September 14, 2006
Lose?
An emailer directs me to a Dean Barnett post on Hugh Hewitt's site. Barnett appreciates Ramesh Ponnuru as a thinker but is unswayed by the NYTimes column I blogged about yesterday.
At a time of war, we cannot afford to have the party controlling Congress have as its sole mission an unending quest to undermine the Commander-in-Chief. And if anyone has detected anything else in the Democrats’ platform that compares as a unifying theme to their pure partisan hatred, please feel free to make the case.I happen to agree that the Republican Party deserves to lose the House. The past 12 years have been an epic disappointment. But for the sake of the country, we’d all be a helluva lot better off reforming ourselves under own volition rather than as a result of an electoral repudiation that will weaken the country at a time of war.
That's a good description of my beliefs. I posted the Ponnuru piece to be "Fair and Balanced" and I agree with Sugarchuck that it is a consolation if the fated and feared event should transpire.
After the primaries the other night, I am far more sanguine about this November. The stars did not line up for the Democrats on Tuesday, nor have they delivered a compelling message.
I keep promising a review of Ryan Sager's "The Elephant in the Room." It's not long or inaccessible, I have just had too much work to plow through the end. Sager's ready to split the party in half and start over again. So is Joe Scarborough.