While waiting for it to begin, I noticed a large display titled, "If I were President...." in the opposite hallway.
I thought it looked cute, so I ambled over.
The handwriting looked to be somewhere between 2nd and 4th grades, so I settled on 3rd grade as the best guess for the authors.
Clearly, the students had been coached and indoctrinated on certain subjects, since the subjects appeared in almost every paper. OK, maybe they weren't coached and 3rd graders these days are all pre-occupied with "the war" (I was perplexed by which war.) and hunting of animals. As I continued reading the papers, I had an epiphany: These 3rd graders sounded just like modern liberals. "End the war!" "Don't hunt animals!" (This topic particularly amuses me, since I have heard one of these nutcases seriously suggest that if people want to eat meat, then they should buy it in the grocery so that animals don't have to get hurt. SERIOUSLY.) "People should get what they want and not have to pay for it!" {insert scratching record sound here}
WHAT!?!?!? Yup, that particular sentiment was repeated on two papers. "Holy CRAP!" I told myself. "These kids sound just like liberals!" Upon having the epiphany, I pondered the parallels and ramifications. It didn't take long before I ended up at Democrats calling Republicans "The Party of no." It all became clear at that point. Republicans are the adults and Democrats are the bedwetting, whining, conniving, manipulative, ingrateful little brats.
In YOUR house, when the parents lose control of the children, does chaos ensue?
Don't get me wrong, here. The Republicans absolutely blew their opportunity to rein in spiraling higher education costs, regulate subprime lending, and address esclating healthcare costs from the time we learned about Slick Willie dribbling DNA on a blue dress until Democrats took over congress in the 2006 elections. The spineless weasels allowed Barney Frank, Maxine Waters, et al to deflect action that would have most certainly averted or mitigated the collapse of the housing market (and subsequently, our whole economy) from subprime loans and overbuilding.
( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs )
I'm sure the Republicans were drunk on the stock market and employment numbers prior to 9/11, but many of them saw the writing on the wall, yet the Republicans, as a whole, "fiddled while Rome burned."

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