[quote]ZEB wrote:
[quote]magick wrote:
ZEB wrote:
Job Creation: Getting Americans Back to Work
Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Tax Relief to Grow the Economy and Create Jobs
American Competitiveness in a Global Economy
Reining in Out-of-Control Spending, Balancing the Budget, and Ensuring Sound Monetary Policy
Balancing the Budget
Inflation and the Federal Reserve
Ending the Housing Crisis and Expanding Opportunities for Homeownership
Rebuilding Homeownership
Infrastructure: Building the Future
More American Jobs, Higher Wages, and A Better Standard of Living
Supporting our foreign friends like Israel
anti abortion
There are other things.
Eh, the only one that is actually concrete among that list is anti-abortion. The rest read like sound-bites.[/quote]
Not true! There has only been one republican President that has raised taxes in modern times all the others lowered taxes. On the other side of the isle every democrat President has raised taxes in modern times. See…that is one big difference that you fail to acknowledge. Possibly because you are unaware. I don’t know your age but I’ve probably been mega paying taxes longer than you have been alive and I fully understand the ramifications of electing democrats to the oval office. Forgive me if I assumed you to be younger than you are. But, everyone, even those who are staunchly democrat are aware that democrats never met a tax they didn’t like or one they didn’t want to hike.
[quote]ZEB wrote:
Granted they are not always successful and that’s where the cry “they’re all the same” comes from. But in reality the two parties are in fact very different. But various circumstances play out to where occasionally they look very much alike. For example, when a good republican President has to deal with the House and Senate being controlled by democrats. There are other circumstances as well. But rest assured the two parties are very much different almost polar opposites on most things.
Then why did Bush II and the Republican House/Senate enact No Child Left Behind, created the TSA and Dept. of Homeland Security, and the Patriot Act?
Why did Mitch Mcconnell and a bunch of Republican senators try to get the Patriot Act refunded?[/quote]
This is a matter of your false perception, not reality. Republicans are well known to be strong on national security affairs. They like to build up the military etc. Therefore, the Patriot Act is almost in lock step with what republicans would do in the face of terror attacks. Remember strong defense has always been a republican issue.
The question that you should be asking instead is this: “Why did Obama go along with the Patriot Act and other such things enacted by a republican President?”
In other words how come democrats are acting like republicans? Not the other way around…
By the way I don’t like the Patriot Act either.
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Republicans are for any national security in general. Dems are only for security of internal threats, you can’t have a nice collective society if some people don’t follow your rules.
