November 2006

Gov. Mitt Romney, a potential 2008 Republican Presidential Candidate, is making a major issue of the MA Legislature’s failure to vote on a proposed amendment that would ban same sex marriage.  Romney is initiating a lawsuit with the
Massachusetts’s Supreme Judicial Court (SJC), claiming the Legislatures violated the constitution by not having an up-or-down vote on [...]

The internets are buzzing tonight over Henry Kissinger’s statement that military victory in Iraq is impossible. The headlines leave the impression that Kissinger has leaped on the Pelosi/Murtha surrender bandwagon; however, his comments suggest no such thing. To his credit, Kissinger expressly rejected the idea of immeidate withdrawal, recognizing the reality that such [...]

The Republican party has learned nothing. The House today elected its leadership by keeping John Boehner and Roy Blunt in both key leadership positions, the House Minority Leader and House Minority Whip. With this, the party has stated that it’s business as usual, and that they have learned nothing from the 2006 elections. There is [...]

A moment of Zen:

“I can’t believe it! Now pollution can HELP global warming! Good thing too, because I almost bought a hybrid. Upon hearing this news I am instead going to buy the biggest “SUV” I can find from any “Big Corporation,” that does business with “Halliburton” (I didn’t want to leave Halliburton out of [...]

Former Senate Republican Leader Trent Lott was elected to the position of Senate Minority Whip earlier today by a vote of 25-24 over Lamar Alexander. The stupid party has learned nothing from last week’s thumpin’.
The conservative side of America has long contained both those who care about politics as a means for achieving policy objectives [...]

It appears the Republicans are not learning the lesson of 2006, and are pushing towards the center as opposed to embracing conservatism. Three key indicators of this:

The White House has announced that pro-amnesty Florida Senator Mel Martinez will head the RNC as RNC chair, while still holding his Senate seat. This is a bad decision. [...]

Misreading the polls and last week’s election, al-Reuters reports on Senator Levin’s remarks on “This Week,” saying that the Democrats plan a phased withdrawal in the works for Iraq. As usual, President Bush quietly reiterated his rejection of a timetable for troop withdrawal. Whooptie-do.
In Dreamland, I’d love to see a battle on this where the [...]

Tuesday, the Democrats were able to beat Republicans without an agenda (very embarassing). Here’s some international and national fallout to think about:

Al-Qaeda is joyfully claiming to be winning the war because of the election results, saying they have a 12,000 person army to fight Americans on their way to blowing up the White House.
George McGovern [...]

Rumers are flying that with Ken Mehlman stepping down from his post of RNC chair, that Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, the Senatorial Candidate from Maryland, is being asked to become the new chair. This would be a great move. Steele is well-spoken, conservative, and a stark contrast to Howard Dean. Having him as the face [...]

Prior to yesterday’s poll closings, the mainstream media treated now Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi as she who must not be named. After all, drawing as little attention as possible to their leader was an essential element of the Democrats’ campaign strategy. Congrats to them for pulling it off.
With the next election more than two years away, [...]

I have been an ardent supporter of President George W. Bush throughout his presidency. I have supported him on the war, on taxes, and have overlooked some of his deficiencies (i.e. on Campaign Finance, Education, and Perscription Drugs). Granted, I thought they were wrong at the time and said so, but it did not affect [...]

Well, my predictions were way off.. At this point, the Democrats have picked up 27 house seats (giving them a 12-seat advantage over the GOP) with 14 seats still undetermined, of which several are bound to add to the Democrat’s win column. Over in the Senate, the unthinkable happened with the Democrats almost clearing the [...]

Saddam’s going to die. Couldn’t have happened to a bigger [expletive], as we all agree he’ll rot in Hell after he swings from the gallow’s pole.
Of course, this will have Election 2006 fallout. While the Dems still want to scream about WMDs and Abu Graib, the specter of truth and reality sets in that even [...]