Comments on: Susan Estrich, please check your facts: single party dominance

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:17:18 +0000

Mike: you may be correct vis a vis lbierals, although the Carter years were fairly liberal (post-Vietnam). Right now I think the Democrats’ leaderhship in Congress is the most liberal it’s ever been. But that’s not what Estrich was saying.

By: I R A Darth Aggie

I R A Darth Aggie — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:13:50 +0000

I continue to be surprised at the sloppiness of the supposed political experts and their sweeping allegations about history. Why does this continue to suprise you? US history education is poor at best, and mostly useless, or indoctrination at worst. So the typical person defaults to history begins on the day I was born and political history begins on the day I started paying attention. So it isn't surprising to me that Estrich (and many of her peers) falls into the same pattern.

By: Bob From Virginia

Bob From Virginia — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:25:41 +0000

Very good point Nolanimrod, the Dem party is now a hang out of impractical dreamy lefties, not the grown-ups of Scoop Jackson’s time.

By: Mike, New York

Mike, New York — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:32:48 +0000

Although the democrats had large senate majorities under JFK and Carter, many of those democratic senators were from the south, and quite conservative. On many issues, informal alliances of republicans and southern democrats blocked the liberal agenda. Although Estrich’s point is clearly wrong as stated, it IS probably true that this is the first time in her adulthood (or mine, born 1944) that liberals have had such solid control of both houses. Today the democratic party is so fully dominated by liberals, it has become quite common to project this current polarization back into the past and forget the power conservative democrats once held. Today’s democratic congressional leadership is not only liberal, it is overwhelmingly bi-costal and urban as well.

By: Nolanimrod

Nolanimrod — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:08:55 +0000

P.S. The one Democrat who acted like Dems of yore they kicked out of the party.

By: Nolanimrod

Nolanimrod — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:06:21 +0000

There is one big diff between then and now. Back then the Dem powers were people like Henry Jackson, Herman Talmadge, Sam Rayburn, and Dan Rostenkowski. Compare them to Henry Waxman, Barney Frank, Dick Durban, and the latest up-and-comer, Al Franken.

By: Nolanimrod

Nolanimrod — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:58:12 +0000

Dear Geoff,

something about her that I find a bit grating.

How’s this? She makes Fran Drescher sound like Glenda Jackson?

By: Wm Lawrence

Wm Lawrence — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:58:30 +0000

“something about her that I find a bit grating” Aside from her politics it has to be her voice. Like listening to a wood chipper…

By: Brian Swisher

Brian Swisher — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:35:15 +0000

Roy, I remember the WIN buttons…I also remember that some wag suggested that they should be worn upside-down so as to read NIM – No Immediate Miracles…

By: Geoffrey Britain

Geoffrey Britain — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:55:26 +0000

kcom,

Yes. Denial and ‘amnesia’ are such wonderfully convenient things, when seeking to maintain an agenda, are they not?

As always, for true believers, the ends always justify the means. Of course, when the ends sought threaten the constitutional and economic vitality of the republic…