Post Election Ravings of the Neocons
by James Buchanan
Believe it or not, some neocons are trying to spin the 2006 election as only a “narrow” loss for the Zionist warmongers. This latest propaganda campaign involves even more dishonesty than what led us into the Iraq War. The neocons are trying to claim that they only “narrowly” lost control of Congress and that one Senate race in Montana was decided by only a thousand votes.
It’s true that the Democrats have only a one seat majority in the Senate (or two if you count Joe “Call me a Democrat” Lieberman) and that Montana with its small population decided its election by a small number of votes. What the neocons leave out is that only one-third of the Senate runs for reelection in any particular election. For the Democrats to gain six seats in the Senate out of 33 contested seats is nothing short of amazing. The Anti-Neocon Revolt is every bit as historically important as the anti-liberal revolt of 1994. If the entire Senate had to run for reelection and if the Democrats did as well with the remaining 67 Senate seats, the Democrats would have gained 12 more seats, giving them a majority of 13 (or 14 if you count Joe). (more…)