Comments for Politics with Bex and Rizzo

Comment on What’s Wrong with Kennedy? by Joe Selby

Joe Selby — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:16:03 +0000

No one erupted when she was one of three advising a newly elected Obama. Why the huff now?

Comment on What’s Wrong with Kennedy? by Daryl Northrop

Daryl Northrop — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:49:11 +0000

The whole “unqualified” argument reeks of Republican and/or DLC talking points. What is “qualified?” I don’t know, and certainly a definition is never advanced to answer that question.

Since when do liberals *not* want another Kennedy in the Senate? Kos confuses me on this one.

Comment on Special Election? Surely, You Jest by Daryl Northrop

Daryl Northrop — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:46:14 +0000

Now you’ve got it!

Comment on Special Election? Surely, You Jest by Joe Selby

Joe Selby — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:46:06 +0000

And Blagojevich would appoint one of those people because he has the best interest of the party in mind.

Comment on Special Election? Surely, You Jest by Daryl Northrop

Daryl Northrop — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:37:11 +0000

I am always amazed at how much time is spent by Democratic strategists pondering “How can we snatch defeat from the jaws of victory?”

I’m sure there is a large cadre of retired Democratic politicians who would love the chance for a free-pass into the Senate, and then step aside for the next election.

Comment on Special Election? Surely, You Jest by Joe Selby

Joe Selby — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 05:07:11 +0000

Whose political career do you want them to make the sacrificial lamb by making them the senator that bought his appointment? It’s Illinois. A democrat doesn’t lose a senate run in Illinois. He does the same thing the republicans will do, run against Blagojevich and then takes the seat free of scandal and able to fend off other democratic challengers in 2010.

Comment on Jindal Opts for the Long Road by Joe Selby

Joe Selby — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:18:25 +0000

If his aspirations are for the senate, that almost seems a sure thing barring any political harrangs or poorly managed disasters in the interim. But given the success rate of governors elected president versus senators, I would think he might try for president in 2016. Certainly running at the end of Obama’s tenure (assuming there are two terms) is to his advantage. Age prejudice will be diminished after 8 years of a young president. Racial prejudice will be diminished after 8 years of a black president. And as you say, he won’t be tarnished by the folly of running and failing against Obama in 2012.

Comment on Jindal Opts for the Long Road by Daryl Northrop

Daryl Northrop — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:41:12 +0000

The rebranding process is crucial for the republican party. The democrats have managed to go through their painful time of adjustment (and perhaps still have a ways to go), and now it looks like the republicans will be in for the same thing. Sadly, the social conservatives and the neo conservatives pulled the republicans too far to the right for most of America. The Cheney/Dobson fusion has clearly collapsed in failure.

Comment on GOP Reborn: More Conservative and Ideologically Driven by Daryl Northrop

Daryl Northrop — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:23:27 +0000

Excellent analysis! The GOP has placed a high-stakes bet with their rejection of their strident ideological approach. They run the risk of the Democrats using their actions to portray Republicans as not only uncaring toward the plight of workers, ignorant and uncaring of the cascade effect towards suppliers of the Big 3, but of being uncaring about the U.S. economy as a whole. Rather, they would cling to ideological theory than try to help alleviate the very real economic pain the country is experiencing.

Prior to their actions to stop the UAW bailout, I put the GOP’s chances of picking up seats in congress in the 2010 mid-term elections at roughly 60%. Now I give them only about a 30% chance of picking up seats, a 30% chance of maintaining the status-quo, and a 40% of losing additional seats. Unfortunately for them, they have not learned the lesson’s of the 2006 and 2008 elections – one of them was not that the U.S. was embracing liberalism, but rather it was rejecting ideological conservatism, and wanting to move back to the center.