My prediction for 2012 is that we will look back with nostalgia on 2010 because there were at least a few candidates who were too crazy to be elected. Next time they’ll slide right in.

Holy crap:
South Carolina District 2 24% in Race details
dem Rob Miller 51% 26,186
rep Joe Wilson* 47% 23,962

Only 24% in from MSNBC, but “You Lie” could go down?

I think we’re *already* seeing candidates who are too crazy to get elected get elected.

Grayson was the only one I cared about. I thought he was going to make it. I guess left-wing populism just doesn’t sell like the good old reich wing. We are in for a real ride. Try Canada. Or maybe New Zealand, it’s farther off.

Ooo, that would be pretty sweet. I’ll take any fuck-you to the Crazy Caucus I can get.

My point exactly. By 2012, they’ll ALL get elected. At least this year there are a few who weren’t.

That would be poetic!

I suspect that he’s another one of those in the would-have-been-fine-in-any-other-year category.

Even in 2012 I don’t think O’Donnell or Paladino could get elected in DE or NY. But there are a bunch of states and districts they *could* get elected in. And probably could have been in this year as well.

Much joy would be here at my house.

He had the most amount of outside money against him for a House seat. That scalp came at a big $$ price.

Let’s face it, though, you can’t be that kind of outspoken Democrat like Alan Grayson is, unless you’re from a really safe district. I hope he goes back to suing war profiteers; I imagine there’s still some money to be made in that line of work nowadays.

It would be very cool if the GOP misses winning winning the House by one, and the reason the GOP fall short could be directly blamed on Wilson’s antics.

“Would Russ Feingold be fighting for his life in any normal year?”

He refused to run negative ads, Sensible Liberals don’t like that dirty stuff, as if pointing out the truth is uncouth. With Grayson and Periello going down, we are in for a return to the milquetoast DLC 90s with even more cowards in Congress.

The world is fucked. A lost decade, indeed. Thanks Obama.

Laurence O’Donnell is saying Rand Paul can cause a world wide depression by refusing to raise the debt ceiling.

The barn door has been opened.

You know, Lawrence has convinced the rest of them that the Senate doesn’t get a chance to re-organize under rules that prohibit secret holds or the filibuster or even unanimous consent. Without Harry Reid to ruin the Senate’s organizing resolution in 2011, it might be possible to have an actual operating legislative body.

But you’ll never convince Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s Chief of Staff of that.

Canada may well seal their borders. Don’t think they can handle 30 million wanting to flee the sinking ship.

This is not a fun night …

Without Harry Reid…

Yow! I like the sound of that!

Addition by subtraction. Ditto for Blanche.

It’s gonna get a lot more fun when Harry Reid bites the dust.

Eric the Kapo Cantor is already making plans for cutting Social Security by 50%. The prelude to eliminating it. The American people are in for a world of hurt and for anyone that voted Republican they will be deserving.

Has anyone seen results re Jon Hall in NY?

Bahh, the government doesn’t need to raise the debt ceiling if the Department of Treasury didn’t act like the Washington lobbying office for Wall Street. Geithner already has the authority to create all the money he wants (and a permanent automatic appropriation to pay debt service) at any time by exercising the coin seigniorage power Congress has delegated to the Secretary of Treasury.

There shall be established in the Treasury of the United States, a United States Mint Public Enterprise Fund (the “Fund”) for fiscal year 1996 and hereafter… the Fund may retain receipts from the Federal Reserve System from the sale of circulating coins at face value for deposit into the Fund… at such times as the Secretary of the Treasury determines appropriate, but not less than annually, any amount in the Fund that is determined to be in excess of the amount required by the Fund shall be transferred to the Treasury for deposit as miscellaneous receipts…
51 US 5136

The Secretary may mint and issue platinum bullion coins and proof platinum coins in accordance with such specifications, designs, varieties, quantities, denominations, and inscriptions as the Secretary, in the Secretary’s discretion, may prescribe from time to time.
31 US 5112(k)

Perry leading big in early returns; Doggett leading in Travis County, but not in the outlying area, Repub ahead there.

Actually, Canada would love to have us. Canadians are not breeding enough. They have some concerns about underpopulation.

nor a fun political year or 2

and ALL CONGRESSCRITTERS need their pensions cut i half also

Well, the upside is the chattering classes will be arguing about who caused the Depression. Prior to this election – it would all be the Democrats fault.

The downside – a Depression made worse by Republicans trying to balance the budget – one wonders where these assholes were while Bush gutted the economy, fought two unfunded wars, and cut taxes for the rich.

And the Professional Left is promiscuous.

Assoc. Press has called Gov race for Perry…needs to be confirmed.

Larry O’Donnell’s head is going to explode.

The American people have just sealed their fate. Until this moment I really believed that some sanity would prevail, it hurts to realize that the majority of American citizens really are stupid. Worldwide collapse is probably not far behind now. They have already pointed out that everything is on the table as far as spending cuts go – all except the Defense Department, of course. The Bush agenda will now finally be played out to its bitter end.

Over anything particular?

Marco Rubio! Another nutball!

LAwrence making an IDIOT of himself over the debt ceiling with Matt Kibbe the Freedomworks guy.

Larry having a meltdown would make for a memorable night. Too bad I gave up on the boob tube.

Being called a “star” before his acceptance speech….

getting dumber every day,remember…..whats the matter with kansas?

expand that

whats the matter with MERIKA?

O’Donnell needs some anger management classes.

Sestak looking strong in Pa.

I don’t think I need to point out how important a Sestak win among this night of results puts an exclamation point on everything the real left has said this election season.

That’s if he threatens to filibuster. Will McConnell be able to rein him in?

Bob in AZ

A group of Americans are willing to vote to inflict massive amounts of pain upon themselves with comfort and joy that perhaps brown people or gay people may receive a little more discomfort than themselves.

There are millions of these people.

To cut big govt spending and provide states rights and reject anything liberal, I say we let them have their way. Blue states send far more tax dollars to the federal govt than they get back. Red states get far more money from the federal govt than they send in.

Eliminate this wingtard welfare and stop giving these hateful bigoted homophobic misogynists money from liberal states.

Why can’t we do this?

me too,all propaganda all the time

TX…D-Chet Edwards defeated.

Hang on – no rise, no pay = default. If there’s no ceiling arrangement, we indeed default on payments.

I just saw on CSPAN that MSNBC predicted that political white trash conservative Republicans have taken over the house.

What, besides wait until 2012 or lamely asking your congressman or senator for the legislation below, will you suggest people do to get a $10 an hour minimum wage enacted into law, a real prescription drug benefit for retired and disabled people placed in Medicare Part B, EFCA, enacting a strong government health care option, and more.

I have answers to get this done. What do you have? Will you just complain for the next 2 years or will you help me go after the companies that give money to conservatives in both parties by going to http://www.democratz.org and sending emails to corporations and demand the legislation from their ceos?

see #40

Or IF there’s even a filibuster AT ALL in the next Senate.

For Lawrence to not know that each Senate organizes itself with its own rules is either profound ignorance or political malpractice.

It’s very effective, however, as demonstrated by the unfolding events this evening. Marionette Nation.

my new senator is on the TV

Turn if off before it takes hold!!!

oh goddess…the stooooooopits have taken over,all hope is out the window
LEMMING NATION

Wow, Onorato slightly ahead too.

I would really hate to finally get rid of Specter only to replace him with someone even worse.

The American people are kinda like putting that frog in a pot of water and then steadily turning up the heat until he’s a goner. For the past 30 years both political parties have been slowly turning up the heat and now we’re cooked, (or fucked if you will)

Marco Rubio is giving his dandy little speech about getting a $25.00 check from a single Mom. Yeah, sure Marco you corporate asslicker.

News Flash!!!

Obama = Bush

the Bush agenda never stop!

see most intelligent democrats and republicans know there is only one party the corporate party.

keep this in mind! the USA MILITARY BUDGET IS 1 TRILLION DOLLARS.

I bet you Rand Paul want cut the MILITARY BUDGET

Obama continues the Bush Wars? Yes
Obama continues to spy on Americans? Yes
Obama bail out Wall Street and screws main street? Yes

The GOP worse nightmare is happening! Laughing!

A lot of people can play chess

The Tea PARTY will do what Obama and the phony Dems could not do, they will destroy the GOP, with the help of some very cunning progressives.

Get your pop corn ready!

welcome to the world of RAND PAUL

maybe other people haven’t heard it, but i really don’t wanna here the Cuba speech again

Marco Rubio, fascist trickledowner, forced birth advocate and son of Cuban immigrants has hereby “Reclaimed America”!

Grayson is the worst loss so far, in my book. Paul is the worst win.

Would the House have swung so far if Obama had had the sense to keep Howard Dean as the chair of the DNC?

Does Tim Kaine get any of the heat for a poor Democratic campaign strategy?

But I take some cheer in this: The battle for the soul of the Republican Party, scattered around the states until now, will move to the floor of the House of Representatives. There will be many popcorn-worthy moments.

Bob in AZ

OKAY,i like older peeps,love young children,care about disabled…ABHOR WILLFULLY IGNORANT!!!!!

Wisc Senate race a “toss up”..

lets.see if Christine says “awesome.”

They are, in effect, trying to reverse the results of the Civil war. Why can’t we send all these people to the south where they will be happy, they can call themselves the Southern United States of America, or whatever tickles their fancy, we will gladly accept their educated liberals, and form our own union.

That wouldn’t be bipartisan. Supposed liberals at TNR would get out the fainting couches at the thought of playing hardball and the media would lambaste the Dems for, well I’m sure the rethugs will help them think of something.

he is Marco Rubio,Bush….thanks dems

Ending reconstruction was a big mistake. They should have been kept under military occupation until they started granting all their people inalienable rights.

Grayson POTUS OR VPPOTUS 2012.

Paul – There’s something wrong with that guy….some kind of skeleton in some kind of closet somewhere. Scary gut feeling.

Tweety should said that the Rs have just begun a campaign against Barack Obama that has just begun. Yeah, he’s in the bag.

Because the Red States have fewer restrictive laws on corporations, the corp headquarters are in red states, and our government sees fit to continue it that way?

my high school graduating class 90 % were college bound…..70s

Firepants on Twitter points out:

indiemcemopants Scottie Thomaston
omalley, gillibrand, schumer, cuomo, coons, lynch all pro #marriageequality, all winners, giannoulias, quinn leading

Just saying – go ‘Mo, or go slow.

The myth of the “wise, thouoghtful, intelligent” voter is just that, a myth. Of course both the right and the left will pander to the egos of a dumbed down electorate putting them on a pedestal and making them dance to a tune they don’t even recognize.

come on man?

a real DEM would have destroyed the GOP!

Obama and the phony dems brought the GOP back from the DEAD

progressives will not make the mistake of putting a trojan horse in the white house the next time.

remember this important fact
the tea party is a republican problem
the tea party will give progressives the ability to high light what makes us intelligent and GOP a party of MORONS quickly!!!

thank you!!!

Minnesota is starting to report now.

I have to admit, having quit the Democratic Party a few months ago, no public option was the 86th, but real final straw for me, and undervoting the national races today, I really don’t have a lot emotionally invested in today’s vote. I’m glad. Goodness knows I’ve been disappointed enough.

I suspect today marks the beginning of the end for conservative rule in America. Unfortunately I don’t think it will end until America really hits rock bottom. I thought we hit bottom with Bush. I was wrong. But hopefully in six years time, two more years of Obama right wing policies and then 4 years under President Petreaus, and after we’ve really gone through Depression 2.0 and a couple more wars, we will finally come out the other side and start moving forward again. If we survive it that is.

Hold on tight, the worst is yet to come.

Spam and Ammo baby……

Calm down, Teddy.
A Democratic Senate will serve as the roadblock to countless Republican bills from the House, so the Democrats, with a narrowed margin, may not be so eager to cast aside the filibuster rule. O’Donnell was making a reasonable extrapolation from the status quo. Unless the rules are changed, Paul could indeed bring the whole shebang down. And with a diminished or vanished majority, Democrats might not be so keen to change the rules.

Bob in AZ

He could well be right if that results in the US defaulting on its bonds. The repugs will use this to gain what they want like cuts in SS or extending the tax cuts or allowing more unemployment (nah, not that_.

That’s a good point, the comedy in the House will be top shelf as they go talon to talon with each other . . . .

Bipartisanship implies compromise and republicans don’t compromise, especially out of fear of being teabagged. Just give them their way. Get gubmint out of the way and stop all of that big spending. Quit sending money from blue states to red states. You put a dollar in you get a dollar out. You put a nickel in you get a nickel out.

i hope your right….i tired of the stoooooops

Sorry for Alan “Aipac” Grayson but…

You asked for it.

If….that probably lasts thru my lifetime!!

I’m surprised by one constitutional item on our Missouri ballot. It is

Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to
require that all real property used as a homestead
by Missouri citizens who are former prisoners of war
and have a total service-connected disability be
exempt from property taxes?

My tea-party parents sent me an e-mail with how to vote and, predictably, this was marked no because, well, “These men deserve our respect however, supporting an exemption on taxes may not be the best idea. Where would this stop?”

Anyway, I am surprised that even though the issue to try to limit puppy mills is currently taking a beating (I think once the urban areas report t the end it may prevail), this one is getting good support. I guess there is still a shred of decency left somewhere. No doubt the Republicans and tea partiers will do their best to rid us of that in the coming 2 years.

howz ’bout a little Class Action action for folks facing foreclosure ?

Good Evenin Eli and Firedogs

The Senate Democrats couldn’t stop the Republicans when they had 60 members in their caucus. You expect them to stop the Republicans with less than 60?

I just saw on CSPAN that MSNBC predicted that political white trash conservative Republicans have taken over the house.

What, besides wait until 2012 or lamely asking your congressman or senator for the legislation below, will you suggest people do to get a $10 an hour minimum wage enacted into law, a real prescription drug benefit for retired and disabled people placed in Medicare Part B, EFCA, enacting a strong government health care option, and more.

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What’s your plan?

I’m glad that it is still considered a toss-up– that is good news, considering what the polls were.

Bob in AZ

Sorry to miss all the fun. Out the door now to catch my flight to Germany. Won’t be returning until December 6th. Hope planes still fly from Germany to the US by then. Just kidding (I hope).

Grayson’s out. I’m surprised.

I’m watching SC-02 to see if one of the loud-mouths on the right – Joe “You Lie!” Wilson will lose. It’s very, very close.

Go Rob Miller!

Bob.

The dems are gonna sign off on every GOP pos legislation especially if it benefits corporate rule, which it all will . . . u kno that.

That precludes the fact that some (many) Republican Bills will pass – affirmed by a sufficient number of Scumbag D Senators.

The D moterhfuckers all voted for the AUMF and The PAtriot Act and FISA Gutting and Telco Immunity, more war spending, etc

In the spirit of bipartisanship of course.

Here’s an interesting post:

Karl Denninger, one of the “Tea Party” founders is sorry to see Grayson lose:

http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=171059

Be warned, Karl is a big libertarian, but he hates the big banks and the bailout so he recently gave up on the Tea Party (said they were taken over by the Wall St billionaires).

I’m sorry to see Congressman Grayson go too. He had the great habit of telling the unvarnished truth. I’m sure the Wall St Republicans went after him tooth and nail to take him down. Of course, this will be spun as a “lefty” being unpopular when the truth is that if the Democrats went after Wall St like Grayson, the party would come out way ahead.

Someone above said that the Tea Party would destroy the GOP. That would be peachy, but I’m afraid Obama is gonna destroy the Democratic Party first.

our country is besides being the biggest most vile war machine known to mankind,run by the stoopits,for the stoopits under their war god

Tim Kaine is, and always will be, a loser.

I officially QUIT the Democratic party. It’s no longer salvagable.

A ray of sunshine…

ABC News just announced that they’ve rescinded their invitation for Andrew Breitbart to be any part of their election night coverage.1 And it’s because of you. ABC’s announcement came directly after ColorOfChange.org and CREDO Action members appealed to Disney/ABC’s leadership with more than 125,000 petition signatures…

Bipartisanship implies compromise and republicans don’t compromise

Bipartisanship is a two-way street, and Republicans only go one way, which make good cover for a reactionary in progressive clothing, like Obama.

have a great trip,enjoy the apple turnovers

Does this mean the American workers can expect more free trade agreements, like NAFTA and CAFTA? American workers might as well start moving to Costa Rica and Panama to find work.

It’s the economy, stupid.

Well, yes, it’s also a Black Man in the White House, stupid.

And, It’s Stupid to Throw your Democratic Base Under the Bus, stupid.

But the losses might not be as devasting if ,you know: the Democrats had provided jobs where there were none (to repair the crumbling infrastructure, prevented mega foreclosures, prevented bankruptcies (ya know, if people with jobs had been able to buy from all those small businesses going under…)

And so on and so forth.

The largest number of corporations are registered in DE. Many of the federal dollars flowing to red states are defense related. The plan is to increase defense spending. Cheers.

I would expect Rand Paul to be put in his place by the Republican leadership from day one. Frankly, the smartest thing he can do now is prove that expectations about him are wrong and show everyone that he can keep his head down and work seriously with people on both sides for things he cares about. If he tries to play up for the cameras, he’ll lose big time.

Many said that GWB had destroyed the Republican Party. The irony is that BHO resurrected it from the dead and has dealt a crippling blow to the Democratic Party. If he was the wise chess master they claimed he truly was a Trojan Horse.

Easily. The Senate is full of quicksand.

Bob in AZ

How many Dems Congress People have call Obama, Axelrod, and GIBBS and asked them why did we vote for the Bob Dole Health Care Bill?

How many Dems Congress People have call Obama, Axelrod, and Gibbs, and asked them why are we helping Wall Street, and ignoring Main Street and the Middle class?

Axelrod probably told them, we thought the vast majority of Dems were as Dumb as the republicans, but we were wrong sorry!

laughing

My Hungarian friend once said that when revolution happens the next one immediately begins. She also said the best place to build a pizza parlor is right across the street from the most popular pizza parlor.

After listening to Rand Paul’s victory speech, MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell wondered if he really means what he says about the National Debt. One senator could single-handedly stop Congress from raising the debt ceiling, thus putting the U.S. government into default sometime between March and June next year and probably causing a worldwide Great Depression 2.0.

This is all just too fucking painful, more than I can stand anymore.

A modern day WPA would have at least sent the message that they were trying to do something. Instead Obama thought he’d go with huge tax cuts and miserly spending to stimulate the economy, all in the spirit of bipartisanship of course.

I’m not finished reading this yet, but someone posted it earlier and it is definitely worthwhile.

Is the American Dream Over?

im no genius,but i do recognize hopeless ignorance….we are surrounded

Paul Begala’s solution to the Dem losses tonight is for Obama to move to the center. I kid you not.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-begala/a-centrist-democratic-age_b_777955.html

Vitter re-elected…charming.

The Democrats did it with a lot of warmongering too.

he had a fauntless template to follow,but…………………..ON NO
couldnt do thaat………….LOSER

That would be moving to the Left, which of course is the last thing Obama will consider doing.

yea Paulie,how much do they pay you for the staged kabuki?

The Democrats certainly know that. They’ve been stuck in it for the last 2 years.

I said the tea party will destroy the GOP, because the world we live in today will allow intelligent progressives to use the tea party to wipe out the GOP

you are correct, Obama and the phony dems brought the GOP back to life

someone said earlier that Obama should be sued for political malpractice.

the elites greatest fear is that someone will primary OBAMA, because they know the GOP is going to implode.

the MSM is going to work overtime to protect Obama from a primary challenge, because he can’t win a primary challenge, due to the fact, their are not many right wing nut cases in the Democratic Party. Remember Hillary came in third in the IOWA primary.

the corporate party hates change!

PA SEN 55% reporting Sestak 52, Toomey 48
IL SEN 51% reporting Giannoulias 50.3, Kirk 44.4
CO SEN 6.5% reporting Bennet 53, Buck 42
CO GOV 5.1% reporting Hickenlooper 56.8, Tancredo 34.2, Maes 7.8

So much for the “Obama’s playing 11th dimensional chess” theory. A chess hustler in Washington Square Park could take Obama in 60 seconds, he’s clueless.

Saw that and figuratively vomitted.

And thus with Bad Policy and stupid remarks, Obama did not ease the common mans’ suffering caused by 8 years of Dubya. We got more Dubya.

Because Obama is Republican-lite, Obama rescuscitated the R Party that was in its final throws just 20 months ago.

Rand won’t be so beholden to Mitch, having beaten Mitch’s hand picked candidate in the primary. The old saw of ‘Democrats fall in love, Republicans fall in line,’ may be showing signs of fraying.

But acting like the Senate still needs 60 votes is ridiculous.

Please let all of those hold up…

In SC-02, Miller is pulling ahead of Joe “You Lie” Wilson.

Duly noted. Their hands are smeared with blood that does not wash away. The nation will pay a steep price for the atrocities.

methinks this was always the ObamaRhama plan

Well, Begala and every other wealthy, well connected pundit will be just fine no matter how far to the right Obama goes. They have nothing to fear for their wealthy well connected friends will take care of them. The working and middle class, on their own. Begala speaks for no one but Begala and his ilk.

Try telling that to the ignorant masses. 2/3 of which can’t name the three branches of guvmint.

I don’t expect to be very pleased with Rob Miller’s Congressional service, but it would be wonderful if Joe Wilson lost. Just a real victory for civility.

Obama is to the right of Reagan. Or put another way, Reagan is more liberal than Obama. Reagan did amnesty, raised taxes four times, cut-n-run in Beruit and the upper marginal tax rate was about 50% under Reagan.

Obama may be good at 11 dimensional chess. The Tea Party is playing Wack-a-mole. Don’t bring a nice set of chess pieces to a hammer fight.

The fraud in the WH has to worry first about impeachment before he has to worry about a primary. If anyone deserves impeachment it’s the fraud, but then impeachment by the Republicans would be for all the wrong reasons.

Where from? He’s currently to the right of Richard Nixon – so does this put the “center” to his right or his left?

If we let the DC and MSM “elites” call it, he’s end up to the right of Bush.

Paul thinks it 1994, laughing

47% of Dems want Obama to be primaried, and Paul thinks he needs to move to center? laughing!!!

move to the center OBAMA, you have already pass the Reagan Center, go to Rand Paul Center

and watch the sharks jump into the water, to challenge you in 2012

If obama moves to the center, how many dems will follow him? remember Obama is not the only person that can be primaried.

The Overton Window has been shifted to the Right– again.

Bob in AZ

Lezzsee … that’s the Army, the Church, and Warshingtun.

I give up.

If people are going to uncritically listen to LO’D's rambling as if the Senate doesn’t make its own rules, I simply give up.

tru dat

i long for Ronnie and Nancy in the Starz

right, left and center. There, that’s all three.

The current delicious surprise of the night, Senator Russ Feingold down by 18 points right now.

Obama would have to move left to a considerable degreee to get to the center, so why not? ;-)

Paul Begala’s solution to the Dem losses tonight is for Obama to move to the center. I kid you not.

I guess it all depends on the definition of “center”

Let’s face it, the Democratic Party has moved so far to the right over the last 20 years a move to the “center” might be welcomed.

No, Obama and the Dems will move even further to the right. It’s how contemporary Democrats roll.

Take that to the bank…

That 60 vote meme is dead – I’ll bet anyone a dollar.

and investigations and indictments for the crimes and malfeasance of the previous administration would have been the stake in the heart. The public should be watching televised hearings and trials of the criminal Republican Party rather than voting them back into office.

Fresh Hell – Bachmann and Tweety…

As much as it pains me to say this…another global economic depression is not only inevitable, it’s needed.

It’s the only way to crush this corrupt global capitalist system.

Bring it all down. Start all over.

O’Donnell knows how the Senate works better than you and I. They could change the rules, but will they?

Well said (as usual), Eli.

hahahahahahahhaha

good piss on its grave

No shit.

Orwell is that you

surreal

CO GOV [9.7%] Hickenlooper 55.3, Tancredo 34.9, Maes 8.6
CO SEN [9.9%] Bennet 52, Buck 42.8
PA SEN [74.4%] Sestak 51.8, Toomey 48.2
IL SEN [61%] Giannoulias 49.1, Kirk 45.6

I mentioned this on another post. Grayson is too good for the House. I want to see him on the national stage going after BP, Wall Street or the Banks. He is a brilliant lawyer, a true crusader and he won’t give up until the crooks are held to account. He is exactly the kind of fighter we need. We have a compromiser and chief and a timid DOJ with the wrong priorities. Unleash Grayson. What this nation needs is some giant class action suits with a big mouth exposing the corruption.

Exactly. If Grayson has to go, at least we can point at the “You Lie” Wilson went, too.

I think Miller will surprise you. For example, his campaign manager said he supported a public option and that he would have opposed some of the gifts to PhRMA that made it into the legislation.

More good news: Tancredo projected to lose! Hooray!

Bob in AZ

Jon Walker is upstairs!
FDL’s Big Midterm Election Liveblog (Part Three): Dems Projected to Lose House

Obama, Axelrod, Gibbs, know that a move to the right of Bush, because Obama has already pass Reagan on the right will result in OBAMA getting wipe out in 2012.

Obama, Axelrod, Gibbs, internal polls probably show that OBAMA is already in dire straits.

This is not 1994.

There will be more groups on the left, that can control millions of votes in the 2012 election, and person that understand technology knows this.

Axelrod, Gibbs, and David Plouffe know the new players want be easy to deal with or manipulate, I doubt these new players will be willing to help a right wing democrat win the white house.

How ’bout right, really right, and way the hell out there in O’Donnellville.

I sure hope Sink beats Scott in the FL governors race.

did tweety just call bachman a moron?

Obummer! Sure hurts, but maybe this will save SS. The US was looking at hard times no matter who won.

It was already too late. The time for those actions was when W was still in office. The venue is called IMPEACHMENT, as spelled out in the Constitution.

Because Pelosi forfeited Congress’ obligation to investigate high crimes and misdemeanors, the opportunity to prosecute the crimes of Bush II was lost forever.

Hick in, Tancredo out, Repubs reduced to minority status on the 2012 ballot? Hmmmm!

It’s certainly not 1994. This time should the Republicans decide impeachment would be fun the Democratic “base” will not rally around and circle the wagons for the Fraud in Chief.

Understatement. Rick Scott has sleaze written all over him. I don’t know what’s up in Florida, but something seems a little off about their election results cycle after cycle.

Someone in Tel Aviv was not pleased with him.

I heard him say something like “she’s in a trace” and that she stands there with a blank look on her face and says the same things over and over again.

It’s not only the tone-deaf messaging and the crappy policies; the endless attacks on the party’s base contributed heavily to depressing voter turnout. But these cretins never learn. They’re beyond redemption.

I’m actually watching the movie Recount on HBO right now. LOL

I know that. Was saying Obama was the one that wanted to “look forward.” He gave the Republicans a get out of jail card and allowed them to pick themselves off from the mat but then it’s all fake anyway.

Your delight in the downfall of the sole US Senator to oppose the Patriot Act says a lot about you.

Obama today: “My hope is that I can cooperate with Republicans.”

He’ll certainly have more of them to cooperate with tomorrow.

Must be a lot of shock and awe in Kosland. Wonder what the excuse for Obummer is now.

Keith Ellison MN-5 with 70% with 77% of precincts reporting

Is it just me or is this looking like a bloodbath?

eric cantor looking mighty foolish

Obama must be insane if he thinks they’ll cooperate now.

The Republicans will have him dancing to their tune, just like in the old westerns when the bad guys make the town drunk dance in the street to the tune of the six shooters.

The woman has a major personality disorder. If she were in the custody of her family, she would be receiving attention to it. As it is, she’s receiving abuse from all sides, thanks to the Rethug Party.

it is. but nothing unexpected

Eric the kapo Cantor.

Thank gawd that Tancredo is losing.

Why put up a new post when the comments are closed?

The true opportunity existed in 2006 and Bush knew it, which is why a major land purchase in Paraguay was made.

What’s one more rotten apple in the barrel?

Starting to look like it’s a lot worse than we were expecting.

His own party dumped him. The DLC method was dragged out after Dean had put it to rest. Piss-poor strategizing, courtesy of Rahm Emanuel. One can really believe it was deliberate.

she got 50% which rteally isn’t that great all things considered

Obama today: “My hope is that I can cooperate with Republicans.”

Shit, he’s been doing a damn fine job of that so far. How much better can he get?

Because Tancredo is truly a mad man.

Maybe Bush could put up Obama at his hacienda when he leaves office. Can see the two of them sitting in rockers on the veranda having a good laugh.

We’re about to find out.

How the hell much more can he cooperate? Iron their shits? Bring them breakfast in bed? He’s such corporatist douche.

Rahm got out just before the bloodbath. Most of this debacle is because of his piss poor advice and contempt for the base (which his boss shares).

and Rand Paul is treatable?

I like to picture them watching the Rangers lose to my Gigantes in another World Series.

ugh Roy Blunt wina

I was referring to her personal condition, not her political status. With respect to the former, she deserves some sympathy.

If you’re treating him to a sedative :)

thinks so? hard to say. for me anyway. i was pretty pessimistic. i think we can agree it’s mighty bad

Breakfast in bed, iron their clothes, shine their shoes every afternoon, make them lunch, bring them their morning papers, privatise Social Security, declare war on Iran, etc., etc..

Feingold/Grayson 2012

I’m wondering about that too.

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right. i know. my comment was unrelated

I didn’t think we’d lose either house. At this rate it’s looking like it could be both. I thought we’d hold very narrow majorities when all was said and done.

This also isn’t looking good for progressive ballot initiatives. I haven’t seen any returns on those yet but judging by the conservative support, it’s not going to end well.

But it probably won’t be in Paraguay. Bush will probably be left untouched until he passes, so the Paraguay escape route will have not have to be utilized.

I think Obama knows, that attacks by GOP, will not be fought off by the Dem Base.

Obama is a lonely man

I hope we are witnessing the end of the CLINTON MACHINE, I know we are.

bye bye Clinton Machine

Obama do it move to the right, we need some more laughs, Hoover just e-mail Obama thank U! I will soon give up my title as worse president ever to U Obama.

scott’s ahead in FL and it’s getting late

There’s a joygasm.

Don’t blame the voting public. The Democrats left us with no other option but to stay home. They promised change but chose to deliver only more of the same far right policies that destroyed this country. What’s really worse: the fascists who implement fascist policies, or the craven enablers who help them do it even when they don’t have to? And does it even matter at the end of the day? We’re still stuck with fascism.

I didn’t say the “veranda” would be in Paraguay. I’m sure Mr. Bipartisan would be just as comfortable in Crawford, TX.

MSNBC just projected Feingold lost. Now it’s time to go to bed. Bummer.

Of course, this will be spun as a “lefty” being unpopular when the truth is that if the Democrats went after Wall St like Grayson, the party would come out way ahead.

True. How long until the talking heads build their wise consensus about the Democrats over-reaching and moving too far to the left? Don’t have TV so I’m spared this.

I don’t think so. It’s bad but no worse than I expected. As a matter of fact, if Sestak and Alexi win, I’m going to be happier than I expected to be tonite.

I wrote in “Public Option” on every race, except county supervisor. I’d seen someone else post that earlier in the day and thought it was a great idea. It was tough as hell, and I actually had to take a couple deep breaths before I wrote it in instead of voting for Barbara Boxer, but they left me no choice. You’re right.

2009, I think…

Woody Guthrie wrote on his guitar, “This machine kills fascists.” We need a machine like that.

wow. blanche really got her ass kicked. didn’t know it was that bad. jeez.

Now Feingold is free to officially challenge the fraud in the WH. I’ll chip in!

I think we should start rallying his and Grayson’s camps tomorrow. We want a progressive, damnit.

I hope Feingold wins, but his decision to embrace health care reform in a campaign ad was a stupid, stupid decision. His ad is also dishonest – insurance companies can still “raise premiums and increase our costs whenever they want.”

Pollster’s aggregate data shows the health care plan continues to have more opponents than supporters. The last PPP poll (pdf) shows that even 17% of Democrats oppose the legislation. Democrats should have run away from that piece of crap as fast as they could – or, better yet, not voted for it in the first place.

I’m sorry to see Grayson go, and Feingold. So far, those are the only Democrats I’ll miss at all.

This is not 1994.

No, it’s more like 1962. Over the next two years, the Republicans labored to nominate…. GOLDWATER in 1964. Take a look at the Republicans in the early 1960s, and the Republican party now.

Bob in AZ

One of Al Jazeera’s US reporters thought that you can trace the problems of the Democrats back to the way they handled the health care reform effort. I suspect that’s true – what it showed was that they were duplicitous, and didn’t give a damn about actually trying to do some good. The whole thing became about “doing the deal”. No one with any sense can respect that sort of thinking for long, and we had a long time to watch all that stuff play out. In the end, they all folded like a cheap card table and gave the special interests pretty much what they wanted.

Couldn’t have happened to a nicer DINO.

Good for you! I wrote “Medicare for all” on my Senate and house races. It was, as you said, hard as hell to do it. But I’m glad I did. I was surprised to find my husband did the same for the House race. He said he liked the idea after I mentioned doing it. He was disgusted, as I was, that our Rep (Cleaver) was one of those in the “Progressive” caucus who pledged to vote no if the health care legislation didn’t include the public option. But then he caved. So, he lost 2 votes because of it.

If enough of us write in protest votes, maybe it will make a difference, get some attention.

Damn. Thanks for the update.

Fucking up the stimulus, and *deliberately* fucking up healthcare were their two biggest self-inflicted wounds, with the half-assed financial reform and EFCA betrayal close behind.

I didn’t know that Feingold ran an ad bragging about his support of the health care bill. I like Feingold, but that was foolish. That health care bill is a turd. Sure, there’s some decent stuff in it, but without a public option and forcing people to buy health insurance, it’s really indefensible.

As I’ve written more times than I want to recall, the Democrats’ strategy is always to move right. It doesn’t matter whether they win or lose – that’s the strategy. It’s like religion, with the incentive in this case not being some paradise at the end of their lives, but money from all those lobbyists.

Plus, of course, the progressives never punish any Democrats for not being progressive. That would be stupid, after all. [/sarcasm]

Being the Giants fan that I am, I almost wrote in “Brian Wilson’s Beard”. But I thought about it and realized that my vote is meant to make a statement, not a joke.

I’m proud of what I did today, and I’ve explained it to my kids.

Like you said, I hope enough folks have done it to get some attention. I’d love to see the look on Obama’s face when some staffer tells him “Mr. President, 6.2 million people wrote in ‘public option’ or ‘medicare for all’, or something to that effect.”

I’ve said the same thing. *Both* parties’ answer to success *or* defeat is to move right.

Oh, and if signs off on Social Security cuts, Obama will guarantee that he’ll be a one-termer.

A thin sliver becomes a shiv in the right hands.

Ian absolutely nails it.

I think the cumulative effect of the failures on economic policy (stimulus, finreg, no real HCR, missed extensions to unemployment, etc.) did them in on that front, because in the end there was really nothing positive in all that the average voter could look at and say to himself that things could get better. As I wrote in a comment at Cenk’s article today, it’s the complete lack of real hope they gave us that’s the killer. FDR didn’t survive because he made the economy slightly better 1932-36. He survived because people could see that things might continue to get better. I doubt there are many people in America who think that right now.

Congrats on your Giants winning the World Series from a NYCer.

and from a former Cub fan who gave up on those guys back in 2004 (I used to live in Chicago).

Well, there are no guarantees. ;) But yes, barring something completely out of the blue, that would pretty much guarantee he’s going to lose in 2012.

Yes, failures, and also – as I believe Cenk pointed out – the palpable sense that we’re not the ones he’s working for.

I would add Obama’s dismal repsonse to the oil spill. It took him 35 days before he finally got “mad” about it.

I hope we are witnessing the end of the CLINTON MACHINE, I know we are. bye bye Clinton Machine

How long have you been a pie-eyed optimist?
The Clinton machine is comfortably in place. After all, Bill dealt with the lemons of a 1994 Republican takeover and turned it into the lemonade of a 1996 re-election. And now Clinton is the most popular president.

Obama is studying the Clinton playbook.

Bob in AZ

Congrats to the Giants. I think you’ll be seeing them again in the post season in the next few years.

It took him 35 days before he finally got “mad” about it.

He was so mad he put the Coast Guard at BP’s disposal.

No kidding, Rahm drove the whole WH under the buss.

That was pretty awful, but probably survivable if he hadn’t fucked everything else up in every way imaginable. Plus it didn’t really seem to have much effect on Congress’s image.

CA polls close in 2 mikes. Wanna bet they’ll have immediate projections on 19?

The MSM and their corporate masters are deathly afraid of Democratic populism, and have done their best to stigmatize it as “evil”.

Yeah, I also wrote in “Medicare for All” on two of our national races. I couldn’t bring myself to vote for the corporate pigs! Hopefully someone will pay attention, but I doubt it!

Yup, the oil spill was just a chapter in Obama’s long case history of ineptitude.

That sense is part of the reason for that lack of hope, but I think the main thing, at least from the perspective of someone who is about as far from DC as you can get in the Continental US, is that you just can’t see any signs of things picking up. There was the extra highway construction for a while, but now that’s starting to disappear, too, and there’s nothing much else going on.

It’s like the entire US is Cleveland now.

Tell us about it. The Democrats gladly torpedo their own candidates just to prevent the left from taking over the party.

Feingold and Grayson are two of the biggest losses, in my book. I hope both can step up to better post-Congress careers. But to balance those, we have losses by Christine O’Donnell in Delaware, Tancredo in CO, the Paladino “I’ll take you out” for Gov. in NY, the WWE lady in Connecticut,…

Bob in AZ

The “we can’t pass *anything* without 60 votes!” Senate gridlock/helplessness has a lot to do with that too. I also think most people don’t really buy it, and remember that Dubya did pretty much whatever he wanted, with a much smaller majority.

(“Were you incompetent then, or are you incompetent now? Or both?”)

Yes, I think that didn’t help, but it will probably be a relatively local issue for folks who live near the Gulf. You don’t hear very much about BP up here in the NW. The economy sucking, and the Democrats not doing much of anything useful about it is something you hear rather a lot.

There was the extra highway construction for a while, but now that’s starting to disappear, too, and there’s nothing much else going on.

Misery is always shovel-ready.

Clinton had a much better economy to deal with in 1994

The Clinton idea about attacking the base of democratic party, and not having to worry about bas results is pretty much over. Ask Blanche Lincoln

Obama has a huge problem 10% un-employment, and a 24 hour news cycle, that is not all under the control of the corporate media.

How many people like NAFTA? not many! Clinton gave us NAFTA

“The Clinton Plan to Stay in Power”

2008 Republicans had no chance of winning, so the corporate party created a TROJAN HORSE named Obama to keep a real progressive out of the White House. (Obama would talk like a progressive, but the Corporate Bosses knew he would govern like Bush)

2008-2010 Obama, the corporate dems and republicans would do everything in their power to wreck the Democratic Party. To get the GOP back in power in Bush, would take work, and Obama has prove his Corporate Bosses right again, Obama attack every part of the Democratic Party Base.

2010 MID TERMS, are here and as Plan Obama has delivered the USA back to the GOP. (The corporate media is already telling the ignorant americans that Obama will have to govern from the center right? WOW!!! The corporate media views the american people as complete morons, only ignorant americans would believe Obama has been governing like progressive.

2010-2012 Obama like Clinton (Clinton gave the USA NAFTA, Obama gave the USA the Bob Dole Health Care Bill) Obama will pull a Clinton, and say he is force to work with the republicans. When every intelligent american knows Obama is a republican and has always been a republican. (Obama knew, that no black republican could ever get elected, ask Colin Powell.)

2012 Obama will not get re-elected as president. In 2012 the corporate Bosses know that a republican will win. (Obama will attack the base of the democratic party, with vengency the next 20 months, to make sure that he loses in 2012)

What one must understand is that an average Democratic President could have destroyed the GOP and kept the Democrats in power for years. A rational Democratic President would have made Job 1, Job 2, and Job 3 fixing the economy, and expanded the base of his party, Just like FDR done.

Exactly. Of course, the truth is that the GOP has had somewhat better party discipline, but the Dems shouldn’t have needed much party discipline to get major legislation through the Senate with 59 or 60 votes. The majority party controls the schedule. Nothing gets done without the Majority Leader’s sayso.

Even if people don’t know that, they know things worked when the GOP was in power, and they don’t work now. Without either a clear demonstration of why things can’t work now, or at least some success, they aren’t likely to accept excuses. And that’s mostly reasonable.

Yes, there were several races this year where exactly that happened, not just AR and PA. Obama refused to endorse the Democratic candidate for governor in RI, for reasons I still haven’t read of him explaining.

Talk about flushing money down the toilet.

I would agree with that, but the incident was indictative of Obama’s ineffectualness and timidity.

Whats troubling about Republicans sweeping Dems out of office is this:
Republicans have no interest in solving problems, they’re only interested in power. It shouldn’t matter who is in there, as long as they can work on issues that are beyond left/right, and these days, is that even possible? This is a natural evolution for the Obama presidency as far as I’m concerned, from tomorrow on out he’s Clinton 2.0

Thanks FDL for losing some very good progressives!

wtf?

Misery is always shovel-ready.

And willing to work cheap (Mark Adams wrote that in July, for crying out loud). You’d think they’d at least enjoy the irony.

For anyone who was paying attention, it was a telling process.

Are you happy now!

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Bush never said “I need 60 votes to get anything done”. He pretty much got his way on just about everything.

The irony that our best solar power firms have to scratch out work in China instead of getting more stimulus funds.

Some great prog rock to break up the tension here…

The Three Fates by Emerson, Lake, and Palmer…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkaZ64fRZao

Yes, it was FDL’s fault that the Democrats did nothing but screw their own base, and then called them idiots for not wanting to get out and work for them again. You’d think that at some point they’d have caught onto our clever plan of weakening their base to the point where those who weren’t in despair were too busy trying to live in this economy to be any help, but they never did.

And now, the world is ours…

Exactly, and I think most people remember. I sure as hell do.

There’s so much that could have been done with just part of the money we’ve wasted in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Pentagon these last couple of years.

The process was amazingly corrupt. Many progressive pundits and blogs discredited themselves by looking the other way, or downplaying, all the awful deals that took place.

I remember when pundits like Ezra Klein, Matthew Yglesias, and Igor Volsky argued that transparency was overrated. Yglesias made this nauseating argument:

The fact of the matter is that if Barack Obama had never promised a more open legislative process, he would have won the election anyway.

What dishonest, disgusting bullshit. A promise is about trust – you can’t break it retroactively by discussing counterfactuals and alternative realities where you never made the promise. Conjuring up alternative scenarios that didn’t happen to justify bad behavior is mendacious and obnoxious. The HCR debate made it crystal clear that many progressive pundits had vastly different values than I had.

Another irony: that million saved by rich Republicans thanks to Democratic tax cuts were used to fund these successful campaigns against Democrats.

this is not the republican party of 1962

the republican party of 2010, is going to implode

DC republicans vs tea party republicans is going be fun to watch!

Wall Street republicans like the corporate parties in DC, these Tea Party republicans are not on the plantation and never will be.

The other problem is every progressive with a microphone will be putting these tea party candidate on You Tube!!!

also keep in mind 47% of democrats don’t like OBAMA

Intelligent republicans don’t like what is happening tonite, because this depression is going to be their property real soon!

Obama and the phony dems did not do what they should have, the tea party will be a great help in destroying the GOP.

look at the tea party followers, these people think, their leaders are going to bring all the jobs back from CHINA, this is not going to happen

most economist have stated the USA economy probably want recover before 2012

Obama and the DNC/DLC think that we don’t remember, and that we’re stupid.

They kept giving us that same “60 vote” crap for the last 2 years.

There’s so much that could have been done with just part of the money we’ve wasted in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Pentagon these last couple of years.

Just the fuel costs, at $400/gallon, just that would have been probably been enough to hire a hundred thousand workers for a year.

Can the house refuse to raise the debt ceiling? This will be interesting. They can’t fund the war without raising the debt ceiling.

All part of our clever plan. Now, let’s get the Republicans to spend the next two years investigating whether Barack Obama was really born in Hawaii, and whether it was actually a state back then.

The GOP won’t need 60 votes do steer Congress. Indeed, they haven’t so far.

There was a sign at the Stewart rally that read “Birthers for Hawaii Statehood”. Your post reminded me of that.

“Entitlements” and Dept of Education can always be tapped to keep the bullets flowing.

GOP steered Congress with 41 votes in the Senate.

Yeah, maybe Don Ho was his first al Qaeda contact.

Those guys were among the reasons I wrote this. The process was one I found dispiriting, because so few people called it for what it really was. The financial institutions have gobs of money to throw at things like this, and that seems to buy a lot of, umm, consideration, for their point of view.

Didn’t Nate Silver get hired by the Times after being a good little blue dog?

Unfortunately, the 60 vote lie is effective with apologists and partisans, who then defend the Democrats’ mendacity by parroting the lie so that it becomes conventional wisdom with the chattering class.

What should make you Furious at OBAMA!

is the money that killing democrats tonite, came from TARP!!!

Obama the trojan horse, stab a lot of Dems in the back, along with his friend Bush.

The Banks are using tax payer money, to hurt tax payers, only in THE USA.

This is why, you need to elect real DEMOCRATS, not trojan horses like OBAMA

Has any Democrat ran a commercial saying I voted for OBAMACARE!!! and I am proud of it? NO

He was hired by the NYT, but the Pollster folks were hired by HuffPo. Pick your poison, I suppose. Now, it’s hard to find archived articles for either group.

I can’t speak for why the NYT hired Nate – I wasn’t aware it happened until it happened, and never looked into why. My suspicions are the same as yours, though.

Yes, those are valid points, and I’m furious at him, too. Here’s a recent sample on that front.

Never underestimate my abilities to be simultaneously honked off at a whole lot of people.

You quoted him in your article going over the top against Democrats who dared oppose HCR in its final, pathetic form. I think it was shortly thereafter he got the Times gig. He was nasty and vitriolic in addition to lying about how much profit health insurers make.

I see it as his Mister Miyagi training for life in the Village. Sand floor, paint house.

John Bonehead is on the toob. Started out reasonable, but predictably trotting out all the Republican sound bites.

Bob in AZ

Has any Democrat ran a commercial saying I voted for OBAMACARE!!! and I am proud of it? NO

Actually, I believe I read a comment somewhere at FDL today saying that Russ Feingold had done something like that. It doesn’t seem to have worked out well for him, though.

Stupid f’ing short term memory Americans. Stupid, stupid people.

Thanks – had to vent

If that’s true then you can kiss this country goodbye.

By 2014 it will be dead.

So where are you moving to.

He’s become a Villager in his outlook, I think.

Bonehead is choking up about chasing the American Dream. Geez, he’s really choking up.

Bob in AZ

Is his mascara running?

YOU LIKE US! YOU REALLY, REALLY LIKE US!!!

He does that a lot. I think sometimes that he could have been a stage actor, if there was any money in that.

Boner: I have checks from ph-ph Philip Morris and RJ Reynolds for all of you!

The talking heads are probably using the word “historic” every, what, two seconds? Curious George has a gleam in his eye no doubt…

Where is Rahmy when you need him?

Good article. During the debate, I also noticed a class division; supporters from elite schools looked down their nose at the rabble who dared to question their judgment. Opponents, however, knew what it was like to struggle financially, and knew that benevolent angels of regulation did not save you from the predatory practices of big corporations.

I think liberalism is contaminated by too much influence from academia, where people exist as data in statistical models and public policy is the province of enlightened academics who see the world like a 5-year-old sees a train set. We are suppose to be the pieces they manipulate for their intellectual amusement, not live human beings who make noise and get angry and muddy their statistical models with the dirty grit of reality.

Thanks. Yes, it became really evident during this debate that there were liberals who didn’t have to worry about spending a few extra bucks on something useless, and liberals who did. The divide between them was rather stark at times.

“We are da stupid and we don’t remember.”

I wonder how many Dems choose not to vote for Gore for some stupid reason. Was it worth it. Two prolonged wars and the country going bankrupt.

These arguments we have with Obama can be had if you don’t let the crazy people sit at the table.

The Republicans have a seat now. They did everything in their power under Bush to destroy our country.

This is the same party that did not have a problem wasting 3 trillion on lies to invade, destroy and rebuild Iraq for Muslims which they hate. If you didn’t buy the lies and propaganda to bankrupt our country they called you a traitor.

We are up against people that so love America they fought against Obama spending 1/3 of the Iraq war on America. They didn’t want any of the stimulus passed. Just tax cuts.

3 trillion for Iraq. No problem.

1/3 of the cost for Iraq to jump tart our economy after Republican policies ruined us.

HEEEELLLLLL NOOOOOOOOO

We as Democrats can discuss how the stimulus was spent. Was it big enough.

We are fighting against a party who calls the President a Socialist, Marxist, Muslim, Fascist for wanting to spend American dollars on Americans. They constantly say the stimulus didn’t work while they are giving out big card board stimulus checks.

You have a choice. A country run by people you disagree with on certain issues or letting the people who want to burn the country down run it.

We as Dems should never allow the arsonists Republicans to have control.

Let’s say you have a brother and you tell him to not mess with the crazy guys girl down the street. He does it anyway.

When the crazy guy comes down the street to kill your brother and burn your house down what are you going to do.

Sit on the side and tell him I told you so while he kills your brother and burns your house down.

Or will you go beat the hell out of the crazy dude and then have the argument with your brother about, “I told you so.”

Well the Dems tonight choose to sit on the side while the crazy Republicans just got in the house.

To burn it down.

The Dems in Congress are cowards and so are their supporters who did not vote.

Telling Obama, “I told You So” won’t matter if you don’t have a country.

You get what you deserve.

The only people the elites fear in the USA are the liberals

but it is deeper,

the USA middle class is being destroyed by a few rich people, who think they can make the entire world a modern day plantation. (this will fail badly, the rest of world does not have tea parties)

Liberals usually end up attacking the wrong enemy!

the enemies of liberals don’t just live in DC, a lot of liberal enemies live in new york and work on wall street.

progressives and liberals are going to have to start attacking their enemies in New York!

Obama is really a Joke, if Obama wanted to be a great USA president he could have done so, but he didn’t.

I think liberalism is contaminated by too much influence from academia

Lots of cross contamination among the elites. Ben Bernanke hired Paul Krugman at Princeton, Harvard is one of the biggest donors to Obama we guess using what’s left of the endowment Summers trashed while there only to see Summers join Obama, etc. etc.

you really are making a silly arguement

did the GOP make Obama keep fighing the Bush wars?NO
did the GOP make Obama keep spying on americans?No
did the GOP make Obama bail out wall street and ignore main street and the middle class? No

you probably did not get the memo

Obama = Bush

Most intelligent Democrats and Republicans know the USA govt has been hijack by the corporate elite.

you should be FURIOUS at OBAMA, you do know the TARP money that Obama got Dems to endorse and vote for, is being used to end Democratic political careers

For Your Information! Obama really doesn’t care about the professional left, and now the feelings are mutual

The Dems in Congress are cowards and so are their supporters who did not vote.

As one of those cowards, let me just say that you’re useless unless you had a plan that would have worked better than taking power away from these people so they wouldn’t continue to use it against us. When you do, maybe you have some business calling me a coward.

Meanwhile, I’d say the person who is the coward is the one quaking in his shoes about the coming Republican menace. Whatever it is, we’ll just have to deal with it, because quite frankly, they were going to be here in 2012 anyway if the Democrats had continued as they are. At some point, the Democrats’ continued malfeasance would have caught up with them.

So I say deal with the problem now when it’s still a problem. But you just go on calling people names who’ve thought this through why don’t you?

Iron their shits?

Surely a misspelling. Or not. ;)