[A. Pole]

Ah, the "new Democrats." Just like the old Democrats.

Do not worry. The new Democrats are only paying a lip service to the New Deal type of issues.

Their new and real agenda is gay "marriage", abortion, celebrating diversity in schools and eliminating religion from public sphere (unless it is Islam or witchcraft).

That is why millions who in the past would vote for FDR, today either vote Republican or stay home.

[billbears]

"You are on your own to buy your own health care, to buy your own retirement security ... to buy your own roads and levees," Obama said

If the Republican party did espouse these views, I would support the Republican party 100 percent. However, considering the Republican party has wasted spending on increasing government expenditures on each of these issues and the President wouldn't know the definition of the word veto if someone explained it to him, I wouldn't bother wasting a vote on the Republican Party.

The two parties have gotten to the point they argue not on whether or not a policy should be pursued, but only on how much money should be wasted on a policy