"We must never appease terrorists!!"

[AndyC]

Well, I gave both of you positive Karma - Indiana for being up-front with his negative karma, and Anubis for his [freud] tag, which I just think is funny as hell.

[AnubisVonMojo]

I'm a proud Bush Republican and I just bumped you!   So there!

Is the term "Bushie" offensive to Bush supporters? Is it like calling a vertically challenged person a "midget"? Didn't the term originate from a Karl Rove e-mail to begin with?

[Menard]

I'm a proud Bush Republican and I just bumped you!   So there!

That's funny. Someone proud to be a republican or a shrub supporter.

Tell us another one.

[Killer Bees]

what?  it was a sick show.  I saw one where the older boys starting chewing tobacco and a week later one of them got mouth cancer

Lester, I thought you avatar was a possessed kid from some horror movie!

[indianasmith]

Anubis, you misunderstand - I do not take the term "Bushie" as an insult, and I did not lower your karma, I raised it!

And Menard, Yes, I am proud to be a Republican, even if I'm not always proud of everything my party does.  At least our solution to every single problem is not to punish business, raise taxes, and erode private property rights.  Some of us at least remember the principles of a free market economy and prefer to see government protecting rather than providing.  Bush isn't perfect, but I voted for him twice as President and twice as Governor.  Considering the opposition each time around, I would vote the same way all over again.  If the Democrats win control of the White House and both Houses of Congress, it will take decades to repair the damage they will do to this country.  In the name of providing for the poor, and esecially "the children", you will see the largest full-scale assault on free enterprise, private property, and business in American history.


It doesn't take a village to raise a child.  It takes PARENTS!  Let me keep my money in my wallet and I will raise my own children.

[AnubisVonMojo]

Anubis, you misunderstand - I do not take the term "Bushie" as an insult, and I did not lower your karma, I raised it!

Oh, no, I didn't refer that you had dinged my karma Indie, I think that's what Andy thought. I figured you had raised it and for that I thank you sir. One back at you. I was just asking if you know why Republicans, being one yourself, would find the term "Bushie" offensive, considering that's about the closest thing to a slight I've said so far that might've gotten my karma popped down in the first place by whomever.

Unless it still has something to do with my theory about riprake being an alias for someone who's too timid to make their position known under their regular board account... or about my confession that I sometimes hotlink to images? Meh, if nobody wants to take credit for it, I'm not bothering with it anymore. Thanks to Indie, Andy and whomever else have karma-ed me lately. Back at ya!

[Menard]

And Menard, Yes, I am proud to be a Republican, even if I'm not always proud of everything my party does.  At least our solution to every single problem is not to punish business, raise taxes, and erode private property rights.  Some of us at least remember the principles of a free market economy and prefer to see government protecting rather than providing.  Bush isn't perfect, but I voted for him twice as President and twice as Governor.  Considering the opposition each time around, I would vote the same way all over again.  If the Democrats win control of the White House and both Houses of Congress, it will take decades to repair the damage they will do to this country.  In the name of providing for the poor, and esecially "the children", you will see the largest full-scale assault on free enterprise, private property, and business in American history.

You've got to be kidding.

An economy like this and this is an improvement over the Clinton years?

Who are the p***y republicans blaming now? They've had control of the White House and Congress, and look at the mess. It must be somebody else's fault that gas prices are through the roof, our dollar is worth less than the Canadian, small business is dropping like flies, and anybody who is not part of the elite is having to rub pennies together just to make ends meet; and I haven't even mentioned two wars overseas. It must be somebody else's fault; it always is.

Damn! Get Democrats in control and reverse this trend; how will we ever recover?

Oh, I get it; you're yanking our collective leg again.

Funny.

[indianasmith]

Actually, from 1994, when the Republicans took control of Congress, until 2006, when we lost it, the economy did quite well - especially in rebounding from the hit we took on 9/11.  Yeah, we are experiencing an adjustment right now - that happens from time to time.  But by and large, the economy in the last few years hasn't been that bad.  The big problems are the ongoing oil price surge, fed by several factors, and the housing crunch, which quite frankly was caused by too many people buying homes they couldn't afford.

As far as only the rich having two pennies together, my wife and I are both schoolteachers, and we just somehow managed to retire all our credit card debt for the first time in 10 years.

As for two wars . . . well, since Bush took the fight to the enemy instead of just lobbing a missile at an aspirin factory and calling it justice, we have had zero terrorist attacks on our own soil.  Both wars were legal and justified.

BTW, the incredible spike in gas prices did not start until Democrats won control of Congress.  There was an increase in the first six years of Bush's presidency - that was bound to happen, since we'd lived in an artificial low price bubble since the late 80's.  But $4 a gallon?  Thank Nancy Pelosi for that.

[Menard]

Actually, from 1994, when the Republicans took control of Congress, until 2006, when we lost it, the economy did quite well - especially in rebounding from the hit we took on 9/11.  Yeah, we are experiencing an adjustment right now - that happens from time to time.  But by and large, the economy in the last few years hasn't been that bad.  The big problems are the ongoing oil price surge, fed by several factors, and the housing crunch, which quite frankly was caused by too many people buying homes they couldn't afford.

As far as only the rich having two pennies together, my wife and I are both schoolteachers, and we just somehow managed to retire all our credit card debt for the first time in 10 years.

As for two wars . . . well, since Bush took the fight to the enemy instead of just lobbing a missile at an aspirin factory and calling it justice, we have had zero terrorist attacks on our own soil.  Both wars were legal and justified.

BTW, the incredible spike in gas prices did not start until Democrats won control of Congress.  There was an increase in the first six years of Bush's presidency - that was bound to happen, since we'd lived in an artificial low price bubble since the late 80's.  But $4 a gallon?  Thank Nancy Pelosi for that.

Well, at least you are up front about your conservatism; unlike too many of the conservatives who run around on this board knocking down other's karma, but too pussified to admit it (like a conservative).

Here's to you someday being able to see.

[CheezeFlixz]

An economy like this and this is an improvement over the Clinton years?

Give me a freakin' break! Clinton road the wild west of the internet bubble which was bursting in fall '98 and '99 and 9/11 finished it off.

So tell me what did Clinton do while in the White House, besides Monica? Oh yeah, he slashed the military by 40%, he slashed development by 57% and he slashed procurement 71% placing us at one of our weakest points in history. And then he turned down Osama Bin Ladin being handed to him ... oh and he had over half the Navy ships decommissioned placing our Navy at it's weakest level since 1938. I will be fair and say one thing he did right was to implement the Welfare to Work program (Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act), but then again that was introduced and spearheaded by Republicans.

The 2 democrats running for office right now have purposed over $1,800,000,000,000.00 (That's TRILLION) in NEW government programs ... and they have the nerve to call the Iraq war expensive. Tell me how you going to pay for it.

[Allhallowsday]

...The 2 democrats running for office right now have purposed over $1,800,000,000,000.00 (That's TRILLION) in NEW government programs ... and they have the nerve to call the Iraq war expensive. Tell me how you going to pay for it.

The word is "proposed."  I know you know that.    

[CheezeFlixz]

...The 2 democrats running for office right now have purposed over $1,800,000,000,000.00 (That's TRILLION) in NEW government programs ... and they have the nerve to call the Iraq war expensive. Tell me how you going to pay for it.

The word is "proposed."  I know you know that.    

You are correct, sir. However, my concern is with a Democratically controlled congress that word will change to "implement". I do not believe in wealth redistribution, it kind of undermines that entire entrepreneur, free market concept that built this country.

[Zapranoth]

Yeah, yeah.

I'm either voting for Zod, for Great Cthulhu, or else for myself (the Eye of Sauron).  It's time we had a proper dictatorship in this country.   What better choice than perhaps a power-mad Kryptonian, the greatest of the Old Ones, or else an evil that never sleeps?

Though I'm thinking Zod would be the most effective leader.  Cthulhu would just ravage, and I'm not sure how the Eye would deal with congress.  Just send in Nazgul to kill dissident congressmen?  Or else have Grima filibuster congress?   It'd be completely nonsensical.     But Zod!  Oh, yes, we'd have ourselves a real leader then!

All will kneel before Zod!

http://www.zod2008.com/

[trekgeezer]

Wah!Wah! Wahhhhh!!

I really get tired of the s**t!      Doesn't matter which party is in office, the citizen's get screwed.  The only difference in the parties is the rhetoric the spew.


I'm with Zapranoth and will be putting my support behind Zod.

[lester1/2jr]

we have a 3 trillion dollar budget.  from 00 to 06, when the GOP had the white house and the legistlature spending increased bya trillion.

as has the scope of government, with the patriot act and so forth.  we have a massive, intrusive federal government.  way way moreso than under clinton.

clinton didn't get us into any prolonged conflicts.  he didn't screw up the economy, yeah taxes were higher, but he was taxing the heck out of what was a bubble,  and he slashed welfare rolls.

"the era of big government is over" clinton 96.  yes some of it had to do with the republican congress,  but the SAME congress all the sudden started spending like crazy on highway pork, coporate welfare and subsisides to buy votes circa 00-now