[quidnunc]

This is why the Medicare prescription-drug benefit package is money well-spent.

[goldstategop]

LOL! The Democrats really died from an acute case of "terminal depression."

[southernnorthcarolina]

Only problem is, we taxpayers will be the pallbearers.

I'm not sure I can lift that much.

[Cicero]

Suicide, while in an unsound state of mind.

[South40]

Not soon enough.

[Salvation]

**the victim had been severely depressed since November 2000.**

LOL!

[pierrem15]

I agree:

a) the dems are furious because one of their campaign pillars has collapsed, and they can't scare the old folks about those nasty pubbies taking away SS and Medicare;

b)the privatization camel is poking it's nose into the tent;

c)the costs will come "fron loaded" and force the Congress to address the issue or take the voter heat from the increases in the payroll tax.

The dems are on their knees on the tatami mat with an open kimono and Bush has just handed them the shoto.

[APFel]

"Hastert, while denying that he or his colleagues had anything to do with the victim’s demise, said he has no regrets that Congress will now become a unicameral body, like that in Nebraska."

Unicameral means that either the house or the senate has been eliminated in the legislative process. I doubt that either would be abolished if/when the Dems drop dead.

I have a hunch that the real Hastert would know this (at least I hope he does).

APf

[Defender2]

demoCommiecRAT party(not capitolised on purpose), Rest in Pieces!!!!:-)

[Pubbie]

Hastert, while denying that he or his colleagues had anything to do with the victim’s demise, said he has no regrets that Congress will now become a unicameral body, like that in Nebraska.

“As the last Speaker from my home state, Uncle Joe Cannon said, when you’re in charge, you can do anything you want, even keeping the vote open as long as you have to, as we did to pass the Medicare bill.”

The former high school wrestling coach added, “If you’ve got your opponent in a hammerlock, you don’t let him up until he asks for mercy.”

Nevertheless, Hastert said he welcomes former Democrats into the GOP caucus, “as long as they don’t ask to be included in any conference committees. Come to think of it, we won’t have to bother with any conference committees.”

DeLay was less conciliatory. “The Democrat Party was like those pests I used to exterminate, not that I had anything to do with its death,” he said, adding, “Now that I don’t have to worry about redistricting in Texas, I can concentrate on raising money for my charitable events at next year’s Republican National Convention.”

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) offered his condolences to the victim’s family and friends. “I know what it’s like to lose a patient on the operating table,” the heart-lung surgeon said. “But I could see that the deceased was in increasingly poor health in recent years, and I think it’s entirely possible death was due to natural causes.”

Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) said he was sorry to see his party expire. But he expressed confidence that it would reconstitute itself in a few years, “as soon as Ted Kennedy and Zell Miller figure out what we stand for.”

[tgslTakoma]

Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) said he was sorry to see his party expire. But he expressed confidence that it would reconstitute itself in a few years, “as soon as Ted Kennedy and Zell Miller figure out what we stand for.”

LOL!

[JoeFromCA]

I haven't had time to analyze the new Medicare bill, but anything that makes LifeGuard Teddy apoplectic has to be a good thing.

[Savage Beast]

What's really funny is that as the Democrats did their best to portray the brilliant President George Bush as a bungling fool, he was dancing circles around them and outwitting them at every turn, all the while revealing to history, all the world, and most importantly the American people what disreputable, mendacious, meretricious, bungling fools the Democrats are.

[Bubba_Leroy]

I still wish that Teddie had been successful with his filibuster. That would have been the best of both worlds. A multi-billion dollar income redistribution scheme would have been stopped and the democRATs would have gotten the blame for keeping seniors from getting prescription drug coverage.

[July 4th]

Economy: will be completely taken off the table by the middle of 2004.

Medicare: taken off the table. Plus AARP will supposedly be running $25m in ads supporting candidates who supported the bill.

Domestic terrorism: assuming no more homeland attacks, taken off of the table.

What's left? Iraq. And I have the full belief that the situation there will be completely under control in a matter of months, not years. After all, it's already a ton better than the media portrays.

The only thing I can think of as a growing issue is trade, but those arguments won't fly in a good economy, and it ignores the fact that while some have been hurt, many have been helped.

Bottom line: The Democrats have nothing left to run on for the general election. They can use abortion and gay rights in the primaries - they need to pander to the base. But if someone uses that stuff in the general election, they might as well give Walter Mondale a call and reminisce about 1984.

The game in elections is to capture the middle. The Rove strategy doesn't just capture it for a single election. It makes it part of the party. This moderates the Republicans, but utterly decimates the Democrats.

[jonascord]

The deceased was found to have been shot, stabbed, strangled, poisoned, thrown from a seventh story window and struck by lightning. The coroner's verdict was, "death by the visitation of God..."

[billhilly]

All of my life the preachers have said at funerals, we are celebrating the life, not the death of the deceased, or words to that effect.

I think this is cause to reverse the sentiments and celebrate the death, for surely, nothing deserved to die more than the socialistic democrats. Long live the socialistic republicans.

[highlander_UW]

Yet failing to realize it's dead, the democratic corpse continues to twitch and flinch...a epithet about Bush the last words upon it's blue lips........

[Jabba the Nutt]

Hate to be the skunk at the funeral. The Dem's are not dead. Our 'First Past the Post' electoral system strongly favors the creation of two parties. The current top dogs have been around since 1860. I doubt that this will change. The GOP was declared dead twice in my lifetime, in 1964 after Goldwater's shellacking and in 1974, after Nixon's resignation and the huge gains by the Dem's in the '74 elections.

[mugsaway]

Obviously an Arkincide!

[montag813]

This is why the Medicare prescription-drug benefit package is money well-spent.

The Media did not give Bush a moment's victory. Here is MSNBC's headline right now...scaring the old grannies