without being cute it depends on how you define win
short term yes but by not winning the senate they might have won more for 2012.
It was a huge win when measured from the asskicking setback they got in 08. You have to look at governorships and state houses, which many ignore.
Did the Republicans win the midterms... "decisively"?
Yes.
No.
.
without being cute it depends on how you define win
short term yes but by not winning the senate they might have won more for 2012.
Hmmm...Please note...... the Tea Party IS the Republican Party. People say the Tea Party won but I feel they are one in the same. Either way, YES of course they won.
The republicans didn't win big the American people did and largely because of the efforts of the Tea Party in spite of the Liberal name calling and lies.
If you're a liberal you get a pass for lies and name calling even here.
Please note...... the Tea Party IS the Republican Party. People say the Tea Party won but I feel they are one in the same. Either way, YES of course they won.
Err, no they aren't. The Tea Party is a faction within the Republican Party that is a combination of paleo-conservatives and libertarians. Moderate and neo-conservative Republicans aren't really a party of the Tea Party.
Hmmm...
I was under the impression that the "Tea Party" (which in my understanding is not actually a political party as of yet, but rather a collection of more localized groups) was not directly part of the Republican Party - although it might be indirectly.
But then, I never looked into the "Tea Party" in any great detail.
Err, no they aren't. The Tea Party is a faction within the Republican Party that is a combination of paleo-conservatives and libertarians. Moderate and neo-conservative Republicans aren't really a party of the Tea Party.
Did the Republicans win the midterms... "decisively"?
Yes.
No.
.
Please note...... the Tea Party IS the Republican Party. People say the Tea Party won but I feel they are one in the same. Either way, YES of course they won.
Did the Republicans win the midterms... "decisively"?
Yes.
No.
.
Did the Republicans win the midterms... "decisively"?
The two parties now posses almost perfectly split control of the first two estates. The Democrats, of course, still hold the Presidency (since Obama's not up for re-election yet) and a majority in the Senate -- one too small to steamroller a fillibuster. The Republicans hold a majority in the House, and enough Senators to put up a good fight.
The President is free to sign or Veto as he pleases, since the Republicans couldn't possibly put together a 2/3 majority to override on any but the most urgent of legislative issues. The Republicans are free to pass whatever they like in the House. The battleground for the next two years will be the Senate.
Literally nothing will be accomplished from this point forward except where the two major parties cooperate.
That certainly is a victory for the party that was in the minority in both houses, but all that has been decided is that neither party has enough control to just do whatever the hell they want. That sounds like the opposite of decisive to me.
It's even less decisive when you take into account the fact that the party in the White House typically loses a certain amount of influence (almost by default) in the mid-term elections.
It's even less decisive than that when you take into account all of the bragging done about how the Republicans were going to seize both houses of Congress from the evil Democrats and set all the wrongs right.
They took a perfect storm and used it to coast in like a lazy boy on a bike, rather than marching in like gangbusters.
If that's decisive in your book, then be sure to say "hi" to Rush for me at the next circle-jerk. :lol:
Please note that there is no Tea Party. It does not exist. There is no political party called the Tea Party.There is a tea party and there is a real difference between the two things.
There is a Republican Party.
There is a Democratic Party.
There is a Libertarian Party.
There is a Socialist Party.
There is no Tea Party.
Probably quite accurate, this...I don't think the Republicans won so much as the Democrats lost. Most people didn't vote Republican because they loved what the Republicans were promising, but because they hated what the Democrats were doing. They were trying to vote out a political party they didn't like, they were not trying to vote in a party that they did.
That's how most elections are these days. People vote for the lesser of two evils, not because they support them, but because they hate them less than the other guys.
Well, there is no doubt about it the Republican crushed the democrat even though they come short when it comes down winning the senate.