WAIT, I THOUGHT THE ARRIVAL OF OBAMA AND THE DEPARTURE OF THE BULLYING, UNILATERALIST BUSH WOULD CHANGE EVERYTHING DEPT:
Apparently the North Koreans didn't get the "hope and change" memo:
" North Korea issued a veiled threat Monday to increase its nuclear arsenal if U.S. officials do not quickly agree to the one-on-one talks that the communist regime is demanding.
The regime's impatience came days after No. 2 nuclear negotiator Ri Gun came away from meetings with Washington envoy Sung Kim without an agreement to hold bilateral talks."
JOE BIDEN AND NY23:
The Vice President badly misrepresents the situation, as always:
"Vice President Joe Biden challenged Republican voters in New York's 23rd congressional district to teach conservative "absolutists" a lesson in the special House election Tuesday by voting for the Democratic candidate in the race. "We aren't asking you to switch your party," Biden said at a rally for Democrat Bill Owens in Watertown, New York Monday morning. "We are just saying join us in teaching a lesson to those absolutists who say no dissent is permitted within your own party." The comments come a day after Republican Dede Scozzafava, who withdrew from the race Saturday amid heavy pressure from conservatives - endorsed Owens. Many high-profile Republicans, including Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, and Dick Armey, have already thrown their own support behind third-party conservative candidate Doug Hoffman."
No, Mr. Vice-President. But let's straighten this out once and for all. Many conservatives and other Republicans did indeed decide Ms. Scozzafava wasn't for us. Not because we oppose "dissent" within the party. But, rather, because Scozzafava was SO liberal on abortion, taxes, and other issues that she wasn't simply a "moderate" Republican--she was a Democrat in Republican clothing. Fundamental: nobody should support someone, anyone, merely because they wear a party label.
And now Scozzafava showed her true colors by endorsing the Democratic candidate.
By the way, polls now show the conservative candidate leading this race. So much for him being a "fringe" candidate, or for the notion that radicals have taken over the GOP.
The latest polls out today show Hoffman clearly in the lead.
They also show McDonnell winning handily in Virginia, and Christie with a very good shot in New Jersey.
It could be a very good day for Republicans tomorrow.
By the way, NR's editors have it exactly right on the meaning of NY 23--there's a populist revolt out there, from which Republicans and conservatives can benefit:
"The growing revolt against Washington is an enormous opportunity forthe GOP. Republicans must continue to resist Obama’s statistgigantism, and align themselves with the rising common sense that sayswe can’t spend our way to prosperity and treat ourselves to (supposed)free lunch after free lunch. And, in their positive program, theyshould take a cue from figures such as Virginia’s Bob McDonnell,Indiana’s Mitch Daniels, and Louisiana’s Bobby Jindal, who have shownthat a fundamentally conservative program can appeal tonon-ideological voters when it is focused on tangible quality-of-lifeissues and presented with good cheer."
NFL DIARY:
You wouldn't think the Detroit Lions could be embarrassing anymore. But they can--losing, 17-10, at home to the worst team in football will do that for you.
SOME PEOPLE IN IOWA WHO, CONCERNING MR. OBAMA, GET IT:
“I don’t think he should keep hiding behind the fact that he inheritedall these problems.”
Read the whole thing--the Iowa voter quoted above isn't the only one.
