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**Michaelnewerb** · 02-13-2006, 04:31 PM

Well, perhaps I was a little too pessimistic with that first post. Its just that 99 percent of the time, thats exactly what happens. Maybe there is a chance for a good person to carry the presidency again, but whoever that is has to carry the people as well (Bush is too much of a bully for my taste, but who cares about Bush anyway? He can't run again anyway). I just hope whoever we get can unite this nation again, because a house divided among it self, will fall.

I agree with this post. I think that Hagel can work with the reasonable Dems, and there are many of them; unfortunately they are not the public face of the party, but they are the future. Kennedy, Boxer, Pelosi, Biden, Durbin, Gore, Carter, Hillary and Schumer belong to the old world when the Dems ran the country and their power was unquestioned and backed up by numbers. Today the posturing and tantrums of the left wing elite are relics of a world that has disappeared. There has to be some cooperation, and the Gang of 14 in the Senate is a promising start.

I was quite impressed, for instance, with Louisiana's Mary Landrieu who insisted that the bizarre circus created by Teddy and company during the Alito hearings was taking time and energy away from the Katrina aftermath. She made her point with courtesy but with clarity. More politicians like her are needed.

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Michaelnewerb Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 622 Senior Member	Well, perhaps I was a little too pessimistic with that first post. Its just that 99 percent of the time, thats exactly what happens. Maybe there is a chance for a good person to carry the presidency again, but whoever that is has to carry the people as well (Bush is too much of a bully for my taste, but who cares about Bush anyway? He can't run again anyway). I just hope whoever we get can unite this nation again, because a house divided among it self, will fall. I agree with this post. I think that Hagel can work with the reasonable Dems, and there are many of them; unfortunately they are not the public face of the party, but they are the future. Kennedy, Boxer, Pelosi, Biden, Durbin, Gore, Carter, Hillary and Schumer belong to the old world when the Dems ran the country and their power was unquestioned and backed up by numbers. Today the posturing and tantrums of the left wing elite are relics of a world that has disappeared. There has to be some cooperation, and the Gang of 14 in the Senate is a promising start. I was quite impressed, for instance, with Louisiana's Mary Landrieu who insisted that the bizarre circus created by Teddy and company during the Alito hearings was taking time and energy away from the Katrina aftermath. She made her point with courtesy but with clarity. More politicians like her are needed.
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