DON'T, WHATEVER YOU DO, DON'T EVER stop nagging them. As they get closer to reelection time, they're going to realize, whether they like it or not, that YOUR vote could make the difference between their continued employment in the corridors of power, or UNEMPLOYMENT, so they damned well BETTER listen to you. They can't afford not to. They will very likely soon get the clear impression that there are more like you in their district than they're comfortable admitting to. And that there are MORE agreeing with YOU every day.
The tide IS turning, and the sooner these lunkheads and bush apologists realize this, the sooner we arrive at IMPEACHMENT. It was the Republicans, back in the day, who convinced Nixon to throw in the towel. He wouldn't have listened if it were only Dems. But his own party higherups told him he'd lost THEIR support.
Even now, that's starting to happen. I just saw a Washington Post article here yesterday, I think, that said it wasn't the Democrats who were necessarily being the obstructionists of all the bush programs going south since he "took" office again. It was because of defectors FROM HIS OWN PARTY. In fact, here it is:
Little Opposition From Party of 'Obstruction'
By Terry M. Neal
Washingtonpost.com Staff Writer
Monday, June 20, 2005; 12:01 AM
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The president is suffering a case of the political blues right now. His agenda on major items such as Social Security, the energy bill, CAFTA (a proposed trade agreement with Central America) and John Bolton's nomination appears to be going nowhere fast. His plan to pack the courts with conservatives was compromised by members of his own party. And his handling of the war in Iraq is increasingly under attack.
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The truth is, while Democrats are now offering more vocal opposition to the president than they were in most of Bush's first term, their success in foiling Bush's second-term agenda has come only because Republicans have joined them.
"President Bush's status as a political lame duck is becoming clearer every day," said Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean in a statement on Thursday in response to a Washington Post story about opposition to the president's Social Security plan among Republicans. "His scheme for Social Security is not only being rejected by voters, but also by congressional Republicans worried about paying a political price at the ballot box in 2006."
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Second terms are always difficult. Bush will never run for president again; and even if it's early in his second term, the party is already anticipating a future without him. Compounding that historical difficulty are Bush's tumbling approval ratings. Bush's approval rating is far lower than any other second-term president at this stage in his term. While Bush remains popular with conservatives, his support among moderates and independents has tumbled. That means many members of Congress who represent either moderate districts or states have little to fear by straying off the partisan plantation.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...I tell ya, guys, this WILL happen again. If enough of the public roars, these weasels in the republi-CON party know their days on the Hill are numbered if they turn a deaf ear.