which do you consider more important in 2004?

[arcane1]

Poll question: which do you consider more important in 2004?

[Padraig18]

1. Although I want both...

... if forced to choose, give me 'the bully pulpit'.

[childslibrarian]

2. Look how much damage Bush has been able to do

not counting Congress...

[bahrbearian]

3. Clinton Showed that with the WH you can set agenda!

For that matter so did Chimpy!

[arcane1]

4. true

But Gingrich showed that with Congress you can derail that agenda, and use subpoena power to impeach the president..

I'm torn on the question. I see your side, but I also see what happened last time..

[NewYorkerfromMass]

9. Yep. Just look at the Bush "cabinet"

Ashcroft, Rummy, Powell, Condi, Whitman, Norton... oh god gotta stop now (runs to toilet.... :puke:

[DuctapeFatwa]

5. Fewer deaths

Both in and outside the US

[arcane1]

6. good point

:)

[gottaB]

7. It's the courts

I commend the Dems for the fillibusters, but there's only so much you can expect to accomplish that way. Sooner or later they're going to be pushed into making some ugly compromises. We need the executive to bring some sanity back to judicial appointments.

[arcane1]

8. true

but what good are appointments in a repube majority of congress?

[burr]

12. no good...

We need a Democratic Congress more than a Democratic President. But a Democratic President is more likely to happen. Naturally, the odds of winning a Democratic Senate increase with the election of a Democratic Vice-President.

[arcane1]

13. both would be nice...

after all, Bush may have come up with the idea of the Iraq war, but Congress gave him the authority

I just have bad thoughts when I reflect on the last time we had the WH but not congress :evilfrown:

[burr]

17. naturally...

but you're the one who posted the poll!

Finally without a Democratic Congress their will be no investigations into White House crimes, and no chance for impeachment if we ever again have another such a tyrant as President.

<http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/1003/12cialeak.html>

[arcane1]

10. shameless kick

:kick:

[LSdemocrat]

11. Two words: foreign policy

Winning the White House is FAR more important.

[Mz Pip]

14. Bush has got to go!

Bush is the "face" of our foreign policy disaster. Yeah, Congress went along but it's Bush that the International community thinks of when they see the mess we made in Iraq.

The POTUS is supposedly the leader of the free world. The free world needs a new leader.

MzPip
:dem:

[Tinoire]

15. That is a hard one but I'm going to go with White House

hoping that the same spirit of change that gets us that (if it's strong enough) will get us Congress too.

[pandatimothy]

16. No more oil wars

or trashing other countries.

WH first.