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Tom DeLay's (and his party's) real problem...

May 1, 2005 1:18PM PDT
...is not what most folks think it is.
(Chronicle login: semods4@yahoo.com; pw = speakeasy)

>> The Contract With America committed a new Republican majority not only to bringing new policies to Washington but also to transforming the way Congress and its leaders work.

For anyone who truly believes in the Contract With America, "the Democrats have always done it" is not an excuse, it's an indictment. Republicans, with DeLay in the vanguard, promised a breath of fresh air in 1994. Ten years on, the House leadership has a familiar, musty smell. And that is DeLay's problem.<<

-- Dave K, Speakeasy Moderator
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The opinions expressed above are my own,
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Would you please...
May 1, 2005 1:37PM PDT

take your daily back-to-the-60s SDS leftist rants to a MoveOn forum or a newsgroup or something? You've thrown these "I hate Republicans, I hate capitalism!" rants here for years, several times per day. It's non-stop trolling and it stinks.

It's sad and pitiful to witness it, and it's sad to have to say it, but you've crapped on this forum for too many years. One way or another, it has to stop, DK. It's past the point of being ridiculous. This daily leftist hatefest of yours totally destroyed Town Hall, a fine forum. Give it up before your hate destroys what little is left of this forum.

DE

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Is it any different than your rants
May 1, 2005 10:33PM PDT
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You do have to concede one thing. DE doesn't post several
May 1, 2005 10:42PM PDT

items every day all saying essentially the same thing. I usually don't even look at DK's let alone respond. I guess I do see DK's posts as trolling. He usually posts, and never comes back.

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(NT) (NT) Kiddo...you are absolutely RIGHT ON.
May 2, 2005 12:55AM PDT
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YES...it's different...DK's frequency is....
May 2, 2005 12:53AM PDT

...an order of 10 greater with never EVER a positive post. AND if you can't understand this, let me know and I'll you 6 or 8 years of history.

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This is the most hypocritical post I've ever read here
May 1, 2005 11:49PM PDT

Maybe you ought to start hanging out at a John Birch Society forum or something, where everyone will agree with everything you say.

DK has NEVER stooped to the level at which you routinely operate. If anyone ought to be banned or have his moderator badge taken away, it's you.

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'DK has NEVER stooped to the level ...
May 2, 2005 12:38AM PDT
at which you routinely operate."

Selective reading or have you just not been reading Dave K's posts over the last several years?

DK spends more time at low levels than sludge dwellers and other bottom feeders these days.
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Please provide ONE link....
May 2, 2005 12:48AM PDT

....to a post in which DK has called another member "anti-American" or any of the other epithets DE uses in nearly every one of his posts. And for extra credit, ONE post in which DK has accused another member of trolling for having the "wrong" politics.

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Apparently that is the only ...
May 2, 2005 12:56AM PDT

... characterization you find offensive. The various denigrations of people for their beliefs sprinkled with Nazi references and racial epithets doesn't seem to qualify.

DK's behavior has been TROLLING, especially in the past year or so. It has nothing to do with political beliefs.

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Hope springs eternal. Can victory be found in the jaws of
May 1, 2005 10:37PM PDT

defeat?

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Politically, it usually is, KP (Often called 'the pendulum')
May 1, 2005 10:43PM PDT

And the beginning is usually the victorious party over-reaching and acting in an arrogant, non-democratic fashion that disgusts the moderates. Sound like any party in power at the moment? In fact, careful analysis of the last election's exit poll results show that except for the "don't change Presidents in mid-war" argument, Bush would have been soundly defeated. So Rove's wag-the-dog strategy worked as planned, unfortunately.

-- Dave K, Speakeasy Moderator
click here to email semods4@yahoo.com

The opinions expressed above are my own,
and do not necessarily reflect those of CNET!

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Zogby says different
May 2, 2005 12:08AM PDT

pollster John Zogby has an interesting poll out this week. If the 2004 election were rerun today, Bush would win again over John Kerry, but this time by 5%, not the 2.5% margin he won by in November.
http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=989

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=4454
So looking at the broader picture, the President has almost his entire term left in office to set the agenda and pursue it both domestically and in foreign policy. To date the Democrats have been unified in opposition to Bush but have offered little or nothing policywise of their own. This might explain why Bush?s slight drop in the polls has not lifted the Democrats back up. The GOP has just expanded its Senate majority and has good prospects of increasing it again in 2006. The GOP control of the House seems likely to continue after the 2006 election. The GOP seems poised to get most of its blocked judges through either by the Democrats getting out of the way, or by a rules change in the Senate.

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DeLay's problem
May 2, 2005 12:27AM PDT
"Ten years on, the House leadership has a familiar, musty smell. And that is DeLay's problem."

That "musty smell" are the obstructionist Democrat hanger's on who come from gerrymandered districts making the people's will to remove them difficult.

Each election manages to remove a few more of them however.

The actual PROBLEM is whimpering and whining liberals like Nancy Pelosi who see nothing wrong with their trips being paid for by lobbiests because somehow their trips are "different" although the results are the same.

This recent comment by none other than your friend, not mine, Senator John F. Kerry "I'm going to take you home with me, actually, I'm going to take you to Ohio." Yes, he was "supposedly" joking but it does illustrate the party penchant for wanting the vote counted and not being bothered (actually supportive rather) by illegitimate voters. Dead and out of state, non-resident voters are as bad but just as appreciated by the DNC as those who "trade votes".