one tenth of one percent is how many Americans?

I think it's about the population of Savannah, GA, but I don't think it includes many of the residents there.

that's still too many Re-bublikkins

If you are wealthy you can pursue happiness by voting republican but you cannot pursue justice or soulfulness that way.

I'm sure there are just, soulful republicans... just not in office

Do you remember Mark Hadfield. He was a great Senator and former Governor of Washington who really impressed me in the early 1970's. Also John Anderson.

Yeah, there is good in everyone. Nebraska's Republican Senator Chuck Hagel has spoken out against war in Iraq... but he still has all the other stripes of the GOP.

Oh, how glad I am that you said this.

Soulfulness?  What the heck is "soulfulness?" More importantly, how can you get justice voting Dem or GOP? 

Soulfulness..Nothing any Libertarian would ever understand

No, I understand the word, but not its application here.  "Of or expressive of deep feeling or emotion."  Great...soulfulness mean passionate.  And that makes your guy different how? 

It's like saying a man is quick-witted: it tells us nothing about them, just that they have a certain skill/trait.  When you apply such an attribute to a group, some might say you're showing your prejudice. 

Don't mind the resident Canucklehead.

Don't mind the resident Hillbilly.

Don't mind the resident gay man.

(This is fun, wonder if more people will play?)

Just voted =)

And here I thought Democrats were the only good politicians...

Good and politician...  there are two words I never expected to hear in one sentence.

thought you might expect to hear that in conjunction with Ron Paul, Mr. Hillbilly!

There's a difference between politicians and statesmen!

(And it's at least 50% semantical.)

...an excellent observation.

lol, Replace voting republican with voting and I agree.  Voting Democrat in the last election sure as shit didn't change anything.

I still maintain: not enough of a majority to get anything done.

Well how are you going to maintain that delusion in two years?  My guess would be you'll just accept the line that we have to stay there to fix the damage and save them from theirselves, thus allowing yet another 8 years of this shit.

They didn't need a majority to end the war in the first place, that's what's vital to understand.  The reason congress has the power to fund wars while the president can declare them is to keep a check on that power.  So if a president did somehow manage to get us into a war we shouldn't be in, congress could just refuse to fund it.

That being the case, the democrats simply had to not vote for one of the many funding bills for the war that has occured since and before the election of 2006 but they DON'T.  Whether you believe they don't because they think it would be bad politically, or because they benefit as much as anyone else from the war, the fact is they have always had the power to end the war.

Also, by that reasoning, the republicans shouldn't be getting anything done now, since they're the minority, and yet I notice they've had no problem accomplishing what they want, which is the same as what the democrats want.