weekly editorial recap
WEDNESDAY
NOW THE REAL BATTLE BEGINS
As the votes rolled in Tuesday evening it became apparent that Nevada's consummate conservative outsider, the former six-year Northern Nevada assemblywoman ... whose anti-spending positions often put her on the losing side of votes tallied "41-to-Angle," Sharron Angle was going to win the right to challenge unpopular Democratic U.S. Sen. Harry Reid this fall. ...
The Angle surge is the best evidence yet that the "Tea Party" phenomenon is real.
Will this newfound constitutional and philosophical rigor mobilize the troops and carry the GOP to victory in November? Now comes a crucial month. Harry Reid -- the real career politician -- is doubtless chafing at the bit to condemn Ms. Angle as a "budget cutter with an ax," liable to close down whole federal departments, starting with the federal Department of Education.
Which is exactly what she was nominated for.
It's a new day in America. Americans have seen the ravenous, job-destroying far-left "bailout" agenda uncaged, and they don't like it. Now is not the time to go on the defensive. In fact, it's the Democrats who have to constantly change the subject, who dare not advance their current agenda in straightforward terms, lest they be laughed out of town.
Ms. Angle's task is to tie Mr. Reid to the Barack Obama agenda he's been marshaling through the Congress for the past year and a half. That should now be the subject of debate.
