GOP "One Vote Away" From Total Control [Liberal Crybaby Alert- Hold My Baby Bottle!]

Washington Monthly ^ | 9/28/02

[CaptRon]

So, what I get from this, is that even when the people have voted to have a Republican majority, they should still vote like the Democrats want them to.

Liberals really don't understand democracy.

[irradiateiraq]

dems in full panic mode bump

[11th Earl of Mar]

And what the author fails to mentioin is that the Dems controlled the entire government for 40 years straight. But he does not see anything wrong with that.

[Bobber58]

. Unfinished business from 2001 would be up first: permanent repeal of the estate tax; permanent institution of the income-tax cut; passage of Bush's energy plan (including provisions to drill in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge); a partial-birth abortion ban; money for the technically unfeasible national missile defense system;

repeal of the Alternative Minimum Tax; redefinition of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule that protects more than 50 million acres of federal land from logging; and a welter of special-interest corporate tax breaks that didn't make it into Bush's big cut.

He says it like it's a bad thing...

[CIB-173RDABN]

...tax cuts that would bankrupt Washington ...

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This is all I need to read to know what side this writter is on.

[IronJack]

This is too much swamp to wade through. But I picked this piece of flotsam out of the mire:

Republicans are increasingly sure that their larger war chests and a late-campaign public focus on national security threats will keep them in power.

Do you see the implication? The Fat Cats stay in power only because they have more money and because they manipulate the War on Terror to their political advantage. It couldn't be because the people are sick of liberal mismanagement and are scared to death that the pantywaist Left might be in control when the next threat emerges.

[goldstategop]

The liberals' nightmare is a GOP bifecta - the GOP gains ten seats in the House and picks up four to five in the Senate. And that's the point at which the liberals become irrelevant in Washington D.C. No wonder they're trying to do everything to avert the possibility of losing the Senate in November.

[goldstategop]

Well making America stronger, meaner and leaner is a losing proposition from the Democrats' point of view.

[paul in cape]

Hey, Columbia U., in case you hadn't noticed....

[yoe]

”...no issue will matter unless the Democratic Party gives voters a real reason to vote against the Republicans...”

The REAL issue here is the people of South Dakota have a loose cannon for a senator, one who will side with the United Nations and Germany over their President; one who is bound and tied to the Unions; Tom Daschle says one thing for SD and another for the country. He has stalled important bills in the Senate long enough and in fact is helping the terrorists. He has failed to lead, instead bows to special interest. South Dakota needs a real American as their Senator, not a Clinton YES man! One who voted to raise the Clinton Social Security taxes; take away those taxes and the seniors can pay for their own prescription drugs! America doesn’t need another expensive, bureaucratic entitlement!

Clean out the deadwood South Dakota, vote for a man who will work for you and the nation, vote for Rep. John Thune.

[Bubba_Leroy]

So if Johnson loses, and the Democrats don't win elsewhere, then, for the first time since 1953, the GOP would control both Congress and the White House for at least two years. Throw in the Supreme Court, and Republicans will have won control of the entire federal government for the first time since 1929. With that kind of power, it would take only a few years for the Republican Party to fundamentally reshape American government in ways that can't be undone no matter which party wins in 2004

Damn, that sounds good to me.

Poooor democRATs. They are sooo funny when they are out of power. They scare the crap out of me when they are in power though.

[tet68]

Do you see the implication? The Fat Cats stay in power only because they have more money and because they manipulate the War on Terror to their political advantage. It couldn't be because the people are sick of liberal mismanagement and are scared to death that the pantywaist Left might be in control when the next threat emerges.

That's because that is how the democrats have always behaved themselves, more money and manipulate fear to political advantage. It's all they know.

[goldstategop]

All the Democrats have left to run on is fear. There's nothing of substance in this liberal's article but warning the Left of how it'll be completely screwed if the Republicans take over the country. Whether scaring the beejesus out of the base will motivate then to flock en masse to the polls remains to be seen. It nearly worked in 2002 and the Clintonized Democrats are thinking it might work a political miracle for them again this fall.

[goldstategop]

I meant 2000 lol. Sorry

[robertpaulsen]

"...Democratic Party gives voters a real reason to vote against the Republicans..."

And the reason for this tactic is that they cannot give a real reason to vote for democRATS.

[Notforprophet]

But those four months of one-party rule were nothing compared to what the real deal will be like if the GOP wins back the Senate this fall. Unfinished business from 2001 would be up first: permanent repeal of the estate tax; permanent institution of the income-tax cut; passage of Bush's energy plan (including provisions to drill in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge); a partial-birth abortion ban; money for the technically unfeasible national missile defense system; repeal of the Alternative Minimum Tax...

Well dang, those things all sound good to me...

Let's Roll!

[Publius6961]

South Dakota huh?
I love it when the whiners do my legwork for me...
Where's my checkbook?

[johnny7]

This guy must be really wringing his hands.

Blah... bla, bla, bla... forget about Johnson.

What he's really worried about is Torcelli and Carnahan. HA!

We regain the Senate and hold on to the House and these people will be drinking the Jimmy Jones Kool-Aid.

[tahiti]

"Today's GOP is more ideologically coherent and more politically disciplined than at any point in the party's modern history--enough, in fact, to overcome slim congressional majorities and lack of a public mandate. The party's few congressional moderates are cowed and marginal; its leadership is almost exclusively Southern and conservative. Today's GOP is also an activist party, with a sweeping and, in some respects, radical conservative agenda for reversing the existing political order."

I wish.