"This year's election offers the chance, after four decades of one-party control, to bring to the House a new majority that will transform the way Congress works. That historic change would be the end of government that is too big, too intrusive, and too easy with the public's money. " Some might think that this is a recent quote, a Democratic diatribe. They'd be wrong.

It's a quote from the infamous "Contract With America," back in 1994. Since then, Republicans have INCREASED bureaucracy in Washington, after Al Gore streamlined government offices and policies during the Clinton administration. Republicans have made things harder on normal folks, while easing the burdens of corporations. Witness the Medicare Plan D Debacle, for instance. This Republican administration is certainly more intrusive, as evidenced by its illegal wiretap program, and surveillance of such "dangerous" terrorist groups like vegans and Quakers. Mr. Bush and his enablers in Congress have pissed away a $150 Billion surplus, and turned it into an $8 TRILLION deficit. Since Bush took office, the US Government has BORROWED more money than all of the previous administrations COMBINED.

Bill Clinton managed to balance the budget and reduce government bureaucracy, even with a hostile GOP majority running Congress. W and the Mayberry Mafia can't even get it right with a defacto one-party rule. I've said it before, and I'll say it again- The last good Republican President was Eisenhower. Barry Goldwater would be considered too-moderate by today's standards, and Abe Lincoln would not recognize what his party has turned into.

It's time for a change in Congress, if for no other reason than to hold the power of the Executive branch in check. To the die-hard Republicans out there, think about this very real possibility- "Would you want Hillary Clinton to have the same power as George W. Bush?" Yeah, I didn't think so. The point is that NOBODY should be allowed to piss all over the Constitution the way that Mr. Bush has. Time to wake up and pay attention...