55 posts tagged “democrats”

I guess we are really screwed for funds if the Dems are considering a national sales tax now!

Much is said of the Democratic Kool-Aid.  Well, I would like to coin the term:  Republican Bug Juice.  And for those non-military types in the audience, bug juice is a timeless reference to the fruit punch served to sailors.

The talk on the right is about regrouping following the election and focusing on taking back Congress and the White House in 2010 and 2012. 

Well, drink up Republicans.  Because it ain't happening.  This isn't a light switch you can flip with the electorate and magically win back 30+ seats in the House, 10+ seats in the Senate, or 1600 Penn Ave.  The Bush years will remain in the collective conscience for some time and frankly I just don't see Obama making big mistakes in office that will outrage America.

So Obama is here to stay and I predict 8 years.  The media will try to make this Camelot and guess what -- America will agree.  Why will they agree?  Because they are hungry for it.

And for those in the middle that sided with McCain this past election, I can see them coming over to the Obama camp next election if he proves he can lead and that he has what it takes.  So 7 million this round.  Try more next time...

So break out the stale fruit punch.  Because the Republicans are going to need it to water their new grassroots movement.

But the Republicans will learn that there are no quick fixes here and small gains will have to suffice as the big victory in the years to come.

Civilian Security Force?  What is that?  Like Homeland Security?  FBI?  CIA?  National Guard?  TSA?  Local police?

Hey, what is one more government agency?  (Maybe it is like Operation TIPS...)

Our next president?  Can't wait...

Maria Bartiromo:  Do you want to encourage him (Obama) to pull his spending plans?

Barney Frank:  Well, I think at this point, there needs to be a focus on an immediate increase in spending and I think this is a time when deficit fear has to take a second seat.

So is he talking about another potential stimulus package for the economy or spending on Democratic minded programs?  I wonder if he is telegraphing the latter...  Because he sure didn't sound like he answered the question about pulling back on spending plans...

The Democrats are fools.

So you see, it's funny. That New Orleans will get a hurricane. That's funny because it is due to hit when President Bush is scheduled to speak. Isn't that cool? Fowler isn't the only one who thinks so, just ask Michael Moore.

We all know Democrats used and use Katrina as a political football as callously as possible. Here's a candid moment showing some can hardly wait for another one.

Wow.  This is big in my opinion.

A sizable proportion of Democrats would vote for John McCain next November if he is matched against the candidate they do not support for the Democratic nomination. This is particularly true for Hillary Clinton supporters, more than a quarter of whom currently say they would vote for McCain if Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee.

This is the weirdest thing and the way Obama deals with it at every rally is almost like a broken record.

It kind of makes think it is staged.  But I am sure that I will be corrected as this is akin to the response the Beatles received when they were on stage.

Michael Barone has an interesting post regarding the surge in Republican party identification:

Republicans were running just under parity from January 2004 to January 2006. Democrats jumped to a 4-point lead in July 2006 and maintained it or ramped it up as high as 7 points from July 2006 to November 2007. Then we're back to near-parity in December 2007.

Yes, it's just one month. It may not be sustained. Indeed, the dynamics of the presidential campaign could change these numbers a lot. But party identification ordinarily doesn't change very much, so small changes are different. Rasmussen's numbers in retrospect forecast the Republican defeat in November 2006.

He observes, "It is startling to note that the Democrats have lost two thirds of the partisan advantage since taking control of Congress." Could this be some kind of turnaround?

Who knows how this is going to play out?  We could be back to where we were in terms of party identification and the 50/50 split we saw in the 2000 election. 

It is kind of like the prediction of a big football game right now.  There is analysis of offense, defense, special teams, and intangibles.

Right now, it is the intangibles that are creating such a mess with the prediction of what is going to happen.  Who cares how Congress has disappointed the masses?  You have this wave of emotion surrounding Obama.  And this election is going to be won by how the independents vote.

As of yet, I just don't see that emotion on the Republican side. 

Intangible advantage:  Democrats.  But I am looking for some right of center Beamerball... it can be a game changer!

Captain Ed's assessment of the current positive trend in Iraq and the fallout for the Democrats.

For the past year, the Democrats have portrayed the American effort in Iraq as a failure. Their leader in the Senate, Harry Reid, publicly announced that we had lost and that we should immediately retreat. Their leading candidate for President, Hillary Clinton, all but called the commander of American forces in Iraq a liar when he reported on the progress that even the Times now acknowledges as real and obvious.

Democrats have a problem larger than just the message. The substance of their policy remains defeatist. They claim that they want a new strategy in Iraq, all but oblivious that the new strategy adopted in January has proven very successful. Their strategy -- smaller forces, disengaged from a reeling enemy -- would actually return us to the failing strategy of 2006. It would provide al-Qaeda in Iraq and the militias a respite just when they have been pushed to the last extremity.

It boggles my mind that there are people out there selling the American military short on our "defeat" in Iraq -- all for political gain.   If only they stayed on board -- they could have made their election in 2008 much more inevitable.

<sarcasm> Here is a toast to the Democrat's foreign policy vision.  May your policies bring us greater security. </sarcasm>

<reality> And here is a toast to the Iraqis.  May your continued reconciliation and security bring you a brighter future and an enduring American friendship. </reality>

The Iraq turnaround can only help the candidates who stood firm in not abandoning the Iraqis.  So watching the Democrats trying to walk the line on this will be so interesting.

As violence declines in Baghdad, the leading Democratic presidential candidates are undertaking a new and challenging balancing act on Iraq: acknowledging that success, trying to shift the focus to the lack of political progress there, and highlighting more domestic concerns like health care and the economy.

In reality though, I think that this balancing act will be obvious and will hurt the Democrats in the 2008 election.  Their foreign policy decisions of cut and run will be something they will have to constantly defend if Republicans can successfully use it to their advantage.

An Iraq that is slowly becoming less violent and a more prosperous ally in the Middle East is probably the biggest enemy to the Democratic presidential nominee as well as liberal Democrats in Congress up for reelection.