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Signs of hope
If it is true, as Democratic polster Douglas Schoen has prognosticated, that the election means long-term minority status for the Democrats, then the election will have fulfilled a key element of my hopeful scenario of a Bush victory. I said that if through an increase of Republican seats in the House and Senate the Democrats were weakened and no longer posed a threat to the GOP, conservative Republicans would no longer be under the imperative of suppressing their conservatism in the interests of maintaining Republican party unity. Thus a paradoxical result of a Bush victory would be the slowing of his liberalizing agenda. There are many indications coming from Republicans and conservatives this week that this may turn out to be the case. Posted by Lawrence Auster at November 05, 2004 05:10 PM | Send Comments
One can only hope that what Mr. Auster perceives as the case (“a slowing or even ending of Bush’s liberal agenda”) is in fact, the case. With Vincente Fox pushing Bush to pressure Congress to remove those key clauses in HR10, I have serious doubts that Bush will “can” and stow away his amnesty plan. I also worry that this “new Congress” with added Republicans in the House and Senate is necessarily more conservative than the current Congress. There had been signs (prior to the election) that the House members who are pushing the tougher version(Sennsenbrenner?) were caving… Posted by: David Levin on November 5, 2004 9:57 PMAbrusto is already on the march as I type this tonight in working with his boss Vinny Fox in shaping a new “plan”. It took all of two days to start the ball rolling. Posted by: j.hagan on November 6, 2004 3:52 AMThe New York Times has an article today about the despair of Democratic senators. It centers on the rumored plans of three of them (Dodd of Connecticut, primarily, along with Corzine of New Jersey and Schumer of New York) to quit the Senate in the next two years to run for the governorships of their home states, because they don’t see anything but minority status in D.C. in the future. I don’t have a link; perhaps someone else can post it. Here’s a link to the article Mr. Coleman mentioned: Posted by: Lawrence Auster on November 6, 2004 11:59 AM |