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**Maserati** · 02-14-2006, 03:36 PM

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.

Hopefully, the United States needs two parties, its beneficial to our American way of life. Currently, you have one party which everybody doesn't always like, but they'll choose it over the other because the other doesn't have anything to offer (Well, the same can be said about people of both parties). Anyway, my point is, that kind of thinking isn't helpful to our future. If we had two parties that actually had something to offer, we'd have more choices, and the more choices the less limited we are. Whoever the next President is, they'll have quiet some pressure on them, mostly to unite the US and help make a country that can move forward as one.

02-14-2006, 03:36 PM	#9
Maserati Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 436 Senior Member	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. Hopefully, the United States needs two parties, its beneficial to our American way of life. Currently, you have one party which everybody doesn't always like, but they'll choose it over the other because the other doesn't have anything to offer (Well, the same can be said about people of both parties). Anyway, my point is, that kind of thinking isn't helpful to our future. If we had two parties that actually had something to offer, we'd have more choices, and the more choices the less limited we are. Whoever the next President is, they'll have quiet some pressure on them, mostly to unite the US and help make a country that can move forward as one.
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