Congress hits single digits: Rasmussen

Needless to say, this legislative strategy is in dire straights considering the republicans are so unpopular they may end up with less than 40 seats. In that case, you’re likely going to be wishing you had actually done something useful to help promote your party, instead of sitting here guffawing about the unpopularity of Congress and how it clearly is a result of the other party, despite the fact that that party is going to pick up seats come November.

e-pirate on July 8, 2008 at 7:37 PM

There’s a reason the Republican party is so unpopular, and that is because they are just as bad at the things that make the Conservatives mad as the Democrats.

Fiscal Conservatives. Fiscal conservatives complained bitterly about the years of pork projects that all of the so called Republican Leaders push for each year. Jack Kingston is supposed to be a staunch Conservative. Of course, that Staunch Conservative from Georgia is always at the top of the list when huge amounts of Pork are pushed through. Hundreds of millions of dollars of wasted tax payer money later, and we don’t understand why the Fiscal Conservatives don’t see the advantage of voting Republican.

It’s because in most of the ways that we can see, the Republicans are just as much of the Czarist Prince’s that the Democrats are.

Democrats want to take your guns. Yet it was the Republican Administration at the Justice Department that said. The second amendment may be a personal right, but it’s one we can regulate a lot, even to the point of prohibiting outright. That was the essence of the Republican Justice Department’s reaction to Heller, and possibly a factor in why it was as close as 5-4.

Democrats want to lose the war on Terror. OK, but the problem is the sham votes the Republicans staged showed clearly that they apparently won’t vote to do so. Also those same sham votes were staged in 2005 when the absolute incompetence of the Government at local, state, and Federal levels was on clear display regarding Katrina and the handling of the Iraq War.

All the complaints that the Republican Cheerleaders like Captain Ed whip up are at best lame excuses as to why we should vote Republican.

Conservatives like myself are disgusted with both parties, and I don’t see a reason why I should spend five minutes, much less an hour or two of my day standing in line to cast my vote for dumb, or dumber. Either way, I lose not only those hours, but more faith, as if I had any left, in my elected representatives.

Oh the Democrats will stifle free speech. The republicans would never do anything like that, oh wait, they voted for McCain Feingold hoping that they could quiet the objections of the Press, not the voters, the Press, about Negative Campaigning. So now, it’s a law, you can’t say anything negative about a candidate for sixty days before an election. The President, who said he would veto it, caved to the same special interest pressure, and signed it claiming that he believed it to be unconstitutional.

The first amendment doesn’t say that the Supreme Court shall allow no law. It says that Congress shall PASS NO LAW.

So no, I’m not going to vote for McCain. I’m not going to give him a single dollar, or one damn minute of my time. If he can’t be bothered to pass no law, I can’t be bothered to vote for him. If Republicans can’t pull themselves away from the trough of publicly funded pork, then I can’t support them.

I know the argument, the Democrats are worse. If something is wrong, why should I or anyone accept the idea that a little less of the evil in the form of the Republican Party is somehow better?

Snake307 on July 8, 2008 at 8:03 PM

It’s a strange problem all right, how to get the incumbents out when most people vote for the status quo. If I have a job, and don’t pay much attention to politics, then when I vote, I’ll just vote to keep the current the future.

That’s the real problem with McCain Feingold. You can’t say anything negative about an incumbent for sixty days before the election, which means you can’t say he’s a pork barrel lying ass dog. That would be negative, and we want new civility in our political discourse. Pfui.

The public didn’t want McCain Feingold. In polling less than 20% of the people thought it was important. Yet, cowardly Congressional elected officials voted for it, thinking that the President would veto, and even if he didn’t the Supreme Court would have to overturn it.

The President signed it, claiming that although he thought it was unconstitutional, and wouldn’t hold up to the Court’s review, he was going to sign it.

Nobody who voted for it, or signed it, should be allowed to serve as Dog Catcher much less higher office. Instead of error on the side of Freedom of Speech, we saw the Elected officials pass the buck, and we got shafted. Nobody did the right thing, and everybody hoped someone else would do it. No one did.

Perhaps a new amendment is needed. “If you try and abridge the freedom of speech of the people, you shall be drawn and quartered, disemboweled, hung, and Beheaded before the sun sets that day.”

So the American People have less freedom, who cares, at least we had a Republican Majority in Congress, and a Republican in the White House. Why, what would happen if the Democrats were elected? Oh, they’ll bring back the Fairness Doctrine and Rush Limbaugh will be out of a job.

So the difference is, Republicans passed the incumbent protection act, and Democrats want Rush to shut the hell up.

Great, so the answer is, regarding the first Amendment, none. Second Amendment, one is slightly less confiscatory than the other. Great.

Sorry Captain Ed, I’m afraid I lack the ability that you and so many other cheerleaders here have. I just can’t pretend to really believe that there is much difference between the Evil Democrats, and the slightly less evil Republicans. The fact that we had to send how many hundreds of thousands of bricks to congress to tell them to do the right thing, and we still haven’t won on the issue is telling. None of them give a damn about doing the right thing. Not one of them should be trusted on your local school board much less in a National Office.

Snake307 on July 8, 2008 at 10:18 PM