Posts by James Bremner
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Nancy Pelosi is way left, further left than mainstream NZ positions. I would happily have Helen Clark and Margaret Wilson before I had Nancy Pelosi in power anywhere. Clark is a serious politician , Pelosi is not.
It is not just that she is left, she is incoherent. I have seen her on CSPAN and her "speeches" are an illogical ramble of unrelated thoughts blurted out. The Dems have much better candidates for speaker than her.
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"Would that be the same bush that allowed the 9/11 terrorist attacks to occur?"
I see loony tunes exists in NZ as well as San Fran. Do you seriously think that any American would have allowed the 9/11 attacks to occur? I mean seriously?! To describe such views as "silly", is an insult to "silly'.
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As a Kiwi who has lived in the US for 10 years and who follows politics here pretty closely, it is interesting to read the views of Kiwis back in NZ. Some are close to the mark and some have been led well off the reservation by reading the likes of the rabid left wing blogger, DailyKos. The NZ media (which I read daily) is a few sausies short of a BBQ on the subject of US and US politics as well; you won’t do yourself any favours by relying on it to gain any insight.
The following couple of sites will give you a much better grasp of what is going on and why.
A good round up of insightful articles and polling summaries
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/The best polling in the US is done by Scott Rasmussen at:
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/Most likely result, Dems take the House by a handful of seat, Repubs keep the Senate, not the "giant Blue Wave" like 1994 that the mainstream liberal media has talked up for months.
So what are the implications? I bet none of you know much about Nancy Pelosi, the loony tunes San Fran lib who would become speaker if the Dems win. Well, Osama, Al Zawaheri, Kim Jong Il, Armdinajad the head hackers in Iraq and various other assorted despots will be happy campers indeed if Nancy is the new Speaker. She sees terrorism as a law enforcement issue. Not much use if you become one of the people who have to jump 100 floors to your death (like the people in the top floors of the WTC on 9/11) in the next terrorist attack that she would make much easier for terrorists to successfully launch , if she got her way.
Fortunately Pelosi will have limited powers as the House is only one branch of Govt, and quite a few of the new Dems are very moderate, even conservative in nature, who have the mental capacity (it doesn't take much) to see that terrorism is a game much better played on the opposition's turf, rather than on your own turf at home.
When one party controls the White House and the other controls one or both Houses of Congress, it is described as gridlock. Not too much can get done, which means not too much will change. Not what a lot of Kiwis will want to hear, but not many Kiwis appreciate what a bunch of twats the current crop of Dems is. Al Gore, John Kerry, Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid. What a bunch of imbeciles. And yes, much, much worse that Bush.