The GOP was seduced by a group that places much more emphasis on ideology than facts. We have no idea as to how badly they have damaged our nation.

Will Democrats rise to the occasion?  The Republican message, perhaps their only message, will be Democrats will raise your taxes.

Have Democratic operatives figured out that to combat this slogan they must offer the voters an alternative.  Democrats will stop the give-away to the rich, legislate tax cuts for child-care costs, lower interest rates on college tuition loans, to mention a few.  It is so simple a message, but depending on Democrats to deliver it seems, at this point, a pie in the sky.

they have destroyed decades of progressive reforms and set this country back 200 years.

Worse, they have destroyed everything the United States ever stood for.

Face it.  This country will never recover from the damage.  I predict ultimately, the union will gradually break up and we will see the rebirth of uber-local government…at the micro level.

This society will require re-definition and re-building from the ground up if humans are ever to survive.

Dear Deep Shit rabblerouzer (above)

Congratulations!  I am copying and printing your comments onto fine paper, framing it and putting it in a conspicuous place on my wall!

Greater truth was never spoken—every word of it!

From an old, old, woman who loves the truth!

Bush and his Administration now have demonstrated and instituted the worst of all liberal traits.  The first is their “spend and spend” policies, with no end in sight as our President promises aid to Lebanon, with no respect for the conservative philosophy of reducing our debt, not increasing it.  I suggest that “spend and spend” is more liberal than tax and spend.  And make no mention of the fact that our government, under this Administration, has created the largest deficit ever and the most debt, ever.  For holders of assets, such as myself, this “spend and spend” policy (in pursuit of the “Bush doctrine”) will mean that our government issued bonds will be worth less and less, and this will drag our economy down and make us vulnerable to holders of these bonds, such as the Chinese.  Putting the war expenses on a credit card further hides the growing debt. Taxes also get pushed down to state and local governments as they struggle to pay for needed programs, let alone pork.  The other area that you haven’t mentioned, in which Bush and his Administration is incontestably “liberal” is in his unfettered growth of government; it cannot be contested that our government is now the biggest it has ever been.  This is very liberal, I’m afraid “big government” is now a hallmark of a Republican administration; I never thought I’d see a “spend and spend” and “create Big Government” Republican administration.  A good friend, a staunch capitalist, recently wrote me: “At heart I am a liberterian.  I think Bush is Lyndon Johnson Jr.  guns & butter..  The only voices I hear in Congress for more financial responsibility are from a minority of the Republicans, nothing from the Democrats. I do agree power corrupts. 
I dont like deficet spending either by individuals or by governments.  Deficet spending almosts always weakens the borrower in the long run.”

Oh Marie, They have made choices, albeit all the wrong choices. They have feathered their nests quite nicely, along with their rich brethren. Why would someone like me, on Medicare and at poverty level, be helped when that yacht could be a nice tax write off for one of the wealthy? While I may have a couple of bucks for a political contribution, nowhere could I be of significants as the one who pony’s up a few hundred thousand. It’s called priorities.

Deep Shit

Even if Democrats take control of Congress in 06 and the Whitehouse in 08, nobody in their right mind will be singing “Happy days are here again,” for decades. I hope all Americans have supercharged their endurance batteries enough during our six year corruption binge to climb out of the Death Valley sized pit we have stumbled into. The last six years have been a gentle breeze compared to the economic typhoons looming in our future.

We are up to our nose in a cesspool with no courageous, wise and willing leaders ready to plunge in and save us. Even if such leaders were to emerge and tell us the truth, they would be stoned to death by voters unwilling to accept the truth. We are a credit card, bum check passing society about to receive notification from our creditors marked Insufficient Funds.

Our great, great grandchildren might be able to save us if we raised the minimum wage to a thousand dollars an hour, but barring that, we’re in Deep Shit.