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Originally Posted by chucklesR
John, I'd say it's only the beginning, but that was two years ago.
I had a liberal friend of mine tell me this past weekend that congress was not democratic party controlled because they didn't have a super majority; and therefore the republicans still ran congress.
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I know that's your friend's logic, not yours chuckles, but it's the most distorted logic I've heard in a long time, even for our liberal friends. The majority party sets the agenda, and they decide which issues will go before the Congress for debate and a vote, and which will die in committee. All the minority can do is seek support from the dissidents in the majority party, to prevent the majority party from making bad choices. If it is sufficiently clear that the majority is going in the wrong direction, there will usually be enough clear-thinking dissidents who are courageous enough to buck their own party, and to combine with the minority and stop it.
The name of the Democrat's game is to blame the Republicans for everything. If the Republicans control Congress and the White House, everything is the Republicans' fault. If the Democrats control Congress and the White House, everything is still the Republicans' fault.
It's like the old joke we used to play on each other when we were kids, and we were about to decide something by the flip of a coin: "Heads, I win - tails, you lose." No matter which side of the coin faces upwards, you lose. Sadly, even grown-ups can be all-too-easily deceived by such plainly flawed logic.
It's the same game they play with global warming, and other issues. If the temperature goes up, it's because of global warming. If it goes down, it's because of (you guessed it!) global warming.
Conservatives have been allowing the liberals to get away with that game all too long, and it's time they put a stop to it.
Liberals are masters at playing the
game of politics. Conservatives are disorganized, and their defensive game is truly feeble. If they want to stay in the game, they'd better learn how to play both offense and defense.