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Six Reasons: Why Tuesday wasn't that bad.
The Weekly Standard ^ | 11/10/06 | Noemie Emery

Posted on 11/10/2006 5:33:32 PM PST by Pokey78

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1 posted on 11/10/2006 5:33:33 PM PST by Pokey78
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2 posted on 11/10/2006 5:37:26 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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Yeah, Noemie. It was.
3 posted on 11/10/2006 5:38:48 PM PST by RichInOC ("You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.")
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The author lost me by equating Joe McCarthy, a U.S. Senator - with Michael Moore, a schlockumentarian filmmaker


4 posted on 11/10/2006 5:38:49 PM PST by karnage
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Yup. Not that bad. Unless, of course, you're serving in the military, or you're an Iraqi working to be free. Then, life sucks.


5 posted on 11/10/2006 5:41:52 PM PST by BeHoldAPaleHorse (I dare call it treason.)
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McCain and Guiliani, two of the biggest hawks in the country

WHAT?

The Weekly Standard has lost it.
6 posted on 11/10/2006 5:42:19 PM PST by Terpfen (Conservatives who stayed home have cost us a non-activist Supreme Court and tax cuts.)
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Few conservatives are morose at the loss of the House

I say again... WHAT?

Yeah, conservatives are happy that John Conyers can issue subpoenas and that Charlie Rangel chairs the Ways and Means Committee. Right.

The Weekly Standard has gone squishy.
7 posted on 11/10/2006 5:43:44 PM PST by Terpfen (Conservatives who stayed home have cost us a non-activist Supreme Court and tax cuts.)
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Another "Win by losing" idiot heard from. They did everything they could to make this happen. Very well they can go away and celebrate their triumph with their buddies the Dems. You do NOT play political power games with National Security. The War on Terror was in the balances and these morons played political games with it.

They can hit the door. They can go stick their knives in the Democrats backs for a change.
8 posted on 11/10/2006 5:44:29 PM PST by MNJohnnie (The Democrat Party: Hard on Taxpayers, Soft on Terrorism!)
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Love it!


9 posted on 11/10/2006 5:45:57 PM PST by Tribune7
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Nice try Pokey.

If one thing was "good" about getting stomped, it's this:

We got rid of some poor leadership in the House (Hastert, not a bad guy, maybe a little to unwilling to seize the reins of Authority)

And the Senate. Bill Frist is decent man, he is a knowledgeable man, he is a erudite man.

He also wasn't a great leader. Perhaps he sought consensus too often and didn't put the Senate's feet to the fire enough.
10 posted on 11/10/2006 5:46:47 PM PST by padre35 ("money is the crack cocaine of politics" J. McCain before he left for a fundraiser)
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LOL!

One of the unfortunate consequences of universal suffrage.


11 posted on 11/10/2006 5:48:00 PM PST by GourmetDan
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You do NOT play political power games with National Security.

You must be a RINO blah blah blah I heard on Michael Savage blah blah blah RINO blah blah blah impeach Bush for not exterminating illegals blah blah blah RINO blah blah blah I voted for change blah blah blah RINO blah blah blah I want the RINOs thrown out of the party blah blah blah RINO blah blah blah let them be Democrats blah blah blah RINO blah blah blah we had the majority for 12 years and we still don't stone abortionists and adulterers to death blah blah blah . . .

12 posted on 11/10/2006 5:48:12 PM PST by BeHoldAPaleHorse (I dare call it treason.)
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The problem is that old Joe McCarthy was more correct than he has ever been given credit for.


13 posted on 11/10/2006 5:48:51 PM PST by GourmetDan
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Now the rats won't have the dubious luxury of voting for show to display to their lib/socialist constituents.. they actually might have to think of the real consequences since they have the majority.. not much consolation, and I fear our survival, but they are going to have a lot harder time shifting the blame.


14 posted on 11/10/2006 5:49:17 PM PST by SeaBiscuit (God Bless America and All who protect and preserve this Great Nation.)
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I don't folks. I agree with some of the points in this article:

1. Certainly better now than 2008
2. Lamont did lose which blows a hole in the its-all-about-Iraq theory.
3. In every life a little rain must fall.
4. Maybe somethiing else -- but I can't remember what.


15 posted on 11/10/2006 5:50:51 PM PST by tdewey10 (Can we please take out iran's nuclear capability before they start using it?)
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Anybody who equates Joe McCarthy with Michael Moore is too ignorant to be worth listening to. . .


16 posted on 11/10/2006 5:57:41 PM PST by Iconoclast2 (Two wings of the same bird of prey . . .)
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You do NOT play political power games with National Security. The War on Terror was in the balances and these morons played political games with it.

Balances - let's balance our fine people getting killed because the enemy runs to the Mosques & thumbs their noses at them. Let's not do anything here in Mosques or schools where Muslims are told how the infidel must be eliminated & then hear your president tell you that Islam is a religion of peace. A War Terror - tell me when you leave the borders unsecured & won't profile. Now, you tell me who is playing with our security.

17 posted on 11/10/2006 5:57:42 PM PST by Digger
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Good luck wining in 2008 when half your squad would rather shoot their own side in the back then attack the Democrats on ANYTHING.

We make them come to us. We do not go begging them. We went that route this year. It doesn't work. They want their perks and their power. FINE let them come convice us they have are worth it. Let's see them activiely work ofr an agenda for once and not just hear this old "Oh we got to all play nice and get along now" everytime they dump it in the crapper and we got to come back and save them from themselves. Just like 1980, just like 1994, just like 2000.

People get really tired of having to go back to square one and rebuilt the same tower over and over and over just because it makes the psuedo Conservatives "talking heads" and the DC Establishements job easier if the baton is passed back and forth by the DC Old Boys club every few years.

If you want to rule, RULE, do not PLAY with it.


18 posted on 11/10/2006 5:58:24 PM PST by MNJohnnie (The Democrat Party: Hard on Taxpayers, Soft on Terrorism!)
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Hey, the party was going stale and losing its ability to appeal to voter groups needed to stay in power. The referendum questions say that we are not going lefty in this country but rather the people in power were. Bush is still the man and now that he doesn't have to suck up to Congress he can start taking the gloves off. If you remember his acceptance speech at the 2004 convention it was a statesman, a leader and a general all in one.

We will be back stronger than ever in 2008. And, if we were going to lose I am glad it is in an off presidential year.


19 posted on 11/10/2006 5:59:57 PM PST by misterrob (Bill Clinton, The Wizard of "Is")
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optimistic bump


20 posted on 11/10/2006 6:03:41 PM PST by Big Guy and Rusty 99 (proud sponsor of the "helmets for democrats" foundation)
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