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2006-11-08 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by anonymous5089 2006-11-08 06:04|| || Front Page|| [11126 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 It's September 10 all over again. We're going back to treating terrorism as a criminal matter, a minor annoyance so long as nobody really important dies. If the jihadis are clever, they'll restrain themselves a bit, be satisfied with a cruise ship here and a jetliner there, a few hundred infedels at a time, and no attacks on US soil. Nothing the scale of 9/11, which might enrage the American street.

Posted by Mike 2006-11-08 06:39|| 2006-11-08 06:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Until the next president.

Posted by anonymous2u 2006-11-08 09:13|| 2006-11-08 09:13|| Front Page Top

#3 It's NOT Sep-10. We ALL know what happened on 9/11.

When Democrats choose to give up Iraq and Afghanistan to Islamofascists, and to abandon Israel against Hizbullah, and to let Iran develop nukes and use them, they will be doing it in FULL CONTEXT.

One cannot go back to 9/10. One can however refuse to fight back or one can surrender to the enemy.

Posted by Kalle (kafir forever) 2006-11-08 10:56|| 2006-11-08 10:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Dont be down in the dumps.

The Man who will likely hold the balance in the US Senate is Sen Joe Lieberman.

The new chair of the House Foreign Relations comm will be Rep Tom Lantos.

The new Senator from Penn, is Casey, no leftie ideologue he.

This isnt 1974. Not at all. Its a tack to the center, and what happens when a party has controlled the House of Reps for too long.

Next up round 1 of battle for control of the Democratic soul. John Murtha vs Steny Hoyer for majority leader. Hoyer is an old DLC type - Murtha you know. If Hoyer loses to Murtha, then it will be time to panic.

Posted by liberalhawk 2006-11-08 10:56|| 2006-11-08 10:56|| Front Page Top

#5 The new chair of the House Foreign Relations comm will be Rep Tom Lantos

Do your homework.

Posted by anon 2006-11-08 11:38|| 2006-11-08 11:38|| Front Page Top

#6 OK, libhoky...Tell me how casey could possibly do better than Rick Santorum either in PA or on the national stage. Realize that casey had his spine removed years ago to please his dad, and, that just for this political season, opted to have his tongue removed as well. You losers now have your chance to excel. Fat chance.

Posted by AT 2006-11-08 20:27|| 2006-11-08 20:27|| Front Page Top

#7 Folks when the Dems stand on the sidelines and throw darts, that all they are doing. Now they will be accountable for their decisions, they will slide to the right. Now they have to actually come up with a plan, not just be critical. The house and senate are so closely split they will never have the vote to overthrow a pres veto.

Posted by 49 Pan">49 Pan 2006-11-08 20:27|| 2006-11-08 20:27|| Front Page Top

#8 What a load of panicky eyewash - it sounds like a dKos diarist moaning about the Bushitler fascist state.

Yes, the GOP lost. Yes, a Dem-controlled House will ask a few (OK, a lot) more questions about what's going on than the GOP House has over the last six years. It's called oversight, and it's part of the original Constitutional plan. That rubber stamp performance is part of what got them tossed out.

(And don't believe the Senate is going Dem until Lieberman actually casts his leadership vote - if Webb and Tester finally win, that will be a bidding war for the ages)

We won WWII with the Truman Committee in full force. It's how Harry got prominent enough to be named VP and every GOP President for the last 25 years has held him up as some kind of paragon. Some oversight won't kill this war effort either.

There are some moonbats out there rooting for the US and the West to lose, but damn few of them are in the US Congress or Senate. There are some different ideas at the table. Some of them won't work, but some of them might be an improvement. It won't be the end of the world. W is still in the White House and if the Dems are half this stupid in Congress they can be tossed out in 08 as easily as they were tossed in.

Posted by Uneth Ebberese9488 2006-11-08 20:55|| 2006-11-08 20:55|| Front Page Top

#9 We knew.
We knew that about 52% of Americans would make the effort to waddle on down to their local official polling site to cast a vote.

Posted by AT 2006-11-08 21:07|| 2006-11-08 21:07|| Front Page Top

#10 "We won WWII with the Truman Committee in full force."

...because Truman studied the Committee on the Conduct of War's transcripts to learn what NOT TO FREAKING DO! Also, FDR happened to be a Democrat.

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