Sweet Jesus, I Hate The Democratic Party

RSC --- If you're a Murph man, you;re OK by me.
Once, when the Lakers came to town, he got his first look at Vlade Divac and said, "I don't think he's able to play in any day games."

 

I wonder how the Zambia anthem compares?

 

Joe Murphy was my mentor. I am so glad I had the chance to work four years with him at the Trib before his retirement.

Of course Fen, I also got my political beliefs from him.

 

A gay union leader. Yup, that's as mainstream as it gets. Tell you what, JR, you can have all of our gay union leaders. Every last one of them.

 

Joe, before you go around believing writers with an agenda who insist that "The Democrats crushed the Republicans in an historic election," you might want to research how the party that isn't in the white house has historically done in the off-year election of the president's second term. Dems actually made fewer gains than in most previous such cases.

Since the Civil War and Reconstruction, three presidents have scored off-year victories in Congress: FDR, Bill Clinton (1998) and George W. Bush (2002). Only three. That leaves how many? Just off the top of my head that's something like 34 off-year elections.

 

Dick was there for a game last week. The stopwatch didn't come out, but he was great company as usual. Nice guy.

 

Not to point out that you're missing the point, but the column argues that the strategy of scaring people and yelling "Soft On Terror!" didn't work in 2006. Which it didn't.

 

Tony, you did miss the point of Greenwald's analysis, as Fenian pointed out.

As to your claim that the 2006 elections were no big deal, please find me the last election in which a party took control of both houses of Congress while not losing a single incumbent or open seat it had controlled -- House, Senate or governorship. Thanks in advance.

 

Good ol' Dicky B!

 

Beradino has a great story about playing linebacker at Holy Cross and playing against Jim Brown. He comes up to stop Brown on a sweep and there's this huge bang and, afterwards, all Dick can see is a little pinhole of light. He thinks he's got brain damage. Actually, Brown hit him so hard that Dick's helmet spun and he was looking out the earhole.

 

Joe, the party opposite of the president has gained in all but three off-year elections since the Civil War and yet your guys are claiming that the gains in 2006 are historic when it's actually what has been considered normal for 143 years. That's pretty much all I said. If you think that something happening that has happened 31 of the last 34 times is unprecedented and historic, feel free to puff your chest out. Doesn't make you right.

 

I guess the answer to the "please find me" request that Joe made is pretty much, "I can't."