What's the difference between the Democratic and Republican parties of the US?

Question

And why do they always fight and argue? Like, why did Clinton snap and talk about all the lame Repbulicans in that interview on Fox news?

Answer 1

Republicans are for

Lower taxes
Less government
Strong national defense

Unfortunately, too many Republicans have lost their ways.

Democrats are for

high taxes
taxing wealthy people more
Income redistribution
Cowtowing to the terrorists
politicizing the war
doing anything that they can to get power

There is too much partisan bickering. Clinton said what he did because the man is a liar and cannot take responsiblity for mistakes he made in office. He has distorted history to try and keep his image good. Time will prove him wrong.

Answer 2

They hate each other because they have VERY different views of what America should be and what freedom should be. Lately the democrats will do anything to try to make Bush look bad including publishing security leaks and trying to defeat good anti-terror programs THAT ARE WORKING!!!!

And Clinton jumped all over Chris Wallace of FOX NEWS the other night because Wallace asked him a hard Q that Clinton felt he was above. Like- Do you think you couldve done more to fight terrorism while you were in office? Clinton is on a campaign to rewrite history and pretend he did do something about terrorism because now hes starting to take heat and being held responsible for 9/11.

Answer 3

He snapped because every effort made to rid the world of Bin Laden was trashed by the republicans. He had a right to snap, he did many great things for this country and Bush has followed suit with his father and their party by creating debt our children's children could not pay off. His imperialistic attitude is going to haunt this country for years to come as the leaders of other countries get wise and stand up together against it.

Answer 4

He was set up by Fox News!

Bush was given that report, they have talked about it for years, and nowRice is claiming THEY GAVE HER NO REPORT!

Here they mentioned the report in 2004!

Within the first few days after Bush's inauguration, Clarke approached [national security adviser Condoleezza] Rice in an effort to get her--and the new President--to give terrorism very high priority and to act on the agenda that he had pushed during the last few months of the previous administration. After Rice requested that all senior staff identify desirable major policy reviews or initiatives, Clarke submitted an elaborate memorandum on January 25, 2001. He attached to it his [anti-al Qaeda] 1998 Delenda Plan and the December 2000 strategy paper. "We urgently need ...a Principals level review on the al Qida network," Clarke wrote.

He wanted the Principals Committee to decide whether al Qaeda was "a first order threat" or a more modest worry being overblown by "chicken little" alarmists. Alluding to the transition briefing that he had prepared for Rice, Clarke wrote that al Qaeda "is not some narrow, little terrorist issue that needs to be included in broader regional policy." Two key decisions that had been deferred, he noted, concerned covert aid to keep the Northern Alliance alive when fighting began again in Afghanistan in the spring, and covert aid to the Uzbeks. Clarke also suggested that decisions should be made soon on messages to the Taliban and Pakistan over the al Qaeda sanctuary in Afghanistan, on possible new money for CIA operations, and on "when and how... to respond to the attack on the USS Cole."

The national security advisor did not respond directly to Clarke's memorandum. No Principals Committee meeting on al Qaeda was held until September 4, 2001 (although the Principals Committee met frequently on other subjects, such as the Middle East peace process, Russia, and the Persian Gulf ).

The lack of response to Clarke does appear to indicate that for Rice, at least, the al Qaeda threat was not a high priority. The report details the many steps the Bush administration did take in its first eight months to establish a counterterrorism policy aimed at al Qaeda. By no means were Rice and others doing nothing. But counterterrorism was not on the fast track. An example from the report:

In May, President Bush announced that Vice President Cheney would himself lead an effort looking at preparations for managing a possible attack by weapons of mass destruction and at more general problems of national preparedness. The next few months were mainly spent organizing the effort and bringing an admiral from the Sixth Fleet back to Washington to manage it. The Vice President's task force was just getting under way when the 9/11 attack occurred. "



Republicans care about money and business and they could care less who they have to screw to do to make it, or even who they hurt!

Democrats would have NEVER given 2 tax cuts to the rich while increasing the deficit and cutting programs for the poor and elderly!

Answer 5

A long time ago George Wallace said if put the Democrats and Republicans in a bag and shake them up there would only be a dimes worth of difference.

Now there would not be that much difference. The Republicans are trying to out Democrat the Democrats and the Democrats are trying to out Republican the Republicans.

Answer 6

republicans are also called right wing or conservative....ususally christain...they dont believe in things like gay marriages strict on drugs (including weed) and love the guns and military (think bush)

democrats ususally believe in social spending as opposed toputting the budjet into military spending...social spending involves setting up programs that help people get jobs in hopes that the economy would strengthen when there is more employed...ususally more open minded to things like gay marriages

Answer 7

Reopublicans are for lower taxes, for the wealthy that is, Republicans are against medicaid/medicare, both for single mothers and the elderly. Republicans are all for illegal aliens coming to this country and staying so that way they can get cheap labor for all of the buisinesses they own.

Answer 8

who is American in their beliefs? Who is anti American? There is a real easy way of judging the parties if you know where to see these lines of demarcation!

Answer 9

The difference between the democrats and the repuglicans is simple. Democrats are cool and repuglicans suck.

Answer 10

many differences, but many similarities.....to many to discuss here.

Clinton snapped because he got caught, once again, with his pants down. ABC ran the special about 9/11 after he wanted it killed....to preserve his pristeen reputation.......