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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-19-06 07:52 PM
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Our Dems are a Soap Opera/Demagogery at it's Finest/Buzz Editorial!
http://www.buzzflash.com/editorial/06/01/edi06005.html

Governing by "Soap Opera": The GOP Fine Art of Demagoguery vs. the Dazed and Confused Democratic Leadership Appeal to Reason

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL

Republican campaign consultants are, in one way, right about the Democratic leadership.

It is out of touch with the meat and potatoes American who watches the equivalent of 77 days a year of television. The Democratic leaders, college-educated and generally a bit contemptuous of television outside of PBS, "The Daily Show" and some other hip offerings, don't get what's going on.

Just look at the on-cue crying jag and trembling flight of Mrs. Alito from her husband's hearings, egged on by Lindsey Graham, a former impeachment floor manager and now a senator who unethically was involved in the "coaching" of Alito during "mock Senate hearings" to prepare him. We can also safely assume that Graham was involved in the scripting of the hearings that included the soap opera dramatic moment of Mrs. Alito breaking down in tears.

It's not like the Democrats should have been surprised. For one thing, it was a warmed-over script. Clarence Thomas's wife had the same calculated "soap opera" moment during his hearings, and some of the Dem Senators were around then.
http://www.buzzflash.com/editorial/06/01/edi06005.html
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tocqueville Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-19-06 08:00 PM
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1. the headline doesn't say that
Edited on Thu Jan-19-06 08:19 PM by tocqueville
it says that the GOP governs by demagogery and that the Dems response is a confused one
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-19-06 08:01 PM
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2. DUH...ohhhh........
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