[DPB101]

A 5% rightward shift in one half of one body of the three branches of government (i.e. five more Republican Senate seats) would mean the tax cut would be $750 billion, not $350 billion, every judicial nominee Democrats are filibustering would be sitting on the bench and SCOTUS would be safe from the machinations of Ruth Bader Ginsbergs for the next 30 years.

That is how close it is. Yet you want to toss that all aside and elect more Democrats to teach Republicans a lesson.

Makes no sense to me.

[thmiley]

I see. So what you're saying is that we have to wait until the Republicans get a filibuster-proof majority before they're going to find their backbone?

Tax cuts don't mean squat if government is still growing! Recall the No Child Left Behind Act? It was written by Ted Kennedy and signed by President Bush. It vastly expanded the power of the Department of Education. That's the same Department of Education that the Repubs promised to eliminate in the Contract With America.

I don't see a sufficient difference between the two parties to care who gets elected. I will care if the Republicans stop this new tone crap, drag the Democrats around by the balls and embrace fully the idea of radically smaller government.

Until then, the Repubs are just pretenders.