I have yet to hear how the Dems plan to fix the mess that they say Bush got us into. Impeach him? Fine, go ahead. Then tell us what you plan to do. That's the part I've been waiting for these past six years.

Rush has been saying that since the 2000 campaign! And, of course, he was right.

I think that the Red State residents can make it unmistakeable to any Dem foolish enough to embark on this flummery that to continue will put paid to any presidential hopes they may have now and in perpetuity.

And maybe this is what it will take to finally, finally, finally put that starch in Pubies backbones that has heretofore been absent.

All three of you are nothing but Bush groupies, whining that your hero no longer enjoys a popularity he neitherr earned nor deserved in the first place.
Of course Bush will be impeached if the Dems take over the house. He has committed criminal acts since he's been in the whitehouse that would have made Nixon blush. If the Dems loose, the issue is moot. Because with the present congress he could commit forceable rape on the whitehouse lawn and nothing would be done about it.
As for fixing the mess he's made, it will take decades. There isn't any way to fix Iraq. It was opined by everyone who was paying attention at the time that the invasion would eventually devolve into a civil war with Iran the only real winner. There aren't any right answers in Iraq and pulling out the troops (not defunding them)is only going to save American lives. But it's the best ending we're going to get. As for the budget deficit, that can be blamed on both the dishonest war and the Bush tax cuts that were supposed to be the cure for both a government surplus and then a ressession. There isn't any way to fix that either except to either raise taxes again or cut entitlements. And Bush and the Republican congress voted in the largest increase in entitlements in histroy two years ago. It's a shame that it only made perscription drugs more expensive for seniors.
And now would you please explain why a real conservative would be for a $400 billion annual deficit, a perscription drug benifit that only benifits the drug companies, an unwinnable war that only made things worse for everybody involved, an energy policy that makes energy less available and more expensive, and cutting spending on college tuition when we're already lagging behind as a country on scientists and engineers?
Of course none of you can because you stopped being conservatives a long time ago. Now you're nothing but personallity cultists for the Bushies. Well the rest of America is being steadily deprogrammed. And the regime's days, I hope, are numbered.

All you've done, IB, is to outlay the problems as you see them. I asked what the Dems plan to do. Nothing in your comment answers that, except to get the usual digs in and deride Aaron, Kitty, Gayle and me as Bushie cultists. I suppose I could call you a Democrat cultist in return, but where would that get anyone? Nowhere.

Now I'm waiting for a certain commenter to jump in and start telling us we're all a bunch of stupid sh*theads. The more the merrier!

Of course none of you can because you stopped being conservatives a long time ago. Now you're nothing but personallity cultists for the Bushies.

Who invited Andrew Sullivan?

OK, great. You can start by repealing every one of the tax cuts from 2001 and 2003. And the bankruptsy bill. And rewrite the Medicare perscription drug plan to allow the Federal government to negotiate drug price breaks as the largest purchaser of perscription drugs in the world.
You can bring every American serviceman on foriegn soil home and cut, really cut, the size of the military this time, not just outsource everything except the killing and leave the number of rifle companies and tank batallions unchanged.
Following that you can make it illegal for congress to borrow money from any foriegn entity. And require that the social security surplus be used solely to pay down the National debt, so that when there is no longer a surplus the government has the money to keep making payments.
You can kill the "strategic defense initiative" and mothball 80% of the nuclear sub fleet and 75%
of land based nuclear weapons.
You can require ALL corporations that do buisness in the United States to be incorporated here and to pay an honest tax on the money they make here.
Then you can this country out of the World Trade Organisation and repeal most favored nation trading status with China. If we don't support it it will fold. And start rebuilding the argicultural and manufacturing bases in this country. We need to be creating our own wealth. Anything else is just a fancy name for stealing.
And to ensure that we stay ahead of the competition, you can spend more on higher education and find a way to do away with "legacy admissions" to public universities so thatb everyone taking advantage of higher education is actually using their degree.
You can restructure tax law to do away with the trust fund and the inheritance tax so that no one can inherit more than the price of a college education and a single family home.
If all this were done, then just maybe in a decade or so we could be back on track. But I doubt that either party has the will to do any of that.
And, Pam, I have never been a member of the Democratic party, nor have I ever registered as a Democrat. I was a card carrying Republican until 1994 and would love to be one again, if the "Party of Lincoln" ever starts acting like it again. you on the other hand are a completely uncritical follower of a charismatic, and blatantly dishonest leader. That make you at least a groupie, if not a cultist.

"We're all a bunch of stupid sh*theads" -- Pam

At least that came from a pundits keyboard and not mine. It is more accurate than Aaron's statement about informed folks knowing that the Democrats have but one agenda. Only a mindless ideologue are a party propogandist could say something like that with a straight face.

Its pretty evident that if the one agenda talking point is the GOP's current position, then they are the most two faced party that has ever been in existence. They are simply reacting to the fact that in the current polls, the GOP only wins on one issue, and there lead on that one issue is more narrow now than it has ever been.

Since the GOP is obviously trying to forget what issues they have been opposing the Democrats on for lo these many years let me just give you the short list:

National Health Insurance
Shoring up Social Security without turning it into personal accounts
Preservation of a constitutional right to privacy including personal autonomoy for a woman to make reproductive decisions
Use of the United Nations in preventing nations from going to war instead of compounding problems with pre-emptive invasions
Getting the world community involved in Iraq after the GOP broke up the concensus with a nearly unilateral, and incorrect decision to invade that country.
Putting the U.S. back on the moral high ground by doing away with such actions as extraordinary rendition, torture, and unlimited incareration without being convicted of a crime.
Enforce FISA
Properly fund Medicaid
Ban assault weapons for personal use
Raise the minimum wage
Oppose portions of the Patriot Act that damage civil liberties
Lift the ban on embyonic Stem Cell research
Pursue international agreements to slow and reverse global warming.
Develop a more socially and economically responsible budget
Stop irresponsible sale of government land to private interests

We could go on, but the GOP has a long record of what they believe the differences are between themselves and the Democrats so this new ONE ISSUE thing is just ONE ISSUE that the GOP would like to talk about, because now there is only one issue they can win on. Give it a few months and a few more examples of poor judgement in practice, and they might not even have that one issue in their hip pocket any longer. I say keep on hammering on the one issue theme because that isn't what the rest of America thinks is going on and that isn't what thye are gong to be looking at in November. America is waking up to the fact they they have been sold and are continuing to be sold a bill of goods.

If you bait them...they will come.