[Vision2020] A Start

[Scott Dredge]

Tom,

I expect that Bush and company are just going to
steamroll ahead with their conservative agenda for at
the least the next two years and, depending on the
2006 mid-term election results, could continue full
steam ahead until 2008.

Decision 2004 was several magnitudes worse than I
could have ever imagined.  Bush winning by a few
million votes and receiving over 50% of the ballots
cast was bad enough, but he also picked up seats in
the Senate and the House and knocked out the Senate
minority leader.  It was a total annihilation of the
Democrats.

And I'm not writing this to start a flame war.  I wish
that the country was divided...enough so that we had
the Republicans controlling Congress and the Democrats
controlling the White House (or vice versa). 
Unfortunately, the electorate has delivered a mandate
to Bush and Company.

-Scott

--- Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:

> You are absolutely correct, Carl.  We must look to
> tomorrow as a united
> people.  If President Bush is true to his word, he
> will find a common ground
> for both liberals and conservatives.  This country
> desperately needs someone
> to provide solidarity not in spite of our
> differences, but because of them.
> It has always been the case that our differences are
> what makes this country
> strong.
> 
>  
> 
> Don't get me wrong.  I am not suggesting a national
> "group hug", merely an
> understanding by each of us that those attributes
> that divide us should be
> fostered into a bond that unites us.
> 
>  
> 
> Simply put, you cannot unite the whole by
> segregating its parts.  In the
> interim though, keep your powder dry.
> 
>  
> 
> Take care,
> 
>  
> 
> Tom Hansen
> 
>  
> 
> A good friend will come and bail you out of jail. 
> But a true friend will be
> sitting next to you saying, "Damn . . . that was
> fun!"
> 
>  
> 
> >
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