As a taxpayer and a Democrat, which do you resent the most?

[Virginia Dare]

Poll question: As a taxpayer and a Democrat, which do you resent the most?

[judaspriestess]

1. all of the above n/t

[slackmaster]

2. Our ongoing refusal to fully adopt and embrace the Metric System

:nuke:

All the items listed are a drop in a bucket, financially speaking.

[treestar]

3. If it is true about Cheney's missile launchers, I could go for that

Warmongers should all be at the front lines. And certainly not defended any better than anyone else.

[Virginia Dare]

7. link here...

Cheney leaves no paper trail. He has not always felt the necessity to discuss what he plans to say in public with the usual offices, including that of the President. Nor, we learned from Ron Suskind, has he always felt the necessity, say if the Saudis send information to the President in preparation for a meeting, to bother sending that information on to Bush. Only on the evening of September 11, 2001, did it occur to Richard A. Clarke that in his role as national security coordinator he had briefed Cheney on terrorism and also Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell, but never the President. Since November 1, 2001, under this administration's Executive Order 13233, which limits access to all presidential and vice-presidential papers, Cheney has been the first vice-president in American history entitled to executive privilege, a claim to co-presidency reinforced in March 2003 by Executive Order 13292, giving him the same power to classify information as the president has.

He runs an office so disinclined to communicate that it routinely refuses to disclose who works there, even for updates to the Federal Directory, which lists names and contact addresses for government officials. "We just don't give out that kind of information," an aide told one reporter. "It's just not something we talk about." When he visits his house in Jackson Hole and the local paper spots his plane and the anti-missile battery that accompanies him, the office until recently refused to confirm his presence: "In the past, they've been kind of weird," the paper's co-editor told The Washington Post in August. "They'd say, 'His airplane's here and the missile base is here, but we can't tell you if he's here.'"

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/19376?email

[Phredicles]

4. The whole war in Iraq thing. It really sucks.

[bleedingheart]

5. The expense of a war...an unnecessary war

[n2doc]

9. Yep. The rest are just trinkets. Trillions wasted and millions killed/wounded/displaced n/t

[eppur_se_muova]

15. Yes, that's the great putrid, fetid, stinking elephant corpse in the room. nt

[AndyA]

6. Cheney has missile launchers at his private residence?

Who will bear that cost when he leaves office?

And why does he need such protection now?

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

[Virginia Dare]

8. see post #7...n/t

[wryter2000]

10. Other

Tax cuts for the superwealthy.

[Lost-in-FL]

11. The Space Shuttle Program

:yoiks: :hide:

I am going to burn in DU hell for this one.

[FtWayneBlue]

12. I resent having to be a Democrat when I would rather be

a Green,

and I resent half of my taxes going to pay for killing and maiming

innocent men,
women,
and
especially,

children!

[blondeatlast]

13. The popular, unshakable belief that the RRRs are the party fo "fiscal responsibility." nt

[JHB]

14. The * policies of Tax cuts and war Uber Alles.

The other things are small beans in comparison.