Republicans Have Taken the House!

[9-10ths_Penguin]

And if you rearrange the letters in “Tea Party Republicans” and add just a few more letters, it spells: “Shut up, you free-loading, progress-blocking, benefit-grabbing, homophobic, resource-sucking, racist, hypocritical jerks, and face the fact that you nearly capsized the country under Bush.”

How weird is that?

What are the odds?!

It also rearranges (really!) to "nuttier yap cabal Reps".

I think it would be interesting to see a yap cabal in person just once.

Edit: actually, now that I think about it, "yap cabal" would probably be a good description for a Tea Party protest.

 

[angellous_evangellous]

How weird is that?

That's funny, but I don't listen to or even look at Tea Baggers when they do rant.

It irritates me to no end that they exploit a point in history that they know nothing about and recruit others to participate in their stupidity.

And they have an agenda that is impossible - and self-defeating, even for them if they get it done.... and it looks to me like they are stupid enough not to even know this.

So the Baggers are sending a small contingent to Washington, but they are going to be ignored unless they give up all of their principles and play by the rules. If they are counting on their representatives to hold onto their principles, the Tea Party just may end in the next two years.

 

[TheKnight]

Our problems would be less if everyone would just:

Vote Libertarian

The bad part is, the Democrats held the Senate, and although they won't be able to accomplish anything -- they couldn't even accomplish anything when they had the House and the Senate -- the Republicans will be able to convince American voters in 2012 that the problem is that there aren't enough Republicans in government.

The side that gets things done will always get more votes. Even if what they're doing is wrong.

lol nice. I try not to get involved in politics too much due to my disgust in the subject, but this is really getting out of hand. Even as a christian, I am embarrassed and disgusted at this country's politics.

It is my own personal opinion that any true Bible believing Christians should distance themselves as far away from american politics as possible if they know what's good for them. All these politicians, that are claiming christianity, are doing is no more than ruining the world view of what true Christianity is.

I just also wanted to make the point that not all "christians" are republicans/tea party members and what happened last night truly scares me.

Sincerely,
SoliDeoGloria

The "Christian" response would be to get involved and try to change things to how they should be.

 

[MissAlice]

Meh, makes no difference which party is in power. Same stuff, just different tie colours and different rhetoric spewed. The actual people have very little say in the nation's affairs anyways, so either way the people are gonna get screwed over.

Exactly.

Except I think we're really screwed. /:

 

[Mister_T]

Exactly.

Except I think we're really screwed. /:

Probably not as screwed as the Republicans want people to believe. Sure they cleaned up in the house, but Democrats still have the senate and the President still has his veto power....so basically, it's going to be at least another 2 years of not getting anything done.

 

[Engyo]

Yes please, let's go back to having domestic violence being considered as a pre-existing condition. Good job, Boner. You do your corporate masters proud.

Yeah! I wanna go back to 25% per year cost increases in my health care premiums! Those were the days! {/sarcasm]

 

[linwood]

So, what will happen next?

Hopefully if the Democrats can muster up a single testicle between them the only thing that will happen is gridlock for the next two years.

Hopefully....

 

[linwood]

opcorn:This is gonna be good. I wanna watch the tapdancing now as our newly elected government decides whether dogmatic idealism will be more important than truly governing the country.

They decided dogmatic idealism was more important twenty years ago.
They`ve simply been pushing it for the past two decades.

 

[linwood]

Glenn Greenwald on yesterday's results:

“But for slothful pundits who want to derive sweeping meaning from individual races in order to blame the Left and claim that last night was a repudiation of liberalism, the far more rational conclusion — given the eradication of 50% of the Blue Dog caucus — is that the worst possible choice Democrats can make is to run as GOP-replicating corporatists devoted above all else to serving corporate interests in order to perpetuate their own power: what Washington calls “centrists” and “conservative Democrats.” That is who bore the bulk of the brunt of last night’s Democratic bloodbath — not liberals.”

Greenwald has a point.

I was pretty amazed at the destruction of the Blue Dogs and the Tea Party candidates.

 

[Requia]

The craziest representatives of the Tea Party lost, but Rand Paul won, Mike Lee won, Marco Rubio won etc.

 

[linwood]

The craziest representatives of the Tea Party lost, but Rand Paul won, Mike Lee won, Marco Rubio won etc.

True but I make a distinction that might be wrong, it`s just an observation.

I don`t believe for a minute that Rubio and the others mentioned are actually Tea Baggers compared to the likes of O`Donnell.

It seems obvious to me that the Rubios and Pauls simply used the momentum of the Tea party to gain office.

It won`t take long for them to be in office before the Tea Baggers realize they were used and then the fun begins.

Like I said, just an observation.

 

[MissAlice]

Greenwald has a point.

I was pretty amazed at the destruction of the Blue Dogs and the Tea Party candidates.

Well at least some sanity came out of it.

 

[Requia]

I can't really speak for candidates outside of my state, but Lee is a through and through 'lets repeal the 14th ammendment' teabagger.

I'd apologize on behalf of Utah, but I actually enjoy making the rest of the country suffer.

 

[linwood]

I can't really speak for candidates outside of my state, but Lee is a through and through 'lets repeal the 14th ammendment' teabagger.

Well, I`m in the same position.
I`m in Florida so I`m pretty sure Rubio is nothing more than an extremist right wing GOP maniac who used the Tea Baggers.

I`m not as knowledgable of candidates outside my state so I`ll defer to your greater knowledge of Lee and offer my condolences.

 

[Zoness]

So, what will happen next?

I think you will see the following:

Republicans and Teabaggers: "We support the individual freedoms of Americans without oppression by the government!"

**Republican backed legislation begins on all matter of subjective and moral issues with a huge evangelical Christian slant.

 

[Requia]

The tea baggers have come forward saying they're already making plans to replace any tea party candidates that don't follow through with their promises by the time the next primaries come around.

Which would be highly amusing since there's no way a freshman congressman is going to be allowed to do anything, if they're very lucky the Teabagger candidates will have been told where the bathrooms are by 2012.

 

[Mercy Not Sacrifice]

I have great difficulty understanding the American political system.

Virtually in all other western systems, when the government loses its majority, the winning side takes over. In those cases it is the Lower house result that decides the issue.

Where there is an elected President like France, he has to choose a new prime minister who can command a majority, who in turn leads the parliament. This can cause a few weeks disruption.

The American System results in the President and his administration being emasculated, and a powerless government continuing for the next few years. Even when a new president is elected it takes a few months for them to take over.

The president and administration are elected for only four years, at least two of those years are taken up with campaigning where effective government is replaced by popularity stakes.
If they lose the mid term elections, at least an extra year is taken up in Limbo.

When you compare this to the UK system, after the Prime minister calls a new election. The whole process takes six weeks before a new Government is in place. In less than one hour the old Prime minister and ministers resign are replaced by the new one. At no time is the country with out effective Government.

Our system of government was designed with a system of balances, to ensure that neither Congress, the president, the courts, nor the people gained too much power for themselves. Yes, the people. Every two years, the entire House of Representatives is up for reelection, but only a third of the Senate is. So it was much harder for the Republicans to take the Senate, *by design.* And the president is only up for reelection every four years.

The irony is this: The Constitution writers that the Tea Party has deified, wrote the very provisions that kept the Tea-Partiers from getting everything they wanted.

 

[Sunstone]

News flash: Our ******* wus of a president has sworn to work with the Republicans.

By the way, am I being too harsh on him?

 

[YmirGF]

News flash: Our ******* wus of a president has sworn to work with the Republicans.

By the way, am I being too harsh on him?

Can one be too harsh on Obama?

 

[Zoness]

News flash: Our ******* wus of a president has sworn to work with the Republicans.

By the way, am I being too harsh on him?

This makes me mad. Not because I don't agree with, you in fact I very much do, but because Obama had his chance with the supermajority and blew it. The democrats tried to be the better people and reach out to the Republicans in bipartisanship but it was a waste of breath. They should of stuck to cold, hard agenda pushing and now it has passed and there is nothing to show for the sheer potential the Democrats had, I am very disappointed.