Definitely a good day
Don’t let the media twist this. Yesterday was definitely a big win for Democrats. Even if we don’t take the Montana and Virginia Senate seats, which it looks like we will. Winning 4 seats in the Senate and 30 some seats in the House and taking it over is a huge win. And yes, some of these new Congressmen are conservative . . . for Democrats, but some of them are quite progressive too, the way the party always has been. Anyway, it doesn't really matter since we're now the majority party--that's what's important.
The American people have spoken clearly; they want the bums out. That's the clear message in this.
And I’m sure that after ramming legislation down the Democrats’ throats for the last 4 years, the Republicans are now going to be talking about bipartisanship. The Democrats need to tell them to screw, right from the start.
Oh, and I guess Rummy doesn’t think it was a bad day for Democrats. With the prospect of Congressional investigations, he resigned today.
Bush lavished praise on Rumsfeld, who has spent six stormy years at his post. The president disclosed he met with Gates last Sunday, two days before the elections in which Democrats swept to control of the House and possibly the Senate.
Last week, as he campaigned to save the Republican majority, Bush declared that Rumsfeld would remain at the Pentagon through the end of his term.
Oh, and Bush was lying when he said Rummy would stick out the last two years of his term. What I want to know is what else has he been lying about?
And on a personal note, I don’t know about your office today, but in mine, all the Republicans are moping around being sore losers. Ha ha.
posted by Scoop @ 10:20 AM
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I agree that it is a big day, but I have to say in a way I am surprised it wasn't bigger. I have read a lot of left leaning bloggers relaxing, exhaling and saying "Yes, democracy does work, Karl Rove and Diabold don't control elections..." but I have to wonder what the results would have been if there weren't all kinds of shenanigans, shenanigans that have been reported and documented. There has never been a bigger group of sociopathic, lying, criminal pedofiles running a republic since ancient Rome, and yet many, many Republicans got elected or re-elected. We won a decisive strategic victory but we didn't "Run the Bums Out." Here in Florida a ton of Republicans were elected to congress and the Governorship. Mark Foley, who's name was still on the ballot (though another right-wing jerk was actually going to get the votes) actually go 48% of the votes. Over-all, yes, left leaning people came out en mass to vote against the war. But it was a vote against an embarrassing President, not a vote in favor of anything. The Dems have a long way to go and some balls to grow before this country approaches anything resembling a thoughtful, liberal democracy.
Just my take. I really enjoy your posts.
Johnny Vacant
I agree that it’s surprising in many ways that the win wasn’t bigger, though many of the races generally seemed to track within the margins of error of the pre-election polls.
So were the polls wrong? I think that as in the 2004 election, with the discrepancy between the exit polls and the final results, things definitely broke for the Republicans. I think that with the disenfranchisement that effects the Democrats more heavily, it’s not surprising that things break for the Republicans in the final results, so when the Democrats should be winning a race by a percent or two, it turns out to be a loss, or a race that should be a Democratic blowout, turns into a very close one. The FBI is supposedly investigating some of the dirty tricks the Republicans were using to disenfranchise Democratic voters, but the investigations need to dig deeper and have real repercussions.
Now the other question is why did 49 percent of the voters in Virginia try to elect a corrupt, racist, neo-confederate? Are these voters themselves racist, so they don’t really care? Or are they just Republicans who are going to vote Republican under any circumstance? I suspect the later is why so many voters voted Republican in Mark Foley’s district and others. And this all leads to the question of why are so many middle- and working-class Americans voting Republican in the first place? They aren’t rich war profiteers, so what’s going on? Stupid? Brainwashed? I think a little bit of everything goes into it.
I think clearly the media bears much of the responsibility for this: They have portrayed Bush, Cheney, George Allen and the rest of them as reasonable people, partaking in reasonable policies, which clearly they aren’t.
Oh well. Taking control of Congress is a big win for the Democrats who can now push their agenda and push the Republican agenda out in the cold. Congress won’t even have to waste time on Social Security reform now, and they can start working on what is really important to the American people.
Scoop
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