[QUOTE=historybuff;1284115]Gimme a fucking break. The Dems have been in control of congress since January 07 and have made one budget. Bush asked for everything, and they bent over and gave it to him.

January 07. Not 4 years.

The Department of Homeland Security? That was Republicans. The biggest expansion of bureaucracy in the federal gov't in over a generation. And still nobody quite knows what they do exactly, except hold tons of photo-ops for Michael Chertoff.

The Dems are hardly any better.

Bill Clinton is the exception, when he closed everything down in order to ram through a bill that would actually balance the budget.

That's what you have to do these days in a country where no one takes responsibility, you have to actually shut the gov't down and force their hand.

Reagan, Bush Sr. and W never saw a spending bill they didn't like. And the buck stops with the President.

We've had nothing but incompetence from Washington, in particular from Republicans, who used to defend civil liberties and small gov't, but who have completely eschewed those core values.

It's not me, it's them. They need to take ownership of their failings, but it's impossible these days because their party is overrun with neo-con liberal-fascists who behave like Nazis, with everyone paroting the same tired talking points, and no one taking responsibility for anything.

McCain/Palin for "Change" or "Reform" is a great big joke on the good people of this country, and it's a lie until they actually propose what it is they would do.

Still waiting to hear. Maybe John McCain will illuminate for us what exactly he'd do in his speech tomorrow, but he and Palin in their stump speeches continue to defend the status quo on every important issue, or they deflect from those issues.