Posted on 11/11/2006 12:38:40 AM PST by JohnHuang2
Liberals have been clucking non-stop since election night at the prospects of what Democrat victory means to their radical causes. In first recruiting, then funding, faith-friendly, conservative, and in a couple of instances even born-again candidates, the Democrat party captured needed numbers to swipe leadership posts. The strategy proved extremely effective. Nancy Pelosi will bring San Fran values to the Beltway debate, and Kennedy, Kerry and Clinton will clamor to be first in line.
But how did she get there? In many instances, by taking advantage of terrible Republicans and their own criminal wrongdoing. But the main strategy was to convince a needed one-fourth of the electorate that the Democrat option on the ballot was not much different than the Republican option. Winning enough of the seats to take control of both houses, Pelosi is free to assign every committee chairmanship in the House, as is Reid in the Senate, to the most disgusting and vile liberal creatures imaginable.
The strategy was so sound it was as though they had taken the ideas right out of my book, "The MuscleHead Revolution: Overturning Liberalism with Commonsense Thinking," or at the very least from the scrap notes of Karl Rove. Continues...
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Putting things wildly in perspective
Here's a short list of things which haven't magically changed, even after the Rat takeover of Congress:
-- Bush is still President of the United States, and Jon Carry isn't.
-- Bush is still Commander-in-Chief.
-- Bush still has two more years as President and Commander-in-Chief.
-- Bush still has the veto pen. That veto pen means the Nancy Pelosi/Charlie Rangel/Henry Waxman/Ted Kennedy/trial lawyer/ environutter/gun-grabbing/tax-hiking agenda has zero chance of becoming law.
-- The war against Islamofacists is still on.
-- Unless Saddam's death sentence gets overturned by the 9th Circuit, the 'GOD-IS-GREAT!' screaming secular Baathist is still going to hang.
-- The Democrat Party is still a patchwork of special interest groups. These groups don't agree on much. The irony is that, rather than civil war erupting in the GOP, it's more likely to happen within the Democrat Party, since nothing will get done, which means lots of internal strife and lots of finger-pointing. The stuff these groups will be pushing for is very unpopular, which is why, before the elections, they hid Pelosi in a cave in Tora Bora.
-- The Democrat Party is still a collection of losers who haven't got a clue yet. The Dems, after a string of losses -- in 2000, again in 2002, again in 2004 -- were bound to win one. Two-term Presidents don't win both midterm elections -- just doesn't happen. And you can bet that these Dems, feeling emboldened, will spend the next two years hard at work getting the GOP back in shape for a big comeback in '08.
The 2006 midterm election was a battle, just one battle, not the war itself. The big one will be '08. We'll win that one.
Anyway, that's...
My half cent
"JohnHuang2"
It's been so long that a veto was actually used, I've forgotten how many votes in the house does it take to override a veto?
So what do we have to do to take back the media?
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Take "back" is not possible. We have to develop ways to get the message of conservatism out past the dominant media. It is a huge challenge.
Regards
Belated bump for optimism...
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