Democrats' Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week
Last week a reporter at a fairly large newspaper in Texas tweeted that there was no difference between Democrats inviting Stephen Colbert to testify in character and the Republican Party's Pledge document outlining policy goals. They were both stunts, you see. I thought the suggestion was stupid but I think that his views are representative of a typical mainstream media reporter.
My better half wrote a column noting how many in the media dismissed the Tea Party in similar fashion -- saying that they were not serious. Journalist Marc Ambinder, now covering the White House for National Journal, actually said he wasn't going to bother covering the GOP any more because:
“My Republican friends keep asking me when I'll take the GOP seriously again and why I've stopped writing about ticky-tak political gamesmanship and GOP consultant tricks. When they're a serious party with serious ideas, then we can talk.”
My husband notes that on Monday of last week, Lady Gaga held a rally in Maine to try to convince that state's senators to rescind "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." On Tuesday, the chairman of the Democratic Party in Ohio -- where the GOP is poised to gain the governorship, a Senate seat and as many as five congressional seats -- dropped the "F-bomb" on Tea Party folks and refused to apologize. On Wednesday, President Obama used his faith-based office to call religious leaders and ask them to talk up his unpopular health care legislation. On Thursday, Democrats announced they wouldn't vote on extending tax cuts. And then on Friday there was the Colbert stunt, which Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi described as "appropriate." He ends:
By contrast, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, refused to attend Colbert’s testimony. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, retorted to Colbert that he respects workers who “prefer the aroma of fresh dirt to the sewage of American elitists.”
Maybe when Democrats are a serious party with serious ideas, voters will take them seriously again. It’s a safe bet that won’t happen before November.
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Jun '10
Re: Democrats' Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week
"Can you hear me now!"
Jul '10
Re: Democrats' Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week
If a "sartorially-challenged 24-year-old pop star" can't dictate a change of established military policy, who can?
Your husband and Byron York are incontrovertible proof that the NYTimes and WAPost get their talent scouts from the Detroit Lions.
Edited on Sep 26, 2010 at 9:11pmRe: Democrats' Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week
It's funny you mention that because I gave my husband a hard time about that line. One of Miss Gaga's designers is a cousin of mine.
May '10
Re: Democrats' Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week
One notes that Hoyer drifted from the party line on that one. Further proving my theory that we don't need to defeat Pelosi directly to be rid of her. Just snatch the party out from under her. There is a tide in the affairs of men, Steny.
And what kind of name is Steny, anyway? Is it short for something?
Ha! I thought that might be your husband. Just be careful that you don't fall into the trap of Paul Krugman's wife. She's responsible for half the crazy talk in his columns. She left the country when Reagan was elected, and well, that's all you need to know, really.