Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Keep my friend's mugs filled barkeep

Sweet
 
I have not seen a party's fortunes collapse so suddenly since Richard Nixon got caught up in the Watergate scandal and a president who carried 49 states was threatened with impeachment and removal from office.

Michael Barone is a very savvy guy on matters like this.  Kegger at the Barn.


Many people ask me whether the Democrats are in as much trouble as they were in 1994. The numbers suggest they are in much deeper trouble, at least at this moment. Back in 1994 I wrote the first article in a nonpartisan publication suggesting that the Republicans had a serious chance to win the 40 seats necessary for a majority in the House. That article appeared in U.S. News & World Report in July 1994.

This year political handicapper Charlie Cook is writing in January, six months earlier in the cycle, that Republicans once again would capture the 40 seats they need for a majority if the House elections were held today. I concur. The generic vote question -- which party's candidates would you vote for in House elections -- is at least as favorable to Republicans as it was in the last month before the election in 1994.

Boned Jello


5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Obama '08, Backlash '10!

AWM

Anonymous said...

Yeah, that book put me to sleep, too. OTOH, the SOTU was a laugh riot. "Let's try common sense." Sure, why not? You've tried everything else.

"Just like a family, we'll have a budget and live within it." Wow! You mean that the government could have a budget and not just spend money on anything whenever it wants? What a novel idea! Why didn't anyone think of that before? No wonder he's President! He's so smart!

I also liked the way he's recycling all his old campaign promises. It was very crafty of him the way he didn't keep any of them. They worked so well for him the first time and now he gets to promise to do them all over again.
GrinfilledCelt

Anonymous said...

He really should retire some of his old material, though. Some of those jokes are getting too old to be funny. Like the one about how the government can run health care better than the private sector and more cheaply. Then there's the one about how it's all Bush's fault, or how it's the evil corporations fault that the politicians are selling their votes to the highest bidders. Those just don't make me laugh any more.
GrinfilledCelt

Anonymous said...

I am proud of myself - I managed to watch 40 minutes of the horseshit before my blood pressure just started to climb and, well that was enough. Can see I did not miss anything - honestly we would not likely miss anything now would we?

I have tried to give this guy an honest chance and he continually manages to even f*$& that up. He is a lying commie rat bastard whose only legacy will be that he tried to impose socialism (or even communism) on this country and we told him and his toadies to go to hell.....after that is where Teddy is - swimming forever.

bolivar

molonlabe28 said...

Michael Barone is a brilliant (and perhaps my favorite) political journalist.

He is brilliant, dry, incisive and on the money.

I had the pleasure of seeing him speak to the Federalist Society a few years ago and he was outstanding.

If my memory is correct, he went to Harvard for undergrad and to Yale for law school (I think), but he still came out all right.

Contrasting Michael Barone with E. J. Dionne, Howard Fineman and Chris Matthews, who are all utter shills, is like comparing Ernest Hemingway or William Faulkner with a pulp novelist.

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