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Old 05-27-2004, 01:47 PM
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Originally posted by TimFreeh
Well for the first time ever I also agree with Kirk - any democrat that is primarily interested in domestic social programs/increased government spending that does not vote for George Bush is a hypocrit.

The republican spending spree over the last 4 years has me longing for the divided government clinton years.
I swear thats what all of us should vote for. If the system of checks and balances is not working, then we the voters need to put in our own. I also think a lot of the problem lies in who now has control of the Republican party. The switch from fiscal responsibilities based leadership to hot button social issues leadership seems to have put men in charge of the party who are more motivated by politics than principle to the point of detriment to the country, and the reason is obvious - you need large super majorities to cause major social change in this country, so these guys are more interested in doing whatever they can to get a vote so they can outlaw abortion, force kids to pray in school, etc.
Myself, I'd be a lot more open to voting for them if it looked more like guys like McCain, Hagel and Lugar were in charge instead of Delay and the rest of the right wing ayatollahs.

My ideal government would be a fiscally conservative House, a moderate Senate and a democratic President. The president would be unable to pass any insane social programs, while being able to veto any right-wing social engineering by the House, while the Senate would fulfill its role as envisioned by the Founding Fathers, a sagious council meant to put the brakes on the other two. I think we had this under Clinton, and it worked.

Last edited by KirkVining; 05-27-2004 at 10:42 PM.
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