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[Moontanman]

Originally Posted by pgrmdave

It's like I've said before - our government is not set up to do the most good, but the least evil. Because of that, the petty squabbling is precisely what is needed and wanted. It keeps our government from really screwing things up just as much (if not much more often) than it prevents them from doing something really good.

No truer words have ever been spoken, I am a long time advocate of the importance of neither party getting what they want. It's keeps either extreme of right and left from getting too much control. Any one who seriously thinks the right or the left is perfect and should be in control for the good of everyone is either deluded or dangerous or both.
Nothing really pisses me off more than to be accused of being a liberal or a conservative. I like to argue and to argue you have to take a side and most of the time I agree with the liberal position on things the Conservatives want to argue about. But ask me about guns or small government or welfare mothers or welfare cheating or a host of other Conservative values and you see a the real me. I take the values I believe in from both sides to try and make a middle ground we can all live with, anything else is being a fanatic and will eventually lead to drinking the koolaide.