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jw1
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Thank God it’s finally almost over. I like politics. I’m interested in solving problems. Helping people. Making the world a better place.
But I hate politics. The TV ads make me curious what scent of underarm deodorant is available these days. The glossy mailers clog up my shredder. I can’t eat dinner, read my son a bedtime story or even enjoy some good old fashioned marital relations without the damned phone ringing. And I’m sorry, I just don’t care what nonresident billionaires think about any subject, especially not who the governor should be. They don’t have to live here!
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Typically empty Sahil story.
Why does he still have a job?
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I can’t believe the Dems put Bruce Braley to run against Ernst. That was one election they needed to field a decent candidate and they screwed the pooch.
Pat Roberts’ slip of the tongue was way better, as it was an accidental slip of the truth.
On a related note, I’d like to nominate Vincent Sheheen’s slip of the tongue as the biggest (smallest?) non-story of the election cycle.
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I voted early. An hour after polls opened. Glad its done. Now I can sit back in anticipation and freak out “calmly” with the rest of you here. I’m optimistic but not entirely delusional like some. It’ll be tight. Let’s hope for the best…Game on.
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I voted and I’m still hoping for a HUGE upset tonight.
…But I’m really looking forward to Wednesday morning.
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First to vote in my Pct this morning.
Liberating.
Now let’s see some surprises tonight!
jw1
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Sahil, delete your account.
Also, 2016 election season starts tomorrow!!
A really gloomy day.
We should expect impeachment hearings to start next year.
That’ll be their top priority.
The day ain’t over yet, citizen.
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Maybe not being from Iowa, I still don’t get what Braley’s major sin was that caused him to be the ire of so many over his statement, and over what the media deems the most unforgivable gaffe in the history of fucking politics. What’s the big hubbub about? Did Braley hurt Grassley’s poor little feelings? Certainly not all Iowan farmers feel that way, though listening to the media, you’d think they did.
We have farmers in Michigan…lots of them, everywhere. We’re a big Ag state too. And yet you never hear farm issues addressed by most major politicians here unless its about corporate farm subsidies. That’s it. That’s the only thing that gets them any attention these days. And yes, they’re a proud bunch. But farmers aren’t thin-skinned…not after working hard in the sun all day. It usually takes hardy stock to do the kind of hard labor farmers do.
And sorry, but it makes perfect sense to criticize Grassley, with no legal background whatsoever, to be put as head of a Judiciary committee. I don’t care how many years he’s been in Congress. You don’t get a law degree through osmosis or by sitting on your fat ass in Congress over the years, whining as he often does. Just like it makes no sense for a climate denialist like Inhofe to be in charge of the Environmental Committee, or Michelle Bachmann to be on the House Intelligence Committee. But that’s just how the Pukes do it. They play games with our government, and don’t have the slightest concern to take any of it seriously, as evidenced by who they put in charge of stuff in Congress.
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I agree.
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Thanks, I feel better now. Rant over. I think? I think too much…
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Pip, pip, stiff upper lip, and all that sort of rot…remember, stay calm and carry on…
Too much fucking coffee today…sorry.
Forgot the cheerios.
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Win or lose, it’s 2 more years of factional wrangling.
Honestly, losing the chamber is NOT the worst thing in the world, because the entire country knows that the GOP as it is presently constituted has no idea how to legislate effectively.
If they win today, they will blow it spectacularly…which will make it far more likely that there is a decisive crushing of the Republican brand in 2 years.
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A “Best and Worst” seems a little premature at this point – we haven’t gotten to the recounts and the runoffs yet, and there is a lot of potential in those for the memorable and the bizarre.
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I’m not really even optimistic. I dread what the next two years will probably bring. And I am angry at the Supreme Court for opening the doors to the obscene excess of money dumped into these races.
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They may not know how to legislate effectively, but they sure know how to legislate destructively, and that’s exactly what they intend to try to do, send the President a bunch of poison pill bills with a choice between signing a bill that will hurt a lot of people, or vetoing a bill that will cause a government shutdown and hurt a lot of people.
I hope the President will have the cojones to follow Bill Clinton’s example and pull out his veto pen.