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Historic defeat for Democrats in Tuesday's midterm election


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2014 Nov 4, 12:06pm   55,322 views  150 comments

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Balance of Power: Senate: 50 (R) 42 (D) 2 (I) 6 (Undec.) | House: 246 (R) 189 (D)

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12   lostand confused   2014 Nov 4, 1:08pm  

What happened to the feminazi and the welfare hordes?? Didn't they come out to vote????

13   FuckTheMainstreamMedia   2014 Nov 4, 1:09pm  

indigenous says

dodgerfanjohn says

If middle class Latinos swing right, the Democrat party is done for.

She seem like an anomaly?

I think the vote has been going to the Ds 2 to 1.

No doubt. But this is a revelation here. We'll see what the republicans do the next couple years. Clearly the Texan Republicans have figured it out...let's see if the rest of the country does. That new Iowa senator has an annoying fake laugh, but her message of hard work, growing up with loving family, and God seems to be something that would resonate with the kids and grandkids of immigrants from Mexico.

14   indigenous   2014 Nov 4, 1:11pm  

dodgerfanjohn says

her message of hard work, growing up with loving family, and God seems to be something that would resonate with the kids and grandkids of immigrants from Mexico.

It seems to me that Mexicans really are natural Rs, anyway I hope you are right. But that would be quite a change from the past.

15   siklidkid   2014 Nov 4, 1:14pm  

Did evil beat evil?
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Yaaaay!

16   Strategist   2014 Nov 4, 1:15pm  

Obama is a very intelligent man, but he really screwed up bad on the economy and foreign policy. All he had to do was...
1. Ensure economic recovery by ensuring the housing recovery.
He failed.
2. Ensure that ISIS did not become the threat it is. Now it's gonna cost us.
He failed.

17   FuckTheMainstreamMedia   2014 Nov 4, 1:16pm  

Strategist says

Obama is a very intelligent man, but he really screwed up bad on the economy and foreign policy. All he had to do was...

1. Ensure economic recovery by ensuring the housing recovery.

He failed.

2. Ensure that ISIS did not become the threat it is. Now it's gonna cost us.

He failed.

#2 was a fucking collassal failure.

18   indigenous   2014 Nov 4, 1:17pm  

Strategist says

but he really screwed up bad on the economy and foreign policy. All he had to do was...

Quit fixing the economy and stay the fuck out of Iraq and get out of Afghanistan. But he could not resist the fucking with things.

19   indigenous   2014 Nov 4, 1:19pm  

Call it Crazy says

He's worse than a scorned woman!

Correction he is a woman scorned.

20   Heraclitusstudent   2014 Nov 4, 1:21pm  

Strategist says

If the Repubs don't help the economy in the next 2 years i'll vote for Hillary.

I'm just so disappointed with Obama.

Hillary is a loser, too old, a feminazi, and as corrupt as any republican.
The ultimate insider in the group of people that caused the current situation.

21   HydroCabron   2014 Nov 4, 1:24pm  

Strategist says

Obama is a very intelligent man, but he really screwed up bad on the economy and foreign policy. All he had to do was...

2. Ensure that ISIS did not become the threat it is. Now it's gonna cost us.

He failed.

Nancy Pelosi and Goldman Sachs are each more of a threat than ISIS.

ISIS is a gnat on that dog's butthole of a religion called Islam.

22   HydroCabron   2014 Nov 4, 1:27pm  

lostand confused says

What happened to the feminazi and the welfare hordes?? Didn't they come out to vote????

Not en masse.

Just pasty old prunes who had lots of abortions and dodged the draft when they were young, and now want to ban abortion for young people and send them off to war.

23   Heraclitusstudent   2014 Nov 4, 1:30pm  

Strategist says

All he had to do was...

1. Ensure economic recovery by ensuring the housing recovery.

He failed.

2. Ensure that ISIS did not become the threat it is. Now it's gonna cost us.

He failed.

I agree he failed:

1. Housing was in a bubble and the right thing to do was to ensure it fully deflates.
HE FAILED

2. ISIS is the mirror image of ugly Americans like you and Bush. They didn't exist until Bush went there and created the problem. You create them by your very existence.
Well yes, Obama FAILED too.

All Obama had to do was let housing collapse, let the banks fail, buy them for $1, execute the leaders, recapitalize them and sell them. We wouldn't be stuck trying to pay back what they lost.

24   Strategist   2014 Nov 4, 1:34pm  

Heraclitusstudent says

All Obama had to do was let housing collapse, let the banks fail, buy them for $1, execute the leaders, recapitalize them and sell them. We wouldn't be stuck trying to pay back what they lost.

That is pretty much what happened.

25   Strategist   2014 Nov 4, 1:41pm  

Governor of Maryland - Republican
Governor of Illinois - Republican

CNN just said it was unheard of.

I hope California governor goes to Republicans too. Jerry Brown sucks.

26   indigenous   2014 Nov 4, 1:45pm  

Strategist says

I hope California governor goes to Republicans too.

Not gonna happen too many Wogster types, in Cali

27   indigenous   2014 Nov 4, 1:47pm  

Call it Crazy says

Another plus, Dirty Harry Reid gets sent packing and back to Nevada!!

You mean as senate majority leader?

28   Strategist   2014 Nov 4, 1:51pm  

indigenous says

Strategist says

I hope California governor goes to Republicans too.

Not gonna happen too many Wogster types, in Cali

Jerry Brown won. :(

29   indigenous   2014 Nov 4, 1:52pm  

Strategist says

Jerry Brown won. :(

I can't believe the asshole beat Meg Ryan, goes to show you how fucked up the Calif constituents are.

30   lostand confused   2014 Nov 4, 1:53pm  

HCB Chair BoardOfEqualization says

lostand confused says

What happened to the feminazi and the welfare hordes?? Didn't they come out to vote????

Not en masse.

Just pasty old prunes who had lots of abortions and dodged the draft when they were young, and now want to ban abortion for young people and send them off to war.

You mean Dick Cheney was a woman, before he became a man??

31   indigenous   2014 Nov 4, 1:53pm  

Call it Crazy says

Here Ducky, I found a new avatar for you. It should be appropriate for the next two years

I'm a thinkin at least 4yr hopefully 6+

32   Heraclitusstudent   2014 Nov 4, 1:54pm  

Strategist says

Heraclitusstudent says

All Obama had to do was let housing collapse, let the banks fail, buy them for $1, execute the leaders, recapitalize them and sell them. We wouldn't be stuck trying to pay back what they lost.

That is pretty much what happened.

You still think what happened with the housing bubble was sustainable, healthy and generally desirable, don't you?

You can't wait to go back to that?

33   indigenous   2014 Nov 4, 1:56pm  

BoomAndBustCycle says

I think a Republican controlled Senate and House is going to have a HARD time improving on what on paper is a pretty good economy…

Not unless they can put the fear of God into the Fed.

We need a prez like Coolidge, or Van Buren maybe a Rand Paul could fill the bill? At any rate it would be nice if they could get rid of O handiwork in the ACA and Frank Dodd

34   Y   2014 Nov 4, 1:58pm  

that is the atomic bomb of the whole exercise.
the repubs will vote on and pass everything now.
lay it at obama's feet.
obama will veto it all
2016 rolls around and obama will be the obstacle to improving everyones lot in life.
Sarah is elected along with the house/senate staying red and we will control the whole shabang, ushering in the Christian State to counter ISIS.

Call it Crazy says

Another plus, Dirty Harry Reid gets sent packing and back to Nevada!!

35   lostand confused   2014 Nov 4, 1:59pm  

Great a bunch of lobbyists will become repub congress critters. A bunch of ex dem congress critters will become lobbyists and wait till the tide turns. What a sorry bunch.

36   Y   2014 Nov 4, 2:00pm  

+1

indigenous says

He is just excited that the Ds got bitch slapped out of office,

37   BoomAndBustCycle   2014 Nov 4, 2:08pm  

Call it Crazy says

Oh God, another kool-aid drinker....

http://patrick.net/?p=1251545&c=1145661#comment-1145661

Oh, don't get me wrong… I definitely think the current administration is creating new bubbles and propping up a "house of cards" economy. But, they really didn't have much of a choice… When everything was free-falling in March of 2009… They could have let all the banks fail and we'd have a few weeks maybe years of chaos.

Instead the bail outs just gave us another 10 years of can kicking fun.

It's gonna get ugly… When the next crash happens I wouldn't want to be the party in power.

It looks like the Republicans are going to be biting off way more than they can chew.

38   HEY YOU   2014 Nov 4, 2:37pm  

Great news!
Now they can pay for unfunded wars. Find the WMD. Get all Rep/Con/Tea individuals & businesses off Big Govt. Socialist programs. Eliminate the minimum wage & pay themselves $2.00/hour & no benefits & outsource all American jobs & eliminate Obamacare.

Any R/C/T that can't pay cash for their family's medical care needs, should die. That's what True American Patriots, who believe in "Personal Responsibility", would do.

BTW,where's my Voodoo Economics Trickle Down Check?

39   zzyzzx   2014 Nov 4, 4:05pm  

Strategist says

Governor of Maryland - Republican

I'm still elated over this one. Not only did Hogan win, but by a considerable margin.

40   zzyzzx   2014 Nov 4, 4:09pm  

It's all Obama's fault!!!

41   Shaman   2014 Nov 4, 9:12pm  

Now it's the GOP controlled Congress's job to crank out lots of bills that seem very good to the public at large. Then when Obummer exercises his veto, the Demo-hate will grow and grow. If they do that consistently enough, it will guarantee a GOP POTUS in 2016.
But I think they can fuck it up. :)

42   Tenpoundbass   2014 Nov 4, 9:52pm  

Does this mean that Jon Stewart and Bill Mahar was voted out off their office?

43   Y   2014 Nov 4, 10:22pm  

You realize the economy is already slow, so
WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE???

Heraclitusstudent says

Strategist says

I voted Republican. It's time to get the economy moving, and it's time to change our foreign policy.

You realize repubs have a strong incentive to keep a slow economy and blame Obama.

44   zzyzzx   2014 Nov 4, 11:03pm  

It will be just as interesting to see what the 2 Independent candidates do as well.

45   zzyzzx   2014 Nov 4, 11:30pm  

What's just as interesting is all the new woman GOP members...
http://13wham.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/ny-elects-youngestever-congresswoman-17379.shtml

NEW YORK (AP) -- Republican Elise Stefanik has become the youngest woman elected to Congress by defeating Democrat Aaron Wolf in a race for an open U.S. House seat in northern New York. The 30-year-old former aide in George W. Bush's White House won her party's nomination this summer with the help of super political action committees that funneled more than $1 million into the primary. Woolf is a documentary filmmaker and business owner who dipped into his personal finances to lend his campaign $600,000. Stefanik and Woolf were first-time candidates. Matt Funiciello ran on the Green Party line. New York's 21st District extends from the Canadian border across the Adirondacks to Saratoga County. The district is one of the largest in the Eastern United States.

Read More at: http://13wham.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/ny-elects-youngestever-congresswoman-17379.shtml

47   Strategist   2014 Nov 4, 11:38pm  

Heraclitusstudent says

Strategist says

I voted Republican. It's time to get the economy moving, and it's time to change our foreign policy.

You realize repubs have a strong incentive to keep a slow economy and blame Obama.

That's just dirty politics. Democrats and Republicans are both the same when it comes to dirty politics.

48   anotheraccount   2014 Nov 4, 11:50pm  

Call it Crazy says

You think the "game" holds together until 2017?

It could. Right now US is the "fortress" of the world - closed economy that's based on healthcare and defense sectors. The bubble can get much bigger.

49   Strategist   2014 Nov 4, 11:50pm  

tr6 says

Listening to Republicans on CNBC today.

Problem: "Middle class is struggling"

Solutions

- lower corporate tax rate (companies already pay the lowest tax rates in history)

- build a pipeline (don't worry about WTI at 75)

- don't raise minimum wage (because there is a study that proves raising it hurts economy)

So how is that helping middle class?

All of above ends up creating jobs. We need jobs to get the economy moving again.

50   HydroCabron   2014 Nov 4, 11:51pm  

Strategist says

Democrats and Republicans are both the same when it comes to dirty politics.

Nope.

Democrats are plenty corrupt, but a lot of Democrats gave Bush the benefit of the doubt on the war vote. That is, they put country before party.

I haven't seen the Republicans do that since 1994.

51   anotheraccount   2014 Nov 4, 11:55pm  

Strategist says

All of above ends up creating jobs

Tell me how building the pipeline that will lower the price of oil even more would help create jobs in a long term?

How is having $5 an hour job helping the economy?

How is giving corporations even higher share of profits (which are at historic highs) good for middle class jobs?

Can you address each one specifically?

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