NY Times & "Some" (DLC) Democrats whoring that muddled-middle "CONSERVATIVE" election 2006 win again. NOT!
To steal a phrase from Ronnie Reagan, "THERE THEY GO AGAIN!"
Election 2006 isn't even two weeks old, some close congressional seats haven't even been resolved... and ALREADY the New York whore Times and DLC Democrats are out there banging away at their "CONSERVATIVE VALUES WON THE ELECTION!" drums.
Only thing is... "conservative values" most certainly DID NOT win Election '06!
We need no better proof our our assertion than this excellent by Jeffrey L. Austin about one of those still up-in-the-air races, the one for North Carolina's 6th District, where dark-horse, underfunded, wa-ay outsider Democratic challenger is within 329 votes of OUSTING, FOUR-TERM Republican Rep. Robin Hayes.
In case you missed it, that was NORTH_CAROLINA, home of huge tobacco companies, NASCAR race culture, an often rural, conservative ethos, and as many gospel & salvation churches as you can shake a stick at.
<< A social studies teacher and former factory worker, Kissell was a distinct underdog who emerged as the Democratic nominee only after the first choice of party insiders quit the race before the May 2 primary. As of Oct. 18, Hayes had outraised Kissell by $2.1 million to $451,000, and the challenger had expended all but $35 of his campaign treasury.
Yet Kissell, RUNNING ON A PLATFORM OF ECONOMIC POPULISM and OPPOSITION TO THE IRAQ WAR, tied Hayes closely to President Bush and became a serious contender for one of the biggest upsets of the year. >>
http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20061123/pl_cq_politics/chanceofupsetremainsinnc8withhandcountsettobegin
GET THAT, DLC 'Dems" and NY TIMES ??
DESPITE a $2.1 million to $450,000 campaign funding disadvantage, going up against the name recognition of a FOUR term incumbent, and despite the POLITICAL INEXPERIENCE of his challenger campaign, Democrat Lawrence Kissell is within 329 votes of kicking out the incumbent, and our guess here at C-Dems is that Kissell would win IF ALL THE VOTES ARE COUNTED CORRECTLY.
SO, how does the NY Times write up the first two weeks of Democratic preparations for their majority in the next (110th) Congress?
ans.- By defining Steney Hoyer and other DLC/Beltway INSIDER positions as being "CENTRIST", and therefore by default the positions of Pelosi, Miller, and successful challengers such as Lawrence Kissell as "LEFTIST" or some degree "to the left."
Even though the VAST MAJORITY of Americans APPROVE of Social Security, the 40 hour work week, a raise in the minimum wage, job safety and health care, stock market oversight and pension security, public education and access to higher education.... despite the fact that the VAST MAJORITY of Ameicans support ALL these programs and more, the Times, the DLC/DC insider Democrats, and most of the "mainstream media" CONTINUE TO PAINT Democratic leaders and challegers who support a CONTINUATION of this moderate but progressive agenda as "LEFTISTS."
THE DEMOCRATS DID NOT WIN election 2006 by running as "REPUBLICAN LITE" which is what the statement "many say... Pelosi [in] carefully nudging her party to the center... helped the Democrats retake the majority" implies.
Notice the Times' use of WEASEL WORDS to butress their notion that Pelosi and Miller are "too leftist":
"SOME SAY"
"RAISED FEARS"
"more centrist candidate" (e.g. the same old DLC Rethuglican lite Lieberman/Zell Millers are "centrists")
"concerns of some Democrats" (here we see the REPETITION of "some say")
"far left would dominate and DESTABILIZE"
OUR advice to Ms. Pelosi and the House Democratic leadership: IGNORE the weasel-words of the Times and MSM ("mainstream media"), stick to the programs that have made America GREAT over the past 100 years... and as PRIORITY NUMBER ONE, make sure that EVERY AMERICAN _KNOWS_ that his or her vote, for even the most rural, out-of-the-way district, is COUNTED CORRECTLY, today and in the future.
(PS: "IGNORE" the weasel-words of the NY Times" is not the correct term at all: "Liberal" Dems must REDEFINE themselves as PROTECTING THE MIDDLE, and that "conservative" Dems such as Lieberman and Zell Miller and Bush-Republicans are actually REACTIONARY Righties who intend to ROB American citizens and Democratic voters of 100 years of hard fought progress.)
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Pelosi’s Ascendancy in House Puts a Close Liberal Ally in the Spotlight
By KATE ZERNIKE
November 25, 2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/25/us/politics/25miller.html
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 — In a friendship stretching over 30 years and many plane trips to Washington from their neighboring California districts, Representatives Nancy Pelosi and George Miller have become so close that, as colleagues say, they finish each others’ sentences.
So it was not surprising that, when Mrs. Pelosi faced the first test of her role as speaker-elect of the House of Representatives, Mr. Miller was in the background, pushing her to back Representative John P. Murtha of Pennsylvania to replace her as Democratic leader over the more centrist candidate, Representative Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland, who had been her No. 2 for four years.
In the week since Mr. Hoyer won the position, Democratic leaders have played down any disharmony created by the leadership struggle. But Mr. Miller’s role raised fears that after carefully nudging her party to the center, which many say helped the Democrats retake the majority, Mrs. Pelosi would let her liberal allies have too much influence.
In the concerns of some Democrats — and the I-told-you-so’s of some Republicans — Mr. Miller represents Mrs. Pelosi’s true liberal soul, and his pushing for Mr. Murtha a sign that the far left would dominate and destabilize the Democrats, after they have emerged from 12 years in the minority.
There is no doubt that Mr. Miller remains one of Mrs. Pelosi’s most trusted advisers. But those who know them both say that he, and his influence, have been wrongly judged.
Now one of the 10 most senior members of Congress, Mr. Miller has proven himself both a liberal lion — an early advocate of an increase in the minimum wage and a champion of the environment — and savvy about working both sides of the aisle. An agitator for higher teacher standards, he was one of the chief negotiators with President Bush on the No Child Left Behind legislation. (Mr. Bush nicknamed Mr. Miller, a burly and now white-haired former high school football player, Big George.)
After Hurricane Katrina, he enlisted Republicans to reverse Mr. Bush’s order that allowed federal contractors working to rebuild the Gulf Coast to pay workers less than the prevailing local wage.
“He is liberal, and that pragmatism is always difficult to achieve when you’re passionate about something,” said Representative Ellen O. Tauscher, Democrat of California and a leader of the party’s more moderate wing in the House.
But, Ms. Tauscher said, Mr. Miller understands what she calls the “very difficult kabuki dance” facing Democrats.
Party members have gritted their teeth for 12 years, she said. And now, “on a napkin, on the back of an envelope, in their BlackBerry, they’ve got lists of what they want to do, and they think their priorities are everybody’s priorities.”
“But in the end, this is about securing a majority for more than two years,” she said. “I don’t expect him to be thrilled about it. But I think he’s sanguine; he’s pragmatic and realistic.”
Mrs. Pelosi, 66, and Mr. Miller, 61, share similar pedigrees. Her father was a Baltimore mayor and congressman; his father served 25 years in the California legislature. When the elder Mr. Miller died in his 50s, his son ran for his seat and lost.
Five years later, after law school, Mr. Miller ran for Congress from a largely working-class district east of San Francisco and won. He arrived in 1975 as one of the Watergate babies, the idealistic Democrats elected on a reform platform.
Mrs. Pelosi, meanwhile, rose through California politics and became chairwoman of the state Democratic Party. She would later take the Congressional seat that had been held by Phillip Burton, who was Mr. Miller’s mentor.
Mr. Burton advised Mr. Miller to pick a committee and stay on it; this, he said, was how Southern Democrats had amassed power. Mr. Miller listened, staying on the House Interior and Education committees, becoming chairman of Interior (now named House Resources) in 1991. (Mrs. Pelosi congratulated him with a gift of Mr. Burton’s chair and a small model of a Burton statue that had been placed in San Francisco.) He has been the senior Democrat on the education committee since 2001 and is expected to become its chairman in January.
He is also known more informally as the dean of the town house on Capitol Hill that has served as a kind of fraternity house for a succession of Democrats. Mr. Miller lived there with his family before they moved back to California; his roommates now are Senators Richard J. Durbin of Illinois and Charles E. Schumer of New York, the second- and third-ranking Democrats, and Representative Bill Delahunt of Massachusetts. In long-running Tuesday dinners with a group that included Mrs. Pelosi and other now-senior Democrats, it was Mr. Miller, other members say, who was the first to declare that Mrs. Pelosi would become the nation’s first female speaker.
Mrs. Pelosi calls him “a valued friend and tremendously talented legislator.”
As chairman of the Democrats’ steering and policy committee, he helped shape the platform the Democrats ran on in the midterm elections — including raising the minimum wage, cutting interest rates on student loans and expanding stem cell research.
“He has guided Democrats’ policy agenda that unified the caucus and spoke to the dreams and aspirations of the American people,” Mrs. Pelosi said.
Some who know both lawmakers say that Mr. Miller’s counsel continues to be important to her. “Not only can George give her good advice, but he can also tell her things she doesn’t want to hear,” Ms. Tauscher said. “Sometimes you can only take tough news from somebody that is very close to you.”
But others say that if the relationship was once defined as one of complete trust, it is now more like trust, but verify.
Mr. Miller says his influence over Mrs. Pelosi has always been overstated, showing a misunderstanding of her talent and strength. He calls her “the toughest person you’ve met in politics.”
He backed Mr. Murtha, he said, because he was impressed by his turnaround on the war in Iraq.
“To watch this man take his knowledge, his career, his experience in the military and to see him start to understand the damage that was being done to the soldiers and the institution, was really quite remarkable,” Mr. Miller said.
“When he decided to go public, which is not generally his character,” Mr. Miller said of Mr. Murtha, “he immediately changed the national debate. And then when you saw the role the debate on the war took during the campaign, I think there is a serious debt of gratitude. You were saying back to the voters, ‘We heard you.’ ”
But the other message from voters, he said, is that they want Congress to work in a bipartisan manner, after years of Republican rule.
“There was a conscious decision by Tom DeLay and Dennis Hastert to turn the House into a winner-take-all,” he said, where no legislation would be brought for a vote without most of the majority supporting it.
Having seen that, he said, he understands the role Mrs. Pelosi must assume.
“The speaker made a horrible miscalculation that he was the speaker of the Republican Party as opposed to the difference Nancy has drawn, that Tip O’Neill drew — that you are the leader of the Democrats, and speaker of the House,” he said. “That simple understanding can allow a lot of things to happen that provide opportunities for the minority to participate.”
Election 2006 isn't even two weeks old, some close congressional seats haven't even been resolved... and ALREADY the New York whore Times and DLC Democrats are out there banging away at their "CONSERVATIVE VALUES WON THE ELECTION!" drums.
Only thing is... "conservative values" most certainly DID NOT win Election '06!
We need no better proof our our assertion than this excellent by Jeffrey L. Austin about one of those still up-in-the-air races, the one for North Carolina's 6th District, where dark-horse, underfunded, wa-ay outsider Democratic challenger is within 329 votes of OUSTING, FOUR-TERM Republican Rep. Robin Hayes.
In case you missed it, that was NORTH_CAROLINA, home of huge tobacco companies, NASCAR race culture, an often rural, conservative ethos, and as many gospel & salvation churches as you can shake a stick at.
<< A social studies teacher and former factory worker, Kissell was a distinct underdog who emerged as the Democratic nominee only after the first choice of party insiders quit the race before the May 2 primary. As of Oct. 18, Hayes had outraised Kissell by $2.1 million to $451,000, and the challenger had expended all but $35 of his campaign treasury.
Yet Kissell, RUNNING ON A PLATFORM OF ECONOMIC POPULISM and OPPOSITION TO THE IRAQ WAR, tied Hayes closely to President Bush and became a serious contender for one of the biggest upsets of the year. >>
http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20061123/pl_cq_politics/chanceofupsetremainsinnc8withhandcountsettobegin
GET THAT, DLC 'Dems" and NY TIMES ??
DESPITE a $2.1 million to $450,000 campaign funding disadvantage, going up against the name recognition of a FOUR term incumbent, and despite the POLITICAL INEXPERIENCE of his challenger campaign, Democrat Lawrence Kissell is within 329 votes of kicking out the incumbent, and our guess here at C-Dems is that Kissell would win IF ALL THE VOTES ARE COUNTED CORRECTLY.
SO, how does the NY Times write up the first two weeks of Democratic preparations for their majority in the next (110th) Congress?
ans.- By defining Steney Hoyer and other DLC/Beltway INSIDER positions as being "CENTRIST", and therefore by default the positions of Pelosi, Miller, and successful challengers such as Lawrence Kissell as "LEFTIST" or some degree "to the left."
Even though the VAST MAJORITY of Americans APPROVE of Social Security, the 40 hour work week, a raise in the minimum wage, job safety and health care, stock market oversight and pension security, public education and access to higher education.... despite the fact that the VAST MAJORITY of Ameicans support ALL these programs and more, the Times, the DLC/DC insider Democrats, and most of the "mainstream media" CONTINUE TO PAINT Democratic leaders and challegers who support a CONTINUATION of this moderate but progressive agenda as "LEFTISTS."
THE DEMOCRATS DID NOT WIN election 2006 by running as "REPUBLICAN LITE" which is what the statement "many say... Pelosi [in] carefully nudging her party to the center... helped the Democrats retake the majority" implies.
Notice the Times' use of WEASEL WORDS to butress their notion that Pelosi and Miller are "too leftist":
"SOME SAY"
"RAISED FEARS"
"more centrist candidate" (e.g. the same old DLC Rethuglican lite Lieberman/Zell Millers are "centrists")
"concerns of some Democrats" (here we see the REPETITION of "some say")
"far left would dominate and DESTABILIZE"
OUR advice to Ms. Pelosi and the House Democratic leadership: IGNORE the weasel-words of the Times and MSM ("mainstream media"), stick to the programs that have made America GREAT over the past 100 years... and as PRIORITY NUMBER ONE, make sure that EVERY AMERICAN _KNOWS_ that his or her vote, for even the most rural, out-of-the-way district, is COUNTED CORRECTLY, today and in the future.
(PS: "IGNORE" the weasel-words of the NY Times" is not the correct term at all: "Liberal" Dems must REDEFINE themselves as PROTECTING THE MIDDLE, and that "conservative" Dems such as Lieberman and Zell Miller and Bush-Republicans are actually REACTIONARY Righties who intend to ROB American citizens and Democratic voters of 100 years of hard fought progress.)
========================================
Pelosi’s Ascendancy in House Puts a Close Liberal Ally in the Spotlight
By KATE ZERNIKE
November 25, 2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/25/us/politics/25miller.html
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 — In a friendship stretching over 30 years and many plane trips to Washington from their neighboring California districts, Representatives Nancy Pelosi and George Miller have become so close that, as colleagues say, they finish each others’ sentences.
So it was not surprising that, when Mrs. Pelosi faced the first test of her role as speaker-elect of the House of Representatives, Mr. Miller was in the background, pushing her to back Representative John P. Murtha of Pennsylvania to replace her as Democratic leader over the more centrist candidate, Representative Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland, who had been her No. 2 for four years.
In the week since Mr. Hoyer won the position, Democratic leaders have played down any disharmony created by the leadership struggle. But Mr. Miller’s role raised fears that after carefully nudging her party to the center, which many say helped the Democrats retake the majority, Mrs. Pelosi would let her liberal allies have too much influence.
In the concerns of some Democrats — and the I-told-you-so’s of some Republicans — Mr. Miller represents Mrs. Pelosi’s true liberal soul, and his pushing for Mr. Murtha a sign that the far left would dominate and destabilize the Democrats, after they have emerged from 12 years in the minority.
There is no doubt that Mr. Miller remains one of Mrs. Pelosi’s most trusted advisers. But those who know them both say that he, and his influence, have been wrongly judged.
Now one of the 10 most senior members of Congress, Mr. Miller has proven himself both a liberal lion — an early advocate of an increase in the minimum wage and a champion of the environment — and savvy about working both sides of the aisle. An agitator for higher teacher standards, he was one of the chief negotiators with President Bush on the No Child Left Behind legislation. (Mr. Bush nicknamed Mr. Miller, a burly and now white-haired former high school football player, Big George.)
After Hurricane Katrina, he enlisted Republicans to reverse Mr. Bush’s order that allowed federal contractors working to rebuild the Gulf Coast to pay workers less than the prevailing local wage.
“He is liberal, and that pragmatism is always difficult to achieve when you’re passionate about something,” said Representative Ellen O. Tauscher, Democrat of California and a leader of the party’s more moderate wing in the House.
But, Ms. Tauscher said, Mr. Miller understands what she calls the “very difficult kabuki dance” facing Democrats.
Party members have gritted their teeth for 12 years, she said. And now, “on a napkin, on the back of an envelope, in their BlackBerry, they’ve got lists of what they want to do, and they think their priorities are everybody’s priorities.”
“But in the end, this is about securing a majority for more than two years,” she said. “I don’t expect him to be thrilled about it. But I think he’s sanguine; he’s pragmatic and realistic.”
Mrs. Pelosi, 66, and Mr. Miller, 61, share similar pedigrees. Her father was a Baltimore mayor and congressman; his father served 25 years in the California legislature. When the elder Mr. Miller died in his 50s, his son ran for his seat and lost.
Five years later, after law school, Mr. Miller ran for Congress from a largely working-class district east of San Francisco and won. He arrived in 1975 as one of the Watergate babies, the idealistic Democrats elected on a reform platform.
Mrs. Pelosi, meanwhile, rose through California politics and became chairwoman of the state Democratic Party. She would later take the Congressional seat that had been held by Phillip Burton, who was Mr. Miller’s mentor.
Mr. Burton advised Mr. Miller to pick a committee and stay on it; this, he said, was how Southern Democrats had amassed power. Mr. Miller listened, staying on the House Interior and Education committees, becoming chairman of Interior (now named House Resources) in 1991. (Mrs. Pelosi congratulated him with a gift of Mr. Burton’s chair and a small model of a Burton statue that had been placed in San Francisco.) He has been the senior Democrat on the education committee since 2001 and is expected to become its chairman in January.
He is also known more informally as the dean of the town house on Capitol Hill that has served as a kind of fraternity house for a succession of Democrats. Mr. Miller lived there with his family before they moved back to California; his roommates now are Senators Richard J. Durbin of Illinois and Charles E. Schumer of New York, the second- and third-ranking Democrats, and Representative Bill Delahunt of Massachusetts. In long-running Tuesday dinners with a group that included Mrs. Pelosi and other now-senior Democrats, it was Mr. Miller, other members say, who was the first to declare that Mrs. Pelosi would become the nation’s first female speaker.
Mrs. Pelosi calls him “a valued friend and tremendously talented legislator.”
As chairman of the Democrats’ steering and policy committee, he helped shape the platform the Democrats ran on in the midterm elections — including raising the minimum wage, cutting interest rates on student loans and expanding stem cell research.
“He has guided Democrats’ policy agenda that unified the caucus and spoke to the dreams and aspirations of the American people,” Mrs. Pelosi said.
Some who know both lawmakers say that Mr. Miller’s counsel continues to be important to her. “Not only can George give her good advice, but he can also tell her things she doesn’t want to hear,” Ms. Tauscher said. “Sometimes you can only take tough news from somebody that is very close to you.”
But others say that if the relationship was once defined as one of complete trust, it is now more like trust, but verify.
Mr. Miller says his influence over Mrs. Pelosi has always been overstated, showing a misunderstanding of her talent and strength. He calls her “the toughest person you’ve met in politics.”
He backed Mr. Murtha, he said, because he was impressed by his turnaround on the war in Iraq.
“To watch this man take his knowledge, his career, his experience in the military and to see him start to understand the damage that was being done to the soldiers and the institution, was really quite remarkable,” Mr. Miller said.
“When he decided to go public, which is not generally his character,” Mr. Miller said of Mr. Murtha, “he immediately changed the national debate. And then when you saw the role the debate on the war took during the campaign, I think there is a serious debt of gratitude. You were saying back to the voters, ‘We heard you.’ ”
But the other message from voters, he said, is that they want Congress to work in a bipartisan manner, after years of Republican rule.
“There was a conscious decision by Tom DeLay and Dennis Hastert to turn the House into a winner-take-all,” he said, where no legislation would be brought for a vote without most of the majority supporting it.
Having seen that, he said, he understands the role Mrs. Pelosi must assume.
“The speaker made a horrible miscalculation that he was the speaker of the Republican Party as opposed to the difference Nancy has drawn, that Tip O’Neill drew — that you are the leader of the Democrats, and speaker of the House,” he said. “That simple understanding can allow a lot of things to happen that provide opportunities for the minority to participate.”
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