tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3401584991689197404.post887138783153227725..comments2024-03-02T09:41:35.809-08:00Comments on Donkeylicious - A Blog by Neil Sinhababu and Nicholas Beaudrot: Reasons for PessimismNeil Sinhababuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03249327186653397250noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3401584991689197404.post-92029350149008976822009-09-02T05:38:17.977-07:002009-09-02T05:38:17.977-07:00As I've hinted at before, as long as 60 votes ...<i>As I've hinted at before, as long as 60 votes is the norm in the Senate, the only way to have sane politics in America over the long run is to have a saner Republican party. </i><br /><br />I just don't see a route to a sane GOP, period. The smaller it gets, the more it will be owned by the crazies.<br /><br />Voters need a choice, but a choice between crazy Republicans and ineffectual Democrats isn't a good one for the country. <br /><br />Dems need to do some serious thinking about how to change the dynamic so that voters are offered a choice between the two wings of the Democratic Party, while easing the GOP towards permanent splinter party status.low-tech cyclisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05289554457923640296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3401584991689197404.post-233766172078746362009-08-28T07:21:35.537-07:002009-08-28T07:21:35.537-07:00Only a throughgoing shellacking at the 2010 and 20...<i>Only a throughgoing shellacking at the 2010 and 2012 elections--a Goldwater-magnitude shellacking--has, I think, a chance of restoring even a modicum of sanity to the Republican Party.</i><br /><br />This is worrying about the wrong goal. It's more correct to suggest that it will take massive Democratic victories n 2010 and 2012 to have a chance of restoring even a modicum of sanity to the <b>Democratic</b> Party.<br /><br />Maybe if Americans somehow decided to send 85 Democrats to the Senate and 400 to the House, conservative Dems like Nelson, Baucus and Reid might finally start to think that the American public is not as far right as they think it is.<br /><br />But what's more likely is that the Dems will lose seats, giving these idiots an excuse to move even further to the right, as if that will solve anything.Stephenhttp://www.cogitamusblog.comnoreply@blogger.com