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Well, bakerbug, here is your political question.
Either the Democratic Party or the Republican Party of the US has accomplished a lot more than any party (of many) that is in Spain. I would worry more about Spain's troubles....
Major parties
The two major parties of Spain are:
* Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (Partido Socialista Obrero Español). It has a federal structure with a federation in each autonomous community, such as:
o Socialist Party of the Basque Country (Partido Socialista de Euskadi) in the Basque Country
+ Euskadiko Ezkerra also in the Basque Country joined the PSE in 1991.
o Socialists' Party of Galicia (Partido dos Socialistas de Galicia) in Galicia.
o Socialist Party of the Valencian Country (Partit Socialista del País Valencià) in Valencia.
o Socialists' Party of the Balearic Islands (Partit dels Socialistes de les Illes Balears) in the Balearic Islands.
It does not have a federation in Catalonia, but an association with the Socialists' Party of Catalonia (Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya).
* People's Party (Partido Popular), formerly People's Coalition (Coalición Popular), a coalition of People's Alliance (Alianza Popular), Democratic People's Party (Partido Demócrata Popular) and Liberal Party (Partido Liberal)
Other parties with current representation in the Congress of Deputies, the Senate or in the European Parliament:
* Convergence and Union (Convergència i Unió), coalition of:
o Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya)
o Democratic Union of Catalonia (Unió Democràtica de Catalunya)
* Basque Nationalist Party (Partido Nacionalista Vasco), Euzko Alderdi Jeltzalea in Basque.
* Republican Left of Catalonia (Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya)
* United Left (Izquierda Unida), a coalition of parties around Communist Party of Spain (Partido Comunista de España). It has a federal structure with a federation in each autonomous community but the Basque Autonomous Community and Catalonia, where it has an association with.
o Ezker Batua in the Basque Country.
o Esquerra Unida i Alternativa in Catalonia.
Esquerra Unida i Alternativa usually runs in coalition with Initiative for Catalonia Greens (Iniciativa per Catalunya Verds).
* Galician Nationalist Bloc (Bloque Nacionalista Galego)
* Canarian Coalition (Coalición Canaria)
* Union, Progress and Democracy (Unión Progreso y Democracia)
* Nafarroa Bai (Navarre Yes)
* Navarrese People's Union
* Aragonese Party (Partido Aragonés). Only in the Senate.
* PSM - Nationalist Agreement (PSM - Entesa Nacionalista). Only in the Senate.
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That's insane!
Specifically, it has greatly increased the odds of blowback.
Blowback is the espionage term for the violent, unintended consequences of a covert operation that are suffered by the civil population of the aggressor government.
LOL, Whatever. I believe it was President Jimmy Carter (Democrat) who was in office when the whole Iranian Hostage thing blew up. It was President Bill Clinton (Democrat) that was in office when Bin Laden started his rampage of terror and was in office when the initial planning for 9/11 occurred and Bin Laden gave the go ahead for the attacks.
So in my opinion it seems very silly to try and blame "blow back" on Republicans. Im not saying that Republicans are Saints, Im just saying that its silly to try and place all or even a majority of the blame on them. We all know you have your Anti-Republican agenda and thats fine and all if you enjoy your hate that much. But facts are facts and the Democrats are just as much to blame as anyone.
It's just a shame that none of us are represented by any party. Gone are those days!Maybe we should just kick em all out and start over, base votes on the individuals. I know, it's more complicated..blah, blah, blah. I am sick of the bureaucracy and I am sick of feeling helpless.
Yea, I agree. The "Party" system is just a way to funnel money to candidates. Those that get the most money can advertise better and usually have a better chance to win (not a guaranteed chance to win but a better chance) Since big business, corporations, and wealthy people can more easily target who gets their money they can more easily affect national policy, even state and local policy as well. I understand the flaws but I am not sure how to best fix the flaws.
There is no perfect fix either, I prefer proportional representation. It would allow me to vote for a party or candidate that more closely reflects my personal preferences (like balanced budget and socially responsible) rather then having to chose the lesser of two evils. It has drawbacks as usually no party wins an outright majority, but that would (hopefully) require parties to be mature and make reasonable compromises.
Proportional Representation?? That sounds pretty and all, but Im not sure how you go about that, or even what it means exactly.
Look it up some time, there are many systems possible, none of them perfect.
Balanced budget? How can support Obama and then talk about a balanced budget? He is like a Hilton daughter on cocain in Neimens, just charging away as quickly as possible and knowing somebody else is going to end up with the bill
Do you honestly trust the average American's basic understanding of how this country runs enough to put the future of our country to an individual base vote? I agree nobody is represented very well up in Washington but so many people just dont even have a clue. You should see the video that came out during the election of interviews they did in Harlem and some other places. They asked these people who they were voting for and a lot said Obama. Then they asked if they agreed with his philosophy of lowering taxes for the top 1%, sending more troops to Iraqu, ect. (all the questions were either mccains views or just direct contradictions to Obama's view). They said yes to all of them. They did not have a clue. They were voting based on the color of his skin and that alone
Oh, I know, I heard those interviews too, it made me want to COL (cry-out-loud). Those uninformed people were saying that they didn't mind him having a female running mate for vice-president (sure it was a leading question but H-E-L-L-O!) they said they like McCains platform when they thought it was Obama's.
While both parties might well be to blame, they are not very good examples of Democrat wrongdoing as both cases had their roots during times when Republican presidents were in power.
The Iran hostage crisis had it's roots in the 1953 coup against a democratically-elected nationalist Iranian government organized by the CIA. -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
As for Osama Bin-Laden he did not turn his attention to the U.S. until after the Saudi king rejected his offer of his Mujahadeen fighters to defend Saudi Arabia and allowed non- Muslims on holy soil. -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden#Formation_and_structuring_of_Al-Qaeda
LOL, you people never quit do you. You just cant face the fact that the Democrats are just as much to blame as anybody else. You want to go back to 1953 to blame the hostage crisis in 1979. Why was it that a Republican President was able to end the Crisis if the Republicans were to BLAME for the Crisis? And since your Democrats are so "not to blame" what did they do to prevent the crisis from happening in the first place? In fact the support of the Shah of Iran by the Democratic President Carter in the face of the Iranian revolutionaries is what CAUSED the hostage taking and holding for 444 days. If it were not for that then it would have been a revolution and the Americans would have been treated like citizens from other embassies and released. Come on....geesh...give me a break. Maybe its all George Washings fault, if he would not have led the revolt against England then Carter wouldn't have fugged up!
I did not say that the Democrats were not to blame, I said that the examples you gave were not very good examples.
I disagree...I think they are both excellent examples of how Liberals and Democrats ALWAYS try and pass the blame and refuse to accept responsibility. That concept alone is probably the only thing that keeps the Republican party alive...but good luck with that strategy.
Well, we are all able to check ourselves what really happened and I have no doubt there are better examples to where the Democrats did try to blame the Republicans, or visa versa, but I honestly can't think of any of the top of my head.
Blowback by Democrats as President (since World War II)
(1) Suppression of freedom in most of the countries behind the Iron Curtain (Roosevelt/Truman)
(2) Fall of Czechoslovakia (Truman)
(3) Fall of China (Truman)
(4) Korean War - Armistice (Truman)
(5) Bay of Pigs - (JFK)
(6) Vietnam War - (JFK and LBJ)
are just a few examples
Keep them coming livelett so true
They both suck
YeP!! They all need to be kicked out of office.
I'm very thankful for the tax cuts, because I really can't afford the tax increases that are about to hit me and keep my children in private school so that they can get a good education and be productive tax paying people. Small business people are the one's who are taking it on the chin, wake-up people! The wealthy will always be fine, they have the government taking care of them, don't be fools!
You can not strengthen the weak by weakening the strong
Amen!