Posted by
Michael on Friday, September 22, 2006 5:02:32 AM
It's just a matter of time before we see Hugo Chavez in Subway commercials (I'm sure he could use a bit of weight loss himself).
Rob over at the
Say Anything blog reports that, since Hugo Chavez's tantrum speech where he called President Bush "the devil" while holding Noam Chomsky's
Hegemony or Survival, Hegemony or Survival has moved past Mark Steyn's
America Alone to #13 on Amazon.com's Movers and Shaker's List:
Gag.
If it weren't for his socialist leanings, I'm sure Mr. Chavez would see this as a sign to get into the advertising business.
At Slate, Jacob Weisberg comes out with an
argument for why it would be best for the Democrats to lose in November:
Still, there are reasons why the Democrats might be better off denying
Republicans the defeat they crave in November. For the Democrats to win
the House this year would offer the unappealing prospect of
responsibility without power. With a slim majority in the next
Congress, Democrats wouldn't be able to accomplish anything
significant. The party would still lack the votes to pass health-care
reform or to repeal the Bush tax cuts. But with control of even one
chamber by one vote, the failure to act on such issues would now be
their fault as well. Iraq and the fiscal mess would no longer be just
Bush's problems. The Democratic Party will have a much clearer story
line heading into the 2008 election if it is simply the party out of
power and can call for a complete change.
The Democrats are already pretty darn close to being stuck in the wilderness. They're never going to make it back to the village unless they have victory in an election. It doesn't even matter if they don't gain much power, they'll have more than they do now.