They’ve Got Good News And They’ve Got Bad News
By Mitch Berg
SCENE: Mitch BERG is grabbing a bag of Banh Mi at iPho on University Avenue when Avery LIBRELLE walks in behind him.
LIBRELLE: Merg!
BERG: Oh… (seeks a way out, doesn’t see one) Hey. How’s things?
LIBRELLE: The ReThuglicons are going to get crushed in the mid-terms!
BERG: Do tell.
LIBRELLE: Because it looks like Conor Lamb is going to win the Pennsylvania special Congressional election.
BERG: Ah. So a former Marine and 2nd Amendment supporter who is a lot more like the type of people Democrats used to elect fifty years ago than anything east coast or metro Democrat party has nominated outside the Iron Range and West Virginia in decades, and who’d get doxxed into receivership or beaten into a coma if he tried to run for office in Minneapolis or Chicago or Manhattan, is your big bout of good news?
LIBRELLE: You’re racist.
BERG: Naturally. (Pays for his order, then notices somethingi) Er, Avery? Are you going to order something.
LIBRELLE: Oh, heavens no. I’m just taking readings on the owners’ privilege.
(and SCENE)
March 15th, 2018 at 6:11 am
The message here is relatively simple. If you run sensible candidates who don’t bang on about identity politics you can reach otherwise republican places. The Democratic Party is a parody of itself lately. Far too focused on identity politics, an ex-marine like Conor Lamb and not a has-been like Pelosi is what they need.
March 15th, 2018 at 6:35 am
I remember Senator Sam Nunn (D-Georgia) during the Reagan years. He was solid on defense and budget, moderate on most social issues. I remember Dave Minge (D-Minn) who was a Blue Dog Democrat. They were the kind of Democrats a conservative could work with, not call the orderlies to take away.
The danger of electing Lamb is he doesn’t represent the power in his party. Vote for a moderate centrist, receive the socialist agenda. He’ll find himself stuck between voting as the candidate his constituents elected for one term then out, or voting as the commissars dictate in order to get party help to get re-elected. You think you vote for the man. You actually vote for the party leaders.
March 15th, 2018 at 6:50 am
Did anyone ask Lamb if he would join his party in pledging to seek tax increases for all Americans?
March 15th, 2018 at 6:59 am
The one campaign speech I saw of Lamb he was pushing the ol’ “Let’s work together to solve our problems” line.
You know, like Obama did.
The guy won’t be in office for more than a few months. One of the Powerline guys noted that when Dems ran people as moderates in 2006, they made decent gains, but since they voted as liberal Democrats, they were thrown out of office in 2010.
Identity politics is all they’ve got. We’ve seen their alternative to Trump — it is Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris, and Liz Warren.
March 15th, 2018 at 7:19 am
Had Lamb positioned himself like Pelosi, he never would have made it.
March 15th, 2018 at 7:42 am
How’d I get stuck in moderation purgatory?
March 15th, 2018 at 8:00 am
JD, it looks like your privileges have been revoked. Welcome my and swiftee’s world!
March 15th, 2018 at 8:23 am
I never find myself in the moderation queue. The trick is to use more words derived from Latin than Anglo-Saxon. This explains Swiftee’s problem.
March 15th, 2018 at 8:34 am
I’m going out on a limb here and predict that my congressman, Tulsi Gabbard, will squeak out a victory this November. In 2016, she won over the Republican candidate, 81%-19 %. This congressional district went Hillary over Trump 61%-29%. That says something about Hillary’s claim that sexism cost her the election, doesn’t it?
March 15th, 2018 at 9:41 am
Et de ceteris Romam contendunt ut facti sitis forma civis est, Mammuthus Primigenius.
March 15th, 2018 at 9:43 am
You just need to tone it down, JD. Leave the H8 to the experts.
March 15th, 2018 at 9:48 am
Nos non barbaros hic, Swiftee.
March 15th, 2018 at 11:04 am
That’s Swifticus, MP
March 15th, 2018 at 11:09 am
Ego nunquam pronunciari mendacium! Sed ego sum homo indomitus.
March 15th, 2018 at 11:12 am
Bibo ergo sum!
March 15th, 2018 at 11:21 am
In vino veritas.
March 15th, 2018 at 11:22 am
If Democrats were like this more I might actually vote for them occasionally. I bet he will end up voting with republicans for the brief time hes in Congress since this district quite literally will not exist in November, depending on the SCOTUS ruling on it this summer.
March 15th, 2018 at 11:24 am
MP is right. Latin flows through the WordPress moderation like gin flows through Hillary Clotting.
I propose SITD become the blogosphere’s first all Latin blog.
March 15th, 2018 at 1:41 pm
JD used the dreaded so-cial-ist word which the bot thinks is promoting an ED drug.
March 15th, 2018 at 2:59 pm
Swiftee, was this the post you referred to yesterday?
http://www.shotinthedark.info/wp/?p=833
March 15th, 2018 at 7:00 pm
Yup. That’s the one Brad.
It was salad days back then.
March 15th, 2018 at 11:33 pm
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