That MISERABLE SOB Novack: No mandate for Obama, no lopsided Congress

[wndycty]

No mandate for Obama, no lopsided Congress

November 4, 2008

ROBERT NOVAK [e-mail]

WASHINGTON -- The national election Tuesday was not only historic for the election of the first African-American president in the nation's history but also for how little the avalanche of Democratic votes changed the political alignment in Congress.

The first Democratic Electoral College landslide in decades did not result in a tight race for control of Congress.

When Franklin D. Roosevelt won his second term for president in 1936, the defeated Republican candidate, Gov. Alf Landon of Kansas, won only two states, Maine and Vermont, and Democrats controlled both houses of Congress by wide margins.

But Obama's win was nothing like that. He may have opened the door to enactment of the long-deferred liberal agenda, but he neither received a broad mandate from the public nor the needed large congressional majorities.

The Democrats fell several votes short of the 60-vote filibuster-proof Senate that they were seeking and also failed to get rid of a key Senate target: Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
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http://www.suntimes.com/news/novak/1260688,CST-NWS-novak05.article

[d_b]

1. Fail.

[jgraz]

2. I think there's a mandate for his brain tumor.

[Arugula Latte]

3. Doesn't he have a brain tumor?

[Joe Bacon]

13. Novak has a brain?

Could have fooled me!

[WCGreen]

4. Shit, I thought he was dead....

[PretzelWarrior]

5. Ummm...NOVAK?? SHUT THE FUCK UP!

you don't want to draw attention to yourself lest you find yourself in a windowless room being "questioned" by security agents with enhanced interrogation techniques in an effort to root out the answers to the Plame affair that were never answered.

DOUCHE BAG.

[FVZA_Colonel]

6. So the Douchebag of Liberty doesn't see a mandate?

I'm not too bothered.

[Dennis Donovan]

7. He came out of retirement to write this hosrshit?

Once a Douchebag of Liberty, always a Douchebag of Liberty.:eyes:

[Colobo]

8. Delusional.

[WinkyDink]

9. This traitor will be proven wrong in short order.

[Lorien]

10. And what did Novak call a "mandate" in 2004?

what little margin Bush "won" by was supplied by rigged machines in Ohio!

[Crunchy Frog]

11. Go easy on him. He's got brain cancer.

[road2000]

17. Yes. But it's not that.

It's the fact he's lived as a traitor, and will die as a traitor.

[Crunchy Frog]

21. Yes that too, but I consider the fucker to be irrelevant now.

They're probably just humoring him by letting him write a column.

[Union Thug]

12. No mandate? Is he looking at the same electoral numbers as everyone else?

What a hack.

[krispos42]

14. Funny, but when the Repubs had a 2-EV win in 2000

and only the House... they somehow had a mandate.

Hmph. Interesting.

[OmahaBlueDog]

15. Well, Bob .. Junior Bush became president with fewer votes than his opponent...

...and chose to govern as if he'd accomplished a 50 state sweep. You'll forgive me if we ignore your sage advice, and ask our nation's new DemocratIC President and it's expanded, DemocratIC majority to start instituting change.

Claim a mandate? Yes, We Can!

[Puzzler]

16. Fuck you Novak...

... Bush squeaks by with the tiniest of margins (in 2000 he had less votes than Gore)... and yet Bush had the "mandate" to fuck not only the US up, but also most of the world. However, Obama wins by a large margin, OK even a landslide... and that is somehow NOT a mandate. The sheer gall of Novak! (and doubtless some of his fascist buddies that will echo his sentiments tomorrow)

[myrna minx]

18. I'm pretty sure Novak- the unscrupulous, believed that razor thin margin that Bu$h fancied he had,

gave Bu$h a mandate in 2004, but hark, I forget, everything is different if you're a republican. Oh, and can someone explain why Novak, Delay and Rove are given any legitimacy, by given air time, and why they're not in jail?

[Cobalt-60]

19. Screw Novak

I couldn't care less what he might have to say.
He's grave filler.

[carnie_sf]

20. Right

but Bush had a mandate in 2004? Puhleez

[Dappleganger]

22. He can choke on THIS mandate.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

23. yet they feel a president losing the popular and "winning" the electoral is a call to action

only Republicans could be so stupid

[blogslut]

24. Eat this, Bob

So far, Obama has beaten Johnny McSame by six million individual votes and 175 Electoral Votes.

Define mandate, you washed up old hack.

[Naturyl]

25. Rubbish.

A landslide is a mandate.

Spin harder. QQ more.

[Ken Burch]

26. What's the big surprise? The ReichWingers are going to spend the next two months

doing all they can to try to spin our win away.

We can't let them.

We have to stand up, over and over again, and defend what we've done tonight, against all attackers.

[regnaD kciN]

27. It should be remembered...

...that, when he was 50% of "Evans & Novak," their nickname around Washington was "Errors & NoFacts." Looks like the same old Bob.