Don’t pee on our parade. Thank you!
Republicans in Washingtonn needed to get off the A$$ 4 years ago....
you don’t have to be a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing
As soon as the GOP got the majority, there were flips by Democrat infiltrators/RINOs (Jumpin’ Jim Jeffords) and the DUmocrats have been in control of congress most of the Bush’s two terms.
“It’s a striking argument for Republicans, who have held all the levers of federal power for most of the past eight years”
Hello, morons, Republicans are “scaring” people about one-party rule because the Democrats would be in total control, and Republicans don’t like Democrats.
It would be hard to find an issue on which Democrats haven’t accused Republicans of scare-mongering. It sort of takes the danger out of appeals to fear when “fear” is defined so broadly.
What the hell? It's been a Democratically controlled Congress for six years; the Congress makes the laws, the President only has veto power, and I can't think of a veto of substance that has been issued in that time! The only "lever of Federqal power" have had is an ALMOST equal number of allegedly Conservative Supreme Court justices, with a squishy center on the 4-to-5, and even that isn't a lock.
This should be used in individual races as well. It could sway getting a few more Republicans in.
Today our country is suffering from over half a million jobs lost this year alone, over 4,000 troops needlessly killed in Iraq, a reputation for torture and civil rights violations by the federal government, and a stagnant stock market casino.
Democratic control of Congress and the WH is a goal that I aspire to, not something that fearmongers should deprive us of.
Barney Franks is already calling for “Increased Taxes” and we haven’t even had the election yet. Don’t the democrats see where this is all going?
But when Republicans (supposedley) get in, they don’t by principle try to control everyone’s lives and take everyone’s possessions.
The difference is, when Dems get in, they tell you they are going to CHANGE things. And come into your backyard to do it, whether you like it or not.
And if people don’t believe me, I took the above sentence from Obama’s speeches. He’s like Hitler, in a way - he’s telling people, and they aren’t hearing or believing hims.
This is good. They need to point out who has been in control and how much worse things have gotten in this country theses 2 yrs. with Pelosi and Reid and the Demonrats taking control. They need to always state DEMOCRAT CONTROLLED CONGRESS. I think it is imperative they keep reminding people of this fact and the bad nature of Obama aligned with this.
Michele Bachmann puts it on the line, again!
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FALSE.
Democrats have controlled the house for 1/4th of the time. They have controlled the Senate for 40% of the time. So Republicans haven't held "all the levers" for "most" of the time.
Further, the Republicans never had effective control of the Senate, and at most had tentative control for 2 years, because of the filibuster rule.
And the simple fact is that, in most respects the country does do better with divided government, at least so long as politicians allow power to corrupt them like the Democrats for 40 years, and the Republicans up to 2006.
Republicans are such p****** and drama queens. Where was the GOP when their own congress critters were spending like drunken librats for the past 8 years? Where was the GOP when Bush/McCain and company went to the socialist dark side with the 700 Billion dollar bailout? Now they want to cry wolf that the libs will control both houses and the Presidency. Wimps and hypocrites.
Is this media ignorance or lies?
The Democrats held the Senate in 2001-2002. They held both the House and Senate from 2007 through today.
The REpublicans had a small majority in 2003-2006.
*Sheesh* It's about time. If McCain wins, this will be why. I wonder what dolts thought this would be a bad idea to campaign on. I suppose they thought this would be a repudiation of the Republican one-party control (if you don't consider the endless filibusters by Senate Democrats).
Frankly, I think a Dem WH and Congress would be GOOD for America. If Americans want to elect these fools to power then America deserves what the next two years will have in store for them and then in 2010 we’ll see GOP majority Congress again.
Alledgedly, people want change. Well, we had change in 2006 and we’ll get more change in 2008 regardless of who is elected. Do people really want *that* much change, though? The last time we had a fully Democratic controlled government were the first two years under Clinton. If that worked so well, why did Democrats lose so many seats the next election?
This shows rough makeup of the Senate, House, and Presidency. X’s represent Democrat majorities. O’s represent Republican majorities. One X/O indicates 50 to 55 percent. Two X/O’s represents 55 to 60 percent. Three X/O’s represents 60 percent or greater, primarily of relevance to the Senate as 60 percent gives a filibuster-proof majority. This data is taken from Wikipedia. The last column shows those periods when the House, Senate, and Presidency were all controlled by the same party. This is listed by two-year congressional period. The current congress is the 110th Congress. So when did government work best?
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|
Senate |
House |
Pres. |
|
|
95 |
XXX |
XXX |
Carter |
X |
|
96 |
XX |
XXX |
Carter |
X |
|
97 |
OO |
XX |
Reagan |
|
|
98 |
OO |
XXX |
Reagan |
|
|
99 |
OO |
XX |
Reagan |
|
|
100 |
XX |
XX |
Reagan |
|
|
101 |
XX |
XXX |
Bush |
|
|
102 |
XX |
XXX |
Bush |
|
|
103 |
XX |
XX |
Clinton |
X |
|
104 |
OO |
O |
Clinton |
|
|
105 |
OO |
O |
Clinton |
|
|
106 |
OO |
O |
Clinton |
|
|
107 |
OO |
O |
Bush |
X |
|
108 |
OO |
O |
Bush |
X |
|
109 |
OO |
O |
Bush |
X |
|
110 |
X |
X |
Bush |
|
This is the data.
|
Congress |
Senate |
|
House |
|
President |
|
|
R |
D |
R |
D |
|
|
95 |
39.0% |
61.0% |
32.9% |
67.1% |
Carter |
|
96 |
42.0% |
58.0% |
36.3% |
64.7% |
Carter |
|
97 |
53.0% |
46.0% |
43.9% |
56.1% |
Reagan |
|
98 |
55.0% |
45.0% |
37.5% |
62.5% |
Reagan |
|
99 |
53.0% |
47.0% |
41.8% |
58.2% |
Reagan |
|
100 |
45.0% |
55.0% |
40.7% |
59.3% |
Reagan |
|
101 |
45.0% |
55.0% |
40.0% |
60.0% |
Bush |
|
102 |
43.0% |
57.0% |
37.7% |
62.1% |
Bush |
|
103 |
43.0% |
57.0% |
40.6% |
59.3% |
Clinton |
|
104 |
54.0% |
46.0% |
51.3% |
48.6% |
Clinton |
|
105 |
55.0% |
45.0% |
52.4% |
47.4% |
Clinton |
|
106 |
54.0% |
46.0% |
51.3% |
48.6% |
Clinton |
|
107 |
50.0% |
49.0% |
51.5% |
48.5% |
Bush |
|
108 |
51.0% |
49.0% |
52.0% |
48.0% |
Bush |
|
109 |
55.0% |
45.0% |
53.0% |
47.0% |
Bush |
|
110 |
49.0% |
51.0% |
45.7% |
54.3% |
Bush |