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[razorjak]

Jeeeeeesus FUCKSHIT!!!

Gods, how do these people's brains function? How can they parse this shit? As far as I can tell, this is truly how their minds are set:

Anything good that happened in the Clinton administration happened in spite of him.
Everything bad that happened was directly his fault or that of his wife.
Anything good that has come about during Shrubbo's tenure as Chimp in Thief is directly his glory.
Everything that goes wrong was due to those pesky liberals and leftists who are trying hard to undermine his "great work".

Anything I halfhandedly might "blame" on Bush immediately brings out comments of how "this decision had nothing to do with Bush. It was entirely a seperate group who came up with it." And more than half of those commments end with " ... probably a hold-over from Clinton."

Seriously? How can it go from "All the president's fault" to "Not the president's fault" simply due to the token political party each gets their funding?

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[nimue-amethyst.livejournal.com]

His own party is starting to recognize he's a problem, though, because all of the campaigns I've heard for the upcoming elections are touting "Reagan" republicans. Apparently they've decided Reagan was their last good poster boy. There were problems with him too, but I think it was long enough ago that people don't remember them as well. Plus he's recently died, so they're banking on that to help them. I shook my head when I first started hearing it. I personally am independent because I think both parties suck.

[montieth.livejournal.com]

In the Grand Scheme of things, Reagan really had the right direction. I was too idealistic at the time to understand that, but looking back, I can see where he was damn right on a number major issues.

GWB makes me happy at least in the aspect that we're dealing with Islamist in terms that they understand (force). We've been dancing around them since I was a kid and they blew up the Beruit Embassy Barracks. We had to more or less sideline the issues during the Cold war but Clinton let the problems continue to fester for some reason. Islamists don't understand negotiations except as a means of getting additional time to maneuver behind you and stab you again. Hell, their own dogma emphasizes this.

GWB is not at all afraid to use Big Stick Diplomacy in the sense of Teddy Roosevelt. He however misses the boat on a number of major domestic issues that were the Democrats to have put someone forwards that had two clues to rub together that I'd vote for them.

The problem is that the likes of Dean are in control of the Democrats. If I could go back in time, I'd grab Ike up out of retirement and bring him forwards for the Democrats. Except, I expect he'd gravitate to the Republicans in this day and age. There's too many self professed socialist types in the DNC today for them to accurately represent me. Which pisses me off.

Day By Day's cartoon from yesterday spells it out for me. Anything outside of those items are red herrings. The Gay Marriage Bill is dead in the Senate as it should be. Why they spent political capitol on it I have no bloody idea. It was probably another political foot ball like it was last go around. Something to rally 'that' segment of the fans in the bleachers. *sigh*