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You know If I’m the democrats and I really believed that this bill was a great idea and would work; I’d be thrilled.
I’d be thinking that I can take full credit, when the solution comes New Deal 2 earn the love of the country. This will keep us in power for decades and be written in the history books as a triumph!
I wonder my that isn’t the case? Actually I don’t wonder. If you do re-read my posts here and here.
Update: Rush backs me up.
You might think that I’m outraged over President Obama’s letter to the president of Iran.
You would be wrong.
Do I think it will help? Likely not. Do I think the Iranians will use it as a propaganda tool? Likely they will. Do I think that Iran will use this to demand concessions from us? Sure. Do I think that they will use any contacts to stall us while they build their bomb? Without question.
Then why no outrage?
Listen if anyone at all thinks that the president was going to take strong decisive action to take out the Iranian nuclear facilities you have been smoking something, in fact his actions suggest he won’t even support democratic movements in Iran. This is not even slightly a surprise and I don’t get outraged over stuff I already know.
Bush Derangement Syndrome means that the only way we can convince our liberal friends that this stuff won’t work is to let it be tried and fail. It still won’t convince some of them, in fact some may actually want Iran to have the bomb, but it will convince some and until reasonable people on the left get a chance to try things their way they won’t consider the alternative.
And hey anything is possible, maybe it works out.
I’m counting on Israel on this one. They know what is coming down the pike and they aren’t going to consent to become a glowing spot on the Mediterranean Sea just to make the rest of the world happy.
Hey we had an election, you pays your money and you takes your chances.
Marc Ambinder explains why Republicans who are in trouble should vote for the stimulus bill:
Now – President Obama’s approval rating is about 70%;
Congressional approval is still around 20%;
After the election, Democrats still have a 9 point lead in generic identification.
The public approves of the stimulus plan by a very large margin – the numbers vary with the wording of the poll question, but it’s at least a plus 40%.
Obama is the most talented political figure of our generation – Boehner and McConnell are, uh, less talented.
Obama’s got the megaphone, they’ve got…
Two points both like the article on strictly political grounds:
Does anyone remember the approval ratings for President Bush after 9/11 and before the votes on the Iraq war? That sure worked out for house members at the time didn’t it?
This is the same advice that might have been given to republicans in the first two years of the Clinton administration. Not taking it gave them control of the house for the first time in 40 years.
Anyone who thinks a vulnerable republican congressman who goes along with this plan will survive a primary challenge is silly. Remember our democrat friends were the same ones who told us McCain was the man to win with.
Bold prediction time: Anyone who thinks Obama will have approval ratings in the 60’s in two years is dead wrong. They will not be above 50%. It would not surprise me to see his ratings in the low 40’s.
Money quote from a police officer unwilling to show is face for fear of losing his job
And a warning at the end: “It will happen to you if you let it.” Via Glenn.
I can’t find where I read it but years ago somebody wrote about an old news article about a daylight robbery in England about 100 years ago. Gentlemen hearing of this produced their revolvers and helped in the pursuit of the man in question. This illustrates the difference between British society today and before. Today people would find so many people armed outrageous and unacceptable. The British man of the Edwardian era would have found armed robbery outrageous and unacceptable. That really says it all.
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