2018 Midterms: what have we learned

Trump is just beginning to understand what losing the House may mean going forward. He was gracious this morning for one tweet then reality must have set in and he turned back to his old 'punch them harder' self with this tweet



This time he's going to be out-gamed. The House holds 1/3 of the power in government, they share equal power with the executive and judicial branches. He's not going to be able to steam-roller over Republicans in the House any longer. And if I were Wilbur Ross and Ryan Zinke, I'd be concerned because both of them can also be subpoenaed.

 

Nancy Pelosi came out and said priority #1 is stopping the GOP.

We didnt learn anything.

We already knew the Democrat platform was only about Trump.

 

$70 MILLION dollars.

On a losing bet. Lol

 

The wealthy liberals have cash to spare and will spend even more in 2020

The democrats have added some imaginative campaign finance wrinkles that republicans will have to learn and copy

 

How is it bad for Russia to buy ads on facebook for Trump, but not bad for CA dems to buy ads on FB for TX elections? Isn't that outside interference? And from all we know, Russia only spent $1,000 or so. CA dems spent millions, if not billions around the US.

 

Inner cities vote blue because they have been promised more handouts by the left, no big shocker there. We also learned/verified that the left is moving even further to the left via candidates like Cortez winning. We also confirmed that the left has no policy direction and is simply the hate-Trump party. I agree with you, we will have more expensive and wasteful "investigations"/witch hunts to look forward to, maybe even an impeachment attempt from the House, which will ultimately fail. All this will accomplish is energizing the Republican base, and right leaning independents will have to choose between hating Trump or continuing the trend of more jobs, better economy, protecting our borders, and helping the middle class. I predict the House will kill any tax cuts for the middle class, put forth silly proposals like eliminating ICE, kill the border wall, and protect sanctuary cities. What happened to that Blue Wave you all were droning on and on about?

Trump just received a big win as far as his 2020 campaign goes, with the likes of crazy Nancy, Mad Maxine, and Chucky back in action. Throw in the ultra-commie Cortez with a very low IQ, and the campaign ads pretty much create themselves. Good job Dems, LOL!

 

You are partially correct.

It is about the economy for those of us who must earn a living, but not for those who don't. Healthcare is more of a priority for those looking to get it for free, off the backs of the working taxpayers who are more concerned about the economy. So you can see both things at play.

 

Revax, the margin of blue victory came out of suburbia; the blue already has city centers.

 

i agree with the independents, but i did see anything on the kavanaugh effect. as you said the house was predictable and with the senate, the democrats had a very steep climb. i still think mid term elections are still mainly local to the state and the candidates themselves are responsible. could kavanaugh been a discriminator, possibly, but unless i see more info on that, it is marginal.

 

Wherever Obama campaigned, his candidate lost.... lol
kavanaugh effect was real, lucky for Joe in West Virginia.

Democrats do not legislate very well so this will be a rough 2 years for America as a whole. Time and time again, their corruption always floats to the surface as they get more and more time in power.

 

More RW BS about Nazis. It is almost universally the case that Right Wingers have been fed a load of revisionist history of both the Democrats and Nazis. A very worrying development, given they think Right Wingers can only ever be the good guys and have nothing to do with their movement.

 

no. I think he is a spoiled little rich kid who thinks he can get away with anything. But you should probably re-read what I said.

 

Ignorance. The Soviets perhaps elevated labor too high, there was universal employment (the lazy bums) and all outcomes such as where you lived, the quality of your education was tied to your production as a worker. This myth that Socialism equals no one working and everyone just ends up lazy is based on nothing but right wing fantasies.

 

You left out the part that Trump shaped the Senate into the most president supportive conservative senate in decades.

I expect we will we now see nothing but positive comments from the usual suspects.

 

It's a progressive who introduced nazi fantasies, and one of the few nazi fantasies ever realized was socialized medicine. Real sorry that upsets you professor.

 

Yes, the suburbs filled with the Middle Class who voted for Dems can't earn a living or get healthcare. Wait a second..

 

Summing up your post #60 your goal is to attack trump and his cabnet

The only legeslative issue you mention is raising taxes which is a typical lib goal

 

Keep buying into your ridiculous revisionist history, we fully debunked this argument in the opinion forum this week. The effort to redefine who the Nazis are with the simultaneous rise of the authoritarian Right in America is no coincidence. They want to lie to you and convince you the Right has never been racist or totalitarian, and none of you have an actual education with which to counter the propaganda. Sad, others who actually know history will remain vigilant.

 

The GOP are so divorced from reality that they can turn a resounding loss into a win. Trump is going to continue to try amd obstruct Americans from knowing the truth about him, but he will not be successful now that we own the House. Trump will get nothing else done until 2020, no new major policies except his handout to the Rich and deregulation for Big Oil and Banks. Bye!!!

 

Quit trolling and be serious....

Who do you think is more likely to be concerned about free healthcare ---- an unemployed person or an employed taxpaying person?

Who do you think is more likely to be concerned about a strong economy ---- an unemployed person or an employed person / business owner / etc?

Your reply was a knee jerk response because you assume working taxpayers are Republicans and freeloaders are all Democrats and so you became defensive. Take off your partisan glasses and you'll see the validity of my point.

 

That socialsm leads to laxiness is a well known fact that dates back in America to the early founding


Jamestown
In the spring of 1609, John Smith cited the aphorism to the colonists of Jamestown:

The most important rule was that if you did not work, you would not eat. ("He who works not, eats not.")

In the early development of the colony a communal farming system was established to disperse food among all the early settlers. This system proved faulty as a large enough group of settlers were taking food without making significant contributions to the town as a whole that food began to run out and starvation was becoming a possibility.

John Smith solved the problem by establishing a system that guaranteed that all those who required food in order to survive were willing to make contributions to the community in order to eat.

 

Are you seriously comparing the influence of another country to that of a different state?

 

Communists and fascists are just two sides of the same centralized government “progressive” coin

 

LOLzzz he says: 2020 kicks off ... I says: TDS really kicks in. Lame duck (D)'s -vs the "party of NO" (R)'s?

 

Yet the fascists utterly hated and feared the Communists, locked them up and then fought a war of annihilation against them. Conservatives here seem to have zero education in political philosophy, so many anachronisms and falsehoods. You would get laughed out of a classroom.