No, THIS May Be The Start of Something Very, Very Bad
The body of the former Republican Majority hasn't even assumed ambient temperature yet, and the Democratic leadership are already grabbing the wheel and steering the ship of state right off the cliff (way to mix your metaphors!!!). The Democrats are clearly so confident about their chances in '08 that they feel they can spend their first days after the election fucking with us.
Or... wait. No. They are trying to set the bar of success as low as possible, so even moderate gains seem monumental in retrospect. That's the ticket!!
Or, um.... They... shit. I don't know. What the damn hell could Nancy Pelosi be thinking nominating that half-senescent gasbag John Murtha for House Majority Leader? Rambling speeches, more funding for polka and peirogies, but most of all having the troops home in time for Wapner, come hell or high water!
There must be at least two or three people better suited for the job than Murtha, including both myself and the retarded guy who sells balloons outside the Farragut West Metro stop... what in the world is the strategy here?
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Clearly, I was speaking of
Clearly, I was speaking of the national scene. Locally, your mileage may vary.
Buckethead, I respect your
Buckethead, I respect your diversity!
*wanders away with clasped hands, eyes skyward, humming Kumbayah*
"The democratic agenda will
"The democratic agenda will not be instituted, the millenium will not be achieved, and we won’t all be holding hands singing kumbaya."
Clearly you are out of touch with the weird state of MA politics.
We WILL be holding hands singing kumbaya, and you can sit in the cultural awareness and re-education camp until you do it with feeling.
I know that Murtha is
I know that Murtha is considered a favorite of the anti-war Left, who consider him "brave," but the man just ain't that articulate. The Dems just can't wait to blow their new victory. If anyone wants to start a third party, now is the time for the big push.
J: Easy explanation.
J: Easy explanation.
Grandpa Simpson, like many pols before him, is near the end of his career and wants to become fully rehabilitated before it's over. Doing so will hardly make him unique - politics is a world in which everyone (except Duke Cunningham, and, I hope, Tom Delay, because they really abused the privilege) can have a second life after felony.
As evidence, I give you... oh, I dunno, how about Alcee Hastings?
He's hoping to be allowed his rehab by some intricate web of ass-scratching that's known to pols of all stripes. Us mere mortals can't even begin to understand the tabs these folks keep on each others' skeletons. If you haven't already, read up on Nancy's tenure "keeping the book" for her father when he was in Congress and as the mayor of Baltimore.
This is, in essence, the
This is, in essence, the reason why I was not terribly disturbed by the results of the recent unpleasantness. The Republicans, exhibiting the annoying but very human tendency to think that what they have is what they by right and God's will deserve, had long since pissed me off past all patience. One of the big reasons I have avoided posting about matters political over the last, I don't know, two years is that I became dreadful tired of carrying water for nincompoops, incompetents and fuckwads. I agreed with many of the principles they espoused when they got elected. I sure as hell didn't agree with most of what they did do, and was mightily displeased at what they didn't.
I have little if any fear that the current herd of hapless microcephalic whiners that pass for the democratic leadership will accomplish any more than the only marginally less hapless microcephalic whiners they are replacing. The democratic agenda will not be instituted, the millenium will not be achieved, and we won't all be holding hands singing kumbaya. If anything, this stinging defeat will give a (hopefully chastened and more respectful) Republican party a better chance in '08, because whoever follows Rove can just point at the Democratic congress as the root and source of all ills. Regardless of whether that's true or not.
In the meantime, Murtha deserves a shit sandwich rather than the title majority leader, but in the end it might be the same thing.