[Alberta's Child]

We thank the mainstream media for these silly pronouncements back in November 2002. Clinton was so convinced that he had a "mandate for change" that he embarked on an ambitious plan to pursue this mandate in 1993 and 1994. The result of this gross political miscalculation was a historic repudiation of his administration in the 1994 mid-term elections.

The 2002 and 2004 elections offer some strong evidence that the Democrat Party has never recovered from this ill-advised "mandate" of his.

[thulldud]

We thank the mainstream media for these silly pronouncements back in November 2002.

Uh, make that 1992.

But you're right all the same. I still remember all the media flatulence about the supposed "new political will" and the constant refrain of "He (GHWB) lost! Get over it!" that I heard at the office over the next year. It seems so poetically fitting that even when the libs win, their very success guarantees the defeat that surely follows.