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So where do you and Vette go then?![]()
Two-for-one date night drink specials at The Banana Republic.
^^^
heh heh heh
Lil' feller's quick on the draw when it comes to protecting the honor of his top.
Rino Lincoln Chaffee announced to day that he's going back to the Democrat Party.![]()
The Democrat Party is a political party that many Republicans seem to think is their primary opposition.[1] Unlike the Democratic Party, the Democrat Party is made up entirely of homosexual, communistic tree-hugging pot-smoking Satan-worshiping Christ-haters intent on confiscating guns, destroying the family, indoctrinating schoolchildren in Marxism, painting all the freeway lanes with HOV diamonds, raising taxes to 100%, aborting all unborn fetuses, and negotiating for snuggles with the leaders of the Axis of Evil.
Another important difference between the Democrat Party and the Democratic Party is that the "Democrat Party" doesn't exist.
Rino Lincoln Chaffee announced to day that he's going back to the Democrat Party.![]()
Bob Dole, citizen, war hero, public servant, does not recognize the GOP either. Pity.
More voters with your kind of naive judgement and we'll have al Qaeda running the country.![]()
After I took office, we stepped up the war against al Qaeda, but also sought to change its course. We relentlessly targeted al Qaeda's leadership. We ended the war in Iraq, and brought nearly 150,000 troops home. We pursued a new strategy in Afghanistan, and increased our training of Afghan forces. We unequivocally banned torture, affirmed our commitment to civilian courts, worked to align our policies with the rule of law, and expanded our consultations with Congress.
Today, Osama bin Laden is dead, and so are most of his top lieutenants. There have been no large-scale attacks on the United States, and our homeland is more secure. Fewer of our troops are in harm's way, and over the next 19 months they will continue to come home. Our alliances are strong, and so is our standing in the world. In sum, we are safer because of our efforts.
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Today, the core of al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan is on a path to defeat. Their remaining operatives spend more time thinking about their own safety than plotting against us. They did not direct the attacks in Benghazi or Boston. They have not carried out a successful attack on our homeland since 9/11. Instead, what we've seen is the emergence of various al Qaeda affiliates. From Yemen to Iraq, from Somalia to North Africa, the threat today is more diffuse, with Al Qaeda's affiliate in the Arabian Peninsula – AQAP –the most active in plotting against our homeland. While none of AQAP's efforts approach the scale of 9/11 they have continued to plot acts of terror, like the attempt to blow up an airplane on Christmas Day in 2009.
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The AUMF is now nearly twelve years old. The Afghan War is coming to an end. Core al Qaeda is a shell of its former self. Groups like AQAP must be dealt with, but in the years to come, not every collection of thugs that labels themselves al Qaeda will pose a credible threat to the United States. Unless we discipline our thinking and our actions, we may be drawn into more wars we don't need to fight, or continue to grant Presidents unbound powers more suited for traditional armed conflicts between nation states. So I look forward to engaging Congress and the American people in efforts to refine, and ultimately repeal, the AUMF's mandate. And I will not sign laws designed to expand this mandate further. Our systematic effort to dismantle terrorist organizations must continue. But this war, like all wars, must end. That's what history advises. That's what our democracy demands.
The Republicans are coming to the realisation that they have become the 1890 democrats.
Is that so scary? Grover Cleveland won in '92.
Were we to get another group similar to the democrats who were in congress in after the 1890 elections, I would move to England.
We banned fox hunting, you know.
We banned fox hunting, you know.
Rather silly, really.
We banned fox hunting, you know.
The Republicans are coming to the realisation that they have become the 1890 democrats.
The Republicans are coming to the realisation that they have become the 1890 democrats.
No. The GOP Left and Right struggle to dominate the party occasionally.
The Right usually wins because the Right is the GOP base.