| In the liberal breast beats a strange passion for normalizing ...
The BBC correspondent broke down in tears live on air: if she'd been doing her job, she might have noticed how dry-eyed the locals were — hence, the Hamas takeover in Gaza shortly thereafter. Similarly dewy-eyed, Sir Simon Jenkins, grandee of Fleet Street, deplored the way that "America refused to acknowledge Yasser Arafat as a democrat." .
Oconee Democrats to reorganize Feb. 23
Please allow me to give a few good reasons why my fellow citizens should attend the Oconee Democratic Party combined precinct re-organizational meetings on Saturday, Feb. 23 at 10 a.m. at St. Johns Lutheran Church in Walhalla. I have heard many of our own elected officials say they were not leaving the Democratic Party, rather the party had left them. One problem, the same folks are still in office and we still maintain the same troubles, except with a higher tax burden, expanded government and less freedom. It is time for a change and it begins at the local level with this grassroots organizational meeting. We will elect precinct officers and county executive committee members to carry out the local Democratic Party agenda. Resolutions include addressing clean elections and paper-verified ballots, control of unregulated growth, county litter control efforts, protecting our drinking water, increasing representation on our school board and county council seats and letting the voters decide on whether to allow or deny funding issues related to local option sales tax increases.
Democrats laugh the loudest
First, it throws the Republican race into disarray. People (including me) were already writing post-New Hampshire and pre-Michigan that the nod appeared to be John McCain's for the taking. McCain had momentum after his New Hampshire win, and he had won Michigan against George W Bush in 2000, so it wasn't entirely unreasonable to think that he might be on his way to glory. But that was stopped cold by Michigan voters. Now, not only is there no Republican frontrunner; there's not even anything resembling a likely victory scenario for any of the top-tier candidates. Second, the result seemed to confirm that Republican voters are deeply unenthusiastic about the choices before them. The Republicans, far more than the Democrats, usually have by this point in the process an “establishment" candidate around whom the party faithful have rallied.
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