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Poligaf episode 2010: The Empire Strikes Back
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Harry Reid, you stubborn bastard. Way to go.
The House got rocked, even more than I was expecting. And Kirk and Toomey (especially Toomey) getting into the Senate is a pretty big deal - those guys are absolute scum. But I'm savoring how the Blue Dogs got reamed, Lincoln's loss and the Reid victory.
Hopefully Nelson and Lieberman stick with the Dems - if they caucus with the GOP all hell will break loose.
One thing is for sure: with only 52 Senators, any hope for filibuster reform went out the window. Reid needed the IL and PA seats to a shot at it. Welcome to two years of pure gridlock. :lol
The House got rocked, even more than I was expecting. And Kirk and Toomey (especially Toomey) getting into the Senate is a pretty big deal - those guys are absolute scum. But I'm savoring how the Blue Dogs got reamed, Lincoln's loss and the Reid victory.
Hopefully Nelson and Lieberman stick with the Dems - if they caucus with the GOP all hell will break loose.
One thing is for sure: with only 52 Senators, any hope for filibuster reform went out the window. Reid needed the IL and PA seats to a shot at it. Welcome to two years of pure gridlock. :lol
Byakuya769
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Cooter said:
I don't think ev has ever suggested that everyone would have the same thing despite their work. However, immaturity and unwillingness to evaluate your current plight would lead you to make such generalizations. Be happy with your credit card providing you with the ability to feel like you have more than your father....
speculawyer
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BigSicily said:
Yes . . . 10% unemployment during an off-year election does that.
This is not so bad, because all that the 2 years of fury and anger and tea party shit produced was a split congress.
The right had all the momentum and ratcheted up the fear mongering to 11, and what power are they holding now? The power to stall and block? Nothing was getting done in congress anyway.
Everything in US politics is so cyclical you can set your watch by it. This fury and indignation over Obama/Dems will not last until 2012, especially with Republicans partly in control of the government now. They can't be the finger-pointing outsiders anymore, they're on the hook too.
...And as a dual resident of Massachusetts and New Jersey, I'm not really worried about much, anyway.
The right had all the momentum and ratcheted up the fear mongering to 11, and what power are they holding now? The power to stall and block? Nothing was getting done in congress anyway.
Everything in US politics is so cyclical you can set your watch by it. This fury and indignation over Obama/Dems will not last until 2012, especially with Republicans partly in control of the government now. They can't be the finger-pointing outsiders anymore, they're on the hook too.
...And as a dual resident of Massachusetts and New Jersey, I'm not really worried about much, anyway.
ErasureAcer
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Fuck. Dayton's lead is down to 34,000 votes. Ugh.
PistolGrip
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thats laughable.PhoenixDark said:
Byakuya769
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Cooter said:
riiiiiiiiight
Pristine_Condition
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AniHawk said:
:lol :lol :lol
All you need now is a Twitter feed and you can be a pollster too!
Aaron Strife
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I hope Colleen Hanabusa manages to swing HI-01 our way.Oblivion said:
Bennet's back up in Colorado, some numbers were misreported. HOPIUM? It'd be a fucking miracle to turn that and FL-GOV around this late in the game, but I'll take it.
This might actually do it for me. I would go fucking bonkers if he lost.ErasureAcer said:
DancingJesus
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GhaleonEB said:
Reid is nothing more than an incompetent whimpering coward.
FrostuTheNinja
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Same old shit, 10/20/40/60 years later...
RustyNails
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I called it. What do I get?GhaleonEB said:
Mercury Fred
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And the alternative was a mentally ill racist who refuses to ever speak to the press about any of her positions about anything.DancingJesus said:
I think it turned out OK, all things considered.
NullPointer
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Its almost hard to believe we have shit like on air, but we've fallen far indeed.-PXG- said:
I look forward to seeing the many Republican/Tea Party initiatives that will create jobs and reduce the deficit and expand liberty. I'm all fucking ears.
Byakuya769 said:
Believe what you want. Matters none to me. Can I start making broad generalizations based on nothing about you now?
Sorry about the night for you. If only you guys could have communicated your positions a little more. Then surely you'd be having a 65 seat gain tonight.
PistolGrip
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Yes many of us have and its a lot of misinformation and ridiculous.-PXG- said:
RustyNails
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Interesting remark. How do you know empty vessel's ideas won't work, without being tried?Cooter said:
ErasureAcer
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Aaron Strife said:
Apparently there was a glitch or some shit in Hennepin county in reporting numbers according to channel 5. 32,500 it's at right now. Come on Iron Range. 71% in.
PhoenixDark
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GhaleonEB said:
It's over. 2 years of nothing getting done, liberals getting upset, minorities suffering, etc. If democrats couldn't get two republicans to play ball in the senate, how the hell will they get eight?
All republicans have to do is play along on a couple issues (education perhaps) while stifling just about everything else. In 2012 Obama will get the credit or blame regardless. Game over.
This isn't 1994, and this isn't Blill Clinton.
Multnomah came in very late in '08 as well, which gave me a scare that Smith would get re-elected. Then a few hours later he got roasted. We should be fine.reilo said:
Getting a Dem in the governor's chair in Cali will help as well; having that shitburger attached to us hasn't exactly helped lately.
monchi-kun
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mj1108 said:
we/most of us get what we deserve
RustyNails
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One of my longstanding rules is that you don't, under any circumstances, put your dick in crazy.BigSicily said:
I have standards you know.
Technosteve
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Tax cuts for the top 1% do nothing to stimulate the economy. You and I have our money stashed away in savings accounts, bonds and treasuries because there are no safe areas to invest in. In general economy goes to shit, businesses clam up stop investing and hoard cash.
I don't want type out what the effects of trying to cut taxes and cut spending during a recession. And I don't want to preach Kenysian economics. So you figure out how republicans going to fix this economy based on the two things they are so fixed on.
I don't want type out what the effects of trying to cut taxes and cut spending during a recession. And I don't want to preach Kenysian economics. So you figure out how republicans going to fix this economy based on the two things they are so fixed on.
speculawyer
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GhaleonEB said:
I can never tell if Reid is an incompetent boob or a jedi jujitsu master. Healthcare was dead but the he pulled it off somehow. His candidacy was left for dead . . . and then crazy lady beats out the chicken-lady. But then he looked dead against Angle . . . and he comes back to win.
He's a mystery. The whispering boxer Mormon Democrat.
Don't discount the fact that Reid's campaign stepped into the GOP primary and helped push Sue Lowden down the tubes. He basically picked Angle as his opponent, which is why he won.Kusagari said:
His state has just about the worst unemployment in the country, it's not a traditional blue state, he's the Majority Leader which put a massive target on his back, and he STILL pulled it off.
ErasureAcer
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If Obama loses in 2012 he should run again in 2016.
PistolGrip
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Actually they said Stimulus was the cause why US failed yet failing to mention that China had much much larger Stimulus when taking GDP into account.Oblivion said:
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