The Dems' obsession

**drone** · 08-04-2005, 17:17

Originally Posted by Gawain of Orkeny

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** · 08-04-2005, 17:36

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** · 08-04-2005, 17:47

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** · 08-04-2005, 17:50

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?

**Sasaki Kojiro** · 08-04-2005, 17:51

Originally Posted by Gawain of Orkeny

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

Err...no, I was 7.

**Gawain of Orkeny** · 08-04-2005, 18:14

Err...no, I was 7.

I suggest you look at it. It was their ideas and plans for america that brought them to power not bashing democrats.

**drone** · 08-04-2005, 18:42

Originally Posted by Gawain of Orkeny

I suggest you look at it. It was their ideas and plans for america that brought them to power not bashing democrats.

That, and gerrymandered districts.

Edit-> and I forgot Hillary, her antics in that first term did not help the Dems at all.

Originally Posted by Gawain of Orkeny

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.

My sentiments exactly.