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Democrats in Congress Feeling the Heat
RealClearPolitics.com ^ | November 13, 2007 | E. J. Dionne

Posted on 11/13/2007 4:12:23 AM PST by gpapa

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1 posted on 11/13/2007 4:12:24 AM PST by gpapa
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To: gpapa

Schadenfreude.


2 posted on 11/13/2007 4:15:56 AM PST by WashingtonSource
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And this is with a media that is sympatico with the Dhimmis, when was the last time we had weeks on end of “Pain at the pump” OSM stories? In 2006 they were a weekly event.

The proposal to raise gas taxes also didn’t get much press either.


3 posted on 11/13/2007 4:17:13 AM PST by padre35 (Conservative in Exile/ Isaiah 3.3)
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To: gpapa
This election cycle is just plain depressing and most days hard to distinguish left from right. Nancy Reagan making out with Bloomberg... strange bedfellows with little distinction.
4 posted on 11/13/2007 4:20:19 AM PST by Just mythoughts
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Pelosi and Reid have a point, and they want Bush to get the blame for a budget impasse. But Bush seems to have decided that if he can't raise his own dismal approval ratings, he will drag the Democrats down with him. So far, that is what's happening.

Oh Boo Hoo, cry me a river E. J. Donne.

5 posted on 11/13/2007 4:21:15 AM PST by rhombus
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I see ol' Mushmouth is poking his snout out of the mud again.......


6 posted on 11/13/2007 4:31:09 AM PST by Viking2002 (Waterboarding the Left every chance I get.)
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The Dims are constantly touting "compromise" is the only way to get things done, but are the most UNcompromising group around. Their idea of compromise is for everyone else to give in to them.

I hear lib callers to talk radio shows every day complaining that we conservatives are divisive without ever considering that they are as much to blame for being divisive as anyone.

7 posted on 11/13/2007 4:46:27 AM PST by YellowRoseofTx
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I think the ratmedia should tell the ratHouse an 11% approval rating means they will PICK up seats next year. It will make them feel better and make it easier to kowtow to their anti American base.


8 posted on 11/13/2007 4:55:29 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatives live in the truth. Liberals live in lies.)
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“democrats complain that this is unfair...”

their obnoxious heinouses are getting a taste of their own medicine. (only this criticism is justified, not just socialist/leftist pablum designed to obfuscate, degenerate and destroy, not to mentions subvert as is their usual tactic.)


9 posted on 11/13/2007 5:20:24 AM PST by ripley
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makes sense for Democratic presidential candidates to distance themselves from the party's Washington wing. A poll released last week by the Pew Research Center found that 54 percent of Americans disapprove of the performance of Democratic congressional leaders, an increase in dissatisfaction of 18 points since February.

Dingy shouldn't have written that (smear) letter.

10 posted on 11/13/2007 5:26:29 AM PST by NeoCaveman ("Don't doubt me" - The Great El Rushbo)
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“I hear lib callers to talk radio shows every day complaining that we conservatives are divisive...”

- When conservatives are condemned by liberals as being, “divisive”, it’s code speak for; they won’t agree with us and do what we tell them.


11 posted on 11/13/2007 5:41:53 AM PST by finnigan2
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To: gpapa

Dionne neglects to mention that the Democrats are in the worst of worlds because they run on lies.


12 posted on 11/13/2007 5:59:20 AM PST by popdonnelly (Get Reid. Salazar, and Harkin out of the Senate.)
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Democrats complain that this is unfair and, in some sense, it is. But who said that politics was fair?

It's not unfair. They campaigned on getting out of Iraq. Since then, they've expanded with the surge and the same kind of funding the GOP Congress had.

Now they whine because the antiwar Left is holding them to account because they clearly have the power of the purse in the House but refuse to use it. Pelosi now pretends that the only way to end the war is to have a 2/3 majority in both houses. That's a lie. Only the House can propose spending. They can, for instance, choose to defund the war in Iraq, providing funds for the withdrawal on a schedule. Then Bush could veto it resulting in him defunding the troops, or he could sign it and abet them in defunding the troops.

If the GOP wants to win in '08, they need to hammer the Dims on this repeatedly to make it clear that the '06 election of Dims was a cynical fraud on their followers.

This is a key issue for '08. And the GOP needs to understand it and use it. The Dims are holding a double-edged sword here and we can use it so that both edges of the sword cut them deep.
13 posted on 11/13/2007 6:19:15 AM PST by George W. Bush (Apres moi, le deluge.)
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UNFAIR???? A bunch of lying, anti-GOD, left-wing, moonbat surrender monkeys lie and block progress at every turn for seven years and they are being treated unfairly??? DAMN LIES ALL!

LLS

14 posted on 11/13/2007 7:08:29 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (Support America, Kill terrorists, Destroy dims!)
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Congress’ approval rating is lower than Bush’s. How is it possible for him to drag them down? E.J. is not very smart.


15 posted on 11/13/2007 7:15:01 AM PST by babylucas (Hey moonbats! Impeach this!)
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It’s just natural law; Democrats can’t escape from reality no matter how much they pretend!..


16 posted on 11/13/2007 7:19:53 AM PST by JSDude1 (When a liberal represents the Presidential Nominee for the Republicans; THEY'RE TOAST)
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True enough.

LLS


17 posted on 11/13/2007 7:56:38 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (Support America, Kill terrorists, Destroy dims!)
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To: gpapa
The Democrats are being waterboarded simultaneously by Bush and the public. They can't seem to figure a way out of the torture.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

18 posted on 11/13/2007 8:16:23 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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E. J. Dionne is an idiot and a Dem operative.


19 posted on 11/13/2007 8:18:47 AM PST by kabar
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That what happens when you lie yourself into power like the Democrats did in 2006. You end up pissing off the people you lied to.


20 posted on 11/13/2007 8:23:08 AM PST by MNJohnnie ("Hillary is polarizing, deceitful, and liberal. And those are are her good points!" Beaversmom)
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