Posted on 11/09/2006 5:25:38 AM PST by pabianice
Dick Morris just on Fox: he said this is the beginning of an historic swing to the Dems. The next two years will be an unending blizzard of hearings and subpoenas and trials which, with the help of a drooling leftist media, will blanket the country, destroying the Republican Party and ensuring that dems control Congress and the White House for the foreseeable future.
Standard Morris stuff. Didn't he predict that the Repubs would keep Congress? I think it more likely that the Dems will take-off their masks and give the country a horror show for the next two years, something the elctorate doesn't want. We'll see.
See?
By your own post, you illustrate that individuals make a difference. I am glad that you are trying to encourage people to be honest and not discouraged. I just see the opportunities for change differently. I understand that you are trying to set expectations, but why set a timetable that becomes a self fulfilling prophesy when there are always opportunities? Most are small, some are big. I'm ready to roll up my sleeves and do what it takes. And it will take as long as it needs. But we don't have to fit a historical pattern. Information flows differently now.
I simply want people here to understand that as a matter of historical record, such transitions do not normally take place in the course of two-year cycles. It would be a happy occurrence if in that span the Democrats managed to fudge things up to a fare-thee-well and our side got its act together once again. Regrettably, and as a matter of history, that is not terribly likely. Both human nature and the design of our political system conspire to create a longer-term ebb-and-flow of political power, the shortening of which occurs only in times of great cataclysm and danger. This may be our future, but I would not necessarily wish it so.
Reagan did it and we got a Republican majority 6 years after term ended.
:-) But why get stuck in the old ways of recovery?
That's all I am suggesting. We can turn the Senate around more quickly as that's the nature of the body. House seats have been more difficult to turn over.
But think about this: in a bad year for R's look how close Michael Steele came in D MD.
The Senate is an example of why the task of political recovery is so difficult and time-consuming. As I said before, our political system is built for stability; it is designed in part to make it difficult for parties to rapidly gain and lose power - that is part of its genius. As you are aware, Senate terms are six years long, and in 2008, the "Class of 02" will be up for re-election. Of these seats, 21 are held by Republicans and 12 by Democrats. See the problem?
It is by no means impossible for Republicans to do well in '08, especially if a great Presidential candidate tops the ticket. It is simply more difficult from a mathematical standpoint, and when combined with the human propensity to resist change in the absence of adequate motivation, the task will be a tall one. Hopefully, by that time Republicans will have found in this year's electoral elephant-stomping adequate motivation to change themselves.
Reagan did not grant amnesty to 12-20 million illegals. Argument falls flat on its face.
When is Wm. Jefferson going to get indicted? How about an investigation of Harry Reid's real estate deals? Why are the investigations only going to go one way?
The "1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act" granted amnesty to illegal aliens; i.e. a path to citizenship. Ronald Reagan even used the word "amnesty" when discussing it.
My argument was that Ronald Reagan granted amnesty to illegal aliens during his Presidency, and that is a FACT.
Your post shows that the main enemy is the Treason media and it must be the first order of business for conservatives. If it is not neutralized there is no chance for patriots.
This is the reason FR is so important.
I don't agree with the reasons, but he could be right. 1. I think there are many Republicans in Congress who prefer being backbenchers. 2. They don't even have a single issue that unifies them. The coalition doesn't have anything to hold it together.
I don't agree with the reasons, but he could be right. 1. I think there are many Republicans in Congress who prefer being backbenchers. 2. They don't even have a single issue that unifies them. The coalition doesn't have anything to hold it together.
What makes Dick Morris believe that the country could survive that long with the dims in control?
Actually, I don't disagree with the notion that they won the 2008 presidency on Tuesday. UNLESS they put Hillary forward in 2008.
They will conduct hearings to a happy press who will drum it down our throats, confirming the votes that just happened to the voters (it's what they'll want to hear) and in 2008, a democrat will take the presidency (and probably more senate and house seats).
Everything I need to know about what isn't going to happen politically I learned from Dick Morris.
uh, peyton.
The Dims are in control now.
You will get that anyway. Even if the President vetos the legislation, he can be overturned now.
So, if you didn't vote on Tuesday because you were mad about immigration, what exactly did you think the other party would do if they got control?
The Bush/Senate treason blocked by the House earlier this year contained provisions to explode the level of third world migration. Estimates ran to 80 million more migrants over 20 years, a volume of population change that would radically change the demographics of our homeland.
The bill Bush will sign next year, from a Congress with weaker GOP resistance in both Houses, will be even worse.
Our grandchildren will attend Spanish-language mosques.
Precisely.
And I am one who doesn't think the Democrats are going to "blow it."
Hillary is in charge now and she's going to keep them in line.
I don't expect a GOP president in my lifetime and/or what's left of it.
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