Why The Republicans Lost...
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 Matt Bruce
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I have been giving this quite some thought, and I think the reason the Republicans lost this election simply because voters were fed up with the slow progress in Iraq, and President Bush's failure to explain all the really good accomplishments he made in dealing with the Economy and the War On Terror...

Add to this the fact that the mainstream media lied about both, in order to help the Democrats to win. We should have expected this from them, but this time we didn't do much to counter it, and they pulled it off...

Today was a day of great contrasts – a small taste of the kind of dangers that abound here, a look at the work being done to rebuild Iraq, and finally the privilege of an extended private interview with one of Iraq’s great hopes for the future: Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih.

Coming out of breakfast this morning, we heard a loud explosion that couldn’t have been too far outside the International [Green] Zone where we were located. The blast was immediately followed by small-arms fire and the wail of sirens. “IED,” explained our experienced host. What got our attention was the fact that about an hour later, we were to be leaving the IZ behind to venture out into Baghdad and tour two of the hundreds of Army Corps of Engineers [ACE] reconstruction projects in Iraq.

In the wake of absurd media assertions that the 2006 elections represent the end of conservatism as reported here and here, “The Chris Matthews Show” Sunday depicted a much more rational and well-reasoned analysis of what happened last Tuesday. And, the sanity came from some surprising sources, the first being Dan Rather:

What killed the big tent was the war. You can overanalyze this. The war was the issue. Come 2008, this breakdown may be completely different again. But, this time, it was the war, the war, the war.

Matthews then asked: “So, once the war is over, they can be back together, the big crowd?” Rather elaborated:

In the aftermath of the 2006 elections, Time magazine's Joe Klein has declared that the Democrat takeover of Congress may signal "the end of the conservative pendulum swing that began with Ronald Reagan's revolution."

Certainly, we expect this kind of errant speculation without the use of facts or historical reference from a shameless shill like New York Times’ propagandist Paul Krugman as reported by NewsBusters on Saturday. However, for Joe Klein to make such early prognostications, and for Time magazine to make this its cover story, bordered on total irresponsibility and yellow journalism.

But there it was in an article titled “The Realists Take Charge; The election whupping marked the end of George W. Bush's radical experiment in partisan government - and a plea for politicians to get serious about solving problems” (subscription required, CNN.com summary here, hat tip to NB reader Allanf, and emphasis mine throughout):

It's one thing for the liberal media to hail more liberal Hillary clones coming to Capitol Hill. But it's another thing to insist that women are a superior breed of politician, a much more caring, empathetic, and ethical breed. Driving home on Tuesday night, I heard this "women are seen as more ethical" line at least twice on the live coverage on National Public Radio. (No cattle-futures memories in the middle of Pom-Pom Night.) They even had a syrupy interview with Robin Gerber, author of "Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way," to cheer blatantly on the taxpayer-funded radio for incoming feminists like Senator McCaskill. On ABC Tuesday morning, Cokie Roberts opened up the latest can of Uterus-Empowered Superiority:

"But Nancy Pelosi will bring a style that is different to the speakership. Let me just tell you one little tidbit. Her daughter, Alexandra, is due to have a baby any minute and everybody knew that if that baby came, that Nancy Pelosi, regardless of the fact that she was about to take over the House and have the great night of her life, was ready to leave and just go to her daughter. I think you wouldn't necessarily see that with a male speaker."

In a riveting 2,000-word thumbsucker for Sunday's Washington Post, the Washington Post asks: "Is America too Racist for Barack? Too Sexist for Hillary?" The author, Benjamin Wallace-Wells, is identified as a writer on national affairs for Rolling Stone. And here I thought that periodical's idea of national affairs was the latest on Britney Spears.

Anyway, the article doesn't answer the questions it poses. At least I don't think it does. When the author began using terms such as "post-racial" and "post-gender," my eyes glazed over and my mind meandered.

I did make it to the part, though, about there being a disparity between African Americans and women in terms of political leadership:

For general discussion and comment.

Associated Press reports openly gay pop-music legend Elton John offered his opinions on religion:

Organized religion fuels anti-gay discrimination and other forms of bias, pop star Elton John said in an interview published Saturday.

“I think religion has always tried to turn hatred towards gay people,” John said in the Observer newspaper's Music Monthly Magazine. “Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays.”

“But there are so many people I know who are gay and love their religion,” he said. “From my point of view, I would ban religion completely. Organized religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into really hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.”

The Republicans On Tuesday 11/07/06 lost both houses of Congress not to Ideas but to Conservatives running as Democrats. The DNC Knew the only way to win was to Draft into the Party Non Liberals so the average citizen would have a way to express there displeasure with the Police action In Iraq that we are currently Bogged down with . Unfortunatley the only ones who are really Happy & celebrating are the terrorists as shown on many news Channels  and  that is the real danger. America has once again told the world America will Cut and Run If the fight lasts long enough  and is bloddy enough Americans are weened on Television & see the world thru Hollywood and I can Only Be Thankful Television was not Invented yet during World War 2 Or we would all be Speaking German Today.

The Republicans On Tuesday 11/07/06 lost both houses of Congress not to Ideas but to Conservatives running as Democrats. The DNC Knew the only way to win was to Draft into the Party Non Liberals so the average citizen would have a way to express there displeasure with the Police action In Iraq that we are currently Bogged down with . Unfortunatley the only ones who are really Happy & celebrating are the terrorists as shown on many news Channels  and  that is the real danger. America has once again told the world America will Cut and Run If the fight lasts long enough  and is bloddy enough Americans are weened on Television & see the world thru Hollywood and I can Only Be Thankful Television was not Invented yet during World War 2 Or we would all be Speaking German Today.

The Republicans On Tuesday 11/07/06 lost both houses of Congress not to Ideas but to Conservatives running as Democrats. The DNC Knew the only way to win was to Draft into the Party Non Liberals so the average citizen would have a way to express there displeasure with the Police action In Iraq that we are currently Bogged down with . Unfortunatley the only ones who are really Happy & celebrating are the terrorists as shown on many news Channels  and  that is the real danger. America has once again told the world America will Cut and Run If the fight lasts long enough  and is bloddy enough Americans are weened on Television & see the world thru Hollywood and I can Only Be Thankful Television was not Invented yet during World War 2 Or we would all be Speaking German Today.

In light of the big Democrat win last week, United Press International is doing its best to start the ball rolling against our security with a report from the 11th called Leahy aims at restoring habeas corpus.

In this fawning report, UPI paints Leahy as the hero on the white horse "restoring rights" to those poor enemy combatants the evil, evil Bush administration has been so mean to. UPI is overjoyed that Leahy is riding to the defense of terrorists...

Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., is expected to take over as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and The (Calif.) Daily Journal reports that Leahy is drafting a bill to undo portions of the new law in an effort to restore habeas corpus rights for enemy combatants.

How nice of Leahy to "restore" something they never had in the first place!

The supposed rights of habes for enemy combatants never existed and still doesn't. The only thing that the last few Supreme Court decisions addressed is if enemy combatants can APPLY for habeas protections, NOT that they should automatically have them.

It's as if there was never any bad news to report in Iraq, now that the Democrats are in power.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. soldiers, automatic
rifles buckled to their body armor, filed into a community center in a
dangerous Shiite neighborhood of north Baghdad Saturday and for a few
hours became social workers, cops on the beat and referees between
feuding tribesmen.

Tea was passed around, notes were taken, local sheiks spoke in wise tones,
heads nodded vigorously in agreement and mundane problems such as
garbage collection and distributing electricity generators were tackled.

Maj. Michael Fazio, 36, from Warwick, N.Y., pulled out a cheat sheet —
photocopied snapshots labeled with long tribal names that he tried to
match with faces in the room.