Posted on 11/08/2006 3:58:41 PM PST by pissant
History was made this week! For the first time in four election cycles, Democrats are not attacking the Diebold Corp. the day after the election, accusing it of rigging its voting machines. I guess Diebold has finally been vindicated.
So the left won the House and also Nicaragua. They've had a good week. At least they don't have their finger on the atom bomb yet.
Democrats support surrender in Iraq, higher taxes and the impeachment of President Bush. They just won an election by pretending to be against all three.
Jon Tester, Bob Casey Jr., Heath Shuler, possibly Jim Webb -- I've never seen so much raw testosterone in my life. The smell of sweaty jockstraps from the "new Democrats" is overwhelming.
Having predicted this paltry Democrat win, my next prediction is how long it will take all these new "gun totin' Democrats" to be fitted for leotards.
Now that they've won their elections and don't have to deal with the hicks anymore, Tester can cut lose the infernal buzz cut, Casey can start taking "Emily's List" money, and Webb can go back to writing more incestuously homoerotic fiction ... and just in time for Christmas!
But according to the media, this week's election results are a mandate for pulling out of Iraq (except in Connecticut where pro-war Joe Lieberman walloped anti-war "Ned the Red" Lamont).
In fact, if the Democrats' pathetic gains in a sixth-year election are a statement about the war in Iraq, Americans must love the war! As Roll Call put it back when Clinton was president: "Simply put, the party controlling the White House nearly always loses House seats in midterm elections" -- especially in the sixth year.
In Franklin D. Roosevelt's sixth year in 1938, Democrats lost 71 seats in the House and six in the Senate.
In Dwight Eisenhower's sixth year in 1958, Republicans lost 47 House seats, 13 in the Senate.
In John F. Kennedy/Lyndon Johnson's sixth year, Democrats lost 47 seats in the House and three in the Senate.
In Richard Nixon/Gerald Ford's sixth year in office in 1974, Republicans lost 43 House seats and three Senate seats.
Even America's greatest president, Ronald Reagan, lost five House seats and eight Senate seats in his sixth year in office.
But in the middle of what the media tell us is a massively unpopular war, the Democrats picked up about 30 House seats and five to six Senate seats in a sixth-year election, with lots of seats still too close to call. Only for half-brights with absolutely no concept of yesterday is this a "tsunami" -- as MSNBC calls it -- rather than the death throes of a dying party.
During eight years of Clinton -- the man Democrats tell us was the greatest campaigner ever, a political genius, a heartthrob, Elvis! -- Republicans picked up a total of 49 House seats and nine Senate seats in two midterm elections. Also, when Clinton won the presidency in 1992, his party actually lost 10 seats in the House -- only the second time in the 20th century that a party won the White House but lost seats in the House.
Meanwhile, the Democrats' epic victory this week, about which songs will be sung for generations, means that in two midterm elections Democrats were only able to pick up about 30 seats in the House and four seats in the Senate -- and that's assuming they pick up every seat that is currently too close to call. (The Democrats' total gain is less than this week's gain because Bush won six House and two Senate seats in the first midterm election.)
So however you cut it, this midterm proves that the Iraq war is at least more popular than Bill Clinton was.
In a choice between Republicans' "Stay until we win" Iraq policy or the Democrats' "Stay, leave ... stay for a while then leave ... redeploy and then come back ... leave and stay ... cut and run ... win, lose or draw policy," I guess Americans prefer the Republican policy.
The Democrats say we need a "new direction" in Iraq. Yeah, it's called "reverse." Democrats keep talking about a new military strategy in Iraq. How exactly is cut-and-run a new strategy? The French have been doing it for years. The Democrats are calling their new plan for Iraq "Operation Somalia."
The Democrats certainly have their work cut out for them. They have only two years to release as many terrorists as possible and lock up as many Republicans as they can. Republicans better get that body armor for the troops the Democrats are always carping about -- and fast. The troops are going to need it for their backs.
No, that's Ann's gig. She practically wrote her column in lockstep with the ideas the MSM wanted out there.
Funny - I've never seen his show, but the name Keith Olbermann immediately came to mind when I read this.
I thought the GOP was the party of "personal responsibility". Blaming anyone other than the man/woman in the mirror puts them on the same level as a Dimwit-o-crat.
In a number of races, the Libertarians, while not necessarily a Republican vote stealer, did in fact make up more than the difference between the losing Republican and winning dem.
As for Ann being the reason for us losing, that's crazy talk. ;-) There is a segment here that was so opposed to anyone daring to criticize this administration that they are wont to find any way to blame those critical of this admin. My take is that, again, it was the squishy middle, not single issue conservatives. Heck, I can be single-issue and I voted.
With JD Hayworth, he's down by about six thousand votes. I wonder what the break point is with the provisionals and absentees. Would it break far enough toward him? Oh yeah, that's a race where in the Libertarians sucked up over four thousand votes.
She worked hand-in-hand with the mainstream media, getting the ideas they wanted out there to clobber the GOP vote. I'm assigning her some of that personal responsibility you just mentioned.
That's Ok PaleHorse, you're allowed to not like Ann and tell us all about it. But as someone else mentioned, it's a twisted logic that draws you to your conclusion.
If W & co didn't get hit in '06 ('06 results are not at all a good thing imho), '08 is/was looming as a much bigger problem. The Republicans aren't finished with being given negative feedback. They just got some prematurely.
Having read a lot of her work it does not seem likely that she did so seriously. Can you put this in context for us?
Good rant.
I spent a year in Vietnam, and the treasonous bastards known as the American public turned that year into a waste. And now they've done that to my son, my nieces, and my nephews. Move on? You're awfully glib in saying that.
Ping to the weekly Coulter.
Sure. She's a pundit. She has no responsibility for accomplishing anything, so she's free to spout off and be an attention whore, no matter how much damage it does. That's the entirety of the context.
Please don't get me wrong; for the most part what she says is truth about the rats. It's all in her approach. Calling a spade a spade in one thing, using insulting language is quite another. I've been around a long time and I know there are ways of insulting people without it sounding insulting, at least first.
Prove it.
If you look at the Demo-wacks as traitors, why don't you beat the drum to have THEM jailed and brought to justice?
You have to have someone to blame so I guess your scapegoat du jour is Ann Coulter. You really need to get over it and look to the future.
Because, before we do that, we must have OUR house in order.
[I was speaking of Ann Coulter committing treason, not writing the book Treason, where she cheerfully argued exactly what I'm saying about the Democrats she willfully helped to elect.]
Your tin foil hat may have fallen off.
Ann speaks the truth.. The White RINO House is the truth...
Thats what brought this about..
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