Novak: ‘This Is Going To Be 1 Of Least Important Elections I Have Seen'

[kpete]

I think Novak is in for a BIG surprise - kpete

Novak: ‘This Is Going To Be One Of The Least Important Elections That I Have Seen’

Yet some conservatives are trying to downplay the stakes of the upcoming election. This morning on Meet the Press, conservative pundit Robert Novak said, “I would make the argument that this is one of the least important elections that I have seen.”

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RUSSERT: Would a Democratic majority go wild, or govern from the middle? Bob Novak?

NOVAK: There’s going to be a subpoena onslaught, which may or may not be politicaly beneficial. I have never found, in my time in Washington, that these congressional investigations are that effective. I know that in six years of investigating everything possible in the Clinton administration, the Republican Congress was not all that effective.

Tim, let me say this. All politicians always say that this is the most important election that we’ve ever been in, because it is to them. I would make the argument that this is one of the least important elections that I have seen because everybody is really looking ahead to 2008 as an important election. Because if the Democrats win the House, as is probable, they can make and pass a lot of legislation, get nowhere in the Senate — the Senate is a very difficult thing to get through — and the President will suddenly discover his veto pen that he had lost track of for six years. I don’t think that much will happen substantively. It is a nice thing for Nancy Pelosi to be Speaker of the House. But I don’t think there’s going to be much action out of her.

VIDEO AT: http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/22/novak-elections/

[Horse with no Name]

1. Keep telling yourself that Bob

Wonder when the indictments start rolling out, how much importance you will lend it then?

[Greeby]

2. Umm, maybe because the Repuke Congress wasn't interested in the truth?

That ever occur to a member of the undead like you, Novak?

[soothsayer]

3. Good! Stay home and concede defeat

[Botany]

4. Bob better get on that flight to Paraguay w/ the bush family

[Nite Owl]

5. Of course the Clinton investigations

weren't effective, they were purely political and the repukes knew that. They took a story line and ran with it to get headlines all the while knowing it was based on false accusations. The dems will have plenty to investigate if they get the subpoena power.

[unblock]

6. actually, the dynamics and long term consequences are very interesting

it's entirely possible that any democratic control will be a bad thing long term, because it lets the disgraced republicans blame the democrat house or democratic congress. whereas, if they were to actually retain control of both houses, they have NO ONE to blame. they'd try, of course, but it wouldn't be credible.

novak is correct that democrats won't be able to create a whole lot of anything that actually becomes law; on the other hand, they can prevent yet more disgraced republican crap from becoming law.

if democrats control at least the house, the next two years would be gridlock and mostly positioning for the 2008 elections.

[Jackpine Radical]

7. There it is again...

Novak: "I know that in six years of investigating everything possible in the Clinton administration, the Republican Congress was not all that effective."

Republican projection. They are just naturally so corrupt that they assume everyone else is. It never dawns on them that the reason they found so little on the Clintonistas is that there was so little there. (So little THERE there, as Bill would say.)

The Puggies can understand any form of chicanery because they know what they themselves are doing, but honesty is quite alien and therefore utterly incomprehensible to them.

[Warren Stupidity]

8. "six years of investigating everything possible"

Novak openly admits that the Cabal conducted a political witchhunt from 94-2000.

I can never decide if the assclowns are stupid or arrogant or both.

Anyhow, to answer the question, the center right party will rule from the center right, which will be a modest improvement over the far right idiocy of the last six years.

And to answer some other post here: no it would not be better if the cabal remained in control of all three branches of the federal government, even if the center-right party gets some of the blame for the final collapse of the Iraqi Debacle.

[spanone]

9. Blahb Novak....who gives a rat's ass what Blahb thinks?

[KittyWampus]

10. Douchebag

[wryter2000]

11. And we all know Novakula is always right

Why, I remember him in 1993 predicting that Clinton's "biggest tax increase in the history of the world" would ruin the economy.

[MadMaddie]

12. Ole bob is underestimating the furor of a woman isn't he

Nancy Pelosi is no joke....that's why they are trying to poisen her to the public....