Why is the White House so Eerily Confident about the Coming Elections?

[robertpaulsen]

Lyn David Lear
10.20.2006
Why is the White House so Eerily Confident about the Coming Elections?

All week I've been reading in disparate sources from Drudge to US News and World Report about Bush, Rove and Cheney being overly confident about the midterm elections. Even Republican strategists are increasingly concerned because the White House doesn't have a plan if they lose. This lack of planning shouldn't surprise anyone, but if you really think about it a creepy, crawly feeling grows in your gut.

Here are some questions: Are these guys simply narcissistic idiots Rove-ing around in some never-never land bubble or do they know something we don't? Have they planned a grab bag nose punch of an October/November surprise? Or have Diebold, ES&S, and local state secretaries assured them that they will do "whatever it takes" to get a Republican Congress elected again? Or are they just planning to outspend us? Karl Rove recently told the Washington Times, "For most Americans, particularly the marginal voters who are going to determine the outcome of the election, it started a couple of weeks ago... Between now and the election we will spend $100 million in target House and Senate races in the next 21 days". That is $30 million a week in 15 or 16 key races. Knowing this group, the answers must lie in a clever blitzkrieg combo of all of the above.

When I asked Gore Vidal at dinner why the White House seemed so serene and at ease about the vote, he replied that, this time around, the Bush-Cheney henchmen could simply call on martial law. He glumly noted that we are so far down the road toward totalitarianism that, even if Democrats do win back the Congress, it would take at least two generations before the last six years of damage to the nation could be reversed. Gore frankly despaired that any amount of time could ever return the country to where and what it previously was. This prediction left me reaching for some Fernet Branca.

We all know the neocons won't cede power easily. They have to be aware that if the tide of Congress turns, Bush's last two years will be mired in gridlock and perhaps even be punctuated by several embarrassing congressional investigations. Of course, Cheney did say last week that everything in Iraq is hunky dory, which leads one to believe that after James Baker's devastating report and the escalating mass destruction of the war, Dickey-boy has simply lost it. But whether it is hubris, loony tunes, or both, the White House's freakish calm about the elections makes me as nervous as the hell we seem to be headed for. Therefore we should all be on alert. If for whatever reason we don't win back Congress in November the only real answer will be to take to the streets.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lyn-lear/why-is-the-white-house-so_b_32121.html

[Iwasthere]

1. YEP! Be ready, be very ready...

... with cameras. Carry it with you everywhere. We want to record the proof

[kenny blankenship]

2. Sounds like the contingency plan in case UN inspectors found no Iraq WMDs

That possibility didn't worry them either.

[Virginia Dare]

3. Why are they so confident about Iraq?

Cheney just said the other day that things are going swimmingly there.

Catapulting the propaganda.

[greeneyedboy]

12. exactly.

[AIJ Alom]

4. Same reason why they are so confident about things in Iraq and Afghanistan

...discord with reality. Brick wall, here we come !!!

[BruceMcF]

11. Same reason they are so confident about Iraq.

They view their role as cheerleaders. Right now they are chanting, "Defense, Defense, Hold That Line! Hold That Line!"

If they said anything to betray lack of confidence, it would discourage the folks on the ground.

You don't think what they say has anything to do with what they think, do you? That's the MSM trick, of reporting statements in terms of, so and so "thinks", or so and so "wants". What we have a case of here, out in the reality based community, is "Bush and Rove claim to be optimistic".

[indepat]

5. Like Stalin, WH knows it's not who votes that counts, it's who counts

the votes that counts.

[indepat]

6. It indeed will take at least two generations before the damage of last six

years can largely be reversed. Yet in 2004 when most of the damage/future damage was already evident to all but the blind, brainwashed and brain-dead, the tumultuous multitudes clamored "four more years, four more years." :evilfrown: :mad: :puke: :thumbsdown: :cry: :hurts: :dilemma:

[roguevalley]

7. martial law is dependent upon the military doing their bidding. and,

also that there is enough military to do their bidding. they would never pick up a gun against their families and neighbors.

[TrogL]

8. If they are sufficiently brainwashed, they'll do anything

There's plenty of Freepers in the military.

[roguevalley]

9. we just turned 300 million. There isn't enough of them to stop us or

control us.

[neverforget]

10. You got that right!

[greeneyedboy]

13. you think they are sincere about this? why trust them now?

they are confidence men projecting confidence, so as not to seem like losers. they know if the public perceives a crack in their armor they'll go down so fast they won't know what hit them.


please, if you find yourself taking them at their word on ANY subject, perhaps it's time for a breath of fresh air. :-)

[drb]

14. ...and exercise your Second Amendment Rights!

Let's put "gun control" on the back burner for a while. For the next few years, the most important "gun control" will be hitting what you're aiming at!

[Demeter]

15. Drugs. And Booze

Cause it sure ain't reality-based! They can't steal that much without it showing so plainly that they get thrown in jail first.