It just means we’re going to have to throw the rulebook out the window and fight back now, with any weapon at our disposal.
The alternative is submitting to GOP hegemony in perpetuity, as we hand-wring and bemoan how un-American it is and how unfair…while they’re laughing and running up victories.
The gloves must come off and the bullies must be punched squarely in the nose, or they will keep having their way with the country.
And for my final cliche…“By Any Means Necessary”. 
That is the path that the Anti-PAC PAC is taking. But that’s sort of like saying the answer to gun violence is for everybody to have guns. In the end it does as much harm as good.
Unfortunately, we’re either going to have to fight a political bare-knuckle brawl and batter our adversaries into submission, or we’re going to have to fight a physical, literal civil war at some point to free ourselves from the terrible faux-American nightmare they want to create…
Here in NC Sen Hagans 2-3 point lead has dwindled to a tie a couple of days ago thanks to the last 3 weeks of outside money pouring in. Check this out:
North Carolina Sen. Kay Hagan is sitting on the most expensive hot seat in Senate history.
Spending in her Senate race against Republican State House Speaker Thom Tillis topped $100 million, according to the Sunlight Foundation—$10 million more than the second most expensive Senate contest this year in Colorado, and roughly $30 million more than the priciest Congressional race in history before 2014.
As the big dawg liked to say, “I feel your pain”. But, fuck, what can we do? Its in the hands of voters. Some damage can be mitigated by executive action. Other stuff will have to be accomplished in a lame duck session of Congress if need be. The rest is basically stuck at VETO POWER…poison pills and all. And that’s where the President will still have to hear from us loud and clear. No hostage-taking bullshit on legislation. You want legacy Mr. President…live up to your liberal grassroots calling. We need you more than ever as a bulwark against the corruption of rightwing politics that has done nothing to advance progressive ideas in this country since its founding.
Aside from getting drunk by blowing it off and pretending it doesn’t mean that much…It is what it is. I’m a natural worrier. I think I was born that way. But, I thank the stars that we have the President that we have right now, or else the buck-stopping at his desk, to prevent rightwing nutjobs, from getting what they want for purely selfish gain in Congress, could be a whole lot worse.
My opinion, he got a bum rap and a bum deal out of an institutionally racist corporate media structure that’s been endemic long before he took office. He’s also had to deal with an incredibly manipulative, cheat-to-win, criminally corrupt Republican party, that has no problem with voter suppression, or gobs of money in the billions to run dark money campaigns. That happened after he took office, but almost as soon as the Republicans realized the black man was going to be in an office that was considered the highest position in our Government.
And Mitch the Bitch was gonna have none of it, come hell or high water. No black man was ever gonna tell him what to do…and how dare he be more than a one-term President…trying to be ‘all uppity and shit’. I’m just gonna be paying attention to the margins and the close calls tonight. I think there are gonna be a lot of them. Honestly, for 6 billion dollars (from mostly Plutocrat and Oligarch contributions), you’d think the Thugs could do better than where they are right now. But just like in 2012, they can’t shut the whole thing down and just have their way inventing shit to please themselves. Reality bites.
My biggest concern overall: is SCOTUS…that’s gonna hurt if the wrong shit happens and we don’t have the Senate.
Rant #2 (or is it 3) over.
“you might have a farmer from Iowa who never went to law school, never practiced law, serving as the next chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee.”
amazing… just take the word “farmer” out and replace it with “Senator” and you have NO IOWA-BORNE CONTROVERSY!!! ANY APPROPRIATE WORD BUT “FARMER” would have saved Bruce this media-generated one-word psuedo-faux-pas.
The Iowa hard right has become so vapid and unsophisticated in their overview of national politics, it is really a shame the Iowa R moderates let them take over the party.
Throw them a bone, they will chews on it.
What a difference a word makes!
and it worked so well for them in the past…
there is no such thing as an underdog Republican in Iowa. Or Kansas. Or Oklahoma.