Conservative democrats have replaced liberal republicans in congress?
923159
i just think we vote for the best liars.....
1166763
Because when ever a bill is written supporting giving more power to a minority group or removing restrictions because of being a minority, almost always it is a liberal democrat behind the change.  Republicans are typically conservative, and the definition of conservative is to resist change.
848575
10-20 years ago it was simpler...the democrats were for blue collar and more environmental...the Repupl;icans were always for big business and a bigger military budget....classic bread and butter against guns...there was a balance, both got their way once in a while....now the issue is getting clouded because the Republicans have reversed their ideology (causing the Democrats to change as well) from nothing but the economy stupid to global intervention in the name of business.  but to be fair, there are traditionalists on both sides.
911888
Truman and he was a democrat.  That was a long time ago, before Vietnam.  It's interesting how times have changed things.  Most conservatives today would be considered left wing fanatics by Turmans standards.  Liberals today would seem to be from a different planet all together.
696610
Ask the liberals. They change from day to day!
1113452
If it's not Democrats, it's Republicans saying they are the scapegoat...after a while it becomes like grade-schoolers..\nThough I disagree widely with most of what liberals stand for...I do not wish for it's demise.  This would make the US virtually a one party system..and that is not the way democracy is supposed to work.
837864
Remember when the ultimate liberal, Jerry Brown was running for president back in 1992? He ran on a idea of changing the tax code to just a flat 18 per cent for everyone. He used to show a post  card and said that this could be the new tax form. I remember Republican really ridiculed him for that and hated the idea. Republicans have sucked ever since.\nPersonally I like the Democrat's idea of getting rid of income tax all together and going to a federal sales tax. Conservative republicans have had six years to change the tax code but haven't done anything. Maybe when the democrates get control of congress next week they can change things.
738825
While both sides are giddy, and rightfully so, the reality of the matter is starting to hit home with the Democrats.  In the house they have a few moderates and a cabal of conservatives who cannot be predicted to vote along party lines because to do so would mean having to answer in two years.  In the senate the margin is even narrower.
695247
Democrat.... or rather... liberal!
520644
no, democrats are just a bunch of commie liberals who are addicted to control
573377
Liberal Democrats, definitely. There's no way a conservative would dress like that.
530420
Conservatives only hated DEMOCRATIC government. Now that they can vote to cut down trees, build more bombers, give money to their industry buddies, it's all good. Right? Right? Hmmm....
792300
You'll probably get a couple of different answers such as a former Dem that switched to the republican party. The definition I personally subcribe to is that a neoconservative or the "new" conservative is one that is further right-wing than Reagan, your exclusive, bible thumping, war mongering lunatics that point to what I call "pseudo-patriotism" as the guise for validating their Un-American behavior. The classic example being Bush and his criminal administrtion. So I guess it really depends on which definition you prefer.
721111
The Republicans in MY run from very consvative to liberal. Many times you will see a candidate endorsed by The Republican, Conservative, and The Roght To Life Party.
555241
Give it to em Brit. You can't get a straight answer out of a Conservative Neocon Republican. What they say is all crap, and they sound programed by Neocon Oxycontin drug addict Rush Limbaugh. They will tell you the American Civil War wasn't over Slavery. I am a Yankee that is true, but I am a Liberal Democrat and I don't listen to these peoples crazy talk either. Republicans are racists and bigots, and they aren't afraid to say so. This has been their demise of power in America, and Congress is getting voted in November, and they are all out. America will start living in a Democracy again, so don't give up on us, we are not all the same.
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You are correct.  This is one of the reasons people like Andrew Sullivan were calling for the Democrats to take Congress - many of the Republicans that lost were the moderates or, like Curt Weldon in Pennsylvania, some of the biggest spenders in Congress.  Have to wonder if Denny Hastert will now decide to resign his seat as well.\n\nIt's time for the GOP to stop going down the road that the populists (socially conservative, economically liberal) have taken us down and return the Party to what it was supposed to be - the defenders of the taxpayers in the country, and the Party dedicated to small government.  12 years in power in Congress has led the GOP to becoming as big as spenders as the socialistic Democrats are.\n\nWhen you have Republicans defending the Social Security system as something great and trumpeting the fact that they just gave senior citizens one of the biggest entitlements ever in prescription drug coverage so that they can live even longer to suck more money from the government teat, you know that the fiscal conservatives are no longer in charge.  Maybe the GOP will realize this before 2008, and return to its roots.  Or, it may need to go completely into the wilderness and let the Democrats fuck the country over for a few years before they realize where they need to be.
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Don't be so quick to assume the Democrats will screw everything up.\n\nI'm not a member of the "far-left", but I am a Democrat, and I don't think that ultra-liberals, as their called by the right, have enough representation in Congress to do anything.  Most of the Democrats elected are either mainstream, moderate, and even a few conservative ones.  These types of Democrats best represent the majority of the Democratic Party.\n\nThose who make it on T.V. are usually very liberal Democrats, who are loud and will say anything to try to make their point.  It's the same with very conservative people, this is why Bill O'Reilly has his show.\n\nCongress will be more made up of those who reflect the majority of the nation's views, starting in January.  I look forward to this time, since we'll all hopefully have true representatives in Congress, who may actually get some work done.\n\n[Amended] If the new Democratic Congress fails, then they should, of course, face the same fate as the Republican Congress did.  However, I believe they should get more than two years to prove themselves.  The current Congress has had six, while under a Republican President, and errors and failures have run amuck.