Subscribe
Notify of
3 Comments
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments

In DC, the saying is that you’re always either on Offense or Defense.

Democrats were on offense until 11/6/06, and at about 9pm, the defense began. Howard Dean went on Chris Matthews show, and the first shot across the bow at the DNC wasn’t a warning shot. It was a direct hit-albeit accidental. From the moment that Dean revealed there was never even a brainstorm committee or even so much as a conference call to hash out ideas to schedule a date for brainstorming…the jackass was in trouble: accountability had arrived, and the polls weren’t even closed. Democrats lied about having a New Direction in Iraq, and they lied about every single campaign promise as well. Have some fun, watch Speaker Pelosi’s spitting rhetoric from when she grabbed the gavel, and notice that her promises of more open debate and discussion, above the table conferencing, and end to earmarking, a movement towards unity and bi-partisanship, and an end to the era of Congressional stalemate…it’s all for naught. Seriously, have fun. It’s on YouTube.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=gnNXTXbCQLU
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx9JrnCNNds&NR=1

The Democrats took power, we sooooo excited to have it (just listen to the woohoos in the crowd), and then they realized they have to actually DO something now instead of just complain.

How do they get things done?
Murtha strongarm tactics re earmarking
closed committee earmarking with oversight from earmark experts-err, experts at earmarking

And now this, these morons actually ask for last minute bi-partisanship after compromise offers have been already been provided and slammed down, and they ask support from Republicans while actually having the audacity to run ads against those same Republicans at the very same moment. Duh, yeah, that’s really gonna get people to work together.

Amazing.

Congressional Republican candidates running to unseat Democrats are going to have SO MUCH ammunition for ads next year, it’s gonna be insane.

I think it’s a bad idea to blame the Democrats for not spending enough for such things as the stabalization of Iraq and Afganistan and then spending too much.

Instead the Republicans should pounce on the Democrats for not having any true plank for the past 30 years, even national healthcare which they seem to drop everytime they are questioned on it. The Democrats have become the social club of the Carter and Clinton years rather than a true political party of the FDR administration. It took just 4 years for the Republicans to go from a low of the Nixon/Ford years to the high of a landslide victory over Carter. The Democrats have yet to show that kind of discipline.

Am I the only one who’s noticed that the charts demonstrating the approve/disapprove graphs tend to meet between Dec and Feb? That’s gonna things interesting.