Posted on 08/12/2006 1:35:58 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
Is it just me or does it seem like the nation was just days ago acting like it was September 10 all over again? Sure, the foiled airline terror plot in London yesterday seemed to recalibrate the terror-ticker in most Americans, but why did it need to? Continues...
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Have a happy civil war!
Right now, the one question on everyone's lips seems to be, 'Will there be a ceasefire?' The more relevant question is: Can there be peace? If history is any guide, the answer is yes, but only when a clear winner emerges. At any rate, far from a lull in the fighting, the conflict continued to rage this past week, escalating into some of the fiercest battles since the fighting began, with each side vowing to fight to the finish. Even amid rising calls for an immediate halt to hostilities, each side pounded the other side, trading blow for blow, hit for hit. punch for punch, counterpunch for counterpunch.
But enough about Joe Lieberman and Ned Lamont. By the way, do you know how far to the left this guy is? For starters, he denounced Bush's tax cuts. He denounced Bush's marriage Amendment. He denounced Bush on global warming. He denounced Bush's stance on stem cell research. He condemns proposed drilling in Alaska. He's for racial quotas. He's anti-gun. He's pro-abort. But enough about Joe Lieberman.
As for Ned Lamont, the pride of the nutroots, he's with Lieberman on abortion, guns, quotas, abortion, global warming, gay rights, abortion, taxes, stem cell research, not drilling for oil. But Lieberman agrees with Bush on one issue -- Iraq. Which makes Lieberman Bush's 'lap dog.' Nothing epitomizes how utterly deranged the Democrat Party has become than the just-concluded Lieberman-Lamont Senate primary race in Connecticut. The Hezbollah wing of the Democrat Party is bound and determined to finish off what remains of the Democrat Party. And it isn't exactly helpful these days to be 'Joooooish' in a party that has a teenage crush on Hezbollah.
(To be fair, most Democrats will concede Jews are people, too . . . people who need to be purged, people who need to be drummed out of the party . . . those kinda people.)
With Hezbo 'fighters' getting their brains knocked out of their rear-ends by those "Zionist Pigs," the Connecticut primary gave Hezbollahcrats a juicy shot at taking down a "Zionist Pig" of their own. Democrats call this a very good start. For peace.
Illustrating the trouble Lieberman was in with the party's psychotic base, in June Lieberman led cable guy Lamont by 15 percentage points, 55%-40%. Then Lieberman is caught red-handed by his party making statements deemed pro-American. Statements like 'Osama is the enemy, not Wal-Mart or Bush.' Couldn't have been slips of the tongue. And there was that image of Lieberman puckering up and kissing pResident Evil. And, of course, the nagging suspicion he watches Fox News. So, the race becomes a toss-up.
Then a Lamont blogger, projecting the party's image of tolerance, posted a doctored photo of Lieberman in blackface. Democrats were appalled. Lieberman's a BLACK JEW?! Or is it Reuters? The blogger, Jane Hamsher, tried to whitewash the whole thing. But the damage to Lieberman was done.
The way things are going with Democrats, Lieberman would've been better off saying he kissed another man because he's gay or puckered up to Arafat's wife, Suha. A Cindy Sheehan rant about 'Jews causing all of the world's wars!', and he'd have won in a landslide.
With Lamont, Democrats return to their roots. Lamont loved his nearly all-white country club, the Round Hill (though, in fairness, he recently dropped his 16-year membership in the racist club to show he's more progressive than Lieberman who never belonged to a racist club.) Lamont told the New York Times he had just discovered the club wasn't 'diverse' enough (although, by 'diversity' and 'people of color,' Lamont probably means white guys in blackface.)
In a true sign he's a man of the people, Lamont's net worth is valued to be somewhere between $90 million and $300 gazillion. The struggling Greenwich proletarian's chief accomplishment in life is being J.P. Morgan & Co. honcho Thomas Lamont's great-grandson.
As for the war in Iraq, Ned Lamont was so distraught at the idea of 'war profiteers' that he decided to become one, buying up to $50,000 in Halliburton stock via one of the more than a dozen accounts handled for him by Goldman Sachs.
Summing up, a war profiteer is the big cheese of the 'peace movement' which also calls itself a 'populist movement' which picked a zillionaire upper class patrician because upper class patricians are where you go for someone in touch with the people. It's a sign that Democrats really learned their lesson from 2004 that they go from John Kerry, who mooched off his wife, to Lamont who mooched off his ancestors.
On issues, after warrantless searches for Bush scandals turned up nothing, Democrats, showing their usual flair for winners, are back to propping up that same dead horse -- the war in Iraq. It proved such a huge success for president Kerry.
Along these lines, the Washington Post noted on Sunday how the 'peace' libbies, who are "driven by their intense anger at President Bush and fierce opposition to the Iraq war, are on the brink of claiming their most significant political triumph" with Ned Lamont, which is nearly two years after being on the brink of claiming their most significant triumph with John Kerry, which was two years after being on the brink of claiming their most significant triumph with Tom Dashcle. So, four years ago, Democrats went over the brink, the GOP won the Senate back that November (2002) and John Kerry became a footnote in French history two years later. Now, with Ned Lamont to take them over the brink, the 'peace Democrats' can focus on losing decisively to Lieberman in November.
In the meantime, what does the growing civil war between the Shiite and Sunni Democrats in Connecticut and elsewhere mean? If you listen to the mythological talking points of the party grandees, Lamont's win has national implications which can be extrapolated to the entire party but DON'T CALL US THE PEACE PARTY since Lamont's win in one small state can't be extrapolated to the entire party.
E.J. Dionne said on Hardball that he thinks the headline from all this should be, Connecticut Voters Send a Message to Bush and Republicans better start worrying in the Fall. I doubt that's the message you can glean from a closed Democrat primary in a state not widely known for its unswerving devotion to Republicans -- a state where Bush, in a three-way matchup, would lose decisively to Mullah Omar and mad cow disease.
Political scientist Larry Sabato, who "scientifically" predicted Kerry would beat Bush, noted that Lamont's win is terrible news for Republicans. "The real question is what happens with Bush and Iraq through November." Bush may not even get on the ballot! So, let's do the liberal math: Democrats eating their own + split on the war + returning to McGovern roots + shouting match + beating each other up all the way to November = bad news for Republicans. Breaks my heart.
Karl Rove couldn't have planned this any better. Have a happy civil war, libbies.
Anyway, that's...
My Two Cents...
"JohnHuang2"
Have a great weekend, y'all
Great post, thanks!
Great post! Thank you, have a great weekend.
But enough about Joe Lieberman and Ned Lamont Oh my that is very very very good.
JH:
Remarkably Content-free.
Re-read all of this and marvel at the emptiness of it!
Almost every cliche' and reference to virtually all news items with zero meaning and less understanding.
When John Huangs on the scene, there's no "there" there. (Well,save for the contingent of well-wishers who heartily congratulate him on his "great read").
Wanna earn a PHd. in Cocktail Chatter? Follow Huang's lead.
bttt
As usual another great essay
Have a lovely weekend!
Larry Sabato has become a laughingstock nationwide for looking at American politics through the lens of twisted facts and disjointed political analysis. In Sabato's strange world up is down, victory is defeat, and winning is losing. He turns truth on its head like some Orwellian tale, and thus, is not to be taken seriously.
Hmmm... I found it rather a fun read, with some excellent points tossed in for good measure. Do ping me, please, when next you write something chock-full of gravitas.
Great read!One of your funniest.:)
People like Ann Coulter and John Huang take a knife and stick it in the ribcage of everything you left wing loonies hold soo dear and twists it.:)~
We may have missed the boat on him bein a reincarnation of the grunt, but we sure had this dude's attitude pegged right where it should be... on the outhouse door right below the cresent moon!!! Whew!!!
A Mencken wannabe, nothing more.. and a piss poor one at that.
Great stuff, JH2!!!
Well done bump
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