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1. Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats have a significant majority in the House. It's going on 2 years they've been in power. This year, they've passed ZERO of the 13 mandatory budget/spending bills that is the bulk of their actual jobs. Regardless of how the Senate works (60 vote cloture, filibusters), there's no excuse for the House to not pass these bills. Is it any wonder their job approval is 10% or below?
2. The Dems took control of both houses (it's 49-49 plus 2 independents that caucus with the dems, giving them control over every committee) about 2 years ago. Remember how things were then? Iraq wasn't going great, but the surge was being planned. The economy was growing nicely, unemployment was a lot lower, the price of gas was under $3, the banks were sound, foreclosures were happening far less often, and the price of food was significantly lower. What have these people actually done to improve things? No spin, please - there's little Bush can do if Congress doesn't approve his plans and fund them.
3. They lied their way into office. They promised to end the Iraq War and bring the troops home. The hard fact you must face is that if Congress doesn't pass appropriations to fund the troops, Bush would have no choice but to bring them home sooner than later. No excuse about filibusters in the Senate - here we're talking about stopping legislation, something that if the minority can do it, the majority should have an even easier time of it.
4. They lied their way into office. They ran against the govt. eavesdropping programs, then voted for and passed and renewed both those domestic programs AND the Patriot Act. We even find out that the top Democrats/leadership were aware of the "torture" methods used to interrogate prisoners all along, witnessed it with their own eyes, and are directly quoted as saying "isn't there more we can do?" Explain your support for these bozos, please.
5. They lied their way into office. They promised to be fiscally responsible where the Republicans hadn't been. Look at this - the deficits were cut in half by 2006 from their higest point in the Bush years, and now the next president will inherit deficits twice that amount (near $500B, not counting Iraq!):
http://polipundit.com/index.php?p=15374
Fiscal Year 2009 Federal Deficit Projected to be $482 Billion
Monday, July 28th, 2008
by Chris Pirillo
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script>No, that isn’t a typo. In 2009, the Federal Deficit will be around $482 billion dollars. Can you honestly even picture that kind of money? It’s hard to even fathom such a staggering amount.
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2. The Dems took control of both houses (it's 49-49 plus 2 independents that caucus with the dems, giving them control over every committee) about 2 years ago. Remember how things were then? Iraq wasn't going great, but the surge was being planned. The economy was growing nicely, unemployment was a lot lower, the price of gas was under $3, the banks were sound, foreclosures were happening far less often, and the price of food was significantly lower. What have these people actually done to improve things? No spin, please - there's little Bush can do if Congress doesn't approve his plans and fund them.
3. They lied their way into office. They promised to end the Iraq War and bring the troops home. The hard fact you must face is that if Congress doesn't pass appropriations to fund the troops, Bush would have no choice but to bring them home sooner than later. No excuse about filibusters in the Senate - here we're talking about stopping legislation, something that if the minority can do it, the majority should have an even easier time of it.
4. They lied their way into office. They ran against the govt. eavesdropping programs, then voted for and passed and renewed both those domestic programs AND the Patriot Act. We even find out that the top Democrats/leadership were aware of the "torture" methods used to interrogate prisoners all along, witnessed it with their own eyes, and are directly quoted as saying "isn't there more we can do?" Explain your support for these bozos, please.
5. They lied their way into office. They promised to be fiscally responsible where the Republicans hadn't been. Look at this - the deficits were cut in half by 2006 from their higest point in the Bush years, and now the next president will inherit deficits twice that amount (near $500B, not counting Iraq!):
http://polipundit.com/index.php?p=15374
The federal budget deficit, helped by a gusher of tax revenues, fell to $247.7 billion in 2006, the smallest amount of red ink in four years.
The deficit for the budget year that ended Sept. 30 was 22.3 percent lower than the $318.7 billion imbalance for 2005
http://www.lockergnome.com/politica...-federal-deficit-projected-to-be-482-billion/The deficit for the budget year that ended Sept. 30 was 22.3 percent lower than the $318.7 billion imbalance for 2005
Fiscal Year 2009 Federal Deficit Projected to be $482 Billion
Monday, July 28th, 2008
by Chris Pirillo
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script>No, that isn’t a typo. In 2009, the Federal Deficit will be around $482 billion dollars. Can you honestly even picture that kind of money? It’s hard to even fathom such a staggering amount.
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