Two days ago, America woke up to the news that the Democrats had won control of the Congress and we were hours away from learning that they had also won the Senate. What a difference 2 days makes in politics. George McGovern is being reintroduced to the Democratic party. Next week, he is planning to meet with 60 members of Congress to discuss strategy to remove U.S. troops from Iraq by June. Murtha has plans of becoming the next Majority Leader. I suppose he feels that it is payment for all those deals he brokers at his desk: “Listen, this is not a dictatorship. The President can say all he wants to. The President has, has no power. The President is a, a perception of power. And he’s lost that power in this election.” And then we have Lincoln Chafee who is a disgruntled loser.
Two days after losing a bid for a second term, Sen. Lincoln Chafee said he was unsure whether he would remain a Republican.
Chafee lost to Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse in a race seen as a referendum on
President Bush and the GOP. On Thursday, he was asked whether he would stick with the Republican Party or become an independent or Democrat.“I haven’t made any decisions. I just haven’t even thought about where my place is,” Chafee said at a news conference. When pressed on whether his comments indicated he might leave the GOP, he replied: “That’s fair.”
Our future as a party depends on getting back and sticking to our core beliefs. We can not be seen like Pelosi, who promised the moon in the first 100 hours but now looks like that won’t be happening:
Despite House Minority Leader Pelosi’s pledge this week that Democrats will implement the 9/11 Commission’s recommendations within the first 100 hours of taking control of the House in January, Democratic lawmakers and aides say they are not sure how they will do it. How they plan to overcome anticipated committee turf battles that have bedeviled some Republican efforts to streamline oversight of homeland security programs also remains unclear. “We didn’t have all this up on the screen ready to hit to send,” an aide to Pelosi acknowledged after Tuesday’s elections. Another aide added, “We don’t know what exactly will be brought to the floor.” Privately, aides acknowledged that most of the recommendations by the commission that investigated the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, have been addressed in some way by the Bush administration or Republican-controlled Congress. But they said those recommendations have not been fully implemented, or have been done in name only, creating a need for new legislation to fix the shortfalls.
Any positives from the election? Joe is being promised the moon!
Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, set to become majority leader of the new Democratic-led Senate, “talked to Lieberman on Wednesday and told the senator he expects him to be the next chairman of the committee” on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, said Reid spokesman Jim Manley.