Either the NSA is wire – tapping or they are “data – mining”; they are not doing both. They are not engaged in warrantless wire – tapping, to the best of my (and your) knowledge; they are engaged in data – mining, which is not illegal, and which is helping to track down terrorists. Are you opposed to “speed guns” on highways, baby seats, or seat belts? (Strike two for you.)

And, Bush will be out in 8 years maximum. Most Congresshumans are there for life. (Strike three for you)

My name isn’t “Yo Frank”.

You’re outa here!!

Yo frank — bush is government.

Congressional Republicans got only a 20% approval rating. Dems did just as bad, only 23%. And the overall approval rating for congress is just 18%. With numbers like those, I would find it hard to imagine that Bush could score anything appreciably higher.

It’s also interesting to note that 68% of self-identified liberals gave Congressional Democrats a disfavorable rating and 64% of self-identified Conservatives gave Republicans a disfavorable rating.

If anything, these ratings show that neither party is making their base happy.

You also have to look at the direction of the country. Those numbers are bad too — only 24% are positive about the direction of the country. But those numbers have also steadily fallen for years, and according to the historical polling data it is very rare for this number to ever rise above 50%.

I think a lot of people are worried about oil, gas prices, and a looming war in the Middle East. They are also worried about illegal immigration and our ability to deal with large-scale disasters, whether they be from terrorists or nature.

We are also terribly, terribly bored with Washington.

If the Democrats want to win, then they need to push good, historically proven solutions to these problems. (Hint: relaxing border security, giving illegal immigrants amnesty, and relying on the UN to prevent nuclear proliferation have never worked. Try something else this time.)

Nice strawman.

Dugger

“I was riding on a submarine
Got a message from my mermaid queen.
She was hanging on a fishing line.
Mr. Dandy didn’t waste no time!
Jim Dandy to the rescue!
Go, Jim Dandy! Go, Jim Dandy!”

LOL … Beans, I TOLD you we shouldna disagreed with him!! He knows better just beCAUSE. Still can’t find Frank’s website and its wealth of facts and superior knowledge.

You can have these bright and shiny JimDandy poll results, reinforcing your strongly negative prejudices about the opposition or you can have 8 years of real power by controlling Congress and the Presidency while doing things like appointing conservative supreme court justices (with the connivance of conservative Democrats) and passing tax cut legislation.

Either, or?

That implies that holding power results from NOT having good poll results.

Let us put that to the test, shall we?

Way to go, OW!

‘Now, Mr. Dugger, take your choice. You can have these bright and shiny JimDandy poll results, reinforcing your strongly negative prejudices about the opposition or you can have 8 years of real power by controlling Congress and the Presidency while doing things like appointing conservative supreme court justices (with the connivance of conservative Democrats) and passing tax cut legislation.’

Dohhh. I think I’ll take those JimDandy poll results.

Dugger

1) My first comment more or less agreed with Nimrod that the Republicans were messing up, but not because they were about to get booted off the political equivalent of American Idol. Obviously such a direct and intelligent response threw you for a loop.
2) My second response indicated yet another string of successes for the Bush administration, obviously a better kept secret than the counterterrorism tactics of the NSA — yet another indicator of the MSM’s anti – Bush bias.
3) from the DailyKos: Troll – People who post to message boards for the sole purpose of picking fights, creating schisms and generally making things unpleasant for everyone else [see Roni, and beans]. They do not necessarily believe what they post.

If it looks ike a troll, talks like a troll, and spews partisan hackery like a troll…

Is there an answer, or response you were expecting?

There is, however, some interesting news from the Not – Very – Conservative Brookings Institute

http://www.brook.edu/fp/saban/iraq/index.pdf

You can file it in the “Why won’t the Bush administration go away?” file…

Power is distancing.
When you’ve been in Congress for a while, or the White House for a while, you both forget too many things and learn too many things.
You forget why they sent you. You forget it’s not that you’re charming and wonderful. You forget it’s not you. You become immersed in a Washington conversation, a political conversation, that is, by definition, unlike the normal human conversation back home. To survive and thrive, national politicians have to speak two languages, Here and Home. Actually it’s more than two languages, it’s two cultures. It’s hard to straddle cultures.
But even as you forget a lot, you learn a lot. You get crammed into your head the political realities on the ground around you–how big the minority Democratic bloc in the House really is, how many votes the other team has in what committee, where to go for legal money, how the press will react to any given decision or statement.
In time you know a lot of things the people who sent you to Washington don’t know. And you come to forget what they do know. It used to be easy for you to remember that, because it’s what you knew too.

That’s why I don’t trust politicians. And, until I can trust politicians, I don’t trust government.