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Donna Brazile praises GOP ideology

Posted by DAVID ADESNIK in Politics.
Nov 10th, 2009 | Comments

If you wait 15 years, people will say anything. Sunday morning on ABC, Donna Brazile explained why 2010 won’t be another 1994:

Well, first of all, I don’t think it’s ‘94, because in ‘94, we also had some potential disastrous that happened that caused Democrats to lose so many seats. First of all, we had a great deal of retirements in the Congress, we had the bank scandal, the post office scandal… We also had a Republican Party that had ideas. We had a Republican Party that was a lot more viable and had plans to help solve some problems. We don’t have that Republican Party today.

I wasn’t all that politically active back in 1994 (although I was a big Clinton fan), yet somehow I don’t recall any Democrats praising the GOP for the depth of its ideas or for its pragmatic willingness to solve problems. I guess that some Lexis-Nexis work might turn up the odd bit of praise, but what I mostly remember from the late 90s is a kind of vindictiveness that makes today’s bickering seem pretty dull and substantive.

Cross-posted at Conventional Folly

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michaelD

and we had, and have, a less than useful excuse for a journalist named donna who seems not to have mastered the english language. listening to her speak on this week is excruciating.

and no, i've no interest in politically-correct banter about how her ethnicity justifies her failure to learn the english language by the time she graduated [?] from college.

for the record, i don't think 2010 will be 1994. 2010 will be 2010. if the dems loose their mastery of either the executive or legislative branches it will be deserved. that the GOP would in theory gain either majority would not be deserved. winning by default is not the same as victory. i'm sure if it comes to pass the GOP will crow over their new-found mandate, just as the shrub proceeded to spend the political capital he assumed after the 2004 election. we know how that turned out.

were jefferson, adams, franklin, etc alive today, is there any doubt but that they would be starting from scratch?

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