Go Democrats!

[Perd Hapley]

If I understand Dean, Kennedy, Pelosi and others (and feel free to correct me), they're comparing Iraq to Viet Nam. They're looking at the admittedly slow progress, counting the bodies of US soldiers, and saying it's not worth it.

It's self-fulfilling prophecy.  They screamed about it long enough and loud enough that it became just as bad as they claimed it was.  I wish HTG was wrong, but the parallel to Spain is too apalling.

[The Rabbi]

They were making comparisons to Vietnam before the first troops crossed the wire.  THe two are nothing alike.

BTW, and I thought about a separate thread for this:
Where are all the calls for bipartisanship?  When the Republicans win everyone calls for them to exhibit bipartisanship and "heal the wounds."  I havent heard one word of that here.

[grampster]

I woke up today and the sun was still shining AND it still rose in the East.  The next 2 years are going to be really interesting.  Bush gets a chance to redeem himself if he moves a little to the right if the Dems are as far to the left as they seem to be.  Balance.  And we get a little gridlock domestically and WoT and Iraq/A'stan gets redefined either for the better or for the worse.  It'll be interesting if conservative Dems get ground up by the leftist wing of the Dems or if they'll assert themselves.  It'll be interesting to see where the rino's shake out.  This shift in power is really going to be fun to watch.  Watch and see if the Administration holds talks with Iran (and Syria to a lesser extent) regarding Iraq and the balance of power in the region. I'll bet we do and the nuyular thing will be put on a back burner for a time.  Russia has a strong interest in reuniting the old Soviet Union and working in concert with Iran in that region.  None of this is will happen instantaneously but....watch for a calming in Iraq, fairly soon.  One of the smartest things that could happen is ownership all of the oil in Iraq is divied up amongst the populance.  Every citizen get one share. 

On the other hand, W may just give up and let them do their leftist/statist thing figuring the White House will stay in Republican hands in '08.  Unfortunately it seems most of the governance is more about political posturing and power seeking rather than national interests.  Status quo around the world.

[lumpy]

Where are all the calls for bipartisanship?

if you noticed... the dems won... the calls for bipartisanship should come from your side this time.

[Perd Hapley]

Did you hear Bush's press conference yesterday?  That's about all he talked about. 

[lumpy]

Did you hear Bush's press conference yesterday?  That's about all he talked about.

I missed it. thanks for the info. Rabbi, that should answer your question.

[Guest]

It requires a person with a marginal intellect and a dearth of humility to seize oportunities like this to ridicule and insult others over simple misunderstandings.

You publicaly accuse me of being something that I am not (in a thread that I HADNT EVEN POSTED IN), I call you out on it, and now I am the bad guy because your embarrased about it? Tough. You had the chance to admit it was a misunderstanding on your part (hell you had the CHANCE not to pull that kind of BS in the first place), but instead you wanted to put it on me, like its my fault that you didnt take the time to understand what you were saying. That isnt going to happen, when a man makes a mistake he gets to own it all by himself or not at all. Cry about it all you want, but you arent the victim here, you just got caught.

Oh yeah, and MR Moral High Ground, lets just refer back to your original post before you get yourself too worked up. THIS is what you said, it is the THIRD POST in thread THAT I HAD NOT POSTED IN:

C_yeager seems to think the Democrats will do more to reverse gun control than the Republicans did.  I think he's on crack, but I'd love to be proven wrong.  We'll see.

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Read that FIVE TIMES and tell me that I dont have a right to be pissed off, then tell me that you have a right to cry about getting called out on it in a firm manner, go ahead, you answer now is gonna say a lot about you.

[The Rabbi]

If you're sitting down, you're on crack! 

[Matthew Carberry]

It'll be interesting when legislation starts coming down the pike to see if the folks over on DU start screaming about DINO's.

Jim Webb, for one, is not going to vote the Socialist/Green/Hippy party line on guns or anything else.  There are a lot of other new Dems in Congress who weren't just "acting" more conservative, they actually are.  It'll start driving the leadership nuts when more of their folks start crossing the aisle on hot button issues.

I haven't looked but if we lost RINO's to Dems (pro or anti) and the Dems blow it, we'll be in an even better place next round.  The incumbent (but useless) Repub's will be out, opening up room for younger, more Republican (Goldwater) Republicans or for true non-hippy Dems to remain..

[Headless Thompson Gunner]

It requires a person with a marginal intellect and a dearth of humility to seize oportunities like this to ridicule and insult others over simple misunderstandings.

You publicaly accuse me of being something that I am not (in a thread that I HADNT EVEN POSTED IN), I call you out on it, and now I am the bad guy because your embarrased about it? Tough. You had the chance to admit it was a misunderstanding on your part (hell you had the CHANCE not to pull that kind of BS in the first place), but instead you wanted to put it on me, like its my fault that you didnt take the time to understand what you were saying. That isnt going to happen, when a man makes a mistake he gets to own it all by himself or not at all. Cry about it all you want, but you arent the victim here, you just got caught.

Oh yeah, and MR Moral High Ground, lets just refer back to your original post before you get yourself too worked up. THIS is what you said, it is the THIRD POST in thread THAT I HAD NOT POSTED IN:

C_yeager seems to think the Democrats will do more to reverse gun control than the Republicans did.  I think he's on crack, but I'd love to be proven wrong.  We'll see.

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Read that FIVE TIMES and tell me that I dont have a right to be pissed off, then tell me that you have a right to cry about getting called out on it in a firm manner, go ahead, you answer now is gonna say a lot about you.

This started out as a simple misunderstanding, but you've now blown it all out of proportions.  I've acknowledged my mistake and apologized for it, yet you still can't let it go.  Get over it.  Grow up and move on.

If it makes you feel any better, I still think you're on crack, just for different reasons now.   

[Guest]

you answer now is gonna say a lot about you.

Oh, I see it so perfectly now.  I'm just a dumb hick who can't read.

I guess you do occassionaly post an item with some amount of insight.

I'm done with this thread, I learned what I needed to.