The wingnuts are still trying to claim that this country is more to the right and nothing changed yesterday. Well America elected a Socialist, Marxist President; a person on the left most edge of the political spectrum. Those descriptions are according to John McCain. Overall the Republicans have been calling Obama the most Liberal Senator […]
So we been hearing how so many went for uncommitted in Michigan and how that was because of Hillary and Obama’s race issue. Well I been tearing through the CNN exit polls and found one very interesting point. When did you decide who to vote for? In the last week – 25% Before that – […]
E.J. Dionne has a great piece up today about the Democrats problem in Congress. Democrats in Congress are discovering what it’s like to live in the worst of all possible worlds. They are condemned for selling out to President Bush and condemned for failing to make compromises aimed at getting things done. Democrats complain that […]
This is great news for Ohio: Republican Rep. Bob Ney (news, bio, voting record), dogged by a corruption scandal involving disgraced Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff, will not seek re-election in the November mid-term election, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee said on Monday. “Bob Ney was forced out of this race by the reality of an […]
The WaPo has an interesting article today regarding the mid-term elections: There’s probably no way congressional Republicans can lose this fall, no matter how unpopular President Bush is or how unhappy the voters are with the war in Iraq. That’s the prevailing view in Washington today. But it’s wrong. If history is any guide, we’re […]
From Digby: When one party is as unpopular as the president the the Republicans are now, the public is open to hearing things they haven’t been willing to hear in a long time. Our polarized electorate suddenly isn’t so polarized anymore, even though the gasbags refuse to admit it. For the first time in a […]