After last night's pretty impressive run by John McCain (and Huckabee), Romney looks as good as dead in the water. The New York Post responded today with this column that says why McCain is such a leftist and that conservatives think that a McCain presidency may actually be worse than a Hillary presidency.
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Watching CNN's coverage (sorry, Mike), I've decided that Paul Begala is a total waste of airspace. His voice annoys me, his analysis is ridiculous. What have you done that doesn't suck, Paul Begala.
In one of the first "I can't even believe this is an issue" moments of 2007, Virgil Goode, a Representative from Virginia, is making a big stink about Keith Ellison performing his swearing-in ceremony on Thomas Jefferson's version of the Koran. Says Goode:
"I believe that the overwhelming majority of voters in my district would prefer the use of the Bible," the Virginia Republican told Fox News, and then went on to warn about what he regards as the dangers of Muslims immigrating to the United States and Muslims gaining elective office.Mike Halbrook pointed out that he didn't even think that they technically swear in on any book, but instead in a collective swearing-in ceremony. In any case, Virgil Goode: you seem like a moron to me.
In a series of events that is sure to disappoint at least one of Scott Troyan's poor sensibilities, the Democrats and Bono have found themselves at an impasse regarding funding for AIDS over the next two years.
"I'm alarmed we could not get a commitment from the Democratic leadership to prevent the loss of $1 billion in the continuing resolution," Bono said Thursday in a statement.
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.
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.
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.
In an effort to write a research paper, I designed a survey to collect my own data. After I had written and tweaked the questions, I sent it to Shaun who coded the forms and PHP. Shaun sent me a link to the survey last night, and I immediately sent out an email to my fraternity and set up Facebook events to invite everyone I knew. As of 10:00 AM, I had received 134 responses, or about 110 more than I thought I'd get.
If you have not yet taken it, please pull up a chair and take it here. You'll be issued a cookie to ensure that participants only take it once (accuracy counts, boys and girls), but I have no idea how to mine data from it. You're totally safe, I give you my word.
Pass it along. Send this URL to anyone and everyone: http://www.jamesonoguinn.com/survey. Thanks!
During the daylight hours of October 2, 2006, Senator Dick Durbin called for the resignation of fellow Illinoisan John Shimkus, stating that Shimkus and his fellow Page Board members decided to “protect themselves instead of trying to protect these pages,” and waxed nostalgic when he proclaimed that “now is the day of reckoning.”
In these days of partisan politics, it’s easy to see why Senator Durbin would make such a ludicrous claim. Republicans are closing the gap on some very hotly contested House and Senate seats. And besides, it’s not like this is the first time that Durbin has made an inflammatory remark.
Looking back to the opening of the Lincoln Library in 2005, Durbin quipped that a Jewish family had thought that Lincoln was a Jew. "After all,” said Durbin, “his first name was Abraham, and then, to confirm it, she learned that John Wilkes Booth shot him in the temple." And who could forget the infamous comparison between the American military and “Nazis, Soviets in their gulags... Pol Pot or others”?
The fact of the matter is that Shimkus has yet to be, and will most likely never be, implicated in any impropriety regarding this unfortunate situation. That Senator Durbin leapt to this irrational course of action diminishes the trust given him by his constituency, just as his inclination towards making outlandish claims speaks poorly of his character.
Jameson O’Guinn
Champaign, Illinois
Drudge, via TheHill.com, reported this today. It looks like the Republicans aren't as far down as everyone had them pegged to be... according to the Republicans.
Damn you, Scott Troyan. Your irresponsible leftist postings have spurred me to create a "Politics" category against my better judgement. I want you to know how much that upsets me. You couldn't have waited for Betacrat to be done, could you? You made me do this, Troyan, and for that, I shall never forgive you.
To briefly rehash the events leading up to this post, let's examine history:
Mr. Troyan has this to say:
If like, Russ Feingold to (sic) Bob Jones University and they booed, hissed, and spat at him, my reaction wouldn’t be “OMG kids have no respect”, I’d instead laugh and be like what’d you expect, you doof? College kids are passionate and idealistic, no matter where their beliefs fall.
I disagree. If Russ Feingold went to Bob Jones University, he would undoubtedly be booed. My reaction would be the same; the people who find it in their best interest to boo and hiss during a speech or turn their backs when someone gets up to talk are representative of a culture in which it is perfectly acceptable to be rude and insulting. I find it terribly courageous for these people to go into hostile environments in order to promote some kind of understanding in a country that has become increasingly more divided in the past eight years. We have plenty of people to blame for this, Republican and Democrat alike.
We've lost a sort of social capital that we had before the "glorious" revolution of the 1960s. What we have now is a bunch of stupid liberals (and I mean that there are stupid liberals, not that all liberals are stupid) providing a voice to all the liberals, preaching this self-actualizing, socially divisive dogma that stems from the "I don't give a shit about anybody but me" ideology of the 1960s. It seems that the civil religion of America has become selfishness and apathy for God and country.
Yet I digress. The point here is that the reaction that Senator McCain received is indicative of the society in which we live today. We're nasty and brutish, devoid of courage and lacking respect. Our problem isn't the war in Iraq, it isn't an energy crisis. The real issues start at home. We've gotten to the point where speaking out and organizing protests is no longer effective. It's all too commonplace. What we really need is a little personal integrity. It'll be infinitely more difficult to be "pushed around" by the government and corporations, or whoever the popular oppressor at the time may be, if we actually stand for something other than turning our backs to a man whose character speaks more than his words ever could.
Also, I like Scott Troyan. I'm just not in like with him.