At least the House tried to pass a balanced budget amendment. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives on Friday rejected a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution -- a setback to GOP leaders and conservative activists who claim the measure is necessary to end the federal government's spiraling deficit spending. A total of 261 members voted for the measure --- 23 votes shy of the two-thirds majority required for passage -- while 165 members opposed it. Most Republicans supported the measure; most Democrats voted no. The vote on the amendment was agreed to by both parties over the summer as part of the agreement raising Washington's debt ceiling. Democratic leaders, however, are vehemently opposed to the idea, arguing that it would force the government into an economically destructive cycle of massive spending cuts. http://articles.cnn.com/2011-11-18/...spending-massive-spending-cuts?_s=PM:POLITICS
Who starts the most wars? Democrats: 16 Republicans: 10 Source: Wikipedia, Robert Leckie's The Wars of America
They're almost tied. See, it's the petty bickering of who's worse/better, that's irrelevant. One's a heaping pile of shit. And the others a heaping pile of shit with maggots on it. And we're gonna debate all day which pile of shit is better?
I quite agree. That's why I like Ron Paul. He's not right on everything, but he is the candidate for people who know that their government sucks.
Political parties change over time, and can't just live off their past glories (or their past foibles). The Democrats used to be the party of segregation, now they're the party of affirmative action. There was a time when many Republicans were against war and against playing world cop. Robert Taft, who in his day was known as "Mr. Republican", was against foreign interventionism and didn't want us to be in NATO. Today many Republicans insist that Ron Paul is not really a Republican because he has the same foreign policy as Robert Taft.
Maxine waters is as crazy as Christine O'Donnell, imagine the hissy fit the left would be throwing if someone like Christine ODonnell/Glenn Beck said that Pelosi was a "Demon." Yet the left wing media actually attempts to justify the comment..... Michael Steele is a pussy for sitting by, and listening to her ramble on about this..... <iframe title="MRC TV video player" width="640" height="360" src="http://www.mrctv.org/embed/110119" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
I like that video, I perceived that personally as well, the GOP base is trying to take the GOP over off the cliff. You lean to the right, but you are not Santorum or Newt, you are more like a consistent Mittens, which why the GOP is determined to put him up as the nominee.