Peter Paul, Peter Paul, PETER PAUL.
==================================

OK, I'll make it easy. Google 'Peter Paul' and Hillary.
==================================

The RW side of the political blogospere is disappearing except for its various stylesheets with the names on top. And some time-neutral posts about last vacation, bringing up Gnat, Rush porn, and other Peggy Hill posts. NRO' kiddie Corner is intimating giving weekends over to Star Trek discussions. Instapud is revivifying the transhumanist thing. BoingBoing plus TCS = "Help!"

As Jed Clampett would say: "Pitiful. Jus' pitiful." As Bedford Forrest would say, "Fresh meat!"

This is the malaise Bill addresses from his armored train.

Ah, a closet Lileks fan.
========================

"The American people, it's presumed, are too befogged...to see through pathetic... stunts..."-kristol

Speaking of pathetic stunts, read this neocon agit-prop(!):

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=7169C0C2-D529-4B93-B83A-8C9ECEB455D5

They're kkkrakkking up, I tellz ya!

What's the attraction to that slaveholder's phallic symbol?
======================================

Neocon Lynn Cheney expositing on Wonder Woman and Sparkle Plenty on MSNBC. Right now! (Hurry!)

NEWS ALERT! "Dick" and Barack Obama are 8th cousins via "deVaux(sp?) of Mary Land".

kim= as usual: what the fudge are you talking about? And i'm not touching your phallic symbol!

Forrest? Fine commander, but I'm a Longstreet man! He had the correct strategy for prevailing in the War of Northern Aggression. iE Stay out of the North (PA). Let the Copperheads and moderates dis-elect Lincoln.

Of course he was correct. G'burg was the turning point, Hindsight, etc.

And if I'd been feelin' better, I would've whupped ya. That's Grant surrendering to Lee at Appomattox.

Granted, the War Between the States was anything but Civil, see Point Lookout, & A'ville. But had Gettysburg gone for the Gray, think of the turning point that would've been. Grant would not have had the opportunity to appear so Thurberesque.

Oh, Washington's Monumental Thang. Didn't you read the article you linked?
=================================================

"But had Gettysburg gone for the Gray, think of the turning point that would've been."=kim

Wow, I would expound on that, but I would have to bill Wizbang $25 for an associate editor's fee.

Easy answer: no turning point that the south would want to face. Defeat would have eventually come and would have been more complete, and Reconstruction would have extended beyond the Hayes administration. Probably to the Cleveland administration.

Other answer: France from Mexico and Britain along the Canadian-US border might have invaded the US on the side of the CSA. A true Twilight Zone alternate reality would have ensued. Cotton for opium.

Getting back to the original subject...

Didn't we hear these same things around this time last year? Things like "well, the economy is doing so well", "Iraq isn't as bad as the media makes it out to be", and "Voters will wise up when they realize the Democrats might actually win this thing!"

Please. It didn't happen then, and it won't happen this time next year.

Where would the Dems have been without Foley and homosexuals to sacrifice conflating homosexuality and child predation. A cheap and dirty trick won the last election. What ya' got for next year?
===================================

Mort Kondracke has a nice article about Bush at Roll Call. Find it through RealClearPolitics.
============================

What is Bill Kristol smoking? His magazine employs one of the lowest scum in the blog called Michael Goldfarb, you can judge a person by who they employ.

Seriously, this Don't worry be happy attitude is out of touch with political reality. Unpopular President, Unpopular war, Dumb GOP Political moves like vetoing S-Chip, maybe up to a dozen GOP senate seats in play next year(ME, NH, NC, GA, NE, NM, AK, CO, VA, WY, TN and even ID if that clown craig doesn't leave office can be lost)and Dems hammering house candidates over the S-Chip vote. Sound rosy for Republicans? Not in any way.

Don't paint me as a pessimist Jim, you did that last year when I warned beforehand of the 2006 debacle.

Bill

Bill ~ I assume you're right on the Senate, simply because of the 22-12 disadvantage Republicans have in seats at risk. North Carolina? What - is Erskine Bowles gonna try again? Gimme a break . . . Georgia? Unless they imported half a million votes from New Orleans, that's not going anywhere, either. Nebraska? Bob Kerrey won't run. He likes the big city life too much, and would Norman Hsu tattooed on his forehead in the campaign.

Now, if the election were held today, Democrats would probably win the White House and retain the House. The election, thankfully, is not today. A year is several lifetimes in politics . . . recall 1991, where by this time all the Democratic heavyweights - Cuomo, Gore, Gephardt, etc., - had declined to run in 1992 because George H.W. Bush was just too darned popular?

But yeah, you were right in 2006 . . . ;-)

Presidents popularity rising, War in Iraq won, Dumb Dhimmi moves like the Frosts. They may have something special in the water in Florida.
======================================