Americans Blame Bush and the GOP
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The pundits keep repeating the mantra that voters disapprove of Congressional Democrats as much as they disapprove of Bush. But the latest NBC/WSJ poll provides important insight into the attitude behind those numbers:
Americans take dim views of both parties, giving Democrats a positive rating of just 33% and Republicans 35%. But they have different expectations for the minority and for the party that controls Congress and the White House. If no progress is made on key issues, the Journal/NBC poll shows, 51% would blame either Mr. Bush or congressional Republicans, compared with 16% who would blame congressional Democrats. One in four voters would blame all parties.
In other words, Americans disapprove of both parties because neither party is fixing any of the nation's problems. But Americans understand that Bush and the Republicans are in power and therefore blame them for these failures by more than 3 to 1!
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bsb
I blame not only the outspoken Democrats (like Clinton and Kerry) but the liberal media as well. I do not blame President Bush, I believe he is doing a great job. Looking at the Poll you have posted, I don't think the Republicans have any worries in the next Presidential election....your picks are all losers!!
Well:
-Enjoy the most massive deficit in history from the greatest surplus in history.
-Enjoy too the 3 to 4 dollar a gallon gas prices instead of the Democrats average of $1.15 a gallon.
-Enjoy watching our troops die as you and your buddies let the troops hang in perpetual Stop Loss. Good luck when they return.
-Enjoy the Nuclear Proliferation, the alienating of Nuclear Allies, the massive release of Terrorism as we moved our Military off the task of killing our Fundamentalist enemies and onto the very Secular Regimes which kept them at bay. And now in their vacuum allow Iran free reign.
-Enjoy the massive lose of National Treasure because superstitious and callous Republicans can’t be bothered listing to their betters with respect to what WILL happen: Iraq, Katrina, etc.
-Enjoy more of the same: No rasie in the last 25 years for the bottom 50% (those making $42,000 a year and less) and little raise for the vast majority (those 90% who make $100,000 a year and less). Yes please do remain America’s bitches.
-Etc.
At least welfare whores like yourself make good slave labor.
Thanks!
And PLEASE keep voting Republican. I want to see idiots like yourself paying massive energy bills and dealing with crappy salaries and perks. It does a heart good.
I’ll help you to the voting booth:
Black People.
Aliens.
Gays exist.
Now get out the vote.
okay - - you keep killing
okay -
- you keep killing babies
- contuinue to support those who create life just to destroy it in the name of RESEARCH
- you keep allowing people who SNEAK into this country illegally to SPEND all of our tax money and not put a dime back in.
- Keep denying God to live in our country as He should - I am not worried about that - He will take care of you himself.
- Continue to deny the fantastic job our military is doing in all of the parts of world (not just Iraq) and continue to support the fact that Saddam was only killing "his people" as a justification for your views - God will take care of you for that as well.
- continue to support the fact that the MINORITY should rule the MAJORITY of views in this country.
- Continue to support the ILLEGAL aliens (not the undocumented) want us to change OUR language to theirs and teach in THEIR languge.
- continue you deny that Democrats were in charge for eight of the years you speak of
- continue to blame the President for high gas prices when the oil companies make a profit of nine cents per gallon and the taxes (put in place by democrats) are FIFTY cents a gallon
- I am no where near a welfare whore. I work hard and support myself.
- I have black friends and I have gay friens and I have black gay friends. I have no prejudices. I do disagree COMPLETELY with those you break the law.
I will continue to vote Republican and I will die happy knowing I have done the right thing. Good luck to you
A cell is not a human. Soon
A cell is not a human. The big whoop comes when a particularly dense concentration of cells forms a brain which becomes conscious.
Before that point I do agree with Roe V. Wade: Since going to term is more dangerous than terminating a pregnancy in the first 2 trimesters the Government can not force the more dangerous medical path on a citizen. After viability (which I believe will be changed to “after consciousness”) the State has a role.
You are emotionally wed to the abortion issue because you are morally bankrupt in all other areas of life. When was the last time you poured massive amounts of money and time into helping people not zygotes?
However I have ZERO problem with good people who help elsewhere and are pro life. You have not proven that tonight.
With respect to God, Fundamentalists like yourself are incapable of any union there of. Read the gospels of Jesus rather than spitting on them all the time.
Here are some more eye openers:
-I post continually on the
-I post continually on the great job the military is doing. The strategy sucks. If you desire to argue over military strategy then that is going to take us far a field.
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-DEMOCRATS represent the MAJORITY in the HOUSE.
-DEMOCRATS represent the MAJORITY in the SENATE.
-A shift of 1.5% of the vote (or an accurate count) would have meant a Democratic President.
-The DEMOCRACY is split.
-The REPUBLIC has momentarily moved a tad to the Right and I desire that your representatives give you and I an appropriate tone to that government.
-Back to your cry for majority rule. America is a Republic. It is NOT majority rule. If you don't like this, leave. When you get to your new Nation learn what the rules are.
You are in fact a WELFARE WHORE
You barely work. You barely contribute.
First off you continually vote to keep the military working at below market wages so you can live higher off the hog.
You continually vote to make rich people pay higher taxes than yourself. Do you pay an equal share of income tax? That is what the Right desires: equity in their view. Do you believe in that?
If you desire to blab on about wasted tax dollars fine. Let’s get rid of every damned program aimed at helping the bottom 90% ($100,000 grand a year and less). That still leaves interest on the debt and military spending. Now equal shares mean that you owe $10,000 a year per family member each and every year. Do you pay that? Do you agree with that?
You also gobble up Able Bodied and Intellectual Welfare. Many citizens extend this welfare in the form of NOT pursuing higher salaries though they could and would easily succeed. This is true of Soldiers, Scientists, Cops, Firemen, etc. This is economic welfare they extend to you. These professionals don’t have time to fight a million little wage battles. If you take advantage of the Progressive Income Tax rather than a flat tax then let these men take advantage of voting booth perks via votes for Democrats.
I've just touched the surface of how pompous religious loud mouths like Pharisees of old ARE Welfare Whores of the highest order yet bitch about crumbs: given to those in need or as partial compensation for labor packages geared against implicit monopolies at the top.
I can go on to case after case where you suck down welfare but being a tight wad anti Traditional Christian you have the audacity to bitch and moan about crumbs for the hungry. Care to be educated or still run your mouth?
As far as Illegal
As far as Illegal Immigration is concerned can we agree on one half of the battle? I would propose that anyone who offers below market wages be arrested. Good jobs mean AMERICANS will pursue them and therefore the Free Market will POLICE them for FREE!
Of course now that your Republican friends AGAIN lived as Welfare Whores by paying un-American below market wages to these new slaves, you’re willing to buy the line that you got nothing from these people. Great. Your keepers didn't have to shell out cash for labor so they passed a few pennies of savings on to you via cheap produce, etc. and pocketed the rest for themselves.
Deficit
If you believe what you
If you believe what you wrote about gas prices after the precipitance rise WITHOUT a lack of supply at the pump there is no point to this.
I would just ask that you think more carefully about this.
You believe what you do because Republicans say one thing you like. Probably the symbolic nod to God.
I have hope in what Democrats say because of the actual nod to how I was raised: to help people.
It is correct to say however that there are uncaring Aristocrats in both Parties. Let’s hope we humans can muddle through. If you’ve paused at anything I’ve said perhaps we can get out of this mess we are in but a new arms race is on and the money has been sucked up by the very few.
I have to get back to other work,
Goodnight
I see you can't type either.
Enjoy your C student. Thousands upon thousands of Americans are now dead, we’ve been sold out to China, and Far LEFT WINGERS/RIGHT WINGERS like yourself go merrily on your way because you still think you are out of the cross hairs.
Go here for a conservative bent on the idiocy occurring in America:
http://www.westpointgradsagainstthewar.org/
Tell me Barri as a Right
Tell me Barri as a Right Wing Communist yourself, why have you not demanded that we each pay an equal share of Income Tax?
I mean people like yourself generally bad mouth any damned proposal that will help the bottom 90% on the basis that it is a Communist thing to do.
YET you never step up to the plate and behave as you claim you want others to.
Why will you not pay the troops market wages?
???
I see Barri Sue Bryant lives
I see Barri Sue Bryant lives a life dedicated to inertia. She once heard something in the Republican message that grabbed her emotionally and never looked back.
She figures all the death and debt is not her concern.
She figures everything will work out fine because big bad Republicans keep her focused on Black People and Illegal Immigrants.
Of course in the meantime the bottom 40% own only 1/5 th of one percent of the wealth while the top 1% own 40% of it. And that’s not the bad part. No no. The bad part is its been going downhill for decades but blue collar Republicans with their heads up their ass keep fighting over crumbs with their neighbors instead of standing for family, friends, and neighbors.
The one drawback to any message board is...
you never know who's actually posting the messages.
Barri may indeed be a right-wing wacko--or may be a deranged mental patient--or may actually be two 15 year old girls typing away on mom's computer giggling at how many people they can upset.
You just never know.
Terry
Hey Terry, They don't bug
Hey Terry,
They don't bug us. There has been a learning curve but basically they gained strength within packs of racist, ignorant, pompous gangs elsewhere in the cultural arena. We have just learned how to shake their souls a bit.
Always remember, the greatest curse you can place on nearly all Republicans is for a Republican Government to gain power. Yes they do gain emotional boosts from being able to put down other groups BUT they also get to pay 3-4 bucks a gallon for gas, get their kids killed in elective Wars, etc.
I know its not a perfect world as they drag the rest of us into the fire but you take solice in what you can ;)
Jim
Sanity challenged...
people like this don't really bother me, it's just the damage they do when they are in power.
It's going to take a good many years for us to repair the damage Bush has managed to do.
But anyway, I have learned one thing over the years. There really are people who are incapable of learning very much. Barri, (or whoever this is) sounds like one of them.
Terry
Hopelessness is:
When after over a half decade of COMPLETE Republican control of ALL branches of government
Barri claims that the completely out of power Party has caused a tripling of gas prices.
I think my Mom said it best: "He has learned all he is going to learn in this life."
Then on top of it all to get preached to by a low life that:
-Votes to put people in poverty by the millions.
-Votes to rip millions of kids away from promised Health Care.
-Votes to rip a promised few hundred extra bucks a month out of the hands of tens of millions of workers.
-ETC.
She can pay lip service all she wants, but one reaps what one sows and ignorance is no excuse. The fact that Barri screws over family, friends, and neighbors just so she can feel superior to folks, is a perversion running through all Fundamentalists. It allows them to blow up a Federal Building or a World Trade Center and is a very old evil upon this earth.
And please note how she never responded to the simplest of questions. If she desires to feel bigger than the rest perhaps she can start with paying her 20 grand per year per family member. Otherwise she needs to humble herself for at least one damned moment in this life and look around. Her sloth and perversion is the cause of death and misery everywhere because though quite pedestrian her kind allowed it to flourish in larger settings as you allude to.
Its tough raising kids in a world with people like her.
Perversions abound.
More Conservative Perversions
IN THE NEWS TODAY AT AOL:
Members of Democrats.com might get a kick out of: http://www.dukecunningham.org/ Of course Fundamentalists who know everything about god and gas will not.
A special thanks today to the magical Democrats who after 6 years completely out of power managed to force Big Oil to raise prices so as to gain record profits.
Remember: Fundamentalists are NEVER at fault because they are forgiven. As I’ve been told many times by them: “we can kill someone and still go to heaven”. Very comforting for all involved. Conservatives are NEVER at fault because………well they just aren’t!