Decision 2014: GOP Gains Control of Senate

[KazDog]

I figured you wouldn't read it Vols…..It's above your head.

[KazDog]

You know how a Lib is defeated? Acting like getting steamrolled in an election isn't a big deal.

LMFAO!!!!

I guess if anyone knows about getting steamrolled, it's the Republicans the last 6 years….

[kbsooner21]

I guess if anyone knows about getting steamrolled, it's the Republicans the last 6 years….

Or hard working Americans...

[vols fan]

Harry Reid and Obama have both said today that "they want to work together" with the republicans!!!! NOW that they have no choice they say that. Honestly I haven't seen two bigger idiots in my life!!

[vols fan]

I figured you wouldn't read it Vols…..It's above your head.

So I guess you're calling me dumb so if gloves are off and mods get to bash members then I guess it's ok for us to do the same. I didn't read it cause it's long as fuck and I'm quick to the point. Just cause you're a "writer" don't mean you're better than me. Don't ever forget that!!

[vols fan]

I figured you wouldn't read it Vols…..It's above your head.

Speaking of head, you can lick mine!

[jcindaville]

Relax in here

[vols fan]

10-4 you're right

[10DimeBry]

I figured you wouldn't read it Vols…..It's above your head.

Typical lib elitist. Better than everyone else.

Thinks he's the smartest guy in the room. Reality is you are blow hard flaming libtard that cannot take a whipping like a man.
I could spend my night destroying you with FACTS but why bother. You will just ban me here to like u blocked my text. You fucking coward!!!!

[KazDog]

Get lost Dimer…..And grow up!

[BettorsChat]

Listen up guys I started this thread not thinking anything about it. Now I wished I had not posted it as the name calling has to stop. It's back open, but let's try to keep things calm in here.

And no other politics thread will be allowed as I screwed up as we did away with that section. So if you have something political to say then say it in here.

As Rachel Maddow put it 2-3 weeks before the elections the Democrats didn't deserve to win as they are wussies. And that's the truth as they had the republicans back on their heals, but didn't strike.

An example is this idiot Cotton in Arkansas said that ISIS is going to join the drug cartel in Mexico then hit the State of Arkansas in a terroristic way. Now that's a bunch of BS and fear mongering.

He wants interest rate raised on student loans- students have enough debt they need to pay when graduating let alone have a higher interest rate
He wants Social Security and Medicare raised to 70 years old.

He was the only politician in the State of Arkansas to vote against both Democrats and Republicans. He's stated on the record he will not work with Democrats. Anyone unwilling to work with another party is not going to make anything better! It's just drawing a line in the sand and acting like babies.

[vols fan]

Listen up guys I started this thread not thinking anything about it. Now I wished I had not posted it as the name calling has to stop. It's back open, but let's try to keep things calm in here.

And no other politics thread will be allowed as I screwed up as we did away with that section. So if you have something political to say then say it in here.

As Rachel Maddow put it 2-3 weeks before the elections the Democrats didn't deserve to win as they are wussies. And that's the truth as they had the republicans back on their heals, but didn't strike.

An example is this idiot Cotton in Arkansas said that ISIS is going to join the drug cartel in Mexico then hit the State of Arkansas in a terroristic way. Now that's a bunch of BS and fear mongering.

He wants interest rate raised on student loans- students have enough debt they need to pay when graduating let alone have a higher interest rate
He wants Social Security and Medicare raised to 70 years old.

He was the only politician in the State of Arkansas to vote against both Democrats and Republicans. He's stated on the record he will not work with Democrats. Anyone unwilling to work with another party is not going to make anything better! It's just drawing a line in the sand and acting like babies.

You just quoted the most liberal dike bitch in America Rachel Maddow and it's just so hard to give yall any credibility. Her and the msnbc crowd are equivalent to us following Glenn Beck. We denounce him just like yall should them.

[robby_morini]

Y'all need to quit licking your nuts. This midterm election wasn't as big a deal as the nut licking Republicans want to make it out to be.....Republicans in all states beat doors down to get their constituents out to vote because they know they've been losing a grip on this country. This story puts it all into perspective.....It's a fair assessment.






In the end, there was no Republican wave. Indeed, ideologically it was barely a ripple. Unlike 2010, with the Tea Party, or 2006, when the Democrats took over, there was no all-encompassing agenda or over-arching theme. The Republicans won the US midterms – there’s no denying that – but they didn’t win as big as it first seems.

This election cycle included not only conservative-friendly states but a disproportionate number of competitive states in which incumbent Democrats were stepping down. Democrats have not won Louisiana or Arkansas in a presidential election since 1996, Georgia since 1992 and Alaska since 1964. A Democrat losing in these places is no great surprise. They were low-hanging fruit, and Republicans expended a lot of energy – and even more money – trying to get to it. They were successful. Democrats fared better on Tuesday night than they did in 2010, two years after which Barack Obama beat Mitt Romney. States where Democrats fared worse, like Virginia, North Carolina or Florida (in the governor’s race), are swing states that are always in play.

This election was not a referendum on Obama. Or if it was, it was inconclusive. He is as much the president in New Hampshire, where Democrats won a Senate seat, as in Colorado and Georgia, where they lost.

But the midterms were a reflection on Obama’s presidency. His second term has lacked purpose and direction as it has lurched from crisis to crisis, many of which – the NSA, the IRS, White House security – have been self-imposed. Where he has taken a stand, like on gun control after the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, Obama was unable to achieve legislative change. Where he has not taken a stand, as with immigration reform, he is being punished for it. Polling shows the public actually backs Obama rather than Republicans on key issues, including mending rather than repealing Obamacare, immigration reform, increasing the minimum wage, same-sex marriage and a host of other issues. The problem is few people have any confidence that Obama will actually get any of them done.


Still, 2014 was hardly an endorsement of the Republicans. Red states like Nebraska and Arkansas voted to raise the minimum wage, Alaska and Oregon and Washington DC voted to legalize marijuana, and Washington state voted for a gun control measure. That the GOP has now taken control of the Senate marks a substantial change in terms of leadership but not a particularly consequential one in terms of legislation. The Republicans will emerge with only a small majority, and if the party’s recent experience running the House of Representatives is anything to go by, the GOP is likely to be a dysfunctional caucus – and anything Republicans do come up with that is unpalatable to Democrats, the president still holds a veto. Obama at times has proved himself in negotiations to possess the spine of a jellyfish, but unless he caves, nothing much more will get done this session than during the previous one.

Only this time the excuses will be different. Instead of Democrats blaming House Republicans for refusing to compromise, Republicans will blame Obama for thwarting the will of Congress. “Just because we have a two-party system doesn’t mean we have to be in perpetual conflict,” Mitch McConnell, the presumptive new Senate majority leader, said in his victory speech on Tuesday night. “I think I’ve shown that to be true at critical times in the past. I hope the president gives me the chance to show it again.”

According to a CNN exit poll, 8 in 10 Americans disapprove of how Congress has been handling its job, while almost 6 in 10 are displeased with President Obama. A full 44% have a positive view of Democrats; 40% have a positive view of Republicans. Americans have just elected the party they like the least to run the government body they least trust. Even greater cynicism is the most likely outcome.

On Tuesday night, the electorate wasn’t waving. It was drowning.

This is all well and good but it doesn't address the governor's races in solid blue states. Mass, Maryland and Illinois are as blue as it gets and they all 3 elected Republican governors. In each of the cases, the democrats blamed their losses on anti Obama sentiment. Additionally, Obama campaigned for all three of the losing candidates, rare since every major candidate in a tight race ran as fast as they could from the Obama name. Virginia will eventually go D as did NH late but there is no way these blue states should have been close. Throw in Florida and Wisconsin where the Democratic Machine unsuccessfully spent millions on advertising to unseat R governors in states that Obama won, you have a route.

Chuck Todd, Chris Matthews Anderson Cooper along with every major political pundit on election night with the exception of Al Sharpton called this a wave and a clear indictment on President Obama and his agenda. These people aren't exactly far right political analysts.

When it is all said and done, the R's will have 54 Senate seats and the D's will have 44. I don't know what you call a wave or anti Obama sentiment but these results speak for themselves. Hopefully he will do as Bill Clinton did in 1994 and show some leadership after massive losses and work with both houses. The entire country benefited from Clinton's acknowledgement of the wishes of the electorate. The economy took off and even though he is a perv, Clinton showed leadership. If Obama doesn't do the same, he will go down as the most devisve and least effective presidnt in our country's history.

[vols fan]

Get lost Dimer…..And grow up!

Running members off???? You should step down from being a mod until you learn how to treat people that don't agree with you

[BettorsChat]

This thread will be closed this afternoon sometime so if you got something to say say it quick