no, I'm not done ranting yet
Mar. 31st, 2005 12:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kellinatorFrom Newsweek's feature, The Legacy of Terri Schiavo:
"But in the Senate, lawmakers felt more comfortable with a bill narrowly tailored to Terri's case—an approach that would help secure Democratic support. Only days before the scheduled withdrawal of her feeding tube on March 18, House and Senate negotiators still hadn't reached a compromise on a bill. [Jeb Bush's former adviser Ken] Connor blew up on a phone call with a senior GOP House member: 'What's the point of having Republicans in control?' he asked. 'The Republican base is going to hold the House leadership accountable.'"
If we're to the point where the only reason to be in politics is to push through your own agenda regardless of what's best for all the people in this nation, then we might as well give up and start over, because the American experiment is over.
"But in the Senate, lawmakers felt more comfortable with a bill narrowly tailored to Terri's case—an approach that would help secure Democratic support. Only days before the scheduled withdrawal of her feeding tube on March 18, House and Senate negotiators still hadn't reached a compromise on a bill. [Jeb Bush's former adviser Ken] Connor blew up on a phone call with a senior GOP House member: 'What's the point of having Republicans in control?' he asked. 'The Republican base is going to hold the House leadership accountable.'"
If we're to the point where the only reason to be in politics is to push through your own agenda regardless of what's best for all the people in this nation, then we might as well give up and start over, because the American experiment is over.
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Date: 2005-03-31 06:04 pm (UTC)The Democrats have their problems... and I agree with many who say that the Democrats have lost their spine...
but please.
The Republicans KNEW that Clinton wasn't involved in Whitewater... that there was no real crime... but they knew if they spent LOTS of texpayer money and created the case it would undermine Clinton's credibility and become an icon they can point at for the next Scandal.
I watched the Republicans during 8 years of Clinton... and they just railed against him with attack after attack. Do you remember when Clinton called for action against Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban?? Remember the Republicans accusing Clinton of trumping up Bin Laden into some kind of national threat just to cover up for the Monica thing? Do you remember the Republicans putting 200 FBI agents on the Monica thing... pulling them off more important duties??
They were more interested in catching Clinton in a sex scandal then helping protect America.
Remember the Bush administration saying it's Clinton's fault for 9/11?
Do you remember all the warnings that were made during the Reagan years about the long term results of his policies??
Look! THEY'RE HAPPENING!!
Democrats aren't saints, but the behavior of the Republicans since Reagan...and especially during the Clinton years have made me so completely hate the Republican party and view them as the worst enemy America faces... and that isn't just because I suddenly decided one day to not like Republicans. I've just been paying attention.
To try to pretend that the Republicans and Democrats are playing the same game is just flat out ignorance.
My anger at the Republicans makes it very hard for me to even debate the point, because when I watch the shit they pull each week... it sickens me. Sickens me to the core.
I gotta stop here.