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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Irb who wrote (10385)	1/21/1999 5:04:00 PM
From: Bob Lao-Tse	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13994

The Democrats don't hate Republican ideas (at least not the popular ones), they hate Republicans, individually and as a group. They hate Republicans with a passionate intensity that is all the more astonishing coming from people who pride themselves on their progressive values. I am constantly amazed and perplexed by the sheer, mindless, reflexive, vile hatred that Democrats have shown for Republicans throughout this entire episode. You should all be ashamed of yourselves. Hate is always wrong. -BLT P.S. The Irb: This is not necessarily a condemnation of you specifically. As yet I have no reason to believe that you share the partisan hatred so often expressed by others. It's simply that your mention of the subject of hatred gave me an opportunity to make a statement I've been wanting to make for quite a while. I apologize for any offense.

To: The Irb who wrote (10385)	1/21/1999 9:21:00 PM
From: halfscot	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13994

The partisanship I referred to is the constant vitriol and attacking anything Republican giving no credit where it's due-especially when they steal their ideas. I already referenced his snide comment about Reagan cutting the military budget when he's the one who's decimated the military. A recent study pointed out how his and Gore's claims of how they reduced the size of gov't actually hinges on his reductions to the military. Over 90% of the reductions were to the military budget and the actual government as we all know and love is larger than when he assumed office. Maybe Clinton and Reagan have more in common than one would think but you'd never know it by Clinton's and the Dems demagogic rhetoric. Every chance they get they savage Reagan and the greed of the eighties when in fact the richer are getting richer even faster than when Reagan was in office but of course the press conveniently overlooks this fact. Remember the '92 election? Never a speech given when he didn't tear Reagan, his policies, and his achievements apart. The object is to never give credit where it's due unless he and the Dems can take it, after all the Republicans are evil, selfish, and want to totally control our lives-sounds a lot like transference to me. Now maybe this is to be expected in politics but not to the extent and with the enmity exhibited by the current Dems. halfscot PS I notice you are a fellow tea-sipper. I'll be in Austin for the first time in 25 years this weekend. My dad graduated from UT as an engineer too. I was pretty liberal too when at UT. It took awhile for me to get over it. :)