The Morning After
"With or without control of the Senate, the GOP power surge burdens Mitch McConnell, John Borhner, GOP White House hopefuls and the Tea Partiers with the duty to chart the nation's course for the next two years. Heaven help us all."
New York Daily News editorial, 11/5/04
On Sunday evening the American people set their clocks back one hour. Last night they set them back two centuries. Ain't politics oodles of fun?
I was tempted to call this piece "Stupid Fucking Americans", then thought better of the idea. The sad truth of the matter is that I know quite a few people - a heck of a lot smarter than I - who voted the straight GOP line yesterday. While it would be grossly inaccurate for me to imply that all Republicans are idiots, it is beyond dispute that most idiots are Republicans. You don't believe that? I'll tell you what: The next time someone in your general proximity says something rib-ticklingly stupid, ask him or her what political party they're registered with. Get back to me.
No, in many cases it has a lot less to do with stupidity and a whole lot to do with a deplorable lack of information. If the electorate had so-much-as a remedial knowledge of American history, they wouldn't be casting their lots with that disgusting party. Consider these unconscionable facts: There were more Republicans elected yesterday than any Election Day since 1946. Come January, there will be more Republican representatives in Washington than at any time since 1928! Is that a kicker or what?
Early in the evening when the trending was pitifully obvious, I had a couple of very strong drinks and went to bed. What would be the use of waiting up to view the political carnage? When I woke up at 2:30 and got the official word from broadcast news, I went outside for a smoke. Noticing the little flag that I fly to the left of my doorway, I quietly and unceremoniously took it down. Even at that late hour, in the dark of night, I was embarrassed having it there. I'm not kidding.
There were pockets of good news here and there. My representative, Sean Maloney, barely squeaked by in a close race against former congresswoman and Tea Party robot, Nan Hayworth. For the last month my mailbox has been bombarded with flyers from Nan's positively juvenile campaign. Her taunts of "Maloney Baloney" were, to put it as mildly as possible, amusing. As of this hour poor old Nan has yet to concede. She wants to wait until all of the absentee ballots are counted. Fine, let her wait. But other than that and a handful of other little oases in the national desert, most of the news this morning was devastatingly bad. One Republican congressman - under felony indictment - was able to keep his seat. What does that tell you?
Most depressing of all was in my ancestral homeland, Kentucky. I've written before how proud-as-a-freaking-peacock I was to be connected with the place. Those days are over. A people moronic enough to send a corrupt, hideous gasbag like Mitch McConnell back to Washington as their representative deserve everything that happens to them. For thirty years Mitch has been nothing more than a handmaiden to corporate wealth and plutocratic greed. You would think - you would hope and pray - that his utterly clueless constituency would have caught on by now, wouldn't you? They haven't. It really is kinda funny when you think about it - a dark comedy.
I'm not going to lose any sleep over what transpired yesterday. In fact, I have been handed - on a silver platter - at least two years worth of dynamite material - possibly as many as six years! I'll be fine. As I've mentioned too many times to count, for people who blog about politics and politicians, these extremist freaks are the gift that won't stop giving. There is most definitely a silver lining behind this horrifically dark cloud. To tell you the awful truth, I can't believe my luck.
"There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment."
-Hunter Thompson
It sure is sad. Any possibility of Barack Obama having a successful administration went into the toilet evening last. My prediction of a Democratic victory in two years being inevitable is now (as Nixon's press secretary would have said) "inoperative". Between January and the election of 2016 you can count on them passing more-and-more restrictive voter suppression laws that will seal their power for decades. Kiss this country goodbye....and get used to living in a nation in ruins.
Mah! Mah! The ol' plantation sho' has changed!
Tom Degan
Goshen, NY
AFTERTHOUGHT:
A major milestone has occurred in my family: Mary Rose Cullen, the sister of my late uncle Tom, passed away yesterday at the family homestead in Chester, NY. She was the last surviving member of that extraordinary family.
New York Daily News editorial, 11/5/04
On Sunday evening the American people set their clocks back one hour. Last night they set them back two centuries. Ain't politics oodles of fun?
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| Rick Scott - reelected |
No, in many cases it has a lot less to do with stupidity and a whole lot to do with a deplorable lack of information. If the electorate had so-much-as a remedial knowledge of American history, they wouldn't be casting their lots with that disgusting party. Consider these unconscionable facts: There were more Republicans elected yesterday than any Election Day since 1946. Come January, there will be more Republican representatives in Washington than at any time since 1928! Is that a kicker or what?
Early in the evening when the trending was pitifully obvious, I had a couple of very strong drinks and went to bed. What would be the use of waiting up to view the political carnage? When I woke up at 2:30 and got the official word from broadcast news, I went outside for a smoke. Noticing the little flag that I fly to the left of my doorway, I quietly and unceremoniously took it down. Even at that late hour, in the dark of night, I was embarrassed having it there. I'm not kidding.
There were pockets of good news here and there. My representative, Sean Maloney, barely squeaked by in a close race against former congresswoman and Tea Party robot, Nan Hayworth. For the last month my mailbox has been bombarded with flyers from Nan's positively juvenile campaign. Her taunts of "Maloney Baloney" were, to put it as mildly as possible, amusing. As of this hour poor old Nan has yet to concede. She wants to wait until all of the absentee ballots are counted. Fine, let her wait. But other than that and a handful of other little oases in the national desert, most of the news this morning was devastatingly bad. One Republican congressman - under felony indictment - was able to keep his seat. What does that tell you?
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| Hideous Mitch |
I'm not going to lose any sleep over what transpired yesterday. In fact, I have been handed - on a silver platter - at least two years worth of dynamite material - possibly as many as six years! I'll be fine. As I've mentioned too many times to count, for people who blog about politics and politicians, these extremist freaks are the gift that won't stop giving. There is most definitely a silver lining behind this horrifically dark cloud. To tell you the awful truth, I can't believe my luck.
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| Hunter |
-Hunter Thompson
It sure is sad. Any possibility of Barack Obama having a successful administration went into the toilet evening last. My prediction of a Democratic victory in two years being inevitable is now (as Nixon's press secretary would have said) "inoperative". Between January and the election of 2016 you can count on them passing more-and-more restrictive voter suppression laws that will seal their power for decades. Kiss this country goodbye....and get used to living in a nation in ruins.
Mah! Mah! The ol' plantation sho' has changed!
Tom Degan
Goshen, NY
AFTERTHOUGHT:
A major milestone has occurred in my family: Mary Rose Cullen, the sister of my late uncle Tom, passed away yesterday at the family homestead in Chester, NY. She was the last surviving member of that extraordinary family.
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| The Cullen house, Route 94, Chester, NY, 11/5/14 |
posted by Tom Degan @ 1:37 PM
144 comments
144 Comments:
Bummer!
ACHTUNG:
Anyone posting maliciously using the name of other commentators will be deleted.
Cheerio! Pip! Pip!
Sean Maloney has been bought and sold by Kiryas Joel. He is not a good guy.
As I noted earlier, this turnaround is just the pattern of two corporatist parties frustrating the American people who hop back and forth hoping for representation. They won't get it, of course. They can't afford "free speech" as defined by the Republicans on the Supreme Court.
The other factor is the lower turnout for midterm elections. "The worst are full of passionate intensity." This is exactly why Republicans want to reduce voter numbers.
Anyone posting maliciously using the name of other commentators will be deleted.
Gee, who would that be? LOL!
Thank you for taking out some of the filthiest trash.
I feel the same about Wisconsin today as you do about Kentucky, Tom.
Liberals Trash First Black Republican Woman Mia Love As Traitor To Her Race
Why,how so very LIBERAL of them.
Must keep blacks on the liberal plantation
Liberal excuses for their failures
1. It was the Koch money and big corporations that caused the defeat.
2. There isn't much difference between the two party s so getting our ass handed to us doesn't mean anything.
3. GOP cheated.
4. Voter suppression because put our base didn't show up to vote.
5. Democrats weren't liberal enough.
6. Racism
7. Voters were duped
8. Voters must have been high on pot.
1. The Kochs spent a record amount of money in more than two dozen states influencing elections, so yes, they have managed to buy the US government.
2. There is a TON of difference, and you are going to see proof of that as they crash the economy Obama just saved.
3. Gerrymandering, disenfranchising voters... yes, they did, as usual. (see 2000 and 2004 elections)
4. See above. But it is true that young people who vote Democrat generally avoid the mid terms. Pity, they will suffer the most for their apathy.
5. Not so much not "liberal" enough which is true, but not BRAVE enough to stand up like statesmen and support the President.
6. Well, not all Republicans are racist, but it's a solid bet that nearly all racists are Republicans
7. That goes without saying.
8. NO, Pot smokers usually discuss things at length and obsess on detail. One of the reasons it's kept illegal. Who wants people sitting around discussing issues?
Anonymous, you seem to think that if you make fun of the REASONS something happens intelligent people will not bring them up.
WHO ARE YOUR CONGRESSMEN?
Come on now, it should be easy for you to find out today. Stop hiding like a coward. And stick with one name. We all know it's you.
Not making fun, but pointing out the historical reasons liberal feel they lose a race. And you have done nothing to change the reasons.
In fact you validate them with your post.
What I like is this:
"it's a solid bet that nearly all racists are Republicans." If not Republicans then what party do the other racists belong to? And where are the study's supporting your claim nearly all racists are Republicans? What is your definition of the word racism?
Saying that after your posting this is a real window into your liberal heart.
"The ONLY "Blacks and women" the GOP accepts are those (the token ones) that parrot the talking points but can't or won't think for themselves."
How very racist of you Mozart, and the fact sadly is, that you can't see it. I believe it's due in part to all the years you have been stuck on the liberal plantation. I think you are afraid to leave the liberal plantation because you do not believe you have the skills to take care of yourself without the plantation's overseers taking care of you.
IE the DNC.
You do know that makes you a slave to the liberal plantation?
"Anyone posting maliciously using the name of other commentators will be deleted."
Thanks Tom. There was some very hateful speech directed toward me specifically yesterday. I'm thinking of purchasing a firearm.
I'm just hoping we can all get along here and have some meaningful discourse on current events.
I just want to say that lets hope there is no obstruction for the GOP majorities in the House and Senate from Obama and him becoming the President of No.
Its not my fault the moral majority of America is fed up with LBJ's Liberal Plantation and expensive progressive dreams of Utopia.
I will not rub it in like Obama right after his 2008 victory and say "Look, We won and you lost. Elections have consequences."
I'm not surprised things ended up here. What else can one expect from a liar ("I promise to filibuster FISA!" then voted to pass it) who capitulated to the GOP the day after he was first elected by retaining GOP subversives in various Cabinet and agency posts? A man who bragged to Univision about how his policies are those of a "moderate 1985 Reagan Republican"?
The man might as well have the "L" for Loser tattooed across his forehead. McConnell is going to enjoy forcing this spineless corporatist lackey to do his bidding.
Who do the democrats really represent?
Whole lot of red out there.
Tom Degan,
You are the neatest thing since the round wheel (as opposed to the square wheel which most republicans are! Bump, Bump, Bump, Bump!)
Thank you for your great and true comments.
I agree with you, most political parties suck big time.
The Democrats have no guts (Alison Grimes = perfect example!)
The Republicans have their heads so far up the corporations asses that their heads might as well be their tongues! Gross!
They SUCK!
I will NEVER be stupid or corrupt enough to vote for a Republican.
All the Republicans I know are incompetent, they lie, they are corrupt as hell and they even cheat on each other. They would sell their mother for a beer!
Being an Independeent means you have no mind of your own. Brain dead!
Tom Degan,
You are the neatest thing since the round wheel (as opposed to the square wheel which most republicans are! Bump, Bump, Bump, Bump!)
Thank you for your great and true comments.
I agree with you, most political parties suck big time.
The Democrats have no guts (Alison Grimes = perfect example!)
The Republicans have their heads so far up the corporations asses that their heads might as well be their tongues! Gross!
They SUCK!
I will NEVER be stupid or corrupt enough to vote for a Republican.
All the Republicans I know are incompetent, they lie, they are corrupt as hell and they even cheat on each other. They would sell their mother for a beer!
Being an Independeent means you have no mind of your own. Brain dead!
I have had the misfortune of having worked with Republicans for eleven years. I have even written short biographies of each of them. People will say you made all that up, but I did not have to make up anything!
All of them have been coming to me to solve problems which they could not solve. Some of the problems a smart sixth grader could have solved!
One of them erases weeks worth of work on his computer and then comes to me to see if he can get the work back. He has been working on his computer since 1989 and has not learned a damn thing! Sad. And he has a college degree! He is 64.
Another has trouble telling the difference between the words “to” and “too”. You throw in the word “two” and he is flabbergasted! Ha Ha Ha. He can not spell worth a damn. I always tell him that on most computer programs there is a spelling and grammar checker.
He can not compose a single paragraph without totally screwing it up. I usually know what he is trying to say but his writing does not say it! He is 65.
There is one story that is pretty ridiculous so I am not going to post it here. You would not believe it!
A very intelligent man once told me;
“Most people are not too bright, and some are really moronic. And to that you can add liars, incompetents, cheaters, etc, etc. It is really embarrassing to talk to a truly stupid person.”
“You are going to find that many times in business it is going to be fools dealing with fools.”
I could go on and on, but I am stopping here.
And these people are allowed to vote???!!! They are all Republicans!
Kay Hagan distanced herself from President Obama in the mistaken belief that she stood a better chance of winning by doing so. Instead, she failed to galvanize her base, voters stayed home, particularly the young, and now Tillis gets to attempt to screw the country as he has screwed to NC. I feel sick.
Sour grapes much?
Sheria Reid
Did you know that every new GOP senator who won in last night’s election campaigned on repealing Obamacare?
Senators Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), David Perdue (R-Ga.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), and Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) all ran on a platform of repealing Obamacare.
(27-6)
Sore "Losser" Chuckie,
Every new GOP senator who won in last night’s election campaigned on repealing Obamacare?
Figures, Republicans oppose the majority of Americans. Useful idiots are to thank for that.
Washington (CNN) - A majority of Americans want to keep the federal health care law as is, or make some changes to improve it, according to a new national poll.
Vote Republican, to hell with most Americans.
Anonymous, pointing out the obvious and open racism in another group of people does not make a person a racist or a sexist no matter how many times you try to make it so. The GOP said "What do Liberals want?" and then gave them people that APPEAR to satisfy that. However, we all know that there will be no "bipartisanship". No "compromise". They will do exactly the same thing they have always done, vote as a group to tear down any progress the country has made, because that progress interferes with the conservative agenda, that being to pander to uber rich White men. Women and minorities will not benefit from a few "tokens". IN 2008, when it looked like Hillary was going to be the nominee, they gave as Palin and Bachman. AS soon as Obama took the lead they wheeled out Herman Cain. TOKENS.
That's all they have done this time, along with a record setting big money blitz courtesy of the Kochs along with Rupert Murdoch and others. Thanks to citizens United an unlimited amount of money can be spent and it doesn't even have to be Americans putting up the cash. I don't think that's what the founders intended do you?
As for your accusations against Obama, he proved that he TRIED to work with the GOP, but their version of "bipartisanship" and "compromise" turned out to be "Do everything our way or we'll take our ball and go home".
Nice.
AS for you, if your conservative heroes are as childish and ridiculous as you are (and it looks like they are) the country is in real trouble. I expect many VETOs and EO's from Obama, but if the GOP manages to STEAL the White House in 2016 we can expect to go back to the crashed economy and free ride for the rich we were getting under Bush.
"Figures, Republicans oppose the majority of Americans"
Explain how if that is true without using one of the eight excuses liberals use, the results of the midterms.
So Mozart the voters were duped, liberal excuse number 7.
What party do racist who are not republicans belong to Mozart?
Define racism, for me.
Mr. Degan
" I know quite a few people - a heck of a lot smarter than I - who voted the straight GOP line yesterday."
That can not be possible! To vote for Republicans requires that you be corrupt and stupid.
"he proved that he TRIED to work with the GOP"
Provide supporting evidence of the president trying to work with the GOP.
Well, the ACA was WRITTEN by Republicans. Cap and Trade was a Bush I plan. He brought the GOP leadership into long discussions about the ACA (It was on C Span for several days) and ALL they said was "Scrap it all and we'll discuss options". The GOP would NEVER compromise on ANYTHING. All they did was obstruct. There are HUNDREDS of other examples.
Of course NOW they say "it's time for bipartisanship" when they want Obama to sign all their stuff. I hope he VETO's everything they send him from here on out and uses the EO to do as he pleases.
Fucking hypocritical conservatives.
"Figures, Republicans oppose the majority of Americans"
Explain how if that is true without using one of the eight excuses liberals use, the results of the midterms.
When a gun control bill came before congress it was (pun intended) "shot down" even though over 80% of the American public INCLUDING NRA MEMBERS supported it. However, the NRA leadership was opposed, and they have power over the GOP.
Do you think Americans were opposed to rebuilding our infrastructure? The GOP shot down three different bills because they didn't include the boondoggle XL pipeline that NO ONE except oil execs want. Three highways bills died in the House, as well as additional funding for FEMA after Hurricane Sandy. The GOP only cares about big money interests. That much is painfully obvious.
The GOP only cares about big money interests. That much is painfully obvious....only to those of us outside the Radical Right Bubble Cult.
Those cultists think the Republicans are going to bring them freedom and riches.
Useful idiots.
Yeah, the economy was BOOMING when Bush left office, right?
I left a comment on the portion of this article you posted in the NYT, praising you and declaring that evolution has been kind to you since you stated that your people were from Kentucky. I guess the Times found that to be beyond the pale. Great post. dbg; Middletown, NY.
Simply amazing, liberal's just can not face the reality of the American voter's rejection of their policy's.
Mozart, Dubya look at your responses to this very basic, simple question:
"he proved that he TRIED to work with the GOP"
Provide supporting evidence of the president trying to work with the GOP.
"Well, the ACA was WRITTEN by Republicans."
Mozart, you talk out of both sides of your mouth , you say the ACA is vastly popular and the GOP is against it because it helps people, next you blame the GOP for writing it.
These are the ACA writing Republicans?
Democrat Max Baucus
Elizabeth, ‘Liz’ Fowler
Dr. Jonathan Gruber
John McDonough
Ezekiel “Zeke” Emanuel
Still nothing to support the claim that Obama tried to work with the GOP!
Instead Mozart, you offer this:
"Do you think Americans were opposed to rebuilding our infrastructure? The GOP shot down three different bills because they didn't include the boondoggle XL pipeline that NO ONE except oil execs want.
(gee, what a shock, Oil wants a better way to get their produce which we need to run our country to it's market, and is willing to employee thousands of union workers to build the pipeline, a pipe line that helps Obama keep his promise to make us energy independent from foreign oil)
Three highways bills died in the House, as well as additional funding for FEMA after Hurricane Sandy. The GOP only cares about big money interest."
(Have you looked at the highway bills, do you know what they provided for? Are you SURE you want to stand by that statement?)
Is it any wonder that that liberals are in the minority in America? It appears that they lack the ability for cognitive thought.
"Those cultists think the Republicans are going to bring them freedom and riches."
No Dubya, they believe the GOP is going to allow THEM the freedom to have the chance to earn riches and then to keep most of what they earn so they are not dependent on the govt..Alien idea to you isn't it?
"Yeah, the economy was BOOMING when Bush left office, right?"
Actually it started sliding when the DNC took control of Congress, two years before Bush left office.
I to, hope Obama vetoes every bill they send him! Should be a great selling point in the 2016 campaign, vote Democrat, the party of NO!!
Ok, get a grip, but you lost, the people have tossed you and your liberal programs out the door and have totally rejected Obama as a leader. If I were Dubya instead of the chicken sound, he should make the lame duck sound for Obama, because that is what he is.
QUACK QUACK QUACK.
These are the ACA writing Republicans?
Democrat Max Baucus
Elizabeth, ‘Liz’ Fowler
Dr. Jonathan Gruber
John McDonough
Ezekiel “Zeke” Emanuel
Check their ties to the Insurance industry for the real picture. Chuckie forgets Republicans demanded, and Democrats granted, many changes in the drafting of the ACA. Well, not Chuckie, facts don’t matter to a cult.
"Those cultists think the Republicans are going to bring them freedom and riches."
No Dubya, they believe the GOP is going to allow THEM the freedom to have the chance to earn riches and then to keep most of what they earn so they are not dependent on the govt..Alien idea to you isn't it?
It is cult dogma that everyone can get rich if they want.
Chuckie ignores the fact the wealthy are getting exponentially richer NOW, as we slide into austerity for the masses.
Chuckie also ignores the FACT that most Americans do not want to repeal Obamacare. The dictatorship of the far Right wants to crush the will of the people and reward their servants of mammon.
What. A. Cult.
This can't be good, the young adult and women voters are escaping the liberal plantation!!
And they are running for office as REPUBLICANS and they are BEATING democrats.
Eighteen-year-old Saira Blair will become the youngest state lawmaker in West Virginia history.
The Republican defeated Democrat Layne Diehl on Tuesday to win a seat in the state House of Delegates to become the youngest state lawmaker in the U.S..
the wealthy are getting exponentially richer NOW, as we (who is "we", u got a mouse in your pocket?) slide into austerity for the masses.
And what is your view of government's role in this?
Try to focus Dubya, Mozart said the Republicans wrote the AC, I just proved he was WRONG, misled, a believer in political fables or in other words the perfect person to live on the liberal plantation.
Let's see if Chuckie can focus on it this time:
Chuckie also ignores the FACT that most Americans do not want to repeal Obamacare. The dictatorship of the far Right wants to crush the will of the people and reward their servants of mammon.
What. A. Cult.
Joni Ernst believes, among other things, that the UN is engaged in a conspiracy to round up Iowa farmers and force them to live in cities.
The inmates have taken the asylum. This will be entertaining as they wreak their havoc on clueless Americans like Chuckie.
The inmates have taken over:
"Agenda 21 is a horrible idea," Ernst told a rural county GOP audience in November:
The non-binding resolution, signed by Republican President George H.W. Bush in 1992, urges nations to conserve open land and steer development toward more populous areas.
Ernst said last year: "The implications we could have here is moving people off their agricultural land and consolidating them into city centers, and then telling them 'you don't have property rights anymore.' These are all things that the UN is behind, and it's bad for the United States and bad for families here in the state of Iowa."
Susan Geddes, a conservative Iowa Republican strategist, said Ernst's characterization "is a problem for our party." Conspiracy theories aren't good campaign issues, she said.
"I don't know why she'd say that," said Geddes, a senior Iowa adviser to Mike Huckabee's 2008 presidential campaign.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/democrats-scour-records-provocative-comments
Even her fellow Republicans know she's a nut. Chuckie thinks she's God's gift to America and will let him be free to be rich. LOL!!
What. A. Cult.
Let's see if Chuckie can focus on it THIS time:
Chuckie also ignores the FACT that most Americans do not want to repeal Obamacare. The dictatorship of the far Right wants to crush the will of the people and reward their servants of mammon.
What. A. Cult.
maliciously using the name of other commentators will be deleted.
Poor Chuckie needs a new hobby. LOL!!
At least we won't hear his stupid whining about censorship. It would be confessing to his evil behavior.
What I wonder when I read what someone like Joni Ernst believes and has publicly said-- who are those people in Iowa? I ask myself that more than about the candidates or even the oligarchs who are patting themselves on the back for buying this election which will give them more tax breaks, less regulations to protect the safety of workers/water/air/environment, and more ways to obstruct anything positive happening on any important issue.
They say that Obama should respect the results of this election. Why? They didn't respect when he was elected? Many of the dems who got defeated were running on not really being a dem-- like Grimes who rightly got defeated when she wouldn't even have the guts to admit who she voted for in 2014. Simple question-- Romney or Obama? and it could have been either. I think she lost the election right there.
I have a rightie friend who said they will do tax fairness, less regulations, better war fighting, and on he went. He totally ignored how they were for personhood and wanted an amendment to ban gay marriage. He ignored how they wanted to ban as many from voting as they can unless they are right wing whities. I told him we'll see who gets surprised by what they do. I wonder though-- maybe he just does not want to admit his stand on some of these issues that I find so abominable an invasion of our rights-- by the party that claims to be for freedom because they never met a citizen they don't want to have a gun while they have plenty they don't want to vote.
But in the end when I find out who voters did vote for, I do wonder-- who are we as a people? It's not a very happy question. Neither is knowing how few Americans actually voted to give us this result :(
It is soo much fun to watch the left when they are not in power.
Cause you can tell by who they attack, who they are afraid of the most.
In the 2014 election, 10% of blacks voted GOP vs 6% in 2012.
Now the left has declared war on women, especially Mozart's new senator, because they fear conservative women will lead others from the liberal plantation.
"Democrats scour records for provocative comments" like there are 57 states?
For Democrats, the search continues for words that suggest fringe views.
"If it sticks they're delighted and if it doesn't they move on to the next thing,"
But but but, how did this happen?
Excuse number 9
We didn't get out message out.
Dubya, regardless of your hate filled attacks, it doesn't change a one very important thing.
Obama's policy's and their supporters got their ASS WHIPPED!!
STOP WHINING!
p.s.
what do you believe the role of govt is when the rich grow in numbers, or are you afraid to give your answer?
Let's see if Chuckie can focus on it THIS time:
Chuckie also ignores the FACT that most Americans do not want to repeal Obamacare. The dictatorship of the far Right wants to crush the will of the people and reward their servants of mammon.
What. A. Cult.
Sore loser, the GOP won because they cheated. Gerrymandering and disenfranchising voters, not to mention record spending by the Kochs. They bought an election.
Mozart, has just used liberals excuses for failure numbers,
3
1
4
Tell me, since 10% more blacks voted for the GOP than did in 2012,and more Hispanics voted for the GOP than in 2012 and 50% more Asians than in 2012, how were they suppressed from voting?
How do you win a Gov and Senate race by Gerrymandering?
Sounds like your grasping at straws to avoid facing the real reason you lost BIG Time this election, the voters have rejected Obama and his policy's. IE that means you are a loser and a whiner.
Sore Loser (anonymous) you understand completely how it works because you listed valid REASONS and called them "Excuses"
There IS Gerrymandering HOUSE districts (Florida is being investigated, though nothing will come of it) and yes, after the corrupt Supremes desided that the Voting rights act ws no longer needed, several southern states, within 48 hours of the decision, enacted ridiculous voter ID laws based on nonexistant voter fraud. This made it nearly impossible for the elderly and the very poor to aquire the proper ID's to be able to vote, even though their votes had been perfectly valid before. (Go figure those people usualy voted Democrat)This was akin to shutting Down ACORN, who's cheif purpose was findiing homes for the poor and elderly
Why? Because they committed the heinous crime of helping people register to vote, and driving those with no transportation to the polls. AT NO TIME was any evidence shown that they coerced or otherwise influenced people to vote IN EITHER DIRECTION. The GOP just knew that these people again, tended to vote DEmocrat, so they had to be stopped.
Doesn't it bother you even a little that your party has to cheat to win?
Maybe you missed all this because they never report it on Fox news.
No Mozart what bothers me is your inability to deal with reality.
Because you still can't come to grips with the FACT that the number of blacks voting GOP grew in Midterms.
Because you still believe that in some magic way this increase in the number of blacks voting GOP is due to the GOP being able to prevent some blacks from voting while allowing others to vote.
Because this reveals you plantation mentality that blacks do not have the ability to think for themselves.
Keep believing that the liberal excuses used are real and see how many more elections liberals lose.
Liberal excuse Number 10.
Supreme Court is corrupt when the decide against liberalism, honest when they don't.
Liberal excuse number 11.
It's all the fault of Fox News.
("ACORN, who's cheif purpose was findiing homes for the poor and elderly", my b.s. meter just went off the charts!)
Ho Ho Ho.
The pro-lifers won by a vast margin over the baby killers Degan and his crew back.
Obama agenda of the past six has been rejected!
Scott Walker ripped Wisconsin big.
So Cheryl Johnson, the colored lady above and Tom Degan all support the baby killers and despicable people like Obama.
I live in Wisconsin too, let's kick the left wing kooks out.
This really sucks, if you're a Democrat.
A poll released Thursday morning shows that Obamacare was an important issue for people who showed up to vote, proving once again that the GOP has a mandate to change the law.
Only 12% voted to send a positive message about Obamacare while 28% voted to send a negative message. In 2010 when the “wound” was fresh, 45% voted to send an anti-Obamacare message.
The party breakdown gives an even better picture:
Only 4% Independents and 26% Democrats voted to send a positive Obamacare message. while 28% Independents and 55% Republicans voted to send an anti-Obamacare message.
The low interest by Democrats to defend Obamacare (only 26% of them) compared to the vibrant interest by Republicans to send a negative message (55% of them) is probably a reason why Dem turnout was suppressed while GOP turnout elevated. As Obama told the GOP during the shutdown: ‘Go out and win an election‘ if you want to change the law.
Well Mr. President. The GOP won an election. — an election where Obamacare was the most used issue in the ads in the closing weeks.
therightscoop.com/poll-obamacare-was-key-issue/#ixzz3IQX8qixH
Sore loser(Anonymous) is still living in the Fox news world. he can't comprehend simple concepts and cant got over the FACT that Obama got elected TWICE in the strength of the ACA, and that it is a VERY successful program, loved by all who actually participate. His rants are becoming legendary and he STILL doesn't know who his congressmen are.
Oh and the so called "pro life" Republicans still support war and the death penalty, and still have no time for a baby once it's born.
hypocrites.
Mozart,
Would you like some cheese with your whine?
The people of America have spoken on Nov 4. They are sick of the drip, drip, marxist transformation of America.
Just like the time came for the Berlin wall to come down, it is time for LBJs Liberal Plantation to come down. Just Say'n.
Poor Dave Dubya has been rambling incessantly about the Faux "War On Women" for the past few months. I was beginning to think Dave had a uterus!
Poor Harry Reid. He will soon be in a convalescent home sitting in a wheel chair and drooling all the time while muttering "It was the Koch Brothers, it was the Koch Brothers."
Anonymous and his many alter egos are like the energizer bunny, he keeps going and going...
If only he had some facts to go with his Fox news propaganda.
Oh well...you can't put a $100 education in a ten cent head.
Mozart,
How many hours a week do you watch Fox News in order to know so much about what they broadcast?
"If only he had some facts to go with his Fox news propaganda."
LOL Mozart.
The facts are the GOP has a big majority in the House and a majority in the Senate.
Those be da facts Mozart.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2014/11/06/the-insiders-let-the-payback-begin/
The Democrats are off to a quick start in getting at each other’s throats. With lightning speed, soon-to-be Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has sought to air his grievances and presumably shift much of the blame to President Obama for the Democrats’ loss of his chamber. In a remarkably candid exercise, Reid’s chief of staff, David Krone, has matter-of-factly supplied the media with time lines, quotes and precise accounts of the animosity that existed between the Democratic Senate and the White House during Campaign 2014. In a must-read, vivid piece from The Post’s Philip Rucker and Robert Costa, Krone is quoted as saying that they were “never going to get on the same page” and revealed that, after one meeting with the president, the Reid forces were left “beating our heads against the wall.”
Obama famously has no real relationship with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), and the White House’s relationship with the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-Fla.), is openly hostile. As incredible as it may seem, all three of these Democratic leaders plan to hold onto their jobs for the next two years.
Undoubtedly, there are more specific revelations to come, but the comments from Krone are particularly revealing. Part of what is so astounding about them is that the dysfunction stayed hidden for so long. Was the media duped or compliant in not blowing the whistle on this? How were we this blind to the Democratic infighting? Evidently, the entire Democratic establishment, from the time the president was inaugurated to his second term in 2013 until now, had become nothing but a scheming, tactical political operation, bickering over money and positioning, with no particular interest in governing.
Lets hope America never elects such an inexperienced, incompetent bullshitter like Obama again!
Mozart 12:20, what a losing excuse for you to justify murder. That doesn't even deserve a response, let's see, Libya, war, Obama, Yugoslavia, war Clinton, Obama/Clinton, gave rise to ISIS.
President G W Bush is authorizing the U.S. military to deploy up to 1,500 more troops to Iraq as part of the mission to combat the Islamic State group.
Bush is also asking Congress for more than $5 billion to help fund the fight.
Should Congress give the president the money he is requesting?
Anonymous and his alter egos forget how the GOP acted when they lost control of congress (That includes the Senate BTW) under Bush.
If abortion is murder then miscarraige is invoulantary manslaughter. A blob of cells is NOT a person, but a baby out in the workd breathing real air IS and you conservatives could not give a fuck about the BORN.
We will be expecting every problem in the world to be solved by the GOP by St. Patricks Day now that the GOP is in control.
Should the would NOT be perfect for EVERYONE by then, prepare to explain yourselves, and no excuses about Obama "obstructing".
Jeez, being angry about LOSING an election is one thing, but I never saw such a sore WINNER as as Anonymous. Too bad your heroes had to cheat to gain control. The American people do NOT agree with GOP policy. But I guess the Kochs got the best congress they could buy.
(watch as that becomes another screen name for him)
Oh, and I watch ALL the news channels, along with reading THREE newspapers and catching as much news as I can on the net, unlike conservatives who require spoon feeding ONLY from Fox.
The IRAQ war from Bush gave rise to ISIS. The first Bush Iraq war gave us 9-11. AlQueda was funded in large part by Ronald Reagan.
Bush II could have prevented 9-11 but he was too obsessed on Hussein to care. He sat idly for 7 minutes while the attacks were going on. Imagine if Obama had done that?
"We will be expecting every problem in the world to be solved by the GOP by St. Patricks Day now that the GOP is in control."
Several things Mozart
1. you can expect all you want but that deadline is yours and no one else's. No promises were made except to stop the Obama agenda.
2. who is "we"?
3. Don't forget the president of NO is still in the White House. ("I have a pen")
How many hours a day do you watch Fox News Cable Channel?
When do you work?
"AlQueda was funded in large part by Ronald Reagan."
Proof to support this claim needed.
The American people DO NOT agree with the policy's of Obama or the elections would have turned out differently! That's why the losers ran away from the Obama. DUH! Don't you think for one minute if the losers thought that running on Obama's policy's would have made them winners they would have done so? DUH!
Why didn't Clinton take out Bin Laden when he was offered him?
Hint, because Clinton didn't think he had enough evidence to convict him in a trial in a court of law. BTW the, this was the same Intel Clinton left for GWB after he was sworn in. What did the Intel say?
"He sat idly for 7 minutes." in a school room full of kids vs. being at fund raiser or on the golf course for HOURS! Wow holy Hawkeye's, SEVEN (7) total minutes!! It took God SIX (6) days to make the earth. Why am I not not surprising that you would expect govt to work faster than God.
What did you want him to do? Scream "we are being attacked, run for your lives", and then run out of the room? A room full of kids?
Or how about jumping on an airplane to Vegas for a fund raiser? Or slip out the back door to play a quick round of golf?
Are these the three newspapers you read each day?
Telegraph Herald
Grit
The Cedar Rapids Gazette
Should congress give the president the $ he wants for the troops he is sending to be "on the ground" in Iraq?
Which President is making that request?
Should the President return his Nobel Pace prize?
Sorry the humor behind my name "sore loser" is lost on your unhappy liberal heart. I'm not surprised.
Black enough?
Obama and Clinton gave rise to ISIS; Obama abandoned Iraq, Obama and Clinton furthermore, helped arm the Syrian rebels.
Delusional thinking and cult brainwashing:
Obama and Clinton gave rise to ISIS; Obama abandoned Iraq,
Apparently, "Nobody" was president between Clinton and Obama in the Radical Right Bubble Cult. Nobody invaded Iraq and Nobody sparked civil war. And Nobody disbanded the Iraqi army.
And don't forget the Nobody who signed into law the Status of Forces Agreement to withdraw US troops.
Talk about "low information voters".
Sore loser,(Anonymous), who do you think was fighting against the Russians when they invaded Afghanistan? It was bin Laden and his crew, who became...wait for it...
Reagan funneled millions in cash and arms to them to fight the Soviets. Maybe you were not born yet, it was the 80's after all.
Obama will not let the GOP take healthcare away from 28 million people, and the question is, WHY WOULD THE GOP WANT TO? Oh yeah, they have to erase Obama because they can't allow a Black president to be a success (which he is)
And if the America people didn't agree with Obama, WHY DO YOU THINK HE GOT ELECTED TWICE ON THE STRENGTH OF THE ACA?
The problem with this last election is twofold, first, for some reason young Dems don't vote in mid terms, which they will end up paying for in the end, and Second, the GOP went to great lengths to make sure liberal voters that otherwise would have voted could not, in the form of ridiculous voter ID laws that were completely unnecessary.
Cedar Rapids gazette, Des Moines register, USA Today
You might read "Grit" but I doubt it unless it's got pictures.
And I don't promote ANY "babies" being killed, but I have no problem with small blobs of cells, and neither do you, unless of course you protest fertility clinics, which dispose of more embryos every year than are aborted.
Id do however, promote the support and care of ACTUAL CHILDEN, unlike conservatives, who give up on em as soon as they draw breath. (Unless they are rich and White)
I wasn't aware anyone got a "Pace Prize" (Is that a NASCAR thing?) but since you are WHINING about Obama honoring Bush's agreement to remove troops from Iraq, why are you now WHINING about him sending more back to clean up Bush's mess?
Clinton was never actually "offered" bin Laden. There was an "offer" to reveal his whereabouts for a price of several million dollars. Intelligence said the offer was probably bogus and the people making the offer were not trustworthy. Clinton did the right thing.
But WHY was CHeney at the Pentagon on 9-11 given he had no political authority to be there, and WHY was Bush reading children's books in Florida? WHY did Bush sit doing nothing for 7 minutes while the nation was under attack?
Could it be that Bush was never really in charge and Cheney was actually running the show?
Cheney recently slipped on "Meet the Press" when he answered a question with "If I were still President..."
Very telling. He also answered a question outside the Pentagon on 9-11 with, "I was inside when the MISSILE hit and..."
Later it was edited to say "...when the PLANE hit..."
Oh, and "humor" usually indicates or suggests that something is funny. You are just sad. But at least you admitted it was you. Why not just stick to "Anonymous" , we all know who you are. No one else could be that stupid.
Lets hope Tuesday's election marks the final collapse of Obamaism, a species of left liberalism so intrusive, so incompetently executed and ultimately so unpopular that it will be seen as an asterick in American political history.
Obama himself defined the election when he insisted just last month that “these [i.e. his] policies are on the ballot — every single one of them.”
The People of America spoke Tuesday and repudiated Obama's policies — every single one of them.
Since the pied piper Obama was not on the ballot last tuesday the Free Stuff Army decided not to vote?
Dave Dubya: Hello earth to Dave? Did you know Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State?? Man, I'm not going to make personal attacks but this is unbelievable.
I just hope Dave "Uterus" Dubya ends his Debbie Wasserman talking points about the GOP "War On Women". The majority of women rejected this MSNBC faux war. Maybe Dave just needs testosterone injections so that he stops complaining like a woman.
I notice Anonymous resorted back to his usual BS and disregarded the facts I presented. Go figure.
I think young people are tired of being lied to by bullshit artists like Obama who have never had a real job. They're tired of people looking at them like they're stupid Democrat lever pullers. They're starting to get jobs of their own and are moving out of their parents basement. It's taken them a while, but I think they're finally starting to grow up and think for themselves and they can see that things aren't working. What they decide will work is still up for grabs, though.
Lonely guys like Chuckie have no clue about women's issues. His right hand doesn't tell him anything.
He wants women to have less rights than a zygote, as they are forced to undergo invasive medical procedures and told to buy "rape insurance".
This is GOP "equality".
Obama and Clinton gave rise to ISIS.....Did you know Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State?
No Clinton was specified in the original brainwashed statement. And yes I know.
Either way, "Nobody" else caused any problems in Iraq, right?
Of course not. "Nobody" was president before Obama. Never lied or made a single error. And he was perfect in every way. "Nobody" is perfect.
The "War on Women" is an entirely specious concept, advanced by the Democrats' mastery of demagoguery, and their overall strategy of convincing victimization and identity groups that "civil rights" means protected classes, entitlements, targeted programs, and lots of lip service.
I just don't know what's more tragic, that those voters living in the utopian progressive fantasy world buy into the fallacy like Dave Dubya, or the Democrat leaders actually believe it.
"Lonely guys like Chuckie have no clue about women's issues. His right hand doesn't tell him anything."
Dave do you have a uterus? Maybe you are a shemale.
Either way, you need to grow some balls and ACT LIKE A MAN!.
How do you feel about the GOP pickup of 7 Senate seats?
The GOP war on women means women have fewer rights than men. Less than zygotes even. Men don't need to buy "rape insurance", WOMEN DO!!!
Poor Chuckie's typing gibberish again. I guess one hand is busy with other things.
There's a similarity between what's left of Obama's supporters, like Dave Dubya, and the Japanese soldiers who refused to surrender after WWII.
Don't see as many Obama Biden stickers on cars anymore. What a joke America's first Black President has been.
We can live with a joke better than the financial collapse and endless wars "Nobody" left us.
Let's cut those taxes for billionaires and trust Wall Street to "regulate" itself, like under "Nobody".
Vote GOP so we can go back to a disaster even bigger than the Bush Crash of '08. Remember you "hate America" unless you vote for more of this.
Oh Listen to the Tom Degan sockpuppet Dave W. , I think not knowing who the Secretary of State was was a clear giveaway. Nobody has helped Wall Street and Big Insurance out more than Obama.
For Dave Dubya, Obama is our president.
Yes, Dave Dubya is the Tom Degan sock puppet. Notice, they say the same things as if the only publication they know is the Nation.
Ooh, Dave Dubya talked about the GOP war on Women.
Uh, Dave Dubya/Tom Degan, if it is not too imposing, who won in Iowa? Who won in Wisconsin??
No doubt, GOP war on women is the same kind of hateful rhetoric that the Failing Democrat Party uses via racism yet, minorities were elected by the Republicans, Martinez, Hurd in Texas, the new South Carolina African American Senator, Mia Love.
Degan/Dave Dubya can only propogandize.
Nobody has helped Wall Street and Big Insurance out more than Obama.
Yes, this is why Ron Paul and I accurately call him a corporatist. Amazingly, many dipshits in the RRBC think Obama is somehow a "Marxist" for this.
Unions hate the Governor of Wisconsin yet he beats his woman opponent by 7 or 8 % points, Walker signed ultrasound legislation, planned parenthood shuts down clinics in Wisconsin, Iowa elects Joni Erickson.
Where is this war on women?
What if zygotes had more rights than Chuckie?
Chuckie's typing gibberish again.
Maybe if he tried BOTH hands on the keyboard.
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November 08, 2014, 03:20 pm
DNC chief: We have a problem
By Sarah Ferris
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The Democratic National Committee is planning a "top-to-bottom assessment" of its campaign strategy after suffering worse-than-expected defeats in last week’s midterm elections.
Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-Fla.), who leads the group, announced Saturday that a committee will examine the party’s performance in the 2014 and 2010 elections.
"We are going to look at where we fell short. We're going to identify our mistakes," she said in a video that was sent to party supporters.
"Our party has a problem," she added.
This year's midterms lost the Democrats a total of 12 House seats and seven Senate seats, a stunning blow that went beyond most election forecasts. The GOP also unseated three Democratic governors in historically blue states.
Can we say this is straight from the horse's mouth?
"Remember you "hate America" unless you vote for more of this.
More crazy talk from the losing side.
"The GOP war on women means women have fewer rights than men" And that's just the way Bill Clinton likes it!
"Bush Crash of '08" Funny how that started in 2006 when the Dems took control of Congress.
"who do you think was fighting against the Russians when they invaded Afghanistan"
DUH the Taliban, dip shit, that's who? Can you blame anyone for "disregarded the facts I(Mozart) presented", after all he isn't the sharpest pencil in the box.
" Black president to be a success (which he is)" Only in your wet dreams, Mozart.
"Clinton did the right thing" Tell that to Monica.
Time for 9-11 was an inside job crowd to come out of the wood work.
Tell ya what, you support my belief the FDR knew in advance of the attack on Pearl Harbor and I'll buy into the inside job theory.
What papers are those you read each week and how many hours a week do you watch the Fox News cable news? How many hours a week do you work Mozart, where you have to listen to Rush because your co-workers have brains unlike you and listen to him in your presence?
News Flash, 2014 midterm election results was the thumbs down to the Obama agenda, the voters want it to STOP, regardless of what you say Mozart. If this were not the truth, then the results of the election would be different. You can not dispute the results of the election, or can you?
Chuckie's going to have to continue his lies and gibberish without me for the evening.
I have a date...with a woman.
Have fun with your Right hand, Chuckie.
Later.
Nothing like a good ole ass whipping is there democrats?
Another black flees the liberal plantation. Dubya claims it's racism!
Will Hurd, 37, heads to Capitol Hill from Texas’s massive 23rd district — the state’s largest, it shares 800 miles of border with Mexico — following his upset victory Tuesday over Democratic representative Pete Gallego. At a time when one of the GOP’s top priorities is broadening its appeal to blue-collar and minority voters, Hurd’s victory is instructive. He joins Utah’s Mia Love as one of two black Republican House members, and he won in a district whose residents are mostly Hispanic.
Dubya ya think you're gonna score by taking her to see the movie Fury?
Or is it cheese and wine while listening to left wing poetry in a coffee house not far off campus?
GOOD LUCK ole man, you'll need it!
It's heart warming the Dave and his sister are so close.
Dave, Where are you? Don't tell me again your momma won't let you borrow her car honey bunch. I really want that extra large box of chocolates you promised.
It was a LANDSLIDE!
Yeah, America sliding into decay and disrepair while rich people get richer and 98% of the population suffers for it.
Sleep well conservatives, but you haven't killed the election process (yet)
We'll be back.
Mozart1220: Haha, rich white people, you can't get funnier than the delusions of tomdegan/davedubya and mozard1220. Oh, those rich white people. Killing elections, yeah, cause you get whipped in elections in so-called blue states.
"Yeah, America sliding into decay and disrepair while rich people get richer and 98% of the population suffers for it."
Mozart, I've asked this question before in response to your quote, maybe you have what it takes to answer.
What should govt do about this?
Government should pass laws removing money from elections. Do it like England. Campaigns last 30-60 days and every candidate gets the same amount of money from a public fund. Repeal "Citizens United". Undo ALL gerrymandering and make House districts a grid system so Reps and Dem areas are fairly represented. Put the Voting rights act back in place so stupid ID laws (poll taxes)are eliminated.
And pass a law criminalizing LYING in political ads. It's illegal to lie in an ad for dish soap, why is it OK to lie when selling a political candidate?
But it would take an act of congress to do all these things, so it's never going to happen, especially with big money now in control of it.
And remember Anonymous, it wasn't long ago Republicans got "whipped" in the mid terms not to mention Obama getting elected TWICE and you all whined about "voter fraud" even though there was no evidence of it.
however, there is CLEAR evidence of gerrymandering and voter disenfranchising.
Mozart,
How would anything you listed stop
"America sliding into decay and disrepair while rich people get richer and 98% of the population suffers for it"?
"LYING in political ads" Like Hope and Change, or GOP wants to cut S.S. and Medicare, or GOP want women to not use birth control, or GOP wants to return blacks to slavery? You mean lies like that?
"there is CLEAR evidence of gerrymandering and voter disenfranchising"
WHERE and HOW?
Voter ID laws are poll taxes? Explain that. Do you mean that having to show ID to get on an airplane is a poll tax, or to get a library card, having to show ID is a poll tax?
"make House districts a grid system so Reps and Dem areas are fairly represented." And what happens if the numbers for one party changes, would you realign the district? Wouldn't that be gerrymandering?
Hold on to you hat, but I agree with you that federal election campaigns should be no more that 60 days long!!!!!!!!!!!
But the party primary campaigns can be as long as the want. Local and State campaigns should not be limited in length by the Federal Government. It's not the Federal govt call, its a State issue.
But I do not agree that campaigns should be publicly financed. Doing so would reduce the political power of the Unions. Further I do not see how it could be enforced any better that the NCAA rules about athletes not being paid by their school.
"Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall."
Jeez..I guess it's true that you can't fix stupid. OK, I'll explain it to you.
First off the simple explaination: IT WOULD STOP REPUBLICANS FROM STEALING ELECTIONS, and since it's the GOP causing 90% of the problems for non millionares...
Now, I'll go into detail.
"America sliding into decay and disrepair while rich people get richer and 98% of the population suffers for it"?
See Above.
"LYING in political ads" Like Hope and Change, or GOP wants to cut S.S. and Medicare, or GOP want women to not use birth control, or GOP wants to return blacks to slavery? You mean lies like that?
Hope and change was not a lie, after the failed Bush administration the VAST majority of Americans were hoping for change, and we got it. Under Obama , economy improves, wars ended, stock market soars, tens of millions with access to healthcare, etc.
The GOP Campaigned on privatizing Social Security, in fact they have been wanting to do it for years, and they are not shy about saying so. Look at all the companies refusing to include female birth control in insurance plans. Hobby Lobby anyone?
"there is CLEAR evidence of gerrymandering and voter disenfranchising"
WHERE and HOW?
You ARE kidding right? Take a look at any states house district maps. Jeez man! Look at the laws passed in many "red" states right after the SCOTUS gutted the Voting rights act!
Voter ID laws are poll taxes? Explain that. Do you mean that having to show ID to get on an airplane is a poll tax, or to get a library card, having to show ID is a poll tax?
Getting on an airplane is not a constitutinally protected right, and many elderly or poor people cannot come up with the MONEY FOR NEW AND UNECCE3SARY FORMS OF ID! Many have been legally voting for decades and could not vote this cycle. Wow, go figure the poor and elderly in the south are minorities who vote Democrat. Also, you can't use an NRA card to get on a plane, but you can use one as ID in Texas.
"make House districts a grid system so Reps and Dem areas are fairly represented." And what happens if the numbers for one party changes, would you realign the district? Wouldn't that be gerrymandering?
The districts would NEVER be realigned. Why should they be?
As for Reagan, he took credit for something he had NOTHING to do with (like freeing the Iran hostages, which was Carter)
Had Gorbachev not already intended to tear down the wall, Reagan's words would have been only that. Words.
I notice conservatives never mention how Reagan's "voodoo economics" exploded the national debt. He also sold arms to an enemy nation (treason) flushed the family farmer, eliminated the JTPA, putting tens of thousands out of college, and on top of all that used psychics and numerologists to shape policy (Nancy was into that stuff)
Oh, and he also had the solar panals removed from the White House roof. Can't have them when you are the puppet of big oil can you?
20% of the latest job numbers were bartenders
20%
barrys done... toast... worst ever
but joe the plumber knew barry was unqualified 7 yrs ago!
Mozart,
Every foul thing, every comment made about your low IQ, you have deserved.
With out a doubt if you are indicative of what liberals believe today, then they will fast become extent.
That you believe,
Hope and change was not a lie
that the majority of Americans love Obama care,
that the economy improves,
that wars ended,
that the stock market soars,
tens of millions with access to healthcare,
fly's in the face of what members of the DNC are now saying. I guess you missed this because you were too busy watching Fox News and reading your daily quote of three newspapers.
Today on NBC's Meet the Press, Howard Dean said: Dems Losing White Men Because ‘Economy Has Not Gotten Better’.
'wars ended", Obama is sending more troops to the war that has ended?
"stock market soars", And it will until this administration stops pumping money borrowed from China to keep it afloat. I look for that to happen in late 2015 which should allow him to blame the GOP for the economic crash by election time in 2016.
"tens of millions with access to healthcare, etc." Obamacare premiums are going up 8% in 2015, vs the inflation adjusted 6.8%. Affordable because someone else is paying the subsidy.
Do you understand that much of personal wealth comes from investing in the stock market? So while you hate the wealthy, you're happy with Obama for providing them with the way to become wealthy?
Schizo man, totally schizo!
The right to vote, if you have the legal right to vote, is Constitutional provided for. Is it unconstitutional to ask for proof that you have that right?
About my agreeing with you on time of campaigns, forget I ever said it. It was an attempt to reach out to you with something we could agree on.
Forget about that ever happening again, you are hope less and 100% correct that you cant fix stupid, as you are living proof of same.
PS
THE GOP KICKED YOUR PARTY"S BUTT IN THE 2010 AND 2014 ELECTIONS.
Sucks to be you.
Obama knew nothing of economics when he first ran. He never ran a hot dog stand. He still knows nothing and he uses phony numbers and phrases such as "saved jobs."
No one EVER used that phony term before he made it up (or one of his minions did).
He hasn't a clue.
Joe Wilson and Joe The Plumber were right all along!
Joe wasn't even a real plumber, and if anyone was the worst president ever it was Dubya. Once again, Anonymous forgets that 2000-2008 happened.
I challenge your BS assertion that 20% of all jobs are bartenders. Maybe in your backward southern state.
Are you SERIOUSLY saying the economy has NOT improved since Jan 2009? REALLY?
I maintain that Obamacare is A huge SUCCESS, JUT LIKE IT WAS WHEN Romney USED THE same plan in Mass.
In 2008 people hoped (actually PRAYED for a change and we got it in Obama.
Bush borrowed more money than Obama has. Bush took more vacations than Obama has.
ID is required to REGISTER to vote. It is not necessary to insist on two costly extra versions at the polls.
Clearly Anonymous is so deep inside the "Bubble" no facts can get through. I stand by my statements, he can't refute them. Hell, he didn't even know the Senate is part of congress, and has no idea who his congressmen are. He's a troll, hiding behind multiple names to make it seem like others agree with him.
Bush failed at every job Daddy handed to him. He couldn't even find oil in Texas.
Have a nice life Anonymous. Let us know when you graduate third grade.
Not to be the tea baggers advocate, but U did meet one racist that was a democrat during in the primaries in 2007. Said if Hillary loses, he's not voting for a n!gger. Guessing he quit his party or doesn't vote now. I don't know, stopped talking to him that instant.
All if the other racists I've run into/known/are related to are true red GOP. At least 8 off the top of my head including a huge section of my fathers family.
"Are you SERIOUSLY saying the economy has NOT improved since Jan 2009? REALLY?"
NOPE, but Howard Dean did!! I just quoted him and told you where to go to fact check. Which is a hell of lot more than you do with your "facts" about conservatives, the rich and the GOP, you libtard moron.
Sucks to be you Mozart, but you already know that, don't you.
p.s.
watch for the Fed to raise interest rates in next 18 months, sure fire way to push the economy into a tail spin. You see, dear liberals, Obama has artificially kept the stock market growing by pumping billions of borrowed dollars into it and by keep the interest rate low. All this is doing is avoiding the natural correction any economy must go through to be healthy. This can not go one for ever.
AtheistLib
Give your definition of racist.
"I hate to break it to you Mozart but you are not the sharpest pencil in the box."
James Hansen
Mozart having an adult conversation, now there's an oxymoron.
Found:
Photo of Mozart, after the results of midterms were announced, breaking away from reading his three newspaper a day, and watching all the cable news networks including Fox.
The sky will not fall, chicken littles. It might rain quite a bit.
How come Mozart is against voter ID but all for internet poster ID?
GOOD NEWS EVERYBODY!!!
Scott Walker has won every round of his long fight with Big Labor in Wisconsin, but it wasn’t until November 4 that he delivered the knockout punch. In his third gubernatorial election in four years, Walker defeated Democratic challenger Mary Burke by 6 points. It was the same margin of victory he had in the 2010 Republican wave and just a point shy of his 2012 performance in a union-funded recall.
Walker’s victory has secured the conservative reforms he implemented in his first term and will encourage other governors to follow his lead. It should also make him a serious contender for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination if he wants it—which seems likely.
PS - Has anyone heard how Dave's date with that beautiful woman went? She is a knockout.
This might explain a lot about how the liberal brain works.
"Ask not what you can do for your country, but ask your country what free stuff you can get!"
Because ID is required to REGISTER to vote, and posting on the internet is not a constitutionally protected right?
How come Anonymous supports drug testing welfare recipients but not gun owners?
Mozart,
Internet speech is not protected speech?
Interesting..
What will liberals say when the GOP has control of the WH, will they still be ok with Obama's plan's for the internet?
State's are not preventing anyone from voting if they can show they have the legal right to vote.
It's called the rule of law.
Internet speech is protected, but access to the internet is not.
Are you REALLY that stupid or are you just trolling?
BTW, if your precious GOP heroes have their way, internet speech will no longer BE protected.
Jonathon Gruber,
WHAT A STUPID FUCKING PROGRESSIVE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLE!
Lets just hope the Supreme Court rules on the state subsidies language and ObamaCare gets a late term abortion.
Mozart,
"Internet speech is protected, but access to the internet is not."
So the Federal govt should restrict access to the internet for those whose speech they disagree with?
You are ok with that??
"BTW, if your precious GOP heroes have their way, internet speech will no longer BE protected."
And the evidence you have to support your claim/fantasy can be found where?
Will the GOP takes the WH will you be ok with the Obama directed restrictions of access to the internet?
Chuckie just brought up the name of Jonathon Gruber,
who admitted that as one of the major writers of the ACA, they lied to the American public about the real cost of the ACA because in part, he felt the American public was too stupid.
Here's the youtube link www.youtube.com/watch?v=G790p0LcgbI (if you were watching Fox news like you claim to do, you would not have seen this as it was on MSNBC)
Are you ok with Gruber's statement being broadcast on MSNBC or do you believe the Federal govt should have not allowed the public to know this information? Do you agree with Gruber, that the American public is stupid?
Sounds rather liberal authoritarian to me, how about you Mozart?
P.S.
Not that it matters, I'm not chuckie,
Two black males in Milwaukee walked up to the home of a white family, in a majority black neighborhood, and unleashed a hail of gunfire. A five year old white girl was murdered while sitting on her grandfather’s lap.
Milwaukee police say there is no question the shooters were deliberating trying to kill people inside the house. At least a dozen bullets were fired directly into the house. There may have been a third person driving a getaway car.
The house was located in a census tract that is 77% black and 14% white.
The Milwaukee Sentinel and Milwaukee channel 6 have actually been trying to downplay the murder. They are falsely reporting that it was “a stray bullet.” That directly contradicts all the evidence found by police.
If the races were reversed, this would be the biggest news story in the entire western world right now. Imagine for one second that two white males walked up to a black occupied home, in a mostly white neighborhood, and opened fire. Imagine a five year old black girl was murdered while sitting on her grandfather’s lap. There would weeks of national coverage. There would be documentaries. The story would be revisited by the national media over and over for the next ten years.
For decades, Midwestern black street gangs have used racially motivated violence against white people as gang initiations. The most common form is mob attacks on white college students. However, more and more gang initiations are targeting random white people for shootings. There have been numerous fatalities. Black on white hate crime violence is also surging due to media agitation over Ferguson. A panel on MSNBC even urged blacks to “make white people feel uncomfortable.” A statement that seemed to greenlight black on white hate crime violence.
Probably the little girl didn't have her hands up, and her grandfather didn't say "don't shoot"!
Howard Dean: Obamacare Created By Liberal “Elitists Who Don’t Fundamentally Understand The American People”…
Waiting for liberals to blame GWB or Romney for Howard's comments.
Note Howard Dean did NOT say "Liberal elitists".
They are corporatist elitists. Follow the insurance money. Period.
Wellpoint owns them. AND Wellpoint donated MORE to the GOP than to Dems.
Isn't that correct, Sore Chuckie?
HAH, Dubya back from his re-eduction on the liberal plantation.
Yeah, follow the money, goes straight from my pocket to gov to be redistributed in subsides to those who don't pay taxes. What's corporatist about that?
IT WAS A LIE TOLD BY THE LIBERAL WING OF THE DNC, TO FOOL THE
"STUPID AMERICAN PEOPLE" AND THE STUPID DNC MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.
Pretty damning, authoritarian, liberal, elitism, that by the way, NOT ONE member of the GOP vote for the ACA! The DNC owns this pie of lies,
Golly I wonder if there is an connection between the results of the midterms and this bit of breaking news? You think is anything to the fact that every democrat senator defeated had voted for the LIE called the ACA?
Liberalism has to lie and use mandates to get it's policy's past the American public.
Is it any wonder that Obama wants to now regulate the access to the internet? Can't have any truth competing with the lies liberalism's.
My facts are uncontested then.
Yeah, follow the money, goes straight from my pocket to gov to be redistributed in subsides to those who don't pay taxes. What's corporatist about that?
This is an example of a narrow mind with tunnel vision. The point was our money being redistributed into corporate pockets. How dim can a person be to not see this? Someone who ignored the facts about Wellpoint? AND they give the GOP more "Free speech" money than to democrats.
I suppose if one never heard of corporate subsidies, or who profits from Obamacare. How about the low taxes, and in some cases zero taxes, paid by corporations.
Then there are the war profiteers.
Ever hear of Halliburton and the Murderous thugs of Blackwater, sucking up OUR tax dollars for private profit? Blood money redistributed.
Real redistribution of wealth is flowing up to the elites. This is killing both democracy, and the economy, according to the IMF.
Sore Chuckie will need to ignore this and complain about feeding the poor again.
Liberalism has to lie and use mandates to get it's policy's past the American public.
No proof cited. This is one man's opinion. One who helped that liberal Romney with a similar plan.
Not liberalism, corporatism. Liberals openly want a single payer universal healthcare system. Sore Chuckie has no clue what liberals think apparently. Hate is blinding.
So maybe somebody lied and nobody died again.
Bush lied, tens of thousands died and a civil war was begun that continues to this day.
Guess which liar annoys Sore Chuckie the most?
Is it any wonder that Obama wants to now regulate the access to the internet?
Is THIS the new cult dogma? LOL!
Better to let the telecoms own the internet, right, Sore Chuckie?
I bet Sore Chuckie has no clue about the issue of net neutrality. All his cult needs to tell him is Obama is bad, and it is all his fault.
No Dubya, the proof of a narrow mind is one who refuses to admit his liberal policy's have been rejected by the voters of America.
No, I stand corrected, narrow mind is two broad, closed mind would be the correct description.
Still trying to spin the failure onto Conservatives and the GOP. I guess when you have nothing else to sell but fear, that's what you sell.
Maybe it's time you awake to the cold hard fact that the policy's you NEVER spoke out against, were given an ass whipping. Instead of now claiming the policy's weren't liberal ones but corporatism. My how shifty of you.
I just hope E. Warren or B. Sanders gets the DNC nomination in 2016, the results should be an eye opener even for the die hard liberals/socialists. It's kind of odd that liberals claim the GOP is the party of old white men. Obviously they are overlooking the make up of the the new GOP Congress but are blind to the age of the DNC's current leadership. Young they ARE NOT!
Do you think this election's results were the voters blaming the black guy, or GWB? Sounds like blame Bush is the only bullet you got in your gun, Hah, hah hah.
net neutrality, IE: govt censorship and control of speech. How very totalitarian of you, Richard Head Duby
Only 21 Percent Of U.S. Voters Support Net Neutrality
Huffington Post.
Sucks to be you Dybua
Sucks to be ignorant like Sore Chuckie.
net neutrality, IE: govt censorship and control of speech. How very ignorant.
From HuffPo:
Despite these results, it's still not clear that most voters understand what net neutrality actually is. Asked how closely they have been following stories about net neutrality, only 20 percent said they are following news of the net neutrality regulations "very closely," with 35 percent saying they're following it "somewhat closely."
What's more, the wording of the polling question querying these "likely voters" defines net neutrality in a very restricted way. The respondents were asked, "Should the Federal Communications Commission regulate the Internet like it does radio and television?" With a topic as broad, and as complicated, as net neutrality, such a question addresses only one small part of the whole picture.
For example, Rasmussen could just as legitimately have asked, "Should all internet users have the same access to the same Internet, regardless of how much they pay?" Or it might have asked, "Should broadband carriers have the ability to block or remove content based on their discretion alone?"
And, even though most Americans do not favor FCC regulation of the web, 55 percent do continue to support the FCC's regulation of radio and TV.
Sore Chuckie is definitely in the low information part of the population.
He wants the telecoms to control the internet and our access to information What a corporate shill.
Sore Chuckie doesn't want to understand net neutrality is what we have now. It is an open internet.
Telecoms want to have control over the information flow, like Chuckie's Radical Right Bubble Cult controls what he and fellow low information voters believe.
Chuckie wants change. Chuckie wants what big telecoms want. More of our money and less service for many in return. As always, screw the public and redistribute wealth to the elites.
This is the change Chuckie believes in.
The internet has become a public utility and should remain one.
And all my points and facts stand.
Keep on distracting, Sore Chuckie.
up yours dubya
Just remember Obama put people in charge of writing the ACA who think it is ok to lie to YOU because the believe YOU are Stupid.
up yours dubya
Just what we'd expect from a sore loser like Chuckie.
Sucks to be you Dubya.
Not at all. Just more proof Chuckie has no clue to what he's babbling about. It sucks to be a sore loser like Chuckie.
Sore Chuckie doesn't want to understand net neutrality is what we have now. It is an open internet.
Telecoms want to have control over the information flow, like Chuckie's Radical Right Bubble Cult controls what he and fellow low information voters believe.
Chuckie wants change. Chuckie wants what big telecoms want. More of our money and less service for many in return. As always, screw the public and redistribute wealth to the elites.
This is the change Chuckie believes in.
The internet has become a public utility and should remain one.
And all my points and facts stand.
Keep on distracting, Sore Chuckie.
And Gruber apologized for describing American voters as "stupid".
Proof he's not a Republican.
No matter how wrong and hateful they are, they NEVER apologize. Because values.
Let's see now, which excuse did Dubya use in his post about Gruber lying to Americans because he thought they were to stupid?
Liberal excuse Number 1.
It was the Koch money and big corporations that defeated the DEMs in 11/2014.
Liberal excuse Number 2
There isn't much difference between the two party s so getting our ass handed to us doesn't mean anything.
Liberal excuse number 3.
GOP cheated.
Liberal excuse number 4.
Voter suppression because put base didn't show up to vote.
Liberal excuse number 5.
Democrats weren't liberal enough.
#6
Racism
7.
Voters were duped
8. Voters must have been high on pot.
Excuse number 9
We didn't get our message out
excuse Number 10.
Supreme Court is corrupt when the decide against liberalism, honest when they don't.
Liberal excuse number 11.
It's all the fault of Fox News.
Looks like we need a 12 liberal excuse for their failures,
12. At least we aren't as bad as the Conservatives!
Let's see now, which excuse did Dubya use...
None of the above. But Sore Chuckie needs to distract, doesn't he?
Gruber apologized for describing American voters as "stupid".
Proof he's not a Republican.
No matter how wrong and hateful they are, they NEVER apologize. Because values.
So when's Sore Chuckie gonna tell us about all that freedom the Republicans will bring? LOL!
He can't seem to do it. Another false promise.
What could be HIS excuse? Maybe "Stupid" is the one that fits best.
That would make sense for someone stupid enough to surrender an open internet to corporate censorship.
Get a grip Dubya, I feel your pain.
America won, you lost, get over it.
Mozart1220 said ACA "is a VERY successful program, loved by all who actually participate."
Degan says to ask people what party they belong to when they say something rib-ticklingly stupid, so Mozart1220 what party do you support?
Josh, it's working. People like it. You're a Republican obviously.
Tom.
Why is it obvious?
Cesspool indeed
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