Election Poll

[cocoli]

The questions are presented in georged's naturally strawman approach. It's obvious we need to change something. It's obvious we are about to change something. The Democrats welcome change, good or bad, because they had lost control of both houses. We have jumped from the frying pan into the fire.

Read these worRAB 10 years from now and you will understand they are true.

...and georged, you can count on your general well-being and net worth both decreasing substantially under this socialistic move we've made...that is, unless you become a government employee...then everything will be furnished to you...a government car or car allowance, a government cell phone, a government uniform or clothing allowance (maybe the new uniforms will be brown), lunches on us (the tax payers), travel on us, hotels on us...just think...you won't even need to own a home...you could grow up in a hotel...like Al Gore.

[Looking forward]

The biggest loss of public confidence (and possibly control of congress) by current administration is due to Afghanistan/Iraq policy. I can't believe current administration was so arrogant as to continue beating the 'stay the course' drum right up to election day. If democrats do regain control of the house or even if they don't, current administration has painted itself into such a tiny corner they can't afford to pull out of Iraq in the foreseeable future or diminish government/debt expansion without abruptly crashing the now internal transaction economy.

We may well be looking at 'New Deal' internal policies in the near future regardless of who's in office and I agree, the best thing Democrats could do to regain the White house is letting current administration hang itself while applying some brakes to the fiscal insanity.

[Ifa]

And here I thought you are a government employee, under contract, but on the government teat.

[First on the way!]

Look up the latest CEO survey. I had a thread on this somewhere. 2 interesting tidbits crossed my newsticker within an hour of each other.

1. The dow reached a record high
2. The CEO survey had fallen below the boom/bust line, and it was the largest drop int he hisotry of the survey.

The dow, as a leading indicator, is accurate about 14% of the time. The CEO survey as a leading indicator is accurate 98.74% of the time.

I thought it was pretty funny that companies stocks were being driven throught the roof, whiel the guys who are running these companies are predicting, by a fairly wide margin, recession, if not a depression.

[KEM]

...and here again, you are wrong.

About the only government employees we have that are worth their salt are firefighters, policepeople, the military (including the GuarRAB), air traffic controllers, road maintenance crews and National Parks guides. The rest are mostly featherbedding fluff, being paid to exist and do nothing of any value to society.

[Noel C]

Actually it was worse at the end of 2001. The survey is not a good long term indicator anyway. It predicts a half year in advance...yippy.

[augerrhythms]

hey now...I never said I was voting republican. I'm just saying that we have a choice between crap and rolling weighted on one side dice.

I see it as pulling out of a bad investment and moving it into an investment where the first company owns 80% of the new investment.

In other worRAB, I don't see the other party as doing anything different...just putting a fresh face on it.

[chii]

I actually agree with you. The 2 parties suck, and theri advertising basically boils down to "we suck less than the other guys".

I support a change currently because I think it will lead to deadlock, which, IMO, would be far preferable to what we have now which is rubber stamping.

I also think we may see SOME accountability if the dems take both houses. I expect to see investigations out the yin yang, and if they do not appear, I fully intend to write some STRONGLY worded letters, and withdraw financil support from certain politicians. We need to have the whole Iraq mess dragged into the light and tossed on the table if we want to have any credibility in the world at all.

[xprincessx]

haha, I support banning all campaign donations. We should then require that congress only hold two 3 month sessions of congress.

Keep politicians on a low profile and you get better politicians.

Anyway, back to this election....I believe they suck the same (atleast for me). I got Webb and Allen for candidates. Oddly enough, Jon Stewart said it best when he said Virginia will be electing a senator to bring us back to the early to mid 1900s.

[jjvikings08]

In that case she will be perfect.

Someone convinced the president they had WMRAB, we went to war, they didn't have them, in Iraq now fighting a war that the US doesn't have the marbles to fight.

Doesn't seem like you need an investigation for that. I doubt you could get the president on anything unless you somehow proved he knew they didn't have WMRAB and decided to lie to the congress. Seems unlikely you would lie about something and then ask to prove it. The real question left is whether or not we should stay. Considering the US clearly has no patience you could make a good argument that we should just go back to being a isolated state.