Of course, if the Republicans take control of the House, even if the Democrats end the filibuster in the Senate they’ll still have some trouble passing bills in the House. But Harry Reid would retain his post in the Senate, and he has gone on record as saying that he wants to end the filibuster in the Senate next term. It only takes a simple majority to rewrite the rules at the start of a new term. I’ve written about this before several times.

I’d certainly agree with you there. This has been my impression for several years. A few years back, I got to know a local politician in my state who painted herself as something of a mainstream, centrist Democrat who could reach across the aisle and be bipartisan. Her closest friends and acquaintances, though, were all as hard left as they come–left-wing activists of all stripes, SEIU types, admirers of Che, and so on, and she shared their values and principles. She even admitted once that she got most of her news about national affairs from “The Daily Show.” Although I had begun to suspect as much before, that was when it was I fully realized that there are no “centrists” or “conservatives” in the Democrat party, and anyone who claims to be such a thing is probably either deluded, or trying to make herself out to be more mainstream than she really is.

Fortunately, there will be an entirely fresh crop of Democratic Senate targets to take out in 2012. We’ll need another 8 then.”

A possible benefit of a more conservative congress would be the blue dog democrats not being browbeat by Pelosi to walk the party line.

Well there is hope. But I for one never bought into the blue dog’s being conservative or moderate. When the dems were running them my thought was they are wolves in sheep’s clothing. They advertised themselves as conservative to they could run and win in conservative districts.

Added bonus, both the Republican and Democratic candidates are less liberal than the last few groups.

Fortunately, there will be an entirely fresh crop of Democratic Senate targets to take out in 2012. We’ll need another 8 then.

And we can.

You really think Obama’s heart has cockles? I think like everything else he boasts, they’re phony. F

The Enraged vs. the Exhausted

Not bad. She still has her moments. Or, more cynically, she’s tacking back to the right because she can see which way the wind is blowing this year.

Famed Obama ‘Hope’ poster artist losing hope

though i like this bs..

Fairey explained that when he came up with the poster in 2008, he was trying to find a single image that embodied the issues he cared most about — promoting health care, helping labor, and curtailing lobbyists. He likened the issues to projectiles.

yes, nothing says health care, labor, etc… like soviet realism and soviet poster art…

“Looking at Obama’s standpoint on various policies, it was like, ‘Why throw all these particular projectiles over the wall… when I could put all those things in one projectile that I could hurl over the wall,'” Fairey said in a phone interview from Los Angeles, where he lives. “Obama was the delivery device in theory. Now, I realize that he maybe is not the correct delivery device, and I’ll just deal with those issues separately.”

one soviet style bomb to ecapsulate obama, and now they are disappointed that he was not a mao, or stalin… not even a castro… or a chavez… not even a “big man”…

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews_excl/ynews_excl_pl3712