Control Of The House & Senate?

[Oilwellian]

Republicans are running on the following platform: <br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>What horrible things will happen if the Democratic Party wins control of Congress?</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> OMG ...Speaker Pelosi! Higher taxes! Investigations! <br><br>That's all the GOP has to run on ... fear. Well, why aren't we turning that question around? Why are we not asking Americans: <br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>What horrible things will happen if the Republican Party maintains control of Congress?</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> <br><br>So let's pose that question and come up with all the possibilities. OK, I'll start. First, the continued quagmire in Iraq and possible war with Iran. Second, rising gas prices and continued dependence on oil. <br><br>Your turn. <br><br>Third ... <br><br> <p></p><i></i>

[pugzleyca3]

Oh, the divisions we have set before us. <br><br>I don't think either party is going to "save" us. They all drink from the same filthy well.<br><br>Take a look at the Dem's voting records, for the most part, they collude with the Reps to snatch our freedoms away. <br><br>IF and this is a big if, there were to be real elections, which I think we haven't had in decades, there might be a chance for the people to take back some modicum of power from the government by ousting all the encumbents and starting with all new blood in both houses. <br><br>But I'm not putting much stock in any of what I just said happening. <br><br>Bunch of fuckers, all of 'em.<br><br>(I hate everybody today, in case you didn't notice.) <p></p><i></i>

[Wolfmoon Lady]

Pugsley, you said it! RE: "Bunch of fuckers, all of 'em."<br><br>Oil,<br><br>Welcome. You're new, I guess, and probably well-meaning.<br><br>Once you start reading here, you'll figure out why I'm telling you this:<br><br>You might want to back away from peddling the "Dems will save us if they just get their agenda straight" crap.<br><br>Are you kidding?<br><br>Personally, I've been there, done that, and already burned the stinking t-shirt.<br><br>Many of us have crossed our own private Rubicon since November 2004.<br><br>There's no going back with the current system. It's over. <p></p><i></i>

[Dreams End]

If Kerry were president, we'd have more troops in Iraq. That was his campaign pledge. <p></p><i></i>

[Oilwellian]

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>There's no going back with the current system. It's over. <hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>What was that line from Galaxy Quest? Never give up ... ummm ... never surrender ....<br><br><!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/smile.gif ALT=":)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br><br>Now, here's a third to add to the list:<br><br>Third, if the GOP retains control of the Senate, that's one or two more extremist Supreme Court nominees who will sail through.<br><br><br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=oilwellian>Oilwellian</A> at: 6/1/06 12:57 pm<br></i>

[pugzleyca3]

Well, if the Dems do come to power and things keep on going down this same road, we'll know the real truth about it then, won't we?<br><br>Damn shame we have to buy the cows before we get to taste the milk. <p></p><i></i>

[HMKGrey]

<br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Well, if the Dems do come to power and things keep on going down this same road, we'll know the real truth about it then, won't we?<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>04 election. Kerry folding same night. Done deal. <p></p><i></i>

[pugzleyca3]

Right. You're right. <br><br>I remember stopping in front of the tv when he crumbled and said: WTF?<br><br>I knew it then. I guess I keep trying to kid myself. <br><br> <p></p><i></i>

[Oilwellian]

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Well, if the Dems do come to power and things keep on going down this same road, we'll know the real truth about it then, won't we?<br><br>Damn shame we have to buy the cows before we get to taste the milk.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <br>The cows we have right now have produced nothing but spoiled milk. Failed to capture Osama. Failed to consider the aftermath of invading Iraq. Failed to prepare for Katrina. <br><br>There goes my Ovaltine.<br><br> <p></p><i></i>

[Mentalgongfu]

Oil, I couldn't argue against your points about the current administration, but I would echo Wolfmoon Lady in suggesting you consider looking BEYOND the false left-right dynamic. <br><br>Next to my computer, lI have a list of all the members of the Senate who voted against the reauthorization of the Patriot Act last March. They are all Democrats, but there are only 10 names. There are 44 Democrats in the Senate right now, 55 Republicans, and 1 independent. <br><br>Do the math. <br><br>It doesn't matter which letter you put next to the name, the majority of politicians in either party have been co-opted, blackmailed or bought. <br><br>To exact real, substantial change in this country will require much more than adding a few more spineless Democrats to the 34 who supported that unholy and unconstitutional piece of legislation.<br><br> <p></p><i></i>

[Forgetting2]

Is like applying a Band-Aid to a wound which requires a tourniquet <p></p><i></i>

[dugoboy]

Oilwellian please read this thread. <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://p216.ezboard.com/frigorousintuitionfrm10.showMessageRange?topicID=4568.topic&start=1&stop=20" target="top"><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE START--><span style="text-decoration:underline">The Bush Administration Is An Agent Provacteur</span><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE END--></a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br>and this:<br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://p216.ezboard.com/frigorousintuitionfrm10.showMessage?topicID=4587.topic" target="top"><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE START--><span style="text-decoration:underline">70% of voters say the U.S. is headed in the wrong direction</span><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE END--></a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br>excerpt of 'The Bush Administration Is An Agent Provacteur'<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>something else i noticed is, isn't it just a little curious al gore's 'an inconvenient truth' movie is getting paraded around at undoubtedly the height of the 911 truth movement? and now all of a sudden places like dailykos.com members or even Frank Rich are heralding al gore as the only democrat to hold a 'controversial' position. isnt that funny? <br><br>for the longest time i considered myself a democrat but i would always readily admit that yes the democrats are wishy washy to say the least. thank the DLC. but i cheered that howard dean was made democratic chairman and his 50 state strategy. <br><br>i admit i probably sound crazy but lets ask what environmentalism is really about? the democrats couldn't hold onto an issue unless its handed to them and even then they find a way to appear, honestly, like pussies. <br><br>the democrats could be viscerally standing up for privacy rights, anti-monopoly, ripping bush on many of the obvious 'errors' by bushco we ruminate here on these boards...but they don't. they hold back. BUSH IS AT 31% APPROVAL!! WHAT THE FUCK?<br><br>and yet they stay silent...why?<br><br>the democrats, bill clinton were all about economic globalism and the UN. i understand the idealism. its beautiful BUT those policies are not friendly to us or the world. the UN could save us all we are led to believe. 'how dare bush invade iraq, let the UN do it!' us lefties decried in 2003. <br><br>but we must all ask now, as a society, is the UN really the bastion of the enlightened european objectivism its been made out to be? how about the democrats? what have they ever done to help us? and if they have, for how long?<br><br>why won't the democrats impeach the president? what solutions will they truthfully generate? notice how all democrats ever can commit to say is 'geez the bush administration sure is incompentent!' they don't say anything about what we say...so thusly they are controlled.<br><br>maybe this is something i should post at dailykos.com. this post is directed more at those who seem to still believe theres actually a political choice in this country. the only real difference is the pace at which we are to descend into hell.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <br><br>-----------<br>excerpt of 'The Bush Administration Is An Agent Provacteur'<br><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>i think i've about had it today. lets go point by point.<br><br>- in the months after 911 it occured to me how terrorism has no military solution. that the root of terrorism must be struck (hatred fueled by ignorance and CIA instigation). instead all the military solution does is cut off the hydra heads that grow back. there is no poison the well solution.<br><br>-today i watched the house select intelligence commitee hearing on intelligence leaks and media's role. this hearing happened during all the mess with gunfire at the rayburn building (where this hearing was taking place) on friday. it was a very interesting hearing, very informative of the age we are in, with the fascist room by room check of legislature's offices as the backdrop. <br><br>-ray mcgovern says Iran Strike Set For June Or July by using Staged terror attacks across Europe, US "probable" in order to justify invasion on alex jones. <br><br>-on the forums i've been on there's talk of false flag operations on the world cup.<br><br>-i have a feeling kennedy jr's exposure of voter fraud in ohio is just a ploy to make it appear liberals will fix the voting system when in fact they will offer a non solution.<br><br>-the kennedys are part of the PTB and this is a card they can play against the neocons. and maybe this is one big card they can play to thwart a manufactured war with iran because i'm not quite sure they want one. and its also true they couldnt of 'silenced' robert jr or rather they havn't had the chance too.<br><br>-the neo cons were put in power to get the 'dirty work' done whether they know it or not. they are complicitly involved with the dismantling of america in every way from 911 to the PATRIOT ACT to trillion dollar wars to 10 trillion dollar tax cuts (to starve the government of financial resources) to the devaluation of the dollar to economically crippling gas prices to the stand down of FEMA after the levees were blown after hurricane katrina to raise the death rate and to hire mercenaries to grab the guns from the citizenry because of a disproven hoax of snipers shooting at police. the bush administration is an agent provacteur made to create chaos. a problem that democrats in 2006 and 2008 will promptly provide to the gullible masses a fuzzy little solution to our problems by delivering us another war (all indicators point to yes) and whatever else half promises can be made (pushing for a UN world government and draconian 'environmental protection' laws because of increasing natural disasters like hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis and weather modification).<br><br>- no i'm not a 'wingnut'<br><br>-i'm quite sure the environmentalism gore and kennedy jr use as their pet projects will be used by the democrats as the way into fascism. <br><br>-ITS A BIG FUCKING GAME!<br><br>-the solution to our problem is not a violent revolution but a SYSTEMIC SOLUTION thtough reevaluation and correction fueled by honest vigelance.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>..and i do mean levees were 'blown'. <p>___________________________________________<br>"BUSHCO aren't incompetent...they are COMPLICIT."</p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=dugoboy@rigorousintuition>dugoboy</A> at: 6/3/06 3:07 pm<br></i>