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Democrats are once again showing why they're just like the Republicans- only worse. Instead of focusing on key 9/11 Commission suggestions, (you know, the thing they promised to do), they are going to spend the opening days of the 110th Congress making sure that we're never wiretapped again. Awesome.

It's important to note that if the FBI, CIA, and NSA were reorganized, so many other Democratic goals could be reached. Better intelligence would have led the country in a direction other than a war in Iraq, prevented an attack on American soil, and would eventually lead to expanded nuclear non-proliferation. But I guess wiretapping concerns top all of those.

Posted by Jameson at 8:38 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Yeah, totally learning that for parties. All I need is a boombox.

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Last week I posted a story bemoaning the Republican loss in the House and Senate, but I feel that I may have overreacted a little. In this post, I'm going to explore the reasons why the Democratic victory shouldn't mean too much.

• Nancy Pelosi lost her first battle. Pelosi was pushing for Rep. Jack Murtha to take the number two spot in the House, but was rebuffed by a pretty significant majority. Instead, the Democratic caucus opted for Rep. Steny Hoyer from Maryland. It doesn't really matter that everybody knows that Murtha is crazy and that's why they didn't vote for him; what matters is that Pelosi, despite knowing that Murtha is crazy, picked him and lost. Real world: 1, Pelosi: 0.
• The Democrats' majority is not big enough to override a Presidential veto. Let's face it: if the Republicans don't want it to happen, Bush will veto it. He might as well piss some people off; he's got a piss-poor approval rating and the Republicans are jumping the good ship Bush as fast as they can.
• The 2008 Presidential elections are sooner than you think. The Democrats still don't have a good candidate. A poll in June said that nearly half of Americans would never vote for Hillary. There were similar numbers, of course, for John Kerry and Al Gore. And Barack Obama? My guess is that a Senator that would just be concluding his first term in office in 2008 has no chance of a serious run at the Presidency, although the Vice President spot is more feasible if a more appetizing candidate could be found. If only. And this doesn't even factor in that the racial divide in this country would swing white votes away from Obama and the gender divide would do the same for Hillary.
• There most probably will not be a Supreme Court vacancy in the next two years. Barring a Justice's death, there won't be any new vacancies, at least on the conservative side of the bench. If a liberal Justice retires, the balance of power won't be disturbed by another liberal Justice appointee.

Posted by Jameson at 1:25 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

It doesn't happen to me very often, but when it does, it hurts. Earlier this week I predicted that the Democrats would win the House of Representatives, but that the Republicans would retain control of the Senate. As it passes 12:30 AM here in Illinois, it's pretty clear that one of those will happen and the other will not. Unfortunately, it's not the way I wanted things to shape up.

In the event that the Democrats take their unholy throne upon the seat of the Senate Majority, I'll write a synopsis of what the major problems, and there will be plenty, will be. Until then, I'm going to sleep knowing that my party has failed me more than John Kerry has failed to sink his second consecutive electoral season.

Posted by Jameson at 12:31 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)