Okay I am probably way to into Star Wars but tonights events calls into mind some Yoda wisdom.."careful we must tread the Dark side clouds everything"
Obviously the big news of the night is the Hammer backing down and going to focus on restoring his good name and retiring. Should we be excited? Is this a sign the Republicans are frantic this little kossack is not to sure... More on the flip..or down below..
Okay first let me send the congrats out to my Yankees for a royal Ass kicking/humilating win that they laid on the hated Oakland A's ( I was going to name the them the Oakland Choke-artist A's however due to recent err painful playoff history decided to holster that little dig.) WAHOOO what a great start to the best 9 months of the year in my moments of euphoria I was shocked to see it brought down by sudden and serious news of the hammer.
Let us have a moment of honesty the Republicans have just done a much better job of framing the debate over the last 5 years so it is with this knowledge that I am more than a bit worried about the "retirement" of Assclown Delay. We have to ask ourselves why are they doing this. Fear? A sudden onset of conscious? (ya I am laughing while typing that last one to) Or a last ditch (yet an inventive and just may work) effort to reframe the debate. Shameless plug time here I am a big fan of the boys over at Frame shop (now be good kossack and take a trip on the information highway if you have not seen it http://www.frameshopisopen.com/). They have really helped me stop and think about positions and why things happen in poltics. This is not some random act kiddies, I can assure you it was talked about in depth and I think is not the beginning of republicans running and hiding but instead of the beginning of an offensive. Will it work time will tell.
There is no question here or any other of us Dems or progressives (for the record I consider myself a Dem) Delays's little cronies are all still running around dirty and corrupt as ever before, getting him out of the picture is a stroke of genuis because they can frame any other attacks on house leadership as "election year poltics" or a character assasination and a way for Dems to avoid real hard "issues" a very good frame for them to push and if we are not careful a possible successful one (now lets be clear I am in now way saying corruption and being a royal asshole is not a legitimate issue however I like you am insane and obsessive about my poltics most people are not)
The other Frame I see taking shape which they did well in 04 on the debates is building the opposition up therefore lowering expectectations for themselves to make success easier. As seen over at Crooks and Lairs Numnuts Brooks starts to make the frame by saying (am paraphrasing here however is again on Crooks and lairs)"they are going to lose the house" this is espeacially interesting because he shows his hand quite obviously by adding at the end "if the Democrats can not win now they never can". This is a stroke of genuis while yes they are in trouble over in God own Party it is NOOO sure thing we take the house or the senate mroe likely we close the gap to 2-4 seats in the house and 1 or 2 in the senate so we have huge great gains we lose in the spin because we all know the talking heads will start the spin IMMEDIATELY how we blew our best chance unprincipled yada yada yada annoyying but a good strategy.
Everyone should remember the Kerry is a great debater vs Bush who is a village idiot and we should just credit him for showing up and not drooling spin, lets be clear here this worked well for them in put into question to casual observers the outcome of the 2nd Debate and the 3rd. Certainly the GOP is jettisoning any excess baggage and trying to put on the "we learned our lesson faces" that we all know and love from the local 2 year old. We need to be careful this frame does not take shape freeping polls writing the head shows etc.
**Tweety Watch*
Anyone catch the Tucker show in which he was interviewing(insert eye roll here please do not sprain eyeball as I doubt kos has insurance for such injuries) Matthews about the resignation? Besides the idocy in mathews being interviewed by tucker 2 interesting points
1) Delay has begun mentioning god/jesus every 2 seconds and seemed to have found jesus. More interesting was the follow up guest who mentioned this cutsie little story how Delay threw out jesus at 16 then found him again as a freshman Congressman because he attended bible studies with other GOP congressman. AHA another frame being set up for the defense appealing to the red belt bible thumpers all **yak alert please try not to yak upon reading this next sentence. "All I have done in congress was in the spirit of jesus and his teachings I am human I have sinned and ask forgiveness". Right after this statement I am sure he will board Robertson Diamond planes for Africa.
2) Mathews all impressed with himself that delay called him personally because of "how fair he had been with him" I wonder if it was comments like this:
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Little message to Chris you fat slobbering shit for brains ass hat it is not a GOOD thing to be complimented by the most corrupt member of congress about how you have treated him on his way down. MORON. I wish someone would just punch that guy is his face.
Oh one last point GO Yankees and (well 2 points) I heard the other day Alan Colmes likes the Kos if this is the case and you are reading this you twitchy weenie..Fuck you from all the other kossacks..
Good night and Good Luck all!!