<p>Zoos, all of the news articles discuss the reasons that Bush is losing his base. I don’t know why you think this is hidden info. Here it is in black and white. There are plenty more links like this one.</p>
<p>“Disaffection over spending and immigration have caused conservatives to take flight from President Bush and the Republican Congress at a rapid pace in recent weeks, sending Bush’s approval ratings to record lows and presenting a new threat to the GOP’s 12-year reign on Capitol Hill, according to White House officials, lawmakers and new polling data.”</p>
<p>“But, frankly, the idea that corruption (in the past 5 years) is as endemic to Democrats as to the Republicans is an idea-spin put out by the Republican spinmeisters, without even a hint of evidence. It just ain’t so. Now, if the Dems happened to be in power, would it have been so? That’s anyone’s guess. But they ain’t.”</p>
<p>They haven’t been in power for over five years, so that time constraint makes a response to this request pretty near impossible.</p>
<p>“Zoos, all of the news articles discuss the reasons that Bush is losing his base. I don’t know why you think this is hidden info. Here it is in black and white. There are plenty more links like this one.”</p>
<p>You’re absolutely right about that article and it is pretty fair, but over the course of the free fall, most articles in the mainstream media haven’t been so fair and have implied (or stated) that conservatives are some sort of crazy people who hate immigrants and oppose Bush on his only reasonable issue. I’m talking long view here.</p>
<p>“They haven’t been in power for over five years, so that time constraint makes a response to this request pretty near impossible.”</p>
<p>So you are in fact agreeing with me - that corruption is currently far, far more endemic among Republicans than among Democrats, despite the Republican spinmeisters.</p>
<p>“So you are in fact agreeing with me - that corruption is currently far, far more endemic among Republicans than among Democrats, despite the Republican spinmeisters.”</p>
<p>Absolutely not, and please don’t attribute to me words or opinions that I haven’t expressed. I don’t, for one minute, believe republicans are more corrupt than democrats. </p>
<p>What I said was (a) corruption is endemic; and (b) the artificial time constraint on the last five years is limiting to what can be reported. Especially since there are some scandals that span that time period.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, it seems that whenever a party has control of both houses of Congress and the presidency, corruption reigns. There’s a reason the Dems were booted out of Congress in 1994. The voters usually take care of one-sided situations in fairly short order.</p>
<p>There are still some who think what Clinton did to warrant impeachment was worse than what little Bush has done. At least big Bush had sense enough to hire Quayle as impeachment insurance.</p>
<p>But I have a deep-held feeling that the transgressions of this President - the war, the deficit and spiraling debt, international relationships, and environmental policies - are going to have a longer-lasting detrimental effect on this country in the long run that previous administrations, Republican or Democrat.</p>
<p>“But I have a deep-held feeling that the transgressions of this President - the war, the deficit and spiraling debt, international relationships, and environmental policies - are going to have a longer-lasting detrimental effect on this country in the long run that previous administrations, Republican or Democrat.”</p>
<p>Correct; no matter how many land in jail, no matter how many die in vain, no matter how much debt our children suffer, a few will see Bush and his thugs as heroes forever.</p>