[Kevin Curry]

I long for the days of gridlock.

Gridlock isn't all bad. George Will did a great piece on gridlock about ten years ago. He essentially said that for conservatives gridlock accomplishes in the short term what they desire for the long term. A government unable to get much done is preferable to one that find it too easy to get things done.

[Zipporah]

I agree.. gridlock IS a good thing. They're so busy fighting one another they can't spend our money. I know that this election, I will not vote for someone who does not represent me or American interests... I am done with voting for the lesser of two evils and party over principle.

[Dane]

Gridlock isn't all bad. George Will did a great piece on gridlock about ten years ago

Uh Kevin that was 10 years ago. If you want John Kerry to be Commander in Chief(actually it would be Kofi Annan and the UN) that's your opinion and your right to have it.

But it is also my right to have an opinion and that opinion of you wanting John Kerry and Kofi Annan to be Commanders in Chief is nuts.

[Post Toasties]

I don't have your faith that Republicans will retain both houses of Congress, with or without GWB. And, if you believe that a Democrat president will appoint SC justices, and have them approved by Congress, that are not more activist than a Republican president would, you're dreaming.

[arasina]

I think your article assumes too much when you say how the Democrats will be the minority and thus beholden to honor their oaths of office. Your entire premise of Unified Control is based on that assumption.

How can one be certain a gridlock situation will result if your desired defeat of President Bush is successful? Are you guaranteeing that people who are writing in their protest candidates will vote GOP for Congress and the Senate? (And if they are so principled to vote against President Bush, why are they not principled enough to also vote against members of Congress and the Senate that they deem RINO political trash? Where are your candidates for those offices, the ones who actually do the legislating in our Republic?)

Your write-in presidential candidate will not win the election, so that could very well leave you with a liberal Dim president AND a leftist majority in both houses of Congress. How is THAT gridlock?

Will you be pleased when the issue of illegal immigrants is tabled rather than explored for solutions, so the problem can increase under a Dim president much like terrorism did during the Clinton Administration? Do you think it's just going to disappear after the election? Do you think we will return to a Constitution-minded legislative body simply because someone other than George W. Bush is president? Do you think the Supreme Court justices who will be appointed under this new president to replace those who will be retiring will be Conservative and not legislate from the bench?

[Phaedrus]

Gridlock is good, period. Every new law is a constraint upon our freedoms because it applies to all of us, not just the criminals. Few, unfortunately, seem to get this. We've got more laws than Carter has little liver pills.