[Pukin Dog]

They were working on the spending reduction bill before this nonsense started. The Dems just wanted to change the subject, because their 'Fitzmas' fizzled on them. This was an act of desperation, and FReepers need to calm down and see it for just that. HOW MUCH EVIDENCE OF US WINNING DO YOU PEOPLE NEED?

[ken5050]

This move by the Dems is about as smart as the Wellstone memorial...If they think now that ANY GOP senator might be open to resisting changing the rules..well, think again..

[cajungirl]

I really hate to ask this but I just got home and don't know what is going on.

Can you give me the brief summary of what in heck is happening.

Thanks!

[marajade]

so what? frist is saying there will be a 45 min delay in relation to spending reduction bill... they'll still get it done... only 45 minutes later this week

[Dems_R_Losers]

Exactly right Pukin. Schumer and co. will break their arms tonight patting themselves on the back for taking over this news cycle, but they won NOTHING of substance. It is a sign of extraordinary weakness of the Democrat Party that all they can do now is pull stunts in the Senate to try to win one news cycle.

[carl in alaska]

You're right. We don't want to get overheated and even momentarily unhinged in anger. Then we would look too much like the Dems, who are consistently unhinged. In marketing strategy there's a concept called "differentiation", which simply means that to beat your competition in the market place you must have a different kind of product or service--you can't look too much like the competition. (If you look just like the competition, then you just end up in a price war and the low-cost producer wins.)

We want to appeal to calm, conservative, religous people and business people. Let the Dems get unhinged and crazy, then fight back with honest, truthful, factual and logical arguments expressed calmly and professionally. Bush, Cheney, Frist, and even Scottt McClellan do this brilliantly. Ari Fleischer was a master at it. Meanwhile let Limbaugh, Hannity, and Hewitt launch a more passionate and ferocious counter-attack on the radio. We won't beat Hillary in 2008 by acting like Hillary and the attack-dog senators who Hillary now holds on a leash. We have to market a completely different and superior brand of leadership to the American people. I think Sen. George Allen looks really good at this kind of political strategy too. He's cool as the other side of the pillow, and real tough at the same time.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

"HOW MUCH EVIDENCE OF US WINNING DO YOU PEOPLE NEED?"

Sorry, you can call me Mr. Skeptical. I won't believe we're winning until basically the Democrats are throwing temper tantrums like spoiled-rotten unspanked toddlers )but NOT passing any laws), Barbara Boxer is crocodile-tearing on TV, Kennedy is flubber-blubbering, Kerry is accusing others of his own crimes and Harry Reid is No More Mr. Nice Guy. Oh, and until they put up a web site to the WORLD that says 'I'm Sorry' that we kept a hawkish president in office during a war on terror.

...heywaitaminute.... Announcing Camp Schadenfreude