All the important ones in my state that needed to be Republican, last I heard, were all won by Republicans. And that fucking Alan Grayson, GONE. Turns out Grayson's political plan was: "Die quickly"
What Are the Election Results in Your State and Are You Happy?
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Believe me, I'm not saying they don't have a choice. You always have the choice. But some people have other obligations which will prevent them from choosing to pick up and move.
It'll sure be interesting to watch the tea party crash and burn once they're in the House. I almost feel bad for John Boehner.
Nowhere Man
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What drives me crazy is now the Republicans think they have a mandate to do whatever fucked up ideas they have. They don't get it, it's not a mandate, people are pissed about the economy. If Republicans would have been in power, Democrats would have taken the House. I hope Obama thinks it was all worth it and I hope they have a better plan. In two years things will switch again. Neither party seems to realize what's going on. People are fed up with the Goverment period. The Republicans will get all the praise for turning the economy around when it was going to turn around anyway. It generally takes that long. Ignorance aimpatience has won the day. More gridlock will ensue and nothing will get done. Nobody will work with anybody, now the Presidential race begins. It's a fucking shame.
The Republican leadership is already trying to assign them GOP staffers, who've been on the Hill for years. So they'll try to co-opt the Tea Party. We'll have to wait and see if the Tea Party candidates will stand by the principles they claimed to hold during the election. Just like everyone else elected to office.
Much of California looks dark red on the map - even L.A. County is only pale blue. Still, Brown for Gov., Newsom for Lt. Gov. and Boxer for US Senate all pulled out wins, though not any of them by a comfortably wide margin (I've never been a great fan of Boxer, Newsom was a big disappointment as mayor of SF and Jerry Brown is... well, Jerry Brown, but the alternatives were far more unpleasant.) Prop 19 (legalization of marijuana) failed, but there were problems with a number of details on that, anyway - probably best to go back to the drawing board and get it right next time. Long-time Congressman Jerry Lewis (my district) managed to get re-elected easily, despite allegations in recent years of ethics funny business related to his position as chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.
The tea party people will be one termers, no doubt about that. The GOP doesn't want them for long.
Well it appears that Colorado's Bennet is going back to the Senate.
Well, damn it. Fricking LePage is going to be Maine's new governor, it looks like.
Oh well, at least we kept both our Democratic congresspeople. It's going to be real interesting in 2012 when Senator Olympia Snowe's time for reelection comes up. She's been a consistent presence in Maine politics for a long time, and is one of the few moderate Republicans in the Senate, but if things don't change between now and 2012, people might decide it's time to try something new.
Oh well, at least we kept both our Democratic congresspeople. It's going to be real interesting in 2012 when Senator Olympia Snowe's time for reelection comes up. She's been a consistent presence in Maine politics for a long time, and is one of the few moderate Republicans in the Senate, but if things don't change between now and 2012, people might decide it's time to try something new.
The TEA Party will have their sites on her during those primaries. Provided they're still around. Or, she doesn't pull a Specter.
The will keep them around as long as they turn out the vote. We'll see if the GOP leadership treats them any better than the Dem leadership treated the Blue Dogs.
Nowhere Man
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So there's already talk of Impeaching Obama. Is that what the deal is now. Every time there's a Democrat in office, they try to Impeach him/her?
On what grounds would there be to impeach the president?
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There doesn't need to be grounds, really. They can just go at him. They'll lose, but it won't matter, and in the process, they'll spend a ton of money.
And shoot themselves in the foot for 2012.
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So there's already talk of Impeaching Obama. Is that what the deal is now. Every time there's a Democrat in office, they try to Impeach him/her?
You forget, Democrats talked about impeaching Bush, too. Sadly, I think it's become part of the standard political discourse for all parties now these days.
As for Obama, I think he would have to be caught in something corrupt for there to be grounds for impeachment.
At least one could make the argument that there would be more grounds to impeach Bush than there are for Obama right now. Bush did start a major war on false grounds, and all that.
They're only Republicans, after all ...
They're only Republicans, after all ...
Fair point. Returning to the GOP maybe?
It would have to be proven that the war wasn't a fait accompli by the time it got to Bush's desk. If, as I suspect, the problem was with the intelligence (or lack thereof on the ground), and the mid-level analysts, then by the time anything reached his desk then the information he would've received would've looked damning against Iraq.
This is in contrast to Watergate and the Lewinsky affair, where you had direct acts and statements by the President that were out of line. Unless you got something like the Nixon tapes, or an incriminating e-mail, I do not believe probable cause could ever have been established for articles of impeachment.
They're only Republicans, after all ...
You do realize that not everybody on this board is in political lockstep with you, right? If you were to have made that statement and put board members' names in there, I don't think it would be taken too kindly.
