will having a republican pres. in 08 only complicate things with Dem's in charge of house and senate?

Question

Reguardless of our political diferances comon sense tells me that if a rep. is voted presedent, he will only be denied most opertunities to get anything done,simply because of partisin politics that seem to be what modern polititions seem to do best.( on both sides!)

Answer 1

Both parties have different views. When President Bush took office in 2000, the Rep. party had control of both the House and the Senate. But while Pres. Bush may have been a good Governor of Texas. He ended up not being a good choice as President. His views on several key issues, has hurt the Rep. party. If he would have stop-ed all the pork spending when his party was in control, they would still be in control. It looks like the Rep. Party now has seen there mistakes in not being true Conservatives. But for now we have to put up with the Dem's. wanting to keep making laws that give them more control over our lives. They will stay with there old ways of raising taxes, over spending, tying the hands of the military, running away from the real problems, and spreading fear so they can make more laws to take more of our money and freedoms away. Sorry! I could go on for hours.

Answer 2

extremely, neither social gathering has absolute administration over the legislature. this implies that that may not from now on accessible for the administration to get legislations by utilizing utilizing Congress with out a minimum of a few help from the republican social gathering. This in many circumstances finally leads to gridlock and in-scuffling with, which has been a substantial concern in the time of the time of the final few years and looks set to proceed to be. in the event that they have been all democratic, then that could grant the democratic social gathering an effortless time getting rules surpassed. (regardless of the certainty that it is accessible for some persons of each and every social gathering to pass the floor and vote against their own social gathering in the event that they for my section disagree with a bill). If the two residences have been democrat and the president replaced into republican, then we'd see substantial deadlock between the two branches of government, and optimal probable little or no could get complete with out lot of argument and compromise. below the present equipment, the republicans are probable to maintain being somewhat obstructionist indoors the abode and oppose movements by utilizing utilizing the administration and the senate (then declare that the president isn't doing something). The democrats could do an identical if their roles have been reversed. optimal distinctive democracies international huge are "parliamentary", meaning that the social gathering that controls the decrease abode of the legislature additionally controls the government (that can grant the U. S. a republican government below the present setup). Parliamentary structures are in many circumstances extra desirable information against deadlock than presidential ones like the U. S., regardless of the certainty that in the event that they have 2 residences which disagree, it could in spite of the shown fact that ensue.

Answer 3

The candidates on the slate for the democratic nomination are horrendous. Hillary is the strongest candidate and nobody can stand her because she is plastic.
On the other hand, the Republicans have a really strong group of conservative candidates with the exception of McCain who is more Liberal than conservative.
Tie into this the abysmal approval ratings of congress led by the libs and seats coming up for vote in 08 and theoretically we can turn it around and put the libs back in their place.
No conservative that voted the libs into a majority in congress and the senate is seeing any return on the investment of faith they put in the libs. This is the most partisan, backstabbing, do nothing elected assemblage this country has endured. The voters should have learned the errors of their thinking by now and will be good and ready to vote in a fresh batch of true conservatives.
The question should be what can we do to hold them accountable while they are in office. Since our vote has been our only weapon to express our displeasure in recent elections, it behooves us to find the honest candidates that possess integrity and espouse the same values that we do.

Answer 4

Well, think about it: the House is going to have another election that year and if people want a Republican president, there will probably be a Republican House. And the real issue with the president right now--the only one that really ever matters with presidents--is the war in Iraq (more like supervison of the civil war in Iraq).

Answer 5

But this is the best way to have it. The most dangerous government is when the presidency and Congress are controlled by the same party.

The more they fight, the harder something is to get into law, the more likely it is to actually be beneficial for the people. Or, even more importantly, not harmful to us.

The last thing we need is one party running wild, passing a bunch of laws, and dragging us off into some far left/right experiment. We're citizens, not guinea pigs.

Answer 6

Not at all. The Democrats will have a veto proof majority in both the House and the Senate, so if by some chance the republicans were able to keep the White House, the president will have to play ball with the Democrats if he wants to get any of his legislation any consideration.

Answer 7

NONE of the democratic canidates are good, it's just like the 04 elections, no body wanted Kerry in the white house so they reelected Bush. People are to skeptical of the democratic canidates, so i think Mitt Romney will win, he's not for the war and he's got good ideas and values. I think it'll be Romney v. Edwards. Normally, i'm a democrat but i like this guy!

Answer 8

You should vote for the best man, and not worry to much about this. If you do want to worry about it anyway, then you should try and make sure that the legislature is a different party than the executive branch. This is the only way to make sure the checks and balances work. You saw what happen with six years of no check and balances. It's a recipe for corruption.

Answer 9

Frankly I'm getting incredibly sick of having a republican president and a democratic house and senate. If we continue with this pattern of getting absolutely nothing done America will only continue to suffer. So yes having another president will most definitely complicate matters and for the worse.

Answer 10

Who says the Dem will hold the majorities in the Senate and the House. The approval numbers for the congress is at a all time low and the people are getting tired of the do-nothing Dems.