Unctuous DNC chairman Terry McAuliffe appeared on “This Week” yesterday across from GOP Senator Lindsay Graham, who kept smiling as McAuliffe lied, and sweated, profusely (see second item). There was also a telling exchange when Graham made some comment about investing in the stock market and McAuliffe took an extremely defensive posture, tipping his hand about his sensitivity about the Global Crossing windfall. There is something so creepy about McAuliffe that I cannot believe that the Democrats kept him on after the disaster of the 2002 elections. His Sunday performance convinces me, more than ever, that the Republicans will extend their lead in 2004. As Croooow Blog noted yesterday: “the Dems are already off on the wrong foot. More Terry, less votes...”
On a related note: the Senate schedule for today includes a 6 p.m. vote to invoke cloture on the Miguel Estrada nomination. This is (I think) the third attempt to end the Democrats’ filibuster of the Estrada nomination. Unless Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has cut a backroom deal to swing some Donk votes, there is no chance that the cloture movement will pass, resulting in another wasted vote. So why do it? I think the Republicans, resigned to the fact that they won’t be able to break the filibuster to vote on judicial nominations, are making sure the Democrats are on record – repeatedly – as obstructing the President’s Constitutional right to shape the Federal Judiciary.
Here’s George Will from November 2002, right after the midterm elections:
The president's political aides believe that two Democratic actions handed Republicans election-turning issues. One was the promiscuous opposition to the president's judicial nominees. And regarding homeland security legislation, Senate Democrats' boundless subservience to organized labor has made them refuse to grant the president organizational powers granted to every president since Jimmy Carter.The 2004 election is Gettysburg and Terry McAuliffe is George Pickett. March on, Democrats!
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