Adam's Apple Annie: "Democrats' pathetic gains" are "the death throes of a dying party"

[Human Torch]

http://mediamatters.org/items/200611100004



Summary: In her syndicated column, Ann Coulter claimed that the Democratic Party made "pathetic gains" in the November 7 midterm elections. In fact, the Democrats' gains in the House are just slightly under the average for the party out of power in the White House in the sixth-year midterm elections over the past century, and the Democrats' Senate gains are above the average. Moreover, the 2006 elections were the first sixth-year midterms since 1918 in which control of both houses of Congress switched parties.

Coulter wrote:

In fact, if the Democrats' pathetic gains in a sixth-year election are a statement about the war in Iraq, Americans must love the war! As Roll Call put it back when Clinton was president: "Simply put, the party controlling the White House nearly always loses House seats in midterm elections" -- especially in the sixth year.

In Franklin D. Roosevelt's sixth year in 1938, Democrats lost 71 seats in the House and six in the Senate.

In Dwight Eisenhower's sixth year in 1958, Republicans lost 47 House seats, 13 in the Senate.

In John F. Kennedy/Lyndon Johnson's sixth year <1966>, Democrats lost 47 seats in the House and three in the Senate.

In Richard Nixon/Gerald Ford's sixth year in office in 1974, Republicans lost 43 House seats and three Senate seats.

Even America's greatest president, Ronald Reagan, lost five House seats and eight Senate seats in his sixth year in office (1986).

But in the middle of what the media tell us is a massively unpopular war, the Democrats picked up about 30 House seats and five to six Senate seats in a sixth-year election, with lots of seats still too close to call. 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.

[rocktivity]

1. Yup, dying right along with your Iraq insurgency--and your credibility

We're the mainstream now, Annie--YOU'RE the looney extremist minority! And by the way, you LOSE things when you die, Annie!


rocknation

[madmunchie]

45. The bitch still has a column?

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

2. imagine how big they would have been sans diebold and rightwing cable news

had it been a fair fight, we would have had twice the number

given the circumstances of a political climate stacked for the GOP, these gains are nothing short of a miracle

[lcordero2]

24. and

voter suppression
and gross gerrymandering

[joefree1]

3. Black is white, Ann the man is a woman

Poor Ann, she/he slowly creating her own little mental world because she can no longer understand the real one.

[caraher]

4. "Last throes" - isn't that Republican for growing insurgency? nt

[Cha]

14. No, that's fascist for

"growing insurgency".. bush gets caught with pants down and loses 2006 election..and the stupid shrew comes out of her hole and can't find anything positive to say about the shrinking chimp.

[proud patriot]

5. LOL , yep

sure ann , sure :rofl:

[DemBones DemBones]

6. Mr. Coulter is such a liar. nt

[jimshoes]

7. Ann's got a bit of a glow,

she must have bought some new batteries.

[NoPasaran]

8. The more the rightwing nutjobs want to delude themselves, the better

Reality has its nasty of smashing fantasy worlds.

[ronnykmarshall]

9. How's that felony investigation going??

Cow.

[The Truffle]

39. Did this dolt even vote? nt

[ronnykmarshall]

43. She didn't this year!

She didn't even vote in the primary. Some great patriot!

[Cobalt-60]

10. She's a looney!

[Greeby]

11. Umm, the FDR-era Congress Coultergiest speaks of

Had over 300 Democrats in the House

[lcordero2]

25. .......................

:wtf:

300 Democrats...now that's a MANDATE

[NYC Liberal]

36. You should see what we had in the 1936 Congress...

Senate: 81 Democrats, 17 Republicans
House: 334 Democrats, 88 Republicans

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

30. Nice Catch!

I don't find Ann's drivel worth Googling for the truth anymore, but I suspected as much. When you already have four-fifths of the House, it's almost certain that you're going to lose seats.

[HaggardsMethDealer]

12. If these are what death throes feel like,

than bring on the death!:)

[madrchsod]

13. what the hell

i thought someone put that sack of garbage in the dumpster....

[TheCowsCameHome]

15. She should know about dying, she looks like death warmed over.

F**k off, Mannie.

[yojon]

16. If she sticks her head really really far up her ass, will she disappear?

**Poit** and she is gone. Maybe she'll try it.

[mitchtv]

37. Generally, she's pulling stuff out!

It must be loaded already

[AJH032]

17. What did Republicans win in 1998?

Oh that's right, NOTHING in the Senate, and a LOSS of 5 in the House...now that's pathetic for the non-presidential party in the 6th year of an opposing presidency.

[Monk06]

18. She also said that Canada fought in the Viet Nam War. She said out loud. In Canada. On national TV

She must the most historically ignorant person
in America. When she was corrected she still
refused to believe it.

Ann, Canada apposed the Viet Nam war in the UN
much to the anger of LBJ

[life_long_dem]

22. Here is a link to that interview:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=LmcZG87Fmxc

[Monk06]

40. Thanks I read the transcript. I'm making my dinner so I'll look at the vid when

my food is safely digested.

[acmejack]

19. It hurts to see Anyone call Reagan America's Greatest President.

He wasn't awake enough to even qualify for the nomination for that title, was he?

[Arkana]

20. Yes, Annie, we know. You didn't take your pills and vodka.

Now shut up and let the grownups handle things.

[Jack Rabbit]

21. !!

Image from NASA

[Marrak]

23. Good job Ann!

Thanks for getting out to vote?!:hurts:

:kick:

[Joe Bacon]

26. Did Tranny vote in the correct precinct this time?

OR is she going to go to jail for that, too?

[The Truffle]

41. Did she even know whom to vote for?

I doubt she even follows issues. Mostly, she just sits around making up things to say.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

27. how about the last throes of a has-been right-wing pundit

Anne looks seriously dated and her hate philosphy has been rejected by the American public. She will be studied in the future as a teratogen of civil discourse.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

28. Dumber than a sack of doorknobs is that woman

1974 -- The first post-Watergate Election. Think that may have had something to do with it?

1966 -- the first post-Civil Rights Act Election, when scores of southern Democrats switched to the friendly, racist confines of the Republican Party.

Not sure what what going on, if anything, in 1958, but in any case neither 1958 or 1938 resulted in a change in power in Congress. The woman's a drooling idiot. But you knew that.

[AtomicKitten]

29. That's funny - in a pathetic, demented sort of way.

eom

[Arugula Latte]

31. "America's greateat president, Ronald Reagan"

:rofl:

[WinkyDink]

32. Her words matter not. WE HAVE the POWER.

[DinahMoeHum]

33. More whiskey-fueled rants from an angry minx. . .

:evilgrin:

[Unvanguard]

34. In other news, victory in Iraq is just around the corner.

:eyes:

[zulchzulu]

35. Ann Coulter's opinion = the amount my neighbor's dog shit out today

She has no meaning...no competence... no intelligence... no credibility.

She's very good at being a coniving, ugly-hearted plagiarist.

[CAG]

38. Coultergeist lecturing about people not knowing history..... kinda like

an eight year old dissing Einstein's knowledge of physics,
or an 0 and 20 first year junior high basketball coach explaining how John Wooden wasn't such a great coach.

[Patsy Stone]

42. Whatever gets her thru the night

It's alright, it's alright.

[hatrack]

44. Reminds me of one of Halsey's responses to Japanese claims of victory:

"The carriers sunk have been refloated and were last seen retreating at high speed towards the enemy."

:evilgrin:

[gratuitous]

46. Golly, why is she so angry?

And bitter, too. My goodness, such hatred is simply unbecoming, isn't it? I'm sure that the media voices that have been giving us the business for the last five years will turn with equal vitriol on dissent now that Congress is in Democratic hands with a ringing mandate for change, as provided by the millions and millions more voters who turned out for the Democrats than for the Republicans, right?

Oooh, crickets! And Little Arfin' Annie still gets a prime national soapbox from which to spew her uninformed nonsense. Color me surprised.

"Liberal" media, my sweet Aunt Fanny.