Originally posted by: Double Trouble
Originally posted by: Skoorb
I admit my armor of certainty is cracking, but my worry is more grand than this election; I truly am worried more than previously I was worried about the future of the country as a whole and the competency of the voting populous. And no hyperbole on this, either. As misanthropic as I am, it does have limits and previously they told me that after 8 years of Bush people would be starving for the antithesis of this terrible rule. And yet here we are with two months left and the race is essentially in a dead heat.
Well said. I don't like Bush in the least, nor do I want to see more of the same, but the landscape has changed (democratic congress), and the reality is that the democrats did not present me with a realistic alternative. McCain is the better choice for the simple matter that a democratic congress with a republican president willing to veto spending bills is better for the country than a democratic congress with a democratic president who will have much pressure on him to not veto anything. Having a congress and white house in the same party hands is disastrous, as the Bush era should have taught us.
Republicans are not democrats, and having both in the same hands of Republicans is not the same as having both in the same hands as Democrats.
You are mistaken to think otherwise IMO - some of the best and most important things passed in the last century were only passed because of both branches being in the hands of Democrats with a super-majority. What bad came of that? I can see little but the Vietnam War and that had at least as strong backing from the Republicans.
Don't equate them by listing it as same-party versus split-party - pay attention to WHICH party it is.
If you dojn't think that McCain is a huge menace as president with a democratic Congress, you're wrong IMO, starting with how Bush has gotten most of what he wants the last 2 years, like Telephone Spying amnesty *the democratic nominee paid the political price of breaking a promise to oppose*, and McCain will get Supreme Court appointments it appears shifting the radical members to a clear majority.
We need an all-democrat government to clean up the problems.|
What are you so worried about? The Republican lies of 'tax and spend democrats'?
At the height of democratic power in the LBJ great society, it was the last time we balanced the budget until the late 1990's, while Reagan started huge deficits that Bush brought back after Clinton - and when the government went all-democrat under Clinton, it immediately started *reducing* the big Republican deficits.
Are you going to pay attention to the facts?