{"id":6372,"date":"2018-11-18T22:48:26","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T05:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=6372"},"modified":"2019-02-07T17:30:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T00:30:56","slug":"rewind-the-2006-blue-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=6372","title":{"rendered":"Rewind: The 2006 Blue Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"

Results are still trickling in from the 2018 midterms and the blue wave is a lot bigger than the corporate main stream media proclaimed it to be<\/a>. Why is it that corporate news outlets, especially conservative ones like Fox News, a.k.a. the Republican Propaganda Network, can never admit that the Republican candidates lost and their world view is not popular with average Americans? CNN, MSNBC and other corporate media outlets all declared early on that the blue wave was more of a blue trickle<\/a>. They did this during the last big ‘blue wave’ election in 2006<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n

We dug up from our archives, an old article from that “thumpin'” in 2006 that pretty much describes the same toxic climate we have for this year’s midterm elections. We guess it’s like that old corporate media saying, “if it’s broken, don’t fix it…as long as we’re making money”.<\/p>\n

This article is from our November 13, 2006<\/strong> issue.<\/p>\n

Holy Cow! Dems Win! Republicans Trampled, Crushed, Whupped, Clobbered, Drubbed, Thumped\u2026They Got Beat BIG TIME!<\/h2>\n

In a thunderous rejection of President Bush\u2019s foreign policy in Iraq and the scandal ridden Republican controlled Congress, the American public voted Democrats into power across the board in elections held last Tuesday, November 7th. Not only did the Democrats take control of the House and the Senate for the first time since 1994, they also seized control of many state legislatures and have an edge in governorships as well. The Democratic victory has also prompted many resignations and dismissals, like Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and RNC Chairman Ken Mehlmann. Among the many high profile Republicans defeated were: Senator Rick Santorum, Senator George Allen, Katherine Harris, Representative Richard Pombo and Representative J.D. Hayworth..<\/p>\n

The new Speaker of the House, California representative Nancy Pelosi, said, \u201cThis is a stinging rebuke for the misguided policies of the Bush Administration. The American people have spoken and they are angry. President Bush has to work with us now and in particular me. They say \u2018paybacks a bitch\u2019. Well that bitch\u2019s name is Nancy Pelosi.\u201d<\/p>\n

Massachusetts Senator John Kerry said, \u201cWell a few weeks ago I said we were like the Chicago Cubs; always snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Boy I thought I blew the election with my botched joke about being dumb and getting stuck in Iraq. But even though the media beat it into the ground and flogged me with it on a daily basis, the American people decided they were fed up with Republican shenanigans and not my loquacious, meandering, sleep inducing manner of speaking. What I\u2019m trying to say is: Cubs win! Cubs win!\u201d<\/p>\n

Even though President Bush acknowledged that is was \u2018a thumping\u2019, many Republicans and neocon pundits were in denial about the loss. Arizona Representative J.D. Hayworth, who was beaten by Democrat Harry Mitchell, still hasn\u2019t conceded even though major wire services have called the race for Mitchell and there is a four percentage point difference in the vote count. \u201cNuh-uh!\u201d whined Hayworth in typical Hayworth fashion. \u201cThere is no way I lost to Mitchell. That is just pure fantasy. I\u2019m J.D. Hayworth. I wrote a book about immigration reform. People like me. I\u2019m J.D. Hayworth. We\u2019re just going to count and recount those votes until I\u2019m victorious. So there! I\u2019m J.D. Hayworth and I approve this tantrum.\u201d<\/p>\n

Host of Fox News\u00a0Hannity & Colmes<\/i>, Sean Hannity, said, \u201cPlease! I would hardly call this a \u2018Blue Wave\u2019 like everybody in the liberal media is calling it. Sure some Democrats won some races and they took back the House and Senate, barely. It\u2019s nothing like the glorious revolution of 1994 when the Republicans swept into power ushering in a glorious age of ass-clenched conservativism. Those days are gone my friends. The next thing you know, Osama will be invited to address Congress by that terrorist loving Nancy Pelosi. She\u2019s probably having a sex party in her office right now with her unholy sex slaves from San Francisco. God I hate her!\u201d<\/p>\n

Chris Matthews, host of\u00a0Hardball<\/i>, said, \u201cYou know who I\u2019m going to miss? All those guys like Tom Delay, Bob Ney and Randall Cunningham. Sure they were corrupt, but they made it exciting didn\u2019t they? Now we\u2019ve got Hillary and Nancy nagging at us all like mother hens. Things will probably get done now. We won\u2019t have any fun. God I hate them!\u201d<\/p>\n

Many Americans felt good about the election results. Karyn Green of Teller, Virginia said, \u201cFor the first time in six years I have a feeling of hope. Maybe now Congress will check Bush and his agenda which has gotten us into nothing but hot water.\u201d<\/p>\n

Natalie Harrison of Chesterville, Wisconsin said, \u201cI don\u2019t expect miracles from this new Congress, but maybe someone can come up with a plan for exiting Iraq. The current administration certainly doesn\u2019t have a clue.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, Bush supporter Derrick Armstrong of Hubley, Colorado said, \u201cGreat! Now that Pelosi woman is going make me speak Spanish, hug a tree, get an abortion, do drugs and have sex with a guy. Thank goodness, my old pastor, Ted Haggard, showed me how to do the last two.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Neo-conservative pundits, like living skeleton Ann Coulter, were downplaying the November 7th election results saying “Only for half-brights with absolutely no concept of yesterday is this a ‘tsunami’ — as MSNBC calls it — rather than the death throes of a dying party.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Results are still trickling in from the 2018 midterms and the blue wave is a lot bigger than the corporate main stream media proclaimed it to be. Why is it that corporate news outlets, especially conservative ones like Fox News, a.k.a. the Republican Propaganda Network, can never admit that the Republican candidates lost and their … Continue reading “Rewind: The 2006 Blue Wave”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,61,60,49,8,68,3],"tags":[377,1837,50,252,69,22,20,389,27,256,107,52,147,4,9,199,1835,1833,21,1838,98,296,19,694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6372"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6372"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6383,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6372\/revisions\/6383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}