What did the dems do in 94?

Silkheat · #1 (**permalink**) 10-28-2006, 08:40 AM

To make them lose control of the house and creating an insane group of republican loyalist?

What could have been so bad that people still defend the horribly criminal Halliburton? They even defend all the anti-freedom legislation that the GOP has been passing, even knowing that the neo-conservatives are for a totalitarian government.

What did the democrats do in 94?

justabubba · #2 (**permalink**) 10-28-2006, 09:07 AM

like today, there were no checks and balances in place.
absolute power corrupts ... absolutely.

Silkheat · #3 (**permalink**) 10-28-2006, 09:12 AM

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Originally Posted by justabubba";p=&quot

like today, there were no checks and balances in place.
absolute power corrupts ... absolutely.

Yeah, but America has never faced such a fascist threat as it does now. I don't recall the demo's attacking the bill of rights as the neo-cons are. The spending of the neo-cons is also far worse than it ever has been. The are so brazen they are stealing money in the open.

Where the dems that bad?

IRL · #4 (**permalink**) 10-28-2006, 09:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Silkheat";p=&quot

To make them lose control of the house and creating an insane group of republican loyalist?

What could have been so bad that people still defend the horribly criminal Halliburton? They even defend all the anti-freedom legislation that the GOP has been passing, even knowing that the neo-conservatives are for a totalitarian government.

What did the democrats do in 94?

They had to run in an of-year election.

glitch · #5 (**permalink**) 10-28-2006, 09:30 AM

The Republicans presented a very clear agenda to the American people - The Contract With America. Currently no one has any idea what the Democrats believe in besides bashing Bush about groups like Haliburton which Bush has nothing to do with.

Vergilius · #6 (**permalink**) 10-28-2006, 09:44 AM

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Originally Posted by glitch";p=&quot

The Republicans presented a very clear agenda to the American people - The Contract With America. Currently no one has any idea what the Democrats believe in besides bashing Bush about groups like Haliburton which Bush has nothing to do with.

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Cheney earned forty-four million dollars during his tenure at Halliburton. Although he has said that he “severed all my ties with the company,” he continues to collect deferred compensation worth approximately a hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year, and he retains stock options worth more than eighteen million dollars.

Vergilius · #7 (**permalink**) 10-28-2006, 09:46 AM

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Representative Henry Waxman, a liberal Democrat from California and the ranking minority member of the House Committee on Government Reform, has argued aggressively that the Bush Administration has left many questions about Halliburton unanswered. Last year, for example, a secret task force in the Bush Administration picked Halliburton to receive a noncompetitive contract for up to seven billion dollars to rebuild Iraq’s oil operations. According to the Times, the decision was authorized at the “highest levels of the Administration.” In an interview, Waxman asked, “Whose decision was it? Was it made outside the regular channels of the procurement process? We know that Halliburton got very special treatment. What we don’t know is why.”

Vergilius · #8 (**permalink**) 10-28-2006, 09:48 AM

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Halliburton has been accused of exploiting its privileged status. Last year, a division of the company overcharged the government by as much as sixty-one million dollars in the course of buying and transporting fuel from Kuwait into Iraq. Halliburton charged the United States as much as $2.38 per gallon, an amount that a Pentagon audit determined to be about a dollar per gallon too high. Although Halliburton has denied any criminal wrongdoing, the inspector general for the Department of Defense is considering an investigation.

Vergilius · #9 (**permalink**) 10-28-2006, 09:58 AM

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Halliburton has no such constraints. The company made political contributions of more than seven hundred thousand dollars between 1999 and 2002, almost always to Republican candidates or causes. In 2000, it donated $17,677 to the Bush-Cheney campaign. Indeed, the seventy or so companies that have Iraq contracts have contributed more money to President Bush than they did to any other candidate during the past twelve years.

I have a theory that corporations invest in the government. Through legal bribes called lobbying, the government allows them tax-breaks, contracts to overcharge the tax payers etc. It is strange that these same companies employed politicians like CHeney directly before he took office. You know that Cheney is getting his cut and so is Bush. THey have all been bought out. Bush is just a puppet for the corporations. I am sure they handpicked him because he looks and speaks like a total fool. That way he is an easy target. People blame Bush's stupidity. They should be looking deeper and deeper into the partys that bribe him.

hobo · #10 (**permalink**) 10-28-2006, 10:43 AM

As you can see, with the Republicans in control of Congress, nothing has changed. The budget is still not balanced, Social Security remains an unresolved issue, illegal alliens still pour across the border, education is still low quality for big money from the Feds, and the pork continues to flow home to the big contractors in a Congressmember's District.

Samo-samo. American democracy? When will the people finally be able to choose a candidate without the 2 parties spending special interest money to get "their man" in Congress and Whitehouse?

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