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).
The neocon defeat in the House is almost as impressive as their loss in the Senate. All of the seats in the House were contested in 2006. The Republican advantage of 15 seats was wiped out and replaced with a Democrat advantage of 14 (or possibly 15 seats if they ever finish the recounts). This is about a three percent majority. When Bush “won” the 2004 election, with some considerable help from Diebold voting machines, he had a majority of one percent. The Democrat victory is clearly three times as noteworthy as Bush’s electoral squeaker.
After the 2004 election, Bush immediately started talking about his new “mandate” thanks to his slim victory against a pompous Massachusetts liberal. If the Democrats had found a smooth-talking southern Democrat governor, who liked chubby women, to run against Bush, there’s little chance Bush could have won in 2004.
The most important thing the Democrats need to remember is that Americans didn’t vote for liberalism; they voted AGAINST the war, against torture and against the shredding of the Bill of Rights. If the Democrats want to stay in power more than a mere two years, they had better shove Gay Marriage back in the closet, END the Iraq occupation and overturn the pro-torture bill that the neocons passed in the week before the election.