In for a scare
The Weekly Standard
by Irwin M. Stelzer
10/31/06
Next week at this time voters will troop to the polls to elect all 435 members of the House of Representatives, 33 of the 100 senators, 36 of the 50 state governors, and hundreds of state, city, and local officials. Opinion polls suggest that the Republicans are in for a drubbing, due to a combination of unhappiness with the Bush team's conduct of the war in Iraq, its perceived incompetence in responding to hurricane Katrina, and a variety of scandals, sexual and financial. The administration quite naturally wants to change voters' focus to other matters, and has dusted off the old Clinton slogan, 'It's the economy, stupid.' ... The administration's problem remains: almost nothing it can say about the economy can distract voters from Iraq, which they seem to see as an unwinnable war being fought because squabbling Iraqis and their leaders just can't get a grip on the security problem...
http://tinyurl.com/yjcx2e
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Irwin M. Stelzer
10/31/06
Next week at this time voters will troop to the polls to elect all 435 members of the House of Representatives, 33 of the 100 senators, 36 of the 50 state governors, and hundreds of state, city, and local officials. Opinion polls suggest that the Republicans are in for a drubbing, due to a combination of unhappiness with the Bush team's conduct of the war in Iraq, its perceived incompetence in responding to hurricane Katrina, and a variety of scandals, sexual and financial. The administration quite naturally wants to change voters' focus to other matters, and has dusted off the old Clinton slogan, 'It's the economy, stupid.' ... The administration's problem remains: almost nothing it can say about the economy can distract voters from Iraq, which they seem to see as an unwinnable war being fought because squabbling Iraqis and their leaders just can't get a grip on the security problem...
http://tinyurl.com/yjcx2e
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 1. Nov, 15:43
