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Old 08-11-2006, 09:23 PM   #21 (permalink)
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Your mob got bent over and shafted Boonie.Surely you saw it comming?
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Old 08-11-2006, 09:26 PM   #22 (permalink)
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is that the funny pic thread ? I think Boon got lost on his way to his favorite thread
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Let's see American "liberals" solve the morass of Iraq. Recruit an international force for Iraq. Ya! Leave iraq within a year with a stable Democracy. pish posh! Install a UN peace keeping force to replace US troops? Dream on seppos!
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Your mob got bent over and shafted Boonie.Surely you saw it comming?
Yep...did see it coming but that doesn't make the result any more palitable. Taxes going up, cut & run in Iraq, Sharia law instilled in the US - not a pretty future...
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The Republicans deserved to lose but the dems deserved to win even less.
They won basically on Bash Bush platform. It will be curious to see how far they can ride that mule.
I agree.

I think what you saw also is a large number of people who went for the GOP years ago (because they felt the Dems were too leftist) switch back because they saw the opposite happening to the Repubs.[/quote]

This is me (and many others).

After Dole ran in 1996 and the GOP congressional elections are realized that the so-called "contract with America" was dead, and the that the Republican party was (and is moreso now) the party of big spending and big entitlements.

I left the GOP and I don't plan on going back, unless they ever change, and they won't change.

Why won't they change?

Because they cannot change (and be for small government).

Because....tens of millions of baby boomers are getting old and want what they think is entitled to them.

GOP and Dems are fighting for the middle ground.




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Like me, for example. Dissatisfied Republican. If this were the Congress of 1994 I would have supported them with no problem. The past Congress, merely a rubberstamp for Bush, had to go.
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The best observation I saw on this morning's commentaries was that, in this election, voters disproved the old quote -- "All politics is local." Exit polls overwhelmingly showed that voters were voting on national issues, not local concerns.

So, we'll see what happens when the local reps do or don't represent their constituency on those national concerns.
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Well also consider the genius of having 1/3 of the Senate elected every 2 years: this is a hindrance generally to one party making a massive sweep in power during each election.

Since all laws originate in the House a change in the leadership of the House tends to be almost as important as changing the occupant at 1600 Penn. Ave.

A majority of governors of one party or the other tend to have little overall influence nationally.
State governors are important in the aspect they have an election campaign apparatus in place statewide which can easily convert to a national election. They're very important to those seeking national election.
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State governors are important in the aspect they have an election campaign apparatus in place statewide which can easily convert to a national election. They're very important to those seeking national election.
We'll possibly get a Republican seat back in the Senate when Inouye retire in Hawaii and Governor Linda Lingle (R) runs for the Senate.

Governorships are good springboards to higher office.
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