Trust in GOP Reaches Record Low
Maybe the time for partisan politics is over. I believe it’s time for us to put away the idea of legislating for or against our personal beliefs and pet peeves and to come together to do what is best for the country. We are at a serious crossroads right now….our economy is in serious trouble and I doubt any of us are anxious to become a third world country economically speaking.
I know many of you dislike Barack Obama….I do, too. But I also equally dislike what George W. Bush and the Republican party has done to this country. Maybe for the good of the country we need to have a cautious wait and see attitude. I know how tempting it is to criticize everything Obama does but I’m not sure it is productive.
As I sit here typing this I have CNN on and they are re-hashing the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky scandal. Why? Isn’t it time to get over it?
It really is time, in my opinion, to look for solutions instead of crying about the problems.
Just 23 percent in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll said they trust Republicans more than Democrats to handle the main problems facing the nation, the lowest level reached by either party in surveys dating back to 1982.
A majority, 56 percent, trust the Democrats to handle the nation’s top issues over the next few years, also a record in Post-ABC polling. But the GOP’s recent losses have not translated into big Democratic gains, instead the proportion who trust neither party has climbed to 15 percent.
Trust in the GOP has fallen nine points since May, driven by a 19-point decline among conservatives. Nearly one in five in that group said they trust neither party.
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December 18th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Sage, the solution may be to rid Congress entirely and start over. Republicans and Democrats are all the same. Our entire system is flawed.
Forget Monica, this stuff is what worries me: SOURCE: AP 10 minutes ago………
WASHINGTON – Former President Bill Clinton’s foundation has raised at least $46 million from Saudi Arabia and other foreign governments that his wife Hillary Rodham Clinton may end up negotiating with as the next secretary of state.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia gave $10 million to $25 million to the William J. Clinton Foundation, a nonprofit created by the former president to finance his library in Little Rock, Ark., and charitable efforts to reduce poverty and treat AIDS. Other foreign government givers include Norway, Kuwait, Qatar, Brunei, Oman, Italy and Jamaica. The Dutch national lottery gave $5 million to $10 million.
The Blackwater Training Center donated $10,001 to $25,000. The State Department — to be led by Hillary Clinton if she is confirmed — will have to decide next year whether to renew Blackwater Worldwide’s contract to protect U.S. diplomats in Iraq. Five Blackwater guards have been indicted by a U.S. grand jury on manslaughter and weapons charges stemming from a September 2007 firefight in Baghdad’s Nisoor Square in which 17 Iraqis died.
December 18th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
I have to agree that all the (well most all) politicians in Washington and State levels are corrupt and there is no way to replace them as money talks. These people speak of money in the trillion as we speak of it as enough to get by with for the week or month which ever it is that we get the payday or retirement check! The ones that we see getting caught in corruption is the ones that has double crossed the other crook and gets reported by the one they cross! Good post and really makes a person think! Thanks!
December 18th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
Here’s something else that should get everybody thinking, too…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg7KmcYTpT4
December 18th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
Sage, here, here on your observations. I hate to be cynical, but maybe we are witnessing a conclusion to a wonderful 200 year old experiment in democracy. Our moral and ethical values have shifted from being based on absolutes to being defined by a combination of situation, ethnicity, social, and popular culture. What was a continuous fabric of our culture has been replaced by individual outposts like your site, which still have a connection back to the values and common sense that was at the core of what made our country exceptional.
December 19th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
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March 8th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
look what they have done to our country all they could do is spend
our money on a war we should not have started they are crooks
end all ear marks get rid of all lobbiests