Rocky Conlin’s defeat sucked too. I don’t really understand the affection my fellow Iowans have for Grassley, though I guess the judge thing indicates the voters were older, since the polls showed most favored retention. That means young people just didn’t bother.

Ohio is up for redistricting, and it was so important to retain all the Democrats that would control that…well, they’re all gone.

OT: I heard Jonathan Alter say tonight on MSNBC that Obama accomplished almost his entire agenda for his first two years. Hmmmmm. The country is in shambles, Obama accomplished almost nothing of his promises I voted for. What was his agenda? To have a nice lawn?

I guess we have to learn to distinguish between “voters” and “likely voters.” I’ve learned something today.

No, you didn’t spell it right nor did you spell it correctly; it’s Reid, not Reed.

But hell, we showed ‘em didn’t we? That damn Obama didn’t fulfill wigwam’s expectations and that means the end of Earth.

What other conclusion can be drawn? Being elected President means a free hand, an un-interrupted pen and a pulpit so bully you can legislate whatever you please. Damn Obama and his promises!

Although I wonder just how bad it would have been if the White House didn’t do what White Houses always do and pretty much sit around and watch their Party lose, to preserve their precious Cult of the Leader? Changey.

Obama did campaign for Perriello, Feingold, Carnahan, Giannoulias, and Fisher. They all lost. Flashback to January:

But, [Rep. Marion Berry] told the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, the White House does not share his concerns [about a repeat of 1994 losses].

“They just don’t seem to give it any credibility at all,” Berry said. “They just kept telling us how good it was going to be. The president himself, when that was brought up in one group, said, ‘Well, the big difference here and in ’94 was you’ve got me.’”

Nowadays, Obama’s smug arrogance just doesn’t win many votes.

Talking about redefining up as down. During the election, Obama opposed both a tax on health insurance and a mandate. He campaigned for a public option and prescription drug imports. He also promised no secret deals with groups like PhRMA.

Barack Obama. The “O” stands for “Opposite”.

Obama and the Blue Dogs are the best thinng to happen to the Republican party since Reagan. Now they’re ecstatic, because the real “bipartisanship” can kick in.

According to Arianna, Tim Kaine is already pushing the idea of extending all of Bush’s tax cuts – even for the wealthy – to demonstrate that Obama is willing to work with for the Republicans.

“Imagine how bad it would be if so many GOP candidates were not so extreme.”

They don’t come much more extreme, crazy, or dangerous than Rand Paul. His victory speech sounded truly deranged.

It’s already a done deal, imho.

MY state, NH, went back to being in the grip of the goopers….no surprise really. My critter voted for the InsurPharma bill when she said she would not without a PO and pissed off a lot of people.

From what I can see a boat load of people went to the polls to vote against the Appeaser knowing full well that it would mean a goop take over but not really caring as it is all the same shit anyway and a boat load of people stayed away disgusted with the promises and prevarication of the administration.

So now we get two years of orange subpoenas and the corporations march on.

A leader in the white house, more like a loser.

Damn good actor ,like raygun , his political idol.

Of course it’s been reported how the republican electronic voting machines worked as predicted. No more messy recounts like 2000.

Some time ago I realized that Obama was a campaign liability in most areas. I think he definitely cost Corzine votes, altho Putz Corzine would have fucked up all by himself, in any case. But Obama’s campaign appearance was not helpful; the man sets peoples’ teeth on edge.

Did you get a load of O’Donell’s jeremiad at Chris Coons? The woman doesn’t have a gracious bone in her body. Ill-mannered jerk.

We forget that Rand Paul is but one of many loonies in office. He’s the one who’s visible. There are more hidden in the congressional woodwork we haven’t seen. You know what they say about seeing one cockroach.

By the time the Republicans are through with Obama he’s going to have as much influence as a lawn jockey.

Will Tim Kaine fall on his sword? Great plan.

Obama can stop bailing and steer the ship into the 2nd iceberg, it would be the bipartisan thing to do.

They were able to administer CPR to the Republican Party and it worked.

But he sure does look determined with those sleeves rolled up doesn’t he?

yes, and Kentucky isn’t a likely dem state anyway.

Just watched it. I am rather disappointed that we will not see her in the Senate she could have brought grace, civility and and elegant speechmaking back to the Senate chamber. She and Paul could have had marvelous colloquies. Shame but there we go, another chance to lift the Senate out of their lethargy lost.

In a bipartisan move Obama to dump Geithner and appoint Henry Paulson or better yet, Grover Norquist.

Good morning, pups. It’s Dowd and Friedman today. In “Republican Party Time” MoDo tells us a Speaker-to-be explains why no one gets to take America away from Americans. She must have stayed up very late last night. The Moustache of Wisdom is in New Delhi. In “Do Believe the Hype” he says on a visit to India he saw how one start-up is helping people move their bank branch from the mattress to the cellphone.

Here they are.

The coffee and tea are ready, and I’ve got a variety of bagels with cream cheese. Down here we had pretty much the worst of all possible worlds. The choices for Governor was so bad that even the Savannah Daily Disappointment took note, so of course the Republican thing won. My loathed blue dog is back, and in general life sucks. Have as good a day as possible. I’m going to drown my sorrows in more tea.

NPR reported this morning that the administration called for “bipartisanship and working toward goals we both agree on, like extending the TAX CUTS”. Grover Norquist rules America now.

Well, the Republicans have been back in charge for approximately 6 hours. Where’s my new better paying job with great benefits? Is the deficit gone yet and the budget balanced? I assume the housing bubble will be re-inflated by Christmas and all the coming tax cuts will magically upend the economy and wealth and prosperity are going to fall from Wall Street like rain on everyone who is white, Christian, and over 50, right?

America, it was a helluva ride. Sorry to see you go dear.

Here’s what happens when you run as a true progressive. Peter DeFazio in a rural “conservative” district in Orgegon defeated a teabagger crackpot who was well funded by a billionaire hedge fund manager 53.5% to 44.6%.

good now the campaign to get rid of Obama officially starts!

He would be a great primary challenger!

Let them crash the whole thing sooner than later. It’s where we’re heading anyway. Let’s get on with it and get to American Revolution 2.0. Now way can this economic model work… D’s or R’s at the con. We’ll pass through slavery again and return right to the time of the pissed of people needing to through out the oppressive SOBs.

This should be interesting.

It’s one thing to lose to an organized, determined Republican Party at the top of its game.

It’s another thing to singlehandedly revive a bloodied and defeated GOP, somehow make them even crazier, and then put them back in office before they even know what hit them. This is change no one could have imagined.

Buck Obama!

Given the rarity of female Congresscritters up for reelection this year, I guess you mean Carol:

- who two months after taking office in 2006 reneged on her pledge not to vote for any supplemental war funding that lacked a time-table for withdrawal

- who for her full four years in office never lifted a finger to support Medicare for All, despite having campaigned on it in 2006 and having it listed on her Web site as her preference for that entire time.

I didn’t know that she had said she’d refuse to vote for health-care ‘reform’ that lacked a PO (I’m pretty sure that she wasn’t one of the CPC members who made that pledge in writing – and then broke it, every single one of them), but you can probably guess that her reneging on this does not surprise me.

But this does highlight the fact that you really can’t just blame this all on Obama: he had a LOT of accomplices in tearing down the party in just two years. Pelosi was the one strong-arming her House flock into the kinds of treachery they indulged in (but of course they, like Carol herself, all bear responsibility as well for allowing themselves to be herded like helpless sheep: that’s certainly NOT what we elected them to be). Reid was no Horatius at the bridge either – as became so evident at the end of the health-care fiasco when he helped keep a resurgent PO off the reconciliation table (where it would have required only 50 votes to pass, plus Biden’s).

This was not just Obama, not just the Blue Dogs, not just fully-owned corporate subsidiaries like Baucus: this was the entire national Democratic establishment working together, and I’m sorry that we didn’t see far more of them kicked out yesterday.

However, I’m also sorry that they took so many far worthier state and local Democrats with them. Our 8 district reps broke 6 D and 2 R until yesterday, when the count became 0 and 8. Yes: two years ago the two Rs just squeaked by with the fewest votes in the pack, whereas yesterday not a single D made the cut (including 4 of those who did best two years ago). Our State Senate candidate also changed from D to R. The entire Executive Council went R (though the D Governor just squeaked by, rather than winning by his usual landslide).

So while I shed no tears that both our D.C. House members bit the dust (one having left voluntarily to run for the Senate, where he lost very convincingly indeed), the fact that they took our state and local officials with them is just one more item to add to the list of political crimes at Obama & Co’s feet.

Well I don’t know about you guys, but I’m looking forward to having a new speaker replace Nancy. Who knows when she might go off on a hormone-induced crying jag out of the blue–the same fears we heard about that overly emotional woman Hillary in 2008.

Who did you say the new speaker would be, again? …Oh. Fuck.

It’s undoubtedly been proposed before, but Boner should go on Beck’s show and they can have a cry-off to determine which one is more patriotic.

There’s always the silver lining. The vast prison-construction programme that will soon be passed to house ‘libruls’ who don’t conform to the New Order is going to put a real dent in unemployment, especially important for those areas where most of the decent blue-collar jobs have been outsourced to China. Should be some opportunities in work house construction as well for the merely aged and infirm

You are correct. This was one “professional” leftie that did not vote for a ‘D’ just because. I voted for a couple of friends of mine in the local election but wrote in my spouse’s name for the other positions.

No matter what one may think of the gooper’s ideas one has to admire them for sticking to their guns the ‘D’s on the other hand are/were like bloody lambs to the slaughter following the Great Appeaser and his coterie of cash hungry co-conspirators from Wall St.

Unfortunately we haven’t heard the last of her. The crazies are smitten by her and it’s just a matter of time before the crazies control.

We are now going to see what Obama is really made of (I know a lot of you here think you already know). His Presidency is effectively over. The Republicans have neutered him, and they will not have to go through the old impeachment routine (even though Issa is foaming at the bit to do a ‘birther’ investigation). There will be no extension of the Bush tax cuts without a parallel cut in Social Security. The money market will simply not permit a one-off rise of that magnitude in the deficit. Medicare may also have to go as well, or at least a significant part of it. There is just not enough room in the rest of the non-defense budget to finance those cuts.

Obama’s Presidency is effectively over as far as domestic policy goes, apart from those elements he can control directly through executive order. He can at least stand up for the last shreds of our welfare state and be beaten next time round, or cave and be beaten. Better to go down fighting and preserve the dream, if not the reality.

Couldn’t agree more. Bring on President Palin and let the entire damn thing collapse, the sooner the better, so we can start over.

OT. Anybody know if Joe “you lie” Wilson got re-elected? He was behind when I went to bed.

Good morning all.

Something I’ve been trying to say for the last 6 months. Grayson is now also free to challenge Mr. Bipartisan.

What can anyone say, the Democrats lost because they deserved to lose. I don’t see any bright, shiny lights out there.

They had plenty of warnings on this and other sites and ignored them. At this point, gridlock is better than ineptitude.

He’s more likely to go down fighting in Iran, or Yemen or Somalia, why not all three?

Anybody see anything about turnout?

O sure duz luv him sum warz.

the voters were older, since the polls showed most favored retention. That means young people just didn’t bother.

Yep. Same in Wisconsin. There is plenty of blame to assign to the young and the “urban” who stayed home in droves. I guess they are getting the government they deserve.

There will be no “gridlock”. The Republicans have him right where they want him. Like the town drunk in old westerns the bad guys will have Obama dancing in the street to the tune of their six shooters. It’s going to be a pathetic site.

Bah!

I match your bah & raise you a humbug.

Don’t have a link but heard on NPR the GenXers in Florida stayed home. On their behalf, however, it was raining.

I have no misconceptions about obummer. I still have hi hopes that the Tea Party will gum things up. Most idiots are good at that.

I admit that, negative as my opinion was of O from the start, he managed to underperform my expectations by a considerable margin.

Those two and an additional “rats!” The only thing that would make me feel worse is if Brown had lost. And, at least having followed FDL, I’m not stunned. Imagine how other people feel this morning.

What about CA? Did Prop 19 influence the youguns turnout?

No legal pot in California.

If you all think you’re feeling bad now, wait until the trolls show up later to rub salt in wounds.

I saw that. I was asking about whether it drew out the youth vote, even though it lost.

Wouldn’t be surprised when the new Speaker of the House and Obama meet that Boehner brings a shine box as a gesture of bipartisanship. It would certainly endear him even more with the teabaggers.

Dunno. Haven’t seen an analysis yet. Our number didn’t come in until really late last night.

No doubt there’ll be a post on it at FDL later.

LA Times says exit polling showed young vote did not turn out in unusually high numbers.

I was thinking about that too. Was trying to come up with an appropriate response, ahead of time. Gonna try not to knee jerk today.

It was undoubtedly a white hair election here.

Interesting.

Perhaps because the young already indulge & are not galvanized by whether it’s legal or not? Unlike us middle-aged & seniors who still have the quaint notion that laws matter?

My spouse just informed me that the WH troll in chief is going to bless us with his bipartisan knowledge later today. Gosh I am all a tither just waiting….I can feel a tingling in my leg.

Unlike us middle-aged & seniors who still have the quaint notion that laws matter?

Well some of them anyway. Most people I know grow there own and have done for decades.

Michael Moore is commentator on democracynow.

Damn this bloody “edit” non-system. I meant THEIR not THERE

Could be. Those who already do, already have. It doesn’t affect this household. Because of the medical mj cards, apparently it’s already accessible to those who want it.

Does it have flowers for your bees? Do they fly a crooked line after visiting the plants?

But, they do get a good buzz going. :)

Nothing like a honey high

When I heard that the Iowa justices were taking the “high” road and not camapaigning I knew they were toast. Now they can retire with their morals intact and watch the reactionaries take over. Christ.

well, when Alito does go to the State of the Union he can thank our Senatorial leader for naming him as his favorite Supreme court justice of all time. I know it is hard to believe, but I did hear it on c-span.

And Christ…U’re right.

Just for one day, though, I am doing my schadenfreuda dance and doing the Woody Woodpecker laugh at entitlement Queen NutMeg, who went down like a submarine!!! WOOT! I saw a post last night from a “regular” firepup saying they hated to be so firmly against female candidates, but that poster was so happy to see E-Meg and offshore-jobs Fiorina get kicked squarely in the seat of their pants. Big LOSERS!

Cue the Woody Woodpecker laugh… I’m enjoying this for one day. Then back to the trenches.