By Zamboni
Cats with names like "Zamboni" usually comment on Canadian rather than American politics, but we have to admit that the races "south of the border" sure are exciting these days.
In fact, tonight we're celebrating the Republican Party's third consecutive defeat in a special Congressional election, and in a very red state. Congratulations, Travis Childers!
We have two thoughts.
First, as we all know that losing three safe seats in a row like this typically presages disaster for the fall (remember 1974?), does this put Haley Barbour or Lindsay Graham in play as McCain's vice president — just to try and hold the South? Inquiring cats want to know.
Second, let's talk money. Congressman-elect Childers just forced the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee to spend $1 million in a losing effort. Since the RCCC will have to spend a minimum of $45 million on Congressional races this year — what with all their other problems, like retirements, scandals and the like — they've just wasted about 2 percent of their entire 2008 budget losing this safe seat to Travis Childers.
But that's not all. To try to win back the district in November, the Republicans will have to spend at least another half million dollars. We like that — because that's $500,000 that they won't be able to spend trying to defeat Democrats like Heath Shuler in North Carolina, Tim Mahoney in Florida, or Brad Ellsworth in Indiana.
We PURR loudly in the direction of Travis Childers, and of all those fine voters of Mississippi's first Congressional district who refused to be swayed by icky, negative campaigning.
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2 comments:
Hi Aunt Sheila!
This is Rachel, Bonnie's daughter (grandma sent my mom the link and thought I'd enjoy it, being quite the liberal.) and I think this blog is stupendous.
I didn't know you and Uncle Mark were democrats, which is very cool in my opinion :]
I'm digging the blog and it's taught me a few things and that's saying something, I'm very well informed and have been since I got crushed from the 2000 election results.
Cheers :]
Dear Rachel,
Thank you for your positive feedback! We cats appreciate it — even more than we like the taste of "Pounce" cat treats (moist tuna flavor, please). While this blog is completely written by us, we do occasionally accept suggestions from Uncle Mark (our dad), because he is so smart about politics and stuff. In fact, this post about how much money the Republicans had to spend in Mississippi was his idea. We love that. After all, we cats can't always keep our paws on everything.
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