:01 PM PDT
by
appeal2
(R)
To: ExTexasRedhead
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posted on
05/24/2007 11:03:19 PM PDT
by
CyberAnt
("... first time in history the U.S. House has attempted to surrender via C-SPAN TV ...")
To: ExTexasRedhead
Z for amensty that will bankrupt and overwhelm us
T for tax hikes to the tune of $1 billion (wont renew Bush tax cuts)
F for frauds
L for liars
D for demogogues
I for idiots, especially on energy where they hike taxes and restrict production to ‘fight higher prices’
E- for lack of ethics (Murtha , Pelosi, Wm Jefferson)
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posted on
05/24/2007 11:56:34 PM PDT
by
WOSG
(Stop Illegal Immigration. Call your Senator today. Senate Switchboard at 202-224-3121.))
To: hsalaw
“Scott Abramson, San Mateo: F. Though I hear Osama and his boys give them an A+ for their efforts to declare an Iraq Surrender day.”
My vote for best answer! LOL!
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posted on
05/24/2007 11:57:35 PM PDT
by
WOSG
(Stop Illegal Immigration. Call your Senator today. Senate Switchboard at 202-224-3121.))
To: kinoxi
Actually, sounds like she wants a pure democracy, not a tripartite republic.
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posted on
05/25/2007 1:25:30 AM PDT
by
Gondring
(I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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