bump! bump! bump!
For what?
bump! bump! bump!
Above all he will try to sound a clear warning to terrorists that Americans are unified and not to interpret this change as a victory for terrorism.
Which, of course, is exactly what it is.
It's not the WIPEOUT that lardball was claiming, so DUmmies can rejoice, but they better get used to GRIDLOCK...50-50 senate and small majority in the house isn't enough to dictate terms or for Bush to cave on his agenda.
Ya gotta look at the good things that will happen as a result of this Democratic win:
-the whole World will love us;
-we'll have no more corruption in Washington (or anywhere else);
-we'll find a cure for Parkinson's;
-the lion will lie down with the lamb;
-the meek will inherit the Earth
Whether paraphrased or quoted, I love it's truth.
He will find no friends on the Democrat side. The same people who called our troops Nazis, who thinks they're stupid, and have called him every name in the book for 6 years now hold the power to ruin this country.
His job is to prevent that from happening.
I hope Rove slips him a photocopy of the words, enlarged, "ALL ENEMIES FOREIGN *AND DOMESTIC*"...
let me guess, he is going to promise "cooperation".
I think they were right in the beginning - too much of his father involved. How does it feel to have finally p*ssed away the Reagan Revolution?
100 what-happened threads -- this is as good a place to put my $0.02 as any.
1. I think the historical pattern is now crystal clear. Any armed conflict we get ourselves into has to be wrapped up in 3-5 years or forget it. Along those lines, the American people have no tolerance for half-fighting whether it's in jungles or deserts. They support the President when he prosecutes a war vigorously, and desert him when he putters around.
Corrective action: President Bush should act aggressively to quash bombers and other 'wehrwulf'-type activity over there, something we've been doing with too much sensitivity and wussiness.
2. Congress of late has been entirely failing to enact any segment of the conservative agenda. Tax reform? Social Security reform? Border reform? No go on any of it. IMO the natural tendency of incumbant Congresscritters is to avoid taking decisive action out of fear of losing their position - they've just been reminded that failure to act is an action, too.
Corrective action: A fresh leader will have to wait until the next cycle and drive a new 'Contract with America'-style agenda. It'll have to be someone fresh because right now people have little confidence Republicans would actually enact changes!
3. Inter-GOP fighting divided the party with the effect (here and in the voting booth) Republicans were as angry with each other as they were at moonbat leftists.
Corrective action: none. This is a natural result of incumbency and of our failure to act on our agenda. People grew accustomed to the idea that we controlled Congress and felt comfortable going after fellow GOPers; the Congress felt confortable in their offices and didn't see a need to do what they were elected to do. The actions and nominees of the RAT party will remind us why allowing them to be in charge is a Bad Idea; and the shock to the GOP leadership will remind them that complacency and inaction do not win.
In this list are not: illicit voting, MSM lies, Soros, or moon phases. These things happen *every* election and they haven't stopped us until now. Neither do I blame Rove, Rumsfeld, or even Rice (although I wonder WHAT happens with otherwise solid people when they get assigned to work with the State Dept.). These guys just work for W, they don't set policy themselves.
OMG he will prevail on them to work with him again. They might on illegal immigration but they will still be the same old bastards on any other measure. I hate begging assholes. I am not gonna watch this.
In a local referedum, the extremely conservative community of Downers Grove, IL voted decisively that we should withdraw our troops from Iraq. Obviously it doesn't amount to a hill of beans in terms of policy, but as a barometer, it spoke volumes as to the overriding issue in this election. Anyone who lives in DuPage County knows the significance of this. This is the same county that took Blagojevic back to the woodshed last night (something like a 200,000 vote differential in favor of Topinka).
Ironically - very ironically - this very dynamic may have cost Tammy Duckworth an expected victory in the 6th District. Roskam came through with a big victory despite Duckworth's constant harping on her wounded war vet status. It's possible voters were so altogether turned off by the war, anyone even associated with Iraq took it in the pants. Roskam's victory was the saving grace of last night. We have to build on that and get some legitimate GOP candidates on the ballot in IL in 2008 to challenge Melissa Bean and others.
Anyhow, I expect that the White House will be on the offensive from here on out. It's going to get extremely ugly in 2007 - a year of Congressional investigations and (I hope) a very bloody battle to replace John Paul Stephens (Janice Rogers Brown, if Bush has any balls left, otherwise probably Gonzales), and I expect we will see an attempted impeachment of Bush in early 2008. That in mind, the GOP will have to consider using its open Samson Option to turn back the Dem guns. If we lay down, the Dems are going to steamroll into the White House in 2008. If impeachment hearings actually materialize, we're doomed (and I mean DOOMED).
Are the Dems going to invade Darfur now? I mean, they have been whining endlessly that Bush wasn't doing anything. How can they do anything less?
Wow such cynasim...Ok I guess everyone forgot that the top political issue this year was the War in Iraq... Not immigration, Not Abortion, Not stem Cells, Not Judges, Not Economy, IRAQ..
1. In 04 the Democrats set a strategy in motion that would both undermine the President and to empower our enemies. (See Ted Kennedy coordination with the KGB during the Reagan years for more emphasis on the why)
2. In large part this strategy came to fruition yesterday. However, taking power in the Congress shares the burden of responsibility for the outcome of your positions. Nothing good can come of a Democrat controlled Congress.
3. When one party has all the power then all the good plus all the not so good that happens in this country belongs to them. All the Democrats did was amplify the negatives. America has voted that Iraq is a major negative.
So when the Mushroom cloud goes up over NYC or MIAMI or LA will Americans scratch their heads and wonder why or will the Republicans have to tell them they voted for their own demise.
What happened last night only makes me more ready for November 2008. I am hoping for another sweep back into the House by true Conservative leaders and hopefully, once and for all, getting rid of any further influence by the so-called "Bush Dynasty". Maybe electing a President such as Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney or Rudy Giuliani would be a great start since they seem to have true political backbones, unlike our current person occupying the Oval Office.
Rush just said that there will be a MAJOR announcement at this presser.
Rush speculates that it would be the resignation of Rumsfeld.
Pres. Bush will hold 1 pm news conference.
He's switching parties...........???/
"everyone be prepared to learn spanish..." --Bush
