History was made this week! For the first time in four election cycles, Democrats
are not attacking the Diebold Corp. the day after the election, accusing it of
rigging its voting machines. I guess Diebold has finally been vindicated.
So the left won the House and also Nicaragua. They've had a good week. At least
they don't have their finger on the atom bomb yet.
Democrats support surrender in Iraq, higher taxes and the impeachment of President
Bush. They just won an election by pretending to be against all three.
Jon Tester, Bob Casey Jr., Heath Shuler, possibly Jim Webb — I've never seen so
much raw testosterone in my life. The smell of sweaty jockstraps from the "new
Democrats" is overwhelming.
Having predicted this paltry Democrat win, my next prediction is how long it will
take all these new "gun totin' Democrats" to be fitted for leotards.
Now that they've won their elections and don't have to deal with the hicks anymore,
Tester can cut lose the infernal buzz cut, Casey can start taking "Emily's List"
money, and Webb can go back to writing more incestuously homoerotic fiction ... and
just in time for Christmas!
But according to the media, this week's election results are a mandate for pulling
out of Iraq (except in Connecticut where pro-war Joe Lieberman walloped anti-war
"Ned the Red" Lamont).
In fact, if the Democrats' pathetic gains in a sixth-year election are a statement
about the war in Iraq, Americans must love the war! As Roll Call put it back when
Clinton was president: "Simply put, the party controlling the White House nearly
always loses House seats in midterm elections" — especially in the sixth year.
In Franklin D. Roosevelt's sixth year in 1938, Democrats lost 71 seats in the House
and six in the Senate.
In Dwight Eisenhower's sixth year in 1958, Republicans lost 47 House seats, 13 in
the Senate.
In John F. Kennedy/Lyndon Johnson's sixth year, Democrats lost 47 seats in the
House and three in the Senate.
In Richard Nixon/Gerald Ford's sixth year in office in 1974, Republicans lost 43
House seats and three Senate seats.
Even America's greatest president, Ronald Reagan, lost five House seats and eight
Senate seats in his sixth year in office.
But in the middle of what the media tell us is a massively unpopular war, the
Democrats picked up about 30 House seats and five to six Senate seats in a
sixth-year election, with lots of seats still too close to call. Only for
half-brights with absolutely no concept of yesterday is this a "tsunami" — as
MSNBC calls it — rather than the death throes of a dying party.
During eight years of Clinton — the man Democrats tell us was the greatest
campaigner ever, a political genius, a heartthrob, Elvis! — Republicans picked up
a total of 49 House seats and nine Senate seats in two midterm elections. Also,
when Clinton won the presidency in 1992, his party actually lost 10 seats in the
House — only the second time in the 20th century that a party won the White House
but lost seats in the House.
Meanwhile, the Democrats' epic victory this week, about which songs will be sung
for generations, means that in two midterm elections Democrats were only able to
pick up about 30 seats in the House and four seats in the Senate — and that's
assuming they pick up every seat that is currently too close to call. (The
Democrats' total gain is less than this week's gain because Bush won six House and
two Senate seats in the first midterm election.)
So however you cut it, this midterm proves that the Iraq war is at least more
popular than Bill Clinton was.
In a choice between Republicans' "Stay until we win" Iraq policy or the Democrats'
"Stay, leave ... stay for a while then leave ... redeploy and then come back ...
leave and stay ... cut and run ... win, lose or draw policy," I guess Americans
prefer the Republican policy.
The Democrats say we need a "new direction" in Iraq. Yeah, it's called "reverse."
Democrats keep talking about a new military strategy in Iraq. How exactly is
cut-and-run a new strategy? The French have been doing it for years. The Democrats
are calling their new plan for Iraq "Operation Somalia."
The Democrats certainly have their work cut out for them. They have only two years
to release as many terrorists as possible and lock up as many Republicans as they
can. Republicans better get that body armor for the troops the Democrats are always
carping about — and fast. The troops are going to need it for their backs.
