History was made this week! For the first time in four
election cycles, Democrats are not attacking the Diebold Corp.
the day after the election, accusing it of rigging its voting
machines. I guess Diebold has finally been vindicated.
So the left won the House and also Nicaragua. They've had a
good week. At least they don't have their finger on the atom bomb
yet.
Democrats support surrender in Iraq, higher taxes and the
impeachment of President Bush. They just won an election by
pretending to be against all three.
Jon Tester, Bob Casey Jr., Heath Shuler, possibly Jim Webb --
I've never seen so much raw testosterone in my life. The smell of
sweaty jockstraps from the "new Democrats" is overwhelming.
Having predicted this paltry Democrat win, my next prediction
is how long it will take all these new "gun totin' Democrats" to
be fitted for leotards.
Now that they've won their elections and don't have to deal
with the hicks anymore, Tester can cut lose the infernal buzz
cut, Casey can start taking "Emily's List" money, and Webb can go
back to writing more incestuously homoerotic fiction ... and just
in time for Christmas!
But according to the media, this week's election results are a
mandate for pulling out of Iraq (except in Connecticut where
pro-war Joe Lieberman walloped anti-war "Ned the Red"
Lamont).
In fact, if the Democrats' pathetic gains in a sixth-year
election are a statement about the war in Iraq, Americans must
love the war! As Roll Call put it back when Clinton was
president: "Simply put, the party controlling the White House
nearly always loses House seats in midterm elections" --
especially in the sixth year.
In Franklin D. Roosevelt's sixth year in 1938, Democrats lost
71 seats in the House and six in the Senate.
In Dwight Eisenhower's sixth year in 1958, Republicans lost 47
House seats, 13 in the Senate.
In John F. Kennedy/Lyndon Johnson's sixth year, Democrats lost
47 seats in the House and three in the Senate.
In Richard Nixon/Gerald Ford's sixth year in office in 1974,
Republicans lost 43 House seats and three Senate seats. Continued... |