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2005-03-09 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by .com 2005-03-09 4:03:07 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 This football analogy reminds me of an old football joke:

Two football teams play more than 3 and a half quarters of a game with one team just absolutely whupping the other 77-0. Suddenly from a distance a train whistle can be heard, and the winning team, thinking the game is over, walks off the field.

Three plays later the losing team scores.

Posted by badanov 2005-03-09 4:12:40 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2005-03-09 4:12:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 They now fall in the ball and then they will fall on their swords

Posted by JFM 2005-03-09 11:23:57 AM|| 2005-03-09 11:23:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 As I've suggested before, once the Senate democrats have been whipped down so much that they are convinced they are the minority party, and start behaving like one, then the first step in their recovery will be "DINOs", or "moderate" democrats, who will vote with the republicans on condition that they get *something* they want added on. By dint of this power, they will ascend to the top of their party, while the radicals become marginalized.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-03-09 12:30:12 PM|| 2005-03-09 12:30:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 You ain't seen nothing yet - There is a scenario which though a longshot, is thouroughly possible, and will be a result of all the domestic wranglings over PC, sex, race and ethnicity...

2008 will be interesting. Loser goes first (Convention)... Dems nominate Hillary and then the fun starts with a scenario that has none of the major party tickets with a White European Male!!!!

Newly electied Congressman and near-miss Governor Jindal gets added for geographic balance...
I admit Jindal is the least likely of this scenario...but it makes one think of the most outlandish possibility...

Posted by BigEd 2005-03-09 2:30:26 PM|| 2005-03-09 2:30:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 One of my ex-roommates works at a coffee shop in Nawlins. He described Jindal as being "a genuinely nice guy" without knowing who he was.

Wasn't he the one behind the SOTU purple fingers? Beautiful Lousiana style political theatre that.

I had to check... he was born in Baton Rouge.

Posted by Dishman 2005-03-09 3:02:42 PM|| 2005-03-09 3:02:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Run up the score, baby!

Posted by Barry Switzer 2005-03-09 3:08:27 PM|| 2005-03-09 3:08:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Dishman : I read his bio when he was runnkng for Gov and lost 52-48...

He is also Roman Catholic and not Hindu, which puts him in the mainstream and contrasts with Dr. Rice being a Baptist.

Posted by BigEd 2005-03-09 3:15:04 PM|| 2005-03-09 3:15:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Good looking folks. Let's look at the Presidents from 1900.

McKinley
T Roosevelt
Taft
Wilson
Coolidge
F Roosevelt
Carter
Reagan
Clinton
GW Bush

Harding
Hoover
Truman
Eisenhower
Kennedy
Johnson
Nixon
Ford
GHW Bush

What's the first group got in common? They had served as governor of a state or commonwealth (Taft in the Philippines). The second had not. Being SACEUR does count for some level of organizational responsibility, to be sure. So which group is the better set of presidents? If Condi and Hilly want to be good Presidents, I'd suggest they go to Sacramento and Albany first and prove they're ready.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-03-09 3:20:41 PM|| 2005-03-09 3:20:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Does being Secretary of State count for some level of organizational responsibility, Mrs D.?

Posted by BigEd 2005-03-09 3:28:08 PM|| 2005-03-09 3:28:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 I think not. It's not just the organizations, and State is a small one. It's going out and attacking the other guy and his party in the election and then sitting down with them and working out legislation while keeping an eye on the next election. If you can do all that well, you can probably be effective. No guarantee, see Carter. But the alternative of being in a debating society or any appointive position simply does not showcase as many skills. That is not to say that they are necessarily absent, see Eisenhower.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-03-09 4:20:45 PM|| 2005-03-09 4:20:45 PM|| Front Page Top

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