Adding pork to a bill is not just the GOP....Unfortunatly all bills have pork added to them. Thats just the way our system works. If the democrats are opposing this bill ....its not because of the pork...it would be because it doesnt have enough democrat pork. If you dont think the democrats add just as much pork as the GOP, you are living in denial.

Why hasnt anyone answered the simple questions Ive asked? What do the democrats offer me? What do they offer the trucking industry?
Call me selfish...Call me greedy....But the most important question I could have is "How do the democrats plan on letting me keep MORE OF MY MONEY IN MY MIDDLE CLASS POCKET? Call me crazy, but i just dont see a person like myself voting for getting to keep less of my money.
Personally, Im loving this economy, Im loving this country....things are going great for me. Why vote for change?
All votes are held on the local level. Im fortunate to live in a very GOP area where we have one of the TOP ECONOMIES IN THE NATION. I love what my GOP congressman has done for this area and the country. Change? I dont think so.

 

honestly, I would think the democrats would have a better chance this election if they would offer solutions. A HUGE MISTAKE the democrats are making right now is assuming that someone like me is going to switch parties because of what some sick old pervert who wasnt even my congressman did in Florida. LIKE I SAID...ALL ELECTIONS ARE HELD AT THE LOCAL LEVEL....I can assure you that after November my area will still have a GOP congressman and our economy will still be going strong.

 

I don't think anyone thinks you are going to switch parties.

The people who may switch are the ones who are disillusioned.

 

I didn't say, nor do I believe, that ONLY GOP sponsors pork. I said that THAT GOP sponsored bill is probably riddled with it, and that is probably why the Dems are against it. I haven't seen the bill.

I didn't expect that YOU would switch your vote because of Foley. I said that we were probably given a "gift" seat because of him. One we weren't expecting to win because of a close race and the disillusionment of over 60% of Republicans.

I could talk til I was blue in the face, and I couldn't convince you that Dems will make YOUR life any better. Perhaps they wouldn't. But, I happen to care about those less fortunate than you, even if YOU don't, and I believe they would make THEIR lives better. I don't like seeing our country moving closer and closer to a caste system.

I'm glad you are happy in your GOP wonderworld. Be glad you don't have to live in the real world where jobs are gone and people of BOTH parties are having trouble finding new ones with which to feed their families.

The local workforce investment funds are all but dried up, but we are still spending billions of dollars... including MY tax dollars... to fight a war that we are not winning.

As long a George keeps telling you what you want to hear, you don't have to worry about how he changed a record surplus into a record deficit. Someday, that will have to be paid down again... and it will probably fall to the Dems to ensure it gets done. Then you can blame us for THAT, too.

 

Ok I will make it much easier for you.....How do the democrats help the "less fortunate"?
I always hear the left say things like this, but personally i dont see how they help the "less fortunate"
It seems when you look at the areas with the largest population of "less fortunate people" the more likely their local leaders will be democrat?
Why is that?

Another thing for you to ponder. As much as I hate to bring the subject back to Foley. While watching the news today, I see ALL REFPUBLICANS discusted with his behavour as well as democrats. I dont see anyone making excuses for him. In fact it seems that our whole party is glad he quit.
You know no matter what the pervert did, you have to respect him quiting. I know what you are saying "why should him quiting deserve respect?" Well let me refresh you on some recent history:

In 1983, then-Democratic Rep. Gerry Studds of Massachusetts was caught in a similar situation. In his case, Studds had sex with a male teenage page -- something Foley hasn't been charged with.
Did he quit? Did he appoligize? NOT AT ALL!! He rejected Congress' censure of him and continued to represent his district until his retirement in 1996. Democrats didnt call for his resignation...in fact they kept on REELECTING HIM!
In 1989 Barney Frank admitted he'd lived with Steve Gobie, a male prostitute who ran a gay sex-for-hire ring out of Frank's apartment. Frank, it was later discovered, used his position to fix 33 parking tickets for Gobie. Once again were democrats shocked by this behavour and corrpution? No....once again, you keep on electing him.
You remember Mel Reynolds? Perhaps you dont...let me refresh your memory. Mel Reynolds was a democrat represenitive from Chicago. He was CONVICTED and sentenced to prison time for having sex with a 16 year old and trying to get her to lie about it. You would think the democrats would be upset with this. So what happened? Oh yeah....PRESIDENT CLINTON PARDONED HIM!!!! I tell you what if Foley is ever convicted of anything and President Bush pardons him....you will have a right to be pissed. And i can assure you that I would be pissed too.

Democrats not only seem OK with the kind of behavior for which Foley is charged, but also they protect and excuse it. Only when it's GOP do they proclaim themselves shocked. To me thats a bit hypocritical.

 

Republican County Constable Larry Dale Floyd was arrested on suspicion of soliciting sex with an 8-year old girl. Floyd has repeatedly won elections for Denton County, Texas, constable.

Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich of Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania pled no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.

Republican Party leader Bobby Stumbo of Floyd County, Kentucky was arrested for having sex with a 5-year old boy.

Republican teacher and former city councilman John Collins of Asbury Park, New Jersey pled guilty to sexually molesting 13 and 14 year old girls.

Republican campaign worker Mark Seidensticker of Nashua, New Hampshire is a convicted child molester.

Republican Mayor Philip Giordano of Waterbury, Connecticut is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8 and 10-year old girls.

Republican Mayor John Gosek of Oswego, New York was arrested on charges of soliciting sex from two 15-year old girls.

Republican County Commissioner David Swartz of Richland County, Ohio pled guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.

Republican Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.

Republican Committeeman John R. Curtain of Monroe County, Pennsylvania was charged with molesting a teenage boy and unlawful sexual contact with a minor.

Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth of Kannapolis, N.C., is a convicted child rapist in Florida.

Republican zoning supervisor, Boy Scout leader and Lutheran church president Dennis L. Rader of Witchita, Kansas pled guilty to performing a sexual act on an 11-year old girl he murdered.

Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency of Camden, New Jersey pled guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.

Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge of Soputhbay, California was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.

Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.

Republican pastor Mike Hintz of Des Moines, Iowa, who George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.

Republican legislator Peter Dibble of New London, Connecticut pled no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.

Republican advertising consultant Carey Lee Cramer of Arizona was charged with molesting his 9-year old step daughter after including her in an anti-Gore television commercial.

Republican activist Lawrence E. King, Jr. and Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence both of Washington, D.C. organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.

Republican Congressman Donald ?Buz? Lukens of Columbus, Ohio was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.

Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio of Burke, Virginia was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.

Republican activist Mark A. Grethen of Colorado Springs. Colorado was convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.

Republican activist Randal David Ankeney of El Paso County, Arizona pled guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.

Republican Congressman Dan Crane of Illinois had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.

Republican activist and Christian Coalition and South Carolina Republican leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.

Republican Judge Ronald C. Kline of Orange County, California was placed under house arrest for child molestation and possession of child pornography.

Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman of Maryland was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.

Republican Committee Chairman and attorney Jeffrey Patti of Sparta, New Jersey was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.

Republican activist Marty Glickman of Florida (a.k.a. ?Republican Marty?), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD. It was Glickman, interestingly enough, that claimed Bill Clinton came from a low rent state and had torn down all of the standards for the highest office in the land.

Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks of Quartz Hill, California was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.

Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway who had relocated to Maine from Huntsville, Alabama after having been accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.

Republican preacher Stephen White of West Chester, Pennsylvania, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.

Republican talk show host Jon Matthews of Houston, Texas pled guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.

Republican anti-gay activist Earl ?Butch? Kimmerling of Anderson, Indiana was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.

Republican Party leader Paul Ingram of Thurston County, Washington pled guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.

Republican election board official Kevin Coan of St. Louis, Missouri was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.

Republican politician Andrew Buhr, also of St. Louis, was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.

Republican politician Keith Westmoreland of Kingsport, Tennessee was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).

Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt of Pensacola, Florida was found guilty of molesting a 15-year old girl.

Republican County Councilman Keola Childs of Hawaii County, Hawaii pled guilty to molesting a male child.

Republican activist John Butler of Cass County, Illinois was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.

Republican candidate Richard Gardner of Clark County, Nevada admitted to molesting his two daughters.

Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner of Lancaster, Pennsylvania was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.

Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter of Boothbay, Maine pled guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.

Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. of Wrightsville Borough, Delaware pled no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.

Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.

Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.

Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall of Virginia was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.

Republican city councilman Mark Harris of West Bend, Wisconsin, who has been described as a ?good military man? and ?church goer,? was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.

Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.

Republican director of the ?Young Republican Federation? Nicholas Elizondo of Bakersfield, California molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.

Republican president of the New York City Housing Development Corp, Russell Harding, pled guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer.

Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen, Sr. of Kalispell, Montana, was found guilty of raping a 15-year old girl. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women.

Republican Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld authorized the rape of children in Iraqi prisons in order to humiliate their parents into providing information about the anti-American insurgency.

 

Okay. So, for the next presidential election, WRITE MY NAME IN. That way, no one will know what to expect. As a truck driver, I can't be all bad. And, that way, you can "BLIND-SIDE" them all.

 

Now... I wondered if anyone objected to the national repetitions on the news saying the Amish children killer was "a truck driver."

I really thought they should have indicated he was a milk truck driver.

 

Now consider...im sure you realize that if I had some free time I could come up with a list just like that of democrats.
I wasnt trying to get in a listing contest of bad politicians....we would end up tieing.
What I was pointing out was a few cases in recent history, where not only were they worse than Foley, but the democrats ignored it, excused it...and in many cases, kept on voting them back into office. I dont see any republicans offering support for Foley. Now dont lie about this....but I bet if Foley is convicted over this and bush pardons him, You, the other deomcrats and the media would have a feild day with it. I can assure you that I as a GOP would be pissed at Bush if he pardoned Foley. WHAT I AM ASKING YOU IS WHERE WAS THE DEMOCRATS OUTRAGE WHEN CLINTON PARDONED A SEX OFFENDER MUCH WORSE THAN FOLEY?
THAT WOULD BE THE DEFINITION OF A HYPOCRITE. I can assure you that I will always criticize the GOP sex offenders as much as the Democrats.