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2010-11-03 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by tipper 2010-11-03 06:57|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top

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Charisma has its limits. Hope can fade. The once-soaring ascendancy of Barack Obama has come crashing down as the American people have just delivered the greatest rejection a President has received in almost 80 years.

Not since 1932, amid the tumult of the Great Depression, has the party which controlled the White House and the Congress, seen such a cascade of rejection as President Obama's Democrats, with a projected loss of 60 seats, perhaps more, in the House of Representatives by the Democrats to the resurgent Republicans.

In the Senate, the Democrats have retained control but seen their 57 to 41 majority over the Republicans slashed to a few seats.

Posted by Parabellum 2010-11-03 08:10|| 2010-11-03 08:10|| Front Page Top

#2 The 'greatest rejection' a President can receive is to lose his bid for re-election. The last time that happened was 1992.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-11-03 09:21|| 2010-11-03 09:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, it didn't here. I think Massachusetts is adding the hallucinogens to the water again.

Posted by tu3031 2010-11-03 10:04|| 2010-11-03 10:04|| Front Page Top

#4 I wonder when/if the Dims will internalize the fact that this is a bigger repudiation than Watergate? Better staff up the Suicide Hotline.

Posted by woggut 2010-11-03 10:28|| 2010-11-03 10:28|| Front Page Top

#5 tu3031: Well, it didn't here. I think Massachusetts is adding the hallucinogens to the water again.

Sadly true *sigh*. It confirms my suspicion that the Scott Brown election was a once-in-a-lifetime perfect storm event rather than a sea change in Mass~~hole~~ voters [should I cram any more metaphors into that sentence?]. It also confirms my intent and plans to move out of this benighted place ASAP.

Posted by xbalanke 2010-11-03 11:55|| 2010-11-03 11:55|| Front Page Top

#6 Nancy Pelosi led the House Democrats off a cliff. I remember her saying it took courage to pass Social Security, Medicare and ObamaCare. There is a fine line between courage and stupidity. She crossed it.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-11-03 12:06|| 2010-11-03 12:06|| Front Page Top

#7 Compare the financial situation, job losses, pension problems and labor union control in the following sets of states:

Biggest Blue 3: California, New York, Illinois
Biggest Purple 3: Pennsylvania, Ohio, Missouri
Biggest Red 3: Texas, Florida, Georgia

Notice the differences? The Big Red 3 are relatively stable financially, have moderately bad public pension woes, balanced their budgets without too many tricks, and have public employee unions firmly under control.

The Big Blue 3 do not, and each is screwed.

The Big Purple 3 (or as I prefer to call them, 'heterozygotes'), are in the middle.

Compare their state financial and political situations to the vote yesterday, and you won't need to be Michael Barone to figure out what happened, and why.

Posted by Steve White 2010-11-03 12:06|| 2010-11-03 12:06|| Front Page Top

#8 Local California newspaper, Contra Costa Times, gleefully displays this headline:

Red tide hits Blue wall

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2010-11-03 12:35|| 2010-11-03 12:35|| Front Page Top

#9 Well, California will have to go through some interesting times before they will change. Addicts have to hit bottom before they have their moment of clarity and CA hasn't hit bottom yet.

(Why did I move here again? Oh yeah, more money :P )

Posted by DarthVader 2010-11-03 12:57|| 2010-11-03 12:57|| Front Page Top

#10 I wonder when/if the Dims will internalize the fact that this is a bigger repudiation than Watergate?

They are most definitely not there yet. They still think it's a matter of explaining better and voter hysteria, not that the zeitgeist has moved on and left (heh) them behind. They don't understand that we do understand, and do not want, what they forced through.

They really don't grasp the power of self-organizing groups, despite having done some self-organizing of their own (Kos Kiddies, etc.). They don't realize that we (as a group, I mean, not me personally) read the Health Care Reform bill, applied our various expertises to translate the language, and rejected the result... even as it became clear they hadn't read it themselves. They don't realize that we tracked down the recipients of the Stimulus Plan and discovered that entirely too many of them don't exist, others are incapable of delivering what was promised, and the remaining have been multiply-billed to fudge the statistics. That, my dears, is the difference between educated and merely credentialed.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-11-03 17:59|| 2010-11-03 17:59|| Front Page Top

#11 "Oh yeah, more money"

Not for long, now that the tax-'em-to-death Dims are fully in charge, Darth. :-(

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-11-03 19:25|| 2010-11-03 19:25|| Front Page Top

#12

Can you hear us now???

Posted by wr 2010-11-03 19:28|| 2010-11-03 19:28|| Front Page Top

#13 (Why did I move here again? Oh yeah, more money :P )

Well, that's exactly WHY CA is sucking wind. Toke up and enjoy.

Posted by pan 2010-11-03 20:42|| 2010-11-03 20:42|| Front Page Top

#14 Fortunately, I pay CO taxes and am only renting. And no toking for me. Uncle Sam takes a dim view of that.

Posted by DarthVader 2010-11-03 22:00|| 2010-11-03 22:00|| Front Page Top

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