If the Republicans regain control, I wonder if they’ll take the blame for not being able to fix a non-fixable set of problems (or don’t really want to fix since it will hurt their friends) in two years. Yeah, right…
With Election Day still a week away, Democrats are previewing what promises to be a main line of argument if Republicans make strong gains in Congress: Conservatives bought their way to power with a flood of spending by outside groups.
These post-mortems, made before the patient is actually dead, have slipped into public statements from top Democrats in recent days. And the argument is being made even more strongly in not-for-attribution comments to reporters from party operatives: A tough-but-manageable political climate turned much more lethal with the infusion of tens of millions of dollars from anonymous donors funding ads for right-leaning independent groups.
The denunciations of outside money by President Barack Obama and others began as a tool to rally the Democratic base before the Nov. 2 election. But in recent days it has morphed gradually into something else: A main talking point to explain—and fend off the recriminations over—what many Washington Democrats assume will be a brutal election night.
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If the GOP wins any majority they’ll see gridlock like never before. (not convinced they’ll win that majority quite yet)
Gridlock would be an improvement over pissing away billions of the taxpayer’s money.
As a result, they will continue to blame the Dems for everything including Apollo 13 and Sony rootkits.
And the Dems will continue to blame Bush for everything including rainy days and the common cold.
Pelosi is/was useless, but Boehner is dangerous. And he’s nuts.
You make it sound as if Pelosi isn’t nuts.
Thomas, you must be referring to Medicare Part D….pissing away billions. Pure socialism and spending like pigs. All wrapped up into one. Passed by Bush. Costing us billions and taking a major step towards socialism. Or Facism. One of them -isms, anyway.
So, how’s that glass house?
#9 “This is because of the Supreme Court decision in the last session about corp money going for elections.”
Let me correct this for you, “This is because of the Supreme Court decision in the last session about corp AND UNION money going for elections.”
I’m with John on this one. I think there is a lot of manufactured hand wringing so the day after the election when it’s not a complete political apocalypse for the Dems they can claim a victory. Clinton was the best at that game.
#23 and #17 I point out that website because I get tired of the “axiom” that the Republicans get all the money from big corporate lobbyists. Christ on a cracker man, look at the huge money going to the Dems from big corporate lobbyists.
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Thomas, you must be referring to Medicare Part D….pissing away billions.
Here, let me correct that for you: “You must also be referring to Medicare Part D…pissing away billions”.
Yep. Just like the that. Just like the porkulus bill.
#6
“Had Obama capitalized on the anger at the GOP after his election he could forced the change he spoke of in his campaign.”
How can a plutocrat change a system that is made exclusively of plutocrats?
Like asking a wolf to come and redecorate the wolf’s den.
You all are so naive. The republicans if they get control will then toady to the same corporations that helped the democrats get elected. And when they don’t do enough for them. The corporations will back the democrats with more money and over and over and over.
When will you all realise that we cannot have change with the current system. That no matter what plutocrat you vote in it will not change because it is the same critters.
Wake the fuck up you drunk monkeys! Get off the chemicals and wake up.
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non-fixable set of problems
Easily fixed, undo everything Obama and Congress did, roll back spending to 2000 levels…
And the economy will roar.
Then if we want to regain much of our industrial base, we rescind all taxing of production.
End the monopoly power of the unions.
Prohibit unions in civil service.
Then we will have the “Roaring Teens” much like they had the “Roaring Twenty’s when Coolidge did much the same things, cut bloated government (which gets rid of waste and corruption perfectly in what was cut), and roll back regulations.
Death to the regulators…they are strangling our economy.
Alfred, you’re living in a fantasy world. You really think federal taxes are the reason manufacturing went overseas? You really think wiping out unions (which are only a small part of the working base anymore) would make that much of a difference? Overseas manufacturers produce goods at prices far below what domestic ones can because they pay their workers at levels US workers can’t live on. Cutting what you say would only be a part of the difference.
No, politicians promises aside, manufacturing is gone and not coming back. We are a service- based economy now.
U-Dave…that’s the “regulations” part of the argument. Kill off the minimum wage, eliminate overtime and child labor laws, eliminate unemployment insurance and FICA contributions, neuter OSHA even further, the FTC and EPA too, eliminate all ‘frivolous’ lawsuits, and maybe then businesses will be able to compete with foreign manufacturers.
It’s that simple.
/snark
Uncle Dave, you need to do a bit more research on unions.
The private sector unions are not the problem. It is public sector unions with their 6 digit salaries and multi-billion unfunded sweet-heart retirement packages.
3 unions in California alone are in the hole for $550 billion due to their unfunded pensions. That’s half a trillion dollars in just one state! And guess who is going to bail them out? Yup, we are.
#28 Pretty much it. Too bad your answering to the other side of the looney bin. Too hard to be listened there.