Guest blogged by David Edwards
James Carville appeared on NBC’s Today Show to give his political predictions for 2006.
- The Senate will make history by doubling the number of African-American senators. Senator Frist has said that he will not run for a third term. Carville predicts that Representative Harold Ford Jr. (D-TN) will win Frist’s vacated Senate seat.
- Alito will be confirmed after a big fight in the Senate. Democrats may filibuster but Republicans will refrain from using the ‘nuclear option’ because it is opposed by most voters. Carville expects a large fight about Alito’s position on civil rights. In the end, the Democrats don’t have the numbers to block Alito’s confirmation.
- There will be major troop reductions in Iraq. While Bush claims that he will ‘stay the course’, the political pressure of an election year along with the Shia domination of the Iraqi government will force significant troop reductions.
- The Abramoff scandal will result in 7 congressmen pleading guilty or being indicted. Sources say that Abramoff has agreed to cooperate with Federal prosecutors. Carville says it will be a good year for Court TV.
- Carville predicts that the remake of “All the King’s Men” will be the hottest political film of 2006… but he’s also the executive producer so this is more of a plug than a prediction.
No prediction about Plamegate, about whether Rove will be indicted, or about Libby’s fate? Might have to do with the fact that his wife is Cheney’s faithful aide.
"Politics makes strange bedfellows." Truer words were never spoken, except maybe, "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
This is in accord with my last two suggestions:
buy stock in beer makers
buy stock in paper shredder companies
What silliness from Carville. Those things could all happen within the first few weeks of the year, except for Frist retiring and being replaced by a Dem.
What we really want to know is will Mary Matalin be indicted along with some other WHIG members?
Or, will Carville convince her to turn on them and put ’em away to save her own skin?
If Carville were on fire, I wouldn’t piss on him to put out the flames
Trent Lott will likely decline to run again, and the leading Democrat candidate (forget his name but he was Mississippi Attorney General) is the front-runner to win that seat.
This from a "man" who married the rethuglican roboto woman Mary whatshername! Egads they must have ugly children. Conceived by artificial insemination or doggie style, cause how could you maintain while looking at a face like hers? That was mean and crass wasn’t it? BWAHAHA!
Anybody know what’s up with the Columbus Free Press – Bob Fitrakis’ site? http://freepress.org
Not working this morning – just get an error message from web host.
Hopefully it’s just a tune up!
I heard that his wife Mary Matlin would possibly be indicted in the Plame case, at one point.
If Mary goes to jail, James will need a babysitter on the nights he does TV spots, because their kids are still young. Of course, he could get Libby’s wife to do it, because she’ll need income if her husband goes to jail, too. But if Bush pardons Libby, Mrs. Libby won’t need the income. But James will still need the babysitter, unless Mary gets pardoned, too, in which case she’ll get her job back. Unless, that is, Cheney has been impeached in the meantime, in which case Lynne Cheney will be looking for babysitting work, and she can babysit for James and Mary’s kids while they both do TV.
God, Washington is a complicated place.
Yes its an exceptional case which can’t be held as longer to bug peoples mind.
If Bush gets away with this, at least I can look back and say I was not apathetic when I had a chance to do something. You’re not going to elect any progressives until people are willing to object to this type of tyranny.
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