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May 19, 2010 03:42 PM UTC
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Well, the chattering nabobs all agree, yesterday’s primaries indicate a dissatisfaction with Washington. Perhaps. Here are my two thoughts, FWIW.
1. The forty year effort of the “cons” with all their billions of dollars spent, their “think tanks,” their lies, their presidents, are really paying off now. Those who grew up under FDR, Truman, Eisenhower are dead or (relatively) soon to be. We have new generations that have been fed that Neocon Pablum all their lives and they are buying into it. The Tea Party is just a final push over the top.
2. It’s a long, long way to Tipperary….and November. Come that frosty morn, a lot more people will be back at work and with proper PR, will realize that they are benefiting from the work of Obama and (mostly) the Dems in Congress. No more donut hole in Medicare Part D, “kids” staying on the family plan until age 26, less costs on reverse mortgages, probable new financial sector regulations, and lots more. But it WILL take lots of work and smarts to counter the “throw the bums out” mentality of today.
Mi dos centavos.
Those tea party folks are mainly the 55+ crowd. Those who grew up under FDR would have been born in the 1920-1930s, they are the parents of the today’s 45-55 year olds.
The voters will reward the failed policy leadership of the incumbent majority this fall, that’s just a natural outcome of failure.
Now, get a gander of this video…its instructive to me, but I’d like your opinion.
…figure birth years, ages, etc. My parents came of age under the (America saving)New Deal. I did under Kennedy and we (mostly) understood that the strong middle class we enjoyed was largely in part due to Democratic policy successes. Still true.
I’m not sure about the demographics of the TP’ers. You might be right. Or not. I think a lot of the active people are older, because they have the time and, you know, SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE, and their high yield investments covered by the FDIC.
They’re fucking hypocrites, just like most new style alleged Republicans.
taxes and destruction of modern American norms.
IN fact, the lowest since Truman.
But don’t let facts get in the way of emotions.
Middle class taxes are DOWN under Obama. Unfortunately, the Bush tax cuts heavily favored the ultra wealthy.
And just what are “modern American norms?”
Well, I see you follow Right-wing campus hitman David Horowitz on the interwebz. Now, I defy you to put up the whole clip.
Why? Because HOROWITZ was the one insulting the Muslim Student group in his speech, not the other way around. HE was the one who called the Muslim Students Association’s protest “Hitler Youth Week.”
(MSA’s protest was against the apartheid policy of discrimination and expulsion of lawful and peaceful Palestinians living in Israel.)
Sarcasm doesn’t work on this asshat, as the student found out. She had a ration (if racist) debate with another racist, and it makes YouTube.com, where slack-jawed web-surfing idiots stupidly link to it.
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first comes love, then comes marriage….
you know the rest
Dan, do you think it is just and righteous to fund Hamas?
Actually, I think you do. Just like you support childish name-calling to make your point.
http://www.craigdailypress.com…
Apparently Maes is confused re: his opponent:
Perhaps he is so busy charging his campaign exorbitant amounts for mileage he hasn’t realized Bill Ritter is not his opponent.
Spark Notes
Sometimes the tides do flow and it is with sadness the voyage must take place. I will be traveling on my tide to D.C. very soon.
Will you keep us posted here on CoPols?
are not as sure as they would hope. According to Politico, it’s the Republicans who fell far short of expectations yesterday:
“In the only House race that really mattered to both parties-the special election to replace the late Democratic Rep. John Murtha in Pennsylvania’s 12th District-Republicans failed spectacularly, losing on a level playing field where, in this favorable environment, they should have run roughshod over the opposition.
Given the resources the GOP poured into the effort to capture the seat and the decisiveness of the defeat-as it turned out, it wasn’t really that close-the outcome casts serious doubt on the idea that the Democratic House majority is in jeopardy and offers comfort to a Democratic Party that is desperately in search of a glimmer of hope.
The district itself couldn’t have been more primed for a Republican victory. According to one recent poll, President Barack Obama’s approval rating in the 12th was a dismal 35 percent, compared to 55 percent who disapproved. His health care plan was equally unpopular-just 30 percent of those polled supported it, while 58 percent were in opposition.”
Murtha, RIP, would be kicking the D loser’s butt about now.
Critz won it by 8%. Stunning. That’s a bit of a shocker–a tough district that really doesn’t favor Dems all that much, despite how long Murtha served it.
Seeing his head next on the electoral platter…
Poor Orrin’s going have to start proving his conservative cred next door too.
2010 will be interesting…2012 could be spectacular. I think the circular firing squad plays out two more cycles. If GOP win–a prospect still in doubt–control of either/both (federal) houses in 2010 the Tea Party will feel entitled, because that’s the energy rising GOP stars will need to tap to get there. If the GOP fails to regain control (of either or both) the Tea Party will blame the country club Republicans, and the daggers will come out as the purge continues.
I have KY roots. My friends family back there–an admittedly and proudly liberal bunch–all are fairly delighted about Mr. Paul’s victory. The GOP leadership just got seriously spanked in the Bluegrass State.
I was in college in Southern Illinois at the time he ran for his first re-election in 1990 and he came very close to getting picked off. So. IL covers all the races in Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee since they are all so close by.
He was despicable then and he’s despicable now. He has, at least in the past, scored a perfect rating with conservative groups so perhaps they will forgive his little boo boo for showing his true politician colors.
Agree with your family–Seeing Paul take it just makes this all so much more interesting and unpredictable, doesn’t it?
but Obama did not in 2008. I think being a white Democrat really helps in this district.
It’s a tough district. Never entirely predictable which is what makes this win so big, in my opinion.
When I was growing up the Dem registration was 4 or 5 to 1 over the Republicans. An area where the real race was the Dem primary (like the old Democratic South) And yes it can be a racist area (Murtha himself said that).
In 1972 I worked for and ran as a DNC delegate for McGovern. Humphrey won the western PA popular primary vote, but George Wallace was a very close second.
It was a great victory for Dems as all the talking heads were ready to call it the death knell for Dems in November if we lost that seat. We won it and we won it decisively.
Sestak was feared by the Dem establishment because it was assumed Specter was the better general election candidate. Sestak not only won decisively but was also polling better for the general going into the primary. As a relatively new Rep. he is credible as a fresh non-incumbent.
Nobody got spanked as badly as R Senate leader McConnell in Kentucky by the Paul victory. Hard to blame Obama for Dems not going for somebody who was a Republican until about 10 minutes ago, openly explaining that he did it just to keep the seat. McConnell’s pick lost by double digits.
Polls show a return towards generic approval for Ds, not great but no longer headed in the wrong direction. November may not be the total meltdown bloodbath that was predicted for Dems.
Obama has publicly supported primary candidates who supported his legislative agenda. I think that is a gentlemanly thing to do and doesn’t mean anything else.
You support your guys. Period.
I like Sestak.
It was his end of the quid pro quo for Specter switching parties and becoming the (very temporary) sixtieth vote in the Senate.
But the flyover the day before the election said it all.
A guy comes over to your party at a crucial time, the honorable thing to do is at least make a polite show of support. More than that, when the guy openly admits he only did it so he wouldn’t lose his former party primary, is not really called for. This is not a defeat for Obama, especially if he gets to keep that senate seat for Dems with Sestak. Paul, on the other hand, represents a huge defeat for McConnell.
Specter switched parties not out of any deep felt committment to Democratic principles, but simply to try and keep his job.
I think the PA voters saw that for what it was (business as usual for a Washington insider who’s been there forever) and decided at 80 years old he didn’t need his job anymore.
Despite all the talk of Dems being vulnerable this fall, the Republicans themselves may be their own worst enemy.
Bennett getting booted in Utah and now Paul winning in KY against the “establishment” Republicans remind me very much how in 1964 the Goldwater faction, the “true believers”, triumphed within their party but failed miserably at the polls.
History tells us that the American people have never embraced extremism either from the left or the right in general elections.
If you’re an incumbent you’re out because the jobs picture still sucks. And in Kentucky Grayson was viewed by many as the same as an incumbent.
But for Murtha’s old seat, where neither was viewed as an incumbent, then it was an open race – and we Dems did great.
So good news, in any competitive open race, we Dems (the good guys) will tend to win. Additional good news, every Republican incumbent in a competitive district is beatable.
The bad news, all of our incumbents in competitive districts are looking at a very tough race. And we have a lot more incumbents in competitive districts.
Meanwhile out of Washington, not a sound about jobs. And no real action on the issue. It’s like they all want to lose.
from Wired
His company recently paid a $12 million fine to I think the FTC for deceptive advertising.
from FOX News
I’m fed up with how BP has been able to control the spin on the oil disaster by referring to it as a “leak”. And, the government has been complicit in this spin by adopting a flawed estimate of 5,000 barrels a day. All indications are that it is far worse than that. In fact, today I believe it was pointed out that there are actually two huge gushers and they’re not even trying to contain the second hole.
The oil “spill” in the Gulf is actually a massive blowout that killed eleven people and sank an oil rig because of an uncontained GUSHER, not a leak.
The teabaggers are upset with government incompetence from the right. Well, this disaster brought to us by the sex partiers at our own MMS in Lakewood, upset those of us on the left.
Bottom line: We as a society have proven that we are not yet competent to be playing with fire on things like deep ocean wells, nuclear power plants, etc. This should cause President Obama to pause before he pursues policies to increase things like nuclear power plants. Our government can’t be trusted to protect us from future disasters.
REPUBLICAN governments can’t be trusted. By that I mean the rules they come up with, what they intentionally overlook, the destruction of regulations put in place to prevent just this kind of thing from happening.
Not that Dems are perfect, but typically they are the party that protects us from the corporations. Well, (no pun intended), historically, but they have been corrupted, too. But I’ll still look to the Democratic party as being more likely to regulate these bastards than the party of Bush, Reagan, et al.
Clearly, the GOP is in the pockets of industry. Yet, I believe the deep water drilling “rules” were in place under the Clinton Administration. Also, don’t forget that many of the financial regulatory loopholes were also created under the Clinton Administration.
I’m willing to give Salazar a pass for being Interior Secy. for only about 10 months. But, I wonder what he had done during that period to rein in a clearly dysfunctional section of the Department. We can’t just trust the Dems to do the right thing unless we make them.
I really feel like ranting today.
…the observation that Clinton was the best Republican president we ever had. Between the victory of the DLC and laws like the Telecommunications Act of 1996, NAFTA, et. al., we did lose a lot of regulatory successes.
Suthers has finally done something right. From today’s Daily Sentinel:
But here’s the best part:
http://www.gjsentinel.com/news…
which doesn’t necessarily make up for the things he’s done wrong, but he’s strong on financial crimes and consumer interests, even if he might not be as strong as a Democrat.
http://www.politico.com/click/…
House Resolution 1297, sponsored by Rep. Betsy Markey, supports “the goals and ideals of American Craft Beer Week.”
But I’d have to move. How can anyone dislike a candidate who supports “American Craft Beer Week”?
Republicrats are in trouble:
“A new poll of likely primary voters shows incumbent Jane Harman with just 43 percent support in California’s 36th congressional district, where Harman is facing a formidable challenge from Marcy Winograd. The figure is far below the 50% considered safe for incumbents, and reflects the mood demonstrated by the recent primary elections in which established D.C. figures were defeated by challengers.
The IVR poll by the Merriman River Group for the Winograd for Congress campaign was conducted among a random sample of 991 likely primary voters and had a margin of error of 3.2 percent.
Merriman pollster Matthew Fitch notes, “Harman’s support of 43% among likely Democratic voters can be considered weak for a long-term incumbent.” In contrast, the Merriman poll memo concludes, “…approximately 70% of all voters who have formed an opinion of Winograd are likely to vote for her.”
Winograd was an early Blue America endorsee and someone who is near and dear to Howie, John and I as she’s a local and a friend. She’s also a real, true blue progressive who far better represents her district on the west side of LA than the Blue Dog Jane Harman, who describes herself as the “best Republican in the Democratic Party.”
h/t Digby (One of my favorite bloggers)
Winograd has challenged her before, and Harman has been less than great on the matters where she’s supposed to excel.
And it’s a pretty reliable Dem district, so having someone a bit less conservative might be a good fit for the district.