Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs has an article today on the American Thinker entitled Bye Bye RINO. Apparently, Ms. Scozzafava pulled out of the NY-23 race Saturday, leaving Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate in good shape. Then, Sunday, she endorsed the Democrat candidate. So much for party loyalty. It one wonder if my scenario might truly have happened?
I also heard that Michael Steele, RNC Chair, had endorsed Hoffman. Better late than never. But it would have been better for Steele to show some guts and have endorsed Hoffman from the start, thus setting up the notion it won't be business as usual for the Republican party.
Incidentally, Palin is beginning to look like a master politician, and this incident only feeds that image. Newt, on the other hand, looks more and more like a tool.
And go check out War On Guns for David Codrea's take on the NRA's shameful performance in this affair.
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
Are They Trying to Get Us Killed?
Another article today on the Scozzafava vs. Hoffman controversy which will come to a head next Tuesday. Eric Richter has a piece on the American Thinker entitled The Battlefield Paradox: Sozzafava or Hoffman? in which he compares the current Republican strategy to soldiers in foxholes who refuse to get up and carry the fight to the enemy. Go read the whole thing here. It's short.
I had some commentary on the topic last Friday here. My point then, and Richter makes the same point, is that simply having a seat with an "R" on it does little real good. Scozzafava would be a drag on the Republican party in the House. Scozzafava's votes would more often than not be used by Democrats to provide bi-partisan cover for what would otherwise be blatantly Democrat proposals, just as Olympia Snowe's vote in the Senate for the Baucus Health Care bill was used by the President to claim bi-partisan support. If we are to advance a conservative, Constitutionalists agenda, we can do without having a fifth column behind our borders.
But here is another way this could play out. Suppose the Republicans win a bare majority in the House, say 218 Republican to 217 Democrats (I know it's unlikely, but I can dream can't I.) The Republicans could at that point, name the Speaker of the House, chair each committee, set the agenda for what will and will not come up for a vote. In other words, Republicans would be in nominal control. Now along comes Scozzafava and declares herself, like Jumpin' Jim Jeffords, a Democrat. Suddenly the majority shifts to 218 Democrat to 217 Republican. So, while the American people have voted to give the majority to the Republicans, one person, Ms. Scozzafava could veto all of that and hand the House back to Nancy Pelosi and her merry band of Leftists.
One wonders whether the stupid party is really that stupid, or incompetent, or is it malice?
I had some commentary on the topic last Friday here. My point then, and Richter makes the same point, is that simply having a seat with an "R" on it does little real good. Scozzafava would be a drag on the Republican party in the House. Scozzafava's votes would more often than not be used by Democrats to provide bi-partisan cover for what would otherwise be blatantly Democrat proposals, just as Olympia Snowe's vote in the Senate for the Baucus Health Care bill was used by the President to claim bi-partisan support. If we are to advance a conservative, Constitutionalists agenda, we can do without having a fifth column behind our borders.
But here is another way this could play out. Suppose the Republicans win a bare majority in the House, say 218 Republican to 217 Democrats (I know it's unlikely, but I can dream can't I.) The Republicans could at that point, name the Speaker of the House, chair each committee, set the agenda for what will and will not come up for a vote. In other words, Republicans would be in nominal control. Now along comes Scozzafava and declares herself, like Jumpin' Jim Jeffords, a Democrat. Suddenly the majority shifts to 218 Democrat to 217 Republican. So, while the American people have voted to give the majority to the Republicans, one person, Ms. Scozzafava could veto all of that and hand the House back to Nancy Pelosi and her merry band of Leftists.
One wonders whether the stupid party is really that stupid, or incompetent, or is it malice?
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