Posted by
Sanity 102 on Saturday, March 17, 2007 9:04:29 PM
Social Security is NOT an entitlement any more than receiving dividends from investments "entitlements". We pay into that system. In fact, the reason (at least that is what Rooselvelt said) for worker's contribution was so that NO DAMN POLITICIAN down the line can take that away.
As for the rest, so Brian what we are really arguing here is style not actual accomplishment? Reagan made the same "mistakes" as Bush but he's forgiven because you like the way he made them?
I agree on one thing, I dislike Bush's "Christian control". I too would like him to be more like Jeb who told his own legislation and media where to stick it.
But you and I know that anyone the absolutes and hard liners would support do not have the numbers to win. And you HAVE to win in order to play.
Sorry Brian, dreams and ideals are fine but life IS a series of choices and yes, GROWN UPS frequently are faced with the choice between not good enough and bad.
To push for all or nothing, risks EVERYTHING.
And I am not prepared to risk my world to go back to 9/12 when everything shut down. Two incidents happened and I made the same promise both times.
A couple of weeks after the attack, a man passed my office clutching a pink slip. He was 5 years away from retirement..."Why did the terrorist do this to us?" he asked me, even though I didn't know him or had anything to do with the company that had to lay him off because Waikiki had become a ghost town.
As ordinary people walked up to soldiers patrolling the streets to thank them, ex-Vietnam vets struggled with their own emotions as their own tour of duty and homecoming had been very different. They opened decades old wounds, shared their stories, cried and shrugged it off with..."Well, I'm glad that these guys are being treated decently."
This is the promise I made...NEVER AGAIN.
Never again will those terrorist be allowed to take away America's world and never again will a soldier be told that they sacrificed "for nothing", not while I have some say via my vote.
The only party that is serious about helping me to keep that promise are the Republicans...not 3rd party wannabes or the Dems.
For me -- and I suspect most Americans, THIS WAR WITH ISLAMIC TERRORIST SUPERCEDES EVERYTHING ELSE. Including your pet issue and mine.
That is as real and as realistic as you are going to get--and the bottom line. |