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- SheilaNoya, on 01/08/2009, -37/+88Democrats: Hey, let's spend some money to fix AMERICA for a change. We've neglected our OWN country for 8 years and we're falling apart at the seams. If we don't act quickly, we're going to collapse like the Soviet Union did.
Republicans: NO, absolutely not! We've already committed our future budgets to rebuilding everything that Bush blew up in Iraq. Besides, war is very profitable for our PNAC friends and the religious nuts think we're bringing them Armageddon so Jesus will come back soon. War is a win-win situation for us.
Democrats: Since the Republicans pissed away over $5 TRILLION with absolutely nothing to show for it, then we are certainly entitled to spend some money on repairing America now.
Republicans: Screw America. The "Free Market" will decide if we fail as a nation. The government should do NOTHING to restore America.
Democrats: You Republicans are just greedy and insane.
Republicans: You're only attacking us because we're Christians! Why do you hate Jesus?
Democrats: No - we're only pointing out that you're so out of touch that you don't even realize WHY you lost control of the House, the Senate, and the White House.
Republicans: Admit it - you're heathens who hate America and you love terrorists!
Democrats: You people are f*cking crazy. Goodbye. We have a nation to fix and we don't have time for your crap now. - badqat, on 01/08/2009, -7/+55Hypocrisy...you bet. Still, despite the Bush years of spending like money can just be printed on a whim (without consequences), they're right.
Had they only followed their own advice, we'd be in a much different place right now. - SheilaNoya, on 01/08/2009, -6/+35I'm glad to see you admit that the Republican Congress helped Bush burn through 5 TRILLION dollars in his first 6 years in office.
Republicans controlled all three branches of government for the first 6 years. It's too bad that we have NOTHING to show for all of that money.
Now that Obama wants to spend a fraction of that on rebuilding AMERICA, the Republicans are screaming? Spare us the crocodile tears. - Ouze, on 01/08/2009, -3/+27I smell negative diggsville in my future, but I don't think any single party could rightfully tagged as "the party of pork".
That the public trust is actually a deep well to be tapped hard for localized partisan gain is a core belief of apparently every major political party. - inactive, on 01/08/2009, -4/+23The irony is that you're too stupid to grasp the fact that Republicans controlled both the 'CONGRESS' (as you put it) and the White House.
As a matter of fact Republicans have been controlling 'CONGRESS' since '94. So how the hell did we get were we are now??
Something tells me the American people figured it out back in November :-) - inactive, on 01/08/2009, -12/+29This is why there needs to be more than two major political parties in the US. It's a shame when fiscal conservatives are lumped in with all the socially conservative loonies in the GOP. I think it weakens the position of what was once the core of the GOP anyway, before "Bibles and Deficits" Reagan came into power.
This is what allows leftists to humiliate conservatives as a whole, as well as the more educated conservative elite, which is smarter than the limousine liberal elite anyway, because they lean in the direction of free markets, not Stalinism. Of course the leftists take full advantage of the wounds the GOP has suffered to completely gloss over the discredited nature of leftist philosophy.
It's a damn shame really. I wonder how many people, excluding the deluge of idiotic adolescent diggers, would actually agree with the GOP on many things if it weren't for the damn social conservatives ruining the party.
***** social conservatives and ***** leftists. - Nosferotu, on 01/08/2009, -8/+25Spot on. Fortunately we don't have to listen to them now - they are reaping what they've sewn.
- ThsGuyRightHere, on 01/08/2009, -2/+18My problem is that they didn't worry about it while they could have done something about it. Where was all this fiscal conservatism while we were deciding to fight terrorists in Iraq who weren't there until we invaded it?
- EdgarVerona, on 01/08/2009, -2/+18And vote for who? The people who spent trillions of dollars on overseas wars?
This is never going to be resolved by revolving between Republicans and Democrats. We need genuine third parties to enter this system. - oboshoe, on 01/08/2009, -7/+20Oh please. This is just silly partisian ship.
BOTH parties are hogs rolling in mud when it comes to pork. - AndrewMoyer, on 01/08/2009, -1/+14The party concept should be outlawed. Career politicians should be outlawed. Don't give people a chance to become corrupt... and if they start out corrupt, they won't be there long enough to do any damage.
The sad thing about government is that the people smart enough to fix the problems are smart enough to stay out of government. - algaeturd, on 01/08/2009, -10/+22Hypocritical crybabies. They had 8 years to do something right...anything right. And they failed miserably. And now, after 8 years of consistent failures, they're going to tell everyone how to do it correctly?
Right.
This whole party is a joke. - siszam, on 01/08/2009, -8/+20Funny how Republicans don't bat any eye when a Republican president spends billions to kill Americans. But they get all crazy when a Democrat spends money to help Americans and rebuild the economy that Republicans trashed.
- muckemuck, on 01/08/2009, -22/+34Anyone in Congress who voted for the TARP bailout, the UAW bailout, or for the Obama "stimulus" (btw.. how did that stimulus work out last year?)... deserves to be voted out when they're up for re-election. Please help make it happen.
- superterrorizer, on 01/08/2009, -5/+17The GOP had every chance in the world to avoid this disaster and the signs were there. They wouldn't even listen to members of their own party that warned them.
- AndrewMoyer, on 01/08/2009, -4/+15Yeah, seriously, I don't want bridges deemed safe, or potholes fixed, or any infrastructure problems remedied... and I sure as hell don't want all of those construction workers claiming unemployment over the winter having something productive to do for their government checks.
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I was not in favor of TARP or UAW bail out, but I can get behind something that will reduce the likeliness that I'll get killed on the way to my job because of neglect on our highway system, and actually buys something tangible in the end. Those other bailouts were basically just like making payments on upside down loans... fixing our country is totally different... flippin' idiots. - rjey, on 01/08/2009, -4/+14I can't recall who has been in control of the purse strings in congress for the past few years, can someone refresh my memory please?
- inactive, on 01/08/2009, -4/+14@Cagnazzo82
"As a matter of fact Republicans have been controlling 'CONGRESS' since '94. So how the hell did we get were we are now??"
Wow, bother with facts much? Does the name Tom Daschle ring a bell? How about the election year of 2006? Also, if you remember, those Republicans were controlling the purse strings during the mid to late 90's boom while we were running budget surpluses. - EdgarVerona, on 01/08/2009, -3/+13I'd say "nice straw man" but it wasn't even believable. Nice job not reading the article... or thinking at all for that matter.
- Barackalypse, on 01/08/2009, -1/+10The point of the article is to set off partisan bickering to allow the Government to continue to do whatever it wants without fear of mass mutiny by the people. Its classic misdirection.
- superterrorizer, on 01/08/2009, -0/+9I dugg you up, because of course, you are right. Even though I'm pretty liberal when it comes to individual right(gay marriage, womens rights) and even so economically, I still believe that we need some sort of balance to get anywhere and I believe in excluding religion from the state and not because I hate religion, it's just the only way to ensure fairness to a degree.
The majority of people are easily manipulated by one side or the other. It's always been like that though, in almost every country, there are two prominent parties. The last time the people actually had power, I wasn't even born yet. With media outlets controlled by one or the other party
in the Words of Lemmy Kilmister:"The only time I've seen any rebellion was in the fifties, sixties and early seventies. The rest of it you can keep." - DangerCollie, on 01/08/2009, -2/+10Matched only by the denial of the right wing, that you so eloquently display.
Republicans are responsible for the crap hole this country is in right now and, by extension, that includes you. You kept silent while a Republican administration ran up record budget deficits. You cheered on and supported a war founded on lies. You kept quiet while innocent people were tortured because of where they came from, while the guilty and the innocent were denied access to the courts or even a lawyer, while Americans, including US troops, were monitored without a warrant. You stood by when Cheney awarded no-bid government contracts to his former company. You did NOTHING while the principles that guided this country for 200 years were trashed.
In short, you're one of the reasons this country is in the crapper right now. - muckemuck, on 01/08/2009, -7/+15Exactly. George W Bush is a prime example of a socialist running around calling himself a "conservative". ... His redistribution of wealth last year is unprecedented. He gave $150,000,000,000 in checks directly to the lower and middle income taxpayers so they could run to Wal-Mart and spend the money on crap made in China. Then he topped that off with the TARP bailout and the UAW bailout - both of which he championed.
And to think we had Republicans that were so brainwashed they thought McCain was a conservative even after he supported all of that redistribution of wealth... sheesh. - inactive, on 01/08/2009, -5/+13The only budget hawks that frown on deficit spending in Washington are Democrats. That is right, no amount of propaganda from talk radio and Fox News will erase that fact.
- Clerg, on 01/08/2009, -2/+10You had a nice argument going until you pulled the "mainstream media" card. Now we know you are just another dot-head who worships at the alter of Fox News. Nice try.
Republicans suck and they have been working our country over like a speed-bag for the last 10 years. Why are you so surprised that people are pissed and that the party in power is getting blamed? You make yourself look retarded. - cubicledrone, on 01/08/2009, -2/+10Well, you see, we used to have a Constitution that called for a Seperation of Powers. Now we have a government based on "if you have a title you can do whatever the ***** you want." The technical term is "all Chiefs, no Indians." It never works.
The President of the United States has no Constitutional authority to draft legislation of any kind whatsoever, including budgets. It is a colossal violation of the Constitutional Seperation of Powers and one of the reasons our government does not function. - siszam, on 01/08/2009, -1/+9John McCain Monday insisted US economic "fundamentals" were strong despite a banking crisis and Wall Street meltdown.
April 2008: During a press conference today with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon, a reporter asked President Bush “how deep and how long will the economic recession be in the United States?” “First of all, we’re not in a recession,” Bush replied - Barackalypse, on 01/08/2009, -10/+18And once again big government is able to avoid scrutiny and responsibility by misdirecting the people back toward partisan bickering. Democrats and Republicans are both to blame here, they both ran up the debt, they both continue to vote for expensive bills that dig us into a deeper hole. Screw big government, screw partisan hackery, and screw the media for being apologists for the powers that be.
- PhilliesBlunt, on 01/08/2009, -5/+13The Democrats never sunk us this deep in debt with nothing to show for it.
- 1longtime, on 01/08/2009, -3/+11Calling people names will not make your words any more true. The Dems may have had *some* involvement up until 2000, but everyone knows who ran the US from 2000 to now.
...and since my above statement is based on fact, I can get away with calling you a *****. - enki25, on 01/08/2009, -2/+9Good point, your comment makes you appear very even minded and thoughtful.
The reason digg doesn't swallow Republican talking points is because they tend to be custom tailored for people with very little access to information. This is why most Republicans believe 9/11 was Clinton's fault and that the Democrats are to blame for the last 8 years of spending. - enki25, on 01/08/2009, -1/+8The reason Bush added more money to the deficit over his two terms than all Presidents before him combined was not primarily pork, though there was a ton. The primary contributor was his tax cuts to the super wealthy, which ended up not doing anything for the American people as a whole.
The spending the Republicans are pretending to fight against now is largely not "pork". The programs Obama is proposing address critical deficits that hold our country back (healthcare, infrastructure, etc.) If he were simply proposing to spend 0 and give every billionaire another tax cut, obviously the last 8 years have proven that doesn't solve any problems. - freedomfilm, on 01/08/2009, -2/+9Is McCain going to make sure we know their names?
- dupswapdrop, on 01/08/2009, -2/+9The only hypocrisy I see is republicans who can always find billions and billions of dollars to go shoot people but can't find a penny to help anyone not even Americans.
- EdgarVerona, on 01/08/2009, -2/+9It'd be reassuring if it was genuine.
After eight years that proved they're not actually interested in fiscal responsibility, I highly doubt that they've had a miraculous change of heart. - Whorebane, on 01/08/2009, -10/+16Anyone who thinks pork is just a GOP issue is seriously naive on the issue. Its a problem that has pervaded government on all levels. I can just say that many of you are going to be in for a rude awakening when you see that the Obama budget is not really going to make any major cuts to the past Bush budgets, and instead raise it to exorbitant amounts (as if Bush spending wasn't enough).
- algaeturd, on 01/08/2009, -4/+10You, my good man, should go back and get an education. What simple part of government don't you understand?
Where did that financial bailout package come from? Where did it originate?
Bush, Paulson, Bernanke?
Do you even KNOW that?
Right...the dems have been in control for the past 2 years.
Idiot.
Is that why the children's health care reform bill passed?
OH, it DIDN'T? WHY?
Bush. veto.
Dems had zero control.
Who ultimately passed the bailout package? Republicans in the house.
Get it straight. Your GED isn't helping you much in political opinions or current affairs. - Barackalypse, on 01/08/2009, -0/+6Oh, it functions, all too well, it has been very successful in expanding its power and influence over our lives. Although in terms of actual desirable results, you are right, its doesn't work.
- digdug135, on 01/08/2009, -15/+21The point of the article is that Democrats should go hog wild because Republicans already did so?
- inactive, on 01/08/2009, -5/+11Why did we go to Iraq and spend all that money again?
- al3efroman, on 01/08/2009, -1/+7Ummm... Digg came into being during a Republican administration so you're comparing apples to nothing.
- inactive, on 01/08/2009, -2/+8It would be reassuring if Obama listened to Peter Schiff, even though Peter was Ron Paul's economic advisor, because (as should be obvious by now) Peter was right about a lot of fiscal ***** others were wrong about, but I doubt we'll see that level of maturity from Obama. I hope he surprises me & proves me wrong, but I won't be holding my breath...
- tdclark23, on 01/08/2009, -4/+10Yeah, like in less than two years they could fix 14 years of GOP pillaging. Did you just "loose" your mind?
- onovanday, on 01/08/2009, -4/+10Republicans believe in fiscal responsibility only when they're not in power.
- buckrogers1965, on 01/09/2009, -0/+6If you owe $1,000 it is your problem. If you owe a million it's the banks problem.
People who are short a nickel can't afford to even buy a cup of coffee, while those who are in debt for millions never miss a meal. - buckrogers1965, on 01/09/2009, -1/+7We Republicans are all about the hypocrisy. We are the party of the closet ***** in denial, that taxes future generations with deficit spending and saying we are not the worlds policemen while planning acts of aggression against other countries.
Everytime any of the jokers in congress who claim to be republican say anything the reporters interviewing them need to have fact checkers telling them what to say next and picking up every lie they spew. - dcmjzero, on 01/08/2009, -1/+7@theCword
1. Tom Daschle was the majority leader for a couple of weeks. Other than that, he was the minority leader.
2. All funding bills must start in the House, not the Senate.
3. You must take the good with the bad- and the bad (01-08) was much worse than the good (96-01). - vanguardanon, on 01/08/2009, -2/+8They may be hypocrites but it doesn't mean they are wrong. If the democrats spend drunkenly like the republicans did I'll be very disappointed.
- Clerg, on 01/08/2009, -2/+8And so what does that say about the entire Republican party who has been in lockstep with the Moron in Chief for the last eight years, and been in control of the government for the last 10? I think the only moron here is someone who can still find a way to rationalize their blame of the Democrats after all this.
- Quaterni0n, on 01/08/2009, -3/+9Oh please.
Lame comment.
The Republicans spent more in 8 years than the Democrats did in 40. We have nothing to show for it other than a financial crisis. This mess wasn't only created in the past 8 years. It's been brewing for 30 years.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26774653
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-12/w-t ... -
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