Bzzzzzzzzz wrong (see numbers 1 through 5). I know that little terry, in a futile effort to keep his job, is trying to spin the 4 govnerships as a mandate for their message, but the numbers do NOT back him up. Let's review, shall we?
1) The democrat party doesn't have the White House.(1R-0d)
This isn't news to anyone. With the possible exception of Colin Powell, there aren't any democrats in the whitehouse.
2) The democrat party lacks a majority in the Senate.(53R-47d)
Again, this isn't news to anyone.
3) The democrat party lacks a majority in the House of Representatives.(226R-209d)
Once again, no news here. everyone is aware of this 17 seat margin.
4) The democrat party lacks a majority of Governors seats across the 50 states.(25R-25d)
This part IS news, and it is being ignored by the mainstream press. democrats do not enjoy the majority of Governorships across these 50 states. These seats are very valuable for appointing senators in events of absenteeism, and Gov. Ventura(I) demonstrated this very well after his discust at the 'rally on a dead guy'. The democrat party doesn't have most of these.
5) The democrat party lacks a majority of State Houses across all 50 states. (25R-22d)
This part IS news and is also being ignored by the mainstream press. As demonstrated by the redistricting in 2001, these state houses not only draw lines in house and congressional districts, but also set laws that effect peoples lives in a very local way. The democrat party doesn't have most of these either.
I am in no way dissmissing the partys future, but the larger question is "Is it history?" I would say No, it's not historic.
When was the last GOP tri-fecta ?
When was the last time the people put the GOP in control of the House, Senate and Whitehouse ??
The year was 2000.
"A Dark Day for Democracy."
And thank God that it was.
The founding fathers were terrified of "democracy."
They knew full well, in a democracy, there are no individual rights. Majority rules and that is a recipe for tyranny of the majority and no individual rights.
That is why they created a "republic."
A sampling of their thoughts:
And on June 21, 1788, Alexander Hamilton made a speech in which he stated: "It had been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience had proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity."
At another time Hamilton said: “We are a Republican Government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or in the extremes of Democracy.”
And Samuel Adams warned: “Remember, Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself! There never was a democracy that ‘did not commit suicide.’”
James Madison, one of, the members of the Convention who was charged with drawing up our Constitution, wrote as follows: “...democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”
Governors and Senators get lots of media attention, and can go against their party, and explain why conservative Oklahoma and Wyoming elected Democrat governors while liberal Maryland, Massachusetts and Rhode Island elected Republicans.
But look at state houses: Republicans almost consistently gained seats. The notable exception is Illinois, where the Republican party was so nuts anyway that they deserve to be in the wilderness for a while. Republicans gained seats in the Pennsylvania state legislature while losing the governor. Republicans gained seats in Wisconsin while losing the Governor as well.
Wow. Yeah, that's really nasty alright. Wanting people to stay married and have and raise children together. How sick. How insidious. What barbarism. Next they'll be wanting to keep what they earn and give their money only to the charities of their choice. Oh, the humanity.
He is probably just another Barbara Streisand moron-groupie. Babs is so dopey, she can't even "misunderestimate" President Bush.
We are positively giddy!!!!!
Cleland was NEVER called "unpatriotic". His VOTES against homeland security, etc. showed that he was WEAK on CURRENT NATIONAL DEFENSE ISSUES. He was also OUTDEBATED by his challenger.
Missouri is NOT a DEMOCRATIC STRONGHOLD. Wonder if this jerk ever heard of a guy named DANFORTH, BOND, or ASHCROFT (who, as a sidenote, lead his senate challenger Mel Carnahan by 18 points the day Mel died on the way to a Gay-Lesbian fundraiser).
America is a HAPPY PLACE. I, for one, AM THRILLED with Tuesday's results.
The "silent liberal majority" is that which is the "horse----" to which he refers. There is no such thing. It is a vocal, whiny liberal minority and 52-47 proves it.
The chances of Europe being hit with the same terrorism that struck the US are great. Some parts of Europe consist of 30% Islamic-immigrant population. There is tremendous prejudice in UK (except London) because of immigration; and this prejudice is particularly strong against those immigrants with darker skin (FR archives has such stories). Nationalized health care is a frightening disaster in UK. Socialism has broken down the family structure and has become an unbearable burden for even Atlas to bear. As long as you are rich, things are great because their middle-class is much thinner than ours and the split between have's and have-not's is greater. Education stinks because so many can leave at 16--and do, with no employable skills, except how to frequent a pub, nightclub, or follow a soccer club with the religious fervor usually saved for church (which no one attends [less than 18%]).
In spite of his European distain for our backward ways, he should remember that "sophistication" and "sophistry" share the same root word.
I read a very interesting interview with Ralph Reed where he said one of the main reasons, ignored by the press, that Chambliss won was that his opponent voted against letting the boy scouts in public schools because they do not accept homosexual scoutmasters.
Reed played this up big, and if this man was foolish enough to vote for that in conservative GA I can easily see how he lost.
While I do not regard it as likely that Satan is controlling the House of Lords, I do feel constrained to observe that it was the Barons to whom the English speaking world looked at one time--under Magna Carta--to defend liberty and civilization against wayword Government. They sure have fallen from that in Socialist Britain. But allowing perverts to adopt is surely reaching for a new low. May God Help the British people!
The writer of this anti-American piece is a dysron, who has never bothered to analyze any of the long skein of unsupportable assumptions that he offers for an argument. Pretty poor material, intellectually!
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