Since the Dems have won the House and are likely to win the Senate, what do you think their agenda will be for the next 2 years? Bipartisan legislation that benefits the U.S. or partisan maneuvering to position a Presidential candidate for 2008?
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They won't try for gun control, because they have dems in the South that won't have anything to do with it, and they can't do abortion, because eight states have voted to ban it, and they can't do homosexual marriage, because 6 states have banned it. (I might havegottten the numbers backwards.)
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RE: What will the Dems Do Now?
It all depends on Bush. He says he intends to work a non partisan agenda. I feel his goal will be to improve his personal ratings over the next 2 years to not be labeled as the worst president in recent history. He acknowledges he and his foreign policy was mainly responsible for the dramatic loss for the GOP in this election. This election was certainly important but the real prize for all to now focus on is 2008. If the Dems do well for the country and can field a viable candidate in 08 they have a decent chance to have their turn at total power in government. The GOP control lasted for 12 years and now the Dems want to see it swing back to the left. In the event thatBushcontinues to play partisan politics the next two years will be a gridlock without much getting done. If this occurs Bush will be known as a total failure but the 2008 elections will be a toss up because the Dems with their new found power would have been ineffective. A real catch 22.
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When the republicans were in charge they got nothing done with the thin majority and weak leadership they had to work with.
If the girls go to work in January with an agenda out to the left field line some where they too will be tossed . But with the hildabeast's eye on the white house she can't be stupid about trying to pass to many social agenda laws.
With any luck we can experience gridlock like hasn't been seen since Roosevelt.
by all accounts, Nancy Pelosi is an extraordinarily shrewd woman. she wants to hold power for far more than 2 years. i believe she has also learned from watching the republican leadership choke on the excesses of an overly partisan approach. look for her to reach out to nontraditional allies to build a broad consenus agenda. this means incremental, bipartisan change.
if i were technologically literate, i could post the link, but read the George Will editorial piece running today. excellent analysis.
i believe she has also learned from watching the republican leadership choke on the excesses of an overly partisan approach
You've got to be kidding. Partisan? Bush has rolled on vitually every domestic program. All he needed to do was leave Iraq and he'd be one of you.
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look for her to reach out to nontraditional allies to build a broad consenus agenda. this means incremental, bipartisan change.
I'd like to see that. I'm not holding my breath though. She'd have to do a complete 180.
To me the biggest problem with the Dems is that the tax cuts will expire and the opportunity to kill the estate tax is dead. Course the GOP didn't do jack-diddly to cement those two issues.
To me the biggest problem with the Dems is that the tax cuts will expire and the opportunity to kill the estate tax is dead. Course the GOP didn't do jack-diddly to cement those two issues.
Just one more reason the G.O.P. got tossed out with the bath water!
Immigration reform is going to be the first major thing to pass and get signed by Bush because this is the one area of his presidency where Bush has taken a rational, realistic approach by advocating for some kind of guest worker visa and getting the people already here in the system.
Hopefully theMcCain-Kennedy bill will finally get hammered out.
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I'm looking forward to the Dems reaching deeper into my pocket so they can givemy money to the folks in St. Louis who put them over the top in the Senate.
What will the Dems Do Now?
