Discussion for article #229688
goddamit
not much else to say.
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The same applies to the governors’ races. I live in Illinois and I cannot believe my fellow citizens voted for Rauner (same is true for residents of Wisconsin and Florida) What is wrong with us???
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Hopefully they won’t do too much damage before 2016 when the tide turns and GOP has 24 seats to defend and the Dems only 9.
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This is a big step up for Sahil Kapur. He now gets to report as fact the spin coming from the Majority leader rather than the Minority leader.
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the next two years are going to result in some of the most damaging policies this country has seen in years. regulatory agencies will be gutted; taxes for wealthy will be eliminated; social programs will be whittled down to nothing; dismantling of the aca…
let the blame game begin.
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Well, now it’s high time for Obama to hang up his extreme liberal agenda and try to work in a bipartisan way!
(This message brought to you courtesy of 2009!)
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The GOP has lost a bogeyman in Reid - they would often blame him for their lack of getting anything done. Without Reid, all they can do is blame Obama, who can only veto things that come by his desk. So now it is up to the GOP to send things to his desk, and then have a public fight over why Obama used his veto pen. I’m not sure that is a fight they want to pick.
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Does this mean we do a re-run? de-regulate, more tax breaks for the rich, run the debt up to the clouds, expand the joblessness, go to war based on oil companies wishes, get bonuses from koch bros, get more guns into our youths hands, more fake issa fear investigations, etc etc??
Oh, can’t do that yet. there is still a scary blackman living in The White House.
So we be dropped kicked back 30 years for now. 2016 just became very important if stupid just became an offical disease.
we will see.
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You haven’t been paying attention. Stupidity has been our national sport for 40 years!
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This is what I predicted except I thought Nunn and Weiland would win.
Coming up in the next Congress–Obama and Biden’s impeachment.
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Nothing will get done in the next two years, and either President Obama leaves as the veto king, or he has to go to the right to limit the number of vetoes. This is what happens when progressives don’t have Democrats’ backs when they most need it.
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What’s the point? Whatever gains made in 2016 will just be lost in 2018.
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BFD, the Teahddists will not allow governance and Obama will use the veto to get concessions.
Let’s hope no one on SCOTUS dies for a couple of more years.
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And that needs to change. What is the point of putting in a Democratic President only to shift the Congress every two years? We need to maintain momentum and begin supporting ALL Democrats against Republicans for a change. The Republicans WIN because they NEVER back down from their candidates, whereas progressives back away from any Democrat who isn’t remotely populist.
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On the bright side, this will probably mean the GOP will not win the White House in 2016, as this will embolden them to act loonier than ever.
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Now that the ticker tape has been swept away and the drone of
acceptance speeches is behind us, we need to begin organizing for the next elections.
We are now entering into an age of a permanent election season. What do I mean by that? That organizing is a never-ending struggle. And to do that we must innovate using social media technologies and rediscover some Old School methods.
Let the Republicans rely on bloated attack ad budgets and push
poll propaganda. We need to continue connecting with citizens on the grass-roots level, including candidates for local and state office. And we must resume voter registration drives and emulate the Moral Mondays movement that took root in North Carolina, and continue the work of Organizing for America, the former Obama campaign organization – the most successful grass-roots organizing effort in two generations.
Let’s take a greater role in participating in local and state
government, because that’s where we can have a greater impact, and organize around local issues that can gain wider support and recruit moderates, such as school bonds, after-school programs, farmer’s and green markets, tax credits for solar panels. Support food banks, book donation drives, 2-1-1 help lines and crisis hotlines to benefit at-risk individuals and families, and other efforts that lead to stronger and healthier communities.
Also, we need to disconnect from the outrage machine: turn off the mainstream media and leave behind the promoters of apathy, cynicism and resentment.
Just consider:
Mitch McConnell can claim that Kynnect would still be operable even if he succeeds in repealing ACA, and he gets no pushback.
Paul Ryan for years can claim that even if we reduce corporate and upper-income tax levels, eliminate the estate tax, and send military budgets soaring, we can still balance the budget under his plan – and he is not challenged by the media.
And yet Alison Grimes, battling an incumbent Senator in a blood-red state in a low turnout midterm, is excoriated for not admitting she voted for President Obama.
Or how about this? President Obama is elected amid historically disastrous times, and the Republicans, who were in charge when disaster struck, committed to unwavering obstructionism rather than reciprocate the President’s offer of bipartisanship – and they get a free pass.
And yet, even after stabilizing the economy, and presiding over economic growth, all we hear is that “opinion polls” show voters are uneasy, and concerned about ISIS (even though forces are fighting them) and Ebola (even though only one American has the case.)
Why is that? Because, just as the GOP is the part of Big Business, Big Media is also a part of Big Business. Big Media carries the water for Big Business aka advertisers.
Also in regard to Alison Grimes, we as Democrats need to drop the purity-at-all-costs mindset. It’s great that Massachusetts can elect a Senator Warren, or Vermont a Senator Sanders, but those types won’t play in West Virginia, Louisiana, Arkansas, or Ohio. We need to be more strategic, and not follow the Tea Party’s example of primarying more-moderate Democrats in battleground states. It’s not the individual – no matter how virtuous or principled – that sets the agenda. It’s the majority.
For 30-40 years the conservative movement has gained ground by developing a ground game by co-opting business and social and religiously conservative interests, by developing think tanks, speakers’ bureaus, and in so doing they have a large and wide bench for elections. We must similarly cultivate an electoral infrastructure that will preserve and strengthen our franchise and protect the long-term value of our movement. We need to think long-term, and not view elections is an occasional exercise in democracy, but as part of a daily struggle to protect our way of life, to advance the values we hold dear, and to promote the principles of citizenship which make our system of self-government possible.
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This wasn’t really a win for the GOP it was a lose for the US citizen and a big with for the billionaires who funded this GOP take over. I saw the writing on the wall almost a month ago.
The Democrats deserved just what was handed to them. The majority of them haven’t a spine, they failed over and over again to take the successes that have happened and run on them, instead the ran away from the party and attempted to act like they were a different party for the most part. I voted but watched as a lobbyist was elected to the house from NY21. Another Koch candidate who ran promising to protect Social Security for the Seniors and the voters bought it, it helped that the Green candidate stole the margin from the Dems and worked against themselves. When this young lady renews her prior campaign to move it to Wall Street she will claim that the seniors are protected because only new entries will have to go that route.
We apparently wanted this I hope the nation enjoys what is going to happen. I feel sorry for women, along with anyone who is not white, and evangelical.
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oh ffs… brownback has won in kansas. unfuckingbelievable.
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Yes, it’s time to stop playing political hopscotch with Republicans.