{"id":10628,"date":"2007-04-26T16:15:02","date_gmt":"2007-04-26T20:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/10628.html"},"modified":"2007-04-26T16:15:02","modified_gmt":"2007-04-26T20:15:02","slug":"far-right-blog-post-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/far-right-blog-post-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Far-right blog post of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once in a while, it’s fun to highlight a blog post from my other gig<\/a>, where I find all kinds of fascinating insights from the other ideological end of the blogosphere. Today, let’s check in on the Strata-Sphere, a relatively popular far-right site that routinely bridles against Democrats’ criticism of the war in Iraq, who praises Joe Lieberman<\/a> for supporting the president’s war policy.<\/p>\n

If only Democrats still had the John Kennedy-Joe Lieberman mentality on world affairs, they would probably still be in the majority. Joe Lieberman is a breath of fresh air from the heated, emotional, vitriolic statements that come out of the current Democrat leaders. His logic and observations are inexcapable [sic<\/i>] to those still with their heads about them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From there, the Strata-Sphere launches into a fairly predictable harangue, insisting that Dems want to “give Bin Laden his win,” adding, “How can anyone concede Iraq to the man who caused so many desparate [sic<\/i>] and innocent people to jump to their deaths from 100 stories that faitful [sic<\/i>] day? How can Reid and Pelosi stand in front of cameras and say ‘we need to let Bin Laden win, we were not strong enough’.” It’s the usual spiel.<\/p>\n

But let’s back up: Democrats “would probably still be in the majority” if only they’d listen to Lieberman?<\/p>\n

I’m fairly certain Democrats are<\/i> in the majority, in large part because they didn’t<\/i> listen to Lieberman.
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\nNot so, the Strata-Sphere protests; we’re defining “majority” poorly.<\/p>\n

I must remind you that (a) democrats and reps and independents (like me) each make up a third of the population, (b) occassionally [sic<\/i>] a governing coalition will be created by the Indies supporting the Reps or Dems – this does not make Dems a majority, and (c) Lieberman is not a Dem and therefore the Dems do NOT have a majority of the Senate. So, if you want to pretend you folks have a ‘majority’ go right ahead. Those of us who have passed 7th grade math will just have to disagree.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let’s take these one at a time…<\/p>\n

* When Dems outnumber Republicans in the House, Senate, state legislatures, and governorships, we can call it many things, but I’d call it a “majority.”<\/p>\n

* If the Democratic caucus in the Senate has 51 members, and Harry Reid is the Senate Majority Leader, I’m fairly comfortable saying Dems do<\/i> have a majority in the Senate.<\/p>\n

* And even if we’re going to be figurative about all of this, and say the numbers in Washington are irrelevant, we can also just ask the public — who prefer the Democratic approach on the war to the Bush\/Lieberman approach by a healthy margin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Isn’t reading far-right blogs fun?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once in a while, it’s fun to highlight a blog post from my other gig, where I find all kinds of fascinating insights from the other ideological end of the blogosphere. Today, let’s check in on the Strata-Sphere, a relatively popular far-right site that routinely bridles against Democrats’ criticism of the war in Iraq, who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}