Friday, February 04, 2005

Bush targets red state Democrats

There is good news and bad news for the president in Alberto Gonzales’ 60-36 confirmation as the Attorney General yesterday. The bad news is…hmm, on second thought there is no bad news. I had thought that the 36 votes against Gonzales was the bad news. But in that Gonzales is highly qualified with a life story that is an inspiration to all, 36 votes against him only means that 36 Democrats have some splannin to do their fair-minded constituents. So that too is good news.

The better news is the Democrats who voted for Gonzales. Look at who voted for Gonzales, Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut (blue), Ken Salazar of Colorado (red), Mary Landrieu of Louisiana (red), Bill Nelson of Florida (red), Ben Nelson of Nebraska (red) and Mark Pryor of Arkansas (red). Red state Democrats are running scared and if this 60 vote coalition holds there will be little the Democrats can do but become more and more shrill.

And what did the president do yesterday? He took off to red states with Democrat senators to put their…hmm...necks in a vice. Check out Lex’s November 3 post when he predicted this. Breezing by the wholly owned subsidiary of the Democrat Party known as the Mainstream Media, the president took his message directly to the people. Meanwhile, Democrats crowed around a statue of FDR for a photo op for their propaganda arm. The president goes to the people while, the Democrats go to the media. That just about says it all.

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