I'm not a fan of Reid either, but don't leave us hanging -- what concrete policies would be that much worse under the Democrats than the "Hey let's double the entire national debt" Republicans? If that's the criteria for electing a leader, then it should be pointed out that McCain left his wife to marry a model and drug addict, while Obama has stuck with his family. What kind of family values are important?
Even though I'm a staunch Republican, I actually like gridlock in government. The less that "they accomplish", the better it is for us, in my opinion. That's why this election is vitally important. With the Dems having a good majority (possibly fillibuster proof), we need a Republican President. I would actually prefer, to have a democratic pres and republican congress, like in the 90's, but I'll take the opposite.
The country is already divided. Actually it got so bad under the Bush administration that Democrats weren't even allowed to book conference rooms (particularly childish, I'm sure you'd agree).
Let's set the record straight here: they weren't allowed to book conference rooms because they couldn't work the reservation software and later claimed that the Republicans had made it particularly difficult... the thing was asking questions, etc.
Here are some silly jokes that "truly describe" Democrats and Liberals. Q: What do you get when you offer a Liberal a penny for his thoughts? A: Change. Q: How do you confuse a Liberal? A: You don't. They're born that way. Q: Why is it good to have a Democrat passenger? A: You can park in the handicap zone. Q: What's the difference between Elvis and a smart Liberal? A: Elvis has been sighted. A Democrat died and a friend went around collecting for a fund for his funeral. A woman was asked to donate ten dollars. "Ten dollars?" she said. "It only takes ten dollars to bury a Democrat? Here's a hundred - go bury 10 of them!" Q: How do you keep a Democrat busy? A: Write 'Please turn over' on both sides of a piece of paper. Q: How do you keep a Liberal busy all day? A: Put him in a round room and tell him to wait in the corner. Q: What do you call a Democrat with an IQ of 130? A: A foursome Q: How do you get a one-armed Liberal out of a tree? A: Wave to him. Q: What do you call a basement full of Liberals? A: A whine cellar. Q: What is the definition of gross ignorance? A: 144 Democrats. Q: What is foreplay for a Democrat? A: Thirty minutes of begging. Q: What is the Democrat doing when he holds his hands tightly over his ears? A: Trying to hold on to a thought. Q: Why did the Liberal have blisters on his lips? A: From trying to blow out lightbulbs. Q: Why do Liberals work seven days a week? A: So you don't have to retrain them on Monday. A Democrat found a magic genie's lamp and rubbed it. The genie said, "I will grant you one wish." He said, "I wish I were smarter". So the genie made him a Republican. Q: What the difference between a Democrat and the rear end of a horse? A: I don't know either. Q: How is a Liberal different from a sewer rat? A: Some people actually like sewer rats. Q: How many Democrats does it take to change a light bulb? A: None. They prefer to walk in the dark. Q: Why do so many Liberals live in L.A.? A: Itâs the only city that is easy enough for them to spell. Q: What's five miles long and has an IQ of forty? A: A Democrat parade. Q: What is it called when a Liberal blows in another Liberalâs ear? A: Data transfer. Q: Why don't they let Liberals swim in the ocean? A: Because they can't get the smell out of the tuna. Q: How do you plant dope? A: Bury a Democrat. Q: What's the difference between a Liberal and a sack of manure? A: The sack. Q: What's the definition of a Democrat running for Congress for the first time? A: A mouse trying to become a rat. Q: What's the difference between God and a Democrat? A: God knows He's not a Democrat. You know you're a liberal if... You think sexual harassment is rampant, date rape pervasive, domestic violence common, and Paula Jones is lying. You hate Hillary jokes. You pale at the execution of child killers, but defend the killing of unborn children as an expression of choice. You think trees have feelings, animals can conceptualize, and the fetus is a blob of protoplasm. You are convinced that Frank Capra films and Norman Rockwell paintings are lies and distortions, but "Platoon," "Dances with Wolves," and "Thelma and Louise" are realistic. You thought Walt Disney was saccharine sweet and terminally cutesy pie until it made "Pocahontas." You think a moment of silent prayer at the beginning of the school day constitutes government indoctrination and an intrusion on parental authority, while sex education, condom distribution, and multi-culturalism are values-neutral. You agonize over threats to the natural environment (acid rain, toxic waste) but are oblivious to threats to the social environment (pornography, promiscuity, and family dissolution). You want to legalize cocaine but outlaw handguns. You think cops are pigs and criminals are products of their environment. You believe the National Rifle Association helps criminals, while the American Civil Liberties Union protests the innocent. You think Rush Limbaugh is responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing but are outraged by suggestions that Ted Kaczynski (the suspected Unabomber) and Al Gore have anything in common. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton make sense to you. Barbra Streisand makes even more sense. You think Nancy Pelosi, Janet Reno and Madeleine Albright are totally hot. You believe corporate profits are obscene, but government spending is too low and the American people are under taxed. You think deficits are caused by tax loopholes. You believe homosexuality is genetically determined, but fascism and spouse abuse aren't. You think AIDS is spread by insufficient funding. You are convinced that proponents of welfare reform hate the poor and opponents of Affirmative Action hate minorities, but AIDS activists who bash the Pope and People for the American Way types who go psycho over Protestant âfundamentalismâ are guardians of democracy. You attribute every minority problem to entrenched, institutional racism and the legacies of slavery and segregation. You think the black middle class is a myth created by Newt Gingrich. You view race riots as justifiable expressions of rage over injustice, but fail to see the similarities between a black mob burning a Korean store and a white mob in the Jim Crow era lynching a black man. You don't understand all the whining about Affirmative Action and are more than willing to sacrifice someone else's employment or education opportunity to assuage your guilt. You marched against American involvement in Vietnam, thought the Gulf, Afghanistan and Iraq wars were unnecessary, but believe 10,000 U.S. troops in Bosnia are vital to our national interests. In your wedding vows, the "love, honor, and cherish" part was replaced with "legitimize, empower, and respect her reproductive freedom." You see no correlation between welfare and the rise of illegitimacy, judicial leniency and surging crime rates, or addiction and an entertainment industry that glorifies drug abuse, but you believe Richard Nixon is responsible for everything horrible that's happened in the past quarter century. You support Al Gore for President in 2000, Kerry in 2004, and Obama in 2008, but have no idea why. You think those child-abusing, religious fanatics at Waco had it coming, but the illegal immigrants roughed up by California deputies - after leading them on a high-speed chase - are the victims of the decade. You think marriage is obsolete...except for homosexuals. Instead of Cowboys and Indians, your children play "Barbaric Imperialists and Innocent Native Americans".
Not true. And a lame explanation. In reality, just as an example of computer knowledge, McCain has stated that he does not know how to use Google, and (in his words) "I'm an illiterate who has to rely on his wife for any assistance he can get." Obama has a Blackberry.
You confuse his wise modesty, Zen-like, Socrates-like, self-deprecating humility with reality. Don't forget that Republicans are, as a group, better educated than liberals. Not to mention a whole lot smarter - just check the posts here on ET!
I look forward to your continued contributions to our debate about intuitionistic logic and a priori knowledge in the other thread, then... Surely, you are a man of your word.
Lol. The repubs love to generously intersperse their comments with words such as 'fuck' and phrases such as "How does your dick taste in your mouth" or "Why don't you go and suck so and so's dick" . They may very well suffer from the 'phallus syndrome'. They also love to categorize a certain cross-section of society as the "monkey clan" - just one amongst other such vivid and visceral phrases. Oh and one other minor observation - they've made some charming fashion statements circa images concerning the "monkey clan" alluded to above.