Originally posted by lazs2
so virgil... you believe that the democrats will spend less on social programs and spend less in general? that they will be tougher on illegal aliens?
Perhaps not... but.. do you believe there were a lot of conservatives that thought that?
face it.. the country is changing.. right now more people want socialism and big government in their lives... more people feel that they need to take money from others because they will never make it on their own without a government stealing form someone else to give to them.
they live on "entitlements" and live in section 8 houses. In some cases.. they aren't even citizens.
I think you are right tho that the congress in power allways loses after it gets a chance to show it's stuff... politicians are scum and it shows.. they allways have the lowest approval rating of any profession (for good reason) and the glow of "my guy got in" wears off very quickly as you watch them destroy the country while taking graft and commiting sex crimes.
lazs
Of course I do not believe that the Democrats will spend less, nor do I believe that they will prosecute the war better or be any less corrupt.
That does not mean I do not think some conservatives stayed home, nor does that mean I do not think some conservatives voted for moderate Democrats simply because the Republicans were not really conservative or Republican. I'm not nearly so foolish as to believe that a great number of moderate Republican voters did not vote for moderate Democrats out of disgust for some of the crap the Republicans have done lately. And the moderate conservatives were certainly unhappy this time, where as they were not the last two times.
Let's face it, on security we're so far removed from the attacks we've suffered that security is not the strong issue it once was. The five year mark has passed, and we're not dealing with a patient general population.
The Republicans haven't suffered a defeat like this in years. In fact, they've had since 1994 to get their feces cohesive, and they've been going backwards for several years now. They've been skating by for years, and this year the "throw the bums out" sentiment was stronger than anything else, and the Republicans were guilty of generating much of that sentiment.
The moderate Democrats that DID get elected may have just enough power to prevent a severe slide to the left, that remains to be seen. If they do prevent that slide, it will be even more difficult for the Republicans to turn their down hill slide around.
Let's face it, Bush and the rest of the Republicans had better do something, and they had better get their feces cohesive, or last nights big change will look small in comparison to the next two elections. And they'd better not be so stupid as to sink to the level of simple nasty partisan politics. That may have helped the Democrats, but the conservatives that the Republicans must count on will not have any tolerance for it.
