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[Trueblackman]

The Paralyzing Poison of Bi-Partisanship with the Congressional Democrats

In the wake of the most recent midterm election that put Democrats back in the minority in the Senate and lost them seats in the house, Congressional Democrats are once again calling for bi-partisanship between themselves Congressional Republicans and President Bush. Congressional Democrats will now claim that if President Bush wants to change the tone in Washington DC then he should work with them in a bi-partisan effort.

President Bush and Congressional Republicans should reject any talk of bi-partisanship from the Democrats. When Democrats controlled the Senate they bottled up President Bush’s Judicial Nominees, the energy bill and 70 other bills that where passed by the Republican Controlled House. The only bi-partisanship that Democrats believe in is that it either “their way or the highway” and now that they are back in the minority, Republicans need to hand them the map and car keys.

Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle needs to be put on notice that the President and Congressional Republicans have not forgotten that for the 18 months that Democrats had the majority, he set the threshold at 60 votes for any bill, while his band of 42-45 Liberal Democrats secretly worked to derail any bill that President Bush or Congressional Republicans wanted pass.

President Bush and Congressional Republicans should be on the look out for the Trojan horses that Tom Daschle will send out now in the form of Moderate Democrat Senators such as Zell Miller and John Breaux. Tom Daschle will seek to make moderate Democrats the face of the party in the Senate, while doing everything in his power to undermine the President and Congressional Republicans.

President Bush needs to remember that it was some of these same Congressional Democrats that set up his father for defeat when they wanted him to work with them under the banner of bi-partisanship from 1989-1991. Congressional Democrats undermined former President Bush on everything from taxcuts to the economy, but now this President Bush unlike his father has a strong mandate from the American People to govern and set his agenda and should reject any calls of bi-partisanship from Congressional Democrats.

Congressional Republican Leaders in the House and Senate need to remember that this midterm election has granted them the power to move the President’s Agenda forward without roadblocks from Congressional Democrats and that Republicans need to clamp down and do just that. Expanded numbers in the House and Senate does not mean you cave into the minority party under the threats of a filibuster and skewed polls put together by the press and focus groups, but you do the job that the voters has asked you to do with a expanded majority.

The incoming 108th Congress under Republican Leadership has a duty to ensure that all Americans have the best that they can offer in permanent tax relief, strong national defense, a smaller and more flexibility federal government that is accountable to the American Taxpayer. Republicans need to also remember that they have a duty to ensure that America wins the “War on Terrorism.” The President and Congressional Republicans should reject any calls for the United State to be beholden to the United Nations in this war to destroy international terrorism and a clear message needs to be send to the United Nations that America is ready to stand alone when it come down to protection of America Lives and our interest.

The President and Congressional Republicans should work with those Congressional Democrats that are indeed interested in what is best for the American People in a bi-partisan way, but should be on the look out for the “snakeoil salesmen tactics” of those Congressional Democrats who are only interested in regain a majority than doing what is right for the American People as Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle refused to do for 18 months.

The President and Congressional Republicans when hearing the word “bi-partisanship” from Liberal Congressional Democrats should remember the old folktale of the Native American and the snake that asked him to carry him across the river that in the end still bit him or better yet remember what they did to President Bush 41.

[LibWhacker]

If you lay down with rats, you wake up with the plague. Never trust a rat; he'll double cross you every time. Al Qaeda is more trustworthy than a rat; that is to say, he's not trustworthy at all.

We agreed to a bombing halt in Tora Bora, and bin Laden got away as a result. Let's not make the same mistake with rats. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

No ceasefire with rats, no peace, no deals, no turning our back on the bastards. That's how you deal with rats and their soulmates, al Qaeda.

[river rat]

I fear Trent Lott is still too much the "cheer leader" who wishes to "fix" his hair and make folks smile. Trent will not kick ass and smash heads...

The FIRST time he tries to "play nice" with the democrats -- He should have his ass busted to page boy...

Semper Fi

[Jimmy Valentine]

Keep your eye on Trent Lott (Senate Majority Leader) and Orin Hatch (Judiciary). They both have a bad case of "spaghetti spine".

They will fall for anything the DemocRATS propose.

Regards,

[RAT Patrol]

Excellent job.

[Cindy]

*CINDY'S REALITY CHECK: "Tolerating politically correct diverse fools is an act of politcally correct foolishness. Fools admiring fools in the spirit of bi-partisanship is one of the most obscene spectacles to behold" -Cindy

[demosthenes the elder]

As for Conservatives taking "bipartisan" whinings of Leftists as honest political advice: Should the Righteous Man take counsel from the Serpent he has just crushed under his heel?

[demosthenes the elder]

President Bush and Congressional Republicans should be on the look out for the Trojan horses that Tom Daschle will send out... More like Trojan dung piles and Persian grubs.

As some of Slick Willie's disposable paramours might attest - "Beware of Democrats bearing Trojans"

[demosthenes the elder]

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[cpdiii]

The DEMONcrats view bipartisan ship from Repubs as weakness and simply a temporary ploy when offered by the Dems. The Dems see politics as a continous series of battles in a war. They are not bipartisan and never will be. The Repubs must offer the public a clear choice and difference and at the same time we will pick up the few conservative Dems that are left.

Bipartisan work can only be done when you are dealing with men of honor. The Democrat leadership is without honor.

[MHGinTN]

Nice turn of phrase. LOL

[demosthenes the elder]

thanks - seemed obvious, and I'm angling to get in the running for a "quote of the day" citation ;P

[JohnHuang2]

Jayne, check out #66 & 67

[Southack]

If the media is going to tout "bi-partisanship", then it is only fair that the same media should also lambast "obstructionism".

Yet clearly that's not what we saw in 2001 and 2002.

Instead of blasting the Democrats for failing to even VOTE on more than 70 bills passed by the House (many of which had Democratic support in BOTH the Senate and House), the media was SILENT about Daschle's obstructionism.

So it isn't consistent, fair, or even logical for the media to now rant about bi-partisanship. If bi-partisanship is important now, then the media should have been making it important over the last two years by blasting the partisan obstructionism in the Senate.

Ahh, but such is the state of the ingrained media bias that the MEDIA feels no such shame for hypocritically ignoring partisanship on behalf of Senate Democrats when they were obstructing judges and bills with deliberate malice, and now touting "bi-partisanship" as though it was a one-way activity that can only be accomplished by Republicans making daily "compromises" on every single conceiveable issue.

To which I say: Rubbish and tough luck to all of the leftists and liberals. You made your bed when you bet the farm on keeping control of the Senate. Now you've lost that control, so you've got to pay up on your wager...

[putupon]

President Bush and Congressional Republicans should reject any talk of bi-partisanship from the Democrats. When Democrats controlled the Senate they bottled up President Bush’s Judicial Nominees, the energy bill and 70 other bills that where passed by the Republican Controlled House.

Absloutley do not cave to the DimRATs on the slightest of issues. The GOP has two years of lost time to make up for.

The Senate already gave too much to get Homeland Security through before recess. The GOP claims they will revisit the issues that were given the 'Rats in the next Congress for that bill. We, the GOP base, need to hold their feet to the fire on that as a matter of principle if for no other reason.

Trent Lott needs to be put on notice. We have seen this weeny give in and do nothing while Dashole ran rings around him with a pitiful one vote majority. This can no longer be tolerated. We need leadership that will lead. If Lott can't or won't do it, maybe Sen. Frist and Sen. Allen can step up and show a little spine.

The old ways of the Country Club Republicans like CFR supporters such as John Warner, or RINO's such as we like to call them here at FR, have shown to be ineffective even with a majority.

President Bush should set an example by rewarding only the DimRATS and RINOs who want to play ball. No more Kennedys in the White House for movie reviews, etc.

Our leadership, particularly Trent Lott, needs to lead or get out of the way.

[Dutchgirl]

Keep your eye on Trent Lott (Senate Majority Leader) and Orrin Hatch (Judiciary). They both have a bad case of "spaghetti spine"

The Republican role model should be Strom Thurmond in the lame duck session. After Leaky Leahy had flat out lied to him about bringing Shedd to a vote, Strom simply pretended the man did not exist and did not respond to anything he had to say. The press attributed this lack of interaction to Sen. Thurmond's advanced age, rather than Leahy's advanced irrelevance...but they did report it, along with the reasons for their rift. Strom didn't have to trash Leahy, but the American people knew.

Lott doesn't worry me as much as Hatch. Hatch wants a supreme court nomination, and he thinks fetal stem cell research is ethical. I think Lott accomplished alot without giving away the store while Reps. were in the minority. His back room deals on impeachment have more to with character issues on the Republican side that the GOP did not want aired, rather than spinelessness. He comes across as a mild mannered boob, but the man is a hawk. Why do you think his colleagues in the senate voted him majority leader again?

[Moby Grape]

On November 5th, democrats were issued an eviction notice by the American people....HEY, HEY, HO, HO...DEM OBSTRUCTION HAS TO GO!!!!!!

[lilylangtree]

Give the heave-ho to the democrazies as much as possible. Don't let Tommy "Dasbad" Dashle, Hitlery Clintoon, Nancy "Rhetoric Spewing" Pelosi, Shumer, Boxer, Feinstein and others like them know what hit them. Speak softly and carry a big stick!

[Search4Truth]

Outstanding!