The Republicans gave it their best shot . . .

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  1. Phoebe Bump

    Phoebe Bump New Member

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    and came up short. Now let's shake hands, be friends, and get about the business of obstructing.
     
  2. Durandal

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    They were a big joke. No surprise there.
     
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    time to step aside and let the librarians through
     
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    Let's keep Uncle Sam paralyzed like a stroke victim sitting in its own poop as the world passes it by.
     
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    The Republicans should do everything in their power to bring about what they see as the best outcome for the nation.

    What's really needed is filibuster reform. 60 votes means nobody gets anything done.
     
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    I think Uncle Sam needs to die, not be reformed. Screw Uncle Sam.
     
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    I am curious as to how you can possibly be for oboobma dn his hideous record.
     
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    Do you mean us personally or the 60+ million who voted for him?
     
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    kenrichaed Banned

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    How do you figure the republicans lost when they kept the House?
     
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    Democrats retained the Presidency, widened their gap in the Senate, and shortened the gap in the House all during a slow recovery and nearly 8% unemployment, you couldn't lose worse unless every Republican declared themselves a member of the National Socialist Movement.
     
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    I'd say the democrats lost by not taking the House. Considering how they placed all the blame for every failure squarely on the shoulders of the republicans in the House it seems like a resounding affirmation of what the republicans are doing.

    There simply weren't enough seats up in the Senate for that to even be in contention and the Presidency is really irrelevant if you don't have Congress.
     
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    As Clinton said....it's arithmetic. Or to dumb it down for those who need it..if you leave your house with your car keys and your wallet and come home with just your car keys...that's a loss. Without major changes in the GOP, in 2014 they'll lose the car keys too.
     
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    Considering the amount of blame the democrats heaped onto the republicans in the House you should have expected every last one of to be tossed out, not keep the majority. Apparently that is saying that the American people didn't buy your blame game.

    I am assuming they are giving the President and the democrats one last shot but they don't hold republicans accountable as the left would have us believe. I consider that a huge victory for the republicans. Romney was a douchbag and not the first choice of many people, its hard to dethrone a sitting President in the first place, all this adds up to a democratic loss in my opinion.

    You also had a lot of seats lost in the Senate because of idiot republican candidates. People were more than willing to put republicans in until they started saying stupid crap. The democrats were giving another chance but they are walking a very fine line with voters.

    You hardly have a mandate of any kind.
     
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    More like "resounding gerrymandering" in spite of which the democrats still managed to win seats away from republicans. Accept it and move "forward".

    21 democratic seats up...of which the GOP won 0.
    10 republican seats up...of which the democrats won 2 and the independents won 1.
    The democrats won 20% of the republican seats that were up and the republicans won 0% of the democratic seats that were up (and even managed to lose a seat to the independent candidate in Maine).

    "the Presidency is really irrelevant if you don't have Congress"...is this what the GOP believes? That might explain why they chose Romney but time will tell as to the reality of your statement.

    As I already suggested...accept the facts, rearrange your party and move on.
     
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    Your not really disagreeing with me on anything though. Republicans were set to take some Senate seats, as the polls were showing, until the candidates flubbed up. The democrats won some of those simply by default. This shows us that the democratic hold on the Senate is tenuous at best.

    We knew some seats in the House were going to change but the fact that the republicans held it in spite of the blame coming from the left says a lot.

    And good luck getting a President to pass legislation without the Congress. You may think its possible somehow but its really not.
     
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    Yeah, Tuesday was actually a big victory for the GOP.....That's the ticket!! LOL
     
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    You need only to look at your "avatar" to see where these candidates who "flubbed up" came from. A little "soul searching"...and a whole lot of serious vetting of future candidates is a must for any "third" party. Tea or not.
     
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    Tea Party is not a third party and we don't vett candidates. We simply work with what is out there. If some guy turns out to be a closet idiot then we dismiss him and move on.

    The Tea Party does not run its own candidates.
     
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    Are you Mexican or simply Jewish?

    http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/upside-down-flag-west-virginia-mcdonald-raises-questions-154746450.html

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    http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/sean-hannity-john-boehner-gop-tackle-immigration-reform-142212570--election.html



    There's not a lick of difference between the so called Republicans (Neo-cons) and the Democrats.

    They are ALL in the Zionist's pockets.

    All of you good goody "white people" better wake up and face the fact.

    Jews are for Jews just as much as Mexicans are for Mexicans and blacks are for blacks.

    That's unless you don't mind becoming a third class citizen in the land of your birth.

    These "minorities" have been bullying us over "racism" for years and years. Are you actually fool enough to believe that these "human beings" are any less so?

    While you are in a dope cloud you may think that you are fine with that.

    Wait 'til you get old and they put you out to pasture. Wait 'til they cheat you out of a job, move you out of your house, or give you the shaft in any of a thousand other ways. There's just no substitute for personal experience.

    http://www.sskiweb.com/twpl/13/Page2.pdf

    http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc1203/article_1085_printer.shtml



    It's the same story in Britain and other European countries. Every country which heretofore has been predominantly white (non-Jew) has been flooded with immigrants. Do you see whites breaking immigration laws to bust into China, India, South America, or other non-white countries? Why not?

    The World Jewish organization has spearheaded the Balkanization in every case. Look it up.



    http://balder.org/judea/Hate-Speech-Laws-Immigration-Jewish-Influence-Britain.php
     
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    I can think of more than one Senate seat that the GOP lost because of the Tea Party. I, personally, wouldn't support any candidate I haven't vetted. So from your statement I guess that the Tea Party will no longer be supporting Akin and Murdock? A little late don't you think? Perhaps it would be better for your "Party" to find the " closet idiots" before you support them. Just saying.
     
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    We did quite well in 2010 you know.

    I don't know what my friends on the East Coast are doing. I'm on the West Coast so stay within the realm of politics here. We are not a solid group you know, just bound by similar principles.
     
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    I agree with the filibuster reform, but the minority party needs to stop blocking for the sake of blocking, it's hurting the country.
     
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    And a bunch, most in fact of the *********s were sent packing.
     
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    Nailed it.
    And look at the money the right spent to get this loss!
     
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    Well if you guys consider the republicans keeping the House a win for the democrats then I say welcome to our side.

    I'm glad the democrats won to.

    :)
     
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