Check out fact check for a summary of what Americans taught and believed in 2003, including senior Democratic leadership.http://www.factcheck.org/iraq_what_did_congress_know_and_when.html[i]In 2004 the Senate Intelligence Committee said, in a report adopted unanimously by both Republican and Democratic members: Senate Intelligence Committee: The Committee did not find any evidence that intelligence analysts changed their judgments as a result of political pressure, altered or produced intelligence products to conform with Administration policy, or that anyone even attempted to coerce, influence or pressure analysts to do so.

That's pretty sharp because that cuts right past politics and to a core dissatisfaction people have been feeling for quite sometime....and it plays the guilt button which, as Obama illustrated, is quite effective.The second thing she did, which was brilliant, was the same week that Obama announced he was coming into town to campaign for Coons - she had a rally called "Democrats for O'Donnell" and had as her featured speakers LOCAL Democrat leaders who were dissatisfied with what Washington has been up to lately.

Is there an example of a democratic republic with a representative currency you can think of?

I have seen that infographic...The one piece of important data I believe it adds to what I wrote above is that throughout the history of marginal income tax rates in this country, there has been very little correlation between the rates and the party of the President.In other words, Republicans and Democrats alike favored high marginal tax rates for about half of the last century.

Originally posted by Jeff And Cheray Warner:[ Democrats and Republicans these days are both Liberal As is a majority of the population of this country.And there's nothing inherently wrong with having liberal beliefs (or any beliefs, for that matter).So, in a representative form of government, if the population is mostly liberal, it's probably a good thing that the government is mostly liberal.As far as having a government that just plain does stupid things, that's not a good thing...but we've seen that with both parties for many years now, so we really shouldn't be surprised

I feel bad for any investors trying to make a living in the non-democratic state of NY.....

The tenant groups like the Democratic Socialists and Tenant Union groups are trying to come after your retirement and investments!

It works the other way too -- if the TP folks aren't happy with something the establishment Republicans propose, they have enough votes to work with the Democrats and kill it.Most TP people know this is a process that will take multiple elections. now we will see if their flame can last until the 2012 cycle.

It's not about democrats and republicans and which party controls congress.

Keep in mind that much of this fearmongering is done by Republican Politicians trying to "de-fund" the Democratic Party by reducing the income of the American Trial Lawyers Association.