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Pouting Baby is happy the Tea Partiers lost! (photo courtesy of Jim White)
Pouting Baby is talking to us again. –JW
I’m not pouting today! I’m happy because the mean Tea Party people lost most of their elections. I saw this article yesterday morning that told me less than a third of them won:
For all the talk of the Tea Party’s strength – and there will certainly be a significant number of their candidates in Congress – just 32% of all Tea Party candidates who ran for Congress won and 61.4% lost this election. A few races remain too close to call.
In the Senate, 10 candidates backed by the Tea Party ran and at least five were successful. (Race in Alaska has not yet been called.)
In the House, 130 Tea Party-backed candidates ran, and just 40 so far have won
And then Mr. DDay told me that the Progressive Caucus (that’s the nice group!) is going to get bigger this year:
Democrats picked up three seats from Republicans, making good on some prior anomalies and realigning correctly. Colleen Hanabusa (HI-01), Cedric Richmond (LA-02) and John Carney (DE-AL) all won. Of those, I would say Hanabusa and Richmond will join the Progressive Caucus. In AL-07, Terri Sewell replaced Artur Davis. She’s a lot more progressive than he ever was, and she will likely join the caucus. David Cicilline (RI-01), the replacement for Patrick Kennedy and another openly gay member of Congress, is likely to join (Patrick Kennedy never did). The race that a progressive lost in a primary, Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (MI-13), was over ethical issues, and she’ll be replaced by Hansen Clarke, likely to join the caucus.
What’s likely, then, is an increase in the ranks of the Progressive Caucus numbers.
Later, Miss Rachel explained to us about the Tea Partiers who did win. I don’t think these old people are going to change anything:
Remember, too that our side had 215,000 in its rally on the mall and they only got 87,000. I’m so happy I might even smile.
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Hey, Jim.
Pouting Baby needs to re-evaluate his premises.
pouting baby!
Hi Suze!
Why would that be?
Jim!
Even with the big Republican wins, it was not really a good year for conservatives. In addition to the teabagger losses, the Bluedogs took a heavy hit and over 2/3 of the Dems who voted against healthcare reform lost. The House Progressive Caucus is now the largest ideological caucus among House Dems.
Hey Suz. Thanks so much for forwarding that article from Margot. I hope she turns up tonight so I can thank her myself.
Hey, Doc.
Even more reason for Pouting Baby to think about smiling.
Because we’ve got too many of those batshit crazies in both houses of Congress.
was my pleasure :)
Maybe Pouting Baby can share a few diapers until we get those messes cleaned up.
:)
I am delighted to see the thinning of the Conservadem herd. Sadly, the politicos will see this as proof that they need to move to the right. we are ruled by idiots.
I guess what we have to hope is that McConnell is serious about playing the obstruction game, and that the electorate is smart enough to recognize who’s responsible.
Boehner is beginning to look to me like the dog that caught the UPS truck. “Oh, shit, I caught teh evil truck. NOW what do I do?”
Pouting Baby! (pauses to adjust drooping diaper)
Heh. I’ve been saying all week I live in a state full of idiots.
Buck up on that diaper!
Think I’m gonna have to apply some duct tape…
O’Bama is already talking that way. “Sure, let’s extend the Bush tax cuts for two years.” What an insane idea. Not even all the people with incomes that would be affected favor that.
Part of that will depend on the Dems being smart enough to constantly holler about GOP obstructionism. Saw another poll over at Aravosis’s place today showing that most independents and Democrats want an additional stimulus, so we have a perfect opportunity to crucify them,but I doubt Obama or the Congressional Dems will be able to make it work.
Oh, my. Elon James White just tweeted his post on Alvin Greene’s concession speech.
Me, too. The Republicans just retook both house of the Leg here in Montana. It is going to be a long, cold two years up here.
Look at the successive vote counts of national third party candidates: they start out at the high water mark and it’s down from there if they run again. Pat Buchanan has made a career on what’s left of his three runs at the presidency, but his candidacy days are long over.
As somebody else said somewhere earlier today, we ought to play chicken with them on extending the middle class cuts or letting them all expire. It is a win/win for the Dems and the Rethugs are fucked whatever they do. Sadly neither Obama nor the Democratic leadership in Congress is smart enough or has the balss for that (except maybe Pelosi).
I think another stim would be a good idea. Or a more-permanent revenue sharing with the states might put McConnell betwixt a rock and a hard place.
Pouting Baby, have you heard of this thing called the Bad Word Square?
If only Pat’s TV days were over, too.
I’d love to see a really huge stimulus that is 100% infrastructure based. I can’t believe nobody had the intelligence and the nerve to run on that this cycle.
@PoutingBaby tweeted a couple of days ago to silly @ShitSquare that everybody knows poop is round.
I think it would be a good idea, too. It’s not like the two 2.5% aren’t getting an extension on the tax cut, but the biggest budget buster chunk is (and has to be) gone.
The teahaddis have to figure out that taxes must go up if they are to address the deficit. It can’t be done with discretionary spending if SS, Medicare and the five-sided foxhole are all off-limits.
Seriously ROTFLMAO!
What we need is a jobs and aid to the states bill. No more money to the banks.
Forget Rachel Maddow….we need to start thinking what’s our next move once Obama saddles up with the GOP to cut social security…..And it’s not like it ain’t going to happen just like the privatizing of “Public” Schools….
Maddow is distraction for what the faux Dem in the WH is planning to unleash on ordinary Americans.These are serious times, many,many families being defrauded by the WH’ treasury Dept on behalf of the banks and Maddow & Olberman pretending FORECLOSURE FRAUD is on some other Continent……The TV-ers like the politicians seems averse to reality.
Just sayin folks…..
The only way we are ever going to get control of the budget mess is to gut the obscenely bloated defense budget.
Neither party can govern for shit but all the capable political strategists appear to be on the Republican side. Of course, being completely amoral and ruthless helps.
It is such a rudimentary concept, in the presence of a Dem majority or White House, Republicans will obstruct implementation of the Dem agenda, meanwhile the Dems scratch their heads and ask, “Uh, why are they being so mean?”
Amen.
You’re correct and it will never happen. That sacred cow has permanent right of way.
Obvious disdain for some of MSNBC’s more ‘professed Liberal thinkers’ aside, what’s your take on the substance of the video?
Actually, Jane has been ahead of everybody else in the Washington scene in pointing out the evils of the Catfood Commission. I doubt she is finished putting pressure on them, too.
Hey Pouting Baby, always enjoy your updates. My inner Pouting Baby is still pouting its ass off over prop 19, must say.
This fucking fascism against a plant has gone on for my entire life, will it still be here when our baby selves are old?
We can dream, though.
Sad, but true. It is ultimately going to do to us what it did to the Soviet Union. The Rethugs can blather on all they want about the fearless St. Ronnie Raygunz, but it was devoting to large a portion of GDP to defense that brought down the Soviet Union, not phony posturing.
Aloha, Jim…! Good riddance to bad rubbish…! Personally, I think Ike Skelton’s demise will reap the first results, with Issa’s ascension, in a close second…! 8-(
I concluded a long time ago it is unlikely to be legal in my lifetime. Sane drug policy appears too much to wish for.
I hope you caught Michael Whitney’s post where he pointed out that Prop 19 got more votes than either Meg Whitman or Carly Fiorina.
Think about that for a moment. eMeg spent something like $140 million of her own money and wound up with fewer votes than an initiative put together on a shoestring budget and lots of volunteer work. I don’t think we will have to wait until our old age to see change on this front.
I probably would have said that a year or two ago, but I am less sure of that now. The polling data clearly show rising support. Still do not think it will happen before my grandkids graduate high school.
Aloha!
Sadly, though, there is still a lot of garbage in DC that needs to be removed.
I’ve concluded the same about the ERA for women.
Yes, it will ultimately be a major contributing factor in the collapse of the US. Some of the brighter kleptocrats at the top of the power pyramid probably realize that but of course they don’t care. Being a kleptocrat means never having to say you’re sorry.
That you may be right about, though I still hold out some hope.
Hey, Margot!
Thanks very, very much for forwarding that article via Suz.
Hi, Margot.
It just seems like there is injustice being served up everywhere we turn. Very frustrating.
It is already having that effect. The kleptocrats no longer care about countries or people (other than maybe their relatives, and I wouldn’t bet on that). They are fully globalized and immune to the impacts on any given country. In the long term, I think this will ultimately turn around to bite them in the ass, but in the long term the current crop of Kleptocrats will already be dead.
I did read that 2 out of every 3 GOP voters were Tea Party Patriots.
And that 4 out of 10 voters were Tea Party Patriots.
Not bad for first election.
I have this silly idealistic notion that equality was a fundamental premise of this country. Granted, at no time since the Constitution was drafted has it been meted out to everyone but why is it so hard at this point in time for many people to even concede that it SHOULD?
They’re banking on that. :)
Because that would require them to relinquish some of their privilege.
And even worse, why are so many people putting so much energy into denying rights for a number of groups? That’s what burns me.
Parasites don’t generally understand that killing the host is a bad idea.
Indeed. Being totally amoral sociopaths, they really do not care what happens to their descendants.
See mine at 54.
I think It’s fantastic.
Yep, they can’t enjoy life absent the smug belief they’re better than somebody.
True, and while they are truly ruthless, amoral, and obsessed with making money, I have not seen any evidence that most of them are really particularly bright.
So true.
Every day is Thanksgiving when you’re a parasite and you never have to wash the dishes.
I think it’s scapegoating, Jim. Really, I do believe that.
Authoritarians need an out-group to hold ‘responsible’ for the ‘evils’ going on around them. Small minorities are most convenient, small easily identified minorities are especially good.
What I’m waiting for:
The GOP is going to have to defend folks like Portman and Coates when the TeaBaggers come calling to purge them from the party. Scott Brown isn’t the last pol who benefited from the so-called ‘Tea party surge’, only to find himself in their sites.
I know Jane won’t give up Jim.
I am trying to alert people to the “dangers”..We don’t have a reliable ally in the WH……he would sell us out in a minute.And it seems like he is getting ready to do so again.
Their descendents will be enjoying beachfront property located in former mountain ranges… so they got that goin’ for ‘em.
Agreed. In fact, he always does the selling out up front. He did that on the Catfood Commission when he stacked it with people committed to slashing Social Security. But we’ve managed to get some attention on that and will do everything we can to raise attention once they try to start the actual cutting process.
I am actually rather enjoying watching this apparent civil war brewing between the money boys and the teabaggers in Congress. That could be our saving grace if it splits the Republican Party, which is a real possibility.
I agree with you newtonusr.
It’s going to be interesting.
Time for me to call it a night. Thanks to Pouting Baby and Jim. Splendid evening to all.
g’nite rat
Night! Think I will toddle off as well. Take care all!
Sleep tight. Thanks for dropping by.
Nighty-nite all….
Goodnight.
Me, too. Goodnight everyone and thanks for a fun discussion.
g’nite dr dick
g’nite jim
Goodnight, Jim, Dr. D.
You’re very welcome! I can’t promise that’s the last word in higher ed funding in Ohio, but it didn’t paint quite as dark a picture as I’d feared.
nite Jim!
Amen.
Well, here’s hoping that that is all it is. Mrs. Dr. BC says that Ohio public higher ed was/is way smaller than it should be for a state with a population the size of Ohio.
Not sure what the reason is, but Ohio used to have lots of industry, though. Unlike NM.
There were jobs to be had right out of high school that could support a whole family here.
I can’t work with these numbers.
We need to know what percentage of the Teabaggers ran on the Republican ticket. If it’s a high percentage (like 100%), and 32% won in a Republican year, then that’s pretty solid proof that the Teabaggers got slaughtered. Am I supposed to be making that assumption?
I guess I just don’t speak Teabagese.
Only one Tea Party candidate ran as a Democrat (he lost). All the rest ran as Republicans, so, yes, they were slaughtered relative to other Republicans.
Hey, Jim! I just love pouting baby’s analyses. He so often completely agrees with me… and at such a young age, too!
The teaparty are not our problem. Nor, the republicans in general.
All they did was fill a political vacuum the size of the Grand Canyon…with which Barack Obama gifted them.
And his “bi-partisan” dance goes on and on.
I’m happy because you people lost most of your elections.
There once was an a-hole named Grayson
Whose career he thought he could hasten
By killing the old
And being so bold
But in the mud he planted his face in.
—-So sayeth the tinman