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I told you it would be scorched earth that Obama and his commie cronies left behind!

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/11/0 ... a-century/

So many fun articles today, so little time.

Obama feels the heat as voters desert in droves

http://www.smh.com.au/world/obama-feels ... rom=smh_sb

Two years of "hope and change" politics has come to quick and decisive end. The Democrats have lost control of Congress.

The biggest single element in the landslide was "Obamacare", the sweeping health care reform which is perceived as an extra burden by millions of Americans, and an unwelcome expansion of centralised government.
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The biggest single element in the landslide was "Obamacare", the sweeping health care reform which is perceived as an extra burden by millions of Americans, and an unwelcome expansion of centralised government.
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Yup, they hate it right up until they realise that voting to get rid of any and all socialised care will also effect them, not just the people "wasting it".

I'd like to think that the republican party will be gracious about their win, that they'll not simply block everything that Obama proposes because he proposed it.

But based on their record so far... I really doubt it.
 
Election Stats ~45Million loss in voters between 2008 and 2010. The white and elderly votes both increased in %. Though some of it appears to be due to the lower minority turn out. If voting records show us anything it's that Republicans tend to win with the old white man.

Here's a better Voter break down Some interesting stuff in there. Mostly swing voters swung Republican. Old and white = Republican. Interesting that 31% of voters want Healthcare expanded and 30% want the law left as it is now. That's a 61% backing for the current 'Obamacare'. I thought Red told us the obvious was against this?

Looking at these Dems didn't lose because Republicans are popular. Dems lost because Republican was the only other choice.
 
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Surfaris "Wipeout"
 
the_leander said:
redrumloa said:
[quote="the_leander":f97x65o5]will also effect them, not just the people "wasting it".
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Rolling Stone magazine has next to no credibility, I would not put much weight into their political articles.
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This article seems to be well cited from what I can find.[/quote:f97x65o5]

Taibbi’s piece is a slovenly mess of leftist ad hominem, with a slacker approach to research, and substitutes propaganda for facts.

“Tea Party’s political outrage is being appropriated, with thanks, by the Goldmans and BPs of the world,” Taibbi's examples two corporations known for their large donations to the Democratic Party (by hefty margins).

Taibbi writes that FreedomWorks was “conspicuously silent during George Bush’s gargantuan spending” Guess slackers don't use Google? FreedomWorks has opposed big government approaches under Bush 43, Clinton, Bush 41, and even Reagan.

Taibbi’s conspiracy theory involves Ron Paul collaborating with Goldman Sachs! Someone needs to take their meds!

Another Taibbi article, from July
July, 2010 -- The Tea Party is Perverted and Irrelevant


Taibbi formerly wrote for a Moscow guide magazine letting tourists know where they could pick up whores, score drugs, and which clubs were the most likely to get you killed while you were picking up the whores and heroin. Seems much more qualified for that gig.
 
metalman said:
Taibbi’s conspiracy theory involves Ron Paul collaborating with Goldman Sachs! Someone needs to take their meds!
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Ron Paul collaborating with Goldman Sachs??? :roflmao:
 
metalman said:
“Tea Party’s political outrage is being appropriated, with thanks, by the Goldmans and BPs of the world,” Taibbi's examples two corporations known for their large donations to the Democratic Party (by hefty margins).
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I haven't read this article so I'm taking this at face value. Clearly Goldman's is associated with contributions to the Democratic Party. From what I've seen of BP they have contributed to both parties but to the Republican'ts by roughly a 10:1 margin.
 
metalman said:
Taibbi’s piece is a slovenly mess of leftist ad hominem, with a slacker approach to research, and substitutes propaganda for facts.
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There is no way in hell that much irony isn't toxic.

metalman said:
“Tea Party’s political outrage is being appropriated, with thanks, by the Goldmans and BPs of the world,”
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Now that there is a fine example of quote mining.

metalman said:
Taibbi’s conspiracy theory involves Ron Paul collaborating with Goldman Sachs! Someone needs to take their meds!
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Heh, that would be Rand Paul. Who has, with the aid or the republican party pretty much subsumed the Tea Party his daddy came up with (which goes toward the above bit of quote mining you did).

But of course you knew that already.

I guess you were too busy looking to smoosh the article and the author to bother with trivialities like reading the damned thing.


metalman said:
letting tourists know where they could pick up whores, score drugs, and which clubs were the most likely to get you killed while you were picking up the whores and heroin. Seems much more qualified for that gig.
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Yup, toxic.
 
[youtube:3nsnu5ba]Ke_XmrEa8Vo&fmt=18[/youtube:3nsnu5ba]this isn't exactly the one I was looking for, but I found it interesting.

still looking for the other one.........
 
[youtube:1qv667a0]zdxcmg5TcKI[/youtube:1qv667a0]

just found another interesting and entertaining video.
 
"I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty." Thomas Jefferson, letter to Count Diodati, 1807
 
So it would seem the voter's answer to slow progress is to re-elect the people that oversaw the creation of the mess the present government hasn't managed to fix yet?

Umkay...
 
Karlos said:
So it would seem the voter's answer to slow progress is to re-elect the people that oversaw the creation of the mess the present government hasn't managed to fix yet?

Umkay...
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Subprime was an invention of the Clinton era, but no Bush's hands are not clean in this mess. Obama took a bad situation and made it many times worse.
 
The new government is ...

the same as it was before because people don't vote for the government.

[youtube:7mxrjyd6]9NqjqxLUanE[/youtube:7mxrjyd6]
 
FluffyMcDeath said:
The new government is ...

the same as it was before because people don't vote for the government.

[youtube:2hfg4pxu]9NqjqxLUanE[/youtube:2hfg4pxu]
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Very true. It's a shame that we accept this charade.
 
Robert said:
Very true. It's a shame that we accept this charade.
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If too many people didn't accept it then they would have to shoot us.
 
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