Archive for 'Election 2006'

Friday, November 17th, 2006

Broad Support For Governing From The Center…

…but where is the center? David Ignatius has a column that starts out well enough…
The Democrats now have the opportunity the Republicans spurned, which is to build a broad coalition in the center and become once again the nation’s governing party. But to achieve that, the Democrats must stand for values that connect with those […]

6 Comments » - Posted in Election 2006, Domestic Affairs, Donkeys, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots® by Mark

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Friday, November 17th, 2006

How Dumb Was The Murtha Fight?

So dumb that even Gail Collins disapproves:
Nancy Pelosi has managed to severely scar her leadership even before taking up the gavel as the new speaker of the House. First, she played politics with the leadership of the House Intelligence Committee to settle an old score and a new debt. And then she put herself in […]

4 Comments » - Posted in Election 2006, Domestic Affairs, Donkeys, NY Times/Media Watch, Election 2008 by Mark

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Thursday, November 16th, 2006

How’s Life In The Cocoon, Arianna?

The Hill reports on the damage the completely unnecessary Murtha fight did to Pelosi’s not-yet-begun leadership:
In a stunning rebuke to incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), House Democrats selected Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) to be their majority leader Thursday morning in a vote of 149 to 86 even though Pelosi had thrown her weight behind […]

7 Comments » - Posted in Election 2006, Domestic Affairs, Donkeys, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots® by Mark

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Thursday, November 16th, 2006

James Webb, Socialist

That’s an outrage, you say…prove it!  It ain’t me, babe, sayin’ it, to paraphrase one Bobby Zimmerman, but rather the always enlightening billmon (the proprietor of I Hate Israel - er, sorry, Whisky Bar):
Webb’s now the newly elected Senator from my native state (a stronghold of the Confederacy and the national “right-to-work” movement) who’s lined up shoulder […]

15 Comments » - Posted in Election 2006, Domestic Affairs, Donkeys, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots® by Mark

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Thursday, November 16th, 2006

More Skirmishes In The Carville-Nutroots® War

James Carville continues his attack on Howard Dean:
Democratic strategist James Carville says his party should dump Howard Dean as chairman of the Democratic Party because of incompetence.
Carville, during coffee and rolls with political reporters today, said Democrats could have picked up as many as 50 House seats, instead of the nearly 30 they have […]

No Comments » - Posted in Election 2006, Donkeys, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots® by Mark

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Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

The Culture Of Corruption: Abramoff Probe Focuses On The New Senate Majority Leader

Harry Reid is once again in the news, but for less welcome reasons than yesterday:
As convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff reported to federal prison today, a source close to the investigation surrounding his activities told ABC News that Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was one of the members of Congress Abramoff had allegedly implicated in his cooperation […]

7 Comments » - Posted in Domestic Affairs, Election 2006, Harry Reid, Elephants, Donkeys, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

So It’s McConnell and Lott For The Republican Senate

Trent Lott won by a single vote over Lamar Alexander:
After an intense evening in which both men lobbied colleagues during floor votes, the Republican caucus elected Lott, a one-time whip and majority leader, by secret ballot. Lott will be the GOP’s second-in- command to Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who was elected unanimously to be the […]

5 Comments » - Posted in Election 2006, Elephants by Mark

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Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

Murtha For Majority Leader? A Bipartisan Consensus: No

More on the bid by Nancy Pelosi to give John Murtha the Majority Leader post from John Fund in the Wall Street Journal:
House Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi’s endorsement of Rep. John Murtha for majority leader, the No. 2 position in the Democratic leaderhsip, has roiled her caucus. “She will ensure that they [Mr. Murtha and his allies] […]

2 Comments » - Posted in Election 2006, Domestic Affairs, Donkeys by Mark

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Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

The Culture Of Corruption Gets A New Lease On Life

Whatever one might make of the sincerity of Nancy Pelosi’s outreach to Republicans, one thing is certain: it’s business as usual in Washington.  First, Alcee Hastings, and now John Murtha.  Oh, I’m just a right-wing nut job ’swift-boating’ Murtha, right? Here’s Ruth Marcus in the Washington Post:
The videotape is grainy, dark and devastating. The congressman […]

3 Comments » - Posted in Election 2006, Domestic Affairs, Donkeys by Mark

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Tuesday, November 14th, 2006

‘Neutered Lieberman’ Holds Court, Gets Standing ‘O’

One of the more laughable post-election assertions by either side came from our good buddy Kos:
Lieberman has been neutered. If he leaves the caucus for short-term gain, he loses all leverage and power and harms his long-term interests. Yet he doesn’t stay in the caucus as a Democrat, but as an independent. And in that […]

3 Comments » - Posted in Election 2006, Joe Lieberman, Elephants, Donkeys, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Tuesday, November 14th, 2006

Pelosi Lays Out The Agenda

Writing in the Christian Science Monitor:

With their votes, the American people asked for change. They cast their ballots in favor of a New Direction.
They called for greater integrity in Washington, and Democrats pledge to make this the most honest, ethical, and open Congress in history.
The American people called for greater civility in how Congress conducts […]

2 Comments » - Posted in Domestic Affairs, Election 2006, POTUS, Donkeys, Radical Islam / GWOT, Iraq by Mark

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Monday, November 13th, 2006

Media Matters: A New Low In Pettiness

I hope you’re all sitting down for this.  It seems that TIME Magazine covered both the 1994 and 2006 elections, and they used entirely different covers!
It gets worse: the entirely different group of reporters, artists, and editors covering this entirely different election in an entirely different era reached entirely different conclusions!
Now if that’s not worthy […]

3 Comments » - Posted in Election 2006, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots® by Mark

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Monday, November 13th, 2006

George Will: What Can Congress Do About Iraq?

The answer: very little.
More than any congressional elections in history, last week’s turned on a single burning national issue. Control of Congress has changed because of deep discontent about Iraq. But Congress can, realistically, have little control over what we make of the mess we have made.
Democrats could have demanded the departure of Donald Rumsfeld, […]

1 Comment » - Posted in Election 2006, POTUS, Elephants, Donkeys, Iraq by Mark

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Monday, November 13th, 2006

Was The Rumsfeld Timing Wrong?

I think it was…if Bush had pressured Rumsfeld to resign prior to the midterms, by a couple of weeks, at least, it would have given the Republicans a good talking point to take into the midters, one that showed a belated willingness to listen to critics and make a change.  Another who thinks the timing […]

13 Comments » - Posted in Election 2006, POTUS, Elephants, Iraq by Mark

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Sunday, November 12th, 2006

The Nutroots® War On The Center Continues…

…and it should come as no surprise at all that the next salvo comes from the hacks at firedoglake:
I was on a blogger conference call with Harry Reid the other day.  He asked what structural, organizational improvements the Senate Dems could make to improve coordination with the netroots activist community.  I told him it was […]

8 Comments » - Posted in Election 2006, Donkeys, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots® by Mark

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Sunday, November 12th, 2006

The NY Times Most Definitely DOES NOT Get It

And that’s no surprise at all.  You don’t have to go very deep into this Gail Collins special to realize just how morally bankrupt the once-proud Grey Lady has become:
The Democrats will not be able to savor their victory for long. Americans are waiting to hear if they have any good ideas for how to […]

3 Comments » - Posted in POTUS, Election 2006, Donkeys, Iraq, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, NY Times/Media Watch by Mark

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Sunday, November 12th, 2006

Interesting Meet The Press Today…

…marred only by the appearance of MoDo (transcript here).  Said MoDo:

MR. RUSSERT: Maureen Dowd, here’s the cover of Newsweek magazine. “Father Knows Best.” With Bush 41, Bush 43, and it’s subtitled “With Congress Lost, Iraq in Chaos, Bush Calls In His Dad’s Team. Can James, James Baker and Company Save the Son’s Presidency?” Very similar […]

5 Comments » - Posted in Elephants, POTUS, Joe Lieberman, Election 2006, Donkeys, NY Times/Media Watch, Democratic Candidates, Republican Candidates, John McCain, Election 2008 by Mark

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Saturday, November 11th, 2006

Lieberman Triumphant Means A Break For Hillary

Contra the ridiculous assertion by Kos that Lieberman has been ‘neutered’, he is, in fact, at the peak of his power:
The midterm elections provided radical left bloggers with, among many other results, their worst nightmare on Tuesday. They had succeeded, earlier in the campaign year, in helping defeat Joe Lieberman in the Democratic primary in […]

No Comments » - Posted in Joe Lieberman, Election 2006, Donkeys, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Hillary Clinton, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Saturday, November 11th, 2006

Chuck Schumer Gets It, Mostly

The entire world understands what this election meant, it seems, except hard-left ‘progressive’ bloggers who are desperately trying to stay relevant. Senator Chuck Schumer of New York certainly seems to understand what brought his side to victory on Tuesday:
Mr. Schumer is no wide-eyed neophyte, and understands this election was mostly about his opponents. “I’d say […]

1 Comment » - Posted in Election 2006, Donkeys by Mark

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Saturday, November 11th, 2006

More Evidence That The Country Is In A Centrist Mood

Some very interesting results from a post-election poll by Newsweek:
Just about everyone believes the Republicans lost the 2006 midterms more than the Democrats won it. Presented with a list of factors that may have contributed to the Democrats’ success, 85 percent of Americans said the “major reason” was disapproval of the administration’s handling of […]

6 Comments » - Posted in Condoleezza Rice, John Kerry, Barack Obama, Newt Gingrich, Election 2006, Elephants, Donkeys, 2008 Polls, Republican Candidates, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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