Do you honestly expect a backlash against the GOP?

I don't know what to think any more......

They own the machines, the vote counters and the legislative body that could do something about it but never will.

most of the American people eat the pukes words.

I despair of it ever happening. Fake war rationales, corruption, power grabs, out-and-out lies, and so on and so forth. Their media lapdogs don't get too huffy, they ignore the broad swath of the populace that objects, and merrily go on with their thieving ways.

What backlash? There's no pressure they can't deflect, no charge too heinous that the media won't cover up for them, no cop that's not on the take. We're pretty screwed.

I'm trying to stay positive, keep hope alive, you know?

:hi:

:loveya:

Or Tuesdays. Or really any day ending in "Y". I'm just p-i-s-t mad that we're having to go through this whole charade.

:loveya: right back!

watching this filibuster power-grab just confirms to me that the GOP wants nothing less than a totalitarian government. The poll numbers show the public is against it but they don't care. Why don't they care? They have the machines. They have the felon lists. They will not allow us to have a real democracy again. All they need is a small amount of support they can puff up in the media to give them the perception of legitimacy.

Sorry, I'm not feeling very positive today.

heavily backed by the military. Then they won't have to pretend anymore. Congress will be dismantled and we will only have the Executive Branch or a dictatorship and the Judicial Branch staffed with their choice of judges.

I am a firm believer in the absolute truth of H L Mencken's quote:

"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public."

It ought to be on the currency.

It ought to be taught in Sunday school.

Fox tanking, poll numbers plummetting. All signs of a country becoming educated

American's are not stupid .

You've been around here long enough to know. Of course not. They don't think that way. All one has to do is haul a gay out in front of the public or the picture of a fetus and BINGO they march off and vote for God...again (or what the GOP tells them is God). It's no longer 'issues'. It's become nationalism and a religion all rolled into one. All the repukes have to do is roll the people's gas prices back to barely above $2 (oil companies making out like bandits and the people thinking they are getting a great break) and lay some patriotic jive on the assholes so they wave their flags as our soldiers get their brains shot out for nothing and they will do just fine. None of these repubs are going to lose their seats. We are still going to have to fight like shit not to lose more. As usual there will be only a small handful of districts in the entire nation that will be "in play" again in '06 and '08. If they nominate Frist, there's a chance of beating him because he has the persona of the 'walking dead'. If they nominate McCain, we lose. It's that simple.

it will all be over. Or maybe the beginning.

Things could get hot for the Repugs. These people are natural born killers. Culture of life, my ass! Look what they do at abortion clinics. In fact, their religion is all about mindless terrorism. "Repent" (Kiss up to me and give me your money) "Or BURN IN EVERLASTING HELL!"

It's dangerous messing with mindless maniacs. And remember Voltaire's little warning:

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

(Thanks, Az, I love this one)

,...with the stupid intrusion into Shiavo's situation, the privatization bullshit of social security, the drone of war in Iraq with no end in sight, and now this tyrannical filibuster.

People ARE scratching their heads, thinking a moment, reacting in an "oh, shit" manner.

Besides, there are powerful people who are putting on the pressure.

IT WILL HAPPEN!!!

And if the gutless Dem's in the Congress ever get off their bum's, maybe.

Give things a year. Think of the present variety of living in the past as a bad religion that people have to walk away from. Only when they're a safe distance away and understand what was taken from them will the anger come.

We'll win this one on the other side running out of True Believers rather than fickle emotional blame games. The blame game comes in handy later on when things are happening on our side's terms.

will last. Maybe right now I'm just in a real bad mood, much as I try I just can't feel optimism about anything. I've never wanted to be proven wrong so badly.

FDR tried to pack the supreme court early in his second term and the backlash stymied many FDR's projects for the second term. I do believe that there will be a backlash on this nuclear option. Dick Morris a while back also predicted a backlash. I hope that Morris right on this one.

Yeah, I expect a really big backlash.

-- they have measured.

Libertarian Republicans don't like people fiddling with the innards of things, like Constitutions. They like it as it is now, more or less, and oppose interventionist maneuvers by ambitious presidential ego-maniacs like THE CAT BUTCHER.

The press, such as it is, has a relatively free ride between now and 2008. Bush is never going to run for president again and Cheney's is probably unelectable. The press is full of toadies, granted, but they aren't going to bow to Dobson the way Frist and Brownback do. Frist et al will be called to task in the op-ed pages and young voters will see that at the time they most are drawn to personal freedom, one party in particular is striving to limit those freedoms. There will be an electoral penalty for that for the Republicans.

And Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, Barbara Boxer, John Kerry, Chris Dodd, and many other Democratic leaders have taken the gloves off. Howard Dean is no sissy in these matters, and as head of the party, I see him busting a few empty GOP noggins right off the bat. The poor, who have been screwed mightily by BushCo from the very start, are finding a voice lately in John Edwards' One America project, and these people will NOT be voting for Bill Frist next time.

And we crazyass progressives here at DU will keep the heat on as well.

Be of good cheer, CatWoman. Our side is gutsy and resourceful when we want to be.

Your post warmed my heart and my soul.

Thanks.

:hi:

-- let's all break a sweat to elect some liberal Democrats to key posts.

Go, team.