THE DAILY BLADE: This Election Wasn’t “Stolen”
It didn’t escape The Stiletto’s notice that before the election, the MSM was running story after story about the panoply of ways that Dem votes – and the election - could be “stolen” … once again. But now that Dems control Congress and a majority of the governorships, there’s been nary a word about “grand theft voto.” See Republicans are not sore losers. Even when Dems are caught red-handed committing voter fraud. No, Republicans just take their lumps and … what’s that pithy phrase? Oh yeah. Move on.
Garbage In, Garbage Out
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The Stiletto goes Al Gore one better and advises recycling the DVD as a drink coaster.
The Left Wing Doesn’t Know What The Left Hand Is Doing
The Wall Street Journal’s Kimberley Strassel sat down with a voluble Chuck Schumer the other day to talk about what Dems have learned over the past six years:
Mr. Schumer says he's convinced that, now his party is back in control - "and having the majority is difficult" - it can't afford to simply be seen as obstructing President Bush. That would be a dramatic change from the past six years, and in particular from the last round of Democratic leadership, when Tom Daschle turned the Senate into a legislative graveyard. "There are going to be issues where we want to work together, and issues when we think [President Bush] is wrong and we shouldn't just roll over. It's a combination … But I will tell you this: If we are seen as just blocking the president, it will not serve us well in 2008."
[T]he multibillion-dollar question is whether this shift is genuine, or lasting.
Here’s a wee hint from Henry Waxman (D-CA) that the era of bipartisan bonhomie Nancy Pelosi is promising is neither genuine, nor likely to last until Al Gore’s basil is ready to be harvested:
[T]here are so many areas of possible wrongdoing, his biggest problem will be deciding which ones to pursue.
There's the response to Hurricane Katrina, government contracting in
"I'm going to have an interesting time because the Government Reform Committee has jurisdiction over everything," Waxman said Friday, three days after his party's capture of Congress put him in line to chair the panel. "The most difficult thing will be to pick and choose.”
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