posted on June 19, 2007 12:28:47 PM new
I gotta love that the liberal candidates keep talking about how they're "going to" end the war.
They haven't...and they won't. But that aside....do the liberal candidates REALLY thing the America voters are stupid enough to believe that IF we put them in the WH that THEIR OWN congress, both houses, will finally find their backbones?
IF they don't have the will now....they won't have the will then. It's ALL just more talk. They're GREAT at talking.....GREAT at promising...but do actually ACT.....LOL LOL LOL And we can already SEE what their 'word' is worth.....NOTHING.
And the voters ARE noticing they're all talk - no guts.
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Newly empowered Democrats draw wrath of voters
By Thomas Ferraro
Mon Jun 18, 8:38 AM ET
yahoo news
The new Democratic-led Congress is drawing the ire of voters upset with its failure to quickly deliver on a promise to end the Iraq war.
This is reflected in polls that show Congress -- plagued by partisan bickering mostly about the war -- at one of its lowest approval ratings in a decade. Surveys find only about one in four Americans approves of it.
"I understand their disappointment," said Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid (news, bio, voting record) of Nevada. "We raised the bar too high."
[linda's note: meaning we LIED to get them to vote for us....and now they've see us for what we really are.....gutless]
In winning control of Congress from President George W. Bush's Republicans last November, Democrats told voters they would move swiftly to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq.
But they now say voters must understand they need help from Republicans to clear procedural hurdles, override presidential vetoes and force Bush to change course.
Democratic Sen. Joseph Biden (news, bio, voting record) of Delaware said he explained this recently to anti-war demonstrators. "'We know. We know,"' he quoted them as replying. "But we are so disappointed."'
Biden, seeking the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, said: "Voters are going to be mad with us until we end the war."
House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record) said some Democrats understand "we can only do so much."
"Others are just very unhappy. I include myself among them," Pelosi, of California, told The New York Times.
Republicans have increasingly voiced their own concerns. Yet most have stood by Bush -- at least for now -- and given him the votes he needed to block timetables for withdrawal.
Republicans also are tweaking Democrats on other fronts, such as stalled efforts to upgrade health care and reduce the cost of college and energy.
'DO-NOTHING CONGRESS'
They are even adopting the same line Democrats once used against them, calling this "a do-nothing Congress."
"If Democrats fail to reverse course, the dynamics in the 2008 elections may shift significantly, allowing Republicans to run as the party of change ... only two years after Democrats successfully campaigned on that same theme," Senate Republican leaders told their ranks in a letter last week.
Just as it was before last year's elections, polls show most Americans believe the United States is headed in the wrong direction.
"The primary reason is war," said James Thurber of American University's Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies.
But there are other reasons. "People have problems in their lives and they don't see the White House or Congress dealing with it," Thurber said.
A Quinnipiac University poll this month found Congress with an approval rating of just 23 percent. "People voted for change. But they don't think they got it," said Peter Brown, an assistant director of the poll.
A Gallup poll last month put Congress's approval rating at 29 percent. The number had fallen to 21 percent last December, just weeks before Republicans yielded control.
Still, the new polls have stung Democrats and put them on the defensive.
Democrats point to the nearly daily congressional oversight hearings they have held into how Bush does business, many dealing with the war. They also note that unlike Republicans last year, they passed a federal budget plan.
But among Democrats' top legislative promises, just one, the first increase in the federal minimum wage in a decade, has been passed by Congress and signed into law by Bush.
Congress recently approved another priority -- a bill to expand federally funded embryonic stem cell research. But Democrats are not expected to be able to override a Bush veto.
On another high-stakes issue, top Senate Democrats and Republicans were struggling to pass legislation to overhaul U.S. immigration laws, despite attacks from many conservative Republicans and some liberal Democrats.
Democrats intend to crank up pressure on Bush with votes on proposals to revoke Congress' 2002 authorization of the war, set a deadline for troop withdrawals and increase requirements for troop readiness. Republicans will likely block them.
"We're disappointed the war drags on with no end in sight, but realize Democratic leaders can only accomplish what they have the votes for," said Brad Woodhouse of Americans United for Change, a liberal group active in the anti-war movement.
Pelosi and Reid wrote Bush last week urging him to listen to the will of people on Iraq. "Work with us," they pleaded.
posted on June 19, 2007 02:16:13 PM newAnd we can already SEE what their 'word' is worth.....NOTHING
Just like Bush's word of capturing Bin Laden dead or alive.
Just like Bush's word of restoring dignity to the White House.
In six years Bush has accomplished nothing and a 29% approval rating shows much the public disapproves of him.
Absolute faith has been shown, consistently, to breed intolerance. And intolerance, history teaches us, again and again, begets violence.
---------------------------------- The duty of a patriot in this time and place is to ask questions, to demand answers, to understand where our nation is headed and why. If the answers you get do not suit you, or if they frighten you, or if they anger you, it is your duty as a patriot to dissent. Freedom does not begin with blind acceptance and with a flag. Freedom begins when you say 'No.'
posted on June 19, 2007 06:21:09 PM newBush isn't running again. The liars club are
Yes your Republican party is a bunch of liars. And the American people will be so sick of having a Republican liar for the past 8 years they will vote for change and choose a Democrat.
Absolute faith has been shown, consistently, to breed intolerance. And intolerance, history teaches us, again and again, begets violence.
---------------------------------- The duty of a patriot in this time and place is to ask questions, to demand answers, to understand where our nation is headed and why. If the answers you get do not suit you, or if they frighten you, or if they anger you, it is your duty as a patriot to dissent. Freedom does not begin with blind acceptance and with a flag. Freedom begins when you say 'No.'
posted on June 19, 2007 06:25:37 PM new
LOL...yep, and they FALSELY believed the dems/liberals would change things.
They haven't. ROFLOL and the VOTERS are letting them KNOW they're noticing just that. lol lol
They'll either be coming back or voting for some independent.....but few are going to believe the lying liberals again. They've proven they can't be trusted to do what they promise they'll do.
Oh....except raise taxes. They've promised to do that, for sure...and I have no doubt they'll follow through on that promise. LOL
"While the democratic party complains about everything THIS President does to protect our Nation": "What would a Democrat president have done at that point?"
"Apparently, the answer is: Sit back and wait for the next terrorist attack."
Yep....the democratic party is going to 'change' the way America is ran.
Well....their poll numbers are the lowest in years and years. LOL LOL LOL
The voters ARE noticing they're not doing or changing much of anything.
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New Gallup data show confidence in Congress at all time low
Just 14% of Americans have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in Congress.
This 14% Congressional confidence rating is the all-time low for this measure, which Gallup initiated in 1973. The previous low point for Congress was 18% at several points in the period of time 1991 to 1994.
Congress is now nestled at the bottom of the list of Gallup's annual Confidence in Institutions rankings, along with HMOs. Just 15% of Americans have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in HMOs. (By way of contrast, 69% of Americans have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in the military, which tops the list. More on this at galluppoll.com on Thursday).
Its worth remembering that Congress is basically nothing more than a mechanism for the representation of the peoples wishes. We all cant go to Washington. So we elect men and women and send them off in our stead. Its not an optimal situation, it seems to me, when such a low percentage of average Americans have confidence in this system.
Generally speaking, Americans have been skeptical about Congress for decades now. But the current 14% confidence rating for Congress is down from 19% last year and is the lowest in Gallups history, surpassing the 18% confidence in Congress measured in 1991, 1993 and 1994.
Americans' are generally in a sour mood, as discussed here. The particularly low rating for Congress this year thus represents a continuation of the existing low esteem in which Congress is held, coupled with a strongly negative mindset on the part of the American public.
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"While the democratic party complains about everything THIS President does to protect our Nation": "What would a Democrat president have done at that point?"
"Apparently, the answer is: Sit back and wait for the next terrorist attack."
