Personally, I think Democrats should all be calling for firing Rumsfeld. It would be a vivid way of reminding voters about the bad judgment of Bush and the ruling Republican junta.
Posted by Mary at September 3, 2006 04:54 PMRumsfeld is the gift that keeps giving, you know, a dem version of Bin Laden.
Posted by TIKI AL at September 3, 2006 05:16 PMRumsfeld is the gift that keeps giving...
Let's get that meme to the Democratic partry about the administration's albatross!
What a bunch of pathetic, play fair assholes!
Here's subtle dirty tricks we can pull!
Posted by Seven of Six at September 3, 2006 06:39 PMWhat do the Democrats do if OBL shows up mid-october on a platter?
Better start thinking about our response, people.
Since bush said he wasn't that important, maybe that's the theme to go with.
Posted by Duckman GR at September 3, 2006 07:05 PMThird, there will be a lot of late money coming in for GOP House and Senate candidates from the RNC,
Maybe a lot of money from Canada as in the 450 million from the Harper-Emerson softwood sellout slush fund. Look it up in the Tyee at:
www.thetyee.ca
That makes the Great Northern Poodle and his henchman David Emerson (trade minister) the biggest Republican fundraisers this fall. By the way, they are members of the "Conservative Party of Canada" which is pretending to rule Canada with the temporary assistance of the Separatist Bloc in Quebec in a minority goverment. Avoiding having Parliament meet kinda helps them not get voted down, also. In Quebec they are becoming disenchanted with Harper's aping Bu$h foreign policy even more than elsewhere in the country.
Harper supported Israel's war crimes even more strenously that Bu$h, if that's possible, even as they were killing an unarmed Canadian UN Observer and family of eight from Montreal.
Posted by theExile at September 3, 2006 10:43 PMThis Republican pessimism is part of their "lower the expectations, scare the base" strategy.
National Dems need to be telegraphing this obvious strategy of the Criminal Republican Party: acting dispirited (while they sit on hundreds of millions for false ads and blatant lies), braying that "they will stand up to Nero" (having never cast a vote against him), and using their well organized Fundamentalist email trees and "banking" of fraudulently cast "absentee" ballots (which are never examined) to manufacture a 50.6% "victory" where opinion/exit polls showed a loss by 5 points.
It will happen all over the country in dozens of races (where ever there are Republican secretaries of state), and it will never change until some law eneforcement agencies start investigating it.
National Dems think they can back into power against Cheney and this corrupt Republican party financed almost exclusively by corporate and wealthy individual interests. I really don't think they have a clue about the thugs they are "opposing", or else they are frightened of them and are simply putting on a show.
Posted by euzoius at September 4, 2006 05:59 AMI wouldn't put too much faith in the notion that an NIE, if it emerges, would sound a wavering note. Negroponte will simply not permit his spook troops to say a discouraging word about Iraq prior to November.
I'm confident that he has commissioned a safety NIE, and retains it in his back pocket, which is a tissue of baldfaced lies. He'd rather wait until after the election, perhaps, and issue a halfway defensible bunch of mealy-mouthed nothings as an NIE. But if the Dems push him to hard, he will say, "Okay, so you threw me into the briar patch". And hand them the utterly craptacular October Surprise Edition, full of fudged numbers, fuller of little human interest anecdotes of hitherto unguessed (and in a matter of weeks, when it's too late, to be exposed as merest moonshine) derring-do, complete with multiple Heroes of the Realm who can be trotted about to stand at the side of beleaguered Republican candidates in the last two weeks on the hustings.
The Big Lie has never failed for them before. If the cards on the table say, "You'll lose unless you Lie Bigger," their patriotic choice will be clear. And when it comes to serving up Elephant Whoppers, there's no servant of the Whopper King more alacritous in his patriotism than John Negroponte.
Posted by nicteis at September 4, 2006 02:45 PMLosing the House for a term will be the best shot in the arm the GOP could hope for. Once the American People see Speaker Pelosi and craphounds like Conyers and al-Dingell take over, it will help to expose the liberals and the Left as the dangerous clowns they are.
They will either work to undermine this Administration ---making themselves into allies of our nation's enemies--- or they will come on board and make peaceniks like y'all livid.
I welcome the change in leadership in the US House of Representatives.
Posted by Toby Petzold at September 4, 2006 05:46 PMThe conservative script says everything always works out like a dream for Republicans, of course, but we're still delighted to have your vote, Toby!
Now, howsaabout throwing some cash into Feingold's Progressive Patriots PAC as well?
Posted by euzoius at September 4, 2006 05:56 PM