The Dims head out West

With a CNN blowhard moderating the debate in Vegas I don't see much hope for hard questions.

I just hope the union forces make it a show.

Harry the Weak-Kneed Reid

Our Senate Majority Leader said Tuesday (11/13) that Democrats won't approve more money for the Iraq war this year unless President Bush agrees to begin bringing troops home.,

Oh, that'll work.

Whatever is Congress doing?

On Tuesday (11/13), Beijing dismissed a bill introduced in Congress that backs Taiwan's entry into the United Nations, reiterating its long-held view that the island territory is part of China.

I'm sure the Administration is going nuts over this. Doesn't Congress have enough to do (read: budget) without minding the business of other countries, or centuries?

Don't "pull a Russert"!

Wolf Blitzer has been warned not to gang up on Hillary at the next debate in Las Vegas.

Drudge Report - "CNN's Wolf Blitzer has been warned not to focus Thursday's Dem debate on Hillary. 'This campaign is about issues, not on who we can bring down and destroy,' top Clinton insider explains. 'Blitzer should not go down to the levels of character attack and pull 'a Russert.'' Blitzer is set to moderate debate from Vegas, with questions also being posed by Suzanne Malveaux... "

I'm sure HRH knows nothing about this directive. Please.

Thompson's campaign

I can't figure out where Thompson's campaign is headed. Mary Matalin is still there I think, but I'm not sure. What do you think?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/12/AR2007111202007.html?sid=ST2007111202148

Mrs. Clinton (a/k/a Hillary)

I can't abide by that woman's abhorrence of and refusal to use the name that is the only reason she is where she is today.

What is a "Progressive"?

Only the liberal candidates know because it's a concept that exists only in their heads.

The Democrats in Congress.

Nancy Pelosi is worse than Dennis Hastert could have ever been. What is the point of voting endlessly on the withdrawal of troops from Iraq except to appease the far Left?

With every veto, all the Dems are doing is repeatedly pouring salt in their wounds by reminding themselves that George W. Bush is still the President.

we are tearing the country apart - will it survive?

Political discussions have always generated heat, but the hatred that is expressed by Conservatives and Progressives toward one another is at a whole new level.

Will the USA survive?
Yes. There are so many of us who will work to ensure that it does that failure is not an option. ;)

our political parties

Both of the U.S. political parties are in a pseudo-state of transformation, but it seems that the Republicans are more intent on doing so than the Democrats (or the former are more aggressive in their pursuit of change due to the recent border legislation proposal and the growing budget deficit). However, neither Party has embraced a substantive change in its views.

The Republicans seek to return to long-established positions on major issues such as defense, taxation, and the economy, and the Democrats insist on a mere label change: being called "Progressives" instead of "Liberals" or "Democrats", all the while adhering to traditional Democrat Party positions. It is amusing that such positions are always given with a healthy dose of lingering disgust/contempt/hate for President Bush and his election 7 years ago, but such rhetoric is neither healthy for the Democrat Party or political discourse in general.

So where are we and will meaningful change result? With not one vote having been cast, its simply too early to tell. In the meantime, does anyone care to venture a guess?