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January 22, 2006

2006 Mid-Terms

I am not looking forward to the 2006 mid-term elections. I fear that some of the bad mojo that the Republicans have been involved in will come home to roost.

My biggest gripe about Bush and the Congressional Republicans is that they have left their first love. Coming to power in 1994, the Republicans promised smaller government and less corruption. The past few budget years have seen Republicans gleefully spending my tax dollars like they are drunken Democrats. Under Bush and the Republican Congress, the size of the U.S. government has grown.

What gives guys? Seriously? Is it the power? Is that what makes you lose your way?

The funny/sad thing is that the Democrats were tossed out in 1994 because Americans saw them as out of control spenders, sucking on the tit of the American taxpayer. The American people felt that their representatives were out of touch with the things that mattered to them. So they tossed the bums out.

This may happen to the Republicans, if not this election, then maybe the next one. We can only ride national security so long. I think the American people now know that they cannot trust the Democrats with their security. But see the thing is, there has not been another terrorist attack in the U.S. Sure there is Iraq and now Iran, but the average American could honestly care less about those places. Those places are so far away and they do not think that what happens over there will affect them over here. As long as there is work and cheap gas, they are happy. I disagree with them because I see that events in Iraq and Iran DO matter to the continental U.S. But because nothing is directly affecting them, the American people may put the national security on the back burner in order to toss out the current batch of bums.

But, will the Republican Party see this weakness or not? It does not seem to me that Bush sees it. I guess this is what he meant by Compassionate Conservatism. I get my tax cut but he still grows the size of government.

The thing I am most dreading is the Press.

If there is a net loss of seats for Republicans, even if it is just one seat, watch the MSM spin it as the American people are fed up with Bush and the Republicans. They will harp on this supposed shift for the next two years until the actual event is given birth in 2008. We all know they will do this. Hell, they did it last year with the few Governor races out there. They tried to extrapolate those results to 2006 and 2008. It is tiresome pointing this out. The MSM wants Bush and the Republicans to lose so badly, they will do everything in their power to further that goal.

It would not bother me if our papers were like the ones in Europe. Over there you have the Left wing paper and the Right wing paper. All efforts at being unbiased are tossed out the window. That is great. At least you, the reader, KNOW what you are getting. If The York Times came out today and said that they are a Left wing paper and that they will support Left wing ideology and agendas, then I would actually have respect for them. I have NO respect for them while they stay hidden behind this supposed veil of impartiality. Toss that veil aside and be honest. It is ok. Let the people decide what version of reality they want to read....

Ah, now I see why they don't...money.

Anyway. I hope there is either a net gain for Republicans or it is a zero sum game. At least that way I will not have to listen to the MSM drone on and on about what this means for Republicans.

posted by WunderKraut at 12:51 PM

Comments

The important thing is too retain power; even if it's only by one seat in the House and a tie-breaking vote in the Senate.

If we lose seats, two things can happen. Our Republicans will wake-up and put their house in order by rediscovering conservatism, or they will see their colleague's losses as sign of the electorate moving to the Left.

If they shift to the Left to chase the polls, we will lose in '08, '10, '12, ...

Tuesday's Senate vote on Alito will tell us where are Senators stand. If they cross party lines, it's a bad sign. I expect Chaffee to vote with his fellow Liberals. That's no surprise. But all the others have no good reason to vote No on Alito.

Alito's confirmation vote could be delayed by the Dems, too. If our leadership allows this to happen it is also a bad sign. Bush is to balme for Altio's delay. Judge Alito should have been on the Court last November. The ill-advised nomination of Harriet Miers is still haunting us and won't go away until Alito is confirmed.

Posted by: Bart on January 22, 2006 01:17 PM

Oh... because I forgot... we only have one paper in the US. The NYT. I must be getting toilet paper delivered to my house. I mean I feel like some of the other papers, Washington Times, NY Daily Post etc are crap, but they are not the NYT.

Posted by: Craig on January 22, 2006 02:01 PM

I just got a mailing from my (Republican) Congressman. It shows pride in many millions of dollars of projects in our district for which he got Federal tax money. And as I review the list, I cannot see one single project that I would consider a proper concern of the Federal government. Instead of ending this system of tax-and-waste, they just signed on and continued it. Aside from national security issues, there is no difference between the parties.

Posted by: lmg on January 22, 2006 02:46 PM

Craig,

I did not mean by singling out The New York Times that they are the only ones guilty. Same thing goes for Fox News. Fair and balanced...bah. Just come out and say it, “We are a Conservative news outlet.” Same with The Washington Times like you said.

My point is that the MSM, both right and left, need to just come out and be honest about what their agenda is. There is nothing wrong with that. I feel it would lead to better reporting on both sides. We all know that the MSM is biased for and against certain things, but they try to hide behind a wall of "impartiality". Get rid of that wall and tell us what you think.

Posted by: WunderKraut on January 22, 2006 04:00 PM

Craig, There is no NY Daily Post. There is a New York Post, which leans right; and a New York Daily News, which leans left.

Posted by: abe shorey on January 22, 2006 04:12 PM

I don't think it's enough for them to state their bias - they also need to remove their bias from their actual news reporting and news selection. All I have to do is read one of mediactrity's posts on the nyt's coverage of Israel to know what a problem bias in news reporting is.

See

target="_blank" class="text">http://mediacrity.blogspot.com/

Posted by: max on January 22, 2006 06:41 PM

Still, it would be better to take the hit in '06, and wake up in time to take '08.

Posted by: Tom M on January 23, 2006 12:36 AM

Um, the polls indicate that the American people sure are fed up with Bush, don't know about Republicans more generally.

This is the wartime president who managed to move his polls from about 80% approval to 51% in 3 years after 9/11.

Cut him loose and Republicans will do fine.

Posted by: searp on January 24, 2006 12:49 PM

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I'm usually very anti-antisemitism but if the Communist Antisemite Jihadists can pull this one off, Go Communist Antisemite Jihadists, Go!

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Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., on Platner: "We know that Graham has lived not your typical political experience. He's been very clear and open with his wife, and they worked through whatever they worked through. At the end of the day, this man has had 60 more town halls than Susan Collins has. He's winning the polls, he's willing to accept that he has grown as a person, and I think we should accept that."

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I like that he says that it's okay that Graham Platner sexted 12 different women within months of marrying the woman to sponge off her because he wasn't then "living a political life" -- the clear meaning being, "We all cheat, we just don't cheat when we're running for office, and he didn't know he was running for office when he was sending dicpics to half the women he ran into."
Except he was running: His own wife turned the sexts over to his campaign.
And obviously Reuben Gallego didn't let his "political life" get in the way of his extramarital dating life:

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Funny -- if you don't mind clicking on TikTok. "Amy.Pranks.22" set up an AI scam-call screener which replies to a foreign scammer trying to get her bank information with Trumpian bluster. This might be fake because I don't see how a program can respond in real time, but it's funny.

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The ULA rocket just launched
Thanks to Joyenz
The rocket's enormous engines are fueled by "the volcanic heterosexual lust between James Talarico and his Neighbor With a Uterus 'girlfriend'"
I hope Amazon's rocket works better than the Amazon Prime app does as far as allowing people to watch the black and white version of "Spider-Noir"

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Future Tucker Carlson guest James Talarico:

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Black Americans in a church.

Mexican Americans in a store.

Asian Americans in a spa.

Radicalized white men are the greatest domestic terrorist threat in our country.

He's referring to three mass attacks committed by white men in, oh, the past six or eight years. There were a huge number of mass shootings and bombings he had to skip over to cherry pick three committed by white men. Which kind of makes me think that "white men" are not the greatest terrorist threat in our country.
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