GOP Senator Cornyn: Coleman Loss Could Improve Our Chances In 2010
Now that Norm Coleman has conceded, Senator John Cornyn, head of the GOP’s efforts to win Senate seats, is out with a new statement locating the silver lining in the defeat:
“The implications of this Senate race are particularly significant because the Democrats will now have 60 votes in the Senate. With their supermajority, the era of excuses and finger-pointing is now over. With just 59 votes, Senate Democrats in recent months have passed trillion-dollar spending bills, driven up America’s debt, made every American taxpayer a shareholder in the auto industry and now want Washington to takeover America’s health care system. It’s troubling to think about what they might now accomplish with 60 votes.
“That’s why the American people will now have a particularly clear choice in next year’s election –- to continue down this path of fiscal mismanagement, more big government, and one-party control in Washington or to restore a system of checks and balances that will hold government accountable to its citizens.”
The argument appears to be that Coleman’s loss could have the surprising effect of improving GOP chances in 2010, because Dems will no longer need Republicans to pass major initiatives and will thus wholly own them if and when they come to be seen as failures.
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Hey, John! Tell ya what… wanna make next year’s choice even more clear? You can do it! Just get one or two other GOOPer senators to resign — provided they’re elected from states with Democratic governors. Yesiree, if you really like this silver lining so much, there’s plenty more where that came from. Just help yourself!
“to continue down this path of fiscal mismanagement, more big government” or to go with the spectacularly worse fiscal mismanagement that is the hallmark of the GOP.
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Yes. yes. “This is excellent news for Republicans.”
Man, what are the Republicans smoking, why aren’t we all high on it, and if I can’t have some too, is anyone going to force them into Rehab?
Sevugan should save that statement for posterity. And then right before the elections next year he should keep sending it out to Democrats nationwide encouraging them to go out and vote since voting turnout during midterms is usually not good.
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“That’s why the American people will now have a particularly clear choice in next year’s election
So I guess Cornyn’s a glass half-full, then smashed on a table to be little pointy shards to stab you in the neck sort of guy. What he doesn’t get is what this sixtieth seat says about his party’s fortunes. These sixty votes didn’t just happen, Republican politics helped make it happen.
“That’s why the American people will now have a particularly clear choice in next year’s election –- to continue down this path of fiscal mismanagement . . . and one-party control in Washington or to restore a system of checks and balances that will hold government accountable to its citizens.”
Sounds like the Democrats’ plan of 2006?
Reminds me of Republicans posing as Democrats (aka “chicken littles” or “concern trolls”) who lamented the fact that Obama won because everything (economy/wars/etc.) was so bad and if only the Republicans had won in 2008 we could blame them.
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The good news is that the chances are pretty good that Dems pick up 3-5 more seats in the senate in 2010 and that even the likes of Feinstein and Nelson and Lincoln and Landrieu will not be enough to stop the clear and overwhelming desire of the people to affect change on behalf of the American people at the expense of insurance, oil and other various minority corporate positions.
It’s always sunny where Republicans are.
“The argument appears to be …”
Gee, really? I never could have figured that out without your help, Greg.
There is a word psychiatrists would use for the diseased GOP. They’re in complete denial 90% of the time and rationalize the 10% that can’t be denied. Whatever the “word” is, there appears to be no cure for the disease. And after the devastation they’ve wrought on our country, it’s kind of satisfying watching them self-destruct.
Whatever the “word” is, there appears to be no cure for the disease.
This isn’t at all unusual at the end of a party/political movement’s cycle. By the end the original inspiration usually has hardened into sclerotic dogma that no longer supports or informs present political circumstances in a meaningful or helpful way. Thus, those politicians who subscribe to the old paradigm but come from swing districts lose, and over successive elections the legislators most likely to survive those campaigns are the ones who come from those districts that hold most intensely to the old paradigm. Thus, over successive elections the old majority/now minority legislators become progressively more and more extreme in their adherence to an out of date paradigm that no longer resonates with most of the voters. It can take several severe beatings at the election polls before that old majority party gets enough reality kicks in the head for it to do the serious soul searching and rethinking necessary for it to become relevant again. I think it’s going to take another five years or so before the GOP realizes that its embrace and active recruitment of former Dixiecrats and fundamentalist Christians is a toxic, losing strategy.
Yes sbj it sounds totally like the Dems of 2006, except for the part about endless war, culture of corruption, a very unpopular president, a very unpopular vice president, and rule by neoconservatism. I mean the similarities are astounding.
Well Cornyn’s right, in a stopped-clock twice a day sort of way. The Democrats now have no excuse but to pass some meaningful reforms.
“the era of excuses and finger-pointing is now over.”
@Chris: Let’s see – wrong about culture of corruption, wrong about endless war, and VP might not be unpopular – just unknown and stupid. Three out of three ain’t bad, Chris!