They share more than that!

They share the same fucked up, twisted and bastardized "christian" ideology that is responsible for the mess we are in today!

This "church", that apparently has tax exempt status when in fact its no church at all, has multiple elected officials in residence,(R)at a reduced rate (can anyone say taxpayer subsidized) so they can meet, pontificate and plan the dastardly deeds they commit against their fellow Americans in Gods name!

When I gladly helped elect the class of 1994, the plan was that these guys would be back out of public life by 2000. That's what term limits are all about. Otherwise, they just turn into Dems, with the enormous sense of entitlement that goes with.

"When I gladly helped elect the class of 1994, the plan was..."

...The Contract With America, of which exactly zero of the eight main provisions became law. Term limits was one.

He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind...

Proverbs 11:29

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When I gladly helped elect the class of 1994, the plan was that these guys would be back out of public life by 2000
RightIsWrong

And you actually bought that line of crap? What, in the GOP's history, made you believe they would actually give up the perks of office? Other than they said it.

Wanna buy some WMD? I got tons of it, all stored around Tikrit, and to the north south, east and west of it.

"they just turn into Dems"

You're probably referring to the old power-corrupts saw, which is, of course, so obviously true as to be a truism. Plenty of corrupt Republicans and Democtrats over the years. No, what the infamous Class of '94 really brought into the mix, on a scale not seen previously in my lifetime, was the banal sanctimoniousness and faux rectitude that only dyed-in-the-wool, Bible-thumping, credulous, borderline-cretinous voters could possibly find even remotely inspiring. The 1994 election married the longstanding snake oil salesman tradition with Christiain fundamentalism's worm's-view of reality, played heaviliy to ignorance, and produced a crop of lying hypocrites it'll be hard to match. Had the Dems been able to pull off the religion angle -- and Clinton came close for some people, but he always reminded me in that regard of Jimmy Swaggart with some talcum powder and a more expensive haircut -- they might've fallen into the trap those once confidence GOPiggies find themselves in,

Another characteristic which this group shared was that after the election back in 1994 someone discovered that the vast majority of these people had never ever applied for a Passport. This meant that, except for those who may have served in the military, their experience with respect to international affairs would have been limited to visits to Canada and/or Mexico, and yet they were coming into office and being handed the responsibilities for setting and influencing not only domestic policy, but also the policies which impacted our relationships with other nations and their leadership, not to mention their individual citizens.

It always amazed me how often during discussions with others, how so many people are totally ignorant of what's going on in the rest of the world (except what they hear from Faux News or see in the movies), and what really stumps me is they often take pride in this ignorance, as if being personally aware of how people in other counties live and act would somehow put them at risk of being less patriotic or proud to be an American. Having visited over 30 countries on 4 continents, I have no appreciation whatsoever for how their minds must work or what they think they've gained by their cultural-isolationism.

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