"WE KICKED ASS, really!"
Posted on 11/07/2002 5:54:07 AM PST by FreedomWarrior
Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2002 10:55 a.m. EST
DNC's Palmieri: Bush Shot Wad on Midterm Election
President Bush may have won big with yesterday's Senate sweep, but now he's shot his wad of political capital, contends Democratic Party spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri; currency that she said might have been better spent developing support for legislation he'll need to win reelection.
"He had a lot of political capital to spend," Palmieri told WABC Radio's Batchelor and Alexander Show as the returns came in late Tuesday. "He chose to spend on these midterm elections."
But the top aide to DNC chief Terry McAuliffe warned, "I don't know if that's such a great investment, frankly. It might have been better if he chose to spend it developing an economic plan or, you know, working with the Congress on a prescription drug benefit or something."
Palmieri said that while the Bush bounce was "able to bring these [Senate] guys over the edge.... Now I think the question is, to what end?"
The McAuliffe deputy predicted that Bush would "wake up tomorrow morning and say, 'Well, now what?'
"In some ways it's the worst thing," she added. "Be careful what you wish for."
Asked how she felt about the Democrats' election night debacle, Palmieri joked half-heartedly, "It feels a little bit better than in '94. It doesn't feel as good as '98. And it feels a lot better than 2000."
I've been thinking about the DU comments lately. They still contend that Bush is stupid, ignorant, a drunk, a cokehead, an imbecile.... you know their rant. Bush snookered tham again this election, what does this say about their intellectual capability if they are getting there hineys handed to them by a "smirking chimp"? Heheheh....!
Mr.M
It doesn't make a damn bit of sense, but when the fillibusters start, we'll see this as the rationale. If I were the President. I'd renominate the judges that didn't get out of committee and demand an immediate up or down vote in the full Senate. Let's draw our lines now and begin the fight.
And freebilly predicts that this Bimbo will be out of a job shortly, will wake up and say, "Well now what...?"
Exactly. Bush has now instilled in Democrats what Reagan did: FEAR!
They know that American people voted for George W. Bush on Tuesday, overwhelmingly, and that he can go over the heads of the pols to get what he wants.
Watching the Democrats run to the left (it now appears that Nancy Pelosi will be their new leader) is a beautiful thing to see. It will further marginalize them, and guarantee a Republican government for at least the next decade.
Back in the good old days, when you loaded your shotgun, you poured a measured amount of gun powder down the barrel, then you put a "wad" on top of that. A wad was some fiber material. Usually a small peice of linen rag, rolled into a ball shape and pushed down with your ram rod. It was used to separate the gun powder from the shot and to provide a seal that encouraged the gun powder to explode instead of just to burn and make a lot of smoke. You then poured in a measured amount of shot, tiny lead pellets and on top of that another wad to hold the pellets in the barrel until you were ready to shoot.
If you got in too big of a hurry and failed to put the shot down the barrel, you shot your wad. If you ran out of bird shot and in despiraion you shot the only thing that you had left, then you "Shot yor wad." Kind of a last ditch effort, you do nothing or you shoot the wad. That is you made a shot with nothing useful in the shotgun, you wasted your shot. It was used to imply that you had nothing useful to offer so you just "Shot your wad."
The current useage of the term is now taken to mean that you have done everything you can do and you have nothing else left to offer.
Capital is not something that is spent.
Capital is invested. A Capital investment expects a return. The President invested his asset and will without doubt earn, that is earn, a great return.
What is really great is that by next June, there will be no capital gains tax and the President will not only make a healthy capital gain, but the law will change and it will be tax free.
Well, as long as she is going to talk in terms of sexual analogies, I would prefer to think of political capital as similar to love (love, not lust): the more you give, the more you get back.
Note that she does not say WHO it would be better for. Lefties are consistent in that they present personal desires as if they are EVERYONE'S desires or best interests.
Had to be surprising to you given that you're only used to Clinton-sized.
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