I note that you supply zero support for your original statement.

I accept your implicit admission that you were talking out of your ass.

Michael Reynolds is obviously a Partisan Democrat so in order to be consistent and fair, I shall repeat: Reynolds, F**K YOU!

F**K YOU!!

Reynolds replied: “You are a liar.
Mr. Bush got EVERY penny he asked for, EVERY man he asked for, and EVERY weapon he asked for, and he got them from the Democrats. You contemptible fraud.”

No, SShiel is not a liar and Reynolds is confused, although typically immature and abrasive.

The dems did try to defund the war. The key word that SShiel used is “tried”. And SShiel is correct. They tried although the bill was never voted on.

From the Hartford Courant dated Posted May 16, 2007 10:58 AM…

“The Senate this morning crushed, by a 67 to 29 vote, a bid by Democrats to pull most U. S. troops out of Iraq by March 2008.

Techically, the amendment authored by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., Russell Feingold, D-Wisc., and Christopher J. Dodd, D-Conn., never got to a vote.

The amendment would have barred money from being spent to continue the war after March 31, 2008.

See also: http://rightwingnuthouse.com/archives/2007/02/23/dont-defund-the-troops-a-simple-castration-will-do-nicely-thank-you/

Or: http://feingold.senate.gov/releases/07/20070402.html

That is not to say that there aren’t some intelligent Dems in Congress - there are some - but at the moment they have been intimidated into silence by that raving lunatic who is Speaker of the House!

Their apparent objective is to move this country into a leftist totalitarian regime.

But your party is psychotic. The failure is yours, the lies are yours, the contempt for the needs and wishes of the American people is yours. We tried, but you’re the party of no, the party of spittle-flecked rage, the party of race-baiting and conspiracy theories and tin-foil hat nuts.

The Internet: Where Hyperbole Becomes Truth

Obama isn’t a tyrant trying to turn America into a totalitarian state. And the Republican party is none of the word vomit regurgitated here.

Wrong. The people are getting exactly the behavior that they vote for.

It’s sad, but that’s the way it is.

What is sad is that we don’t get to vote for “behavior” directly. We get to vote for a person. I’d check the box next to:

[] Whoever can behave like an adult

Unfortunately, if internet forums are any indication, if “good behavior” was on the ballot, it’d lose handily to:

[] Whoever can hold blindly to their position while degrading the opposing party

They didn’t even propose single payer. That’s an indication of a willingness to compromise.

Obama never signaled strong commitment to a public option. More willingness to compromise.

Accepted demands for abortion limitations. Compromise.

Agreed to forgo reconciliation. Compromise.

Meanwhile from your side we got Jim DeMint talking about using this bill to destroy Obama. And we got the true leader of the GOP, Rush Limbaugh, stating he hoped the President of the United States would fail. And then we got death panels, and Townhall whackjobs screaming, and Michelle Bachman, and the whole 10 pound can of GOP crazy.

We tried. But your party is psychotic. The failure is yours, the lies are yours, the contempt for the needs and wishes of the American people is yours. We tried, but you’re the party of no, the party of spittle-flecked rage, the party of race-baiting and conspiracy theories and tin-foil hat nuts.

Can’t compromise with psychos. They only hear the voices in their heads.

Just because you claim it, doesn’t make it true.

Four years ago, the GOP controlled every lever of government. If it wanted to, the GOP could have passed Tort Reform (without Democrats). They chose not to.

If it wanted to, the GOP could have opened insurance competition across state lines (wihout Democrats). They chose not to.

Right now, David Hamilton of Indiana, President Obama’s first appeals court nominee, is waiting for approval by the Senate on his confirmation. He was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee 158 days ago. Care to guess how many George W. Bush nominees were held in limbo this long in the last Congress? Yeah… ZERO.

So cry me a river.

You reap what you sow.

Until the GOP can figure out how to you know… actually govern… they’ll be in the wilderness. The last 8 years were a disaster for the country, and ideologues like you were cheerleading it every step of the way.