GOP may face bigger problem in the House

[Judi Lynn]

Oct. 21, 2006, 10:13PM
CAMPAIGN WATCH
GOP may face bigger problem in the House
Report expands number of seats that Democrats have a shot at


By BENNETT ROTH
Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — With just over two weeks until the election, the number of vulnerable GOP House seats is growing, according to an independent analyst, who says Republicans are now fighting off a potential Democratic wave that could sweep away districts that once seemed safe.

Charlie Cook, who heads the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, wrote last week that the Democrats stood a good chance of picking up 30 to 35 seats on election night.

As recently as mid-September, Cook estimated that the Democrats would net an additional 10 to 20 seats. Democrats need to gain 15 seats to win a majority in the House.

The Cook Report added five GOP congressional districts to its list of seats to watch on election night, including two in the solidly red states of Idaho and Kansas.
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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/politics/4278107.html

[Peace Patriot]

1. Ah, me! Can all these pundits be as "wrong" as the exit polls were all day

long on Nov. 2, 2004?

Could be, I guess. Hundreds of polls--ALL the polls--"wrong." Hundreds of pundits "wrong" and eating Rove crow. I can hear it now. 'Gee, what's wrong with US? Our polls and our punditry must be way off!"

Or do you think the Corporatists are really dumping the Bushites because they've become bad for business?

I've taken to describing Diebold and ES&S as "Bushite corporations," which is exactly what they are. But maybe we should remember that they are also just corporations, into the business of sucking on the taxpayers' tit, like all the rest. And they are in a much more exposed position now than they were in 2004. A Bushite win, with THESE polling numbers, might not go down so well, and could lose them their nifty election theft capability for future purposes.

I don't trust anybody any more. Don't trust a thing I read/see in the corporate news monopolies. Don't trust a single politician, Democrat or Republican, except maybe Dennis Kucinich. They all have about as much credibility as the tobacco companies, as far as I'm concerned. So, what I expect if we win is some minor adjustments to Corporate Rule, and maybe--MAYBE!--some reduction of the hogfeed to war profiteers. We do have a $10 TRILLION deficit to deal with (--while the Bushites go off to loot Paraguay and Bolivia). The Democrats will take most of it out of our hides, I'm sure. That's what Democrats are for--to "balance" the spectacularly looted federal treasury budget by making the poor poorer. And we may see a little less 'christian' "morality" shoved down our throats. But all those interesting new "unitary executive" powers will stay in place--that's my guess. No disavowal of those. Because the REAL threat to the global corporate predators lay in the networking of north and south American leftists, and mass (50,000-strong) anti-globalist protests like the one in Seattle '99 (boy, did that scare 'em!)--that is, broad-based north American rejection of the Corporate Agenda. I think they're saving the suspension of habeas corpus, indefinite detention, DHL no-fly lists, the Wall, massive domestic spying, and other goodies--maybe even torture--for north American rebellion against Corporate Rule. And, if you will recall, the first such rebellion was against Clinton, not Bush. Clinton!

Diebold/ES&S didn't just (s)elect Bushites. It (s)elected nearly everyone in this illegitimate Congress. Think about that. We really won't have our democracy back until we can SEE the vote counting again. Even then, it will be an uphill battle, but at least we will have regained the bottom line of democratic government--our right to vote.

And our own benighted political party has not been quick to make that happen. So beware. Our choice has been greatly narrowed to Nazi Corporatists vs. Nice Corporatists (--if you call what they did to us in Seattle "nice"). (--some fascist columnist at the time recommended they use real bullets). I am also aware of haunting parallels to Germany circa 1932--fracturing of the left/center paving the way for Hitler's rise. But one-party rule by the Corporate Rulers is a pretty poor excuse for a democracy. We can do better, I think--without descending back into Bushite butchery, torture, theft, bribery and child molestation