RSSLet’s Look into the Crystal Ball for Senate 2006 (aka, What will Dems Do to Incense the Electorate)
Larry Sabato has a great look into the upcoming 2006 Senate seats up for election. It is still so very soon to make any real predictions, but I have to wonder what is to stop the continual gain of Senate seats during the Bush Administration? George W. Bush has defied the odds during every election by helping the Republican Party pick up seats in off year election. With the many underlying issues that the MSM refuses to discuss or slants as a negative one, polls today are almost useless in determining where Republicans really stand.
I will agree with Larry Sabato and Polipundit that with so very long to go that most likely the Republican Party will pick up 2-3 Senate seats in 2006 but not enough to end the antics of the Democratic minority. That will most likely be the issue on the table in the 2008 Presidential election.
One of the wild cards for 2006 mid-term elections is juts how soon and how vicious the Democratic rhetoric gets to ramp up for the 2008 Democratic Primaries. Just how soon will the Dem’s and MoveOn.org begin and how for over the deep end will they go? More so than usual.
Hat Tip: Polipundit
UPDATE 1: From McGehee at Yippee-Ki-Yah, looks like my wishes of a wild card may have come sooner than expected. What is this Party thinking if they believes that Schiavo is some how a winning issue for Democrats? As McGehee says, “Because Terri and Tom damn sure ain’t winning issues for the Democrats now, and they damn sure won’t be in ’06 or ’08.”
Update 2: Also from JJ at Polipundit (Howard Dean may just be the gift that keeps on giving) provides us with the “Self Parody“ of Dean and “the Democrats plan to use the Terri Schiavo case against the GOP in the next two major election cycles“. Please tell me Democrats are not going to relish over the murder of a helpless individual? Dr Dean or Dr Death, you make the call.
Monkey See, Monkey Do
Charlie don’t you know that cigarettes are bad for your health? Don’t you realize they cause cancer? Didn’t your parents tell you that it is a terrible, addictive habit and it doesn’t make you look cool?
I guess not, but then again you are a chimpanzee.
Charlie, … , has been picking up cigarettes thrown to him by visitors and smoking them — a habit he probably picked up by observing humans
“He even acts like a naughty schoolboy by hiding the cigarette when staff approach the area,”
What’s next his fellow zoo animal suing because of second hand smoke?
Boston Globe’s “Seal” of Approval
Does the Boston Globe really need to make excuses why its reader circulation has hit the skids? Earlier today we posted about the “Globe’s daily circulation declined by 17,000 copies, or 3.7%, and Sunday decreased by 15,000 copies, or 2.1%“. With all the excuses that executives came up with for the declining numbers and of course leaving out blogs; they seem to have left out one other real big reason.
Michelle Malkin posts on the “not so” seal of approval of The Boston Globe. FAKE! FAKE! FAKE! The SEAL HUNT STORY from last week is yet another in a long line of media fabrications.
And they have the audacity to call blogs out on the carpet that because we do not have editors. That we do not fact check and we cannot be trusted? WHAT’S THEIR CONTINUAL EXCUSE?
Also at OTB.
LA Times Circulation Down and Out
In a follow up to the earlier post “Newspaper Circulation Dropping; Who Could Have Seen That Coming?”, comes even more bad news from the newspaper word, LA Times circulation down 5.5%.
Though executives declined to break out individual paper’s Fas-Fax numbers, which are due out in May, Smith acknowledged the Times will drop more than 5.5%
Even the Wall Street Journal was not spared from terrible numbers. What is most telling was that their internet operations were more profitable than the “flagship Journal”.
One of the few bright spots in the newspaper print medium was USA Today.
Nurses in Nighties; You May Want To Rethink that Strategy
The point of a protest is to accomplish 3 things:
1. Draw attention to your cause.
2. Create an adverse environment and make management’s life miserable so that they cave to your demands.
3. Accomplish 1 & 2 in a timely manner while maximizing your position.
So when nurses in South African dressed up in pj’s and nighties to protest their uniform allowance as inadequate, I had to review the above objects again and scratch my head.
I think the they NAILED #1; however, as for 2 and 3 I am not so sure. If South Africa is anything like the hospitals I deal with here in the US, the doctors and management probably brought lawn chairs to work to ready themselves for the daily nightie nurse protest.
