Destruction Among The Democrats
I was at my internship with Laura Ingraham earlier today, and as part of the job I had to look up information regarding the falling house of cards that is the Democratic Party and its domestic initiatives. Below is what I found:
1. President Obama’s Transportation Security Administration nominee has resigned after Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) and other Republicans held up his nomination due to his lying to Congress.
2. Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) is calling for health care voting to halt until newly-elected Senator Brown (R-MA) is seated.
3. White House officials and House Democrats see things differently on health care and the ramifications of the Brown election.
4. Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) may very well have Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) as a challenger this year, despite his calling out the left today.
5. White House advisor David Axelrod and White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs don’t get it.
Below is what I have found since:
6. Suddenly, deadlines aren’t so important to President Obama.
7. Moderate Scott Brown (R-MA) and conservative Jim DeMint (R-SC) are on the same page, it appears. Kind of makes Democrats look like the ones who are purging their own ranks.
8. Representative Barney Frank (D-MA) is kinda-sorta-not-really calling for health care reform to start over.
Update:
9. Representative Earl Pomeroy (D-ND) has been rumored to be prepared to resign from Congress if the health care debate keeps going, and is being courted by a large insurance organization.
10. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is being hammered by the liberal members of her caucus.
None of this is to take away from the fact that Republicans still have work to do in creating a big tent- though Ed Morrissey continues to do great work regarding that goal- and that the Tea Partiers and many other Americans are as angry at the Republican Party as they are at the Democratic Party. While I think the Republicans will win several Senate seats, and 20-30 House seats, I also think the divisions between conservative Republicans and moderate Republicans, and between social conservatives and fiscal/economic conservatives, will hand several House races and at least one or two Senate seats to the Democrats in 2010. Of course, if President Obama keeps using his waning political capital to help Democrats in tough elections, perhaps Republicans will be fortunate enough to have another two years to get their own house in order before the 2012 elections.
Pat Buchanan Believes In Climate Change
“Not only does Hillary’s commitment represent a doubling of U.S. foreign aid, she declared at Copenhagen that climate change — known as global warming before a blizzard brought Obama winging home early — is “undeniable.”
Now, undeniably, there is climate change. But we call it spring, summer, fall and winter.”
I put this up because I think the second paragraph is brilliant. The rest of the column, which talks about how the Tea Partiers are the last best hope for the West against a “New World Order,” can be seen here.
