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Re: The Timing of the Saddam Trial Verdict
by Zardoz » Mon 06 Nov 2006, 12:34:33
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Heineken', '.')..there's a strong shift back to the GOP, as noted in today's Washington Post. My guess now is that the Dems end up narrowly controlling the House but still don't win over the Senate. Not that it matters either way...
Actually, I wouldn't mind if the GOP maintained their majority in both houses for the next two years.
As we lead up to the 2008 election, everything is going to get worse. The economy is going to go south, Iraq can only deteriorate, it will be more and more obvious that we're approaching the energy crunch, the devastation we've wrought on the biosphere will be more apparent, the standing of the U.S. in the eyes of the rest of the world will worsen, the Chinese and Russians will be more dominant, etc., etc.
If the Republicans remain in total control of the U.S. government during those two years they'll be blamed for everything, and it will undoubtedly mean they'll be broomed out of control of Congress and the White House in 2008. It will take a long time to rehabilitate themselves. They'll suffer through several election cycles.
Of course, we'll then face the spectre of an all-Dem national government, but personally, I'll be so glad to see the GOP thoroughly humiliated, it won't matter to me what comes next.
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Re: The Timing of the Saddam Trial Verdict
by smallpoxgirl » Mon 06 Nov 2006, 12:55:23
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mekrob', 'C')ough, cough. Diebold. Cough.
Like it freaking matters. So what? The upper level bosses are turning to dirty tricks to gain control of the crime syndicate. The Republicrats and Demopublicans can shoot eachother in the streets for all I care. Which set of greedy, brutal, self-serving megalomaniacs rules the country is not of concern to me.
The thing that just baffles me is that the rulers seem unaware that they are about to make a martyr out of Saddam. Either that or this is some sort of intentional move to amp up the insurgency as a justification to subdivide the country.
Province A: Oil Land - Complete with oil wells and a nice subservient US-puppet government
Province B: Camel Land - Complete with raw sewage, fetid water, and starving children.
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Of a thousand burning bridges
Sifting through the ashes every day
What we thought would never end
Now is nothing more than a memory
The way things were before
I lost my way" - OCMS
Of a thousand burning bridges
Sifting through the ashes every day
What we thought would never end
Now is nothing more than a memory
The way things were before
I lost my way" - OCMS
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Re: The Timing of the Saddam Trial Verdict
by Dreamtwister » Mon 06 Nov 2006, 13:00:31
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR', 'W')ell, the most harmless and useful permutation for the Republicans would be a 10-15 seat margin for the Democrats in the House, and a 51/49 margin for the Republicans in the Senate. In such a configuration, the Dems could really, really hurt themselves if they weren't very careful and very disciplined.
Interestingly enough, I was just looking at some projections at this place, and they are calling for a 50(D)/49(R) Senate, with 1 tie.
Now, the 239(D)/196(R) Congress seems a little generous, but it's still only a 55% majority. Not *quite* the 60% the Dems are looking for.
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Re: The Timing of the Saddam Trial Verdict
by Dreamtwister » Mon 06 Nov 2006, 13:18:16
I might be inclined to find faith in this decision, if the judges didn't require 24 hour bodyguards and the government itself wasn't penned up inside the "green zone", afraid of the very people it's supposed to be governing.
Since that is not the case, all I see is a dog and pony show for the proles.
Since that is not the case, all I see is a dog and pony show for the proles.
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Re: The Timing of the Saddam Trial Verdict
by AgentR » Mon 06 Nov 2006, 13:33:16
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dreamtwister', 'N')ow, the 239(D)/196(R) Congress seems a little generous, but it's still only a 55% majority. Not *quite* the 60% the Dems are looking for.
I watch them pretty closely to at that site. As long as he has TX22 in the democrat pickup slot, I have to consider his numbers quite generous to the Dems. Last poll the chronicle ran that I saw, Lampson had a number in the high 30s. If he doesn't make 50%+1 on Nov7, he doesn't take office; and he can't beat Gibbs in a 1 on 1 with her name on the ballot.
TX22 goes like this:
Nov 7
Lampson 41%
Gibbs 18%(correct spelling)
Miscellaneous split between bad spellings and Lib.
No winner.
Dec xx
Lampson 43%
Gibbs 57%
Gibbs(R) goes to the house.
Thats my hunch.
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