First of all a little point there holding off still on a lot of the congressional races....but. Let's look at some points made by my friend Ann In other words given the scenario at hand if the Dems do not take the Senate and folks it sure does not look like that is going to happen. And take twice the Congressional seats they are showing so far. They are actually below average. In other words the biggest lie being told today is that the Joe Q Public out there is fed up with Bush and wants to see a change. In fact it seems the opposite with the rather weak showing the Dems have shown (by historical comparison) it seems the Joe Q Public is not on the Democratic bandwagon after all. Then on top of this is the deception factor. It's like you hear all the time about politicians and their broken promises. Most all of the seats lost by a Republican incumbent was won by a Democrat running on conservative campaigning. A good illustration of this also would be for example Joe Lieberman a Pro-War Independent who ran and won which is a huge upset against conventional wisdom his Democratic opponent ran almost entirely on an anti-war platform. But the game now will be to use control of key congressional positions to cause as much damage to America as possible for the next two years and spin it as to put blame on the Senate and executive branch as posturing for ammunition to use in 2008. Some of the biggest issues will be fiscal policy. The other is to use the corruption of the media to ask for various investigations of perceived irregularities. I do not think they will do this immediately but will instead wait till late 2007 possibly float a few balloons to see how the polls show the numbers with public perception. Is this what Joe Q Public had in mind. No it’s not that however is the medias job to cover up. All they have to do is say that’s what Joe Q Public has in mind that the election was a mandate. The Masses of people are really too stupid to know better. But when you have possibly the most liberal person in congress, who’s voting record could only be tolerated by her extreme left district. Has a voting record that is out of synch with 90 percent of America. That’s what Joe Q Public gets ……not what he thought he was asking for.
Thomas Sowell put it very well in this piece: The new voter fraud That the Republicans are still a viable party is one measure of how far the Democrats' policies and values differ from those of most Americans. Nowhere is that difference greater than when it comes to defending the American people against crime at home and against military and terrorist threats from abroad. Liberal Democrats -- which is to say, most Democratic politicians and all of their leaders -- are ready to try almost any "alternatives to incarceration" of criminals and almost any alternative to maintaining military strength as a deterrent to enemy nations. More is involved than an unwillingness to face unpleasant facts of life. There is a coherent ideology behind these positions. That ideology goes back more than two centuries -- and has failed in country after country over those centuries. But it is an ideology that sounds good and flatters the vanity of those who consider themselves part of a wise and compassionate elite. Republicans have too eclectic a collection of beliefs to beat the Democrats on a purely ideological basis. Moreover, the liberal vision is a more attractive vision because it assumes away many of the painful and even brutal aspects of human life, especially the fatal dangers of relying on words when dealing with people who only respect force that is backed up by a willingness to use it. Facts are the only real antidote to a seductive vision. But facts do not "speak for themselves." Somebody has to articulate those facts and explain their implications. The liberal media will certainly not do it and too often the Republicans do it badly or not at all. How many people are aware that the black-white income difference and the male-female income difference both narrowed during the 1980s -- that is, during the Reagan administration? Democrats talked a better game on both fronts and to this day are widely regarded as the best hope, if not the only hope, for minorities and women. How many people are aware that crime rates soared when liberal ideas became part of the criminal justice system in the 1960s and only began declining in the 1980s after more criminals were put behind bars and kept there a longer time? If these new moderate candidates are elected and give the Democrats control of Congress, that control will be exercised by senior Democrats who will hold leadership positions -- and all of them are liberal extremists, whether people like Nancy Pelosi in the House or Ted Kennedy and John Kerry in the Senate. Getting people to vote for moderates, in order to put extremists in power, may be the newest and biggest voter fraud.
yes at a 35% approval rating and the rep getting there asses handed to them tonight he is the fucking Prom King
That’s not what the numbers tell. The Democrats did no better then an average 6th term run against a party in power. Actually on a historical perspective that faired worse then average. But run to the media Grim and got get some talking points as to what happened then come see me. I'm just comparing numbers now to numbers in the past.
No thanks Joe, I'm just waiting for you to start quoting Ann Coulter then we will all see how truly insane you are. Next you will tell us last night never happened.
Payback Time: Who the Democrats Will Target Payback Time: Who the Democrats Will Target November 08, 2006 8:24 AM Rhonda Schwartz Reports: Halliburton, the CIA and big tobacco companies are among the early targets identified by top Democratic staff to ABC News as likely targets for investigation once the Democrats take control of the House at the beginning of next year. The staffers say Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), now expected to become speaker, has told top Democratic donors there is a "100-hour agenda" she wants to push through -- taking on the minimum wage, drug and energy prices and corruption. Defense contractors, including Halliburton, the intelligence rationale for the war in Iraq and CIA secret prisons are what one staffer called "uninvestigated scandals." Here's a look at who's in line to take over the most powerful committee chairmanships and the investigations they are likely to pursue: In the House: Henry Waxman (D-Calif.): Described as "a pit-bull with a fantastic staff," Rep. Waxman is in place to take over as chairman of the powerful House Government Reform Committee. Insiders look for this to become the powerhouse investigating committee "where the action is at." Expect Rep. Waxman to start by issuing subpoenas for top Halliburton and KBR executives. Others issues will include Iraq war contracting and Katrina and Gulf Coast re-building. The last time executives from tobacco companies were called to testify was when Congressman Waxman was Chairman of the Health and Environment Subcommittee of Government Reform in 1994. Jane Harman (D-Calif.): As a possibility for Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Harman is eager to pursue the ties between convicted Congressman Duke Cunningham and defense contractors. But she is far from assured of taking over as chair of the committee due to long-standing opposition by the Congressional Black Caucus and Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) who wants the job himself. Insiders say the job most likely goes to Sylvester Reyes (D-Texas). Regardless of who is chairman, one of the first issues most likely will be the Cunningham scandal. Also on the agenda is pre-war intelligence: Who forged the Niger documents? George Miller (D-Calif.): Rep. Miller is slated to take over the Education and the Workforce Committee. Expect a full rehearing of allegations involving convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, the Northern Marianas Islands and Tom Delay. John Conyers (D-Mich.): Rep. Conyers is in line to take over the Judiciary Committee. While one top hill staffer says, "His appetite for true investigation is untested," his new book takes on President Bush for violating the law on Iraq and secret prisons. Internet blogs are hyperventilating about possible impeachment hearings. John Dingell (D-Mich.): In line for the Chairman of the House Commerce Committee, Rep. Dingell's office says he plans to hold oversight hearings on Medicare and energy policies. His first goal would be to push through a bill aimed at lower prescription drug prices for Medicare.
Joe, you really need to switch from the Krylon Gold Spraypaint. Hey why not be like te rest of the republicans, Gay butt sex and crystal Methamphetamine.
Bush condemned to failure due to his disastrous policy in Afghanistan and Iraq. The "War without Success" policy pleases nobody, except the clique of elitist corporative crypto-fascists which gravitate around the White House, turning multi-millionaires into multi-billionaires at the expense of the North American people and the hundreds of thousands of civilians slaughtered by the Bush regime. After six years of manipulating fear and his people, not even the death sentence against Saddam Hussein ("An immediate threat to the USA and her allies") and his Weapons of Mass Destruction ("We know where they are") could save Bush – since yet another cassette from bin Laden ("We are going to hunt him down and capture him") would have been more than suspicious. The truth is that the North American people have voted with a high turnout in favour of the law and in favour of international norms, and against policies of murder, torture, wars without casus belli and six years later, the penny has finally dropped – what makes the world much less safe is a blind, arrogant, bull in the china shop policy, which was only to be expected from a man so obviously intellectually challenged as George W. Bush and from a team which oozes overdoses of corporate greed. The people of the USA do not trust George Bush and after six long years have finally understood what we have been telling them since before Bush was elected – that he is simply not up to the job. link
