Neither of those two analogies work for me anyhow. I think a better analogy would be that you get pulled over for speeding and the cop discovers that you are driving not only without insurance, but without a license either. Maybe even in a stolen car. IMO, that is a bit more analogous to what kinds of offences we’re
talking about, and spinning it in such an innocuous manner is just plain dishonest.

I second that. My little bro and I were talking about that very thing today…in 2000, I was an ecstatic member of the GOP, having spent the prior (almost) 15 years working for the day when we’d have a GOP house, Senate, and Prez, the day when the Reaganite vision and the Contract with America could finally be implemented over the lamentations of liberals from sea to shining sea. It took about 2 years (and NCLB and the Medicare Drug Plan) for me to reach the depths of disappointment and walk away from the party.

Frankly, I thought the GOP was a party of serious adults would understood the true issues facing America. Today I just laugh when they come on TV and insist that putting illegals on a fast track to citizenship is anything other than amnesty for breaking the law, or when they claim to be serious about deficits and debt. Even the tax cuts I fully supported have paled, as the purpose of them was twofold - they were meant to allow people to keep their money and to control government spending - and the lack of implementation of the latter has canceled the former. If you give people back their money and then steal its value through inflation, what doth it profit a citizen?

The GOP had a once-in-my-lifetime opportunity to undo the damage of Democrats from Wilson to LBJ, and yet they have hijacked the foreign policy of the former and implemented the wildest domestic dreams of the latter. I am only surprised that Bush does not sit in a wheelchair when he delivers his weekly radio fireside chats .

I think the tired ass is not Bush’s but mine, and it pains me - truly - to hope that the GOP loses at least one house of Congress this fall. That it must be to the Democrats gives me no comfort - and I would never in my life vote for one - but it will provide plenty of material for late-night comics.

Bring on the bread. Bush and his GOP Clown Army have provided us circuses in plenty.

But I swear I wrote mine first.

Her father was a Union Organizer for the Rail Roads, in the 1940’s, and a rabid Democrat. He went to his death believing that Republicans were evil and out to hurt “the little guy” (he used to SPIT at the TV when Nixon was on it). My mom was a Republican, because she was very conservative and had seen the under belly of Democrat politicians up close and personal. She taught me, and my own experience has born it out, that no matter how idealistic someone might be, the political system requires so much compromise that it utlimately corrupts almost anyone who enters into it for very long. Take that as a given, and couple it with the normal human need to protect one’s own turf, and you end up with a lot of people holding office who mainly serve their own self interests!