(2006-10-31) — New York Sen. Charles Schumer, chairman of the Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee, said today that next Tuesday’s Congressional elections are shaping up to be “more and more a referendum on former President Richard Nixon.”
The remarks come a day after Sen. Schumer received significant media coverage for saying that the election is increasingly becoming a referendum on George W. Bush, although Mr. Bush has promised to serve out his final term as president, and has no immediate plans to seek a seat in the House or Senate.
“If you don’t like Richard Nixon’s dirty tricks and his disastrous war in Vietnam,” Sen. Schumer said, “it’s time for a change in Washington. It’s time to vote Democrat.”
The senior senator from New York scoffed at the suggestion that Congressional elections are part of a Constitutional process for selecting legislators from each state to represent voters interests at the federal level.
“That’s what Republicans would like you to think,” he said, “because they want to get you distracted with issues, and with the qualifications of candidates in your home state. In these final days, we’re going to stay on our progressive Democrat message — when you vote Republican, it’s like voting for Nixon.”
67 responses so far ↓
1 Fred Sinclair // Oct 31, 2006 at 5:20 am
Too rich: like drinking a glass of honey. The last paragraph should become a classic bumper sticker!
1st reading I got the gist of it, 2nd reading, I got the humor. 3rd reading I was ROFLOL - OK so I'm slow and the ROFLOL is difficult from a wheelchair. It was more virtual than anything else.
Fred Sinclair, Heirborn Ranger
2 MargeinMI // Oct 31, 2006 at 5:40 am
Wait a minute. I thought Bush was Rove's evil puppet. Or a chimp. Or a clone of Hilter. And now you're telling me he's Trick Dick Nixon?
I'm soooo confuuusssed…..
Boo! to you!
3 Beerme // Oct 31, 2006 at 8:10 am
NDS-Nixon Derangement Syndrome-it’s not just for Hippies anymore…
4 gafisher // Oct 31, 2006 at 8:27 am
It may in fact turn out to be a referendum on Chuck Schemer, Harry Rude, and the rest of the moonbat chorus. But only if smart voters can outnumber the Dems’ vast army of virtual voters.
Happy Reformation Day, Scrapplers!
5 kajun // Oct 31, 2006 at 8:40 am
Booooo!
6 Ms RightWing, Ink // Oct 31, 2006 at 8:58 am
#
Good Morning. I am not quite sure of the time on the clock , but my body says it is time to go back to bed.
I sure wish my cat would get on non-DST
Nixon lied and he died. Let that be a lesson-huh
7 Darthmeister // Oct 31, 2006 at 9:02 am
That’s funny, I thought it was a referendum on Herbert Hoover given the worst economy America has ever had since 1776.
8 JamesonLewis3rd // Oct 31, 2006 at 9:09 am
BOO!!!!!
9 Just Ranting // Oct 31, 2006 at 9:51 am
“Let me say this about that…” Richard Nixon was one of the most liberal Republicans to hold office, and they media and Dems still savaged him. He capitulated on every liberal idea, from cut and run in Viet Nam to his liberal domestic policies. He should stand as fair warning to this president, and all conservatives. Stick to your ideals as Reagan did. Bypass the liberal media and take your message directly to the voters. They will respect you for it, and it will confound the MSM who think they run Washington.
10 JamesonLewis3rd // Oct 31, 2006 at 9:53 am
OT but interesting nevertheless:
British scientists have grown the world’s first artificial liver from stem cells in a breakthrough that will one day provide entire organs for transplant.
11 camojack // Oct 31, 2006 at 9:58 am
Ele..phant power!
12 camojack // Oct 31, 2006 at 10:03 am
#10…you forgot to mention that they were NOT embryonic stem cells.
Important distinction, that…
13 upnorthlurkin // Oct 31, 2006 at 10:09 am
KAJUN!!! Happy Halloween!! Good to see you up and about! It’s snowing and 21° up here with a NW wind @ 20 mph. Methinks the little trick or treaters are all going to look like Eskimoes!
14 JamesonLewis3rd // Oct 31, 2006 at 10:15 am
It’s a beautiful, windless, cloud-free 62.4°F / 16.9°C here, at the moment (0815 CST).
Nyah, nyah.
15 JamesonLewis3rd // Oct 31, 2006 at 10:16 am
Mean, ain’t I…..
16 red satellites // Oct 31, 2006 at 10:37 am
Good morning Scrapplers…on this fine Hallowed Eve!
Over in West Hollywood, most everyone will be doing tricks for treats.
17 wildhowd // Oct 31, 2006 at 10:39 am
See Demmies
See Demmies run.
Run Demmies run.
Run from the issues.
Run from reality.
Run from the war.
Run from social security.
Cut and run Demmies.
Raise taxes now.
Love marxist Demmies.
Run Demmies run.
18 RedPepper // Oct 31, 2006 at 11:05 am
“China helped North Korea develop nuclear weapons and in the past year increased its support to Pyongyang, rather than pressing the regime to halt nuclear arms and missile activities, according to a congressional report.â€
Bill Gertz in today’s Washington Times.
Aw, crap! And here I thought the Chinese were our buddies!
19 RedPepper // Oct 31, 2006 at 11:08 am
Ooops …
20 Darthmeister // Oct 31, 2006 at 11:19 am
Schumer only needs to act and dress as himself to celebrate Halloween. The man is pretty scary along with Charlie Rangle, Howeird Dean, and Henry Waxman. Tales from the crypt I’d say.
21 Shelly // Oct 31, 2006 at 11:28 am
Maggie, yes he is, which makes him eligible to vote.
22 Ms RightWing, Ink // Oct 31, 2006 at 12:00 pm
Can I get a bid on my old Nixon mask. I got a Pelosi mask and boy does it scare the kids away-a few adults also
23 Ms RightWing, Ink // Oct 31, 2006 at 12:03 pm
In the dirty old factory town it is a balmy 61 degrees with 54% humidity and the UV index is low. But we did lose the sunshine we had yesterday
24 upnorthlurkin // Oct 31, 2006 at 12:21 pm
You alll are just mean! Brrrrrrrr.
25 onlineanalyst // Oct 31, 2006 at 12:34 pm
With his typically politically corroded tin ear, Lurch may have offered up an October surprise that hurts his own party of Defeatocrats… or should I say, Deafeatocrats? What a shallow, smarmy, lumpen piece of vanity Kerry is.
26 JamesonLewis3rd // Oct 31, 2006 at 12:56 pm
Yes, I read what Kerry said. What a low-life.
27 Darthmeister // Oct 31, 2006 at 1:02 pm
Ms RightWing, it’s time for you to slather on some SPF-45 and go enjoy global warming!
We have clearing skies and temperatures in the low 50s today. Should take us to the weekend with a chance of brief snow flurries on Saturday.
28 Darthmeister // Oct 31, 2006 at 1:06 pm
Excellent analysis of Republicans’ real chances this November at Time’s .
29 Darthmeister // Oct 31, 2006 at 1:07 pm
… at Time’s The Allen Report.
I wonder why the hyperlink thingy doesn’t work sometimes. I double-checked … oh well.
30 hwy93 // Oct 31, 2006 at 1:57 pm
Hello All,
Hank, Isn’t the Allen Report Top secret? Noone else in the LSM seems to have noticed those inconvenient truths (with regard to district voting records) while reporting a Dem sweep in the making. I wouldn’t have expected it to come from CNN’s stepchild .
31 JamesonLewis3rd // Oct 31, 2006 at 2:00 pm
Well, yes, it was beautiful this morning at 0815 CST, so I thought I’d take advantage, wash the car and mow the grass one last time.
Before I was done, clouds rolled in, the wind began to blow and the temperature dropped ten degrees.
That’s what I get, eh?
32 RedPepper // Oct 31, 2006 at 2:06 pm
For those who have not yet read or heard the Kerry remarks:
“You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”
Full story here .
33 myword // Oct 31, 2006 at 2:20 pm
Darn it! I thought I’d bookmarked the animated map of the Middle East Empires through the ages that someone had posted here awhile back. Now I can’t find it. If whoever posted that still has it available, would you mind posting it again. I want to show it to my son.
34 Shelly // Oct 31, 2006 at 2:28 pm
Speaking of Kerry, may I take this Halloween to thank the uneducated, lazy boobs - er, I mean veterans, who post on this site. There are truly no real words or deeds the rest of us can use to demonstrate our gratitude and respect.
To everyone else - Boo!
35 Shelly // Oct 31, 2006 at 2:40 pm
Just seemed appropriate for Halloween, seeing as how you vets love terrorizing women and children.
36 myword // Oct 31, 2006 at 2:48 pm
Never mind. I just asked for the Empire Map of the ME
in post #32.
I found it. Hope I didn’t waste anyone’s time.
Sorry. :
37 Mr Sign Up Sheet // Oct 31, 2006 at 2:57 pm
lol Kerry first says “study hard or go to Iraq” then calls what he said -> “This is the classic GOP playbook,”
Yeah.. our GOP play book? Just let the idiots talk!
38 upnorthlurkin // Oct 31, 2006 at 3:00 pm
JL3rd, I’ll still trade you my (now) 32° and NW winds at 21mph!! 52° and windy is balmy by our standards!
39 upnorthlurkin // Oct 31, 2006 at 3:01 pm
One of J effin K’s handlers said that wasn’t what he really meant to say…..he’s just tired!
Yeah, right!
40 Maggie // Oct 31, 2006 at 3:05 pm
Isn’t Nixon dead?
41 Bill's Bites // Oct 31, 2006 at 3:25 pm
Schumer: Election a Referendum on Richard Nixon…
Schumer: Election a Referendum on Richard Nixon (2006-10-31) — New York Sen. Charles Schumer, chairman of the Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee, said today that next Tuesday’s Congressional elections are shaping up to be more and more a referen…
42 Big Java // Oct 31, 2006 at 4:02 pm
Well, since Nixon is dead, he can only vote for the dim party. Ole LBJ was real good at getting out the vote in Uvalde County, Texas; seems there were more voters than the live population.
The noted Sen JFnK from Mass, who also served in Vietnam, has certainly dug his hole deeper. What he said was a mangled joke and those of us who are too uneducated and/or stupid should realize it is all a GOP trick. I guess Bush/Rove/Nixon is at fault.
43 Darthmeister // Oct 31, 2006 at 4:24 pm
John Kerry is such a moron if he thinks he bellowed and blustered his way out of what he said yesterday. Clearly the man was making a distinction between those “smart enough” to stay in school and those who volunteered to go to Iraq. To say this was a blundered joke gone bad is beneath contempt. If it was “a joke” aimed at the Iraq policies of the Bush Administration, then why was he JOKING about Americans serving as soldiers in Iraq? This Donk is not only contemptible but also a mendacious liar because his motor mouth spoke what his heart believed - if you get sent to Iraq you must be one of the stupid ones being forced to do so under the Bush Administration.
Keep it up, Mr. Kerry, you’re obviously doing the bidding of Karl Rove and his mind control machine.
44 Darthmeister // Oct 31, 2006 at 4:27 pm
Maggie, yes he is (dead), which makes him eligible to vote.
Not quite correct, Shelly. It makes him eligible to vote IF HE’S A DEMOCRAT!
45 Darthmeister // Oct 31, 2006 at 4:39 pm
The John F’n Kerry “joke” in question: “You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”
The lamestream media is already trying to spin this by claiming this was being said strictly in context of criticizing Bush’s Iraq policy. An examination of his speech reveals this simply isn’t true. The comment was almost a stand alone statement and he got caught with his foot in his mouth. When it came time to own up to what he said Kambodia Kerry chose to point fingers, bluster and obfuscate. What an intellectual lightweight.
Apparently some people who were “smart enough” to stay in college in years past and still serve in the military took Mr. Kerry at his word. The National Commander of The American Legion called on Sen. John Kerry to apologize for suggesting that American troops in Iraq are uneducated:
“As a constituent of Senator Kerry’s I am disappointed. As leader of The American Legion, I am outraged. A generation ago, Sen. Kerry slandered his comrades in Vietnam by saying that they were rapists and murderers. It wasn’t true then and his warped view of today’s heroes isn’t true now.”
Kerry is such a lying twit. Why isn’t he man enough to defend his statements instead of blaming the Bush Administration for what he said?
46 Napoleon // Oct 31, 2006 at 4:51 pm
Hey Hanky,
Wanna meet out on the speedway?
Love,
Liger
47 da Bunny // Oct 31, 2006 at 5:05 pm
Nice job of criticizing those who put their lives on the line to keep you free to spew your ignorant comments, Lurch! I’d get deleted if I wrote what I really think of that imbecile.
48 Shelly // Oct 31, 2006 at 5:07 pm
I stand corrected on Nixon’s elibility to vote.
49 Shelly // Oct 31, 2006 at 5:08 pm
…as well as my ability to spell eligibility.
50 JamesonLewis3rd // Oct 31, 2006 at 5:11 pm
Kerry’s infuriatingly inane and imbecilic attitude in today’s news conference caused me to break out in a severe rash.
Kerry-Gone! Apply directly to the forehead…..
Kerry-Gone! Apply directly to the forehead…..
Kerry-Gone! Apply directly to the forehead…..
51 upnorthlurkin // Oct 31, 2006 at 5:17 pm
OOps! can anyone tell me why my ultra-lib neighbor is upset with me for the remarks I made about Halloween? All I said was it was the day to train all the little munchkins to be Democrats…..you know, going door to door begging (for candy) from people they don’t know….
52 Ms RightWing, Ink // Oct 31, 2006 at 5:22 pm
And you wonder what makes a democerat think (?)
http://www.in-forum.com/ap/index.cfm?page=view&id=D8L3QJIG0
53 Big Java // Oct 31, 2006 at 5:22 pm
Well, upnorthlurkin, as usual the truth hurts.
54 Big Java // Oct 31, 2006 at 5:24 pm
UpNorth,
Seems the truth always hurts
55 upnorthlurkin // Oct 31, 2006 at 5:46 pm
Ms RW - when I went to your link it said the article was no longer available….what’s it about? I have the stupid “hard copy” of the Fargo Foolem right here. I only read the obits and the funnies unless I’m dieting….then I read the opinion page which makes me sick to my stomach!
56 Ms RightWing, Ink // Oct 31, 2006 at 5:53 pm
upnorthlurkin
Is was an article about the Lawyer who revealed Bush’s drunken driving records during the first election.
The dimwit was found on a bridge overpass and arrested for being dressed like Osama, complete with plastic dynamite.
Where it was on hard copy newsprint I don’t know
57 Ms RightWing, Ink // Oct 31, 2006 at 6:00 pm
Sorry for using all the space, but here was the article
Activist Arrested for Halloween Stunt
By JERRY HARKAVY Associated Press Writer
The Associated Press - Tuesday, October 31, 2006
SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine
The lawyer who divulged President Bush’s drunken-driving arrest days before the 2000 election was arrested Tuesday after he was spotted on a highway overpass wearing an Osama bin Laden Halloween costume and holding a toy gun.
Tom Connolly, 49, was charged with criminal threatening, a misdemeanor, and was released after posting $500 bail. He said he intends to plead not guilty.
“There was a First Amendment this morning when I woke up. I don’t know how it evaporated with the dawn,” Connolly, an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for governor in 1998, told reporters after his release.
Police said the costume included plastic dynamite, grenades, and a replica of an AK-47 assault rifle.
“The whole thing is just incredibly bizarre,” said Police Chief Ed Googins. “It just crossed the line.”
The chief said there was no way to tell from a distance if the gun was real or fake.
Connolly also was carrying a sign that said “I love TABOR,” a reference to the Taxpayer Bill of Rights on the Maine ballot, but at least one person who saw it thought it said “I love the Taliban,” Googins said.
The Portland attorney is known for wearing costumes to make political statements, often donning a George W. Bush mask and dancing for passing motorists.
His wife has described him as “marvelously eccentric.”
In 2000, Connolly acknowledged that he tipped off reporters about Bush’s 24-year-old misdemeanor drunken driving charge at Kennebunkport. Republicans said the release of the information before the election was a Democratic dirty trick.
58 everthink // Oct 31, 2006 at 6:26 pm
Hey Gang,
Do I hear right, are they going to unseal some divorce records of relating to George Allen’s first marriage?
Did I ever mention his first wife is my wife’s cousin? Bad news again folks!
My, my, my, it must be getting hard for you all about now.
Bahwahwahwahwaaaah!
ET
59 Beerme // Oct 31, 2006 at 6:56 pm
What October surprises might come out of Allen’s divorce records?
I wonder if, while married to his first wife or in the process of divorcing her, Allen ever…
-had sex with an intern
-had sex with a page
-pointed a gun at black residents of California ghettos
-drove off a bridge and left his date to drown
-served proudly as the head of his state’s Ku Klux Klan
I guess I’ll stop here but I could go on all day…
signed,
Alfred E Neumann
“What, me worry”?
60 Darthmeister // Oct 31, 2006 at 7:03 pm
Are they going to unseal some divorce records of (sic) relating to George Allen’s first marriage?
I wouldn’t be surprised, neverthink, since the Demoncrat Party is the party which raised the politics of personal destruction to an artform. Another Democrat October surprise, eh?
But what should I expect from someone who thinks one of their ancient ancestors slimed its way out of some primoridal ooze or had a common ancestor with some creature that hung from a tree branch. I was hoping you’d prove me wrong one day but you only end up proving me right with your juvenile posts. How do you keep topping yourself with such facility?
61 Maggie // Oct 31, 2006 at 7:33 pm
Shelly re #41
Stated simply and sooo funny :>)
Darth…..good point about Dead Democrats voting.
btw…….I hope you get an opportunity to hear President Bush’s speech in GA today, If you haven’t already.It is one of his best.Very passionate on the War ON Terror.Maybe it will be shown in full tonight on C-Span. Poor Kerry…..can you say Swiftboat?
62 Maggie // Oct 31, 2006 at 7:39 pm
What smells like “old cheese”?
Oh, it’s just ‘Everstink’.
63 Ms RightWing, Ink // Oct 31, 2006 at 9:00 pm
Who dat man on da bridge. Why if’n it my old pal Sama. Nixon costumes just ain’t good enough for a liberal no more-Castro and Sama are hot!
64 GnuCarSmell // Oct 31, 2006 at 9:01 pm
Darn. You’d think Kerry would have enough sense to stay in his crypt until Halloween was over. Now he has revealed that our all-volunteer forces in Iraq are the dregs of society who wouldn’t do their homework. That’s right. The poor saps defending civilization against barbarism — according to Kerry — are in Iraq because they didn’t “make an effort to be smart.”
I’d like to see Kerry deliver his message directly to one of our soldiers.
65 Darthmeister // Oct 31, 2006 at 10:26 pm
It’s a sKerry night this Halloween.
66 everthink // Oct 31, 2006 at 10:30 pm
Farthmeister,
Re: 60
Oh yeah … so? So dad and brother haven’t been able to help, sad. Do you believe the earth is flat too?
Maggie,
Watch it now girlfriend!
It seems Sen. Allen spits on people! Then again, that may be common among neo-cons; but I suggest you pick your targets carefully like George Allen.
ET
67 JTD // Nov 4, 2006 at 12:05 pm
Screeeeam, that’s what I feel like doing
They fail to mention that it wasn’t Nixon’s war it was JFK’s and it was lost in the media.
God help us if these morons get elected.
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