Posted on 07/29/2008 11:52:18 AM PDT by neverdem
May he enjoy great success!
OMG they think the disapproval of Congress is because of the blue dogs? ROFLOL!
Think of it as a kind of rash caused by extensive exposure to BDS.
The author doesn’t understand his own Democratic Party. Democrats do not want to do anything other than get their hands on the pork. If that means fund the war, so be it! If that means passing the wiretapping act, so be it. They just want the pork...
In Oct. 2006, a pollster called me and asked whether I approved of Congress. I said, “No, it’s too liberal.” She asked whether I approved of President Bush. I said, “No, he’s too liberal.”
You beat me to it.
“Pushing conservative Democrats out of Congress could help the party stand up to the GOP.”
Lol, with the positions the Dems. are taking on some major issues lately, you’re likely to see either more Blue Dogs or more Republicans in Congress.
Ideological Purge Begins in: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6......
>>OMG they think the disapproval of Congress is because of the blue dogs? ROFLOL!
What’s even funnier is that they consider Steny Hoyer a blue dog. Apparently, even hard-core socialists aren’t socialist enough.
From the article:
“run multimedia ads criticizing the likes of Blue Dog Rep. Chris Carney and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer”
The way things are going right now, you’re more likely to see the RINOs purge the Conservatives. They’re working on it already.
If it did, then it would be a permanent minority party.
In the Democrat party, the leftists control the conversation.
In the GOP, things are good as long as the conservatives control the conversation - when the liberal Republicans start taking over, then there's trouble.
Every party needs its own "centrists" to remain electorally viable.
Give us the Blue Dogs and give them McCain.
This is both the beauty and curse of the Founders’ theories.
For one party to get into power with a margin, they have to have members from the middle. Once one power gets close to a full majority, and people start saying things like “the Gop/Dems are a permanent minority”, you know things will shift back. As soon as I heard people say the Dems were a permanent minority I knew we were in trouble, just like when the shoeshine boy gives you a stock tip, it is time to get out of the market.
The Dems got lean and mean while the minority, and they rode the tide of events to power, just like the GOP in 1994. Then the GOP got the Big Tent and it fractures, while the other side is passionate and wants to win. The key point is when the rank and file of the majority party realizes their congress isn’t going to do much they want.
The only way to shift things is to move the middle psyche of the country one way or another to change what the middle actually is.
Rightly or wrongly, the Iraq war has given the Dems an opening. But the Dems handling of Energy and possibly mortgage issues could shift it back by 2010. Too late for 08, but 2010 things could shift.
More likely 2012 though.
I said nothing of the kind.
What I said is that the GOP does best when conservatives control the conversation in the GOP.
When the GOP is purely an ideological pressure group it experiences disaster (1964) and when it is purely a talk shop without firm conservative principles it experiences disaster (2006).
When the GOP is broader than just doctrinaire conservatives, but is dominated by conservative ideas and goals, the GOP does well (1984, 1994).
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