More losers
A couple of depressing quotes from coverage of the US midterm elections on this morning's Today.
Republican activist Grover Norquist - the man who compared the estate tax to the Holocaust - said that if the Democrats lost this time he expected the Republicans to stay in power for a another 20 years, thanks to the control over redistricting victory will bring them.
But that's okay, because the guys on the other side of the trenches have a through and detailed plan for victory. This is former Senator Tom Daschle, once the Democrats' leader in the upper house, on what the party needs to do to win. "And this point, all the voters want us to do is show that we're not Bush and the Republicans. Later they'll want more, but now that's all they want."
And if this ingenious strategy doesn't quite cut it, and the Democrats lose anyway? "It would show us as feckless and incompetent."
I don't have these word for word - I mean, I heard them once, eight hours ago - but somehow "feckless and incompetent" sticks in the memory.
Why am I getting this sinking feeling that tomorrow isn't going to be a happy day.
Republican activist Grover Norquist - the man who compared the estate tax to the Holocaust - said that if the Democrats lost this time he expected the Republicans to stay in power for a another 20 years, thanks to the control over redistricting victory will bring them.
But that's okay, because the guys on the other side of the trenches have a through and detailed plan for victory. This is former Senator Tom Daschle, once the Democrats' leader in the upper house, on what the party needs to do to win. "And this point, all the voters want us to do is show that we're not Bush and the Republicans. Later they'll want more, but now that's all they want."
And if this ingenious strategy doesn't quite cut it, and the Democrats lose anyway? "It would show us as feckless and incompetent."
I don't have these word for word - I mean, I heard them once, eight hours ago - but somehow "feckless and incompetent" sticks in the memory.
Why am I getting this sinking feeling that tomorrow isn't going to be a happy day.
posted by Jonn Elledge at 12:04 PM
1 Comments:
hurrah, both houses. We can sleep happily ever after.....or can we? BWAH HA HA HA HA HAH
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