Just think when congress is next in cession the democrats will be running the country.How soon will they ?

Question

Break every promise I have heard the dems on here spout off about?
Will they bring home the troops?
Will they impeach Bush?
Will they give everyone health care?
Will they do any thing other than raise taxes and spend even more than the republicans(that last one might be difficult)?

Answer 1

Immediately.
Don't have to, they won the election.
Won't, need Reps to help on some legislation.
Give...Hell. Its taxpayer dollars. ITS NOT FREE!!
Of course thats what they do tax for welfare,, tex for art grants, tax just to limit peoples options.
They wait for someone to develope a good living, then move in and assimilate their savings. See a piece of swamp, they assimilate it and call it a wetland. The schools reprogram students and turn them into drones. Holy crap. The Borg are among us.

Answer 2

No matter what they do, it will be one hundred times better than Bush and the guys.
1. What promises are you speaking of
2. They will bring the troops home as soon as they can.. it is not them who got us into this mess
3. If they don't, they certainly should impeach Bush
4. If they can come up with a plan for health care, good. But I don't hold out too much hope on that one.
6.. spend more than the Republicans.. lol.. that's a good one. And yes, they probably will have to raise taxes.. what do you think keeps this country going. Clinton had a surplus, Bush wasted and warred it all away. Now the Dems have to be the bad guys to get us back in the black.

Answer 3

odds are that Congress will not break any of it's promises at least this term, so who knows.

As for the Troops, nobody has yet reached a consensus on Iraq, so we'll probably have a lot more debates on that subject.

As fro impeachment, Pelosi has said that that is off the table. However, It nay not stay so, depending of what voters want.

health care is likely to be worked on, and if all Americans don't get health care, it's likely to become a lot more availible then it has been.

Spending? The Democrats are likely to roll back Bush's tax cuts for the top 2% of Americans, cut spending and at least slow down the increases in the national debt.

Answer 4

First, Democratic control of the both the House and Congress are by small majorities. Not enough to over-ride a veto by the Thief-In-Chief. So, there will be no Democratic "running the country" stuff going on.

The best we can hope for is oversight and investigations.

Obviously, the Republican-dominated Congress did neither. In fact, all the Republicans who weren't busy fondling underaged pages or laundering money voted against any sort of oversight (their JOB as defined in the Constitution) and against any sort of investigations.

This is why the Republicans are out on their asses. Normal people want Congress to do its job. Normal people want crimes investigated and punished. Republicans do not.

Answer 5

you can't break a "promise" someone else made for you? (that's not even really a promise)

so your question is completely silly...

but, the Republicans have done exactly the same thing...

we still have abortion, welfare, no fiscal responsibility and no real morality in office... all the things Republicans say Republicans will do in office...

but look at what they have actually said they will work on... and we'll see...

they said they want to help college students with grants and lower rates on loans...

they said they want to act more fiscally responsible...but keep the middle class tax cuts...

and they have said they want some oversight for governmental actions...

to look at the minimum wage...

and Bush has already been pressured, through the elections, to re-evaluate his Iraq policy (and dump Rummy)... so that is already a partial victory, without even taking office...

so, I'm curious to see what they do on the issues they said they would take action on... and if Bush will veto it...

Answer 6

I'll handle the likely future one question at a time, Ok?

a) they will break few promises, unless those promises were unjust to begin with
b) it is unlikely we will be in Iraq by November '08, unless we make real progress
c) they never said they would impeach Bush, they made it clear they wouldn't
d) their plan was to get healthcare to all children first, they would (with public approval) later wean all of society into national healthcare
e) they will raise taxes on only the rich, as they usually do

Answer 7

Joe Smow is correct.

The executive branch is by far the strongest of the three, particularly since Bush began his assault on the constitution's balance of powers. The democrats in legislature can and will accomplish as possible within the confines of their recently limited powers and in the face of the strong opposition of Republican loyalists.

Answer 8

Thank god the Dems are taking over Congress. Their party is the only possible salvation for this country. which has been practically run into the ground by Bush and his Nazi thug cronies. We will begin to the process of bringing home our young men and women, and we will try to impiment a Universal Health Care system, which the NeoCons would never do, since to them it is Socialism. But see? They are in the pockets of the insurance companies and the pharacutical firms, so national health care would kill their sacred cow!! Give us time: we will try to correct the many harms Bush has done. But this will take time, siince he is the most destructive and worst president in out nation's history.

Answer 9

Though we're all looking forward to some robust oversight, we've got some very basic questions we need to ask about whether and how this is going to happen.

In fact, the questions are exactly that: whether and how this is going to happen?

In the course of his six years in the presidency, George W. Bush's "administration" has forced us to confront questions about the basic nature of our constitutional government that most of us thought were well-settled, and not in favor of the position Bush has been taking on them.

Does the president have the "inherent power" to refuse to faithfully execute the laws, as provided in the Oath of Office, if he believes the law is unconstitutional? What if -- and you'll have to follow me around the circle here, because that's where he's taking us -- he believes the law is unconstitutional because he believes it's unconstitutional for Congress to pass laws that restrict his "inherent powers?"

You can pretty quickly see where this sort of hyper-aggressive legal theorizing can take you, if you're inclined to press it. And all indications are that they are so inclined:

Answer 10

One can only hope that they will take a few steps closer to center. Listening to Edwards , a presidential hopeful, speak, however, they seem to be moving even farther left.