posted on November 8, 2006 09:04:33 AM
The current projections show a 49 (R), 49 (D), 2 (I) breakdown.
Those two independents usually vote Democratic.
I would call that a victory as well.
Absolute faith has been shown, consistently, to breed intolerance. And intolerance, history teaches us, again and again, begets violence.
---------------------------------- The duty of a patriot in this time and place is to ask questions, to demand answers, to understand where our nation is headed and why. If the answers you get do not suit you, or if they frighten you, or if they anger you, it is your duty as a patriot to dissent. Freedom does not begin with blind acceptance and with a flag. Freedom begins when you say 'No.'
posted on November 8, 2006 11:28:44 AM
don't count yer chickens too soon, that Virginia race could get ugly...
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Lame ducks are people who have only a short time to finish out their terms of office before leaving office and who are usually ineffective in that short period. The original reference, I think, is a metaphor for a wounded person.
Lame duck refers, first, to the President in the last two months of his service, when he must step down because of term limits and a new President has been elected. It also refers to the last two months of a President who's been defeated for a second term.
Bush will be a lame duck in November of 2008, when a new President has been elected and will be inaugurated Jan. 20th. Term limits in this case will force Bush out and make him a lame duck for two months.
Also, anyone in Congress who's serving his/her last term in office either due to being defeated for another term or voluntarily stepping down.
posted on November 8, 2006 02:28:56 PM
50 dems now. It's a done deal. The emasculation of the President and his party is complete no matter what happens in Virginia.
Now the real work starts. As happy as I am, The Democrats MUST perform in the next two years and produce REAL changes in order to keep up this momentum.
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posted on November 8, 2006 06:15:47 PM
I wonder if the Federal Reserve Bank will be the party pooper and raise rate due to inflationary pressure-minimum wage over six dollars??
posted on November 8, 2006 08:20:52 PMThe emasculation of the President and his party is complete no matter what happens in Virginia.
OK to quote myself?? What I really meant was, the Republican party still has it's Peckerhead, but not any balls.
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posted on November 9, 2006 07:58:56 AMThe emasculation of the President and his party is complete no matter what happens in Virginia.
I love that quote, Profe.
It will be interesting to see how Bush works with a Democratic controlled Congress.
Absolute faith has been shown, consistently, to breed intolerance. And intolerance, history teaches us, again and again, begets violence.
---------------------------------- The duty of a patriot in this time and place is to ask questions, to demand answers, to understand where our nation is headed and why. If the answers you get do not suit you, or if they frighten you, or if they anger you, it is your duty as a patriot to dissent. Freedom does not begin with blind acceptance and with a flag. Freedom begins when you say 'No.'
posted on November 9, 2006 08:49:03 AM
desquirrel said: "Don't forget to let us know when each big change you expect happens."
LOL....yea...I think many radical lefties are going to be REAL disappointed, AGAIN.
Once they see that the new 'make-up' of the Senate won't change much about how the moderates and conservatives of BOTH parties vote. Maybe THEN they'll realize that the radicals DIDN'T win a huge majority and not much will be changing.
It's going to be a fun 'ride'.
While the democratic party complains about everything THIS President does to protect our Nation:
What would a Democrat president have done at that point? Apparently, the answer is: Sit back and wait for the next terrorist attack.
Ann Coulter
posted on November 9, 2006 08:57:06 AM
Kiara, who are the radical lefties?
They're the only thing linda has left to attack
She is avoiding/covering up/trying to hide, the fact that with all her screeching about insulting the troops and gender equality lectures..SHE insulted our female soldiers....
posted on November 9, 2006 09:06:27 AM
Hi Mingotree. There are lots of forums out there so why doesn't Lindak find one where the radical lefties hang out so she can squawk at them all day there instead of ranting to the voices in her head here. Or is she too much of a coward to confront them?
posted on November 10, 2006 02:35:24 PM
Yep....the canadian was correct:
she said: "Countries around the world are watching and commenting on the elections"....
our ENEMIES agree with them....they're THRILLED that the dems are now in control.
Believing, that they have a better chance of beating America now.
I'm sure the AQ and all terrorists in the world are thrilled also - just like our liberals are.
They THINK they're going to see a WEAKER America.
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from today's WSJ - op-ed
Ayatollah So
Democrats aren't the only ones declaring victory this week, Reuters reports from Tehran:
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday called U.S. President George W. Bush's defeat in congressional elections a victory for Iran.
Bush has accused Iran of trying to make a nuclear bomb, being a state sponsor of terrorism and stoking sectarian conflict in Iraq, all charges Tehran denies.
"This issue (the elections) is not a purely domestic issue for America, but it is the defeat of Bush's hawkish policies in the world," Khamenei said in remarks reported by Iran's student news agency ISNA on Friday.
"Since Washington's hostile and hawkish policies have always been against the Iranian nation, this defeat is actually an obvious victory for the Iranian nation."
This column is scrupulously nonpartisan, so we won't comment one way or another on Khamenei's view of the election--except to say we are hopeful that the Democrats will do everything possible to prove him wrong.
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While the democratic party complains about everything THIS President does to protect our Nation:
What would a Democrat president have done at that point? Apparently, the answer is: Sit back and wait for the next terrorist attack.
Ann Coulter
[ edited by Linda_K on Nov 10, 2006 02:42 PM ]
posted on November 10, 2006 02:46:54 PM
Again, from the WSJ - today
We Have Allies?
"America's rejection of President George W. Bush's Iraq policy is a slap in the face for his allies," Reuters reports from London:
Many analysts believe that [Donald] Rumsfeld's departure clears the way for a phased withdrawal of troops from Iraq.
But ministers and world leaders have warned in recent days about the long-term result of abandoning the country.
Jordan's King Abdullah said Iraq could end up as another generations-long conflict in the Middle East.
Australian Prime Minister John Howard said he would tell Bush "it would be against everybody's interest, except the terrorists, for the coalition to leave in circumstances of defeat."
And commentators in Poland, one of Bush's closest allies on Iraq, did not anticipate a major shift after the U.S. vote.
Mainstream parties on the right and left in the biggest ex-communist EU member backed the war in Iraq and continue to see the United States as a key ally.
Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said his country would keep its troops in Iraq for the time being. "Danish foreign and security policies are decided in the Danish parliament and not in the United States," he told reporters, playing down the impact of the vote.
So it turns out America has allies in Iraq after all! It's amazing what comes out [/i]after the election[/i].
B
While the democratic party complains about everything THIS President does to protect our Nation:
What would a Democrat president have done at that point? Apparently, the answer is: Sit back and wait for the next terrorist attack.
Ann Coulter
posted on November 10, 2006 03:51:56 PM
Blair gives Iraq 12 months to be ready for handover
· PM to meet Iraqi leaders in Downing St today
· Former envoy warns that 'only bad options' remain
Patrick Wintour and Michael Howard Monday October 23, 2006
Tony Blair will put pressure on the Iraqi government today to demonstrate that its security forces will be ready to take over from the British army in southern provinces within roughly a year.
Amid mounting international concern over escalating violence, Mr Blair is expected to use today's Downing Street talks with Iraq's deputy prime minister, Barham Saleh, to discuss plans for an exit strategy for British troops, with some ministers openly contemplating withdrawal inside a year.
In an attempt to demonstrate that the British army will not be bogged down in Iraq indefinitely, the defence secretary, Des Browne, said yesterday he expected that Iraq's security forces would have the capacity within a year to take over from British forces, a point also pushed home by the Foreign Office minister, Kim Howells. Mr Howells said: "I would have thought that certainly in a year or so there will be adequately trained Iraqi soldiers and security forces - policemen and women and so on - in order to do the job."
But the challenges facing the Iraqi security forces were underlined yesterday when a bomb blast and ambush on a convoy of buses near the town of Baquba killed 13 police recruits. Another 25 were injured and several were kidnapped.
Mr Blair will again insist at today's talks that British troops will not pull out prematurely, but is likely to seek a private assessment of whether the Iraqi government can do more to boost its security forces, and to dispel the impression that, pushed by sectarian violence, Iraq's parliament is endorsing a form of federalism that will undermine the Sunni minority.
The talks come amid increasingly pessimistic assessments of the situation in Iraq from senior military and diplomatic figures. Yesterday Mr Blair's closest former adviser on Iraq, Sir Jeremy Greenstock, former British ambassador to the UN, described the invasion as "a failure" and "a mess". Sir Richard Dannatt, the head of the army, and other senior officers have also issued bleak public statements in the last fortnight.
Sir Jeremy warned: "There are only bad options from the coalition for now on," and predicted that a solution to the fighting would require a "massive new effort of regional diplomacy" involving Syria and Iran - something that would constitute a huge change in US policy.
The continued hints of a British drawdown of its troops next year contrast with a growing mood of desperation in Washington over the intensity of the fighting in Iraq, and signs of a possible break-up of the country. The Bush administration was reported yesterday to be drafting an urgent plan to pressure the Iraqi government into dealing with increasing violence in the country.
If Iraq fails to meet crucial milestones, then US officials hold open the possibility of sanctions, though they stress that would not include the immediate withdrawal of US troops.
In a separate but revealing development the White House was forced on to the defensive after a senior US state department official gave the frankest assessment yet of US policy in Iraq. Alberto Fernandez, Washington's top foreign affairs spin doctor, described it as "a failure", and accused his government of "autocratic thinking". Speaking in Arabic on al-Jazeera television Mr Fernandez, director of public diplomacy at the bureau of near eastern affairs, said: "We tried to do our best, but I think there is much room for criticism because, undoubtedly, there was arrogance and there was stupidity from the United States in Iraq."
In Britain, the shadow foreign secretary, William Hague, said a British review should match the strategy rethink under way in Washington. He suggested the Tories will be demanding a full Commons debate on the crisis next month.
It would appear that England has the same type of strategy that the Dems want - a timetable for a pullout.
Absolute faith has been shown, consistently, to breed intolerance. And intolerance, history teaches us, again and again, begets violence.
---------------------------------- The duty of a patriot in this time and place is to ask questions, to demand answers, to understand where our nation is headed and why. If the answers you get do not suit you, or if they frighten you, or if they anger you, it is your duty as a patriot to dissent. Freedom does not begin with blind acceptance and with a flag. Freedom begins when you say 'No.'
posted on November 10, 2006 05:13:17 PM
Yes, sir....MANY enemy nations are speaking out about how VERY happy they are because of the changes in this past election.
It's always upsetting to me to see how our ENEMIES preceive our own LIBERALS as being 'on their side'. The party THEY most want to see making the decision/governing America.
THAT alone SHOULD make a HUGE statement to most American's...that it doesn't..will mostly like cause our DEFEAT....and be a WIN for the terrorists.
Hopefully as many news sources have been pointing out....those newly elected dems are conservatives....not the radical left. So...maybe our country still has a slim chance here.
But with both Iran and Syria in agreement now that they're 'relieved' to see hard pushing rumsfeld OUT....and the liberal pelosi who they believe will act in THEIR best interests....we do once again see....
- I think that about says it!
