| LordTheNightKnight said: Why do you think this is implying he wouldn't have gotten criticism otherwise? Seriously. We know people will criticize anything. Look at this site. |
I'm not, I'm just saying that what a politician actually ends up doing policy-wise and politics-wise in office is a better thing to criticize than the means through which he acheives those things (assuming of course that the politcian is using ethical means to get things accomplished).
And the Democrats have been the out party for quite awhile (haven't had a majority in Congress since 1994 and haven't held the executive branch since 2000). So change is definitely coming to Washington, whether it be good or bad change.
The majority in Congress in 2006 was kind of a pseudo-majority, with Lieberman tipping the scale (who is an independent). This did help the Democrats get more control over the committees in congress though, which has made a difference.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
