Ed Weaver Is A Nitwit 11.11.06

He took a thumpin' but he keeps on dumpin'.

Here are a couple of excerpts from Weaver's 11.11.06 article and my feelings about them:

The headline...

"Conservatism didn't die Tuesday"

Of course it didn't. But Karl Rove's strategy of an intractable Republican theocratic majority did.

And on the economy and the big bad news media's coverage of it...

"...tell the truth about tax cuts — they raise revenues..."

So if we eliminate all taxes, will we have more money than ever? What a stupid statement. Long-term economic health will be generated by a balanced budget such as those achieved by the Republican Congress and Democratic President Bill Clinton during the 90s.

Talking of the magnanimous President Bush...

"...Having learned nothing, apparently, from the way he was treated by democrats when he reached out to them though (sic) his "new tone," he embraced them as if they were long lost friends."

It was President Bush that barely won election in 2000 and reelection in 2004 and said he was given a mandate by the American people and was going to rule accordingly. For the past six years, he and his Republican strategists have driven a great chasm down the middle of the country by relying on wedge issues to win. Is it any wonder that the same people that he has disenfranchised along the way aren't going to follow him?

About the losses of Senators Rick Santorum and George Allen...

"These are people of high moral character and integrity. They're honest, affable, forthright and patriotic. They go to the mat for their constituents.

Uh, sure, it you happen to be a white, Catholic/fundamentalist, straight man. If you don't fit in any of those categories, I wonder how well you think these men represented you. I think the election results speak for themselves.

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Ed Weaver's column appears every Saturday in The Record newspaper in Troy, NY. I'd say he's a right-wing conservative, but all indications are that he's even whackier than that. His views are so skewed, and based in a reality that I don't even recognize, that I think he sees the world through fun house mirrors‚ only it isn't funny. He's proof of the theory that hindsight is 20/20, only his vision is 20/100...20 for those things that support his views, 100 for those that don't.