Posted on 11/26/2006 3:57:20 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The Republicans won't have any more of a backbone now that they are the minority than they had when they were the majority.
No, Dick Morris is right about this one.
The Senate won't pass anything that the GOP doesn't like. Like in previous sessions, a 1-vote majority is not a majority at all, and it will take at least 60 votes to bring anything to the floor for a vote.
The House will be a free-for-all. The Dems will want to be themselves, and the GOP (having hopefully learned from the Dems in the past few years) will make sure that nothing gets through cleanly.
Bush won't get anything he wants either. Welcome to gridlock for the next 2 years.
Dick Morris is a very astutue political observer, even if he has proved to be lousy at election predictions. Otherwise, he is right a whole lot more than he is wrong.
Hallelujah! I wished we had gridlock the last thirty years and I hope we have gridlock for the next thirty years. I don't want any of these scumbags legislating.
Now there's an understatement.
Pat Cadell is one Dem I have at least a modicum of respect for. He was one of the few during the Bubba impeachment fiasco who was almost as disgusted as our side.
Moris is right. Cadell probably is, too.
Actually I just found a link myself it is below.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/column.aspx?UrlTitle=the_way_ahead&ns=FrankJGaffneyJr&dt=11/20/2006&page=full&comments=true
I think Morris is right on this one- the dems will be too tied up in exacting revenge on and purging themselves of their hatred for the administration to do any serious legislating. That, more than anything else, is their motivation and inspiration- certainly not the desire to bring any new ideas to the floor.
He is probably right.
The Dem's are the biggest phonies I sometimes don't think that they bleieve in half the things they say they do. For instance socialized medicine. People vote for the Dem's becuase they think they would do something about medical insurance. that is why they will not do anything.they would not want to lose the votes. They also never do anything about "taxing the rich". Trust fund liberals don't like to pay tax anymore than anyone else.
**The democrat who is usually right is Pat Cadell. He picked the last 3 election cycles dead on. This time he said the democrats would take the house and senate in a lot of close races but lose both in two years because the democrats are scary.**
From his lips to the voters fingers and pens!
Ditto that! I keep saying there will be a lot of one term wonders come Jan 09.
Pat looks like one of Henson's muppets but I always liked his analysis and as you say, he is usually right on. I like the guy because he is one of the last honest liberals.
Considering the Republican idiocy that handed the Democrats--of all people--the 2006 election on a silver platter (by ignoring the Republican base, ignoring the demands for a halt to illegal immigration and runaway government spending, foolishly failing to nullify the Eminent Domain decision, expanding entitlement programs with prescription drug benefits, etc., et al.!), the foolishness of the Republicans in Congress and the Bush Administration can hardly be exaggerated.
If it were not for the foolishness of the Republicans, the Democrats wouldn't stand a chance--but that's a big If.
If it were not for Republican foolishness, the GOP would have increased its majority in Congress in the 2006 election and assured the election of a Republican Congress and Presidency in 2008.
Great article, thanks.
We may see some vetoes now. The president calculated (incorrectly) that vetoing his own parties legislation would weaken the party and his position. Now that consideration is not valid. I hope I am correct.
I feel the same way. However, I remember him during the Reagan era. He was a fierce critic and it used to infuriate me. I think it was the Clinton fiasco that turned him around.
OK, I'm taking bets as to how long it will be before the dems exercise the Nuclear Option.
Time to dust off that "veto" stamp.
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