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2010 Midterms AKA The Crying Game and lame ducks
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That's what the '08 campaign was. But Boomers and Gen X-ers are in charge, and neither of those generations can be bothered to sacrifice anything for the country.
I think we could fix some long term problems, but first we need to run the country into the ground like the great depression.
Which is why we're fucked.
"Republicans are selling America to the multinational corporations who are shipping your jobs overseas and mortgaging your future to China."
I'm glad you're excited about continued national decline and don't want to do shit about it because you have money. I dearly hope the inevitable shit geyser is outside your house.
EDIT: Actually, that's a good campaign slogan. Say no to shit geysers. Vote for Democrats.
But if people make sacrifices for the greater good, how will they reach The American Dream (TM)?
Yes, that's kind of the problem.
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No no, it's all going to be fine if you leave the corporations alone. "Invisible Hands solve everything!"
I grew up in a trailer home in an abusive family who told me constantly that I was an idiotic piece of shit. Now I'm 30, going through law school to be a patent lawyer, and engaged to a wonderful woman whom I love dearly. I am living the American Dream. Now, as a result of my hard work and success, I will reap the benefits, and I know and accept that I will be taxed by the government for it. And you know what? I'm fine with that.
Because if my taxes go to prop up public schools (which I used), public universities (which I used), food stamp programs (which I used), federal student loans (which I used), safe communities (in which I live), safe streets (which I use), and programs which help people not as fortunate or lucky as I am the chance to better themselves, then I am helping others reach the American Dream. And I'm okay with that.
Loser of the republican primary mounts a write in vote and seems to win pretty drastically?
Is she the lesser of two evils? her wiki page seems to imply shes relatively moderate. I assume Joe Miller is a crazy teaparty guy and that wed rather have "write in" as our winner?
QEDMF xbl: PantsB G+
Seriously.
because I want to watch her take him apart piece by piece and then scatter them to the four winds.
On national television.
Is that too much to ask?
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Controlling the Presidency, Senate, and House = NO MANDATE
Controlling the House = HISTORIC MANDATE
Oh fox
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2010: The Empire Strikes Back
2012: Return of the Jedi
The list of people I want Maddow to interview is getting longer all the time.
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ok it's the right word
but you're using it the wrong way.
I just.
Also, Arch, Ahem sorry, DoctorArch. You're my hero.
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Joe Miller is a corrupt idiot asshole to the right of Rand Paul, maybe. So yeah, for Alaska that's about as good as we can hope.
Sadly, it sounds like Murkowski is considerably less petty than Joe Lieberman.
There's not nearly enough bootstrap talk here.
In all seriousness, though, a lot of people don't think like you do. They don't realize that they got to where they are by the helping hands of others, however invisible those hands may have been at the time. They just figure, "All right. I've made it. Now to fortify my riches for myself and my family and we'll be set".
It's silly, but it's true.
2/2 Republicans in the House versus 2/3?
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Oh boy! /Bakula
And secondly, and shitty as this election was, let's keep in mind how nice it is to live in a country where a (partial) transfer of power is a peaceful event. This is rare in the world, and even more rare in human history.
It's been nice living here, but I think I might now have to move.
Where he says things like he was a dissenting voice who didn't want to use force in Iraq! And that Kanye calling him a racist was the worst moment of his Presidency. Not the people dying everywhere or the financial collapse, but him being called a racist.
What a small, vain, self-obsessed excuse for a human being.
EDIT: Ooh, he admits to being a war criminal too. Shoot me.
So basically a well to do Republican. We have first hand experience with such people.
Obama's not caving. In the 1PM press conference, he said that lady somewhere is still alive because of the bill, etc.
I don't think we need to worry about which way his pen will swing.
There was one political ad recently featuring an older man talking about how he fought the Nazi's to protect us from tyranny, only to have government enact health care reform.
I just about threw something heavy and hard through my television. Plus, there was no way the guy was old enough to have served in WWII.
I nominate "The Long Winter."
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I cannot wait to hear the stupidity coming from the GOP hearings on global warming being fake, though. Should be good entertainment.
Pretty much. Democrats through a weak candidate up because they doubted they could beat Murkowski, Murkowski runs a "clean" campaign during the primary while the Tea Party backed Joe Miller accuses her of nepotism and being a dirty incumbant and wins the primary by about 3,000 votes. Miller begins acting like an ass, so a large ammount of Alaskans throw their support back to Murkowski and prompting her to run as a write-in. Cue a string of small-to-large blunders on Miller's part, his general extremism (federal money is BAD! isn't a great statement to make in Alaska) and a generally weak Democratic candidate and it looks like Murkowski managed to capture all the moderate votes after people wised up a bit and realized that while "Incumbant=bad" "crazy=worse."
Ultimately, Murkowski tends to vote with the republicans, but she will break rank if she feels strongly about it (about 10% of the time it seems).
She's self-interested enough to run as a write-in candidate and, when she originally announced that intent, there was some noise that it could cost Republicans Alaska (it seems to have done the opposite). There's no way she's going to be a bipartisan vote, but I imagine she's going to have some vendettas to fulfill against the people who pushed her out of the primary.
I don't imagine it will help democrats in any meaningful way, but I do think it will make for some excellent /popcorn.
Yeah its going to be pretty terrible only controlling the Senate and White House.
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