Katherine DeBrecht is a fool. She doesn't know that "It takes a Village (Idiot)" like me to control America
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Posted on 02/01/2006 11:59:50 AM PST by shining_city
State of the Democratic Party: Meltdown
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) February 1, 2006 -- Despite President Bush's weak poll numbers heading into yesterday's State of the Union address and the recent indictment of a high-profile Republican lobbyist, new information suggests that it's the Democratic party and not the GOP that is in political disarray. This according to Katharine DeBrecht, the outspoken author of the 2005 hit children's book "Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed" (Kids Ahead; hardcover: $15.95; ISBN 0976726904).
Going into the mid-term elections with a two-term president of the opposite party should be a golden opportunity for Democrats, notes DeBrecht, but instead there are signs of strife as attempts by liberal senators to stop the Alito nomination fell flat while the party's congressional leadership seems destined to clash with its national chairman.
"To make matters even worse, the Democratic National Committee is nearly broke," says DeBrecht, "while the Republicans have millions in the bank. When Howard Dean won the chairmanship everyone thought he'd be able to raise truck loads of money from his online supporters and the MoveOn.org crowd, but instead he's facing a rebellion from Democrats in Congress who are worried about his mismanagement."
Dean seems unlikely to take the rebellion lying down, though. Reports have surfaced that the former Vermont governor has prepared a Nixonian response by digging up dirt on Harry Reid, the Democrat's leader in the Senate. One DNC source is quoted in media reports as ominously saying that Dean's secret evidence on dealings by the Senator from Nevada makes "Jack Abramoff's lobbying work look like that of a rank amateur."
Since lobbyist Abramoff recently pleaded guilty in a high profile influence-peddling case, says DeBrecht, this posturing from one of Dean's DNC staffers suggests that Dean thinks he is in possession of extremely damaging information on the Senate minority leader. Whether Dean will disclose that information to the press or hang onto it in order to avoid an attack by the party's Congressional leadership remains unclear.
Last fall liberals including Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Fox host Alan Colmes, and MSNBC pundit Ron Reagan all vocally criticized DeBrecht's book for teaching politics to children and portraying Clinton and Ted Kennedy as cartoon villains. Clinton's spokesman twice criticized the book in published reports, while liberal blogger Andrew Sullivan called it Maoist and the Democratic Underground named DeBrecht to their "Top 10 Conservative Idiots" list. Liberal condemnations notwithstanding, the book soared to #1 on Barnes & Noble's online bestseller list following praise from Rush Limbaugh.
DeBrecht chuckles over the lack of similar cohesion among Democrats today: "Fortunately for the liberals, I have a new book -- 'Help! Mom! Hollywood's in My Hamper' -- coming out this March. It depicts Hollywood stars telling children that liberals like Hillary need to run their lives for them. Maybe that will help the Democrats find a common issue they can finally rally around."
About Kids Ahead: Kids Ahead is an imprint of Los Angeles-based World Ahead Publishing, the West Coast's premier publisher of conservative and libertarian books. Visit http://www.worldahead.com to learn more.
Contact Information: To interview author Katharine DeBrecht, contact Special Guests at http://specialguests.com or by calling (630) 848-0750.
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It really sounds like they are headed to a major crack-up, especially if what's being said about Howard Dean compiling dirt on Harry Reid is true. Hillary will probably try to broker a temporary truce between them so this doesn't blow up prior to the mid-term elections and paint the Dems as sleazy, but it does sound like there's some real animosity there.
(P.S. DeBrecht is right that her next book will get the libs plenty mad. Check out the cover on Amazon.)
They just can't resist the obligatory anti-Bush screed, can they?
Here it comes!
"One DNC source is quoted in media reports as ominously saying that Dean's secret evidence on dealings by the Senator from Nevada makes "Jack Abramoff's lobbying work look like that of a rank amateur.""
Who would ever vote for a Democrat? These people are life's losers and stand for nothing but defeat.
Katherine DeBrecht is a fool. She doesn't know that "It takes a Village (Idiot)" like me to control America
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"teaching politics to children and portraying Clinton and Ted Kennedy as cartoon villains"
The worst insult in my house between the youngsters is calling each other a democrat or a Clinton. They do it in pubic a lot and I just smile with pride.
The DNC has to decide whose throat they're gonna slit. Sweeeeet!
Slightly off topic, but it wasn't very long ago that Sullivan was considered a conservative. He went berserk when Bush came out against gay marriage.
They need to toss ALL of their leadership and start over again.... not that it would help them overcome bad ideas and lack of good policies, etc. but at least without Dean, Reid, Pelosi, et al they could try to pretend they had "fresh blood" and "new faces" and other tired cliches.
instead of trying to fix the glaring problems they have with their leadership and agenda, they just spend their hours bitching about the Republicans and lashing out as they keep losing battles.
They act like children not getting their way and have resulted to petty stunts like bring anti-war activists like Cindy Sheehan into the gallary during state of the union speeches and clapping during the speech celebrating the fact that social security is still a mess.
Every time I think they are going to reach a new low, they dig the hole deeper. Goes to show how poor the leadership of the democratic party is. Total trainwreck.
I think the hostages inside that "big tent" will soon start killing each other. New twist on the Stockholm Syndrome.
thought he'd be able to raise truck loads of money from his online supporters
CHEAP ARSE DIMS want everything for free so where was this supposed $ to come from?
Dims happily typing away at the local LIEbrary?
And that is WHY the Dim Party was SOLD to George Soros and Comp years ago.
And if JACK is a Rep SCANDAL what the hell is Soros' ownership of the DNC etal? Business as usual for Dims???
Pull up a chair, I've got the popcorn...
Unhappy news is that the Dems will likely pick up some seats. Hope not too many }:-(
Dean has done exactly what he said he would do..spend millions of $$$ in EACH state..the DNC has paid for staffers,a nd offices in every state..the state chairs LOVE him...what this is abotu is that deep in their hearts, the Dem leadership knows they will fail to make any gains in November, so Pelosi and Reid are setting Dean up to be the fall guy, to save their own skins..
The Democrat party is powerless and has no leverage to raise funds. Liberal power rests in their fringe funding sources like Soro and all. Without power, Democrat legislators have no power or authority. Thus they are a surley crowd. The "DisLoyal" Opposition.
Go here
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1568897/posts
and then scroll to post 43 (in the thread linked above) for another link...
Abramoff is a REPUBLICAN lobbyist? How about just a lobbyist.
I just love a good slash-and-burn movie...
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