Hillary’s Voice

Spinning Heads (by Pat Racimora at No Quarter)

I never even imagined that I could have the last laugh in this election… What I am laughing at, almost hysterically while slapping my knees, are those who hated the Clintons with a passion, who yelled and screamed about how Obama would save us from those “old Washington insiders,” and everything would be new. Change they could believe in. I can see them now—spinning about in a frenetic fury, flopping like freshly caught tunas on a dock. Obama was fooling them all along. Lying, really. My, my, is he actually…gasp.. a Closet Clintonista?Pod Parrots (by J –SOM at Liberal Rapture)CNN and MSNBC make a statement - repeat it for a few days - an alleged historian or “expert” repeats it and gives it a faux “context” (Such as: Lincoln hiring members of the opposition party during the civil war is comparable to Obama hiring Hillary Clinton, a person with which he has almost no policy differences.) The cover of Time then provides supporting background noise at supermarket checkout stands from coast to coast…and before you know it otherwise smart people are saying “PollyWantaCracker” at dinner parties across the land…or rather “Obama is just like Lincoln.” Furthering their own self serving narrative: that THEY saved the nation.Both parties have big stakes in Georgia Senate runoff (McClatchy)MACON, Ga. — The fight for Georgia’s U.S. Senate seat is a struggle for much more. For Democrats, the Tuesday runoff could give them their 59th seat in the next Senate. And if Democrat Al Franken beats GOP incumbent Norm Coleman in Minnesota’s recount, which will continue into December, Democrats would reach the magic number of 60 Senate seats — the number required under Senate rules to shut off debate and force a vote.Nonsense. Even if the Democrats have 60 members in the senate, they’ll find an excuse not to implement progressive policies. They always do. They’ll say there are too many Democrats in vulnerable conservative districts. Well, who wants them if they’re not really Democrats? I’ve been asking that question since February, and don’t have an answer yet.—CaroThe ever-receding future (by Michael J. Smith at Stop Me Before I Vote Again, thanks to Arthur Silber at The Power of Narrative)Don’t cut the cake just yet, guys. The New York Times reports: “N.Y. Democrats May Skip Gay Marriage Vote…” Readers older than, oh, say, twelve, may have noticed a pattern with the Democrats. They campaign on some issue — in the previous Most Important Elections Of Our Lifetime, the 2006 midterms, it was the Iraq war, for example. Then once safely in office, the find a reason why they can’t actually do anything about the issue until they get something else on the next election cycle — the White House, or the state senate, or a second term for the Governor (why? This one seems especially arbitrary). It’s really exactly like the dear old Spanish Prisoner scam, more familiar in our own day as the Nigerian “419″ advance-fee con.And just like Lucy, Charlie Brown, and the football. And just like the Republicans fooling THEIR potential voters and then never implementing any of THEIR promises. It’s a scam of monumental proportions.—CaroClick here for more politics and media news headlines.Carolyn KayMakeThemAccountable.com