Comments on: David Corn explains it all: the Democrats can’t count

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Tue, 29 May 2007 03:58:01 +0000

Yeah, well, all good stuff. But they think they can get re-elected despite or because of this stuff.
By definition, the big shooters in the dems have been re-elected.
What we need are smarter voters.
However, when the campaign is between dueling promises of pork, principle is lost, even to the voters.

By: R Gordon

R Gordon — Tue, 29 May 2007 00:13:22 +0000

Pelosi is an idiot, and Reid is a crook. Neither of them actually cares what happens in Iraq, as long as they can just gain more power from whatever it may be.

By: Teri Pittman

Teri Pittman — Mon, 28 May 2007 21:14:15 +0000

I have a slightly different take. It used to be that politicians understood that you had to cooperate to get along. You might disagree with someone else’s ideas but you were polite. “Scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours.” Today’s politicians can’t do that. They are so convinced that Republican (and moderate Dems) are Satan’s spawn that they literally can’t cooperate even for the sake of a bill they want to pass.

By: John F. Opie

John F. Opie — Sun, 27 May 2007 18:43:44 +0000

Hi –

It’s actually very simple. Pelosi knows that she is #3 in the list and the Democrats believe that she has been elected shadow President. Hence her foreign policy trips – she’s now heading over to Europe to tell the Europeans that the US will join Kyoto when Bush leaves office – and her insufferable arrogance in dealing with the minority party.

It’s pathetic and will be extraordinarily destructive for her and the Democrats when it blows up in their face. There were reasons why there once was a principle of political disputes ending at the country’s borders. Internationally, they’re political baby seals, and the world is filled with people with baseball bats, hungry and mean.

By: Paul (Europe)

Paul (Europe) — Sun, 27 May 2007 18:06:57 +0000

Neoneo’s writing and thinking is interesting as always, personally I think a significant Democrat problem is that they don’t truly comprehend, reflect upon, and compare consequences. I guess I just called them stupid.

gcotharn said:
“Let another party arise to oppose the Repubs.”

I couldn’t agree more even though I would probably continue to cheer for the GOP.

By: jainphx

jainphx — Sun, 27 May 2007 05:04:33 +0000

Trying to analyse the liberal mindset is in itself a full time occupation.Best advice! vote them out now and forever.

By: Mark H.

Mark H. — Sun, 27 May 2007 03:01:03 +0000

I think Reid and Pelosi may be a bit tone-deaf in that department.

Ya think? 🙂

Basically the two of them are good checkers players and with the help of the MSM they probably even think they’re playing chess; but when push comes to shove, they’re not capable of thinking more than one jump (or perhaps a lucky double jump from time to time) ahead.

Al Qaeda is playing them for the fools they are. I’m quasi-optimistic that the American people will realize that before the ’08 election. If not, it’s going to get ugly stateside, and sadly, that may be required to wake us up again.

By: alphie

alphie — Sun, 27 May 2007 01:03:12 +0000

“Like the saying goes: religious believers must account for the existence of G-d and good versus evil, ”

Are you talking about al Qaeda there, Dennis?

By: Donald Douglas

Donald Douglas — Sun, 27 May 2007 01:01:41 +0000

opinionjournal.comInteresting post and comment thread. I’m pretty much in agreement with Bird Dog’s “all theater for the base” argument. I don’t know if I’m in full agreement with Neo on the savvy of the Dems or their familiarity with the reins of power. Provocative thesis, in any case.

See WSJ’s editorial today on Hillary’s particular calculations — the editors argue her no vote for the bill destroys whatever foreign policy creds she’s built up these last few year licking boots in the Senate:

http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010126

By: Dennis

Dennis — Sun, 27 May 2007 00:14:14 +0000

Theater for the base/entourage, indeed.

This is a kind of Masada for those of supreme faith.

The modern/secular world is itself a kind of religion, as many have said in the recent past. Like the saying goes: religious believers must account for the existence of G-d and good versus evil, “non believers” have to account for everything else. They have to become super believers.

Therefore there is more to defend for the secular, they who would be masters of irony, they who have also weaponized irony have also the hubris to assume that an ironic twist would not also twist upon themselves.

The nutroots are the visible vanguard of this phenomenon, and suicide is not out the realm of their possibility for them. This is the soul of the Left/Liberal/Democratic Party. They would make of their own culture, a funeral pyre, and be happy for it as they succumb to the flame.