AP, obviously giddy with exhaustion and not clearly thinking (methinks) wrote: “I’m surprised to find myself agreeing with Hugh Hewitt:

[I]t is a wonderful day for new media, especially talk radio. For two years we have had to defend the Congressional gang that couldn’t shoot straight. Now we get to play offense.”

The “Fairness Doctrine” is coming. It is what the nutroots want after impeaching Bush. The Fairness Doctrine will KILL rightwing talk radio. Deader than a dodo bird.

Do you have any good cookie recipes? ‘Cause that’s all that we’ll be sharing in the blogosphere when they amend McCain-Feingold to count “blogs” and the “internet” as political entities that must be regulated. And the Harry Reid Approved USSC Justices will find that the 1st Amendment allows it…..

georgej on November 8, 2006 at 3:52 AM

I calls them as I sees them, ladies and gentlemen.

Gun control is coming. Schumer (the architect of the Senate take over) will demand it. He has already promised it, in fact.

The “Fairness Doctrine” is coming. And Cowbass, it will be aimed at suppressing Limbaugh, Hannity, and rightwing talk radio. The nutroots will always have the MSM to transmit their ideas. We won’t.

“Campaign Reform” is coming. It will be aimed at the political blogs in order to regulate them. And again the only political voices that will be heard will be the MSM’s liberal ones.

The Death Tax and higher income taxes are coming. Rangel has made that perfectly clear.

There is simply NOT a silver lining here, ladies and gentlemen. I listened to Pelosi/Reid tonight. The liberal Democrats believe they have an absolute moral authority mandate. They will act accordingly. And they are beholding to the nutroots, not the average American citizen.

We will be facing two very tough years — at a minimum. And there is not very much that we can do about it now. As Pelosi said, the American people have spoken.

Will there be some moderate democrats in Congress now? Sure. But they’ll be “freshmen” and will be at the very bottom of seniority. The committee chairs — the ones who control which bills get voted out — they will be LIBERALS. We saw this in 2001 when Jeffords switched parties and saw Daschle take over the Senate. The “freshmen moderates” will be powerless to shape legislation. And don’t bet money on the theory that these freshmen will vote against their party leadership. Nancy Pelosi showed Jane Harmon how “rebels” are to be treated.

And you can bet that EVERY national security secret from now own will become public knowledge, not matter how much it hurts the country because they WILL be working to insure that they retain control in 2008 as well as pick up the Presidency.

How many conservative US Supreme Court Justices will Bush be able to appoint in the remainder of his term? ZERO. NADA. NONE. He’ll get at least one more justice to appoint, I’m thinking, maybe two. But unless it is a liberal justice, it’ll be a non-starter. Charles Schumer will make sure of that. And Kennedy will be the hit man as he always is.

Will there be progress in the war on terrorism? How can there be when the leadership (liberals all) of the Democratic Party won’t even AGREE that we are in a war?

Yes, Bill C, I do fret about it. Because this is not like “normal times” where we all just “kinda got along” after an election. The new majority in Congress DOES NOT HAVE A CLUE about the threat of terrorism. They have proved over and over again that they think it’s still 9/10/01. They are thinking of revenge against Bush and the Republicans as well. And don’t even THINK about questioning their patriotism.

They are already BRAGGING about a “new direction” in foreign policy, especially Iraq. It won’t take long before they call Afghanistan a “quagmire” and cut and run from there, too. Besides, it was BUSH’S VICTORY and they will willfully allow the Afghan people to descend into the Hell we rescued them from, in order to tarnish Bush’s legacy.

What’s their plan for Iran’s nukes? The same as it was for North Korea. And they’ll force Bush to go along using the power of the purse. What’s the second thing that Iran is going to do once they get a nuke? Give it to Al Qaeda with instructions to blow up a US city. (The first thing they’ll do is blow up Tel Aviv, BTW).

I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the ramifications of at Democratic Party “two-fer.” I’ve read the pundits, both military/milblog and political.

As I said, all I can say is that I calls them as I sees them.

georgej on November 8, 2006 at 5:11 AM