The Fear
By all means, this election should be a royal ass-stomping and Democrats should lose. A lot. You know it’s bad when Obama is pandering to the Daily Show and Ryan Seacrest. And Democrats losing is rarely a bad thing. What I worry about is the royal screwing over we the people are going to get by the lame-duck losers.
Brace yourself.
November 2nd, 2010 at 9:11 am
Yes, indeed. They can pass whatever they were afraid to pass before, comfortable in the facts that Obama will sign, that Obama will not sign a repeal next year, and that there will not be a supermajority to override the veto.
Stock up on magazines.
November 2nd, 2010 at 9:27 am
Only trying to figure how to get my 14.5 steel toes out the democrats ass….
November 2nd, 2010 at 9:33 am
I think that many democrats who survive today’s election will not be anxious to put their heads on the chopping block for outgoing speaker Pelosi. Same goes for the senate. If you are a democrat who has to face the voters in 2 years are you going to support a majority leader who just lost his own reelection bid or a filibuster? It only takes 41 to sustain a filibuster.
The democrats may try to ram their agenda through but they will fail.
Stock up on magazines anyway. It never hurts to have more.
November 2nd, 2010 at 10:40 am
The thing that scares me is when democrats like Dick Durbin go on national news shows and say stuff like “We’ve been working really hard, and I think people are going to be suprised by what happens on Election Day.”
November 2nd, 2010 at 11:19 am
I actually hope the Republicans don’t take the Senate and Schumer becomes majority leader. That’s the best thing that can happen for the right in 2012.
The looks of a crazy left Senate and White House while having a House that’s controlled by the GOP to keep actual crazy things from hapening through will work out well.
November 2nd, 2010 at 12:18 pm
There’s also the fact that while the Republicans replacing them love to talk about cutting spending, they’ve also ruled out cuts to anything that would have a meaningful impact on the budget, so they’re unlikely to actually do anything about it once in office.
Expect a lot of circus investigations into thing that are either crazy or none of congress’s damn business to begin with.
November 2nd, 2010 at 12:24 pm
Stormy nails it. Out of power for two years and already the wingnut contingent has forgotten how far the GOP rhetoric is from the reality.
November 2nd, 2010 at 12:26 pm
well, we saw what happened the last time the Rs were lameducks.
November 2nd, 2010 at 12:45 pm
Oh I don’t doubt the basic premise that you might see people with nothing to lose passing some wacky stuff along…I was merely referring to the a) silly idea that this is some how a national referendum on anything significant when in fact it’s just the repetition of the mid term elections being bad for the party in power thing that’s gone on forever and a day, and B) the silly idea that this is “taking back our country” for the forces of fiscal minimalism.
Err…yeah. Right. Not even close.
November 2nd, 2010 at 1:04 pm
I’d expect someone like Sebastian to know that the Democrats have controlled Congress for 4 years.
November 2nd, 2010 at 1:15 pm
I prefer a congress that is jammed up to where nothing gets done and nothing gets through. Our founding fathers did not intend for congress to run constantly. Easy wizard, sebastians reply is going to be that they are only in 3 years and need time to correct all the years of republican rule or was that obama who said that…..
November 2nd, 2010 at 2:14 pm
This will be a typical off year election power switch. Just like Tsunami are typical waves.
This will be the biggest switch since WW2. That hardly makes it “typical”. But, if the lefties think that way, more power to them. Hopefully they stick to the notion that the real problem is just that they haven’t gotten their message out.
November 2nd, 2010 at 5:09 pm
I, for one, hope that they go crazy during the lame-duck session. That will crystallize the GOP opposition and keep it crystallized for the ’12 election, the campaign for which starts tonight.
If the lame-duck dumping-on of the USA is bad enough, the ’12 Congress and White House will, of course, be all GOP, and what’s more, it will be the “un-do” Congress, busily undoing all of the 09-10 damage, then passing out a Balanced Budget Amendment.
Yep, I hope they go crazy. I’m far more worried that Pelosi will step down after her thrashing tonight, and Stenny Hoyer will take over, suppress the Left wing, and the giant schmooze will be on for the ’12 election. That schmooze could work. Not saying it would, but it could.
November 2nd, 2010 at 5:32 pm
I don’t worry about the lamers much; we can sustain a filibuster. Yeah, there’s stuff they won’t touch, but there’s a lot they can. I just hope they defund zero’s crap in preparation for repeal, especially obamacare (the ail for what cures us).
There’s a lot of pressure to repudiate the same-old left and lefter idiom. If they don’t, we’ll likely see another incumbency inferno next time. The party had better get the message.
November 2nd, 2010 at 10:28 pm
Wiz–I’d expect you to realize I was referring to the day they lost not just the House and the Senate but the executive branch as well.
Carry on.