Eh, who cares. I’m going to go marry a goat.

Mazal Tov!

I’m also down on politics. Its pretty hard not to be when you are supporting what you know to be right, and not only getting no getting no credit for it, but getting screwed over for it — while the people who have been causing the division, the people who have been ceaselessly lying about pretty much everything and undermining their own nation for political gain, are not only getting away with it, but seem poised to be rewarded for it.

Meanwhile our leaders refuse to stand up for themselves, and even if they don’t realize it, in so doing, are refusing to stand up for us, after we have stood up for them for so long.

At least thats how I feel. And it’s f**ked.

And a little remedial civics for hound: It is congress that holds the purse strings and writes the budgets, not the president.

The ONLY balanced budget in God only knows how many decades was written and passed by Republicans who had to force Clinton to sign it.

A better question is when have Democrats EVER written a balanced budget?

The answer is NEVER.

“When did Republicans ever really stand for fiscal restraint and smaller government?”

Try the 1995 Republican-led Congress with its Contract For America, in which nine of the 10 items on the contract were passed and sent to Clinton for his signature. And try thinking really hard back to 2001 before 9/11, when Pres Bush gave each taxpayer a rebate because the fiscal budget had a surplus of OUR money.

Next, he whined:

“When was the last Republican president that spent less in the budget than his predecessor?”

That would be - again - President Bush prior to the 2002 fiscal budget, which went into effect in October 2001. The budget had to be rewritten due to a little event that previous month. You know, the one that hasn’t yet been repeated on US soil….gee, I’m having a senior moment here…what was that called again?

“When was the last Republican president that balanced a budget?”

No, it wasn’t Eisenhower, but Ronald Reagan. Unfortunately, every budget he submitted to the Democrat-led Congress was always “dead on arrival” per then-Speaker Tip O’Neill.

And let’s face it - Clinton would have never attempted to send in a balanced budget but for the 1994 GOP landslide which put the brakes on a free-spending Congress. Remember the House bank scandal?

Good doggie. Go to bed now.

Regards,
Peter H.

I can’t believe this nation would elect a President whose public statements suggest appeasing the enemy in a time of war declared upon this nation by a worldwide radical movement.

Hell, if “President Obama” runs out and makes a speech everytime he feels slighted, how long is that going to last with the public???

Of course, the election is nearly six months away and a lot of things can change (many times) in that period. It will depend a lot on how long presidential coattails are in various states.

I share Vdak’s sentiment that DC politics doesn’t control my happiness, but I also run a business, and those politics can ruin it for me very quickly. America has survived worse times, but eventually there is going to be the time we don’t survive. I think two years ( I see a GOP resurgence in 2010) of Obama with a Democrat Congress could change thins so fundamentally that we loose what is essentially American.

Bruce, I’d never heard of the the Election Projection outfit you linked us to. I wonder where it gets its polling information; its projections sure don’t jibe with other polling I’ve seen. The GOP has already lost three seats in the three most recent special elections and I’m spending the summer in a district currently held by a Democrat that the projection says the Republicans will win. Taint so!

I plan on having a good time over the next four years. My personal happiness has never depended on the electoral success or failure of a particular party. I also find, the deeper I get into my faith, the less the political world matters. I’ve got a good family, a reasonable degree of economic resilience, and this won’t be that hard to get through.

Must go teach. I have more to say on this.