This makes the Republicans, Disidente Juan McCain in particular, look like the boobs they are for always ceding power when they get it. They play nice when they should be hard as steel.
When the Democrats get in power they play for keeps.
So far DeMint is the only Senator I respect.
The Republicans’ “my dear friend so-and-so” needs to stop, too. Hey, if you guys want a “friend,” get a dog. The current party in power is not your friend! I guess the Repubs are afraid of not being invited to all the right cocktail parties. Most of them haven’t learned the life lesson that it really is better to be respected—and, dare I say, feared—than smarmily loved and popular.
I agree. That nonsense about not descending to the level of Democrats and remaining “above the fray” has resulted in constant losses to the Democrats.
I am thouroughly disgusted with the Republican Party. It is going to go the way of the Torys and other extinct political Parties.
Democrats would trample their own mothers, spouses and children to get what they want.
When the Democrats get in power they play for keeps.”
Absolutely correct.
Ceding power on the hope that your enemy will power-share says a lot about the new tone that Bush tried to use in dealing with democrats. Giving away your country on the vain hope that it will be surrendered back again is nuts.
Bush's effort to have a new tone resulted in the remainder of the Clinton regime staying on in the state dept and in other agencies to the point that they created roadblocks and hamstrung his administration.
George W. Bush sees himself as a gentleman but in reality he was a tool for his father and those unseen shadowy forces that convinced him that Ben Bernacke was the right man from whom to take financial advice.