There has been allote of media coverage on a nation divided. Everyone seems to pin this on bush but i can give you the exact time and place and reason why we dont have any kind of Partisanship in DC.

It all stems back to the 2000 election. Where the dems thought they would just waltz in to the whitehouse. That is where this divide is stemming from and the fact that the DEMS are a bunch of cry babies.

Why Gix, how diplomatic of you, of course it's all the Dems fault. The repubs have absolutely no responsiblity.

well the Democrats could have waltzed back into the White House if Kerry had actually shared his seceret plans to fight terrorism.

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The truth hurts doesn't it........

Okay, I'll admit it. The Dems made a mistake with Kerry. Now will you admit the the Republicans made a mistake with Bush?

UH...that would be no Gix.

There is plenty of blame to go around my friend, try giving a little to your buddy Karl Rove.

Last time i checked cat Karl Rove isn't a elcted official

Freedomlover, unemployment is down to the lowest level in years, the economy is strong but everything hinges on the war on terrorism? I am glad that Bush had the balls to do what others wouldn't do, but yes he should have had a plan for the peace.

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You don't have to be elected to manipulate public opinion. All you have to be is the guy holding the puppet strings, James Carville did this too but I did not see him pitting people against one another via 'morals/values.' That is where it started...that is the 'moral high ground' re-positioning of the middle that political stategists on the right (Rove's guys) did after the outrage to Clinton getting his knob polished.

You have to be smart enough to know that the guy running for office takes cues from the professional political operatives(?) That has been going on for many, many years.

And, in opposite to this, Ronald Reagan brought the country together very well. The guy still is looked at as a uniter and did folow through on that (he was given great advice by his advisors and cross the aisle many times to get legislation through). Bush has been given nothing but lousy advice and has divided the country. I don't even have to look left to know what this administration has done compared to even other, much better Republican administrations. I am not a Reagan fan mind you but I do appreciate the strengths he had at a time when they were needed.

So same party...how do explain that?

The unemployment rate is down compared to what? The administrations first term? And I don't believe the economy is as strong as people would like us to believe. The housing market is falling, interest rates, which helped the housing market are going up, peoples disposable income is not good, (this I have noted from the amount of seniors I here complaining about it. To me they would be the first to notice as their income is mostly fixed.) I live in a resort town and people weren't resorting this summer. Even Wal-Mart is complaining that their sales are down. None of these to me are good signs.