Congress at 25% - Bush at 29%

[actsnoblemartin]

Are their two polls?. one that says democratic members of congress 70-100% and republicans 0-25 % . If the majority were republicans, and this poll came out, you guys would be jumping all over it. The truth is, what have the democrats really done besides try to end the iraq war?

you refuse to address the issue of the polls that ask the public to differentiate between congressional democrats and congressional republicans.

why are you so afraid of facing them?

 

[red states rule]

Both MM and RSR are completely missing the point.

Look at those numbers. People dislike the Democrats. People dislike the Republicans. Both of your parties are hated. The only reason you hold office is you have colluded to keep a duopoly on the political process.

I admit both parties are not popular

Some Republicans are moving back to the right - while the Dems are moving further to the left

 

[JeffWartman]

I admit both parties are not popular

Some Republicans are moving back to the right - while the Dems are moving further to the left

Which Republicans are moving back to the right?

If anything, the GOP is moving leftward.

 

[actsnoblemartin]

how so?

Which Republicans are moving back to the right?

If anything, the GOP is moving leftward.

 

[red states rule]

Which Republicans are moving back to the right?

If anything, the GOP is moving leftward.

For starters the ones who stood up to Bush on the amnesty bill

The ones who supported it should be tossed out on their ass

 

[Angel Heart]

Yes.

Harry Reid is bowing to Republicans more often than not.

Don't think this fact is lost on voters.

Oh and spouting off comments like [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niPmXym7u3g[/ame] before the serge even happened sure shows that.

 

[actsnoblemartin]

agreed. Traitors.

For starters the ones who stood up to Bush on the amnesty bill

The ones who supported it should be tossed out on their ass

 

[JeffWartman]

how so?

Rudy Giuliani is pro-choice, pro-gun control, and pro-gay marriage.
Trent Lott wants government to step in and overly regulate and control insurance companies
George W. Bush wants amnesty
Lindsey Graham wants amnesty
George W. Bush increased the size of the federal government with his 2002 Medicare bill
George W. Bush increased the size of the federal government when he teamed up with Ted Kennedy to support the 2001 NCLB law
The war in Iraq is a Wilsonian, Liberal war.

And there are many, many, more examples.

 

[red states rule]

Oh and spouting off comments like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niPmXym7u3g before the serge even happened sure shows that.

Senator Reid,

It is difficult to write this letter with any civility, but I think enough people will scream so much, with enough cursing and invective, that I will not need to add any more for you to get the point, that you infuriate those Americans who serve in the military with your careless, ignorant, mean-spirited, and frankly, dangerous remarks.

You, sir, are not any average, private citizen. You are a Senator of the United States of America, and whatever your political views or allegiances may be, you must first show loyalty to and serve with honor your country. Yet, you do not do so, and you have disgraced whatever nobility or honor you might have earned serving your constituency.

Even if our efforts in Iraq were an absolute failure, which they are surely not, you abuse your position and the Nation’s trust by declaring that the war is lost. Can you not comprehend how wrong it is for you to make such a statement?! Regardless of your partisan views, which seem to me awfully petty indeed when compared to the national security of our country or the lives of our soldiers, you must have enough sense of decency or patriotism that, at the least, to know that you don’t damage or hurt your nation and the public servants with the most on the line?!

You embolden our enemies, you discourage our allies, you demoralize the troops who serve, and you denigrate those Iraqis who have turned to the US as their hope for freedom, after decades of living under the tyranny and violence of a war criminal and a brutal oppression.

You are a disgrace. Made worse by the fact that you’re wrong.

There are many ways to view our efforts in Iraq. While a private citizen may well believe, and interpret events to indicate, that we have somehow “lost the war in Iraq,” that’s based more on ignorance and media hype than on actual, ground truth. Citizens will only be as informed, well or ill, by the sources of news to which they choose to listen. We live in a free society. But thanks to dishonest and in my view, disloyal Americans such as you, and the media who abet you, a majority of Americans have been misled about what we do in Iraq and what is really going on.

I am an Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) III Vet, mobilized with the National Guard, and deployed to Iraq from January to November 2005. I served as a First Sergeant for 160 guard soldiers. We served in Tikrit, and every one of our soldiers came back without injury. Sure, we didn’t see a lot, just our own slice of Iraq, but we were regularly exposed to mortars and rockets on base, and the threat of IEDs on supply convoys several times a week.

I think you could make a good case that we won the war in a few weeks in 2003: the war against Saddam Hussein’s Army, which collapsed in a spectacular liberation of Iraq. I am shamed to think you probably viewed this event with dismay, for purely partisan reasons.

I think you could make another excellent case that we won the war to establish democracy in Iraq, helping the Iraqis hold three hugely successful elections with huge Iraqi participation (greatly in excess of any modern US elections). I am shamed to think you probably viewed these elections with dismay, for purely partisan reasons.

I think you could make a plausible case that we have defeated the Sunni Baathist based “insurgency,” with the destruction and de facto surrender of so many holdouts among the former regime. I likewise think you could make the same case about Al Qaeda in Iraq, the presence of which you and your supporters adamantly denied for a very long time. They are on the run, they are defeated at every turn, their own intercepted communications say admit that very fact. I am shamed to think you probably viewed these events with dismay, for purely partisan reasons.

Now, as we help the Iraqis grow in strength in defending their own democracy, you say the “war” is lost. Which one? I can’t but help to think that what you really mean, is the defensive war this Administration has been fighting against you and your party colleagues since we invaded Iraq.

If the current surge can be successful at fully securing, once and for all, the security of the Iraqi democracy, this will prove you and your allies wrong. As an American, I recognize what a truly magnificent accomplishment that would represent, for Iraq, and for the Coalition who made that possible.

I am shamed, appalled, and heartsick to think, you would certainly view these events with dismay, for purely partisan reasons.

1SG Jeff Nuding
642 MI BN
42nd ID “Rainbow”
“Rainbow….Never Forget!”
http://michellemalkin.com/2007/04/20/more-letters-for-harry-lost-it-reid/

 

[actsnoblemartin]

oh, let me be clear, im not happy with the republican party right now. But they are better then the democrats on their worst day.

Again, does the poll say "How are the democrats doing in congress?" No it says "how is congress doing?"

I think congress is doing a horrible job, it almost rivals Presiden Bush's Second term, but that does not mean Im going to put the blame on any party. Im putting the blame on Congress for doing a horrible job.
I could understand your argument if the democrats had a landslide majority and were actually passing bills that you dont like, but nobody is passing anything significant. Nobody is getting anything done because nobody agrees on anything. Do you even know what Congress means? Its not a party! Its congress! Please read the definition of CONGRESS. Post it here when you find it.

 

[red states rule]

oh, let me be clear, im not happy with the republican party right now. But they are better then the democrats on their worst day.

Maybe Dems would get more votes if it was legal to sell alcohol on Election day

 

[Angel Heart]

Maybe Dems would get more votes if it was legal to sell alcohol on Election day

WHAT?? It's completely legal to sell it here. But then again maybe that's why Oregon was taken by the Dems in Nov Dems. Right into the poor house we go.

 

[red states rule]

WHAT?? It's completely legal to sell it here. But then again maybe that's why Oregon was taken by the Dems in Nov Dems. Right into the poor house we go.

In some areas it is not sold

They want peope sober when they vote - that is why in your area the Dems rule

Hide your money Angel - the Dems want all you got

 

[Angel Heart]

Oh the changes they have already started. I now have to keep my daughter in a car seat until she's 8. They are making smoking illegal in bars come Jan 1 2009. I can go on and on.

I must say that they have voted to totally fund something that I totally am behind. Head Start. Educate yourself on them and I know you will support them too. They give power to the parents, through the Policy Council. We have control over hires and fires. We have control over what money is spent on. We decide the pay scale of the employees. Unlike the public schools. They take power from the parents.

 

[red states rule]

Oh the changes they have already started. I now have to keep my daughter in a car seat until she's 8. They are making smoking illegal in bars come Jan 1 2009. I can go on and on.

I must say that they have voted to totally fund something that I totally am behind. Head Start. Educate yourself on them and I know you will support them too. They give power to the parents, through the Policy Council. We have control over hires and fires. We have control over what money is spent on. We decide the pay scale of the employees. Unlike the public schools. They take power from the parents.

To libs, you are to stupid to educate your own kids. Only libs know what is best for your kids

 

[maineman]

Not at all

It is so funny libs now want to dismiss and spin polls they lived by for the last 5 years

again.... just how thick are you, really?

It is YOU who are dismissing polls. NOT me.

I have tried for months to get you to acknowledge that every single time -since before the last election all the way up until this month -the public has been asked to differentiate between democrats and republicans in congress, they have consistently given the republicans LOWER approval ratings than they gave the democrats.

It really is getting ridiculous watching you run away from that fact.

 

[red states rule]

again.... just how thick are you, really?

It is YOU who are dismissing polls. NOT me.

I have tried for months to get you to acknowledge that every single time -since before the last election all the way up until this month -the public has been asked to differentiate between democrats and republicans in congress, they have consistently given the republicans LOWER approval ratings than they gave the democrats.

It really is getting ridiculous watching you run away from that fact.

Yea, Republicans are doing worse then Dems

Yet your party leaders have lower numbers then Bush/Cheney

 

[maineman]

Are their two polls?. one that says democratic members of congress 70-100% and republicans 0-25 % . If the majority were republicans, and this poll came out, you guys would be jumping all over it. The truth is, what have the democrats really done besides try to end the iraq war?

yes. there are two polls...there are actually many polls...they ask one question where respondents have to give their approval of the democrats in congress, and the next question, they are asked to give their appoval of the republicans in congress. In each and every poll - since before the elections - where those questions have been asked, democrats score better than republicans.

Rasmussen has ten areas where they ask respondents which party they trust more to deal with those issues. In the latest report, which came out late last week, the republicans and democrats are dead even on the issue of national security... and democrats are significantly ahead of republicans in EVERY OTHER issue. Republicans lead democrats in NO isues. The public does NOT trust the republican party and you and your buddy RSR seem to want to run away and hide from that fact.

 

[maineman]

Yea, Republicans are doing worse then Dems

Yet your party leaders have lower numbers then Bush/Cheney

and your party's congressional leaders are doing worse than the democratic leaders.

Comparing legislative approval ratings with executive branch ratings is apples and oranges....but you know that.

 

[red states rule]

yes. there are two polls...there are actually many polls...they ask one question where respondents have to give their approval of the democrats in congress, and the next question, they are asked to give their appoval of the republicans in congress. In each and every poll - since before the elections - where those questions have been asked, democrats score better than republicans.

Rasmussen has ten areas where they ask respondents which party they trust more to deal with those issues. In the latest report, which came out late last week, the republicans and democrats are dead even on the issue of national security... and democrats are significantly ahead of republicans in EVERY OTHER issue. Republicans lead democrats in NO isues. The public does NOT trust the republican party and you and your buddy RSR seem to want to run away and hide from that fact.

so why does Reid have a lower approval then Bush and Cheney; and Pelosi is in the mid 30's?