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Audacity of Truth
Whiner-in-Chief:
"[W]hether the grumbling is about Republicans on Fox or bloggers in pajamas, there's a word for what the president and his aides are doing. That word is "whining." And nothing [...] does more damage to Obama's credibility or authority than the sense that a popular president is becoming the whiner-in-chief."
- John Nichols, Nation Magazine - 10/12/09
Battle between the liberal and moderate wings of Dem party has already begun
Buried in this WaPo piece about how the election was a “rebuke” for Bush, the war, and Republicans, was this gem (emphasis added):
The complexion of the Democratic presence in Congress will change as well. Party politics will be shaped by the resurgence of “Blue Dog” Democrats, who come mainly from the South and from rural districts in the Midwest and often vote like Republicans. Top Democrats such as Rep. Rahm Emanuel (Ill.) see these middle-of-the-road lawmakers as the future of the party in a nation that leans slightly right of center.
In private talks before the election, Emanuel and other top Democrats told their members they cannot allow the party’s liberal wing to dominate the agenda next year. Democrats will hold 30 or 35 seats that went for Bush in the past, meaning that Democratic candidates such as Brad Ellsworth in rural Indiana are likely to face competitive races again in 2008. Still, their interests are likely to collide with those of veteran liberals such as Reps. Henry A. Waxman (Calif.) and John Conyers Jr., (Mich.), who will chair committees.
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Partisan standoffs are likely over the war and any Democratic efforts to repeal Bush’s tax cuts for upper-income America. In both cases, Democratic divisions could complicate Pelosi’s plans. Democrats largely avoided detailed positions on a new Iraq strategy, but votes over spending for the military and the Iraq operation will force them to take a position.
Heh. And the far left blogosphere is already pitching a fit over Emanuel’s and other top Democrats’ plans to suppress their more liberal wing. I love it.
There’s no question we need to get our house in order and analyze where we went wrong, so elections like this don’t happen again. But in the meantime, the prospect of infighting between the liberalcrats and the more moderate wing should provide some much needed entertainment for months to come for those of us who are numb from last night’s resounding defeat. They may not be as united as they’d like you to think, which could bode well for Republicans – provided Republicans play their cards right, literally.
Update: The HuffPo is in an uproar over “liberal suppression” as well 
Read more via Bryan at Hot Air, Captain Ed, Joe Gandelman, RedState, BCB, Hyscience, Macsmind
Related:
- Nancy Pelosi claims on 60 Minutes that House will not impeach Bush under her Speakership
- Conyers promises a “new day” in Congress if Dems take control in November
- 52% of Lamont voters feel Prez should be impeached
- Conyers channels Pelosi with ‘no rush to impeachment’ opinion piece
- Dems throw red meat to the base
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This should be interesting indeed. I do hope that the Reps can learn from this. 1st lesson should be, that Reps can’t win when they act like big Gov Libs. It does not work for Conservatives to try to buy votes. – Lorica
President Bush is announcing Rummy’s resignation. I wondered if this wouldn’t happen. It does not break my heart on a personal level. There were alot of things with the Base Realignment that I don’t think were well thought out.
You know, watching Dems bicker like spoiled baby boomer children might actually help Republicans. That’s assuming that Republicans actually learn anything from this fricking fiasco.
That’s assuming that Republicans actually learn anything from this fricking fiasco.
Bingo, CT! You’ve hit the nail right on the head. If the Republicans don’t learn from this than 2008 will be no better for us.
I’m glad there will be some reasonable democrats in the house. I was okay with Zell Miller. I’m even okay with a dem for president, so long as they are not a nutjob. What I fear is people like John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, and Al Gore. Overall, I thought most republicans seemed to have integrity that was lacking in the democratic party. I really liked Michael Steele. He looked like a good leader. Hopefully the moderate dems will take control of thier party. For the good of our country.
I agree with you G.
- I love the scent of exploding Left-wing heads in the morning. It’s going to be fun watching the hard Left try to prop up their flagging fortunes, now that the moderate Dems are back in power, and will runaway from the craziness, if they’ve learned a damn thing after watching the whole mess for the last 6 years.
- Watch Dean, Pelosi, Kennedy, and Kerry. they will be the bell weather for how the infighting is going. Nancy has already donned her mask of moderation, so that’s probably an early indication right there. Open comments in the press, such as you see coming from the party leadership will be another indicator.
- I await the first ideolog’s braindead public comment, to watch in humor for the general reaction of the public, once they sense the hard left has been kicked to the curb by it’s own party. Will Kerry be able to resist his own ego and keep his feet out of his mouth? Dean was also all “moderate” in his appearence on FOX today.
- I think the sobering reaklization that now they’ve got the whole ball of wax, is tending to dampen the Dems enthusiasm a bit. In a lot of ways, this is going to be fun.
- Hey Nancy, why are we still in Iraq?
- Bang
Unfortunately we should not gloat over something like this, since when it comes down to it, the Democrats are well organized in keeping themselves together where the Republicans are not.
Most times the Democrats will vote all the same, where the Republicans will still try and ‘reach across the aisle’ even though they have been seemingly spat on each time they try that.
It is time for the Republicans to grow a spine and not hope for division in the Democrats.
Even in he minority, the Democrats acted as hough they were in the Majority and essentially made the Republicans act like they were the ones in the minority.
Now this situation is reversed, and dammit the Republicans have ot grow a pair, quit playing namby pambpy politics and get their party cleaned up, get rid of those that will drag it down in the next election. I don’t care if they do an in party invesigation on every republican member to make sure they are squeaky clean, so they are prepared to into the next election without the stink of corruption surrounding them and have the democrats use that against them.
This should be an eye opener for republicans, get the party cleaned up, get the party ready for the next election, and start growing a pair.
Frustrated? Yeah, because in part the Republicans did this to themselves and the Democrats used what the Republicans GAVE them against them to win.
They cannot be allowed to do so again.
Start cleaning shit up.
- Actually sanity, if it hadn’t been for all the constant screwups of the Dems, the whole thing could have been a great deal worse. I thank the lord every day for the help the Dems got from the hard Left.
- Bang
I know BBH, the sad thing is they should have had MUCH MUCH more considering all the problems the republicans seemed to be having, the fact that it was that close is bad.
What is worse for republicans is that they won on nothing, no agenda at all.
Republicans allowed themselves to be taken to the cleaners for the most part by democrats with no agenda and no plan.
That is why I say I would not be against having an internal investigation on every republican (a investigation only privy to top republicans) so they can make sure that they are squeaky clean coming into the next election, and that top republicans need to have an internal oversight to make sure everything the republicans do are on the up and up, with no hint of corruption that way decmorats have nothing to try and smear republicans with.
I think CT and sanity have it right. First, the GOP has to learn something from this. It needs to learn how to take a firm stand on border control, and no trying to reach a consensus with the Dems, because the Dems never compromise. It needs to learn how to pursue victory in the WOT aggressively – no half measures – and damn it, state your case forcefully. Are we having successes? Shout them out loud. Are the Dem policies hurting the WOT? Hammer at it every day. Don’t leave it up to the MSM – they’ll bury it on page B10 if you let them.
I’m not sure the current intra-party squabbling among the Dems isn’t just so much window dressing. A lot of Dems campaign as anything but leftists, then vote with the extreme left once they get to DC. If, say, Heath Shuler votes like he’s from NC and not NY, great. But I’ll only believe it when I see it.
sanity I aggree with everything you said except the “the fact that it was that close is bad.” part. I see it as a good thing, if, and I admit it’s aa big if, the fact they lost scares the Reps into attention. They’ve acted like they had nothing to fight for ever since they won it all in 2000. They needed a wake up call. Otherwise we’d be looking at two more years of exactly the same do-nothing mess.
- You know the Left was always so busy yammering about the Presidents aapproval rating’s that hardly any attention was payed to the fact that Congress was mired in even lower ratings than Bush’s. that was what you saw yesterday, and it’s amazing that none of the pol writers are even mentioning that.
- Bang
What I meant that for the Democrats that it was so close when all the problems the republicans were having, the president with low poll numbers, that the election was this close is bad for the democrats.
Kinda reminds me of the the president barely won, it isn’t a mandate talk that democrats had before when the president won..
- Oh, well I mis-understood. And yes, the so called mandate was not a “for” for the Dems nearly as much as it was an expression of total frustration with the Republican congress, and to a lessor extent Bush himself, particularly in ignoring the whole boder enforcement thing, or worse putting Mexican citizens security and comfort ahead of americans, by setting “guest worker” programs as the most immediate issue. I’ll tell you the truth. If I had known Bush was going to do something that stupid and out of sync with the electorate I would have joined a voters revolt way back when. I was just simply astonished when he did that.
- Bang
Will the Republican Party learn? I wonder ….