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To: Road Walker who wrote (256505)	10/20/2005 7:54:17 AM
From: Elroy	Respond to of 1573682

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To: Road Walker who wrote (256505)	10/20/2005 2:41:04 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1573682

Congress is polarized, but this isn't an ideological moment, liberal or conservative. It's a moment when voters want to know someone is running the country, that there's someone to project authority and take responsibility, to establish international and domestic order, so they can get on with their lives. To me, this is Brooks's usual fare. My sense is that he's a Bush GOPer whose disappointed with Bush's performance to date. So he spins it that people are unhappy but its the national Bush GOPers with whom they are unhappy and its they who have screwed up, and not the local Bushies who instead are coming up with imaginative and innovative new approaches to life and will win re election next year for sure. To me, this is more of the same but with a slightly different twist. In a previous life, he was saying that Bush had screwed up in Iraq but Bush was to be praised for bringing democracy to Iraq. Of course now he can't say that without looking the fool so he's changed his tune and addressed that change in the article you posted. But its still the same old GOP tune with different lyrics. And, of course, its outrageous that he would contend the polarization of Congress has nothing to do with ideology. This is to reassure the GOP faithful that all is well inspite of Bush's screwups and for them to maintain the course. I imagine the Bushies will eat it up. As for me, I contend that Brooks is an asshole. However, he does have a point about the Dems still not having a clear message. His stab at describing what message he does see is assinine and is designed to show the Dems as inferior.......and also manages to miss the point. Personally, I think the Dems don't have a clear message because centrist Americans don't have a clear message. Unlike the current GOPers, the Dems are much more people oriented, less devoted to elitism, and are much more likely to reflect the needs and wants of the American people. However, Americans have become badly splintered. The centrists who were more likely to vote for Bush than Kerry are confused. They thought they wanted a Bush......they voted for him at least the second time and then went back to sleep. Katrina proved to be a rude wake up call. Now they don't know what to do..............they thought Bush was so right......now what are they to believe? In the past, the Dems have tried always to address the needs of centrists while accommodating the extremists in their party as well. That's difficult to do now.....the centrists don't know what they want and Bush has pushed the extremists like me who never voted for Bush very much to the left. In fact, I am stunned how far to the left people like me and my friends have shifted. So I think the Dems are in a bit of a quandary. There old positioning doesn't work very well. They don't want to give up the extremists but they can't afford to ignore the centrists. To some degree, its the same for the GOP but the GOP constituents are used to being lead by leaders who don't think they should be accountable. In addition, during the past 5 years, the country has shifted very much to the right.....so the difference between the GOP centrists and extremists is not as great as it once was. Therefore, its easier for the GOP to have a clearer message IMO. That's my theory and I am sticking to it. <g> ted