According to CNN, when asked if they approved of how Congress is handling its job, 62 percent of Americans said they did not, while just 36 percent said they did. Why then, as of 10 PM Central time, has every one of the incumbent Democrats been re-elected? Various reasons, mainly Iraq. Bush’s handling of domestic…
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Election Night
Donkeys Have No Brooms Looks like the Democratic Sweep isn’t going to happen, not like so many of the lefties wanted. I don’t think they’ll have a majority in the Senate and their margin in the house will thin, if even that comes to fruition. Is this the voice of moderate America gently rebuking the…
“Getting Out” the Vote
This’ll discourage ’em: In Louisville, poll worker Jeffery Steitz was arrested and charged with assault and interfering with an election for allegedly choking a voter and pushing him out the door after the man said that he didn’t want to vote in a judicial election because he didn’t know enough about the candidates. Lt. Col….
Ortega Redux!
Evidently democracy can’t be forced after all… This is hilarious on one level and telling on another. All signs point to a declining American influence abroad. Can we blame them for not listening?
NeoCon Visions
I read Polimom’s blog every day thanks to the miracle of RSS. Yesterday she wrote a bit of a rant against the so-called NeoCons’ vision of “democracy in unlikely places” that bothers me. After years of being angry at the neocons, I finally understand them. I’m still afraid of their hands in our government (and…
Tortured Suspects Not to be Allowed to Talk
According to the Washington Post: The Bush administration has told a federal judge that terrorism suspects held in secret CIA prisons should not be allowed to reveal details of the “alternative interrogation methods” that their captors used to get them to talk. … Kathleen Blomquist, a Justice Department spokeswoman, said yesterday that details of the…
I Hope Kerry Refuses to Apologize
This thing with John Kerry and his alleged disrespect for American troops is ridiculous. Here’s what he said: “You know, education — if you make the most of it, you study hard and you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck…
Judges Shouldn’t Be “Lifers”
Federal Judge James Munley has temporarily denied Hazelton, PA, the right to enforce a new local law that would: Fine landlords found to be renting space to illegal aliens Close down businesses that hire them Allow legal employees to sue the businesses for employment lost during such a shutdown Sounds good to me. But says…
Jon Swift: Smarmy Enough to Make Me Ill
Jon Swift’s return fire to Rush Limbaugh is brilliant. And disgusting. This is feel-good intellectual superiority at its worst. Smarmy, it seems, is back in style thanks to W and Mark Foley. This is a super piece – tight, well-written, with just the right amount of sarc to make an audience feel clever. Too bad…
Peggy Noonan on the Election
Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal says, among other things: Republicans, most of whom are conservative in at least general ways, and who endure the disadvantages of being conservative because they actually believe in ideas, in philosophy, in an understanding of the relation of man and the state, are still somewhat concussed. The conservative…