the start of another week
Who knows what news items this week will bring? We are still waiting to see if North Korea will light off a nuke, and what new revelations the season will bring in the current election cycle.
From all outward appearances, the GOP is in some deep doo-doo. But I am not real certain that it is time for the Dem's to start celebrating. The GOP controlled media is working overtime to convince the folks that everything wrong or bad is the fault of the Democrats, and the liberal press is already gloating and singing little hymns of praise to themselves. Who will win? I don't have a clue.
I do have a couple of observations though. (You knew I did).
1)
If all things unpalatable are the fault of the Dem's, what does it say for the Republicans who have had near absolute power for the past six years that they cannot manage a weak party of opposition?
2)
If the Dem's manage to win both Houses of the Congress, it could be the best thing to happen to the GOP. The House will elect a new Speaker, who will likely be Nancy Pelosi, who will make Newt Gingrigh and Tip O'Neill look like pikers in terms of imposing a blitzkrieg agenda. She might make enough of a negative impression of the moderates, libertarians and middle-of-the-roaders that the GOP will be able to dump some or all of the new majority in 2008. I don't think I need to mention that the White House will also be in play that year. The prospect of a Clinton-Pelosi cartel in D.C. is enough to give a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat pause...
3)
At least one former page has come out and claimed to have had sex with Mark Foley.
Wow.
You knew that this would happen. Was Jon Benet Ramsey there too? This is a good time to let this issue ride, the GOP is doing a good job talking themselves into more and more controversy, they don't need any help. This need not involve, or invoke the illusion of Cindy Sheehan.
4)
Then there is North Korea and Iran. The term 'sanctions' as it relates to the U.N. seems to be bandied about a lot in the hopes of changing their behavior. Just quit. The UN, the US, the PRC and the former USSR don't amout to a BFD in the eyes of these two countries. Other steps will need to be taken, and Korea seems to be the place that is itching to have the attention. Treat them as equals on the world stage, it is what they want and the right thing to do. Then, as equals, let them make their own way, and if they pick a fight with other equals, we can explain to them how things work in the loftier areas of civil society.
Stay focused. The election is just four weeks off.
Do your own thinking. Turn off the TV and radio.
From all outward appearances, the GOP is in some deep doo-doo. But I am not real certain that it is time for the Dem's to start celebrating. The GOP controlled media is working overtime to convince the folks that everything wrong or bad is the fault of the Democrats, and the liberal press is already gloating and singing little hymns of praise to themselves. Who will win? I don't have a clue.
I do have a couple of observations though. (You knew I did).
1)
If all things unpalatable are the fault of the Dem's, what does it say for the Republicans who have had near absolute power for the past six years that they cannot manage a weak party of opposition?
2)
If the Dem's manage to win both Houses of the Congress, it could be the best thing to happen to the GOP. The House will elect a new Speaker, who will likely be Nancy Pelosi, who will make Newt Gingrigh and Tip O'Neill look like pikers in terms of imposing a blitzkrieg agenda. She might make enough of a negative impression of the moderates, libertarians and middle-of-the-roaders that the GOP will be able to dump some or all of the new majority in 2008. I don't think I need to mention that the White House will also be in play that year. The prospect of a Clinton-Pelosi cartel in D.C. is enough to give a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat pause...
3)
At least one former page has come out and claimed to have had sex with Mark Foley.
Wow.
You knew that this would happen. Was Jon Benet Ramsey there too? This is a good time to let this issue ride, the GOP is doing a good job talking themselves into more and more controversy, they don't need any help. This need not involve, or invoke the illusion of Cindy Sheehan.
4)
Then there is North Korea and Iran. The term 'sanctions' as it relates to the U.N. seems to be bandied about a lot in the hopes of changing their behavior. Just quit. The UN, the US, the PRC and the former USSR don't amout to a BFD in the eyes of these two countries. Other steps will need to be taken, and Korea seems to be the place that is itching to have the attention. Treat them as equals on the world stage, it is what they want and the right thing to do. Then, as equals, let them make their own way, and if they pick a fight with other equals, we can explain to them how things work in the loftier areas of civil society.
Stay focused. The election is just four weeks off.
Do your own thinking. Turn off the TV and radio.
posted by eccentric recluse at 5:00 PM
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