[dirtboy]

Sorry, there's no other way.

So what are we getting going this route? Expansion of Medicare and the de facto gutting of welfare reform with the expansion of the child tax credit to those who don't pay taxes? All in two weeks? And all made possible with the support of the GOP? What do we have to look forward to next week? This is getting absurd. Clinton won elections by stealing issues from the GOP. Bush seems to be trying to do the same by stealing Dem issues - but he already is in control of the House and Senate, HE DOESN'T FRIGGIN' NEED TO BE DOING THIS TO WIN!

We gotta start yelling really loudly or else there won't be anything left to restore except the smoking ruins of a failed welfare state.

[Jim Robinson]

So yell. But don't elect democrats. I guarantee you that's the losing run. Gotta elect conservatives and there are NONE in the Democrat Party. Also have to continue holding the majority. Gotta move the conservatives up through the farm teams. Will take time, and a helluvalot of hard work, blood, sweat and tears, but there is NO other way. NO ONE ever promised us a rose garden.

[Fraulein]

It is absolutely insulting how the GOP just keeps ignoring their base. And they don't even seem to care. Either they no longer want our votes, or they don't feel like they really need them, or else they think that conservatives will end up voting for them, regardless of what they do, simply by default. If there are conservatives in the next election who don't vote for Bush, then I see that primarily as Bush's fault; and if other so-called conservatives think that those lost conservative votes are expendable, and also interchangeable in number with all those newly-anticipated liberal votes to the GOP, then so be it. But you can't just keep arrogantly slapping your base in the face, while at the same time demanding from them their votes. And if they don't want our votes, then why are we obligated to continue giving it to them?

[MatthewViti]

I like your zeal on this dirtboy. We need another man other than GWb who has some backbone.