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Democrat Bastions Besieged by GOP

Just remember, if youre not republican youre not for hard work and you hate your country. Great reasons to be republican.

You words not mine.
 
Those are just words to Republicans.



Capitalism in a nutshell.



When the subject is health care, yes.



Kind of hard to see over the walls of the gated communities.



I'm deprived of the solution to the toothache, as is everyone else who can't afford needed procedures.



Just not enough to pay slightly higher taxes, I presume. Thank you for your "sentiments," whatever they're worth.



The lack of dentistry is even more expensive.



What more is there to say? A system that decides the level of care by how much your employer thinks you're worth is an affront to human decency.



We haven't addressed any of those other than Medicare, and all I said was that I wasn't aware of the accuracy of the specific figure - hardly tantamount to ignorance of the issue.



It's not odd at all - Obama didn't inherit a budget surplus, George W. Bush did. The concept of a lock box was to ensure that such surpluses would be held exclusively for Medicare and Social Security, and neither spent on other priorities nor frittered away with tax cuts. As I recall, Bush's first round of tax cuts were roughly the size of the current federal budget deficit.



I didn't say I was unaware of it, I just said I hadn't seen it - i.e., I haven't read the document. When I need to know something, I rely on primary sources. General news coverage is just background.



No, the organizations that employ them do.

when I see someone whining about capitalism It normally is due to someone not being able to hack it in the current market. another source of such psychobabble (especially on political boards which are not areas where the truly stupid venture) is where what I call the internal beliefs of self worth discrepancies come in. What this means is that there are lots of people who truly believe they are very bright and very talented but are upset that their employer or the marketplace mistakenly is blind to their talent and does not pay them what they believe they are worth. Rather then reevaluating their actual skills, they pretend that its the employer or the market that is wrong and blame such entities for their lack of financial success.

THe dem party is full of people who have a major self perceived gap between their true market worth and their inflated views of their skills. That is why so many people with high levels of education in areas that aren't all that valuable tend to be dems. PhDs in French history or Art History or socialogoy for example. Teachers' Unions are perfect to prove this point.
 
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i told you i'd get back to you when the hill published its second in its series

we looked at freshman above, 12 incumbent dems, gop challengers leading according to the hill's mark penn (hillary's guy) in 11 and tied in the 12th

the average polled by the freshman dem incumbents surveyed last week was exactly 40.0% support, at a time, as we race right up on top of the day, when incumbents much more than challengers need to reach the magic 50

the 12 were, for your information---ann kirkpatrick in extremely troubled AZ, debbie halvorson in IL, frank kratovil on the maryland shore, harry teague in oil country NM, mary joe kilroy in columbus, tom perriello in conservative cumberland county VA, betsy markey in CO's front range, dina titus (one of the 4 most watched house races in the nation) around vegas, john boccierri in working class canton OH, kathleen dahlkemper in NW pennsylvania up to erie, and glenn nye in norfolk/hampton roads, the heavily navy district on the chesapeake

the tie was mark schauer, 41 to 41, in battle creek, south lansing, MI7

schauer is rematched vs the former republican congressman, tim walburg, whom schauer unseated in 08, riding the national wave, by a bare 7000 votes

how will the 18% undecideds in MI7 break 19 days from tomorrow, that's the only question

well, as promised, the hill put out its second survey this morning and i don't know about you but i find this stuff absolutely engrossing

whereas mr penn polled the freshmen last week, today he looked at OPEN seats

of the ten he surveyed (8 open dem seats and 2 open gop) reds led in 8, blues in 2

of the 8 open dems, challengers were leading in obey's WI7, marrion berry's ARK1, paul hodes' NH2, admiral sestak's PA7, bart stupak's MI1, bart gordon's TN8, brian baird's WA3 (another of the 4 most important contests current)

in WV1, allan mollohan's seat held for 22 years, who was defeated by attractive state senator mike oliverio, oliverio leads republican challenger david mckinely, former house delegate, 42-39

that leaves 19% undecided in rust belt WV and the panhandle, where obama's approvals are in the low 30's, coal country angrily opposed to cap and trade (have you seen governor manchin's campaign for bobby byrd's seat---he ran an ad that shows him bearing down a rifle scope to put a bullet in a piece of paper titled, the zoom in shows, cap and trade bill)

the 2 open republican seats polled by the hill split

charles djou very surprisingly leads colleen hanubasa in HI1 (where obama lived as a boy) and dan seals leads bob dold in mark kirk's IL10 (kirk is running vs alexi giannoulias for obama/burris' senate seat)

whereas the freshmen did marginally worse than the opens (dems averaged 40.3% support in the 10 open districts penn looked at), very troubling is the observation: "this set of districts represents some of the most favorable territory for the party anywhere in the country, obama topped mccain in 7 of the 10"

THE HILL POLL: Republicans are ahead in 8 of 10 open House districts - TheHill.com

next week the hill promises to analyze 10 districts held by 2 termers, and the week after that brian lamb's favorite magazine will dissect the BULLS---barney frank, peter defazio, raul grijalva, maurice hinchey, john dingell, jim oberstar, gene taylor, chairmen spratt and rahall and skelton...

stay tuned

rcp, in summation, today has the gop picking up a net of 65 seats giving speaker orange dude a working plurality of 26

RealClearPolitics - 2010 Election Maps - Battle for the House

rcp, by the way, is almost excrutiatingly cautious

the right leaning compiler and sorter of politics may well be wrong, no one knows, but she is NOT bold

take care
 
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5 polls outta PA today, reds lead in 4, all held by dems (except for blue open PA7, sestak)

note the terrifying turnouts for the incumbents at this late date, 39.6 avg, disturbingly below 50

note also the wide disparity of poll sources, also troubling in that they tend to confirm each other

PA7 sestak, W philly burbs, delaware county, gop up, 34-32, franklin marshall

PA8 patrick murphy, NE philly and burbs, bucks county, reds ahead, 51-46, monmouth

obama was there monday so expect michael fitzpatrick to get a bump

for instance, pat toomey opened up his biggest lead over admiral sestak in 6 months in today's rasmussen

Election 2010: Pennsylvania Senate - Rasmussen Reports™

PA10 chris carney, NY border region, susquehanna county, very red, cook R+8, republicans romp, 44-38, critical insight

PA11 paul kanjorski, ethically challenged (pma), NE, blue collar, scranton, wilkes-barre, knuckle draggers lead, 43-41, critical insight

in PA12, johnstown, murtha's seat, filled by mark critz a couple months ago in the special by beating tim burns (critz campaigned against obamacare) against whom the incumbent is rematched: critz leads, according to susquehanna, 43 to 36, with 21 undecided

RealClearPolitics - Election 2010 House Polls

if you've read this far, i think it's time you should know exactly where this gargantuan battle for control of legislative initiative will be decided:

people like me are looking at EIGHT seats in pn, NINE in ny, SIX in ohio, FOUR in florida, FOUR in illinois, FOUR in michigan

of the smaller states, several will play extremely critical roles:

4 seats each in AZ, VA, WA, CO, NC, and, if the CENTRAL VALLEY is indeed in play, then 4 also in my state, CA

MY district, by the way, CA11, jerry mcnerny---we're not often surveyed, we led by one last i heard about 2 months ago, it's rated total tossup (that'd make it about pickup number 50 for my side)---susa (survey usa) YESTERDAY released EXCITING data, upstart DAVID HARMER (who lost to our ambitious insurance commissioner john garamendi in the special exactly a year ago to replace ellen tauscher, promoted by hrc to state dept, in neighboring walnut creek, CA10) up by SIX!

all i can tell you about crucial CA11, my home, is---we are a very tossup district, we go presidentially with winners, there is most definitely a very strong and excited tea party presence here, my fellow public school teachers are generally very pessimistic and dispirited

states with three DEM seats up for grabs---TN, IN, WI, NM, GA, ARK, IN

locales like north and south dakota, kansas, new hampshire don't offer many pickups because they don't have many seats, but those they do are all or almost all in trouble

fyi
 
Laughably, ludicrous statement.

No more ludicrous than the **** you've been spouting.

The funny part is many on the right acts as though all the problems in the country will somehow disappear if congress it has an "R" for most of the seats.

It's going to be even funnier when the gains the GOP gets are not nearly as big as they claim it will be.
 
No more ludicrous than the **** you've been spouting.

The funny part is many on the right acts as though all the problems in the country will somehow disappear if congress it has an "R" for most of the seats.

It's going to be even funnier when the gains the GOP gets are not nearly as big as they claim it will be.

I don't want huge GOP wins--I want to get rid of the twit in the White House. When he continues to screw things up, I don't want him able to blame the GOP for his incompetence
 
I don't want huge GOP wins--I want to get rid of the twit in the White House. When he continues to screw things up, I don't want him able to blame the GOP for his incompetence

Hate to be the one to tell you, but the twit (GWB) did leave the White House already. Sorry you missed the memo.
 
Hate to be the one to tell you, but the twit (GWB) did leave the White House already. Sorry you missed the memo.

that's a rather juvenile attempt at a comeback , Obama is a complete screw up so far. and we all know he had done nothing to demonstrate he was ready to be president
 
Just a reiteration. But feel free to clean your conscience of this if you have one.

uh unlike pillowheaded liberals, I don't ooze guilt. I realize that is what motivates many of the left. I saw lots of rich whites who voted for Obama thinking it would prove to themselves they aren't racists. I saw wealthy trust fund idiots vote obama in a feeble attempt to do penance for being born lucky

I am an objective thinker. I don't engage in such nonsense nor do I buy into the wails for pity that feelers spew at me
 
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It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood. The wake up call has gone out and and it is working.

Just now I heard on Radio that one in 4 Democrats believe we are headed in the wrong direction.

It is being reporter that the unemployment will not go down for the next 10 years, and is expected to reach 11% next year.

If Obama was half as brainy as claimed he would have seem how wrong he has been and changed. But he's too damned arrogant to admit defeat and the error of his thinking.

We are set to see a massive shift in in everything and it could not happen too fast.



Hoooray! According to you, neither political party in your country can manage to steer your nation away from the nosedive it's taking!

What an optimistic fellow you are.
 
Also the irony of a conservative saying "We are set to see a massive shift in in everything and it could not happen too fast" is not lost on me.

Do you, sir, have any vague concept of what the word "conservative" means?
 
I saw lots of rich whites who voted for Obama thinking it would prove to themselves they aren't racists. I saw wealthy trust fund idiots vote obama in a feeble attempt to do penance for being born lucky

I am an objective thinker. I don't engage in such nonsense nor do I buy into the wails for pity that feelers spew at me

Nice one smart guy. Voting for a black president to assuage personal racial guilt is one of the KKKs biggest modern rally cries, also you seem to have fallen ignorant that half the country trends DEMOCRAT anyways. But Im sure its my personal GUILT over him being disadvantaged and black that caused us to vote for him and not the fact that he clearly outshined his rival and his conservative barbie Vp candidate at the time. :roll:

Nice objectivity....
 
Nice one smart guy. Voting for a black president to assuage personal racial guilt is one of the KKKs biggest modern rally cries, also you seem to have fallen ignorant that half the country trends DEMOCRAT anyways. But Im sure its my personal GUILT over him being disadvantaged and black that caused us to vote for him and not the fact that he clearly outshined his rival and his conservative barbie Vp candidate at the time. :roll:

Nice objectivity....

let me guess -you hang out with lots of blue book types who spend more on their summer homes than you make in a decade? My sister in law is one of these guilty whites-as her green beret nephew noted, his aunt "martha" spent most of her life doing penance for the fact that she was the daughter of a multi millionaire and then later the wife of another one.

when people who have 7-8 figure trust funds vote for a guy like Obama you wonder wth they are thinking. self guilt has alot to do with it
 
hard work, self sufficiency and patriotism are just words?

To Republicans, as I said. "Hard work" = make your employees work harder while you golf. "Self-sufficiency" = rake in every bit of public subsidy you can, then rail against "socialism" when the people you laid off need help. "Patriotism" = wave the flag and outsource jobs. This is the Republican Party. Nothing American.

no wonder your employer doesn't consider you valuable

My employer doesn't consider anyone valuable - it pays what it's forced to pay by law or market necessity. The difference between a human being and a urinal cake in corporate "America" is that it costs more in legal fees and court settlements to literally piss on a person. If that's your vision of something noble to be emulated in politics and government, then I don't know what planet your sense of right and wrong comes from.

and the alternative?

Capitalism is a tool, not a religion. For any tool to be beneficial requires that it be (a)built properly, and (b)used properly. So I would say that a much higher top marginal income and capital gains tax rate is called for, in addition to rigorous estate taxes, and these would be used to fund the reconstruction of American infrastructure and investments in forward-looking industries. Otherwise the market just shifts around entropy, breaking up the floor beneath your feet for scrap. It's totally unsustainable, and endangers more than our economic well-being.

but we don't live behind gates, we go to safeway, and junior college

Plenty of Republicans come from humble roots - what makes them contemptible is that they want to burn the bridges behind them.

make something of yourself, make yourself valuable

A human being is not a share on the stock market.

quit blaming your tootache on me and horatio alger

My toothache is just an example. The point is that the narcissism of right-wing ideology treats human beings like objects, and says that the pettiest whim of a person with money is more important than the very life of someone without. And I call that out for the fascist madness it is: It's inhuman and un-American.

the expiration of the bush cuts results not in "slightly higher taxes"

Yes, actually it does - the top rate cuts being allowed to expire were all single-digit, and the rate before the cuts was about half of what was paid in the fifty years prior to the Reagan administration.

pay for your own toothache

You seem to be having trouble with the concept of "can't afford." It seems like the idea only exists in Republican cosmology when the subject is public spending.

try finding what you're looking for in nature

Sure, I'll just go pick some fifties from the money tree.

the concept of the lock box is as old as social security itself, it was broken into and raided

When was it ever law that budget surpluses would be dedicated to Social Security and/or Medicare?

38 house dems are on record---extend bush cuts to all americans

47 signed on to extending the lower rates on all that evil, unearned investment income

The necessary result of tolerating dissent in a political party is that it happens. You will never, under any conceivable circumstances, find a sizable minority of Republicans advocating an increase in top income or capital gains tax rates: The world would end before they would bite the hand that feeds them. If the rate were 0, the proposed rate 0.0001%, and the fate of the universe resting on their assent, they would lie down on the floor of the Senate or House in a fetal position clutching wads of cash to their chests and await the Apocalypse muttering a prayer to Ayn Rand.
 
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