Posted on 11/10/2006 2:07:47 AM PST by Mrs Ivan
The total rout of George Bush's Republicans was completed yesterday when the last Senate vote to be counted in America's midterm elections gave victory to the Democrats in Virginia.
The result gave the Democrats an effective 51-49 majority to add to a landslide win in the House of Representatives and presented Bush with the prospect of being a lame-duck President for his final two years in power.
After years of ignoring his political opponents, it was a time for fence-mending yesterday as the President invited Democrat leader Nancy Pelosi to a White House lunch to discuss how they might work together and, crucially, solve the crisis in Iraq.
With the 66-year-old mother-of-five now holding power on Capitol Hill, Mrs Pelosi met a once antagonistic President whom she has variously described as 'dangerous', 'in denial' and 'an emperor with no clothes'.
The humbled President admitted he was 'open to any idea' which might help him end the unpopular war. After the lunch, he congratulated Mrs Pelosi on becoming America's first female House Speaker.
For her part, she said she was looking forward to a series of 'confidence-building' meetings with Bush, adding: 'We are extending the hand of friendship.' But as the Mail reports here, another woman holds the real key to America's future...
An old anti-Clinton joke is doing the rounds again: 'If Clinton were the Titanic, it would have been the iceberg which sank.' Only this time it's being applied to his wife.
As someone who's been on the campaign trial with them both over the years, I've been constantly amazed at the utter unsinkability of the Clintons.
I would often wonder just how many more financial scandals the pair could survive — White-watergate, Futuresgate, Chickengate, Travelgate, Filegate — which always involved her. And sexual scandals, such as the Monica Lewinsky affair, which always involved him.
By the time he relinquished his presidency, Bill had been impeached, and then compounded his sins by granting presidential pardons to assorted criminal cronies.
The day he left office, I wrote: 'It seems almost unbelievable that the greatest political soap opera of the century is over — as its star, Big Bubba Bill, waddles off the political stage, grinning, biting his lip, twinkling his seductive smile, allowing a sentimental tear to fall from his eyes, knowing full well that he's still a winner.
'If the Constitution allowed it, the majority of Americans say they would vote for him again.'
Well, the soap opera ain't over yet. Hillary Clinton has just won a landslide in the mid-term elections and kept her Senate seat. The band played 'You ain't seen nothin' yet!' and Bill was celebrating alongside his fierce, ecstatic, yellow-suited wife.
Everyone knows she'll be running for President in 2008. As Dick Morris, Bill's former campaign adviser and now an implacable foe of the couple, put it: 'The order of succession to the presidency in this poor benighted country may well be Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton.'
She's already jokingly told friends that Bill, who used to refer to himself as 'The Comeback Kid', will be called 'The First Mate'.
The thought of the Clinton duo back in the White House fills many with utter gloom. 'Hillary's smile could curdle embalming fluid.' 'If elephants can do without ankles, why not Hillary?' 'Don't let the Wicked Witch back into the White House!'
SHE always intended to become President — only her gender stood in the way. So she married a good ole Suth'n boy, oozing with charm, whom she met at law school. No one could see what he saw in her. 'Hell, she was ugly — and frankly, looked dirty,' said a fellow law student. 'And not dirty in a sexy way — just dirty!'
A Left-wing feminist, Hillary had greasy, unkempt hair, bottle-lensed glasses and wore charity-shop clothes. But they both recognised in each other a fierce political ambition which would eventually propel them into power.
Bill had grown up with a poor, dysfunctional family, but as an eight-year-old, he told his primary school teacher that if he'd been in charge of the Roman Empire, it would never have fallen. And that he was going to become, first, Governor of Arkansas, and then President.
And Hillary always intended that his presidency would be a joint one: 'Buy one, get one free!'
When her husband first ran for the presidency, she told her close friend Linda Bloodworth-Thomason that the couple's dream was 'Eight years of Bill, eight years of Hill!'
According to Dick Morris, Bill has always been frightened of Hillary and many of his 'scrapes' were compounded by terror of his wife's fury.
Her former business partner, Susan MacDougal, who ended up in jail (and was pardoned by Bill), said: 'Hillary is one of the most focused, most driven, most goal-oriented women I have ever met. I mean, she is a scary woman!'
One of their former advisers told me: 'Bill's always had the character of tapioca, no real ideology, nothing but a general neediness to be loved and huge amounts of charisma. He was always indecisive and undisciplined, but she never was. She's not needy, she's highly ideological, highly liberal, highly focused, and she's always provided the backbone for him.'
I interviewed members of her White House staff who, off the record, spoke of the pair's volcanic rages (and her often foul mouth).
'No one is scared of him, but everyone's scared of her. He has a terrible temper, screams and shouts, and there are bodies all over the floor — but then the sun comes out, and the storm is over.
'She has a much slower fuse, but she's much more dangerous: she's very cold, very scathing, and doesn't forget, so you don't know when she'll get the knives out for you. In that way, she's much more difficult to deal with.'
Ruthlessly unsentimental, it was Hillary who, when reading a speech before delivery, would crisply inform Bill: 'We don't want to throw around words like "love".'
Hillary disliked the mawkishness, the touchy-feely empathising that he's always revelled in.
I was told by Carl Sforazza Anthony, an historian who likes her and admires her unswerving self-belief: 'Her attitude always is, never mind the torpedoes — full steam ahead!'
The woman we saw on television after this week's Senate win bears no resemblance to the 'ugly' woman law student Bill married. She once cared so little about clothes that she forgot to get a wedding dress and her mother had to rush round to a department store to buy one for her.
Hillary is now coiffed, heavily-Botoxed, well-dressed, and looks far younger than she is. But as Camille Paglia, author of Sex, Art And American Culture, points out: 'There is a bleached, sanitised, de-sexed, de-sensualised quality to Hillary's persona.'
There's little doubt that she will win the Democratic nomination for President. She has a massive war chest, a good reputation for hard work in the Senate, and has campaigned for other Democrats in their elections. They now owe her favours. But will she become the first woman President?
She was, at one time, the most hated — and divisive — woman in America. But she's learnt from her mistakes, and in her 'highly focused' way has moved firmly towards the centre; in New York state, she even won in deeply Republican wards.
The woman who began her joint-presidential career despising the military (soldiers who went to the White House complained that she 'treated us like dirt on her shoe') now praises them fulsomely, and she voted for war in both Afghanistan and Iraq.
She stresses her devotion to God (no godless candidate could ever hope to win office in America) and her deep patriotism. And, so far, it seems to be working.
And what of Bill? After all, he once told Dick Morris that he wanted to divorce her. Many times she would have been forgiven for wanting to divorce him. But she never had any intention of letting Bill get away from her: she'd invested too much in his career. And it's said that she still, despite everything, loves him deeply.
Yet they are rarely seen together in public and lead virtually separate lives. Bill's life involves earning huge amounts of money on lecture tours, travelling the world for pet causes and — unfortunately — yet more Good Ole Suth'n boy philandering. She once ruefully said of him: 'It's hard to keep this dog on the porch!'
She knows that he comes with baggage and, once she declares that she's running for President, all the old scandals will be dredged up again (and possibly new ones still to come). Just as she has distanced herself from the Left, so she has also distanced herself from her husband and his chronic misbehaviour.
Only when — and if (it's a big if) — she becomes President will we know whether this is the restoration of the 'Billary' presidency.
'Buy one again, and you get one free... again.'
The New World Order is here now
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And is rapidly becoming more and more brazenly overt in their Machiavellian tyrannical rule.
But they have been here for many decades.
Me neither. We tend to believe all the threads in FR about the demise of the MSM. They are alive and well and more powerful than ever.
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It's a mixed bag.
Their power derives wholesale from the idiocies the puppet masters, Marxists, NWO folks have infected, injected, mandated in our Universities and K-12 schools for so many decades.
The Pied Piper has trained the children to follow traitorous idiocies unthinkingly . . . very well.
I hope you're right.
But even now, RINOs like McCain and others are attributing this to Republicans not being "centrist" enough.
The reason Republicans loose elections is because they estrange themselves from their base - and Bush worked hard and long at this:
McCain - Feingold
Dubai Port Deal
Harriet Myers
Amnesty for Illegals
Failure to defend our borders from illegal invaders
Pandering to Vicente Fox
Bogging us down in Iraq while the Iranians continue to develop nuclear weapons
Excessive spending
Alberto Gonzales
Norman Minetta and no profiling
I could go on and on.
When Bush was nominated, very many conservatives had second thoughts about him. He lived up to our fears just like his father did.
The catastrophy on Tuesday was mainly, but not exclusively of Bush's making. He had help in the Republican Congress from people like John McCain and his gang of 14.
But this isn't just me saying it.
Mark Levin has said as much.
Newt Gingrich has said as much. So have many other - Sean Hannity, etc.
I repeat. When Republicans loose elections, they re-assess their views and try to become more like the Dems.
When Dems loose elections, they come back fighting for what they believe in.
Only time will tell if you are correct or I am, but I sincerely hope I am wrong and you are right.
They'll win it for Hillary. They'll protect her and make over into St. Joan Of Arc. You'll LOVE her so much you want her to run the country. Of course she's a terribly flawed politician and even less likeable as a human being but what you don't know from the Drive Bys/MSM can't hurt you. They'll worship the ground she walks upon.
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Toooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
frightfully, toooooooooooooooooooooo easily true.
The road bed has been in prep for at least 50 years. Some say 400.
'If the Constitution allowed it, the majority of Americans say they would vote for him again.' ..
What is this incendiary bullspit?!?! Why can't a writer ever get things correct? Before the "majority" of voters could vote for Clinturd "again", they would first have to do it once! The little crooked one's first effort scammed 43.01% of the votes. Second was 49.23. Never ever ever never did the hillbilly glob of poop get a "majority" of anything. This stuff really sticks in my craw sometimes.
Fact: Bill Clinton entered the Whitehouse with the lowest percentage of votes of anyone since 1912.
Fact: GWB recieved more votes than anyone ever in the history of this nation.
Is accuracy so tuff? When so much of the crap swirling about us is subjective, opinion, debatable, spinnable... why in the help can't we grab hold of the concrete when the chance presents?!?!
Republicans will have to get the truth out to the American people by themselves.
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NON RINO patriotic, conservative folks will have to get the truth out . . . however we best can.
Every way we can.
With startling clarity and devastating impact.
Alas . . . the brain dead and asleep are not so inclined to be informable about much of anything vital.
Sounds like the puppet masters have instructed the DIMRATS not to impeach him.
It may be the DIMRATS realize that we have enough folks still patriotic enough in Congress to give them more of a fight than they and the country could stand at this time.
If she wins, just think of her as another curse on America for abandoning our Christian heritage. America has been greatly blessed, but now is openly mocking God, and many are acting like all this was their doing, not His. That is dangerous territory. If we continue on this course, when it hits, its going to be just as shocking as 9/11, only much worse. And for many it will be too late. As the song goes "wake up Christians, and stop playing church, to enter God's Kingdom there must be a new birth."
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You wrote many pregnant fingers full of truth there. For sure true.
Love it. Thanks. Saving it.
I tell ya. The insidious socialists are on the move again and becoming even more blatant in their goals of turning this Country into France.
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I wish it were that mild.
They will turn the world into something far worse than Ghestapo Germany. Scripture is very clear--worse than has ever been or ever will be.
Particularly with so many Jihadi's and even DU'ers eager to attack our beloved leader.
Wish I didn't have to agree so wholesale. But I do agree.
The real question is what are we going to do about it. Expose Dem corruption and lies on the blogs? Get the Rep politicians off their asses and fight back against the demo propaganda machine? Start looking for a real canditae for POTUS versus the bunch of has beens and losers we have been tossing around for the last two years. We jeered and talked crap for the last two years about how inept the dems were and we see what has happened. We need to stop feeling sorry for ourselves and fight back. Oh yeah, we need to stop all this pansey nice guy "we are better than them" and get down right nasty about this next fight-
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Excellent points. AGreed.
She got bigger stones than the pubbies.
Ms. Leslie can toss out all the personal insults she wants. The one inescapable fact is if the Republicans cannot offer a candidate who can articulate the Conservative message better than Mrs. Clinton can articulate the liberal one then the Republican deserves to lose.
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And one has the impression . . . were one to arise . . . such as Ann Coulter etc.
they would be marginalized every way possible . . . and if that didn't work . . . a contract would be put out a la Shrillery's Fosterizing goons.
How old is she ? 95 ?
Or will she be like Lenin in his glass tomb; so full of formaldehyde that his body never decayed ?
It's downright creepy !
You are forgetting the woman's vote. There is a legion of revanchest, bitter, middle aged women out there who bought into the whole feminist spiel who will vote for her if only because, "It's our turn now"
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Yup.
This thread is not the most uplifting one . . . I could find . . . going to head out to go to pot . . . . ery shortly.
Gotta get away from this.
I backed Dr. Keyes. I don't regret later vouching for the President, but he was not my first choice.
Regards, Ivan
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