Close to the Edge

Tricks and Treats
If the carnage is sufficiently bad for Democrats tomorrow will the party throw Obama under that car he keeps talking about? It’s a distinct possibility, especially with Hillary patiently waiting in the background. How ironic, especially given that Obama gave her the ideal job with which to burnish her credentials. If he had named her Vice-President, she would have the dubious task of defending his disastrous policies and being damaged goods in 2012. Instead she simply gets her picture taken shaking the hands of foreign leaders and bides her time. The big question is who walks into the Oval Office and has “the conversation” with Obama? RedStateVT thinks it has to be someone with stature in the Democrat Party, someone close to the president, but not a crony….in other words, Joe Biden!  “Mr. President, we have to talk about 2012…”

The Demodespicacrat Party aided by a willing press pulls out all their dirty tricks this time around. Joe Miller joins Christine O’Donnell, Sharron Angle, Meg Whitman, and Rand Paul as the latest victims of vicious smears.

Don’t forget that the fun doesn’t end on Election Day. We’ve still got ethics inquiries on Charlie Rangel and Maxine Waters to buoy our spirits in the coming months!

Compromised
But there is no Bob Dole in the Republican leadership today; there isn't even a Newt Gingrich. There is nobody with the clout to tell Tea Party-inspired backbenchers when it's time to put down the grenades and negotiate. Rather, there are weak leaders who, frightened by the Tea Party radicals, have become unquestioning followers of a radical approach. (Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 10/31/10)

With Republicans poised to record historic victories, liberals like Milbank call upon them….to compromise. Just like he counseled Obama and the Dems in 2008. Just kidding!

Frankly
If I am wrong about this, Congress will lose one of its singularly most intelligent members who also happens to have a better sense of humor than just about almost anyone in public life….(E.J. Dionne Jr., Washington Post, 10/31/10)

Meanwhile, in predicting the re-election of funnyman Barney Frank, fellow liberal Dionne objectively notes Frank’s brilliance, as well as his culpability in failing to regulate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Just kidding!