Bush declares democrats can be left behind

[AnIndependentTexan]

In his speech yesterday, he said something to the extent of "if the Democrats want to participate in our agenda, that is fine. If not, they will simply be left behind".

[AnIndependentTexan]

1. WAKE UP PEOPLE HE JUST DECLARED HIMSELF DICTATOR

[Steelangel]

2. oh my god

how can more than 50% of americans didn't see that?

[Captain Lance Bass]

3. Its his "style"

What a uniter huh?

[Lenape85]

4. NO MORE DINOS

If any Democrat participates in the Bush agenda, I'm going to primary them out or vote Green

[THUNDER HANDS]

5. gee, that's as subtle as a brick to the head

Left behind, like those books where non-christians stick around and have the anti-christ poke them with pointed sticks or something.

[Selatius]

6. That's the danger of two-party duopolies

You are more likely to see one party or the other dominate the branches of government, and, for a time, you see a government that acts more like a one-party state than a pluralistic democracy. Multiparty representative democracies in other countries are healthier when it comes to political culture. There are many views and voices, not just two, and it forces people to compromise more rather than leave folks behind because no one party could hope to gain majority power without the other parties in government.

I'm not advocating a parliamentary style system, but what I do advocate is the abolition of the Electoral College and the institution of IRV (instant runoff voting) for all federal seats including the White House. That way, if no one gets the majority in the first round of elections, IRV will ensure that a candidate which is acceptable to a MAJORITY or the electorate, not a simple PLURALITY, wins. It makes it easier to unseat corrupt, incompetent parties as well as make it easier for 3rd parties to enter government.

[sweetheart]

8. Labour's super-majority in britain sorta undermines your point

The party can do whatever it likes, and blair can murder whomever
he wants, and nobody can effect a thing, as their majority is even
larger than bush's.

I agree that a plural system is wiser and healthier, however we've
got a more insideous problem. The mass media have failed totally
their public obligation to use the public airwaves as a checkpoint
on government. Rather, the media are complicity entertainment and
propaganda mouthpieces with serious journalists being deliberately
forced out, and even killed deliberately by the military in iraq.

When the government is behing assassination of journalists, its time
to wonder whether the rot has gone past a 2 party problem.

[BurtWorm]

7. Come on! Did he really say that?!

Now I'm really getting scared.

(It's not that I don't believe you. That's the REALLY scary thing!)

:scared:

[desi826]

9. That's why we HAVE to start fighting

Not literally.
But we have GOT to come out of the box fighting.
We may have to fight all the same fights again.
Civil Rights.
The right to vote.
Abortion rights. etc.
Our will must be strong. That means ruthlessly getting rid of any "pansy" Dems at primary time. We need Dems that are not scared to fight.
Thank God Cynthia Mckinney is heading back to Congress.

That Idiot thinks he has to world by the strings right now.

But what would limit him greatly is 2 or 3 Moderate Repubs pulling a Jim Jeffords and he's reined in. Lincoln Chaffee already said he'd switch. We'd just need 3 more and Bush is stopped in his tracks. A SMART majority leader would already be on the phone working on this.
Des

[AnIndependentTexan]

10. READ THIS, THIS IS HOW THEY ARE DECLARING IT AS WELL

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1331078

[NorthernSpy]

11. filibuster, gridlock, obstruction, and nonstop FUD

Wrong, chimpy. We are now the ball-and-chain locked around your ankle. You will carry us everywhere you go, which will slow you down considerably. You will never leave us behind.

[Shakespeare]

12. EEW EEW EEW!!! Code language to the fundies!!!

Translation: When the rapture comes, you sinful, evil liberals'll be "left behind."

Why do I get the feeling that if Christ were around today, he'd get all moneychangers-in-the-temple on Bush's ass? This man is unbelievably craven.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

14. Lol...you must have just beated me to it

[Shakespeare]

15. You know, it would almost be funny if....

...it weren't so fucking terrifying.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

13. LEFT BEHIND is code talk for Armageddon...no?

[Kahuna]

21. Yes. It is..

:crazy:

[demwing]

16. Rapture

Now I wonder, was "No Child Left Behind" code for instituting prayer in school?

[Vickers]

17. Well, I declare he can KISS my behind

Fucking fundy chickenhawk assclown.

[Hatalles]

18. Left behind?

Georgie boy, if the blue states ever secede, the US is crippled. You have no leverage! We stop buying, we stop selling, and you are crushed. You need US! We don't need YOU!

[evilqueen]

19. Not possible. Yanno Why?

Because Bush is so far behind the times that he'll have to sprint to catch up to us.

hehe

[Kahuna]

20. LOL! What a POS. I plan to ignore him as much as I can for ..

the next four years. No telling what damage he has already done to my health.