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"Senator Reid can do the math: A Democratic Party, plus no ideas, plus obstruction, plus over-the-top partisan rhetoric equals continued minority."Yep.
...a Dumb Democrat. I bet he get's taken to the woodshed over this one. I think we're seeing a Democratic implosion in the making...
By Charles Hurt
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid raised a few eyebrows yesterday on the Senate floor when he said it would take a "miracle" for Democrats to win enough races next year to take back the Senate.
"I would like to think a miracle would happen and we would pick up five seats this time," he said during a floor debate over the filibusters of President Bush's judicial nominees. "I guess miracles never cease."
Republicans were delighted by what they called an "admission" from the highest-ranking elected Democrat in the country.
"After listening to Senator Reid's political spin about judicial nominees for the last several weeks, it is good to hear him come back to reality -- if even for a brief moment," said Brian Nick, spokesman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee. "Senator Reid can do the math: A Democratic Party, plus no ideas, plus obstruction, plus over-the-top partisan rhetoric equals continued minority."
Partisans on both sides of the aisle privately acknowledged that it was a fairly stunning remark.
But Democrats pointed out that Mr. Reid was making a larger point about the so-called "nuclear option" that Republicans have threatened to use to unclog the filibusters -- that Republicans might one day regret abolishing the filibuster for judicial nominees.
"If the Republicans keep abusing their power, it won't take such a miracle," said Phil Singer, spokesman for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
Jim Manley, spokesman for Mr. Reid, noted that his boss "also said he believes in miracles."
"As a small-town boy from Searchlight, Nevada, who rose to become Democratic leader of the U.S. Senate, Senator Reid has shown that we can overcome the odds and is certain that we can win back the Senate," Mr. Manley said.
"Senator Reid can do the math: A Democratic Party, plus no ideas, plus obstruction, plus over-the-top partisan rhetoric equals continued minority."
You could easily have substuted the word "Republican" in there 10-15 years ago. How short some people's memories are...
Only that the frame of discussion is in the year 2005...
Someone else will be saying that in 2020. While you reply just what Ex replied.
I'm glad someone got it, Duff. Seemed to fly right over NeoCon's head.
Politics is cyclical. Always has been, always will be.
Those that do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Or at least, it was cyclical when we lived in a actual Democracy. It time we all faced reality - We, meaning you and I, do not elect our leaders anymore. Not when Independent Statistical Analysis of exit poll after exit poll in Senate and House races, in 2000 and 2002, and yes even the 2004 Presidential election, keep telling us that the statistical probability of the election outcomes in each of those years actually being what they were manipulated to be is over a billion to 1. For those of you who like numbers that 1,000,000,000 - 1.Politics is cyclical. Always has been, always will be.
Flawed Democratic article of faith number 1. This has never been a "democracy." If it ever becomes one, we're doomed.
Democracies are mob rule. Whatever the majority wants the majority gets.
Under a democracy, we'd still have slavery. Under a democracy, there'd of been no Civil Rights Act of 1964. Under a democracy women wouldn't be voting. And on and on and on.
We're a representative republic designed to prevent mob rule.
If we hadn't let elections stray away from the local...meaning the 17th amendment and this notion of popular elections for President deciding electors, then you'd have more control. Pick your U.S. Congressman and your State Representative and hold them accountable. Then you'd be done.
It was brilliant and we screwed it up.
OMG, please.I'm glad someone got it, Duff. Seemed to fly right over NeoCon's head.
Politics is cyclical. Always has been, always will be.
Those that do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
You brilliant cliched wisdom leaves me...awestruck. Might you accept me as your pupil, master?
^ Jack ass.
I'll take that as a compliment. Thanks man!
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