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Outstanding analysis. Followed you here from firedoglake. Why don't they have you on tv for analysis in place of [long list of dlc types].
If you are promoting progressive female blogs I would be honored to be on the list.
Temper? I just call it being passionate. My interests are working for peace by saving the lives of newborns in the former Soviet countries; saving the nation by picking Webb to be the 6th Senator last February; and egregious rants about mental illness.
Oh and please refer to my blog simply as 'egregious'.
Someone at blogspot took the name egregious for themselves tho they never use it. Hmph. Same happened at kos, two weeks before I registered, somebody took the name, but they don't use it. Immanentize suggested this was 'truly egregious' so I took that as my kos name.
No problem. I haven't updated the list in ages, but I'd be glad to add you. 
Why don't they have you on tv for analysis in place of [long list of dlc types]
Because I'm some blue-collar schmuck. What the hell do I know?
Smashing success? Please. The Dems victory was anything but that. Histstory has shown that the party out of power ALWAYS wins both houses at the 6-year point in the opponents's Presidency. The fact that the Dems only one the Senate by own seat is laughable. Please read my 11/7/06 blog for the truth.
http://oklistenup.blogspot.com/
Notice that you focus on one little phrase, rather than anything else mentioned here. Can we say strawman? It's a matter of perception. And if you're too biased to make an effective argument about the real issue here, then why do you think I'd read anything else you have to say?
I'd rather have my eyes torn out, thanks.
By the way, there have been lots of majorities of only 51 or 52 seats, like, oh, the 1994 or 2002 Republicans. Wasn't like they didn't pat themselves on the back for taking back the Senate, never bragged or boasted about it. They would never declare that it gave them a mandate to do what they wanted. :::roll eyes here:::
I don't think any party cared if it were 1 or 50 more. A majority is a majority, and the Dems did come back from a deficit to retake it, one that nearly everyone thought was virtually impossible. Get over it, you sore loser.
Hm... So both houses always go to the opposing party in the sixth year. Always. You're sure about that? Because I kinda have a passing familiarity with something called facts, and those don't bear you out.
You see, I had to do a paper on one Democrat named Sam Rayburn back in college, and I seemed to recall that he was either Majority Leader or Speaker of the House for FDR's second and third terms, but I re-checked the data, just to be sure (and get the specifics). The US Congressional website says that, for the years 1933 - 1947, the House had a Democratic Majority (Big Sam was Majority Leader after 1937, and became Speaker in 1940). Over at the United States Senate website, it seems that the Senate had a Democratic majority from 1933 - 1947. Hm... FDR's sixth year of office was..1938. And he was a Democrat, too. So both houses were Dem..the same as FDR...in his sixth year. Imagine that! And to think, in 1938, the Republicans gained something like 71 seats in the House, and they still couldn't get the majority!
Ah, but I'm not finished. These websites were treasure troves of facts.
Did you know that Republican Robert Dole was Senate Majority Leader after the 1986 elections? That kinda implies that the Republicans were in charge of the Senate. And who was President in 1986, in his sixth year of office? Hm. Ronald Reagan. Another Republican. So one of the houses of Congress was the same as that of a President in his sixth year.
But wait! There's more!
In Teddy Roosevelt's sixth year of office, there was a Republican majority in the House and Senate (Teddy was a Republican).
In Ulysses S. Grant's sixth year, there was a Republican majority in the Senate (Grant was a Republican).
We won't go back to the Jefferson - Jackson years, when there was unanimity of the President and Legislative bodies across the board. We were a young country then, and the two-party thing hadn't quite jelled yet.
Still, it would seem that the House and Senate can be in a variety of hands at the six-year point of our multi-term Presidents. Why--how can this be, when you said that the opposing party ALWAYS held both houses of Congress at the six-year point? How can the facts dispute your assertion? Why, you must be right and those facts wrong!
Histstory has shown that the party out of power ALWAYS wins both houses at the 6-year point in the opponents's Presidency.
That must explain why the GOP was so successful in the 98 midterms. The country just wanted to impeach Clinton so very badly. Hmmm. Or maybe not.
LJ, the one thing I'd add to your basic analysis is that the 50 state strategy allows you to take advantage of unlikely pickups. Every election, there are 5 or 6 races that were supposedly lost causes that suddenly become winnable, because the unbeatable incumbent got caught fucking chickens or robbing convenience stores or something. If you have a credible candidate in place, you can take the seat. If you don't, then you're throwing away a freebie. So much for Tom DeLay, y'know?
Als, you're right that the term "center" means nothing. All the pundit dopes mean by it is image, period. It has nothing to do with ideology. Webb, for instance, is being called a centrist, but on NPR the other day he was talking about the perils of income inequality. Used to be your stance on economic issues defined right and left. Now it's your haircut or some shit (that's why Tester is "centrist," I'm convinced...)
Yes, it's the haircut. Why else would an activist in the organic farming movement for the past 20 years be "conservative"?
And if anybody's waging class warfare, it's Webb.
This is smarter than anything I've seen on TV or read in a magazine lately.
I think the internet will eventually change journalism as we know it. The journalist of the future will pull knowledge form amature specialists on the internet rather than spitting nails at them. Right now all they see is the threat not the opportunity.
Hey, love your blog; love the analysis. Did you know that you're linked to Carol Platt Liebau's conservative blog at http://carolliebau.blogspot.com/ ... ? Go check her out, and please leave many, many comments. I spend most of my time online with my people (the lefties), but occasionally drop in on Carol to give the righties an itty bitty reality check, and so far, she's posted all of my comments. Anyway, I found you through her, so ... thanks, Carol!!
I don't do conservative blogs. Just like I don't do conservative men, but thanks.
Yes, it's the haircut. Why else would an activist in the organic farming movement for the past 20 years be "conservative"?
And if anybody's waging class warfare, it's Webb.
Are you at the correct site? Because that is surely the non sequitur post of the day!
Not to mention the stupidest. Class warfare? Webb? Uh... What fantasyland are you living in?
Theri: Excellent point. Thanks. When I have time, I'll work that one in, somehow.
Completely off-topic but if you hadn't heard, I thought you might like to know.
Lisa Spodak is auctioning off teddy bears signed by celebrities, and the one for the bear signed by Viggo Mortensen expires tomorrow, in case you want to get a bid in. The winning bid is currently $255.00, btw. The proceeds for this are going towards the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer.
Um... I'm not that kind of fan girl.
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I hope you don't mind an off-topic comment, but I think this is important: There is a great post on The Carpetbagger Report from a few days ago about the mainstream media's (specifically Time magazine's) ignoring the prosecutor purge scandal.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport...ives/
10367.html
What explains the failure of the mainstream media to cover the purge scandal for so long, and so many other scandals? Do you think somebody just set up newspaper editors to cheat on their wives, and threatened to tell if the editors wouldn’t play ball when they come back some day and ask for something?
It wouldn’t be that hard to do, when you think about it. People wouldn’t talk about it.
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Very cool place you have here, Aquaria!
Texans are some of the best bloggers, yeah? *grin*.
Gonna have to add you to my sidebar, and I'll be back!
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