Keeping Up
* We keep pissing away international goodwill... these folks might not seem like such wackjobs.
* Another one bites the dust.
* Rest comfortably in the knowledge that as long as Rove is driving the GOP bus, they can never claim the high road.
* Bush isn't sinking... he's dog-paddling.
* Louisiana, self-contradicting since the days of pirates.
* Fox Punditry, mock what you don't understand.
* Mmmmmm, no-bid contracts. Cheney flavored.
QOTD
Rove postulated that Bush, like McKinley, had arrived at a moment when the old politics no longer applied and the new had yet to be formed. By offering himself as a pro-immigrant, pro-growth, "compassionate" conservative, he would attract the new voters of the day, including Hispanic immigrants, as well as workers in the postindustrial economy, while at the same time mobilizing the party's conservative Christian base. He would be the candidate of growth and the future while casting his rival, Al Gore, as the embodiment of an exhausted big-government credo. And this strategy worked: in 2000, Bush made gains among Hispanics and carried 97 of the country's 100 fastest-growing counties. Of course, Gore won the popular vote and, by some accounts, the election. And yet since that time, the Democrats have come to look like the party of the underprivileged and the highly educated and scarcely anyone else.
Does this make Bush a "flip-flopper" or just a flop?
Blanco's move shouldn't come as a surprise to any Louisianians. Our politicians are desperate to distract us from the fact that we are unready for this hurricane season, that a Katrina can and likely will happen again. Very recently, Senator David Vitter made the comment that he believed the ban on gay marriages was the single most important issue at this time. Meanwhile, former residents of St. Bernard parish are still waiting to move out of their FEMA tents. As usual, American leaders are completely in touch with the needs of their constituents.
Posted by: Laurie at June 19, 2006 03:21 PM