V___: Do you think I should have another beer?
Me: If you do, then the terrorists win.
This concludes our guerilla political theater segment for the day.
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Monday, November 20, 2006
Hubris
Interesting post by Jonathan Chait interpreting the Republicans' claims that they lost the House and Senate because they'd abandoned conservative principles. What Chait gets right is that whenever they win, Republicans claim it's because of conservatism and whenever they lose they claim it's because they weren't conservative enough.
As Chait points out, though, there wasn't any drop-off in the conservative vote this election. In 04, 93 percent of Republicans voted for Bush; in 06, 91 percent of Republicans voted for their Republican senator or representative.
In other words, it's not the conservatives who have abandoned the Republican candidates - it's everybody else.
The scary thing, at least to me, is that idealogues on the Democratic end take the same approach: if they lose, it's because they weren't progressive enough. If they win, it's because the voters like their progressive policies.
This kind of thinking is as disastrously stupid when it comes from the people you agree with as it is when it comes from the people you hate.
Democrats took the House and Senate because voters don't like the war in Iraq. They're still not crazy about gay marriage and they're still pretty ambivalent about abortion (they want it available as an option, but they see it as a tragic, painful choice that should only be made as a last resort)(honestly. I've sat down with every single voter, and these were their exact words. I can send you the tapes). If we assume otherwise, the Republicans will be back in power.
As Chait points out, though, there wasn't any drop-off in the conservative vote this election. In 04, 93 percent of Republicans voted for Bush; in 06, 91 percent of Republicans voted for their Republican senator or representative.
In other words, it's not the conservatives who have abandoned the Republican candidates - it's everybody else.
The scary thing, at least to me, is that idealogues on the Democratic end take the same approach: if they lose, it's because they weren't progressive enough. If they win, it's because the voters like their progressive policies.
This kind of thinking is as disastrously stupid when it comes from the people you agree with as it is when it comes from the people you hate.
Democrats took the House and Senate because voters don't like the war in Iraq. They're still not crazy about gay marriage and they're still pretty ambivalent about abortion (they want it available as an option, but they see it as a tragic, painful choice that should only be made as a last resort)(honestly. I've sat down with every single voter, and these were their exact words. I can send you the tapes). If we assume otherwise, the Republicans will be back in power.
Monday, November 13, 2006
My broadband connection doesn't seem to be working . . .
so I am posting from work.
Now if I can only remember not to say I hate my boss.
In other news, the new license plate that has been riding around in the car for the past two weeks has now been installed where it belongs, so I can be fairly certain I won't be arrested for having out of date plates.
Who knows what else they might try to pin on me, though.
Now if I can only remember not to say I hate my boss.
In other news, the new license plate that has been riding around in the car for the past two weeks has now been installed where it belongs, so I can be fairly certain I won't be arrested for having out of date plates.
Who knows what else they might try to pin on me, though.
Sunday, November 12, 2006
Sunday morning
El___ is watching Cartoon Network - the Bratz Babies movie. Not Bratz, mind you, the allegedly teenage dolls who wear tons of make-up and platform shoes and skimpy clothing, but Bratz babies. I don't know if this means they're the babies of the Bratz, but that doesn't seem outside the realm of possibility.
Em___ walks through and says, "Hey. Baby skizanks."
Another family friendly Sunday morning.
Em___ walks through and says, "Hey. Baby skizanks."
Another family friendly Sunday morning.
Thursday, November 9, 2006
Hello, Internet!!
I'm starting a new blog!
The Democrats have, as of this moment, seemingly won both the House and Senate!
Now all we need to do is solve the problems of the war in Iraq, international terrorism, and economic inequity!!
And can we do it before the 08 Presidential campaign gets into full swing?
(At some level, I'm convinced that the election results are just some sort of Republican trick. "We'll get them in office, and then we'll start bashing them for not getting us out of Iraq." Bush's next big surprise? Deciding that Gore really did win Florida in 2000 and leaving office just in time for the Republicans to run a campaign blaming the Democrats for not pulling us out of all these holes in 07.)
Not that I'm all about politics or anything.
The Democrats have, as of this moment, seemingly won both the House and Senate!
Now all we need to do is solve the problems of the war in Iraq, international terrorism, and economic inequity!!
And can we do it before the 08 Presidential campaign gets into full swing?
(At some level, I'm convinced that the election results are just some sort of Republican trick. "We'll get them in office, and then we'll start bashing them for not getting us out of Iraq." Bush's next big surprise? Deciding that Gore really did win Florida in 2000 and leaving office just in time for the Republicans to run a campaign blaming the Democrats for not pulling us out of all these holes in 07.)
Not that I'm all about politics or anything.
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