Magus`The fun has been DOUBLED!Registered Userregular
edited November 2010
I would LIKE to think Obama is dropping the whole bi-partisanship for the sake of itself thing. He's a smart dude and I'm pretty sure he can see the writing on the wall on that issue.
I would LIKE to think Obama is dropping the whole bi-partisanship for the sake of itself thing. He's a smart dude and I'm pretty sure he can see the writing on the wall on that issue.
Olivawgood name, isn't it?the foot of mt fujiRegistered Userregular
edited November 2010
So
I'm not really surprised by all this
The Dems had the Presidency, the House, and a Supermajority in the Senate, and they still couldn't get national healthcare because oooh nooo it might make the Republicans angryyyy
They had all the power in the world and they sat on their fucking hands
And now I hear Harry Reid still has his seat, so I can look forward to even more spineless cowardly bullshit even if the Dems get back some power
Man, the house is going to get ugly. Actually the senate probably will, too.
I really wonder when the dems will ever learn. Like, god damn, you're smart people, and there aren't all that many of you from little midwestern states that pharma money can purchase.
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Serious question: How bad is this? Like, does this give the Republicans the ability to pass Very Bad Things (tm) that will generally buttfuck the non-rich/white or will the powers the Democrats still have basically force a deadlock?
Probably it means that congress will be unable to do anything for the next two years. Which wouldn't be so bad except that doing nothing means 2 more years of record unemployment and potentially catastrophic climate change.
The Dems had the Presidency, the House, and a Supermajority in the Senate, and they still couldn't get national healthcare because oooh nooo it might make the Republicans angryyyy
They had all the power in the world and they sat on their fucking hands
No, they didn't. They had a small window of time where they had a supermajority, and even then were completely at the whim of the blue dogs.
Pelosi (you know, the one everyone demonizes and the one who lost her position today) worked her fucking ass off to get the changes we got.
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edited November 2010
So I wake up and find that we still don't know who our next governor will be here in Florida.
And of course, it's my county that apparently managed to screw something up. Way to go, Palm Beach County.
But hey, at least Crazy managed to cost the Republicans a safe house seat (NY-23) AGAIN. This is good news since it means I am not represented by a crazy person and/or investment banker douche.
I would really love to think that Jerry Brown can fix California.
Unfortunately, his hands are so fucking tied by the mind-blowingly retarded propositions, I don't really think there's anything he can do short of calling a Constitutional Convention.
I'm hoping he does just that.
Not sure what the chances are, but I'm hoping for it nonetheless.
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So I wake up and find that we still don't know who our next governor will be here in Florida.
And of course, it's my county that apparently managed to screw something up. Way to go, Palm Beach County.
So far, it looks like the governor is gonna be Scott though. Ugh. When the inevitable embezzlement happens, Florida gets what it deserves :x . God, I hate this state.
What a crazy, crazy world we'd live in if a politician ever answered the question they were asked instead of giving a statement that totally ignores the issue.
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Olivawgood name, isn't it?the foot of mt fujiRegistered Userregular
The Dems had the Presidency, the House, and a Supermajority in the Senate, and they still couldn't get national healthcare because oooh nooo it might make the Republicans angryyyy
They had all the power in the world and they sat on their fucking hands
No, they didn't. They had a small window of time where they had a supermajority, and even then were completely at the whim of the blue dogs.
Pelosi (you know, the one everyone demonizes and the one who lost her position today) worked her fucking ass off to get the changes we got.
Call it what you want, we still don't got national healthcare and we're still in Afghanistan
Caving to insurance companies and Republican hawks? Business as usual
Rachel Maddow made up a list of all the policy accomplishments they had while having their majority if you think nothing got done, then you should probably take a look at it.
SE Cupp said she wanted Bachmann to run as president.
Larry King asked her if she was fucking around.
Hahahahaha
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edited November 2010
``I wouldn't have voted for him if I had another Republican to choose from,'' said Frank Paruas, a 38-year-old Kendall Republican. ``I think Alex Sink isn't a bad person. But I just couldn't vote for anyone in the Democratic party right now.''
``I wouldn't have voted for him if I had another Republican to choose from,'' said Frank Paruas, a 38-year-old Kendall Republican. ``I think Alex Sink isn't a bad person. But I just couldn't vote for anyone in the Democratic party right now.''
Florida, you are going to get exactly what you deserve.
I can't wait to see if the state legislature will actually follow him over the cliff with regards to cutting the state workforce. Because if there's anything that Leon county (where Tallahassee is located) needs, it's increased unemployment.
The Dems had the Presidency, the House, and a Supermajority in the Senate, and they still couldn't get national healthcare because oooh nooo it might make the Republicans angryyyy
They had all the power in the world and they sat on their fucking hands
No, they didn't. They had a small window of time where they had a supermajority, and even then were completely at the whim of the blue dogs.
Pelosi (you know, the one everyone demonizes and the one who lost her position today) worked her fucking ass off to get the changes we got.
Call it what you want, we still don't got national healthcare and we're still in Afghanistan
Caving to insurance companies and Republican hawks? Business as usual
Pretty much this. Oh, and pussy-footing on the gay rights agenda.
In a mid-term election, your keynote legislation being obvious caved-in crapola and also not really hitting on your party's major issues... yeah not a big surprise why they didn't show up to the polls.
``I wouldn't have voted for him if I had another Republican to choose from,'' said Frank Paruas, a 38-year-old Kendall Republican. ``I think Alex Sink isn't a bad person. But I just couldn't vote for anyone in the Democratic party right now.''
Florida, you are going to get exactly what you deserve.
In other words... "I just can't vote for a Democrat, so I'll vote for the guy who was in charge of the company that bilked Medicare for billions of dollars."
I'm feeling a little better about this now that I've got some sleep and the pain isn't as fresh. Not much better, but some.
Still extremely unhappy with Pennsylvania's performance. I'm so tired of the shitheads in this state screwing it up for everyone.
This kind of feels like '04 all over again. Except we're only facing GOP control of one house and not EVERYTHING.
As a side note, I'm going to be looking at the logistics of starting my own issue party over the next few weeks. Philly deserves better than Pennsyltucky is giving us, and we control half of the state economy. My calls for secession just got that much more fervent.
Things in Connecticut went pretty well I suppose. We kept all five of our Democrat congressmen, Blumenthal won the Senate race (thank fuck) and they retained the Treasurer and Attorney General among other things. I didn't get a chance to look at any General Assembly results, but it looks like my Democrat State Senator lost to a guy who didn't graduate high school and who's entire platform was NO INCOME TAX PRO-LIFE VOTE FOR ME. Ah well, can't win 'em all.
I'm feeling a little better about this now that I've got some sleep and the pain isn't as fresh. Not much better, but some.
Still extremely unhappy with Pennsylvania's performance. I'm so tired of the shitheads in this state screwing it up for everyone.
This kind of feels like '04 all over again. Except we're only facing GOP control of one house and not EVERYTHING.
As a side note, I'm going to be looking at the logistics of starting my own issue party over the next few weeks. Philly deserves better than Pennsyltucky is giving us, and we control half of the state economy. My calls for secession just got that much more fervent.
Yeah, I'm looking to do the same here in Tallahassee. Time to start looking for domain names and gathering like minded people locally.
Yes. Time for her to go the way of Palin and drop out of the media spotlight.
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edited November 2010
So I guess it could have been worse
60 seats in the house is a lot. that's painful.
holding on to 53 in the senate is better than i expected i guess
o'donnel and angle and fiorina lost - those are good things
kind of hurts losing Feingold and the illinois seat. i guess the other senate seats we lost were mostly dems who i didn't like much anyways.
my central consolation is that the entire Massachusetts congressional delegation stayed blue and our entire state government stayed democratic. i guess i feel like i made the right choice in terms of where to move back in 2004.
Where do we go from here? Will the house work with the senate and Obama and get some stuff done? The tea party folk getting in seem hell bent on some impossible tasks like repealing healthcare or cutting costs and taxes across the board...
Not gunna happen.
The one thing everyone agrees on is jobs. So will the republican house actually work with everyone to get jobs created? Or is their only solution to jobs going to be "cut taxes for the rich so they can make jobs!" They certainly wont want to spend any money on job creation programs.
So what will we end up getting, a bill that cuts taxes for the rich and spends money on job creating programs as a compromise? So then everyone rages about debt more?
Also, Id like to start seeing more info on polls. When they asks tuff like "do you agree with the direction this country is going in?" How many of those that disagree actually want a more progressive nation? Its easy to infer from polls similar to that one that people dont want the left leaning policies, but it may in fact be that some of them actually want more. Same with Obamas approval. Its easy to say "see its under 50, more people would rather have republican president!" But of those that dont approve, how many think hes too far center, and would want him to go left harder?
Also when is the IL seat up for grabs again? Wasnt this a special election? Is it 6 years still or is it much sooner?
The Dems had the Presidency, the House, and a Supermajority in the Senate, and they still couldn't get national healthcare because oooh nooo it might make the Republicans angryyyy
They had all the power in the world and they sat on their fucking hands
No, they didn't. They had a small window of time where they had a supermajority, and even then were completely at the whim of the blue dogs.
Pelosi (you know, the one everyone demonizes and the one who lost her position today) worked her fucking ass off to get the changes we got.
Call it what you want, we still don't got national healthcare and we're still in Afghanistan
Caving to insurance companies and Republican hawks? Business as usual
The Democrats didn't have sixty reliable votes in the Senate to consistently defeat Republican filibusters. In order to get anything, they had to make huge concessions to conservative Democrats. That's the reality of the situation. The Senate rules are fucked.
holding on to 53 in the senate is better than i expected i guess
o'donnel and angle and fiorina lost - those are good things
kind of hurts losing Feingold and the illinois seat. i guess the other senate seats we lost were mostly dems who i didn't like much anyways.
my central consolation is that the entire Massachusetts congressional delegation stayed blue and our entire state government stayed democratic. i guess i feel like i made the right choice in terms of where to move back in 2004.
i thought of you when i was reading the Massachusetts news this morning.
CA mostly went blue as well, hi5!
(now if the economy would just stop tanking horribly here...)
Really disappointed in SC's performance, but I can't say it isn't exactly what I expected. Of course all my tea-party "friends" are celebrating the fact that they can now "take back" the government from the Tyrannical reign of Big Spend Obama.
And we get more fun times of south carolina politicians being completely and unabashedly rude towards our Commander in Chief (if you remember Joe "You Lie" Wilson, he is now joined by a Tea-Party governor, and DeMint remains in his seat.)
So, even though there's no way in Hell that the Senate is going to convict, what's to stop the newly Republican House of Reps from impeaching Obama again and again, thereby making sure nothing can get done?
On a lighter note, perhaps private business will start hiring now that they have no more irrational fear of Obama nationalizing the whole economy, or passing a stupid tax that would have never gotten by the Blue Dogs.
Pretty simple really. The opposition will keep filibustering and blocking legislation as they are wont to do and all the heat will be absorbed by the presidency. Come 2012, we're looking at a complete GOP supermajority and Obama becoming a one-term president. On the brighter side though, Republicans are more lockstep with their ranks, we won't have to worry about "blue dogs" on their side watering or slowing down their presidential proposals. In other words, things will actually get done.
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So, even though there's no way in Hell that the Senate is going to convict, what's to stop the newly Republican House of Reps from impeaching Obama again and again, thereby making sure nothing can get done?
On a lighter note, perhaps private business will start hiring now that they have no more irrational fear of Obama nationalizing the whole economy, or passing a stupid tax that would have never gotten by the Blue Dogs.
There has been more Private Sector job growth since the start of 2010 then there was through the entirety of W's presidency.
So scratch that potential lighter side off your list; we already had that happening.
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Pretty simple really. The opposition will keep filibustering and blocking bills as they are wont to do and all the heat will be absorbed by the presidency. Come 2012, we're looking at a complete GOP supermajority and Obama becoming one-term president. On the brighter side though, Republicans are more lockstep with their ranks, we won't have to worry about "blue dogs" on their side watering or slowing down their presidential proposals. In other words, things will actually get done.
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I'm not really surprised by all this
The Dems had the Presidency, the House, and a Supermajority in the Senate, and they still couldn't get national healthcare because oooh nooo it might make the Republicans angryyyy
They had all the power in the world and they sat on their fucking hands
And now I hear Harry Reid still has his seat, so I can look forward to even more spineless cowardly bullshit even if the Dems get back some power
Fucking love the two party system
Love it so much
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I really wonder when the dems will ever learn. Like, god damn, you're smart people, and there aren't all that many of you from little midwestern states that pharma money can purchase.
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Probably it means that congress will be unable to do anything for the next two years. Which wouldn't be so bad except that doing nothing means 2 more years of record unemployment and potentially catastrophic climate change.
No, they didn't. They had a small window of time where they had a supermajority, and even then were completely at the whim of the blue dogs.
Pelosi (you know, the one everyone demonizes and the one who lost her position today) worked her fucking ass off to get the changes we got.
And of course, it's my county that apparently managed to screw something up. Way to go, Palm Beach County.
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But hey, at least Crazy managed to cost the Republicans a safe house seat (NY-23) AGAIN. This is good news since it means I am not represented by a crazy person and/or investment banker douche.
So, small upside there.
I'm hoping he does just that.
Not sure what the chances are, but I'm hoping for it nonetheless.
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She is an idiot.
So far, it looks like the governor is gonna be Scott though. Ugh. When the inevitable embezzlement happens, Florida gets what it deserves :x . God, I hate this state.
What a crazy, crazy world we'd live in if a politician ever answered the question they were asked instead of giving a statement that totally ignores the issue.
Call it what you want, we still don't got national healthcare and we're still in Afghanistan
Caving to insurance companies and Republican hawks? Business as usual
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Florida, you are going to get exactly what you deserve.
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I can't wait to see if the state legislature will actually follow him over the cliff with regards to cutting the state workforce. Because if there's anything that Leon county (where Tallahassee is located) needs, it's increased unemployment.
Pretty much this. Oh, and pussy-footing on the gay rights agenda.
In a mid-term election, your keynote legislation being obvious caved-in crapola and also not really hitting on your party's major issues... yeah not a big surprise why they didn't show up to the polls.
In other words... "I just can't vote for a Democrat, so I'll vote for the guy who was in charge of the company that bilked Medicare for billions of dollars."
What. Farking. Silly. Gooses.
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Still extremely unhappy with Pennsylvania's performance. I'm so tired of the shitheads in this state screwing it up for everyone.
This kind of feels like '04 all over again. Except we're only facing GOP control of one house and not EVERYTHING.
As a side note, I'm going to be looking at the logistics of starting my own issue party over the next few weeks. Philly deserves better than Pennsyltucky is giving us, and we control half of the state economy. My calls for secession just got that much more fervent.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
Yeah, I'm looking to do the same here in Tallahassee. Time to start looking for domain names and gathering like minded people locally.
Also, dear CNN: O'Donnell snubbed national media during the camaign, stop giving her airtime now that she lost. Again.
60 seats in the house is a lot. that's painful.
holding on to 53 in the senate is better than i expected i guess
o'donnel and angle and fiorina lost - those are good things
kind of hurts losing Feingold and the illinois seat. i guess the other senate seats we lost were mostly dems who i didn't like much anyways.
my central consolation is that the entire Massachusetts congressional delegation stayed blue and our entire state government stayed democratic. i guess i feel like i made the right choice in terms of where to move back in 2004.
Where do we go from here? Will the house work with the senate and Obama and get some stuff done? The tea party folk getting in seem hell bent on some impossible tasks like repealing healthcare or cutting costs and taxes across the board...
Not gunna happen.
The one thing everyone agrees on is jobs. So will the republican house actually work with everyone to get jobs created? Or is their only solution to jobs going to be "cut taxes for the rich so they can make jobs!" They certainly wont want to spend any money on job creation programs.
So what will we end up getting, a bill that cuts taxes for the rich and spends money on job creating programs as a compromise? So then everyone rages about debt more?
Also, Id like to start seeing more info on polls. When they asks tuff like "do you agree with the direction this country is going in?" How many of those that disagree actually want a more progressive nation? Its easy to infer from polls similar to that one that people dont want the left leaning policies, but it may in fact be that some of them actually want more. Same with Obamas approval. Its easy to say "see its under 50, more people would rather have republican president!" But of those that dont approve, how many think hes too far center, and would want him to go left harder?
Also when is the IL seat up for grabs again? Wasnt this a special election? Is it 6 years still or is it much sooner?
The Democrats didn't have sixty reliable votes in the Senate to consistently defeat Republican filibusters. In order to get anything, they had to make huge concessions to conservative Democrats. That's the reality of the situation. The Senate rules are fucked.
It should be up again in 2 years.
i thought of you when i was reading the Massachusetts news this morning.
CA mostly went blue as well, hi5!
(now if the economy would just stop tanking horribly here...)
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Hahaha, that is awesome!
And we get more fun times of south carolina politicians being completely and unabashedly rude towards our Commander in Chief (if you remember Joe "You Lie" Wilson, he is now joined by a Tea-Party governor, and DeMint remains in his seat.)
On a lighter note, perhaps private business will start hiring now that they have no more irrational fear of Obama nationalizing the whole economy, or passing a stupid tax that would have never gotten by the Blue Dogs.
Pretty simple really. The opposition will keep filibustering and blocking legislation as they are wont to do and all the heat will be absorbed by the presidency. Come 2012, we're looking at a complete GOP supermajority and Obama becoming a one-term president. On the brighter side though, Republicans are more lockstep with their ranks, we won't have to worry about "blue dogs" on their side watering or slowing down their presidential proposals. In other words, things will actually get done.
There has been more Private Sector job growth since the start of 2010 then there was through the entirety of W's presidency.
So scratch that potential lighter side off your list; we already had that happening.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
I really really doubt that, but alright.
Goddamnit a whole bunch of really good shit got done how did this become a retarded meme.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...