In the News
Posted at 8:52 am on Tuesday, December 19, 2006, in In the News, and tagged 2008, kos.
- Kos continues his overzealous attacks on California Democrat Ellen Tauscher, who has supposedly “consistently undermined the Democratic Party.” Much like Joe Lieberman, I guess. Alas, Lieberman is still in office.
- With the incoming Speaker of the House being from San Francisco, my representative in Congress has more power in Washington. “Rep. George Miller [or] ‘Big George,’ as President Bush dubbed him, is a top lieutenant, a close friend and a key adviser on politics and policy [to Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi].“
- And Rudy Giuliani could win the presidency but not the GOP primary because he is too liberal on social issues. (I spoke with my wife at length on this issue over dinner a week or two ago and I found it relatively difficult to explain such a complex political situation. I think the main point, however, to conclude is that the GOP is not in the mainstream.) Giuliani could run as a Democrat, however, but then he would lose that luster of being a moderate Republican which is the only way he receives the votes from people on the right who utterly refuse to vote for a Democrat. Like me in reverse.
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December 19th, 2006 at 11:31 am
As a somewhat impartial observer, not being from your neck of the woods, I have to wonder exactly why Kos hates Rep. Tauscher so much. Is it because she’s not liberal enough, or because she supported some bipartisan initiatives, or because she’s a friend of Sen. Lieberman, or what? If it’s because of the nebulous charge that “she consistently undermined the Democratic Party,” I can think of several better examples than that. Maybe it’s because she doesn’t pay him obeisance like he thinks he deserves?
As for Mr. Giuliani, he is one of those “rara avis” called a moderate Repub who’s a liberal on social issues, clearly an endangered species. The mainstream Repubs believe that any candidate they support must be conservative in both political and social issues, like their great “W” is. Of course, we all know how successful “compassionate conservatism” has been, don’t we?