No "Barf Alert"?
That's funny; none of these people talked about securing their elected position, increasing their staff size, or lining their pockets with contributions or gifts to their children or spouse. What a nice bunch of people!
1st they did not mean it. Like every other political con man they just told you what you wanted to hear to get your vote. They will run as Reagan clone at home and morph into Ted Kennedy in DC. The other reason that "analysis" is utterly inane is that by controlling the Congress, their votes will assign the Committee heads who will all be long time DC Leftist insiders.
They may claim to be "Conservative" the agenda that will come out of the Committees will be hard Left. So the ONLY things they will get to vote on will be the Left's agenda.
Guess what happens then. Your supposedly "Very Conservative" Dems suddenly forget everything they said on the campaign trail and revert to their real Leftist roots.
Bill Clinton did the same thing in 1992. Ran around and promised you he was a "new kind of Democrat" and turned right into the old kind in DC. Once again, like in 1992, the "Conservative" threw a tempetanrum because their every emotional whimsy was not granted the second they felt it. Once again they destroyed their own power base.
Only problem is this. There is no Newt waiting to rescue you this time. You just fired a bunch of guys that went to DC with Newt. Those rural districts pretty much elect a guy for life. They are not going to suddenly swing back to you.
The Dems are going to open the pork barrel wide open to buy those those districts year after year after year with YOUR money. They even have the PERFECT vehicle for it.
Simply dump it in the Homeland Security bill. NO one can vote against that. Way to go Conservative. Way to make yourself a political Minority for a generation! Well done! Hope you enjoy the consequences of your temper tantrum!
The Democrats plan is simple continue to castigate and
impede the Bush Admn., raise taxes and spend every stinking
dime on frivolities just like their "republican" predecessors!
Well, that settles that. They are looking to exit Iraq, and not to win in Iraq. Bast@#ds!
Hee hee hee. That wascally New Yawk Slimes. Always coming up with the phony, baloney BS stories. They STILL think that the people who live in this country are a bunch of blockheads. Anyone who believes the crap, give me a call. I've got a bridge for sale in Brooklyn that I'd like to talk to you about.
This seems fairly ideological to me, and I'm not just talking about the bias in the article.
Dealing with affordable healthcare means a government-run healthcare system ... ideological.
Loss of manufacturing jobs means increasing the minimum wage for all those folks now working at McDonalds (or whatever the Dems keep saying is happening) ... ideological.
Exit strategy in Iraq means some variation of pulling out ... ideological.
The NYT and the rest of the MSM are going to continue to try to convince us that the Dems are wonderful people doing wonderful things, but just because the NYT says it's not ideological doesn't meant that's so.
It's hard to develop an appetite for something you've never tasted.
A regular "progressive" jihad, they are.
"There is a strong populist tinge to this class."
Fairy tales. The left of left and progressive groups have called for the democrats to honour (STOP SNICKERING!) their agreements with them for their money and push.
The donkeys are really beholden to groups that aren't populist. They are socialists and Marxists and they owe George Soros big time.