“But this beleaguered minority has an opportunity to wield outsized influence on what President-elect Barack Obama can accomplish in Congress.”
They can, and will, repeatedly give him bipartisan cover for really stupid laws.
They sure fooled me.
A sentence that could only be printed in the LA Times. And the New York Times. And the Washington Post. And the Boston Globe. And the Philadelphia Inquirer....
The Senate they are referring to in this article: Exactly which planet is this?
We did lose some Rhinos this year, getting Rats in trade. We still have Spector, the girls from Maine, McEgo and his first understudy Hagel. And a lengthy list of wannabe Rhinos voting for shrinking portions of our agenda in the wings such as McEgo’s second understudy Gramnesty, Voinovich, and Lugar. That list could easily be added too. Some of the wannabes might do better if provided with strong conservative leadership for them to follow. They’d have been livable with someone like Reagan in charge; without him they are pathetic. Their nature is to climb aboard any bandwagon. Bush didn’t even pull his little red wagon before its wheels fell off. For Obama they’ll volunteer to be the wagon.
How about a couple of conservatives?
Up is down, down is up, welcome to bizarro world. I want what he's drinking...
In fact, I fully expect we'll be seeing a rubber stamp the likes of which we've never seen before. The (R)s will be glad to go along with the surge of socialism since they want that power just as badly as the (D)s but they have to pretend otherwise to our faces to be reelected.
I pray that I'm wrong and that there's a resurgence of testosterone from that flock of (R)epublican capons in congress, but it's not likely.
Maybe you could squeeze them in the back of a van like the illegal immigrants they support.
“inexorably veered to the right”
(/alternate universe)
RINO turds in big demand?
Of course the fools are in demand, the Dems need these backstabbing fools like Specter and Mclame and Hagel to shove their socialism up our wazoos.
What are really dwindling in numbers are leftist rag newspapers like this one, the LA Times. They spew leftist garbage and nobody wants to read their propaganda anymore.
In demand? Translation: They are gonna get tons of perks and pork in exchange for being what they really are, traitors. Has anyone checked the RINO listings in Ebay? “I sold my vote on Ebay”- RINO lapel pin.
Ah, yes. In media-talk, if a liberal is a Republican, they are called “moderate”.
What's that mean" Is it that while, selling a Senate seat is illegal, it is fine to sell out your own Party for "favors"?
He may have well said. "There's only a couple hookers available at this bash and there's 59 horn-dogs; them hookers might be in big demand".
Yep the MSM has decided it better prop up the Snow-Chaffee type RINOs now that the election is over or it knows it will see more REPUB who are not simply RAT-lite.
Collaborators were in “high demand” in pre-war France too. They weren’t so popular afterward though, as I recall.
Janet Hook
Those (moderates) who remain in politics have been marginalized by their own party, which has inexorably veered to the right over the last generation.
Janet, you used "Inexorably" incorrectly. It's completely out of place in your sentence.
"unyielding, not to be persuaded, moved, inflexibly"It could have been used but you'd have to have written the sentence differently.
Now I like big words too, but c'mon lady, wanna buy an adverb?
Senator Specter will remain “in demand” for only the remainder of his term, after which he is likely to be replaced by the tingly legs of Chrissy Mathews....
- John