They’re not Democrats. They’re the Terminator party. Read:
Undeterred by Republican election triumphs in Virginia and New Jersey, Democratic leaders put the U.S. House on a path to vote as early as Saturday on the most sweeping overhaul of health-care policy in four decades.
The election of Republican governors in New Jersey and Virginia won’t affect how the House proceeds on legislation to extend insurance to 36 million people and create a government- run program to compete with private insurers, lawmakers said.
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Win? Lose? It doesn’t matter to these power-grabbing bastards.
You still don’t get it, do you!? They’ll pass a giant bill! That’s what they do! It’s all they do! You can’t stop them!
For moderate and “Blue Dog” dems, am I wrong in thinking it really boils down to this question:
“How badly do you want to be re-elected?”
Will Pelosi-stein” try to push a bill through?
Probably.
But folks like Owens have to realize he hasn’t a fart’s chance in a hurricane to be elected in ’10 if he tries to help push this through. (And there is still the problem of compromising the House and Senate bills.)
I think it’s dead.
Dead, dead, dead!
So Jon Corzine won’t be there for Saturday’s vote in the House? What chance will a hotly-contested vote on healthcare reform have now? The Governor of Virginia’s vote was also of vital necessity, much more than two Congressmen from California and New York. Has anyone analyzed the various trigger mechanisms that Deeds found acceptable and made such a major part of his campaign website and how his defeat will affect the chances of a robust vs. a strong public option? Isn’t that the entire reason the Washington Times exists?
And since Tucson might have one member of the city council who is a Republican (actually two, since the Mayor is little more than the head of that austere body,) what will this do for our nation’s relations with Iran? “Stinging rebuke” might be putting it too lightly.
It also means that the Obamas better start putting pesticides on the White House garden next year, people really do hate the Olympics (especially NBC’s coverage,) those dudes in Oslo needed a lesson, and something about Levi Johnston. Also, ACORN!
I just heard Dennis Miller say the elections prove, “they [voters] don’t want to turn $1.3 trillion over to a sub-reptilian intellect like Nancy Pelosi.”
That has a real ring to it.
3 don’t you mean “reptilian sub-intellect like Nancy Pelosi”?
Jon is right to be skeptical about this, because I mean, it’s not like Obama ever said that Corzine was key to his agenda or something.
Oh, wait.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091101/ap_on_el_gu/us_obama_politics
Obama was thanking Corzine for helping him get where he is, as any translator of empty political rhetoric could tell you. Everyone is the Most Important Partner Ever, the Key Legislator, the Tireless Advocate/Trusted Advisor/Man or Woman of the People/Family Guy dude (not the grandpa who wants to molest the fat kid, hopefully,) or whatever the hell the event calls for. The loss of the governorship of New Jersey means that it will be back in the hands of Republicans since… about the last time that thing flipped, which was not that long ago. Yeah, it’s a loss, but what it has to do with the national agenda hasn’t been fully explained.
In an election where two people were elected who can actually vote for the thing were both Democrats while two people who were elected who can’t vote for it were Republicans, the message from the voters that healthcare must be stopped is a curious thing to get from the Great Oracles of Blog.
Nope. “Sub-reptilian” is the correct answer for $20, Alex.
http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=011008&streamingFormat=FLASH&referralObject=11304865&referralPlaylistId=playlist
It’s not surprising. Democrats came in riding a wave they thought would let them do anything. Now they feel the moment slipping away and they’re trying for a Hail Mary, get it done while you can.
Not unlike a football team on the wrong 30 yard lone down by 5 with 20 seconds left. They don’t have much, but for the next 20 seconds, they still have the ball.
The problem with this analogy, of course, is that the fans don’t feel so hot about the other team, so if they just slowed down and played solid ball, the fans would probably give them an extra quarter to get the job done.
In politics, perception trumps reality. The number of Dem House members has increased slightly, but the perception is that the Democrats are on the ropes.
In a year’s time the Terminator Party will terminate itself. Unfortunately, the Republicans have always before and always will again make it possible for the Terminators to say, “We’ll be back.”
Jon’s right. Why would House Democrats be concerned about seeing their party lose obscure little elections like statewide races in Jersey and Virginia, when what Tuesday really demonstrated is that Democrats can win a whopping plurality in upstate New York, and even manage a solid victory in that heart of Republican territory, Sacramento. Also, Tucson!
jon, you need to get thicker kneepads, if you’re going to permanently plant your lips on Obama’s buttocks.
BTW, you forgot part of the Standard Issue spin, wherein Barry casually informed us that he really wasn’t paying any attention to the elections, actually. Git.
jon also conveniently ignores that Obama very publicly came out in support of the Democratic Party candidate in both Virginia and New Jersey, and got a big, fat goose egg for his troubles. He might as well add “as approved by the Obama White House” to all of his posts, since that’s where he’s coming from most of the time.
I don’t see why this is so hard for people to understand; the recent Trifecta episodes have illuminated things quite nicely. The GOP wants to co-op the Tea Party movement while avoiding learning any new lessons, and the administration is sticking their fingers in their ears shouting “LA! LA! LA! I CAN’T HEAR YOU!!!” There’s a large number of people who are pissed off at BOTH parties, and too many people aren’t getting the message. I haven’t seen this much grassroots indignation since the late 19th-century Populist movement, except this time citizens are demonstrating against the Progressives, instead of for them.