One Damn Wave After Another

Fun's fun but 2016 may undo the Republican wave of 2010:

Up for re-election in 2016 in states Obama won are first-term GOP Sens. Marco Rubio (Florida), Ron Johnson (Wisconsin), Mark Kirk (Illinois), Kelly Ayotte (New Hampshire), and Pat Toomey (Pennsylvania). These senators all won in the GOP wave of 2010. Hanging on — especially in Pennsylvania , Wisconsin and Illinois — in a presidential year is a very heavy lift. New Hampshire and Florida won’t be easy, either.

Given how thoroughly Republicans ran the map in 2010, finding new states to pick up seats is very hard.

If a Democrat wins the Presidency in 2016 she (or he?) will be very likely to swoop in with a new Democratic Senate Majority Leader and a lot of chatter about Presidential coattails. And even if a Republican wins a close race he (or she?) will probably face an opposition Senate.

Well. We can leap off that bridge when we come to it.

But don't let me harsh your mellow.

Comments

[hrtshpdbox]

First?

[henry]

TM, two words on WI for 2016: Voter ID.

[Jeff Dobbs]

TM:
Well. We can leap off that bridge when we come to it.

TM is getting out in front of OL and James rather early.

[Soylent Red]

Dude...my mallow.

[hrtshpdbox]

A great day, today. When does Alaska get called, will a VA recount likely change much? Here's what I posted yesterday, it feels much nicer when optimism about an election doesn't get slapped down by some Dem GOTV effort:

Posted by: hrtshpdbox | November 04, 2014 at 02:22 PM

I am expecting a great night with only Scott Brown a potential loss, and everything else including Tillis and Walker and Roberts a win. Shocker things I'd like to hear include that Warner and the other Udall (NM) are neck-and-neck with their opponents (at least early). And it wouldn't surprise me if the GOP adds 20 House seats (again, I sort of expect it).

[Miss Marple]

Reposting this from the end of the last thread:

http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/23717/us-purchase-iron-dome-battery/#ZbcYgh6TWLJUAYUb.97

A friend of mine thinks Obama purchasing that technology might be a way to get it to Hamas.

[henry]

This enhances my mellow. An oldie but goodie.

[Jeff Dobbs]

Some may be asking themselves, "what in the world will hit do with all the time he had been spending pouring over early vote numbers, now that the election is over?"

Fear not, dear friends. I've got NC exit polls!

The old farts helped - 53% of voters were over age 50 vs 51% in 2012 - but they went from 65% Romney in 2012 to 57% Tillis in this election. What?

The women folk? They went from 51% Obama to 54% Hagan. White women went from 67% Romney to 56% Tillis. What?

There were indeed fewer whippersnappers (18-29 year olds) than 2012 - but they went from 67% Obama to 53% Hagan. In fact, Hagan won the 18-24 year olds by only 3 points with less than a majority - vs 67% support for Obama in 2012. Obama has been teaching them lessons that should last them a lifetime.

In the end, I want to give a shout out to my fellow white dudes of NC. 36% of the vote vs 31% in 2012, breaking 69% for Tillis. We pulled his arse over the line.

[narciso]

meanwhile back at the ranch:

http://online.wsj.com/articles/al-qaeda-allies-threaten-strategic-border-crossing-1415021384

[RickB]

A "thou art mortal" coupled with "grid your lions" post is appropriate during a triumph but I believe I'll finish the "we kicked their butts" stage first.

I will also note that President Merde Touch and the stinking albatross of Obamacare may play some small part in affecting the attitude of the 2016 electorate toward the Fascist Party.

[James D.]

Hit, I'm happy now, and i will be for another day or two. And then it's back to reality.

As Tom Hanks says in "Apollo 13"

"there are a thousand things that have to happen and we are on number eight."

[NKreBootDeux]

RickB-- what is the best source of info for '15 Health Ins ratesand deductibles? My guess is they are way up as are ObummerCare Exchange rates/deductibles. If true that is the way to start McConnell's Senate-

"WE HAVE TO REPEAL IT, IT HURTS FAMILIES, KILLS JOBS AND INCREASES THE NATIONAL DEBT!!!" That is the way to start '15 IMO.

[James D.]

Well, I will say that yesterday's work isn't done yet, or shouldn't be.

The NRSC and the RNC ought to be loading election lawyers onto buses and shipping them up to VA, to challenge every single Warner vote that's in the slightest way questionable. Fight it out to the bitterest end possible; drag it out until the spring if possible.

[Beasts of England]

I'd highly recommend sneaking over to one of the lib sewers to read a few comments. After all the crap we non-lefties have eaten the last six years, it's rather cathartic to see some other bastard enduring the agony of defeat.

Enjoy you're fried chicken, Michelle. Don't swallow any of dem bones!! You're not getting out that easy...

[Janet]

Wonderful Apollo 13 quote, James. Perfect.

[Jeff Dobbs]

In the Hot Air headlines...
Obama to hold press conference on the midterms at 2:50 p.m. ET

I hope his inner circle is telling him that the reason all those Dems lost was because Obama agreed not to campaign with them.

[Beasts of England]

*your* stoopid auto correkt

[James D.]

Oh, and I meant to express my agreement with Gus last night (just after midnight, I believe) about a certain drunken troll whom I shall not name.

I don't find him remotely amusing; as much as some here are tired of the birther debates and say they make JOM a much less pleasant place, that's how I feel about our troll.

[GMax]

Harry Reid Chief of Staff blasts Obama for loss.

Someday, those kind of stories will get old. TODAY is definitely not that day!

[Soylent Red]

We pulled his arse over the line.

Thus saving Western Civilization for another week or two. On, on.

I don't find him remotely amusing; as much as some here are tired of the birther debates and say they make JOM a much less pleasant place, that's how I feel about our troll.

Werd. I get tired of seeing both, and I mostly just lurk these days.

[NKreBootDeux]

JamesD-- I agree. The Repubs owe it to Gillespie to put Warner through the ringer. Those Richmond and Virginia Beach precincts have to be recounted carefully and challenged. It also serves the NRSC interests, They want to intimidate Manchin to switch parties asap, they want Warner and the putrid Tim Kaine to be part of a 60 vote Cloture coalition to move popular bills. Put the fear of voter wrath in Kaine.

[narciso]

Red Squaw couldn't deliver in her own satchem,
lets remember that, and Red Queen was also unimpressive in that regard, now the issue of the minimum wage did have some traction, and we know how that works out,

[Extraneus]

I'd highly recommend sneaking over to one of the lib sewers to read a few comments.

I agree. Here's a site that shows RSS feeds from a bunch of political blogs. There's a Liberal tab for convenience. (Top 100 list hasn't been updated in a while, but it shows the biggies.)

http://politifeeds.com

[narciso]

In Maryland, Zaphod, probably Captain Tupoleved
Brown, with that epic rant, someplaces like Minnesota, need an extra blast of UV, to clean out the strigoi,

[BeenThereDoneThat]

For the first time in over six years I embrace hope & change! Whee...what a delight to wake up to all the voters-smack-down-Obama headlines.

[Extraneus]

Actually, it looks like a bunch of those RSS feeds need to be updated, too. I'll have to contact the proprietor.

[hrtshpdbox]

'Obama to hold press conference on the midterms at 2:50 p.m. ET"

I wonder if the comments will concern the family's new dog Checkers and MO's respectable cloth coat, or if they'll be more in the style of "I am not a crook".

[narciso]

skydragon net manufacturers hardest hit:

http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2014/11/what-the-republican-midterm-election-victory-means-for-global-climate-policy/

[RickB]

what is the best source of info for '15 Health Ins rates and deductibles?

NK,

The map on the NAIC website links to the individual state insurance commissions. The Free State commissions provide general rate increase information, Blue Hell slave pens provide prog fodder for the baffled Muddle destined to discover the amount of extortion to be exacted only upon application.

I believe going with Keystone approval and nuclear plant fast tracking would be a better first move. Letting the screams from the lash of Obamacare continue for a bit while BOzo continues to promise to use his pen on a veto isn't a political negative.

I'd like to read the minutes of his "Don't call my bluff." meeting with Congressional leaders on Friday (if they bother to participate).

[Marlene]

I forgot to post the results of Question #1,the bear baiting ban. No on #1 won with 54% vote. Not the best outcome for the bears.

I know maryd is disappointed about Scott Brown because she worked on his campaign. NH has changed forever. Southern NH is now northern Massachusetts. The road my grandparents lived on was a gravel road until I was in high school.There is now a traffic light at the crossroads of that road and the main highway because the traffic is so heavy.
maryd,my father grew up in the Littleton area. I remember as a child visiting my great-grandparents and Gramp and Dad would sit and talk politics for hours. Gramp used to spit tobacco juice in a rusty old coffee can, which we kids found grossly fascinating. Ha. NH isn't the same.

[Dave (in MA)]

narciso @ 9:22, this damned state is still solid blue even though it looks like we got a RINO governor instead of Marsha, now that she's finally conceded.

[Jane]

Scott Brown should have won. Why on earth is Obola giving a speech?

[maryrose]

Sorry I could not post yesterday due to working at the polls!
Woot Woot,Woot

I was shouting and screaming all night and squealing like a stuck pig{Ernst reference}! What a great day to be a Republican
I do remember posting that Gillespie in Virginia should be given more money about 2 weeks ago.
Recount, Recount Recount,I concur with JamesD!
Hit: I love love love your state of North Carolina. I screamed the hardest for that followed by shouts of joy over Walker and Roberts Clown car my arse! Orman -You are a loser sir.
New Hampshire -you guys just took on another 6 years of ball and chain Shaheen. so sorry for you... Time to get with the anti-prog program...

[Beasts of England]

Wonder how little Tommy Steyer likes his $76.0M haircut?

Hahahahaha!!!!

[FTL]

Thanks for the suggestion to check out the lefty sites, BoE. I went fully expecting to savor the sweetness of progtard tears, but I ended up reaffirming and further hardening my view of the left as my mortal enemies.

The most valuable takeaway for me is a reminder to somehow stoke "impending Xtian theocracy" fears in any future conversations I have with democrats. This appears to be their deepest fear still, and I am not above ruining a leftard's day out of sheer spite.

[Threadkiller]

http://news.yahoo.com/how-hillary-clinton-won-the-2014-midterms-075943434.html

Huh?

[AliceH]

Janet posted on the prior thread: ..."loved Alice's post about St. Louis County, but it looks like the Dem. squeaked by -
ST. LOUIS COUNTY • Democrat Steve Stenger on Tuesday overcame internal party strife to score a razor-thin victory over Republican Rick Stream in a campaign for St. Louis County executive."

Her Post Dispatch link yielded just that paragraph and 2 pages of dashed lines, so no details. From the County election site shows:

COUNTY EXECUTIVE (WITH 681 OF 681 COUNTED)

STEVE STENGER (DEM) . . 137,638 47.73
RICK STREAM (REP) . . .135,870 47.12

Still remarkable! (No idea whether a recount is either likely or worthwhile)

[Extraneus]

With Shaheen winning, perhaps someone in the Senate can find the time to delve further into her interactions with Lois Lerner.

Btw, who will replace Issa as chairman of the House oversight committee? I believe he was term-limited out.

[NKreBootDeux]

TK@9:44-- "PROTECT THE QUEEN" shout the Legacy Media. This will continue and it will lead to "Obummer is the failure NOT Progism" meme in the Legacy Media. Of course HildaBeast was abig loser last night. Hagan, Nunn and Davis the Abortion Barbie proved that.

PS: The simple truth is that the Libertarian cost Gillespie the Va. election. That's a pity.

[Peter]

Funniest spin I've seen so far, besides Slim's chimps' "negativity" is an article "The environment was the biggest loser of the election of 2014."

[GMax]

Sabato was blasting the polling community with so many big misses. He said some overhaul was needed.

I think the Democrat bias in polls this go round was around 3.5%. Not huge, but still too large. Keep it in mind as you look at polls in the future.

[Dublindave]

It's a simple strategy;Democrats and the President need to sound shell shocked(not much acting required)repentant(we didn't know the American people felt this way-we were completely out of touch)concilatory(of course we'll give Republicans whatever they want-after all, America is now a red country).

Then we Democrats obstruct,veto,obstruct,veto,veto,veto,obstruct...all the while with the President begging for compromise and going out of his way to appear like he's doing everything he can to work with a Republicans.

Two years of a broken Republican Congress creates a narrative for team Clinton;fix Washington with a woman's conciliatory touch...but we also need Congress. Can't do one without the other blah blah...

BOOM!!!!!!!!Takeover.Done.Dusted.

We also need to exploit the fissures in the Republican party.Ted Cruz,Erick Erickson,Rush limbaugh are going to be our best friends over the next two years.

[pagar]

James D, Amen to your 09:14.

I would like to see the Republican leadership take the action recommended in your 09:09.

IMO, the Republican leadership should hire you to head up the effort to insure Voter ID is used in every state after insuring the person registering is an American citizen qualified and entitled to vote where registered.

[NKreBootDeux]

Shame about the final result in St Lou county. But the DA was the big winner there, and Jay Nixon the loser.

[GMax]

Cant sit down comfortably yet Double Douchebag? The welts will go down in about a week, hang in there...

[matt]

Well, I'm "Gridding my lions" or girding my loins or something. The next few weeks are going to be interesting as the CPUSA tries to ram through the rest of their agenda.

[narciso]

point taken, Dave, however, she is not as formidable as one would think,

[Threadkiller]

Did the 700,000 Romney voters that sat at home have anything to do with Gillespie's loss?

[BeenThereDoneThat]

Schumer's been shellacked as well...

http://dailycaller.com/2014/11/05/what-schumer-wrought/

[clarice]

Soylent, is that a wedding ring?

[Dublindave]

"Cant sit down comfortably yet Double Douchebag? The welts will go down in about a week, hang in there..."

How'd Ed Gillespie do?

[hrtshpdbox]

gmax, Nate Silver shows the Dem polling bias at around 6% and characterized it as a "big skew"; he thinks the biases are random and notes that in 2012 there was a GOP bias.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/liveblog/special-coverage-the-2014-midterms/

tk, how many Obama voters stayed at home in Va?

[GMax]

Straw and Grasping are we?

How did it go in State legislatures. This:

Both Houses flipped in Colorado, both in Nevada. New Mexico House flipped. So did WV House. WV Senate now tied. NH House flipped. So did MN House. All Republican.

What did your team get? NO State House flips, nary a single one. WHOOPS

[Threadkiller]

tk, how many Obama voters stayed at home in Va?

Why, did Gillespie deserve their vote as much as he deserved the Libertarian vote?

[rich@gmu]

NK-

>>>Those Richmond and Virginia Beach precincts have to be recounted carefully and challenged<<<

Gillespie won Virginia Beach and there isn't a whole lot of votes to be found or challenged in the counties around it that Warner won. A challenge would have to be in NoVa and it would probably wouldn't close the gap.

[AliceH]

NK@9:52

The DA (called County Prosecutor) ran unopposed.

Jay Nixon did lose in that Amendment 10 passed, which means he can no longer get away with using a 0-rate of expenditure to effectively line-item veto budgets that pass the House and Senate. That was a "loophole" he used excessively to avoid actually vetoing items which the legislature could then vote to override.

[GMax]

OH YEAH forgot that Republicans broke the Democrat supermajority in California too. What you got?

[Cecil Turner]

Gillespie won Virginia Beach . . .

Yeah, a quick review of that looks no more promising than AK does for Begich.

[Frau Wahlzettel]

hahahahahahahaha!

"Health (snicker) activist" Fluke flushed in CA.

[fdcol63]

Some of us enjoy the taste this morning! LOL

[rich@gmu]

there were 1.6M fewer votes cast in this off year Senate election than in the Presidential election in 12 (3.7M President in '12 and 2.1M for the Senate in '14) ...

overall the libertarian didn't matter (he'll end up with about 2.5% of the vote which is about 5 points worse than his gov run)... with Dem strength in NoVa and Richmond areas the GOP needs better turn out in off year elections in rural areas.

[FTL]

PS: The simple truth is that the Libertarian cost Gillespie the Va. election. That's a pity.

My take is that Sarvis took more Warner votes than he did Gillespie votes.

[fdcol63]

I swear I used proper "height" and "width" tags on that image!

[RickB]

GMax,

You left out the NY State Senate. Sabato is calling for an "investigtion" of pollsters? Perhaps he should have his own credulity investigated first.

[RickB]

GMax,

You left out the NY State Senate. Sabato is calling for an "investigtion" of pollsters? Perhaps he should have his own credulity investigated first.

[rich@gmu]

>>> and it would probably wouldn't<<<

that was odd ... it wouldn't close the gap ...

[Tonto]

For the second time in six years I'm proud of my country!

Lee Zeldon won NY's first district and that is fantastic! Tim Bishop, whom he ousted -- pretty decisively -- had all kinds of Clinton support, and they couldn't haul his sorry, corrupt, academic bottom over the end zone.

A real shame that Astorino didn't have more GOP $$ -- he ran, essentially, on fumes, but put up a respectable showing. If the GOP hadn't totally conceded the race to Cuomo from day one he might have actually had a shot.

[GMax]

So can we now roundly condemn Rasmussen polling. Its for carp. Demonstrably too favorable to Democrats. Hard to believe that anyone continues to pay for the carp they are serving up. They should refund their customers for that level of misses...

[James D.]

Gillespie won Virginia Beach and there isn't a whole lot of votes to be found or challenged in the counties around it that Warner won. A challenge would have to be in NoVa and it would probably wouldn't close the gap.

Probably true. But there's still value to fighting and challenging anything and everything.

It'll let both the base, and the Dems, know that it's not just business as usual anymore, that the R's aren't just going to lie down and accept Dem cheating. It'll force the Dems to spend money and time on defense.

And there's certain to be some irregularities unearthed. Even if there wasn't Dem cheating (but we all know there was), there were surely mistakes made, procedures not followed, things done in violation of law - stuff that can be prosecuted, and used as proof when the Dems lie about vote fraud not being real.

The Dems like to use the law to hammer R supporters, drag them into court, trash their reputations, bankrupt them if possible (as we've seen in Wisconsin). It's well past time to return the favor.

[GMax]

Yeah Sabato is the pot referring to the kettle.

[NKreBootDeux]

DD!! Congrats, you'll have something to troll about... but who will pay for it? Steyer is out of that business now.

[rich@gmu]

FTL-

I think that is right. Both Gillespie and Warner outperformed the candidates in the govs race, with Gillespie doing about 50K better and Warner doing about 6k better. Sarvis underperformed by about 100k votes state wide.

[Frau Wahlzettel]

Will the Senate minority really retain the Searchlight Pederast as leader, the man who led them to disaster?

[fdcol63]

GMax, on the contrary, we should encourage Dems to continue to use polling services that overestimate the Dem vote.

Continue to lull them into thinking their candidates are doing better than they are in the real world. Their overconfidence might prevent them from spending resources where it's really needed to defeat GOP candidates. LOL

[Jack is Back!]

Before Mitch and Boehner meet with BHOhOh on Friday they shoiuld sit down collectively with their leadership and members avaialble and come up with a list of immediate legislative actions they will be proposing and telliing the PosTUS that are looking for his cooperation.

1. Repeal employer mandate, medical device tax, restoring moneys to Medicare, dropping all external taxes tied to ACA.
2. Keystone Pipeline
3. Border security
4. Restore pre-2009 funding for the Millitary
5. Rollback EPA regulations on CO2 and restrictions on coal.
6. Any of the major job's bills sitting in Reid's inbox.

YMMV but they need to pre-empt this guy's agenda and do it alone actions.

[jimmyk]

he thinks the biases are random and notes that in 2012 there was a GOP bias.

Wave elections are almost invariably going to show a bias away from the wave toward something closer. Almost by definition the late moves or surprises tend to be all in one direction. The take-away is not so much bias but inaccuracy. They shouldn't be relied on when there are big things happening.

The Brown loss is disappointing because it was so close, but the GOP practically ran the table on the showdown races, and there was bound to be one disappointment. As good a campaign as Brown ran, I'm still not convinced that a real conservative couldn't have excited more of the base.

[pagar]

May God bless Ted Cruz as he works to make America better for every loyal American.

[GMax]

Steyer proves the old adage that a fool and his money are soon parted...

[JeffC]

Obama states are no longer viable measures of the voters ... and 2 years from now they will be even less so ...

[jimmyk]

Alaska isn't even close (49-45), why is that race not called for Sullivan?

[NKreBootDeux]

Va Beach/Richmond are traditional fraud locales (boxed lunches and bus around the nice 'folks'to various precincts for multiple votes using dead voters on the rolls-- best part, many of the nice folks didn't even 'know' it was illegal) NoVa is the NEW fraud.... Green card holders who are legal residents voting. No one knows what the extent of that is.

[fdcol63]

jimmyk, I think it's because of all the remote precincts that still have not reported.

[Peter]

JIB, the turtle and the tanned one can't be counted on to do anything right

[jimmyk]

fdcol63, that could be, but the tally I saw said 100% of precincts. Maybe that doesn't include absentees?

[Jack is Back!]

tonto,

Saw that on 27East. Made my heart sing. Only problem is he'll be hanging around the village like an old panhandler. Its about time sanity was restored to the district.

[Thomas Collins]

Well, however the final counting turns out, I'd say GMax and RickB and the other JOMers predicting a tsunami were on target, and the TC's of the world predicting a gentle wave were wrong. So congrats to the tsunami predictors. I'll eat my crow and wash it down with more celebratory cabs!

[GMax]

Alaska has about 30K absentee ballots, plus about 8% of Alaskan live way off the grid. Those votes are allowed to come in about a week late I think.

The registration numbers of the absentee ballots was reported somewhere, and its significantly Republican so don't expect it to save Begich.

[NKreBootDeux]

StLou County-- my take is the Cty Prosecutor winning unopposed, and the Dems barely holding the Supervisor indicates that the voters don't support the racialist clown show and the racialists won't vote for the dems anymore anyway. The Prosecutor standing up to the racialists played well, Nixon catering to the mob was a mistake. All good.

[Janet]

Amen to James's 10:23!!

[NKreBootDeux]

Janet -- agree with James as well. Drag in all shakey precincts even those precincts Gillespie 'won' because the margin of his win may have been reduced by traditional and new fraud.

[Danube on iPad]

Millions of presidential-election voters frim both parties sit at home in the mid-terms. The tragedy in Vtrginia is those housands who actually went to the polls and wasted their vote on the Libertarian candidate.

Mia Love for president!

[Thomas Collins]

As far as 2016 goes, I'm more concerned at the moment with the current GOP controlled Senate shutting down what will no doubt be Obama's further efforts to pack the Federal District and Appeals Courts with types who view the Constitution as being out of date (so 100 years or so ago, you know), and the Congress as a whole sending Obama serious prepaid health care reform and upgrading our military legislation. If Obama vetoes these types of bills, so be it. The campaign issues for 2016 will have been crystallized.

[GMax]

Do you let the enemy, i.e. Angus King, into the caucus meeting? I would not. He will almost never vote with the majority. Hell Manchin will surely vote with them more than King will.

[jimmyk]

It's fun to see the NYT reaction:

"Negativity Wins the Senate" (wanting smaller government--like repealing 404care--is defined as "negativity").

"Republicans Ride Wave of Anger" (Anger is the code word for white males being racist misogynists)

"Republicans’ First Step Was to Handle Extremists in Party" (It was more an effort to stamp out stupidity in the form of Akin-like remarks that could be twisted by the MSM. Akin was hardly an extremist.)

But let them continue in their delusions.

[matt]

I am going to spend the rest of the day quietly gloating over the hundreds of millions of dollars wasted by the likes of Streisand and Paltrow and especially Steyer and Soros in the past year or so.

Hillary's bleating did little good anywhere she went and there is already a groundswell against her. It sounds as if Shaheen may yet get investigated and the Lerner probe has new life, as does Fast & Furious. The FBI released 64,000 documents on Monday afternoon. That will keep Issa or his successor busy for a while.

There has been a whole raft of press and literature devoted to how screwed up Obama's foreign policy has been and now the Leftists are looking for a scapegoat. Who better than Obama?

But it grieves me that Minnesota has gone so crazy, and that places like NC and New Hampshire and Florida have been so deeply infected with Northeastern liberals.

Here in California we prevented super-majorities in the Assembly and State Senate, but that's just a kiss from your sister. Still,it's something.

Think about it, though. Scott, Mia Love, Ernst, along with Jindal, Martinez, Cruz, and our other narrative breakers. Maybe people will wake up someday to the sheer mendacity of the Left.

The Democrats have met the enemy and she is them.

[Dublindave]

"6. Any of the major job's bills sitting in Reid's inbox"

There are NO Republican jobs bills you retard.

House Republicans sent a bunch of bills to the Senate that roll back EPA regulations,give extraordinary tax breaks to Corporations(see;brownback,Corbett for success on that etc) repeal obamacare AND THEY CALLED THEM "JOB BILLS"

How dumb could you be that you actually bought your own parties bullshit?

Let me make this clear for you because sometimes I feel like you don't get the game that's being played here;Republicans represent a tiny majority of wealthy interests. The number is so small it creates electoral problems for them, so they have to widen the base by appealing to interests whom they have no interest in. They pretend to care about abortion-pick up a few votes from crazy religious people there and they pretend to care about the American people.

But they actually don't. They only care about the wealthy and they have to pretend to care about everyone.

It's a simple game.It's always been a simple game.Everyone knows it it seems except you.

There are no jobs bills because creating jobs is not what Republicans are interested in. There are tax giveaways to the wealthy that have been called 'job bills',but there are no actual 'jobs bills'.

[Iggy]

In my political lifetime I can remember perhaps six large, national repudiations of a party and its ideas.
1980, 1994, 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2014.
'06 and '08 were the smaller of the lot and '08 was based on an economic event itself more than the party or ideas that may have contributed to it. '06 was based almost entirely on war weariness with a dash of GOP base fatigue with the ballooning spending.

That leaves four massive shifts in the space of 35 years which should leave lefties trembling and give some sense of mission to the right.
This country, even with all the built in Gramsci bias, just will not swallow the big left wing project, especially when it is force fed it. Three of those devastating losses can be attributed either wholly or substantially to the left's maniacal fetish of getting between us, our doctor and our checkbooks.
The sad thing is neither party seems willing to learn the lessons the electorate is trying to teach them. The first one that does will have a huge advantage.

[Frau Wahlzettel]

Really!
What's with all the immediate dumping on Joni Earnst for her laughter last night? She was probably dead tired and goofy. IMO it was understandable. It isn't as if she read from a teleprompter and swiveled her head back and forth while uttering "uh" repeatedly.

Germany's Bild called Earnst a pig farmer and now informs its readers that the Bush family is advancing. Sigh!

[Thomas Collins]

Biggest flameout award: Can anyone top Wendy Davis's performance for top flameout? Alison Grimes campaigned like a seasoned veteran compared to Davis.

[GMax]

Want some lotion for the @ss burn Double Douche?