Eleanor Clift is as smart as ever. She quotes
Marshall Wittman on Feingold's Censure Resolution:
His censure proposal looks like a stunt, "the equivalent of calling for a filibuster from Davos," says Marshall Wittmann, a senior fellow with the centrist Democratic Leadership Council.. . . The joy among Republicans could only be matched in the blogosphere, where liberal Democrats cheered Feingold--a synergy that prompted the DLC's Wittmann to speculate that the right and left are codependent.
Riiight Moose. And I thought you said Murtha was the end of the Dems:
"If Karl Rove was writing the timing of this, he wouldn't have written it any differently, with the president of the United States expressing resolve and the Democratic leader offering surrender," Wittmann said, referring to Bush's top adviser. "For Republicans, this is manna from heaven."
No wait, maybe it was the attempted filibuster of Alito:
America hasn't witnessed such a breathtaking instinct for political suicide since Jim Jones urged his followers to partake of the grape flavored Kool Aid. The deeper existential question is why are President Bush and Karl Rove so fortunate to have these political adversaries?
The vexing problem that was on full display in the Alito nomination is that the Party of Howard Dean appears completely hostage to left wing special interest groups and hyperbolic bloggers. Have the Democrats learned absolutely nothing from defeat?
Once again, we are reminded of the axiom that the only force that can save the Republican Party is the Democratic Party. The GOP's popularity is plummeting and the only solace that they can derive from the current political situation is the nature of their adversaries.
How's that Dem suicide working out for you Moose?
Earth to Eleanor: If you want to stop looking like the typical DC bloviator, stop believing Marshall Wittman. A poll for you from this obscure publication called Newsweek. Take a look at your paycheck, the name may be familiar to you:
All of this bodes ill for the Republicans as midterm congressional elections approach this fall, although some Democratic strategists are concerned that the censure resolution and impeachment talk may actually make for an unwanted distraction. Registered voters continue to prefer Democratic candidates for Congress over GOP candidates by a margin of 50 percent to 39 percent.
This is the third of four NEWSWEEK polls taken since September 2005 showing the Democrats with a double-digit lead. The Democrats never had such an advantage in any NEWSWEEK poll conducted before the last two off-year Congressional elections, 2002 and 1998. The Democrats now lead in Congressional vote preferences of Independents by 47 percent to 31 percent.
By the way Eleanor, Feingold's "wacky" resolution has 42% support according to your poll (48% in the ARG poll). The Iraq Debacle? 29% approve of Bush's handling of Iraq.
But those extreme, "wacky" Rubber Stamp Republicans fully support the "Commander in Chief" on Iraq. Not coincidentally, that political genius the Bull Moose urges Dems to back the President and his 29% approval on Iraq. Such is life in the Beltway - up is down, black is white, idiots are geniuses.
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