I'm not really buying Red State's argument either. At the same time, however, it was an exceedingly modest victory for the Dems. They merely succeeded in proving they can win a race in which their Republican opponent drops out and endorses the Democrat. Woo-hoo.
(BTW, that thing about the district being in GOP hands for 100 years isn't true. See? The left has some "illusions" of their own. 
Hey Barry,
How have you been? Your blog has been dead for long time. Did you abandon it for good?
I want to hope that you would have supported the socially liberal republican on NY23. Dont tell me that you approve of the Sarah Palin crowd, because I like you and I dont want to lose my good opinion of you.
Blog is "dormant," don't know if it's "dead" or not yet. 
There were none of those three that I would have wanted to vote for, honestly, but I am glad that Owens at least has a "A" rating from the NRA.
Hi Barry!
Well, congratulations on ousting the odious Corzine.....although I don't know if Christie will be all that much better (worth a shot though...it'd be hard to do much worse), but Lonnegan probably would've been a better choice, Schundler probably better still....hell, even Chris Daggett might've been a better choice. At least Daggett had an actual plan to roll back property taxes there. I guess you folks will see soon enough...
Hi, JMK! Thanks, we're glad to be rid of Corzine, though I suspect you're right in that Christie is unlikely to be much of an improvement. I think Dagget was the most attractive candidate, but you know how that goes. And who would have thought Bloomberg's re-election bid would have been so close?
And in other news of interest to all of us here, it seems as if Obama has finally come around to the Honduran government's way of seeing things.
Yeah, I was shocked at the Bloomy close call too.
I think a LOT of people were ticked off about his disingenuous end-around term limits, his, "Well, if the City Council scuttles them, then I'll run," after having blocked their attempts to do just that BEFORE he'd decided to run again.
As for Honduras, that was some metamorphasis both Clinton and Obama went through....FROM demanding Zelaya's unconditional re-instatement and never accepting new elections, TO, "OK, just run his re-instatement by the same court that TWICE rebuked that and had helped their Congress remove Zelaya from power...AND we'll accept those special elections as well."
What I don't get are Americans who refuse to see what's all too obvious. Chavez is ratcheting up the anti-Semitism to curry favor with Iran, so as soon as Zelaya (a Chavez disciple) gets into trouble for looking to gut his nation's pesky Constitution, he too starts screaming about the Jews trying to get him.
I suppose some folks have to make sure that the knock they hear at the door is for THEM before they start complaining too loudly about such abuses....
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And in other news of interest to all of us here, it seems as if Obama has finally come around to the Honduran government's way of seeing things."
Barry,
I dont think that's the case. The US has not recognized the fascist regime in the Honduras and has no plans to do so. The way that the current fascist government of Honduras sees things is to simply ignore the rule of law and take control via force.
I find it super-amazing that a libertarian like you would be willing to support or find acceptable a fascist military coup and a dictatorship. I thought libertarians are for freedom.
I dont expect much from right-wing idiots and teabagger-like republicans of today that in reality support facsism (but they are too illiterate politically and too stupid to realize it). But I expect much more from you. Why on earth would you support a criminal military junta? Do you think Pinochet in Chile was also justified in the 70s to kill 3000 people?
Actually, the Obama administration DID cave on Honduras.....and that's fully documented.
In exchange for current President Micheletti’s agreeing to merely submit Manuel Zelaya’s request for reinstatement before that country’s Supreme Court, the U.S. has agreed to withdraw all sanctions, recognize the elections (next month) they did not want held, agreed that there will be no amnesty for Zelaya should he be charged with any crimes AND the Zelay-supporters or “zelayaistas” have agreed to renounce their plans to call for a constituent assembly to rewrite the constitution!
That’s as close to an unconditional surrender on the part of the Obama administration and the other Zelaya-supporters (most notably Hugo Chavez) as you can get.
Why? Because Micheletti’s submitting Mr. Zelaya’s request is a mere formality, as there’s little chance the Honduran Supreme Court will reinstate Mr. Zelaya, given that the same court has twice ruled against his right to remain in office.
As the WSJ has stated, “this is a win for Honduras!”
SEE:
“Current President Roberto Micheletti agreed yesterday to submit Mr. Zelaya's request for reinstatement as president to the Supreme Court and Congress, and in return the U.S. will withdraw its sanctions and recognize next month's presidential elections.
“Mr. Zelaya, whose term would have expired in January, isn't likely to be reinstated, given that the court has twice ruled against his right to remain in office...
“... There is a risk that Venezeula's Hugo Chávez and other Zelaya allies will try to buy support for their man and stir other trouble. But Hondurans who have rightly stood up to enormous U.S. pressure to reinstate Mr. Zelaya aren't likely to be intimidated now...
“... . Hondurans had deposed Mr. Zelaya on entirely legal grounds for threatening violence and violating the country's constitution in an attempt to run for a second term. The U.S. nonetheless meddled and demanded that Mr. Zelaya be reinstated.
“But Hondurans refused to bend, and the State Department apparently decided at last that Honduras was going to go ahead with its election whether the U.S. agreed or not. The Honduran compromise provided Mrs. Clinton with an elegant diplomatic exit.
“Washington and the Organization of American States have now promised to send observers and recognize the elections; there will be no amnesty for Mr. Zelaya if he is charged with a crime; and the zelayistas will renounce their plans to call for a constituent assembly to rewrite the constitution. If Mrs. Clinton wants to call this a victory, it is — for Honduras.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/ SB...1545624488.html
JMK,
Stop defending fascism.
"Stop defending fascism." (BW)
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I've never defended American LIBERALISM in my life, BW!
In this case I oppose the socialist/fascist, Hugo Chavez and his ally in this mess, Manny Zelaya.
BOTH H. Clinton and B. Obama ultimately came to the correct conclusion here, accepting the FACT that Honduras Congress and Supreme Court acted correctly in defending that nation's Constitution and ousting the man who sought to usurp it.
I applaud the current administration's accepting that the new elections there need to go forward and that Zelaya be accorded NO AMNESTY should he be charged with "crimes against the Constitution," which it seems virtually a given that he will.
The Obama administration did right here...sadly, a rare instance of lucidity on their parts.
I do hope for more....
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