"Let's put the red herrings to bed." My LTTE, local paper.

[pinto]

Let's put the political red herrings to bed.

Bush isn't a Nazi, he's the Republican President. Cheney's not a vampire, he's the Republican Vice President. Dean isn't a liberal Satan, he's the Chair of the Democratic National Committee. Kerry's not a whipping boy for Viet Nam, he's a Democratic Senator who is a Vet, and that all time fave red herring, Moore...Moore's a movie maker, for crying out loud.

Are we all OK with that?

Democrats and Republicans both want government to
do a good job. We both think it matters. While we may have widely divergent ideas on the role of government, especially at the federal level, I think we agree that competency counts.

And that's my point.

In the last few years, we have seen our budget surplus implode to a record deficit, become mired in a war that has cost thousands of lives for an increasingly unclear agenda, lost thousands of jobs due to "outsourcing", seen health care costs go through the roof, watched Social Security played like a political soccer ball, and scandal become a routine fact of political life.

And, we have lost a city. Somehow, this seems the most unkindest cut of all, after all the rhetoric, to see New Orleans crippled by a hurricane but lost to sheer incompetence.

Republicans can win elections, but they sure can't run a government.

[dorktv]

1. You should put "Rank and file Democrats and Republicans..."

Republican leadership does not want good government.

[OKNancy]

2. Very nice!

I like that letter.
:applause:

[CrazyOrangeCat]

3. Nicely done!

:thumbsup:

[azureblue]

4. slight modification

Democrats want the government to do a "good Job" be responsible to its citizens, 'of the people for the people & all that", But Republicans want to steal as much money as possible, any way they can, and that includes trampling the Constitution & destroying cities.

[Ravy]

5. Yeah, that... and also

Dick Cheney *really is* a vampire!

[pinto]

6. LOL.

[eridani]

7. Repubs don't want government at all--

--unless it is all military and police putting the rest of the population under lock and key.