Lies, Damned Lies, and the Daily Kos
Filed under: US Elections
Here's a brief note on what Republicans are up against in the coming election cycle.
Reporting on yesterday's election results, the nutroot Daily Kos -- via Kos himself -- stated: "Tonight, in Virginia, Republicans based a huge chunk of their campaign on the anti-immigrant message. And they got crushed. Just like anti-immigrant Republican all around the country did in 2006."
Umm, not exactly. Not only did Republicans WIN control of the lower house of the state's legislature, but as Kos was later forced to admit his own people were saying the immigration issue was key in both that victory and holding back the extent of the Democrat's victory in the upper house.
Republicans also won two of three governorships in play, including Mississippi (where Democrats could not win even by running an evangelical Christian) and Louisiana (where a Republican Barack Obama took power) -- losing only in Kentucky (a state that has had only one Republican governor in the last 30 years). And they crushed (actually, not in the Kosian sense) a stem cell research ballot initiative in the People's Republic of New Jersey. Doesn't exactly fit the narrative Kos is telling about global thermonuclear hatred of Republicans, now does it?
So naturally, what we get is lies.
Meanwhile, as if that were not enough, a whole bunch of Democrats voted to begin impeachment proceedings against the President . . . right up until it began to appear that such a thing might actually happen, then 81 of them changed their "minds." Little wonder the party has only re-elected one president with a majority of the popular vote in its entire history. So it's hardly surprising that the Washington Post reports on how the leading Democratic presidential contenders are dodging press interviews far more aggressively than President Bush.
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