http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/7151/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/gail-collins-again-whistles-past-democratic-graveyard <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subtitle"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Gail Collins again tries to laugh off harbingers of doom for Democrats in the 2010 elections. </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/clay-waters">Clay Waters</a> </div> </div> </div> <p>Columnist Gail Collins whistled past the Democratic Party's political graveyard once again. <br /><br />In Thursday's "<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/07/opinion/07collins.html">Oh, Byron, We Hardly Knew Ye</a>" (the reference is to purportedly obscure Democrat Sen. Byron Dorgan of North Dakota) Collins used sarcasm to downplay the surprise retirements of Democratic senators Dorgan, and Chris Dodd of Connecticut, implying that the movies didn't at all foreshadow looming Democratic losses in 2010.<br /></p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/gail-collins-again-whistles-past-democratic-graveyard" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles TimesWatch Campaign2010 Columnists Democrats GailCollins liberalmediabias NewYorkTimes NewYorkTimesbias Sen.ByronDorgan TimesWatch Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:53:00 +0000 admin 7290 at http://archive2.mrc.org