…Which, just once I’d like for this guy to pop out of his hole, fail to see his own shadow, and take that as a hint that even the sun is trying to ignore his preening self-righteousness.
That is all. Back to your pancakes.
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Oh. And FREE MUMIA.
How many children’s books has Hussien written?
Saddam has written lots of books. One of them had a lesbian scene! He must die.
Chris Matthews said that this news will benefit Dems by returning attention of Americans to Iraq. Time magazine reports that Republicans will stay home in droves on Tuesday. Howard Dean praised the death sentence.
I asserted to my wife on election day, 2004, that exit polls conducted by MSM sources were the final attempt by MSM “big boys” to influence the election by depressing turnout by Republicans and conservative independents. She agreed, and the truth was out within a few hours.
This is, and has been all along, liberal publisher/editor strategy, for the entire election. It will fail.
Yes. Nothing says “Rethuglican failure” quite like the prospect of a Saddam hanging.
Chris Matthews needs to re-read his Sam Johnson.
As for the strategy you outline, geezer, I made the same point on my most recent radio show: I thought perhaps the polls were being skewed to depress wingnut / godbotherer turnout, but nobody seemed to buy that argument, noting that the polls they were looking at weren’t national polls but rather local, candidate-specific polls.
So there’s still reason for concern. I think the Republican Congress has been horrific. But a Dem Congress would waste our time with war crime trials and impeachment hearings. And though such a Congressional makeup would, I think, help the GOP in ‘08—Bush would finally start vetoing crap, and the Dems would show their colors vividly while in power—I still think it’s a frightening prospect, particularly at a time when we need resolve more than ever.
Kerry let the mask slip a bit; but politics is local, and in a lot of Congressional races, Dems are playing centrist—at least until they get into power and fall in line under the Pelosi power suit.
No thanks. Ya get what ya pay for.
That’s so funny. Whose attention is off Iraq?
Speaking of polls and spin, AJStrata has some great poll stuff today. Seems like some Dems are starting to lose control of their bowels.
Head for the Grampian Hills, men!
Would it were so…
Jeff,
Bite your tongue – I am on the “ready” list in 10 1/2 months and the “go” list in 22 1/2 months. Nothing like going back to war only to have Charles Wrangle decide he wants you CUT OFF… I hold my rising gorge and go to the polls and vote (I live in Denny Freakin’ Hastert’s district – urk).
Pass the maple syrup please.
– Put it up to the cynic in me, but I’ll believe it when he’s dead.
– That, and I’ll save the monkeybats some time and go ahead and question the timing…..
So what?
There’s a lot to be done legislationwise, but with the Dems already in full obstructionist mode and Bush not doing much politicking, it isn’t happening anyway, and won’t.
I say, bring on the impeachment and the hearings. Full circus mode. Can we get Pelosi and a few others to show up in white pancake makeup and big floppy shoes? I’m sure Steve H. would be happy to contribute a few midgets, just for additional interest.
What’s the absolute worst downside? The impeachment succeeds… George W. Bush shrugs, goes home, and picks up a fencepost driver. President Cheney appoints Condi (or Rumsfeld, for maximum irritation) as Veep, the Senate confirms on party lines, and things continue as before.
And when people ask why they aren’t getting paid, or treaty hearings got sidetracked, or there’s no motion on health care or any number of issues… we point out, with solemn sincerity, that the House has been busy with really important issues and Speaker Pelosi insists that they be resolved ahead of the routine stuff. And we get Republican congressmen to introduce another hundred or so witnesses for the ongoing hearings.
By June ‘08 they’ll be calling it the Long Congress and praying for Roundheads. Two years of temporizing won’t do any damage that isn’t already being done, and the object lesson will be worth it.
Regards,
Ric
TW: soviet37 There was, in fact, a Party Congress that year, IIRC. Damn, it’s good to have the AI back on track.
Yes, Ric. A purge would be about right for that ideology. Show trials and all that. I think there is precedence for it, from someplace…sometime…
We could even call it the “UnAmerican Activities Committee.” Historical relevance, and all that.
Regards,
Ric
I wince to think of the exit poll porn that’s going to be perpetrated all day Tuesday. I’m glad I’m taking my kid to soccer practice after work that day, and won’t see any TV until the actual returns start coming in.
Resisting the temptation of the intertubes at work, now….
the MSM will undoubtedly have exit polls showing Dems in a definite lead
no matter what is being really said to them
It offers Dems two “outs” … Either it will depress GOP turnout (especially in the West… an election day sorespot with us leftcoasters.. until the polls close, can’t the MSM please shut-the-fuck-up?) OR
as Nancy Pelosi just said (and the kosskiddies are already grabbing on to), if the polls don’t match the vote, then it is a Republican conspiracy to “steal” the election…
Brace for THOSE trials!
– Oh hell the party of the perpetually paranoid, seeing all their dead voters registration roles going down in flames, start lawyering up before the ink is even dry on the ballots.
– Whats amusing is, almost 95% of the time, they not only get kicked in the ass for their bullshit “voter irregularity” efforts, they end up generally losing more votes than they had when they started. It’s that old definition of lunacy; doing the same thing over, and over, and over, expecting a different outcome.
Darleen,
It isn’t an either-or choice; they can (and will) do both. In fact, the second tactic is less effective if they haven’t been loudly publicizing the exit polls throughout the day.
And in a recently discovered, highly effective gambit, the majority of exit pollsters will be college-age females. This will give a 10-15% bias in favor of Democrat responses, thus lending extra piquancy to the charges of election stealing.
Which is fine. No one’s life or property is safe while the legislature is in session, and if they can’t convene until the lawsuits run their course, so much the better. Bush will still be there, and if there’s no Congress seated there can’t be an impeachment, right?
Regards,
Ric
Mike Farrell? Yeah, like he will have a lot of pull with the Iraqi Shiites and Kurds. Maybe he and Ed Asner could go to Iraq and plead for Saddam’s life. It would be ironic if they were captured by Jihadists and we saw them in a final snuff video appearance (and before anyone says it no I do not hope that happens).
I do, however, have a bumpersticker on my car that says:
Mumia is a copkiller, give him the needle.
A side benefit of that piece of self expression is I have only gotten traffic warnings for speeding the last couple of years.
The correct response to exit-pollers:
“Piss off”