The Like/Hate Thread

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I wish republicans put this much effort into running the country.

The problem is not the quantity of effort Republicans put up, but the quality. They abandoned fiscal conservatism, and conservatives are generally more aware and don't simply vote for people by party affiliation.

The great failing of Bush was that he was merely a great governor and not a hero. He was governor of Texas, the most powerful and prosperous state in the union (and 5th largest economy in the world?), and the nation wanted him to bring that to the whole nation. However, what made Texas that way was that the Stat Congress is overwhelmingly fiscally conservative: they keep taxes low to encourage business and work, and use their natural resources (oil) to generate revenue. The Republicans in the US Congress were anything but conservative, and the legislature has oversight of the executive office which they abandoned for several years in lieu of 9/11 and then blamed him for their abdication of responsibility in the years following that. Now, we have a motherfucking potential Pol Pot in the White House because the federal political climate is anti-Bush.