Top campaign officials for both parties, pollsters and independent experts are predicting potentially big gains in Congress by Democrats this election, the New York Times reported. Earlier polls had shown the public giving Democrats much higher marks than Republicans on most of the top domestic issues. But the past few weeks’ economic turmoil has boosted Democratic chances even more. As a result, 23 House seats now held by Republicans are considered toss-ups and four others are leaning Democratic, while only eight House seats held by Democrats are considered toss-ups. And in the Senate, three GOP seats are leaning Democratic and five others, including that of Sen. Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C., are now toss-ups.
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Why sure! You steal an election, you stuff enough ballots, you commit enough FRAUD and demcrats will steal the Congress.
Big duh here.
You think the voters actually BELIEVE in democrats any more than they do republicans? Just look at the ratings of Congress.
It’s power by theft!@ ACORN IS COMING!
ACORN IS COMING!
This ’stealing the election’ B.S. is so reminiscent of 2004 in Florida isn’t it…
Anyway…
sounds like we will be looking at a Democratic President and Congress.
The Dems better be ready to put up or shut up or it will swing back after 4 years.
SAINT LOUIS, Missouri (AFP) – When Barack Obama’s campaign bus made a swing through Missouri in July, the unlikeliest of supporters were waiting for him — or rather two of them, holding the banner: “Rednecks for Obama.”
In backing the first African-American nominee of a major party for the US presidency, the pair are on a grassroots mission to bridge a cultural gap in the United States and help usher their preferred candidate into the White House.
Tony Viessman, 74, and Les Spencer, 60, got politically active last year when it occurred to them there must be other lower income, rural, beer-drinking, gun-loving, NASCAR race enthusiasts fed up with business as usual in Washington.
Viessman had a red, white and blue “Rednecks for Obama” banner made, and began causing a stir in Missouri, which has emerged as a key battleground in the run-up to the November 4 presidential election.
“I didn’t expect it would get as much steam and attention as it’s gotten,” Spencer told AFP on the campus of Washington University in Saint Louis, the state’s biggest city and site of last week’s vice-presidential debate.
“We believe in him. He’s the best person for the job,” Viessman, a former state trooper from Rolla, said of Obama, who met the pair briefly on that July day in Union, Missouri.
The candidate bounded off his bus and jogged back towards a roadside crowd to shake hands with the men holding the banner.
“He said ‘This is incredible’,” Spencer recalled.
It’s been an unexpectedly gratifying run, Viessman said.
Rednecks4obama.com claims more than 800,000 online visits. In Denver, Colorado, Viessman and Spencer drew crowds at the Democratic convention, and at Washington University last Thursday they were two of the most popular senior citizens on campus.
“I’m shocked, actually, but excited” that such a demographic would be organizing support for Obama, said student Naia Ferguson, 18, said after hamming it up for pictures behind the banner.
“When most people think ‘redneck,’ they think conservatives, anti-change, even anti-integration,” she said. “But America’s changing, breaking stereotypes.”
It never occurs to the Republican bloggers that their King George screwed the pooch so bad that nobody wants them anymore.
Repubs burned their own house down playing the obstructionist card, for no other reason than to make the congress look like a do nuthin’ congress.
You idiots reap what you sowed, so don’t cry now.
While bush screwed the pooch, the repubs in congress were holding it down!
“Phantom” notes –
“While bush screwed the pooch, the repubs in congress were holding it down!”
I wish I’d written that.
(And probably will.)
Well played.
Us Democrats are always called upon to fix the Republican messes. Let’s hope and pray that enough of our good guys get in to quickly return this country to fiscal sanity.
“ACORN IS COMING!”
Yea – they are all over my driveway and front walk. Blasted oak trees!
Maybe, if we’re lucky, a dem congress and W.H. can get this country back to a point where America’s biggest concern is someone’s sex life.
“Phantom
Posted October 9, 2008 at 1:13 pm | Permalink
Maybe, if we’re lucky, a dem congress and W.H. can get this country back to a point where America’s biggest concern is someone’s sex life.”
as long as that someone’s is not mine
mxyzptlk–
I know it’s off topic, but where did the nic come from? Seems like I recall a character from a children’s book or story with the same name. Just curious, no harm or foul intended.It just intrigued me and woke a recollection of younger days
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Virginia hasn’t backed a Democrat for president in 44 years, but economic concerns and changing demographics are giving Sen. Barack Obama a chance to steal the once reliably red state from Republicans.
1 of 2 Polls earlier this year showed Sen. John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, leading Obama, his Democratic rival, in Virginia by a healthy margin.
A Virginia Commonwealth University poll taken May 12-18 had McCain leading 47 percent to 39 percent.
But as the financial crisis has shaken voters’ confidence in the economy, Obama has begun to open a lead in the state, as he has done in other battleground states.
The latest CNN poll of polls has Obama leading McCain 49 percent to 45 percent. A CNN/TIME/Opinion Research Corporation poll conducted September 28-30 shows Obama with an even bigger lead over McCain, 53 percent to 44 percent. The CNN poll’s margin of error was plus or minus 4 percentage points.
Polls show that voters have more confidence in Obama to handle the economic crisis than they do in McCain, and are more likely to blame Republicans for the recent turmoil than Democrats.
And we can watch as Tankerless Todd becomes marginalized even more.
However badly the republicans lose this next election, after the last eight years it won’t be bad enough. We’ll be paying for their excesses for the next century!
mxyzptlk comes from Superman comics (when they were a dime)he was a mischievous imp that wreaked havoc with Superman’s life.
If anyone can get me to say my name backwards, I’ll leave these blogs forever (or 90 days whichever comes first).
It will most likely be a Dem controlled WHite House, Senate, and House. WOe is the word that describes this situation. Trouble will be the daily situation for the country. Not because it’s the Dems, but because anytime one party is singularly in charge, including fillibuster proof majorities, they feed at the trough like the hogs they are. Witness what happened to the “fiscally responsible” Republican party. Dumbasses.
From the small acorn the mighty Oak tree grows!
Thanks. I am beginning to remember. But comics at a dime were soooo long ago. (sigh)
What was it Thomas Frank said about conservatives eating their own?
Now is not the time for a gridlock W.H. and congress, too much has to be undone, and redone. Our only shot at it is a solid dem majority.
LJ,
Mr.Mxyzptlk was a trickster from another dimension in the old Superman comics.
I always approached the pronunciation of “Mxyzptlk” the same way Duke basketball fans accept “Krzyzewski.”
It’s pronounced “Jones.”
To get rid of him, Superman merely has to say, “Senoj.”
You damned Boomers. Really.
Lizzy can get a job being a spokesperson for the wonders of Viagra.
My bad.
Superman merely has to get Mr. Mxyzptlk to say, “Senoj.”
(I was under the effects of Red Kryptonite with my original post.)
LJ,
“It will most likely be a Dem controlled WHite House, Senate, and House. WOe is the word that describes this situation.”
You’re probably right there. No single party should have that much power. But since neither party is willing to give the other an inch, gridlock is the legacy of modern bipartisanship. Maybe the only solution is to dispense with parties altogether and simply elect people. It might work for a while- we’ve partied enough for now!
Jed-
I would agree with that.
It would probably be Unconstitutional, but maybe we could enact some real campaign reform like:
1) Only citizens (at the least– people) can donate money to campaigns.
2) Only residents of a state can donate to the campaigns of their representatives and cognressman
3) Voter registration rolls are purged after every 4) year cycle, and people must reregister every cycle. Forewarn people two cycles in advance.
5) National Political parties may not donate, coordinate, or in other way interfere with the political process, with the possible exception of the one NATIONAL office, President of the United States.
“Maybe the only solution is to dispense with parties altogether and simply elect people.”
That is a good idea.
For a long time, I have advocated removal of party affiliation designations from election ballots.
“littlejohn
Posted October 9, 2008 at 1:43 pm | Permalink
It would probably be Unconstitutional, but maybe we could enact some real campaign reform like:…”
You forgot 4) allow all people legally in the US to vote, citizens or not
Sure, remove party designations from ballots and half of Kansans wouldn’t know who to vote for!
And, Repubs would never go for No. 4)
Unable to digest the fact that Americans are fed up with the extreme right-wing Republican policies, they have to create a fiction that some conspiratorial group is “stealing” power from their disgraced Republican leaders.
Republicans have no one to blame but themselves. They allowed Bush and Cheney to screw that pooch. And then they nominated McCain, who then picked a beauty queen from Alaska for his running mate.
I have to wonder if there are average Americans who are just so fed up with the arrogance of the Republicans that they plan to vote for Obama and Biden just to see how bad the Republicans throw their tantrums?
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mxyzptlk
Posted October 9, 2008 at 1:01 pm | Permalink
It never occurs to the Republican bloggers that their King George screwed the pooch so bad that nobody wants them anymore
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mom
Posted October 9, 2008 at 2:36 pm | Permalink
Republicans have no one to blame but themselves. They allowed Bush and Cheney to screw that pooch.
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Hmmm, there appears to be an authority on ‘pooch screwing’ for the blog.
Don’t forget:
Phantom
Posted October 9, 2008 at 12:59 pm | Permalink
While bush screwed the pooch, the repubs in congress were holding it down!
I never take a win for granted.
I urge a bit of humility on the part of Obama supporters. We may have to take the lead in trying to heal the wounds of the past eight years.
More Bush screwing the pooch:
“WASHINGTON — The highest-ranking U.S. military officer warned Thursday that the situation in Afghanistan will likely get worse next year and that it will take time to turn it around because it has been headed in “the wrong direction” for the last two years.”
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/53695.html
I thought McCain said everything was just fine now that Gen Petraeus was in charge.
Wrong again! Wrong for America!
“You forgot 4) allow all people legally in the US to vote, citizens or not”
I did forget number 4, but I cannot support your proposal. NO citizen, no vote.
Dole is getting desperate. She’s sending out mailers that her opponent is godless, going the entire anti-Atheist route. Hey, it worked for the Nazis and you can’t get much closer to national socialist than the Republican party.
Elizabeth Dole USED to be a class act.
Another one bites the dust.
lj – agreed. Citizens only.
I’m not sure I agree with your purge every four years. As long as I am voting why purge? Or – are you referring to non-voters? Then I agree but go with 2 years. In fact – you should be ourged from the old place as soon as you register at the new one. Just like turning in your drivers license from another state when you get a new one.
The new national anthem if Obama gets elected.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLi_m656tQQ
Regular – It was Comrade Bush who looked into Comrade Putin’s eyes and saw his soulmate.
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bth
Posted October 9, 2008 at 3:18 pm | Permalink
Regular – It was Comrade Bush who looked into Comrade Putin’s eyes and saw his soulmate.
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Actually, you’ve screwed up that quote from the first time you used it.
The actual quote is:
“I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straight forward and trustworthy and we had a very good dialogue.
“I was able to get a sense of his soul.
bth-
Just trying to make it clean and easy on the purge business. There is no real easy, clean, or cheap way to make the registration authories work with each other. No “targeted” purgings, no “political” purgings, just clean and simple. Want to vote? Register. Each time. ALthough I am sure there are unintended consequences, it seems like a simple solution.
New national anthem if McCain gets elected
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYIU09o1gsI
mxyzptlk
DavidB
mom
Jed
If your still online could you email me at
anniemoose00@gmail.com
“In fact – you should be ourged from the old place as soon as you register at the new one. Just like turning in your drivers license from another state when you get a new one”
The problem is that the state drivers license bureau is large, with million dollar budges and many employees. Many registrars offices? Not so much
lj – valod point. How about allowing ‘re-confirmation’ when a person votes? That would remove the extra step of re-registering.
“The problem is that the state drivers license bureau is large, with million dollar budges and many employees. Many registrars offices? Not so much”
And think of them trying to re-establish the rolls every few years.
Actually I don’t think we are very far apart on this. I would try to streamline it but still want the same thing – clean voter rolls. BTW – also ID when you vote.
I have been ‘voting early’ the last several elections – I salute Bill gale for it. I always just hand them my DL since that is easier than going through my name spelling etc. Look at the back of your DL – there is a 2-D bar code. They could read that (the airport does that for international flights) and process you that much faster.
Regular
Posted October 9, 2008 at 2:41 pm | Permalink
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mxyzptlk
Posted October 9, 2008 at 1:01 pm | Permalink
It never occurs to the Republican bloggers that their King George screwed the pooch so bad that nobody wants them anymore
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mom
Posted October 9, 2008 at 2:36 pm | Permalink
Republicans have no one to blame but themselves. They allowed Bush and Cheney to screw that pooch.
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Hmmm, there appears to be an authority on ‘pooch screwing’ for the blog.
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Not an authority, I am just using terms Republicans will understand. Seems to me there were alot of Repubicans caught in sex scandals with their pants down, both heterosexual and homosexual; but yet these are the same Conservative Republicans that like to tell everyone else how to conduct their sex lives.
What is it with Republicans and sex?
I believe it was John McCain that has used the phrase that he looked into Putin’s eyes and saw 3 letters K – G and a B.
I’m sure Putin is shaking in his boots even as we blog!
If we let McCain have his way and he starts multiple wars with anybody and everybody he does not like, then Putin knows the US will be so bankrupt we will be nothing but a paper tiger.
And I call that S T U P I D.
“The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to the doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can “throw the rascals out” at any election without leading to any profound or extreme shifts in policy.”
Carol Quigley
Bill Clinton said that Carol Quigley had a huge influence on his own philosphies and ideas. These ideas are really that of a madman when you think about it.
It seems as though it is time to throw the rascal Republicans out. Them perhaps the Democrats after they have also proven ineffective.
Please do not take this as a slam against Democrats. As you all know, I think that their is no difference between the two major parties.
“I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straight forward and trustworthy and we had a very good dialogue.
“I was able to get a sense of his soul.”
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If one was in the KGB as long as Putin was, wouldn’t you have to be pretty much soulless.
I think that the Russians going to protect the independent nation of South Ossetia was OK. I do have a problem though with it being called an invasion of Georgia.
South Ossetia voted for its independence in the early 1990’s. I am pretty sure that Sakashvilli attacked South Ossetia because he was told that if he could unify the breakaway provinces, he’d be given membership into NATO.
Sounds like a civil war that America should probably stay out of.
Largely agreed AE. I saw in the news (BBC) last night that the Kosovo issue is going to the World Court. Serbia claims that Kosovo’s secession is illegal and that Kosovo is a part of Serbia. Perhaps BOTH the Kosovo AND Ossettia issues could be examined there. They seem very similar to me.
PRESIDENT BUSH:… I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy. We had a very good dialogue. I was able to get a sense of his soul; a man deeply committed to his country and the best interests of his country. And I appreciated so very much the frank dialogue.
Latest Gallup Poll numbers today:
Obama 52% McCain 41%
First time Obama’s gone into double digits.
http://www.huliq.com/1/70313/gallup-poll-obama-mccain-today-52-41
“lj – valod point. How about allowing ‘re-confirmation’ when a person votes? That would remove the extra step of re-registering.”
I could, and would, buy that.
Like I said – on this topic I think we see eye-to-eye.
To increase the dems number in Congress would be a diaster we could not afford. They will raise taxes and over regulate us. Muslim Obama is not a leader he is just a big pretender. The current dem congress is the lowest rated congress in history, I put the lib. major news media right there with them.
Republicans will never figure it out.
DemoRats have held Congress for 2 years and have done ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
And the press predicts big gains in Congress for the DemoRats who caused the Financial Crisis in the first place!
You DemoRats should be PROUD!
“To increase the dems number in Congress would be a diaster we could not afford.”
Who is “we”?
The greedy who have made out like bandits these last 25 years?
Searching for a “I care”
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Poor George – afraid that we will outlaw pork. He spouts his usual lie “Muslim Obama” – apparently thinking if he repeats his lie enough someone except his fellow tin foil comrades will believe it.
Littlejohn & bth:
Purging the voter rolls and requiring I.D. to cast a ballot are ideas that come prepackaged with problems of their own. Now, I read both of your posts most days and find little with which to object, so I’m not knocking the discussion, and we can agree to disagree on this.
Here’s my point: if you purge the rolls on a regular cycle, the party in power at the time will be in a position to process the opposing party’s registration information just a bit a more slowly. Presumably, the problem that people have with the existing system is that they don’t trust the electorate to be honest at the polling place, mostly because they’re human. The principle applies, though, right across the board. If you can’t trust people to vote, then you can’t trust the people in the political machinery to process the rolls with any integrity, either. I just don’t like the idea of the party in power having all this brand new registration information at their disposal with zero public scrutiny over the process of actually getting people set up to vote. Republicans in Kansas may be more comfortable with the idea because Republicans are generally in charge of running the election offices. But let’s say you’re a Republican and you live in Massachusetts. Are you comfortable with purging every four years and allowing the Democrats in power to properly tend to the brand new voter rolls? In close elections, it only takes a little mustard here and a little Mayo there to turn the tide.
Now, about requiring I.D. at the polling place: it puts too much power in the hands of the people working the event. In essence, you’re handing your constitutional right to vote over to the person who’s standing there looking at your I.D. Maybe they mean well and maybe they don’t. Or maybe they think they mean well and that they know what’s best in a close election. The requirement creates an atmosphere in which partisan minded poll workers might be tempted or just plain biased enough to exercise unsound judgment when looking at some guy’s I.D. You might say, well, most poll workers aren’t like that. I agree with you, especially around here, where I vote. It’s about as docile an atmosphere as you could hope for. Still, why take the chance? I just don’t see enough upside to justify changing the law. All you’re doing is creating a different atmosphere with a different set of possibilities, and you still have basically decent but occasionally misguided human beings running the show.
(The Romans had a pithy saying about this but I can’t find it right now.)
Big GAINS in Congress?
For who?
Not the American People, that’s for sure.
A few million dollars here and there, and Democrats can take a few seats everywhere!
Victory, is only a few dollars away.
And with Acorn’s help, the Democrats will win Congress and the White House.
Do you Democrats feel like WHORES for having your votes bought with dollars?
Do you shower after you cast your vote?
Obama buying half hour of prime time six days before election! good thing we don’t have those pesky equal time laws!http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081010/pl_nm/us_usa_politics_obama_television_3
With a fillibuster proof congress Dems can make great strides towards getting this country back on track!
The current dem congress is the lowest rated congress in history, I put the lib. major news media right there with them.
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but george – Democrats had a very small majority and Republicans were right there obstructing everything they could to make it the Democrats’ fault. So, actually, it is the Republicans’ congress that is the lowest rated in history – along with the two terms of George W. Bush. But who’s counting?
We’re supposed to be worrying about a few hundred duplicate registrations, when voters are being purged the the tens of thousands?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081010/ap_on_el_ge/voter_purges_15
Forget Acorn; from the above link:
“States have been trying to follow the Help America Vote Act of 2002 by removing the names of voters who should no longer be listed. But for every voter added to the rolls in the past two months in some states, election officials have removed two, the Times’ review of the records found.
“In Georgia, federal officials say some 2 million checks have been completed, but only 406,000 new voters were registered. The Department of Justice has questioned the checks, and state officials say they are trying to determine how federal authorities arrived at that figure.”
Smells real fishy, smells republicany.
Phantom posted October 9, 2008 at 8:38 pm
We’re supposed to be worrying about a few hundred duplicate registrations, when voters are being purged the the tens of thousands?
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No, we’re supposed to be distracted, so we don’t notice the tens of thousands purged.
Oh MOM! Didn’t know you had figured out how to get online yet!
Your math is still fuzzy. The DEMOCRATS own Congress. So ACK…ACK…Pthhhh…ACTUALLY…the Democrat Congress has earned the lowest ratings in history.
mom
Posted October 9, 2008 at 8:36 pm | Permalink
The current dem congress is the lowest rated congress in history, I put the lib. major news media right there with them.
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but george – Democrats had a very small majority and Republicans were right there obstructing everything they could to make it the Democrats’ fault. So, actually, it is the Republicans’ congress that is the lowest rated in history – along with the two terms of George W. Bush. But who’s counting?
But who’s counting?
Mom come on, you know you can’t count without taking your shoes off!
You gotta hate all the phony voters registering in someone elses name, and passing themselves off as another human being, when really, they are one person voting 1,000 times for Obama, and nobody realizes just how terrible it is, when you know, someone pretends to be someone else, and how disruptive that can be, when even if it’s in your favor, you see someone pretending to be 1,000 different voters, when really it is just one imposters, and how we all hate the imposter, because he represents his view 1,000 times though really it’s just one time….
Dang name stealers who register illegally as multiple people.
Ya gotta hate em.
Is their an Acorn representative on this blog?
More then one?
Fakecosmos – ever heard of cloture?
Instead of whining about the gains the Democrats will likely make perhaps you should look in a mirror and ask why the American people are rejecting Republics.
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MaxGrobnik
Posted October 9, 2008 at 7:56 pm | Permalink
DemoRats have held Congress for 2 years and have done ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
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Max, unless you’re totally brain-dead (and I don’t rule that out), you know as well as I that the magic number of votes to get anything passed is 60. We all know that the republirats block everything with the threat of filibuster.
And the press predicts big gains in Congress for the DemoRats who caused the Financial Crisis in the first place!
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Funny that, when you consider that Americans blame the current financial crisis was caused by republicans by a margin of 2 to one (I love reciting that). It belongs to you stupid, greedy, selfish repukes. You own it; it’s yours!
You DemoRats should be PROUD!
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Not yet. But give the Dems about 4 more weeks and they will indeed have reason to be proud. They will have kicked skanky-assed republicans like you out of power.
I’ve predicted several times that McCain would win. I hope I’m wrong, but I know that repubes will do ANYTHING to win.
I would like nothing better than to be proven wrong and have opportunity to congratulate Democrats on a well deserved win. I hope we can start building the re-education camps for repukes right after Obama is sworn in.
The kind of “bipartisanship” and “working together” that McCain espouses:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/09/AR2008100903169.html
Anger Is Crowd’s Overarching Emotion at McCain Rally
I remember the hatred that was stirred up against JFK back in the early 60s – and it led to his assasination.
So much for “putting country first”!
CosmosNewandImproved
Posted October 9, 2008 at 8:46 pm | Permalink
Oh MOM! Didn’t know you had figured out how to get online yet!
Your math is still fuzzy. The DEMOCRATS own Congress. So ACK…ACK…Pthhhh…ACTUALLY…the Democrat Congress has earned the lowest ratings in history
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YOu still don’t get it do you? Or maybe you do and you’re just faking being this stupid?
The Democrats had a small majority and Republicans obstructed everything and threw their baby tantrums in the hopes that the public blamed the Democrat Congress.
Well guess again little one – the American voters have caught on to the arrogance of the Republicans and they know EXACTLY who to blame for the lowest-rated Congress.
I find it interesting though you don’t try to defend George W. Bush for his low ratings – do you? I can’t really blame you, I wouldn’t claim either. But your side voted for him twice!
bth – I know what you mean. I have a coworker than ranted and raved about Obama for an hour and she was spewing the usual Rush talking points. Then she had the audacity to say she hoped nobody did something stupid like trying to shoot Obama.
These people don’t care what they say or how they say it. They will always just pass the buck as if they had nothing to do with it.
What bothers me the most is these people think they are the patriotic ones!
BTH, i seen the clips of the angry McCain crowds people pissed off at Socialism. I wonder what that crowd thinks McCain’s government buyout of Mortgages is called, or that he rushed back to DC to get Bush’s bailout plan passed
With authority comes big responsibility.
If the Democrats win the Presidency and sweep Congress and the Senate, they will have to deliver results.
Bush has wrecked his own party by not performing. The same thing will happen to the Democratic party in four years if they screw up.
I have high hopes for Obama, but I will not hesitate to abandon him of he does not perform as expected.
This is NOT about ideology, it’s about RESULTS.
Ksjeff – the thing I fear is that it is going to take a LONG time to fix the mess Bush and the rest of the Repukes have made. I can only hope that in four years the public will see progress and allow us to cintinue rather than falling again for Republic snake-oil.