Democrat Bi-Parti-Bull-Ship

I hope Bush or someone in the Repub. Party figures out that the Left's notion of -bi-partisanship is, give us what we want and forget everything else. Oh, yeah, and we'll stab you in the back first chance we get.

Bush coughs up Rumsfeld, so you think he'd get some slack on Bolton - the best thing at the UN ... make that one of the only good things at the UN? Nah, of course not. If Bush doesn't cave on everything, he isn't being bi-partisan. Biden is a moron, anyway.

an aide to Biden is already expressing disappointment that Bush hasn’t embraced the new spirit of bipartisan yadda yadda.

And Chafee pays back Republicans in his typical liberal style. I'm fine with him losing. He was in the wrong party, anyway. I'd rather the enemy wore the right uniform. With Chafee, I always had the sense Catholic Schoolgirl was his uniform of choice - for wearing, not chasing.

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[Captain Annoying]

the Left's notion of -bi-partisanship is, give us what we want and forget everything else. Oh, yeah, and we'll stab you in the back first chance we get.

Like this wasn't the Bush administration's M.O. for six solid years. You right-wingers never cease to amaze and astound me with your utter lack of self-awareness.

[CONservative governMENt]

Such a graceful loser you are Dan.

[LovingIt]

Ain't life grand.

http://www.thenextleft.com/blogatory/archives/images/crybaby.jpg

[heheh]

We still have the veto pen. Yeah, baby.

[jim]

Don't worry. The minority party can still filibuster.

Besides that, expect the Democratic party to follow the Republican party's example in "bipartisanship". Looks like the new minority Republicans in both the House and the Senate are going to have to rue all the new changes they put in the Congressional rules - 'cause now they're the minority party that's getting shafted.

[AST]

Never fear. Al Qaeda, Hezbollah and the rest are still there. The Iranians are still working toward the Shiite Bomb. You can sleep well tonight, knowing that Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are in charge, which means the U.N. will take care of us. We need a photo of Harry in a tanker's helmet.

John McCain should change parties if he wants to run for president. He's got a better chance in the Dem primaries than with the Republican base.

[larry]

another way to tell mccain is bad news is just listen to the way scumocrats talk about him. almost without exception, they praise him to the skies. he's fiesty! he's a maverick! etc etc

just as arab terrorists endorsing democrats this election was a clear sign that we shouldn't vote for them, scumocrat love for mccain is a great big red flag. if they like him, it can only mean they think he'll cave in to their incessant demands; or they have something on him.

remember: they HATED reagan. they HATED bork. and newt. and scalia. and limbaugh & ann coulter, for that matter.

but they LOVE mccain. just like they love chafee, and snowe, and any other republican who'll do what they tell him. not good....

[Purple Avenger]

"are going to have to rue all the new changes they put in the Congressional rules"

Each congress decides on its own rules. There isn't necessarily any carry over from one to the next. If the dems want to adopt what you consider to be unfair rules, they are free to do so.

[yyy]

Um, no, actually precedence is or was, pre-Republican take over usually given a lot of weight.

Congress does not change the rules willy nilly every time there is an election.

[WWU]

Funny thing about Chafee, though. While he lies quite a bit to the left of most Republicans and even a few Democrats, he gets a much more favorable American Conservative Union rating than Joe Lieberman, who many in the Democratic party speak of the way Republicans do of Chafee.

There used to be a lot of Republicans like Chafee. Moderate common sense guys. They've all been driven out by the extreme intransigent shift of the Republican party. Nowadays a "moderate" like Heath Shuler joins the Democratic party! If you want to win, you'll have to allow the moderates back into the fold or recognize how stubbornly extremist and simpleminded you are. It's as simple as that.

McCain, by the way, has a higher lifetime ACU rating than Richard Lugar, Richard Shelby, and Thad Cochran.

[clarice]

Well, the Pres is going to give them a chance to prove their good faith:
"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- On the same day President Bush promised a new bipartisan Washington, he began efforts to get two of his most controversial decisions approved before the Democrats take over Congress.

Bush on Thursday submitted the nomination of John Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and said he would like to move forward on legislation to authorize the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program.

Bush said he would like to see action on both issues before year's end. The Democratic-controlled Congress begins its term in January.
"
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/09/bolton.congress/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

Chafee, the puke, voted for Bolton the first time around. Voinovich didn't. This time Voinovich did and Chafee didn't and Liz Dole sent him millions for his losing campaign.

If he doesn't vote Bolton out this time, he can do something anatomically impossible as far as I'm concerned.

[larry]

what's wrong with bolton? is it that he keeps on rudely pointing out that the UN is the most corrupt, effette, useless, ineffectual hot-air factory ever devised by man? that for all their high-minded, beloved-by-the-left anti-american balloon juice, the UN is nothing more than a pack of bureaucrats and accountability-avoiders, interested only in cocktail parties and spending american money? fiddling merrily along while arab racist militias murder africans? yet again? (probable darfur death toll: 500,000)

"we must never allow something like this (rwanda) to happen again." - kofi annan

bolton keeps on pointing out the obvious: the UN is already on the trashheap of history, useless and impotent. naturally, liberals hate him for this.

[jaime]

Imagine Bolton circa Cuban Missle crisis. We would all be dead. All of us. This man is no statesman and kicking him out on his ass is the best thing for U.S. Diplomacy.

[K]

There isn't going to be any cooperation. The Democrats have the House secured. That means they will control every cent that Bush can spend.

The Republican minority in the Senate can block various bills but they cannot pass any. So on spending matters the Democrats can and will cut funding for the military, intelligence, and foreign aid to any government they don't like. The Senate Republicans can then either accept the cuts or stop them - in which case the cuts will be made even more severe.

And Bush now has no chance whatever of getting judges confirmed or even being able to choose his own cabinet and UN Ambassador.

Bush can veto bills. That is not a strong weapon at this time. The Democrats don't have to pass anything; they can merely cut funding for anything they don't like.

Don't think this isn't going to be brutal.

[larry]

interesting that jamey would speculate as to bolton's effectiveness during kennedy's (a scumocrat) self-made cuban missile crisis. interesting in 2 ways:

1) kennedy caused the crisis. in a laughable attempt to seem manly & presidential, hoping to convince voters to forget how weak & spineless he'd been while the russians erected the berlin wall under his very nose. then he made it MUCH worse with his pseudo-macho posturing (despite what the adoring liberal press says, kennedy really did almost single-handedly start ww3. he came THAT close.) so why would anyone try to equate a republican diplomat's job performance with with his (kennedy's) idiotic blundering?

2) in kennedy's entirely-self-made missile crisis, the UN played absolutely no role of consequence. oh sure, they convened a committee to schedule a task force to devise a plan of action to nominate a tiger team to consider a resolution to study the problem; and they passed lots of noble-sounding but utterly useless resolutions, but that's about it. (precisely the same bold, decisive leadership they've shown in dealing with the rwandan & darfur genocides, btw) so why bring up the UN in a discussion of real political/military crises? is it in your dnc handout? is that it?

which nicely echoes my point: the UN is useless, and we shouldn't have anything to do with it anymore. bolton, as opposed to the liberal pussies, points this out occasionally. is THAT his crime? is THAT why they hate him so?