I am watching a replay I guess of the FOX news Sunday morning show with that guy Chris (don't know or care what his last name is). He had Rick Davis and David Axelrod on simultaneously, and now it is 2 governors, Pawlenty (R-MN) and Rendell (D-PA).
Pawlenty just repeated what seems to be a new meme, one offered up by Davis just a few minutes before, and the idea is this: that people should vote for McCain because Congress is controlled by Democrats and it would be risky to have the Democratic party in charge of both Congress and the White House at the same time.
I'm not sure who comes up with this crap. The way McCain and his lobbyist pals have run their campaign brings new meaning to the word "incompetence". In fact, Merriam-Webster should recall all of their dictionaries and update them to redefine the term.
Let me get this straight. Republicans are now in favor of checks and balances? The same party that Dick Cheney and George W. Bush belong to favors checks and balances? Because God forbid Barack Obama should take office and start disregarding the Constitution.
Who knows, he might try to politicize the Department of Justice and encourage U.S. Attorneys to bring dubious voter fraud cases in October in order to sully the reputation of their political adversaries (and fire any U.S. Attorney who refuses to do just that).
Obama and Biden might refuse to produce documents when asked to produce them by Congress. They may instruct past and present members of their staffs to ignore Congressional subpoenas.
Obama might manufacture a bunch of evidence to create an excuse for going to war with a country that poses no threat to us, because he's all bellicose like that. And if an Ambassador were to expose his lies for what they are, lies, Obama might get all vindictive and have Joe Biden's Chief of Staff leak the whistleblower's wife's secret identity to the press.
But their biggest fear is that Barack Obama, with the cooperation of a friendly Congress, will actually fix this country. And then the jig will be up. Everyone will know that the Republican ideology just plain doesn't work.
The Democratic Congress will not have to scramble and compromise to drum up veto-proof majorities for such nefarious schemes as their plan to provide health insurance to 5,000,000 children, or their ploy for giving veterans who fought bravely in Iraq and Afghanistan an opportunity to have 100% of their college education paid for under the Webb-Hagel GI Bill.
Deregulation will abandoned in favor of regulation. It worked pretty well for 60 years, so those risky and wacky libruls will probably give it another shot.
Tax breaks for corporations and the wealthiest 5% of Americans will be replaced by tax breaks for the poor and the middle class. (Don't Dems know that one shows patriotism by wearing a flag pin, not by paying their fair share of taxes?)
Environmental regulations will be written and enforced by environmentalists and not polluters (a weird concept, I know).
Election reform will become a reality and we won't have to worry about anyone trying to steal any future elections.
The war in Iraq will end, our troops will be brought home, and they will be treated for wounds, both physical and mental, in a timely and efficient manner by a new and improved Veteran's Administration.
Any spying on conversations between citizens and those who live abroad will be conducted only after obtaining a warrant from the FISA Court.
Prisoners will not be tortured, and they will not be thrown in a hole for years without due process or the ability to speak with an attorney.
The sad thing is that their talking point might work, that there are people who are actually scared that some of those things might come to pass. But the good thing is that those people are outnumbered by the rest of us.
The Republicans controlled Congress and the White House for 6 years, and in that time they managed to destroy our economy, send 4,180 troops off to die unnecessarily in Iraq, and do irreparable damage to our reputation abroad. Is it worth the "risk" of having the opposing party have control for a couple of years and give them a shot at undoing all of the havoc the GOP wreaked in those 6 years? Hell, yeah it is.