Putting aside all the Good Bush/Bad Bush rhetoric...\nWhat do y'all think about the success/miss of your government?\nWhen the Reps took the majority, for a moment, I thought...well...this should be interesting. We'll finally get to see what they'd accomplish if they had it to do their way.\n\nI guess my wish list ran a little like this:\n1-Vote American English as the National Language of the USA.\n2-Rehabilitate the Welfare System we always hear is broken and "...if elected, we'll fix." ...one way or another.\n3-Put the pledge back in public schools.\n4-Put protections back for Teachers to administer corporal punishment and take back the classrooms. \n\nOne or two of these would have been fine. I'm a little disappointed they did not follow through on them. Heck, even a major upgrade to background checks so you could get your firearms the same day. The process shouldn't take as long as it does with the ways computers work...right?
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I am a Republican voter.  A good thing they have done is cut taxes.  Unfortunately, cutting spending is supposed to go along with cutting taxes, at least in my ideal world.  I wish they would have secured the border.  Also, I wish that they would have given control of education back to the states instead of increasing the federal government's control of education.
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A very good question and like the way you did this. I am glad that you are free to express your feelings keep up the good work.\n  More people need to realize that we americans are not perfect but wish that the government people realize that as well.\n  Need to get bush and others out of office and put others who will listen to us.
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I would like to see this plan too. Isn't it amazing how they were elected by simply stating they had a plan. No one made them accountable for their plan. I will say this, I pray they do have a plan and I hope it doesn't involve cutting and running. We owe our troops much more than that. God bless!
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Firestorm:  Just how would that happen in two years?   A majority where?  Do you have any clue how long a Congressman  serves in office?   Oh. . sorry. . you are probably a prime example of your party. . .next time I won't write this as fast.\n\nRich B:  The point was not missed.  It is unfortunate that the Democrats had to address some of the points the Republican made issues out of (which were aimed to distract) but the truth is that "ALL" parties have ignorant people voting.  \n\nThe issue of Iraq is the main issue that won these seats for the Democrats because it is the most burdensome out of all the issues.  It is resulting in a loss of many young lives, fueling turmoil in the middle east.  Costing Americans 300 BILLION Dollars a MONTH and it has no end in sight.   \n\nThe Borders have been an issue since the ALAMO and an ISSUE whenever either party requires a shield to cover the truth.  This time the Republicans needed to turn the ignorant away from IRAQ.   \n\nTerrorist crossed the Canadian Border. . .FACT!  Canadians enter our country and take the "GOOD" paying jobs away from Americans.  FACT!. . .Yet, not a peep about it from the Rep's   The old Race card covered in B.S.\n\nSure we have other problems, and they were all ignored by this DO NOTHING but STAY THE COURSE party.  The change is on the way, but starting tomorrow, Bush will challenge the newly controlled congress instead of conceding, that a change is what the people of this country want!\n\nThank you all for voting. . .Great Job.
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I am going to touch basis here on a few different thing in addition to answering your question...1) There is a spell checker if you look just above the upper right corner of your comment box...2)some of you who have answered this don't seem to think that the senate and the house are competant...the collective American has already elected these persons, generally we don't learn from our mistakes...and our system isn't perfect so when we hold public elections, there is no guarantee that the new house and the new senate will meet your specifications...the entire nation will never agree on who we elect...3)The Americans advancing on the Germans in WWII has drastically changed everything that you do today...The Americans were for the most part devestated by the Third Reich, with the exception of a few key victories, a homeland attack by the Germans at that time would have been catastrophic to our nation...so appreciate the decision to make that move, it was justly made...4) and now to you question...No, I don't think so, the empathy that is implied by our Nation by "keeping our noses in other's business" shows our integrity...I know that one of the main arguments of OIF is the lack of WMD (weapons of mass destruction), or more specifically, our inability to find any...however our presence there opened our eyes to the abominations that are daily routine in that nation...and you are probably thinking that it has nothing to do with us???  It is similar to if you walked into your neighbors house to see if he was beating his dog and saw that he had killed his baby...pretty effed up, huh?  In this instance it is your civil duty to take action... OIF is that same thing in the same context, only on the national level, and it is very necessary...however, yes...before we were a superpower and not able to do the integral thing, we were probably subject to much less criticism...but the bitter truth is that anyone put under the white light is subject to much criticism, whether it is justified or not is a matter of opinion to the rater...hopefully this helps you out with your question...step back and look at the big picture, not just the bottom corner...
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very.  to fix is you need to redefine a nation's priorities.  change from what i want (something to entertain me) to what they need (the need for basic items to live).  interesting question to pose to the most selfish and self obsesed people in the world.  (not every american is like that, but i think as a nation we are).
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What do you do when you want something from someone you can't beat up?  You kiss their as_s, right?\n\nWhat do you do when you want something from someone you can beat up?  You beat them up.  \n\nSo, they think they can intimidate us into giving them what they want.  Well, they're SORELY mistaken.  I'm fairly liberal, and I might have been cool about this, but they made a serious mistake when they started DEMANDING these things.\n\nAnd the lack of assimilation is ridiculous.  They're chanting things in Spanish that the citizens, those who vote for the freaking representatives and senators, can't understand.  This is extremely disrespectful.  They've won themselves over, but they've turned the rest of us away.
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Tired of getting bashed??...GOOD!!...Now, DO something about it!!\n\nHelp the democrats:\n1.) Get a platform\n2.) Find a viable charismatic leader who isn't a wimp.\n3.) Stop this insane Bush bashing!...He can't even RUN in 2008!!\n4.) Unify the left to SERIOUSLY address the immigration problem!\n5.) Unify the left for a FAIR solution to healthcare costs\n\nIf you guys simply do THOSE 5 THINGS, your party will once again gain control of the White House and Congress.\n\nHurry!...The country is waiting!!
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Undo all the damage BushCo has done and pass a single Executive Order negating every one he and the last 2 predecessors had declared....including repealing the Military Commissions Act which would re-institute Habeus Corpus. This would re-establish the US Constitution as THE supreme law of the land instead of what a small group of plutocrats privately decide. \n\nThen abolish the privately owned Federal Reserve bank and return the creation of money back to the people whom it belongs. This would also establish the tax code as it was originally designed to be - leaving a man's wages alone.
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if you take all our troops home right now what would happen to the fledgling democracy in irag? or afganistan?\nI am not a demorcrat or a republican......to many brain cells still living... but  I have enough sense to realize that if we withdraw today....thousand more innocents will die...I am torn.....I dont think that even one more american should lose thier life in that region...  we cant force democracy on people.....they dont seem to understand it or want it.......look at palistine.....years of fight for freedom .....they are there and what do they do? vote for the monsters that attack innocents.......what the hell....? being a pacifist is also not the anwser....those folks dont respect weakness.... think if we send a message loud and clear you kill one americian.... journalist...and the pain begins......will get thier attention.....I am rambling again.......and to all the haters of republicans...\nlook what the demorcrat party has done to Mass...and Ca..\n I have been to both states...live there...if you are a working person......you are taxed out yur u know what...?\nwhy ? entitlements for the masses who vote for demorcrats.......but it cant be paid for.......so thier solution...taxes taxes taxes.......soon the business move... from cali to nevada ..arizona ect... mass.... well I am rambling sorry......hit a couple of nerves.. Peace
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How about attempted voter fraud like Al Gore and the Dems trying to keep US military members votes from being counted?\n\nHow about attempted voter fraud like Al Gore trying to cherry pick counties in Florida where he pretty much knew he would pick up votes and ignoring those in which he would probably lose votes?\n\nGet over 2000. Neither man "stole" the election. Gore simply attempted some campaign "strategery" (I love that word!), and Bush was simply one step ahead of him. George Bush simple out-Gored Al Gore.\n\nAnd don't think for a MINUTE that Al Gore would not have done what Bush did.\n\nYou Dems and libs better get over it. Your bitterness and viral hatred of Bush is going to cost you the election in 2008, as well.\n\nBTW, I voted for Bush FOUR times. Twice for Governor of the great state of Texas and twice for President. Don't regret one of the votes.
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Illegal drug interdiction.\n\nDurgs contribute far too much to all sorts of crime, and misery, and strain social services and law enforcement to the breaking point.\n\nEducation. Need I say more? If all of the tax dollars that went into munitions and war-mongering were spent on education, the schools in this country would be the best on Earth.\n\nEducation should be our first priority. If our children are not first with us, what should be?\n\nIn my opinion, teachers should be the best-paid professionals. Who is it that trains all the doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc? Teachers - that's who.\n\nClean up the inner cities.\n\nRebuild and provide decent housing for all.\n\nEmployment for all, according to their capabilities.\n\nGood health care for all, employed or not.\n\nThe space program! We need to unite, quit the human in-fighting, and look beyond! So many new materials, and so much knowledge, have come from the research involved in the space program!\n\nScience! Science! Science, I say! Fund useful research!\n\nAlternative energy! Clean energy! Solar, wind, nuclear...Fossil fuels have got to GO!\n\nCops and firemen have tough dirty jobs. They need more emotional support. Too many of them are burned-out and destroyed by the ugly work that they do.\n\nI do believe that we need to maintain a military force, but far too much money is spent on war under the current system.\n\nGovernment itself should be reduced, in my opinion. Too many people are getting paid far too much to interfere and pry into the lives of our citizens.\n\nWe are far too over-legislated, and over-litigated, in my opinion!\n\nWell, Patz, that is my over-long, scattershot answer.  :-))
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I'M  WITH YOU.\n\nAll these security measures that have been implemented to give us  "security" will one day be used to regulate and control us.\n\nDear old Benjamin Franklin once said, "Those who would surrender freedom for security deserve neither."\n\nThink about it. If a government or people in the background that influence a government was/were afraid the people may one day get fed up with them and stage a revolt what measures would they put into effect to prevent that?\n\n1) control their ability to move around quickly.  \nAirport security, travel records of buses and trains.   ID's.   There was even talk of a (GASP) NATIONAL ID!\n\n2) track all large money deposits.\nRequire banks to report anything larger than $5,000.  It would take money to stage a rebellion so tracking it would warn the government who is moving money where. They just get a warrant to search your property and find the tools of a revolt and lock you  up before you can do anything to get rid of the abusive bastards.\n\n3) Squash them like a bug. \nUse the military act to lock up suspected terrorists with NO trial and they NEVER see a lawyer.\n\nDo you realize that with the passage of the most recent law, the government can designate anyone (you) as a terrorist and lock them up forever?\n\n4) Use issues that will divide the people.\nThat will prevent them from working too closely together.  Abortion, gay rights, health care, and now the Iraq mess. That should hit about 95% of the population shouldn't it? Get them fighting, arguing amongst themselves so they don't concentrate on what is really happening in the background....\n\n5) Use cameras.\nSo we can watch who goes where and catch anyone talking against the beloved people in power.\n\n6) Pretend we don't mind if they have guns to defend themselves, but slowly learn who has them so they can be collected one day.\n\nGee does any of that sound familiar?\nIn the last five years all of that has been put into place. More regulation than in the whole 200+ years since this country declared independence.\n\nAmericans are about to be subjugated and they are too complacent to know it.
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I think that Bush cost us (republicans) the election. I think that people were voting against bush rather than for a canidate. THAT worries me. I am one of those people that, even though I am a republican at heart, I feel regardless of party affiliation, it should be whoever's best for the job. And I don't necessarily know if those voted WERE best. I just hope those elected PROVE to the country that the voters didn't make a mistake.
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1.  Balanced the budget.\n2.  Established a tax rate that funded programs responsibly while still allowing business growth.  (Of course, the current yo-yo immediately changed it and along with a weakened economy managed to pass massive debt along to my children.)\n3.  Introduced a viable healthcare plan onto the American agenda (the insurance companies sank it, but we are still fighting the issue; Clinton was the prez that put it on the table).\n4.  Ended the Balkan conflicts without sapping our military strength or spilling American blood.\n5.  Got NAFTA passed, which is probably a mixed blessing, but if you believe in free trade--as I do--its made our country stronger.\n\nThat's five; I think there are more.  Clinton was a strong president, but his inability to control his, uh, urges ruined his opportunity to really change the country and perhaps stave off the current wave of lunacy in politics.
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Hi, I was just stopping by your question to see if any Democrats had some great ideas! LOL So far, I see no answers....I, too, hear alot of belly aching from the Democrats but I want to hear their solutions in DETAIL! Thanks for asking the question!
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Pre-empting daytime TV for endless hearings and investigations while they accomplish nothing in Washington, the economy begins to wane as taxes kick in and expenditures on social programs increase at the expense of defense and national security. Not wanting to deal with the terrorists in their backyard just means they will come to play in ours. And probably illegal aliens will get amnesty making those who applied legally for citizenship look foolish. At some point someone will realize our international influence has a great deal to do with our food production in this country, and the UN will try and take control of our farm produce. We already have lost most of our freedom of speech if it doesn't agree with the left. The careful avoidance of the gun control issue by democrats just means they have learned their lesson not to take on the NRA. the question will be can they last two years, until the Presidential race, before going liberal? I hope I am completely wrong, but I remember what the democrats were doing before 1994 when they had been  in control of both houses for decades. Had the "rising tide" of eager young republicans  kept the last of the pledges of the "contract with America", "term limits" and rotated out of office then they might not have been defeated as badly by the "change" attitude, or as complacent with status qou. The success of illegal immigrant and private property rights ballot measures in states that went democrat prove the republicans weren't paying attention to what were traditionally middle class values, democrat or republican. I think most people are just hoping for PROGRESS, low taxes, lower energy costs, some kind of peace (isolation is a utopian dream, 9/11 reminded us), so that life and prosperity can go on. But the influx of illegal immigrants to work cheap and demand benefits and exodus of good jobs, must be dealt with.