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- novenator, on 03/01/2009, -9/+84FTA -"Whether President Barack Obama is able expand that gap to favor his party will probably depend mostly on Americans under the age of 30 who have yet to form strong partisan ties."
Considering a huge part of his grassroots movement was comprised of people under 30, I think the democratic gains can only continue. - poopsybythebay, on 03/01/2009, -7/+72Drip, Drip, Drip....It is the culmination of all the "crazies" and how they brought a major party to the brink of demise.
- Maddoktor2, on 03/01/2009, -7/+71As long as Rush leads the GOP, there's hope.
Limbaugh / Wurzelbacher 2012 ! - freedomjoe, on 03/01/2009, -9/+56and considering the twitter travesties of the right as their single largest attempt to get in touch with the new generation, I'm feeling pretty confident.
- FlaG8r, on 03/02/2009, -4/+41I hope my fellow progressives aren't getting too cocky with all the GOP obits I'm seeing. These things can shift in a hurry.
- ThsGuyRightHere, on 03/01/2009, -1/+38I would say not forming partisan ties is a good thing. Being involved and informed voters is the best thing for young people to do at the voting booth.
- MarcAnon, on 03/02/2009, -3/+35Limbaugh/Steele. We need to have the GOP getting in touch with the "urban/suburban hip-hop culture" that Michael Steele is so clearly in touch with.
- Maddoktor2, on 03/02/2009, -4/+29Perfect! She can stay home keep an eye on that sneaky ol' Russia from her back porch!
- homercles337, on 03/02/2009, -3/+26Acutally, there is hope regardless of what the repugs do. The support for the plans Obama and the Dem party have laid out is overwhelming. I say to hell with the "bipartisan" *****, lets get this country back on the right track. If youre not on board just get out of the way and let those with well founded ideas fix some ***** that the right ***** up.
- JenniferInMO, on 03/02/2009, -3/+25Palin for Secretary of State?
- Shadwell, on 03/02/2009, -7/+28"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. "
- JenniferInMO, on 03/02/2009, -2/+22I agree. Even on the approaches our President is taking that I don't agree with I want to see him get something done. No more gridlock, no more concessions until the action is watered down. I am ready to just move forward.
- normlsparky, on 03/02/2009, -5/+25I was also wondering where all of those fiscal conservatives recently came from. You couldn't have found one during the Bush Administration if your life had depended upon it.
Weird, huh? - LeftieLucy, on 03/02/2009, -5/+25True...I would also add the Christian Reconstructionist Party, who may pay lip service to the constitution, but actually want to replace it with the bible.
- darkciti2, on 03/02/2009, -4/+22Clinton couldn't run for a third term. They [barely] prevented Al Gore from winning in 2000. They climbed to the mountaintops to proclaim, "Morality! Clinton is immoral!, Vote Bush - the 'Party of Values' ".
Until they were exposed for:
Hypocritical Gay sex scandals (Jeff Gannon, Ted Haggart, Denny Hastert, ad nausem)
Hypocritical Church scandals (Ted Haggart, Hastert, et al.)
Hypocritical Drug scandals (Rush Limbaugh hillbilly heroin, Ted Hastert methamphetamine)
Illegal wars
Illegal firing of US Attorneys
Outing of undercover agent(s)
Corruption (KBR, Halliburton, Blackwater)
ad nausem...
Republicans: The party of "Morality" - shupy, on 03/02/2009, -12/+27Yes, but do not underestimate the "right wing conspiracy's" ability to dig dirt and orchestrate distraction. If they hadn't been able to pull of the 24/7 discussion of Monica we would never have had Bush in office.
- shupy, on 03/02/2009, -2/+16It is also good that they understand how things got here. We have seen Republican policies run the country into the ground.
If any of us is to have a future, we have to be diligent and never let this happen. - shupy, on 03/02/2009, -7/+21FAce it, anyone who hopes to own a home, have a steady job, and retire without going broke is supporting the democrats now.
Honestly, does anyone really believe that any of these Republicans give a damn about the defficit? They are so out of touch with the population it is pathetic. - joand315, on 03/02/2009, -5/+17Partisan ties in grassroots movements are good. People should feel connected to the parties they support and work hard for them. They are then entitled to hold their representatives feet to the fire and withhold support if necessary.
It is the young partisan people, who work hard to get out the vote, monitor elections, disseminate information. If the Republicans allowed more input from their real grassroots, not just the crazies, they might not be the failed party they are today. - darkciti2, on 03/02/2009, -6/+18I think the Republican Party is beyond the brink. It's difficult to recover when your party fractures into this many pieces:
Traditional Republican Party
Libertarian Party
Modern Day Whig Party
NeoCon Republican Party
Independent Party
New American Party
It'll be interesting to see how the true conservatives brand themselves. I wouldn't be surprised if we have 3 major parties running in 2012, or at least if independents aren't widely appealed to. - Anzat, on 03/02/2009, -3/+14The Democrats should enjoy it while it lasts, because after Michael Steele's off-the-hook hip-hop makeover all the young people will be flocking to the Republicans!
- jacked, on 03/02/2009, -1/+12I know, it's almost scary.
- homercles337, on 03/02/2009, -9/+20Not to mention that the repug base is old, old people. Soon to die off with their outdated ideas. This means that the dem/progressive/youth base will grow while the repugs/old/outdated/uninformed base will simultaneously shrink. Knowledge is power and we progressives can only benefit from facts and truth. Now if something could be done about the Corporate Media and its agenda for the right.
- geoffg, on 03/02/2009, -14/+24The political retardation on Digg these days is astonishing.
- JenniferInMO, on 03/02/2009, -5/+15@austro: so you are buying in to the fact that people who are getting foreclosed upon deserved it? The fact that the value in their homes has declined by as much as 40% in some areas, that many homes cannot be sold at any price because there are no buyers doesn't factor into it? What about people who have lost their jobs or have massive health insurance bills due to a sudden accident, illness or injury and who now cannot sell their homes if they wanted to?
What about your home? The value of your home (if you have one) has declined immensely and every home that lays vacant from foreclosure in your neighborhood can take your homes value down 7-10%? You are paying for Steve's home with the value of yours whether you like it or not.
AND you apparently do not have a clue as to what the program is that our President is implementing because Steve wouldn't qualify. It is targeted at people who are not behind in their mortgage and whose home isn't totally out of whack loan:mortgage and who are likely to fall behind if they aren't able to refinance. This provides a stopgap which prevents more people from falling behind and into foreclosure and does so only for those who are most likely to pay back their refinanced/modified loans.
You need to stop listening to the radio, and watching paid shills and Faux news and start reading some reputable sources.
http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-02-26-voa31.cf ...
http://searchchicago.suntimes.com/homes/1451592,co ...
And it is only government guarantees. The lenders are taking a hit on this, which they should for making predatory loans: http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf50 ... - darkciti2, on 03/02/2009, -2/+12Flamebait. Are you ignoring the past 8 years of Republican Bush/Cheney failure and the reason we voted them out of office?
We want progress. This means: NO MORE REPUBLICAN FAILURE.
Most of your fellow "morans" understand it. Why don't you?
(and yes, I'm trying to trigger one of your "American Family Action Alerts", so your fellow Republican hate squad comes to the site to further demonstrate your ignorance) - Bartboy919, on 03/01/2009, -3/+13LOL @ Twitter Travesties.
- wiredmessiah, on 03/02/2009, -1/+10I would probably consider myself a Republican if they actually held on to their traditional values. Small government? YES. Fiscal conservatism? YES. Imperialism? NO!
- Azerael, on 03/02/2009, -1/+10Hey, don't bash kool-aid.
- bullhead2007, on 03/02/2009, -1/+10It's amazing that 29% of this country doesn't have representation. I say this as an independent that hates the party system and wishes to vote on the basis of the individuals ant their policies, rather than this ***** team based election system.
- AndrewDB, on 03/02/2009, -10/+19You have got to be simply delusional to call yourself a republican at this point. Why would anyone, in their right mind, openly, freely, say with the highest amount of pride possible say that they're a republican?
- subscriber, on 03/02/2009, -3/+11@austro
It was Bush's Secretary of Treasury (Paulson) who initially called for and conducted the bank bailout (TARP). Yep, Paulson -- big time conservative.
That was after he let Lehman Brothers fail, and subsequently realized that the banks are so interconnected (mostly via credit default swaps) that when one big bank falls, it will take down several more with it. The credit market froze overnight (that's a very bad thing -- a bigger deal than you might think). Paulson decided that letting Lehman fail was a huge mistake, so he acted quickly to bail out the rest of the big banks.
So being against bailing out financial institutions or mortgage holders (other side of the same coin) might sound good on moral or ethical grounds, but the truth is that it's in your own best interest to keep the banking system afloat.
I'm not sure about "your average octomom" though. I thought there was only one. - normlsparky, on 03/02/2009, -1/+9It will be more interesting to see which group ends up calling themselves "true conservatives" and which group breaks away from them.
- DrewPeacock, on 03/02/2009, -2/+9You lost me at "smolls".
- tharju, on 03/02/2009, -5/+12normlsparky--right on! im just wondering the same thing. Those republicans are so full of *****.
- MangalaIII, on 03/02/2009, -7/+14Actual voting participation in this country is still a joke. Congress should pass a law to automatically register everyone who pays taxes to vote.
- knotboy, on 03/02/2009, -1/+8Yasser Arafat won A Nobel Peace too.
- djruden, on 03/02/2009, -1/+7The GOP was pretty much split before the election. That's why Ron Paul had his own convention in direct defiance to the RNC. The republicans seem to be split between young and old. The old ones being the Bush supporters the digg loves to hate on and the young ones being the fiscal conservatives, yet a little more socially liberal.
I personally would love to see a major 3rd party get some spot light. It would mean democrats would probably take the next election or 2 but more choice is definately better. Things aren't always black and white. - ddawggin, on 03/02/2009, -2/+8The only box I was able to check off was "Republican."
Sorry to break your stereotype. - zeebo, on 03/02/2009, -3/+9Just make election day a national holiday as it is in pretty much every other first-world democracy.
- randersontt, on 03/02/2009, -0/+6i'm an independent with Libertarian leanings and it seems to me that the WORST thing the GOP can do right now is associate themselves with the likes of Limbaugh or Coulter. If that's their strategy then they're in deep sh** going forward.
- inactive, on 03/02/2009, -3/+9it's pretty funny how so many people on digg want straight democrat rule, no two party system.
- darkciti2, on 03/02/2009, -3/+8If anyone refers to President Obama as a "messiah" or a "god" they are delusional; and that has nothing to do with the President of the United States of America.
- jacked, on 03/02/2009, -5/+10Because the vast majority of Republicans are neither theocratic, warmongering, nor fascists. And I just *know* you didn't say "Most of the true fiscal conservatives (in practice) are Democrats anyway," with a straight face. Democrats are known for being tax & spend big-government supporters. Not that those in government calling themselves Republicans are any better, I'm just sayin'.
- snoobies, on 03/02/2009, -0/+5Interesting, you'd think our senate would reflect such numbers.
- normlsparky, on 03/02/2009, -0/+5I'm hardly a Bush supporter. Read some of my comments and you will find this to be true. I'm just saying that Bush's 1st term wasn't exactly a success and he got re-elected.
- Agoraphobic, on 03/02/2009, -2/+7It's popular to be a Democrat right now... all the cool kids are doing it...
- novenator, on 03/02/2009, -0/+5don't forget about Bachman's urban-speak lessons
- SocialPoison, on 03/02/2009, -1/+6You deserve a cookie, TGRH. Be educated on who you're voting for and what you're voting for... it really is that simple. If you believe the democrats can do no wrong, you're in for some serious heartbreak.
- MacParrot, on 03/02/2009, -2/+7And Bachmann/Turner Overdrive!
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