Wow! what a statement American made last night.....and they did it with class....
We now have:
The youngest woman ever elected to Congress (http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/insiders-outsider_794964.html#) - Elise Stefanik, 30 - a REPUBLICAN.
The first Hispanic Congressman elected from West Virginia (http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2014/10/28/west-virginia-least-hispanic-state-in-us-could-elect-its-first-latino-to/) - Alex Mooney - a REPUBLICAN.
The first openly gay non-incumbent Republican Congressman - Carl DeMaio
The first REPUBLICAN black woman elected to congress - Mia Love
The Republicans GAINED 7, and possibly 8 or 9 Senate seats.....
The REPUBLICANS gained the most seats in the HOUSE ever won by the party since the 1928 election (http://history.house.gov/Institution/Party-Divisions/Party-Divisions/#foot1) with a gain of 14 to 18.
and they (the REPUBLICANS) gained 6 more Governors....
All in all, a great night for REPUBLICANS.... :yes:
WTF? I expected gas to be under $2.00 a gallon, ISIS to have disbanded in fear and ebola to have been cured by the time I woke up this morning?
Quote from: Henry Hawk on November 05, 2014, 08:47:15 AM
Wow! what a statement American made last night.....and they did it with class....
We now have:
The youngest woman ever elected to Congress (http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/insiders-outsider_794964.html#) - Elise Stefanik, 30 - a REPUBLICAN.
The first Hispanic Congressman elected from West Virginia (http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2014/10/28/west-virginia-least-hispanic-state-in-us-could-elect-its-first-latino-to/) - Alex Mooney - a REPUBLICAN.
The first openly gay non-incumbent Republican Congressman - Carl DeMaio
The first REPUBLICAN black woman elected to congress - Mia Love
The Republicans GAINED 7, and possibly 8 or 9 Senate seats.....
The REPUBLICANS gained the most seats in the HOUSE ever won by the party since the 1928 election (http://history.house.gov/Institution/Party-Divisions/Party-Divisions/#foot1) with a gain of 14 to 18.
and they (the REPUBLICANS) gained 6 more Governors....
All in all, a great night for REPUBLICANS.... :yes:
Well, so much for the Republicans are bigoted, racist, woman haters rhetoric huh?
Quote from: me on November 05, 2014, 09:35:15 AM
Well, so much for the Republicans are bigoted, racist, woman haters rhetoric huh?
Uh, this proves nothing.
Quote from: Exterminator on November 05, 2014, 09:47:39 AM
Uh, this proves nothing.
Of course it doesn't. The following is a good piece and sums up pretty much what happened. No, the American people aren't smarter. If this demonstrates anything, it's that they're dumb and gullible.
How Republicans Conned The American People Into Giving Them Control Of The Senate
The lazy explanation from the media and political chattering classes is that Democrats lost their Senate majority because of Barack Obama. The truth is that the Senate Republicans ran a years long con on the American people that resulted in the GOP's election win.
Republicans originally had a plan to obstruct everything that President Obama attempted in order to make him a one-term president.
Here is what Sen. Mitch McConnell told National Journal in 2010,
McConnell: We need to be honest with the public. This election is about them, not us. And we need to treat this election as the first step in retaking the government. We need to say to everyone on Election Day, "Those of you who helped make this a good day; you need to go out and help us finish the job."
National Journal: What's the job?
McConnell: The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.
It was the last sentence about making Obama a one-term president that got all of the attention, but it was his second sentence that was revealing. Republicans had a plan to take back the government. Step one was to win back the House, which they did in 2010. Step two was to win back the Senate, which they accomplished in 2014. Step three has always been to win back the White House in 2016.
The genius of the plan was that it was a hostage situation. Republicans took the legislative process hostage and refused to pass anything. Senate Republicans obstruction legislation big and small all with the goal of building frustration and discontent with government. After the American people had become enraged by "broken Washington," Republicans promised that Washington could be fixed if they were given control of the Senate.
Never did Republicans admit that they were the reason Washington was "broken." Instead, they blamed the people who were trying to get things done. Republicans blamed Sen. Harry Reid and President Obama. The GOP ran a con on the American people. They created the problem then promised to solve it.
The bad news is that the con worked like a charm. On Election Night, Democratic Senate candidates never had a chance. Candidates who ran good campaigns were defeated, and in every state the Republican message was the same, "Elect us and end the gridlock in Washington."
It was all a scam that has led to Republicans being two-thirds of the way towards accomplishing their goal of a government takeover. The problem is that the Republican plan may have worked a bit too well. The American people are expecting action from the Congress, and Democrats are now poised to whip up outrage as the Senate minority.
In 2016, it won't be red state Democrats, but blue state Republicans who will be on the ballot fighting for their seats. Republicans won't have Obama to blame anymore. The GOP will be held accountable by a bigger electorate.
Given these factors, it will surprise no one if the Senate confidence men and women meet their 2016 demise at the hands of their own con.
Link (http://www.politicususa.com/2014/11/05/republicans-conned-american-people-giving-control-senate.html)
It is always the goal of the party now in power to take over the government and especially to make the other guy a one term president. Get a grip. If I remember correctly President Obama's election was supposed to make all those nasty arab countries like us, everyone would have free healthcare, and everyone one would own a house and have a chicken in every pot. We knew that wasn't true but a lot of people bought into it. President Obama has his two terms, we will see in two years if the Democrats can have another president for two or four years. There will be enough time to see if the new comgress gets anything done.
What in the Sam Hell were the people of Maryland thinking when they voted yesterday? Maryland is reported to have the best schools in the country for five years in a row and now they elect a governor who has vowed to drastically cut the education budget so he can give the money to big corporations in tax breaks!
:rant: :rant: :rant: :rant: :rant: :rant: :rant: :rant:
Sorry to start a thread and run, but as of right NOW, I am on Vacation, well a working vacation. I am doing some work around home, so I will be out for a few days....I may check in, but probably won't be interacting much......
Sure, talk some shit and then split. :razz:
Quote from: Anne on November 05, 2014, 11:38:35 AM
It is always the goal of the party now in power to take over the government and especially to make the other guy a one term president. Get a grip. If I remember correctly President Obama's election was supposed to make all those nasty arab countries like us, everyone would have free healthcare, and everyone one would own a house and have a chicken in every pot. We knew that wasn't true but a lot of people bought into it. President Obama has his two terms, we will see in two years if the Democrats can have another president for two or four years. There will be enough time to see if the new comgress gets anything done.
For a person who told me you were not a Republican :liar2: :liar2: You sure blowing your horn. But ANN you got it wrong, it was Herbert Hoover who said, a car in every garage and a chicken in every pot. And it was him and the Republican party who brought us the nation breaking depression, where people starve to death without a chicken in their pot. ANN, you sure full of shit. :liar2: :liar2: :liar2: :liar2: :repub:
To me the election showed how stupid and out of touch the Kentuckians hillbillies are. The dumbasses vote Mich McConnell back in, thinking he is going to change the Senate back into a thinking and fair group of men and women. The same, very son of a bitch who caused the problems. :music1: :guitarist: :music1: :boohoo::music1: :rock: :music1: :haha: :haha: :haha:
Einstein quote really has said it all about the Republican party and the people who voted for them. "INSANITY: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." :rolleyes: Drum roll please. :drummer: :drummer: :drummer:
I wish there were term limits in CONGRESS.
There will be a reckoning surrounding what, in my personal opinion, was a massive mistake on the part of the citizens of this nation last night.
I fear for the future of this nation. . .
Quote from: Palehorse on November 05, 2014, 05:05:02 PM
There will be a reckoning surrounding what, in my personal opinion, was a massive mistake on the part of the citizens of this nation last night.
I fear for the future of this nation. . .
I think Obama and Turtle Head McConnell will work together on the wrong things for the working and middle class people. By using Fast Track to OK the trade agreement for the TTP. A trade agreement which will let the greedy corporations to ship our jobs over to the Pacific starvation wages workers and killing American workers. :mad: :mad: :mad: :rant: Just watch it happen and I told you so.
Also they together will let the Keystone pipe line, which completed will produce around 35 permanent jobs and will reap million of dollars for the Canadian oil millionaires and billionaires. Nothing for America and all of the oil will be sent to China and around the world. :mad: :mad: :mad: :angry: Just sit back and watch it happen. For I told you so. :yes: It was just like Clinton was the best president that the Republicans ever had. And what did they do, they tried to impeach him, just like they will try to impeach Obama. :angry: :angry: :angry:
The following is from the Bluefield Daily Telegraph (No indication of writer) but the headline says it all. Question: When all the mountaintops have been leveled to get to the coal underneath, what will West Virginia look like? :confused: :eek: :spooked: :rant: :icon_evil: :@#%&:
GOP in charge, eager to roll back Obama's environmental rules
Posted: Thursday, November 6, 2014 9:45 am
The next majority leader ...
Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is pictured.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans' resounding victory gives them an opportunity to push legislation that's been bottled up in the Democratic Senate, from targeting elements of President Barack Obama's health care law to constructing the Keystone XL oil pipeline to rolling back environmental regulations.
Democrats suffered an electoral drubbing in Tuesday's midterms, and Republicans regained control of the Senate and widely expanded their majority in the House. In command in both chambers in January, Republicans maintained that they have to show they can govern or else voters will show them the door.
"We now have the votes and we have the ability to call the agenda, so stop name-calling and let's actually produce some legislation that helps jobs and the economy and moves our country forward," Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, said in an interview. "I think the country has figured that out, and they've given us the mandate to do it, and we better produce, or they'll kick us out too."
House Republicans are counting on Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., in line to be the next Senate majority leader, to move ahead on the dozens of jobs bills that have been passed by the House but remained stalled in the Senate.
"It's jobs, jobs, jobs," said Rep. Randy Weber, R-Texas, who also wants to lift the ban on crude oil exports.
Republicans also are counting on a swift vote early next year on building the Keystone XL pipeline to carry oil from Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast now that Republicans clearly have the numbers in the Senate. The GOP could have as many as 54 Senate seats if Republican Dan Sullivan prevails in Alaska and the party wins a Dec. 6 runoff in Louisiana. The House majority could reach historic levels of 250 out of 435 seats.
"It's in our best interest to show we can function and that we can lead responsibly, and that would involve getting bills that have already passed the House with bipartisan support and get Democrats to join us in the Senate and get those to the president, even something like trade," said Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo.
McConnell signaled Wednesday that he could work with Obama on trade agreements and a tax overhaul as both sides look toward governing rather than gridlock.
It won't be easy. Many of the moderate Democrats who would be willing to compromise were defeated in Tuesday's elections, reducing the number of lawmakers in the middle. In the next Congress, independent Sen. Angus King of Maine and moderate Democrats Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota and Jon Tester of Montana will hold considerable leverage.
Republicans will be under pressure from many in their ranks and outside conservatives to scrap the health care law, but McConnell and the more pragmatic GOP lawmakers acknowledge that is next to impossible because of Obama's veto power.
"If I had the ability, obviously, I'd get rid of it," McConnell said of the Affordable Care Act as he spoke to reporters at a news conference in Kentucky. "Obviously, it's also true he's still there."
McConnell indicated the GOP would push for a repeal of the tax on medical devices, which has some Democratic support, and target the requirement that individuals sign up for health insurance or face a penalty.
Obama told reporters that ending the individual mandate was a nonstarter, calling it a "line I can't cross" because it would unravel the law.
Further complicating the relationship between Obama and the newly empowered Republicans is the president's vow to act unilaterally before year's end to reduce the number of deportations and grant work permits to millions of immigrants illegally in the United States.
"What I'm not going to do is just wait," the president said as bipartisan, comprehensive immigration legislation that the Senate passed in June 2013 remained stalled in the House.
McConnell and other Republicans said such a step would be an in-your-face affront to the new majority GOP — "like waving a red flag in front of a bull," McConnell said — and Republicans would use spending bills to restrict or stop such executive action.
Several Republicans hold the deep-seated view that Obama already has been abusing his constitutional authority. "He doesn't get the line-item veto to unilaterally change different tenets of the law after he signs the law," Weber said of Obama's moves to delay provisions of the health care law.
On energy, McConnell was already exploring ways to derail Obama's plans to reduce the pollution blamed for global warming from coal-fired power plants, a maneuver that some Democrats from coal states are likely to support but that the president would likely veto.
Pro-energy Republican Lisa Murkowski of Alaska is expected to chair the Senate Energy Committee, and Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe, who rejects the scientific consensus that global warming is being caused by fossil fuels, will likely lead the environment panel.
On the Keystone Pipeline, White House spokesman Josh Earnest reiterated Thursday that the administration will wait on the Nebraska Supreme Court to rule on a dispute about the pipeline's route through the state before completing an evaluation of the pipeline. "Once some of those things are resolved, then the State Department can do their work evaluating whether or not this pipeline is in the national interest of Americans," he said on CNN.
The Senate turnover from Democrats to Republicans could also complicate efforts by the U.S. to broker a new international deal to curb global warming that is legally enforceable, because a Republican-controlled Senate would be unlikely to ratify it.
"There is no way to dance around the issue that in too many races we lost good allies," said Michael Brune, head of the Sierra Club. "And we will see them replaced by people who oppose our values."
libby ("Oh, those West Virginia hills, how majestic and how grand...."
Yes, let's lift the ban on crude oil exports so that we can sell resources that we need here to the highest bidder in the global market. :rolleyes:
Quote from: Exterminator on November 06, 2014, 01:33:10 PM
Yes, let's lift the ban on crude oil exports so that we can sell resources that we need here to the highest bidder in the global market. :rolleyes:
And then when our resources are depleted, watch them dry hump us into oblivion! :mad:
Man, there were some real loons elected in Maryland and Oklahoma. :spooked:
Quote from: Locutus on November 07, 2014, 12:59:29 PM
Man, there were some real loons elected in Maryland and Oklahoma. :spooked:
Tell me about it! There were some real loons voting here in Maryland. From my post earlier .....
"What in the Sam Hell were the people of Maryland thinking when they voted yesterday? Maryland is reported to have the best schools in the country for five years in a row and now they elect a governor who has vowed to drastically cut the education budget so he can give the money to big corporations in tax breaks!"
The people who voted for them don't value education.
Quote from: Exterminator on November 07, 2014, 02:15:02 PM
The people who voted for them don't value education.
Indeed! :yes:
Quote from: Exterminator on November 05, 2014, 08:52:26 AM
WTF? I expected gas to be under $2.00 a gallon, ISIS to have disbanded in fear and ebola to have been cured by the time I woke up this morning?
WTF? is right!
Quote from: Bo D on November 07, 2014, 01:47:21 PM
Tell me about it! There were some real loons voting here in Maryland. From my post earlier .....
"What in the Sam Hell were the people of Maryland thinking when they voted yesterday? Maryland is reported to have the best schools in the country for five years in a row and now they elect a governor who has vowed to drastically cut the education budget so he can give the money to big corporations in tax breaks!"
Agreed! I'm thankful not to have any children who will be going to school in Maryland, but I have many friends who are teachers there and I am heartbroken.
Quote from: Sandy Eggo on November 07, 2014, 03:13:42 PM
Agreed! I'm thankful not to have any children who will be going to school in Maryland, but I have many friends who are teachers there and I am heartbroken.
And for the past several years in a row, Maryland has been named as having the best schools in the country. Bob Ehrlich (our last repub governor) tried to destroy our schools. He was elected on the same promises as the latest fool and he only lasted one term. Then Martin O'Malley came in and dramatically turned things around.
Four years ... if we can stand it.
Here's another fine example of the stupidity of the American people.....at least the stupidity of the minority of the electorate that turned out for the midterm election.
Here are some of the people who are out, along with their views on climate change, as well as those replacing them and their views on climate change.
Will start with this one. Joni Ernst hasn't seen "proven proof" of climate change. :rolleyes: Seriously Joni, you don't know the science behind climate change, but guess what! OTHER PEOPLE (SCIENTISTS) DO!
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In with the new majority leader, who happens to represent a coal producing state. Perhaps the people who say it isn't warming are the lobbyists representing the coal companies which pad his re-election coffers every six years. :mad:
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And saving the best for last, old Sky Daddy is still in charge and it's just arrogant for us mere humans to think that we would be able to change what he's doing with the climate.
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^^ Those fucks there are the people that HH and 'me' are proud to have on their team. :rolleyes:
As I've said before, "These ass-hats will only believe that climate change and global warming are real when they are frying like fat-back in a hot skillet; and then it will be too late to do anything to change it." :mad:
If I am lucky, I'll have already crossed over before they start frying, but rest assured my fine friends, that I will be awaiting their arrival on the other side, with an extra large pimp-slap to greet them when they arrive. O0
Here is a link to a Google spreadsheet showing the abysmal turnout percentages by state in the 2014 general election, along with a supporting link to where the data were sourced.
Link (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1s2KkvXl4kY6UvC47bksgsJ5kZPoFtdL4L5Roqb0bTJI/edit?pli=1#gid=2072563414)
Indiana...lowest in the country! If that was America speaking they were saying, "I don't give a shit about mid-term elections."
You lost; get over it
Quote from: Henry Hawk on November 14, 2014, 07:43:17 AM
You lost; get over it
You won, now just what did you win? A whole :jester: clown car of assholes. :yes: Jump in Asshole Hawk you are already an asshole. :haha: :haha:
Quote from: Exterminator on November 14, 2014, 07:35:43 AM
Indiana...lowest in the country! If that was America speaking they were saying, "I don't give a shit about mid-term elections."
That just shows WHO exactly the "Stupid" party is then, because the intelligent people knew how important it was to get out and vote.....who gives a shit if it is mid terms? I have not missed a vote since I was 18. They all are important and a privilege to participate in them. I think those who don't give a shit, should lose their privileges to continue to do so.
Quote from: Henry Hawk on November 14, 2014, 09:26:17 AM
I think those who don't give a shit, should lose their privileges to continue to do so.
I think you should have to take a test before being allowed to do so in the first place...same for breeding.
Quote from: Henry Hawk on November 14, 2014, 07:43:17 AM
You lost; get over it
Weird...I still make the same money I did before, still drive the same car, still live in the same house...let me check...yep, still have a big dick...what did I lose again?
Quote from: Exterminator on November 14, 2014, 09:56:10 AM
Weird...I still make the same money I did before, still drive the same car, still live in the same house...let me check...yep, still have am a big dick...what did I lose again?
Fixed it for ya Ex. :biggrin:
Quote from: Exterminator on November 14, 2014, 09:56:10 AM
Weird...I still make the same money I did before, still drive the same car, still live in the same house...let me check...yep, still have a big dick...what did I lose again?
:lol:
Quote from: me on November 14, 2014, 11:19:03 AM
Fixed it for ya Ex. :biggrin:
Sometimes you have to be; some people only understand compulsion.
Interesting piece from Houston Chronicle right-wing blogger, Chris Ladd, in which he explains not only why it will be virtually impossible for the GOP to take the White House in 2016 but why they probably won't be able to maintain control of the Senate either. It's refreshing to see a realistic conservative point out the flaws in his own party's strategy (hint: many of the issues he highlights as destroying the party are the same as those our resident neocons are constantly bringing up right here on this very forum).
The missing story of the 2014 election (http://blog.chron.com/goplifer/2014/11/the-missing-story-of-the-2014-election/#28114101=0)
That's an interesting read. :yes: