The lying liar is liberated!
Rush Limbaugh admits he's been lying to his listeners all these years?
Do not believe the bullshit being spun that the election results are a sign of conservative ascendancy or that Republicans lost because they've abandoned their conservative values. People like Chris Shays were smart enough to see before Tuesday that, although they had not lifted a finger over the past six years to reign in a run amok administration or their colleagues in the House and Senate, they had better repackage themselves as "independent" and "voices for change." And quick. Shays just got in under the wire and this morning he's calling for a timetable in Iraq, and saying that we'd better be prepared to admit that "victory" may not be attainable. Even Lieberman, in the closing days of the campaign, was positioning himself as the "peace" candidate.
Limbaugh's just not as smart as Chris Shays and had to take a two by four to the head to realize that his vileness just ain't as marketable as it once was.
For the past six years we have been ruled by ideology. Voters rejected that ideology on Tuesday, whether it was represented by Rick Santorum in Pennsylvania, opposition to stem cell research in Missouri, or absolutist rejections of gay unions in Arizona. Yes, the Democratic party is a messy one. It's a party that can hold a Bill Casey and a Bernie Sanders (yes, I know he's nominally a socialist, but he caucuses with Democrats), a Hillary Clinton and a Jim Webb, but the Democrats are pretty united in how they view government. It is something that is supposed to work for people. For the past six years Republicans have "governed" in a way that was designed to simultaneously dismantle the federal government and use it as an enormous piggy bank; truly, a bridge to nowhere. As Roy notes, Dems aren't angels either and can often be corrupt themselves. Difference is, they don't expect to get more golden eggs after they've carved up the goose (just to throw another metaphor into the proverbial mix).
No, the current horde of Dems and their supporters, regardless of where they stand on social issues, NAFTA, or John Kerry's attempts at stand-up, are unified in the belief that government can be effective if run competently. They understand that voters expect accountability (at least for now) and that we'd prefer Congress to be a check and a balance rather than a politburo.
So, don't believe the spin. This wasn't a victory for "conservative principles." It was a victory for competence over ideology.
And, best of all, the GOP mouth breathers can go back to what they do best, spitting at the hippies.
Right.
So, even poor Rush feels betrayed by the bastards for whom he's been chief megaphone all these years?
"There have been a bunch of things going on in Congress, some of this legislation coming out of there that I have just cringed at, and it has been difficult coming in here, trying to make the case for it when the people who are supposedly in favor of it can't even make the case themselves - and to have to come in here and try to do their jobs."
Do not believe the bullshit being spun that the election results are a sign of conservative ascendancy or that Republicans lost because they've abandoned their conservative values. People like Chris Shays were smart enough to see before Tuesday that, although they had not lifted a finger over the past six years to reign in a run amok administration or their colleagues in the House and Senate, they had better repackage themselves as "independent" and "voices for change." And quick. Shays just got in under the wire and this morning he's calling for a timetable in Iraq, and saying that we'd better be prepared to admit that "victory" may not be attainable. Even Lieberman, in the closing days of the campaign, was positioning himself as the "peace" candidate.
Limbaugh's just not as smart as Chris Shays and had to take a two by four to the head to realize that his vileness just ain't as marketable as it once was.
For the past six years we have been ruled by ideology. Voters rejected that ideology on Tuesday, whether it was represented by Rick Santorum in Pennsylvania, opposition to stem cell research in Missouri, or absolutist rejections of gay unions in Arizona. Yes, the Democratic party is a messy one. It's a party that can hold a Bill Casey and a Bernie Sanders (yes, I know he's nominally a socialist, but he caucuses with Democrats), a Hillary Clinton and a Jim Webb, but the Democrats are pretty united in how they view government. It is something that is supposed to work for people. For the past six years Republicans have "governed" in a way that was designed to simultaneously dismantle the federal government and use it as an enormous piggy bank; truly, a bridge to nowhere. As Roy notes, Dems aren't angels either and can often be corrupt themselves. Difference is, they don't expect to get more golden eggs after they've carved up the goose (just to throw another metaphor into the proverbial mix).
No, the current horde of Dems and their supporters, regardless of where they stand on social issues, NAFTA, or John Kerry's attempts at stand-up, are unified in the belief that government can be effective if run competently. They understand that voters expect accountability (at least for now) and that we'd prefer Congress to be a check and a balance rather than a politburo.
So, don't believe the spin. This wasn't a victory for "conservative principles." It was a victory for competence over ideology.
And, best of all, the GOP mouth breathers can go back to what they do best, spitting at the hippies.
I think we're in for two years of defeat and retreat, pandering to Islamic extremists, extreme political correctness, multi-culturalism, open borders beyond belief, amnesty...in other words, we're going back to the 1970s, right after Vietnam*. This is what the Democrats wanted to do, because that was their heyday, when they last had this kind of power.
Right.
posted by John at 11:07 AM
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