JDG wrote:
Democrats have the reputation as big spenders, but it's recently been documented on the list that Republicans are the most irresponsible when it comes to spending.First, Democrats will have a difficult time rebranding themselves as the anti-government Party. After all, you have previously defined the Democrats on this List as being the Party that favored *every* big-government program over the past 100-or-so years over Republican opposition. That is an awful lot of history to jujitsu.
1) I somehow don't think that it is a winning strategy for the Democrats to argue that the nation aught to be preparing the armed forces to take on
another major... mission. Moreover, such a debate would inevitably turn into a referendum on the merits of the Iraq War, and the Republicans have
already won the last time that was tried.
CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll. April 1-2, 2005. N=1,040 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3.
Do you approve or disapprove of the way George W. Bush is handling the situation in Iraq?"
Approve 43% Disapprove 54% Unsure 3%
All in all, do you think it was worth going to war in Iraq, or not?"
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Worth Going To War 45%
Not Worth Going To War 53%
Unsure 2%"Do you think the Bush Administration deliberately misled the American public about whether Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, or not?"
Yes, Misled 50% No,Did Not 48% Unsure 2%
Dr. Brin didn't even mention the issue that I find most egregious; Geneva Convention and human rights violations by the administration.
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