That was pretty darn good.

I agree. Is that William Shatner?

Howard Dean for DNC Chair can't be any scarier than Richard Cohen's suggestion in today's WaPo that the 2008 Democratic presidential candidate should be none other than... Al Gore.

Nice to see the WaPo is trying to make it twelve-sixteen straight years of a Republican Presidency. Didn't know they had it in them.

speaking if songs:

I have it on very good authority that W will be replacing HAIL TO THE CHIEF with a new song. ...

http://astuteblogger.blogspot.com/2004/11/bush-announces-first-act-of-his-second.html

The student paper here at UVa today recommended that the Democratic Party eschew moderate views and swing to the left in order to save itself.

Maybe the democrats will smarten up and put some moderates in the leadership positions...

...nah.

Here's a new blog for you to read while on your break Bill.
I found this posted over at RogerLSimon.com
Looks pretty interesting!

Errrrr, it always helps to post the link too!

/embarrassed

http://www.circdrop.com/

Dems are doing the same thing they did in 2002 (at least thru Pelosi and others), basically talking about how they need to swing back to the left, "stand for something" (that's a novel idea) and show the differences between them and the Republicans.

When it comes election time again they'll start off on the left, then panic and move just left of center, occasionally testing the water on the right. Sound familiar?

What I find hilarious is that Pelosi, Schumer and others are actually saying in public that they are in essence "looking into" this whole morals thing and trying to figure out how to connect with "those people". Kind of like talking about someone sitting next to you like they aren't in the room.

These poor dumb democrats will never learn and that is why they will have it hard for years to come...thank god..if they keep this up Ralph Nader will beat them...

There's little hope that the Democratic Party will be brought back to moderacy. Therefore, the best we can hope is that its disease will metastasize very quickly, causing the party to wither and fade, along with the leftists that infect it, very quickly. Let another party grow to replace it, a libertarian or constitution party (free sex and drugs, slashing the size of government, reasonable isolationism). Let the Bush-style GOP become the defender of some elements of big government, of maintaining the welfare net, and of spreading liberty abroad. What a two party system that would be! Imagine having to choose between two candidates, both of whom must represent bases that are zealous defensive of liberty and opponents of authoritarianism. The squabbles between them would zero in on hitting the mark, rather than amounting to something not much different from an insane person screaming obscenities at a normal person who cannot get away and tries to smile at onlookers with that "this cannot be happening!" look on his face.

Just get rid of the Democratic Party and its terminal leftism. Don't let's wait until the crazies get old and die; that's too long. The sooner this party fades into oblivion, the better for the union.

Just a little humor from leftieland:

The new world.

by kos
Thu Nov 4th, 2004 at 17:07:22 PST

We may have lost the election, but the country is getting bluer
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He must be wearing blue sunglasses?
I put the 2000 County map above the 2004 Country map on a website so it is easier to compare them.

http://www.angelfire.com/ky/kentuckydan/CommitteesofCorrespondence/index.blog?entry_id=295205

Looks to me like the blue areas SHRUNK.

If McAuliffe hangs on after THIS, he really must have pix of biggies with animals.

We will be our own worst enemy. The democrats can't be more moderate, because all the moderates are now republicans. This means the democrats will move further left, and we'll fill in more of the void in the center.

The result? A third party candidate not from the left, but from the far right. Afraid that the right-wing conservative ideals are being left behind, a strong conservative third party will come along, split the republican vote, and the democrats will win once again.

History does repeat itself.
History does repeat itself.

Has Shatner gone from Capt. Kirk to Genius? Hmmmmmmm......

Hugh McBryde

Ok, are you serious? First of all, it's not a Shatner song for those who don't know. It's a cover of a Pulp song, and I think its a poor analogy. Basically the song is saying that the rich can't know what being poor and average is like, and romantically pretending to be so won't work. So, what you're saying, if I understand correctly, is that Democrats have been pretending to understand mainstream America, but will never be able to because they just don't get it? Yet at the same time I see a whole lot of saying the Democratic party needs to drop the left-wingers, and what, pretend they're just like the people they can't possibly understand? It's absurd.
I'm getting tired of all this talk that amounts to, "More people voted for Bush, so everyone else's opinion is therefore wrong, irrelevant, and out of touch with mainstream America. 55 million people voted for the Democratic nominee on Tuesday! Out of touch with the mainstream? Ok, fine, what is the mainstream then? Is it the 59 million that voted for Bush, and everone else is outside it? Or is it the 3.5 million more voters who went for Bush? In either case it sounds like a pretty narrow definition of mainstream.
I've seen a lot of maps these days, broken down into blue and red, states and counties. I see a lot of talk on the right that the large majority of counties went for Bush, therefore that is the mainstream. Absurd. It takes 2 votes to switch a state or county from red to blue or vice versa, and I didn't see Bush turning a lot blue states on Tuesday. It's all a bunch of bull anyway. The country is not red and blue. This is what color the country is. It's easy to say, "we're right, you're wrong, now get in line," but it isn't going to work. The truth is that a very large number of Americans do not think in what many over here consider the mainstream, and if the numbers from this week are anything to go by, they're growing.

This is my favorite map so far.

Joe Everyday: If any part splits, it will be the Democratic party, as the leftists take over and the moderates flee.

It is weak parties that disintegrate, not strong ones. Nothing succeeds like success...people do not abandon winning parties...only losing ones.

Mantis -

Lighten up. The Dems failed to understand mainstream America and pandered pathetically. They need to really change the character of their party instead of giving lip service to concepts.

Can I borrow you for a week? I'd love to feed you coal and see if you produce diamonds ...

Another Thought -

I think you may be right and wrong ... if the conservative wing of the Republican Party gets too cocky, it will repel the moderates that gave them victory.

Look at how Bush I lost with an independent candidate that siphoned votes.

While I'd hate to seem like I'm meddling in Democratic Party affairs, I'd really like to suggest that someone more able to win in red states would be a good replacement for Nancy Pelosi. *smile* I'd be inclined to nominate Chet Edwards (D-TX) who survived handily the redistricting down here and who is also the Representative for the district including Crawford. If he can continuously win that district, he might just be reasonably in tune with the majority of the country.
(Obligatory conflict of interest statement: Rep. Edwards and I do share the same alma mater, Texas A&M)