WAS TUESDAY A BIG ASS KICKING NIGHT FOR DEMOCRATS??

Much has been made over the last twenty four hours, about Tuesday night's Democratic victories in New Jersey in Virginia, . . . as if it's some sort of referendum on George Bush and his parties' chances in the 2006. But really, as much as it was somewhat of a Republican defeat, (in that they didn’t kick tail, as they’ve done in nearly every election since 1992), it doesn't really matter too much in the larger scheme of things.

First of all, the victories in New Jersey and Virginia do not represent a loss of Republican power. Corzine is replacing the Democratic stand-in who took over after former Democratic Governor James McGreevey came out of the closet and resigned. Kaine wins in Virginia replacing another Democrat. The mainstream media is hailing the Kaine win as some sort of embarrassment to the president, since he campaigned for the Republican opponent, Jerry Kilgore. But as you will find if you do any amount of research, Kilgore ran an extremely inept campaign and essentially defeated himself. The RNC should be ashamed of that, if anything.

So, . . . the Democrats retain two governorships, . . . BFD!!

The Democrats did not "clean up big," as the Associated Press and the three “major” networks are claiming today. In fact, according the AP's own poll, President Bush wasn't a factor in voters' choices two days ago. We are a political eternity away from the mid-term elections next year, and the left is going to have to do a lot more to try and fulfill their goal of winning back the House and the Senate. Fat chance!!

Now, . . . . having said that, let's also point out that the Republicans in congress have been a huge disappointment of late. Yesterday they were engaging in that anti-capitalistic exercise of browbeating oil company executives. The Republican chairman of the Senate Finance Committee has introduced a new version of profit sharing, where corporations bow to government and political pressure and "donate" huge chunks of their profits to government spending programs -- as if they didn't pay enough taxes in the first place. Then there's the spending. Republicans have shown absolutely no desire whatsoever to curtail spending. Shame on them!! That should incur some rather debilitating poll numbers, if they don’t mend their ways, . . . SOON!!

Frankly, if they lose control of the Congress in the midterm elections next year I probably won't be all that upset. At this point, unless they dummy up, and fly right, . . . they deserve it.

God Bless,
Dan’L