Congratulations America!

[Fast_Eddie]

Originally Posted by Sandy G

Yeah, and THAT'S the problem, IMHO. We have GOT to get away from the "Adversarial relationship" mentality that pervades almost every facet of our existance today-The idea that in order for ME to win, YOU gotta lose, sucka- And hopefully lose big-time. I trust the great collective wisdom of the American People a helluva lot more than I trust the Democans or Republicrats-We have been trying to tell the politicos something for YEARS now, but NEITHER side ever seems to "Get" it...

I completely agree and I'll sure admit that Democrats do their share of the same thing. Overall, though, when Republicans had majorities in both houses, Democrats rutinely go on board with a lot of their big agenda items- or at least didn't filabuster to block them. Yes, they were wrong to block some of Bush's nominees, and that's kind of the same thing.

But the result of that was an effort to kill conservative movement on social issues for the most part. Those were issues that they could come out and say "we don't agree with you". This is not an example of that. We've heard time and time again "we all agree something needs to be done". But all those years they were in power they didn't do anything about it. And even though the Democrats gutted huge sections of their plan in an effort to make it bi-partisan the Republicans just said no.

Why? Because they are lying. The do *not* agree that something needs to be done. If they did, something would get done.