Has your political party let you down or is it everything you hoped for .?

Question

Name one thing that a politician accomplished and one thing they did not .
Keep in mind that lowering taxes today is only putting off paying them in the future . So unless you can name the government program which got cut to save you taxes you are misleading yourself .

Answer 1

Accomplished: Beat the living snot out of Saddam, Al Qaeda, and the Taliban. Libs whine and scream about the cost of war, yet ignore their favorite, Thomas Paine, who said, "Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."

- Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777

The President said so many times that this would be a long struggle, but libs want it to be a video game.

Not accomplished: Social Security is a broken system, and Bush was not successful in trying to fix it. Projections indicate that the government will not be able to fund the baby boomer generations when they all retire, and that taxes will need to be raised, or benefits slashed. Head-in-the-sand Libs whine about this too, and have no plan...at all...to fix anything.

Answer 2

I'm a conservative who normally votes Republican, for lack of a better option. Obviously, I feel they have let down their voter base, as have all of the parties for their respective voter bases.

I disagree, however, with the premise of your position, although I may just be having trouble deciphering your meaning; your last couple of sentences are rather unclear. What do you mean, if a program is cut to lower taxes, one will have to pay them in the future? That makes no sense. Your premise is faulty.

On government programs being cut: With very rare exception, they are not being cut. The government is getting more and more bloated with entitlements because somewhere along the line, someone came up with the brilliant idea that the government, and not the individual, is responsible for our own lives. The Republicans are as implicit in this as are Democrats lately. That is my biggest gripe with them. Have more people dependent upon a political party for their livelihoods, childcare, healthcare, and everything else from cradle to grave, the more power a political party has. Nothing is free. No "entitlement" program is free. Someone has to pay for it. And from the looks of things, every year, people like me have to pay for more and more people who can, but will not, do for themselves.

Answer 3

I never really considered myself a Dem or a Rep but I tended to vote for the GOP.

I find myself voting Democrat more and more... not because I like the Democratic principles or ideas but because I am tired of the changes in the Republican party. They have taken a dishonest path to winning elections by telling us whatever we want to hear and then turn around and do the exact opposite. They allow the lobbyists to actually write legislation and allow their names to be attached (both parties do this but the most damage of this is from the GOP) and they present the bills. They have allowed the Christian right to hijack the party... instead of being a progressive party (live and let live) they now give way too much lip service to morality at the cost of economic reform. I'm tired of the GOP.

I hate the Democrats too but at least they aren't quite as slick at lying.

Answer 4

Things a politician has accomplished for me - I'll give you two!

1) I interned for my Congressman (a Republican) in my hometown local district office all through high school and college. It gave me tremendous experience in politics and in general office skills and self-confidence.
2) My Senator (a Democrat) helped one of my colleagues whose husband was having trouble getting his work visa and had put a lot of faith and money into a crooked lawyer who was taking advantage of him.

Two things politicians have not accomplished: there were lots of democrats that were recently elected promising that they would 1) end the war and 2) be bipartisan. They have done neither.

Answer 5

I have been a Republican since I graduated from High School. Limited government and strong military, that was the Republican creed. Somewhere we lost that and gain neo-conservatives which sound a whole lot like the conservative Dems from the south from the 70's. I want my party back.
To answer your question. Yes they have let me down. No it is nothing that I hoped for.

Answer 6

My own party has gotten way off track, at least the representatives that we've placed into office have. When it comes to fiscal responsibility and a smaller federal government with less control, we've flunked.

Hopefully we'll be able to get back onto the right track.

Answer 7

Yes. The Republican party with Bush gave in to the left way to much and increased spending and the size of government to try and appease them and the press.

Answer 8

Well I am a moderate Democrat so that should answer the first part of your question. Minimum wage increase finally got passed so that is one thing. Failure to build the border fence is a bad thing.

Answer 9

I was a Republican until Bush named Mel Martinez as RNC head. Same Martinez who attacked people who want border security as racist and xenephobes. Bush himself called us who didnt like comprehensive immigration refore as it was called unamerican. We have been called bigots by Lindsey Graham and nativist by John McCain. This is not a party I want to be a part of thank you for your question

Answer 10

It's not a "good Party" unless alcohol is served and the cops are called! LOL