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The Mid-Terms Results Thread [W:517]

Re: The Mid-Terms Results Thread

Juanita said:
Sarcasm will get you nowhere as yes, I am an Obama supporter!
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Which specific domestic and foreign policies of Obama have helped America the most?
 
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As long as the GOP changes toward his brand of Republicanism, 2016 will be just fine.
However, DEMs have much work and retooling ahead of them.
They need to use the GOP game plan and adapt it toward the GOP ,

Juanita said:
Sarcasm will get you nowhere as yes, I am an Obama supporter!
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As long as the GOP changes toward his brand of Republicanism, 2016 will be just fine.
However, DEMs have much work and retooling ahead of them.
They need to use the GOP game plan and adapt it toward the GOP ,

Juanita said:
Sarcasm will get you nowhere as yes, I am an Obama supporter!
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Fiddytree said:
But decently following Mitch and John isn't going down the same path as Romney and McCain (where my sympathies are). It's attempting to secure a Republican majority in the legislative branch for the next election so you can have a strong arm for the big possibility of getting the White House. Derailing your Party's lead for principles is pointless.
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Perhaps, I dont know. But its still the direction I think the nation should be headed in and I support THAT over ANY party, any day.
 
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NIMBY said:
As long as the GOP changes toward his brand of Republicanism, 2016 will be just fine.
However, DEMs have much work and retooling ahead of them.
They need to use the GOP game plan and adapt it toward the GOP ,
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What happened in Kansas?
 
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Grant said:
Which specific domestic and foreign policies of Obama have helped America the most?
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I think he has done a lot on domestic issues, the Lilly Ledbedder Act-- getting rid of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, etc. I didn't agree with all of his foreign policy, but he has bent over backwards to keep us out of another full scale war.
 
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NIMBY said:
As long as the GOP changes toward his brand of Republicanism, 2016 will be just fine.
However, DEMs have much work and retooling ahead of them.
They need to use the GOP game plan and adapt it toward the GOP ,
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Well maybe the Democratic candidates should not have distanced themselves so much from President Obama. They should have embraced the policies that they voted and agreed on. They only hurt themselves IMO..
 
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Juanita said:
Tell me what does Elizabeth Warren say that bugs you so much? Cruz is another Daryll Idea!
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She's a statist worm. That's enough for me to hate her. :D
 
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Juanita said:
Tell me what does Elizabeth Warren say that bugs you so much? Cruz is another Daryll Idea!
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Dam I hate this spell check thingy....that would be Issa.
 
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Juanita said:
Well maybe the Democratic candidates should not have distanced themselves so much from President Obama. They should have embraced the policies that they voted and agreed on. They only hurt themselves IMO..
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Obama, himself, finds it hard to embrace the policies he and his Democrat buddies inflicted upon America. How do you expect those others...especially the ones who voted along with him...to embrace them?
 
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Juanita said:
Tell me what does Elizabeth Warren say that bugs you so much? Cruz is another Daryll Idea!
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Maybe its her high cheekbones or her discredited neo-marxist fail? And btw, Issa is my congressional rep and I enjoy voting for him. :cool:
 
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Juanita said:
Well maybe the Democratic candidates should not have distanced themselves so much from President Obama.
They should have embraced the policies that they voted and agreed on. They only hurt themselves IMO..
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Absolutely on Dems running from their own President--just as GOPs did with Bush in 2006.

You didn't hear all the losing Senate and Governor candidates comparing the economies of 2014 and 2008.

And DuNCe chief Wasserman-Schultz was worse than VA Sen. Kaine was as chief for the 2010 disaster, if that's possible.

There doesn't appear to be any clean way to rid ourselves of Pelosi and Reid.
We may as well have our own civil war.

Even if Landrieu loses her run-off in Louisiana, she'll teach DEMs how to fight again .
 
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Hamster Buddha said:
As far as their influence in politics, again the reason they have this much money is generally speaking they've made a lot of smart decisions. I mean if it was easy to be a billionaire, You have some exceptions of course like with everything, but overall, these are business leaders who know their stuff. Lastly on this point, the money raised on both sides is pretty even without favoring one party or the other. Hell if the Right has the Kochs, the Left has Soros and Buffet... that evens things out a lot wouldn't you say?

My solution to all of this is term limits. In my experience, the only politician with a spine is one that isn't running for re-election. And it has the side effect of also solving your special interest thing because well, no money to be gained eh?
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While much of what you're saying has some merit, it's not really on point (at least in response to what I was saying). My point isn't that billionaires are the problem. My point is that our congress has devolved into a group of people who are working for bureaucrats, billionaires, and special interest groups. Not people. While you might not think that funneling millions of dollars into a congressional campaign has much influence in the outcome, the congressmen themselves disagree. That's why they vote the way their donors want them to vote.

That's the problem right there. Term limits would help to some degree, but you'd still have entire parties owned in part by certain unions, or corporations, or members of the executive branch. Campaign finance reform is what fixes some of that. Then there's no reward for voting against a bill that would fine the Koch Brothers for emitting 7 million tonnes of poison directly into the ozone (that's not a real example in case you were preparing to argue that point).

I'm also not saying that the Koch Brothers won the senate for the GOP. While that may be somewhat true, all I'm saying that whoever has control is doomed to be despised because they don't actually try to work for average Americans. The only support they get is from the "lesser of two evils" crowd and the thoroughly brainwashed. It would be nice to see a real effort to break the chains, but nobody wants to spoil a good thing. A good thing for members of congress, that is, and one of the worst things in the history of this country for you and me.
 
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Mycroft said:
Obama, himself, finds it hard to embrace the policies he and his Democrat buddies inflicted upon America. How do you expect those others...especially the ones who voted along with him...to embrace them?
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Sorry, but that makes no sense!
 
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