Fall of the house of kitsch
Salon
by Sidney Blumenthal
11/08/06
The Bush administration and the Republican Congress could not defend themselves on their public record and urgently needed to change the subject. They required new fields of combat -- not the Iraq war, certainly not convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, convicted Rep. Duke Cunningham, investigated Rep. Mark Foley or indicted House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. So they launched offensives on Michael J. Fox's Parkinson's disease, Jim Webb's novels and gay marriage. Yet battle-hardened cultural warriors -- Rush Limbaugh, Lynne Cheney and the Rev. Ted Haggard, among others -- did not find themselves triumphant as in the 2004 campaign, but unexpectedly wounded at their own hands." [subscription or ad view required]
http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2006/11/08/election/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Abramoff
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cunningham
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Foley
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tom+DeLay
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
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Post mortem
The Weekly Standard
by Fred Barnes
11/08/06
This one is pretty easy to explain. Republicans lost the House and probably the Senate because of Iraq, corruption, and a record of taking up big issues and then doing nothing on them. Of these, the war was by far the biggest factor. Unpopular wars trump good economies and everything else. President Truman learned this in 1952, as did President Johnson in 1968. Now, it was President Bush's turn, and since his name wasn't on the ballot, his party took the hit. The defeat for Republicans was short of devastating -- but only a little short...
http://tinyurl.com/ycxuzj
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Sidney Blumenthal
11/08/06
The Bush administration and the Republican Congress could not defend themselves on their public record and urgently needed to change the subject. They required new fields of combat -- not the Iraq war, certainly not convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, convicted Rep. Duke Cunningham, investigated Rep. Mark Foley or indicted House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. So they launched offensives on Michael J. Fox's Parkinson's disease, Jim Webb's novels and gay marriage. Yet battle-hardened cultural warriors -- Rush Limbaugh, Lynne Cheney and the Rev. Ted Haggard, among others -- did not find themselves triumphant as in the 2004 campaign, but unexpectedly wounded at their own hands." [subscription or ad view required]
http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2006/11/08/election/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Abramoff
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cunningham
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Foley
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tom+DeLay
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Haggard
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=vote
Post mortem
The Weekly Standard
by Fred Barnes
11/08/06
This one is pretty easy to explain. Republicans lost the House and probably the Senate because of Iraq, corruption, and a record of taking up big issues and then doing nothing on them. Of these, the war was by far the biggest factor. Unpopular wars trump good economies and everything else. President Truman learned this in 1952, as did President Johnson in 1968. Now, it was President Bush's turn, and since his name wasn't on the ballot, his party took the hit. The defeat for Republicans was short of devastating -- but only a little short...
http://tinyurl.com/ycxuzj
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 9. Nov, 14:21
