The Dems' obsession

[Don Corleone]

This was brought up in the buzzwords thread, and something that the GOP does very well right now.

It's something everybody seems to well right now, EVEN YOU, as I seriously doubt the entire GOP is out there tarring and feathering their Democratic opponents with a bunch of buzzwords.

[Redleg]

No, maybe not. But it's certainly a majority. Watching C-Span is getting mighty depressing these days.

That is why I don't watch the television newscasts - none of it is worth watching. I get most of my information from either reading this site - or cruising the net reading articles that come up from my google searches. Much more informative that way.

[Red Harvest]

It's something everybody seems to well right now, EVEN YOU, as I seriously doubt the entire GOP is out there tarring and feathering their Democratic opponents with a bunch of buzzwords.

I actually found it to be the norm in the Texas business world, they are rather shocked to find anyone holds different beliefs...

[Gawain of Orkeny]

This was brought up in the buzzwords thread, and something that the GOP does very well right now.

This is a joke right? Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.

[Taffy_is_a_Taff]

Gawain, are you just being mean to them because they're black (the pots)?

[Devastatin Dave]

Poor leftists, can't win elections so all they can do is try to stall the democratic process. Its fine with me, conservatives will win more and more elections (something that the liberals in the US could do if they actually had a vision or answers to issues in this country) and the democrats will become less and less effective in their pursuit of their socialist paradise ,basically a small elite controlling a peasant population. Not all the Che t-shirts or communist manifesto books in the land will change the minds of those who don't want to be controlled by the likes of Kennedy, Kerry, Hilary or any other limosine liberals. How's that for buzz words!!!

[Red Harvest]

Call me old fashioned, but I believe multi-party rule with some division of powers is healthy for democracy and republics. Single party rule has been disastrous to countries throughout history. Having a single party control the whitehouse, senate, and the house have been historically very bad for stock investing in the studies I've seen.

The electorate is closely divided (and polarized.) A very polarized 51% to 48% split is hardly a mandate. It does not show a strong will of the people. It can however be used in single party rule to perfectly illustrate tyranny of the slim majority.

[PanzerJaeger]

I know you ignore me Red Harvest, but whats your answer? Do you propose simply giving power of, say the House, to the democrats just to prevent a single party rule?

[Red Harvest]

I know you ignore me Red Harvest, but whats your answer? Do you propose simply giving power of, say the House, to the democrats just to prevent a single party rule?

I don't ignore you, except when you get excited about fascism or something like that.

I don't propose giving anything away. Having majorities in the three groups doesn't need to result in virtual single party rule. The answer would be to start with a bit of honesty instead of trying to paint the democrats as pure evil incarnate. It would also include thinking long term instead of short. Using a majority to dismantle safe guards against extremism is not a wise idea.

The GOP could have been magnanimous in victory and actually worked for some inclusion. Instead they are using a conqueror/subject approach. Arrogant chest pounding by the GOP has moved my personal views of conservatives from neutral to heavily opposed. I might feel better about it if they were doing a better job of managing the country financially, economically, and militarily by the measures that matter to me.

[drone]

This is a joke right? Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.

Actually, it's more like the kettle hearing voices in it's head. I vote Republican for the most part. I'm not a big fan of the neo-con/religious right segment, and I don't like the current attitude, but the party position as a whole is closer to my mindset.

What I was saying, is that the GOP is more organized and focused, and is way more effective at making the Dems look like the bad guys, and the DNC currently has no counter. This is why they are dominating. My buzzword crack was actually meant as a compliment, in a backhanded sort of way. Spawned some pretty funny posts though.

Having several parties present in Congress would be a disaster. With no majority, the large parties would have to cater to the smaller, more extreme parties to get anything done. Grid-lock may be good, but chaos is not.

The GOP is in power, but that doesn't give them the right to abuse it. I look at the situation like this: the Dems in Congress are speed bumps. Annoying, yes, but they keep you from doing 100 mph down residential areas and killing kids on the street. The rules are there for a reason, and changing them without really thinking about it will lead to disaster. The Dems screwed themselves over by doing this when they were in charge. Remember the gerrymandering of the congressional districts? They wanted more minorities in Congress, so they basically broke the rules and created minority districts. So they created districts that they will always win, but removed large percentages of Dem voters from other districts to do it. This is what you want, this is what you get.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

Actually, it's more like the kettle hearing voices in it's head. I vote Republican for the most part. I'm not a big fan of the neo-con/religious right segment, and I don't like the current attitude, but the party position as a whole is closer to my mindset.

No Im talking about how its the left that constantly uses rhetoric and dirty names to smear conservatives not the other way around.

What I was saying, is that the GOP is more organized and focused, and is way more effective at making the Dems look like the bad guys, and the DNC currently has no counter

They have no counter because they have no better ideas of their own. All they can do is say Bush is bad conservatives are wrong. Well then whats your plan. Get rid of conservatives. Brilliant thinking by them.

The GOP is in power, but that doesn't give them the right to abuse it.

Please give me an example of them abusing it?

Look IMO its best when we have a president from one party and a congress from the other. This way they dont do very much. Its my considered opinion that for the most part the less these people do the better off we are.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Both sides smear the other side. End of story. "they smear us more than we smear them!" is a little...whiney.

If you speak out against one sides smearing and not the others you're just being biased.



To be honest Gawain, I don't know anything about what the Democrats have plans for aside from opposing Bush. But then there is not much the minority party can do, and if they have plans they aren't exactly going to be headline news.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

To be honest Gawain, I don't know anything about what the Democrats have plans for aside from opposing Bush. But then there is not much the minority party can do, and if they have plans they aren't exactly going to be headline news.

Do you remember how the republicans came to power? Does the contract with America ring a bell?