Ever since the Democrats lost the majority in congress over a decade ago, they have lamented that America was broken. I don't recall the minority Repulicans saying that for the over 70 years the Democrats held the majority and often the presidency. I don't hear any great cry from Republicans today saying America is broken. Is America only broken when Democrats are in the minority?
2006-11-09 00:32:50 · 13 answers · asked by Me3TV 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
No question, the Republicans were chastised in this election. Republicans enjoy a broken Democrat Party and Democrats enjoy ad broken Republican Party - but the question is '' IS AMERICA BROKEN"?
2006-11-09 00:58:55 · update #1
America has been very ill for several years. This past Tuesday we were able to patch most of the festering sores and begin healing. There is still one huge festering wound that has to be covered and disinfected, but we have to wait two more years to take care of that one.
2006-11-09 02:46:23 · answer #1 · answered by iknowtruthismine 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think this is a funny question in a lot of ways. Both of the two major parties whine that the country is broken when the other side has the upper hand. The last time that I checked I thought that this was the point of having a multiple party system. If you don't like something you get your message out there and it gets changed. Instead of crying that the democrats have beaten out a lot of disillusioned republicans for losing touch with their roots, why doesn't the GOP try to fix itself before crying about everything else? I know why, that would be too easy.
2006-11-09 00:37:20 · answer #2 · answered by Johnny T 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Here's what happens...Republicans don't believe in good government; they get elected, they take office, they destroy the government from within, thereby "breaking" it.
The Mr & Mrs Fixits of government, the Democrats, are once again called upon to fix what the Republicans broke.
This pattern has been repeated since Republicans caused the Great Depression and Franklin Roosevelt saved the nation.
2006-11-09 00:38:12 · answer #3 · answered by ideogenetic 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We aren't broken but we are probably crippled. However it is THE PEOPLE who the Government work for,so ultimately we must make our voices be heard and we must try to agree and compromise on THE issues. The democrats are notorious for social programs and yes there are many who need them, but many people in the US are already using social programs that have no business using them . Our taxes will just go up if we don't curtail the abuse. In my job I know of many people who especially use the medicare system to have babies and they are married and many make more money than I do but are getting a free ride. Some are not even US citizens. Some students from overseas go to college, their books are paid and housing etc and it is on us and we can't even get our children who are bred and born American into college cause we can't afford it.. Not everyone who is in the welfare system are abusing it but there are enough who are. Just these 2 issues can cripple what we have at present.
2006-11-09 01:03:32 · answer #4 · answered by LIZAMAE 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
So I guess the ramblings of Anne Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, George Bush, George Will, etc.,etc., who have called Democrats either morally bankrupt, terrorists, or both is just white noise?
2006-11-09 00:53:38 · answer #5 · answered by sparky52881 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
like a child who broke the vase in the parlor when asked who broke it ,the republicans will say NOT ME. worse than that they will deny that the vase even was there in the first place then when shown proof of the vase they will call it a vase that was out to harm the coffee table so it had to be broken for the good of the parlor. then they will go on to break things in other peoples homes and leave the broken vase there for the maid to clean up.
2006-11-09 00:50:10 · answer #6 · answered by Unfrozen Caveman 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This is a correct statement you have provided. Republicans have stepped down from congress graciously and vowed to work together with the Democrats in promoting and bettering America. Republicans see that America is too important to forget about while they scramble to win more seats in 08. The Democrats were too caught up with winning votes, exposing scandals and the like while in the minority to work with the Republicans in bettering, or fixing, America
2006-11-09 00:36:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
It is a perspective thing.
Conservatives (and I purposely don't use the term Republicans) see government as the means to an end. Liberals see government as the end itself.
So for conservatives if government is growing, then it is broken. For liberals if government is not growing, then it is broken.
2006-11-09 00:48:31 · answer #8 · answered by ML 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Are you honestly saying that under the Bush years there has not been an attempt to break the will and the spirit of the American people? Why then the Patriot Acts? The illegal wiretaps? the attacks on our freedoms?
2006-11-09 00:39:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, it's been fixed by checks and balances. Either way, I prefer the opposition in the White House or Congress. That way, they don't run over the American public in their zeaMF
2006-11-09 00:36:40 · answer #10 · answered by Shelley 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋