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11-08-2006, 09:22 PM
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| The Savior Has Come!
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Care-ifornia Age: 22 Posts: 2,054
| For you political people...
Just thought I would let you guys know that the DEMOCRATS have taken both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
The numbers currently are as follows. Senate: Democrats 51-49 Senate majority House of Representatives : Democrats 229-196
SOURCE: http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006/pages/results/bop/
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11-08-2006, 09:23 PM
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| D.A.N.C.E.
Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 5,234
| The lesser of two evils imo. hope this solves some problems.
Go arnold btw 
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11-08-2006, 09:51 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Your pants Age: 19 Posts: 2,827
| demos > repubs | |
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11-08-2006, 09:55 PM
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| lol just as planned
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| not really surprising
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11-09-2006, 04:00 AM
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| Grumpy Old Grandpa
Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Portugal Age: 23 Posts: 9,974
| I like politics, but I couldn't care less about american campaigns. This title is decieving. | |
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11-09-2006, 04:04 AM
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| The Savior Has Come!
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Care-ifornia Age: 22 Posts: 2,054
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Originally Posted by Condestavel  I like politics, but I couldn't care less about american campaigns. This title is decieving. | I really don't see how it is decieving......... | |
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11-09-2006, 07:31 AM
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| Grumpy Old Grandpa
Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Portugal Age: 23 Posts: 9,974
| Because I was deceived to believe this would be an interesting thread, so I clicked it. If only you had wrote the word american somewhere there, you'd save me a minute of my life 
Bastard... | |
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11-10-2006, 12:49 PM
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| Aya Matsuura is awesome
Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia Age: 20 Posts: 15,155
| This will be interesting. Current democracies show that the leader of a country is rather powerless without support from the other bodies.
Perhaps we will have a new foreign policy for Americans that doesn't involve war.*
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11-10-2006, 02:23 PM
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| BattleForums Senior Member
Join Date: May 2003 Location: Montreal, in a ghost town. Age: 23 Posts: 2,421
| So we have a new Sky Marshal... But do we have a new battle plan? Fleet glass the country, Mobile Infantry mops up? Or we take the cities outlying Bagdad one by one, looking for the brain? | |
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11-10-2006, 04:52 PM
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| Respected Member
Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Washington D.C Posts: 1,380
| I'm fairly happy with the election. I saw a quote from Pelosi yesterday and assuming she becomes speaker of the house, I might get a say in Congress. She said that she'd work for getting Washington D.C. voting representatives.
She talked about passing laws that would fight corruption in government officials, including limiting what support lobbyists can actually give. That makes me happy as well.
As for talking about security, she said that she'd work to implement the suggestions that the 9/11 commission gave. The Iraq study group will be releasing its findings soon which will hopefully lead to a better situation in Iraq.
The issue of partisanship is something that is notable as well. If the atmosphere keeps up with Bush and high ranking Democrats having conferences together and trying to work together it's a major victory for the American people. Worst case scenario, the partisanship comes back and it created two more years of gridlock in Congress...basically it means there won't be much of a change at all if this happens.
Though Pelosi stated that impeachment and cutting funds for Iraq were off the table, I do fear she will go back to her radical left wing buddies like Kerry and Rangle rather than sticking with the larger and more moderate base of the Democratic Party.
Everything said, I have high hopes for this new Congress.
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11-10-2006, 07:05 PM
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| Aya Matsuura is awesome
Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia Age: 20 Posts: 15,155
| Donald "Bomb" Rumsfeld is gone - I am happy for that. I wonder if he will be charged for war crimes.*
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11-10-2006, 08:00 PM
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| BattleForums Senior Member
Join Date: May 2003 Location: Montreal, in a ghost town. Age: 23 Posts: 2,421
| Nah, he can't face charges for war crimes. When you speak of crimes, you speak of a law. When you speak of a a law, you speak of its legitimacy. And when you speak of legitimacy, you need something to start enforcing it. Which Germany lacks, so the whole things falls down. | |
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11-11-2006, 12:10 PM
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Originally Posted by x42bn6 This will be interesting. Current democracies show that the leader of a country is rather powerless without support from the other bodies.
| Usually the Congress does make things happen making the leader look powerless. But when the leader does something people start to complain that he/she never got "permission" to do it; whether the law was involved or not but often used as an excuse by the opposing party.
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11-11-2006, 03:52 PM
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| Go Democrats! I'm happy we got both the Senate AND HoR.
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11-11-2006, 04:11 PM
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| Doesn't it make you feel unfomfortable that Al Quaida, Hamas and Hezbollah all rejoyced, as much as you, that the democrates got elected? | |
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11-11-2006, 05:24 PM
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| The Savior Has Come!
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Care-ifornia Age: 22 Posts: 2,054
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Originally Posted by Black~Enthusiasm Doesn't it make you feel unfomfortable that Al Quaida, Hamas and Hezbollah all rejoyced, as much as you, that the democrates got elected? |
I would do the same if a world power went from a party of hot-heads to a party of peace. | |
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11-11-2006, 07:36 PM
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| BattleForums Senior Member
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| I'm glad the Republicans don't control both Congress and the presidency, though I can't say I like the Democrats a lot more than the Republicans.
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11-12-2006, 10:10 AM
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| Aya Matsuura is awesome
Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia Age: 20 Posts: 15,155
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Originally Posted by Black~Enthusiasm Doesn't it make you feel unfomfortable that Al Quaida, Hamas and Hezbollah all rejoyced, as much as you, that the democrates got elected? | Bush is slightly less powerless - that is a rejoice for quite a lot of people.*
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11-12-2006, 12:08 PM
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| BattleForums Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Iraq Age: 22 Posts: 4,525
| I really don't understand why people are so upset at a president who never declared war? War was declared on U.S. far before President Bush ever got into office. Former president Clinton was under attack and did nothing. In fact, President Clinton had the chance to get Bin Ladin. What country was it that said, 'oh yeah, we have Bin Ladin come and get him.' But Clinton never did?! If anything, blame the war on Clinton. But even I'm not blaming it on him. Just the false ideas that Islam provides that all religons and cultures that aren't Islam should be destoryed. =\
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