Posted on 11/08/2006 5:27:18 AM PST by teddyballgame
I wish I believed that whole we won't bug out of Iraq or raise taxes part.
The moonbats are going to SCREAM to get out of Iraq. As for the taxes, we have chance on that since they don't expire for a few more years.
This is the measure of a wrestler, exhausted in the last two minutes and starting down.
"This is the measure of a wrestler, exhausted in the last two minutes and starting down".
Time to hit a stand-up and two leg take-down. Amen, brother.
By standing in vague but passionate opposition to the president's handling of the war, they formed a new voting alliance - an alliance between doves, who think Iraq was a mistake to begin with, and one-time hawks who think Iraq was a perfectly fine thing to do in the first place, but that it's a huge mess now and Bush should pay.
Going for that anti-Iraq alliance without offering an escape plan of their own was a brilliant political tactic.
I know several of those "one-time hawks" - GOP - who think Iraq is a big mess and were not enthused at all to vote for GOP candidates. Not voting or voting for Democrats was the way many former Bush supporters meted out their disappointment in the way things are going in Iraq (or at least in the way the MSM portrays how things are going in Iraq).
During the Bush Presidency there won't be tax increases, because the Bush tax cuts are not due yet to sunset, and, since the President would successfully veto any new legislation raising taxes, the Dems won't try.
I've voted for Bush twice, even had my picture taken with him ... however, reality is what it is and Bush is by every measure a lame duck president for the remainder of his Presidency. He knows it ...
The campaign to retake the Congress should start today. The voters who kicked out Republicans need to be reminded of the promises made that will not be kept. Every stinking day.
The People have spoken.
It will now be two years of Democratic investigations, stonewalling Bush's policies, stonewalling winning in iraq, implementation of bad policies to make Bush look bad because, ...
... now the Dems will focus on the White House in 2008.
Everything they do will be in an effort to win the Presidency in 2008.
Hey we had two "good" elections in a row. This stuff goes in cycles. On the plus side, I think today's result increases the chance that we'll be able to hold om to the Whitehouse in '08.
We had the Senate and the House, but we didn't use the power and it was taken from us.
The same thing could have been said about Clinton in '94. It didn't happen then because, whatever his many flaws, Clinton was a skillful political player and used his opponents' mistakes against them. I guess we'll see if Bush is also skillful this way. I'm cautiously pessimistic.
This is a victory for the terrorists. Prepare for more terrorist attacks in the U.S.
However, maybe I'm wrong. After all I felt that the Republicans in the House were doing their jobs much better than those in the Senate that couldn't even gather votes to get Bolton an up pr down confirmation vote.
I would have been much happier if voters would have supported the work the House had tried to do but was stopped by the Senate.
Here in Ohio I'm disgusted to see that Brown will be our new Senator, but I can't say I'm sorry to see DeWine will be leaving office.
I agree with you about '08. The only person more upset about this than us is Hillary. The Dems can't hide who they are for two years, the moonbats won't let them.
He hasn't been doing anything else, anyway, so what will change? ;)
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