Following are examples of how the "reality-based community" is dealing with the new reality.
Exhibit A: DailyKos member "Yosef 52" looks ahead to the next election
Well, it looks like so-called "Independent" Scott Brown has won a Senate seat in our most heavily Democratic state. Just for the record,
HE CAN GO TO HELL.
Screw him. The campaign to unseat this lying, Republican Tea Party son a bitch is starting NOW, and I'm starting it. I love how we all come together to work for the common good after an election.
I will immediately pledge money to any worthy Democrat who announces for Brown's seat for the 2012 election. I'd like to see someone do it tomorrow....
No Yosef 52, dear. To unseat an elected representative at any level, you need to form a campaign organization, to which other people can donate money. Until there is an organization, your promises to donate are just so much childish posturing.
As you can tell, I'm [nasty word] mad. I thought you were just at a trough level on your meds.
And I'm sick and tired of all the pissing and moaning around here. Get yourselves off the G-d damned ground NOW.
Fascinating. I thought it was only Orthodox Jews who did not spell out the word God, because it replaces one of the actual, but no longer known, names of God. But apparently frothing Progressive types feel an equal need to show respect for the supreme being.
Get to work again NOW. Start giving the Republicans hell NOW. That worked well last week. Should work well this week. Go for it.
I don't give a [nasty word] if you think President Obama isn't living up to your G-d damn expectations. The Republicans in power would be a thousand times worse. So take your grief and turn it into anger. Take that anger and turn it into ACTION.
Scotty boy--kiss my [anatomy]. No congratulations to you. You will get nothing but all-out war from me, and anyone else with fighting spirit. You're DONE, boy. Count on it.... Senator Brown (I just love saying that) might have a tough road in 2012. Pro'ly will, in fact. He seems humble enough though, so if he sticks to doing what he said he would do, stays humble, and shows he has some common sense he'll serve his state and country well the next two years. That's all we can ask.
Exhibit B: a comment in the same thread (emphasis added).
Hate is what we need to win. Because let's face it, the Left doesn't have near enough hate.
Let's face it. Humans are a fractious, tribalistic species, and if we don't recognize that, we will continue to lose elections. But we could end up like Afghanistan.
So we need to be working on our identity politics. We need to be establishing a Democratic identity, and DEMANDING loyalty. And if you don't get it then you'll demand it at gunpoint. We've seen this movie.
The writer didn't pay much attention to President Obama's campaign. Obama won because he positioned himself as a calm, cool, uniter of identities -- Black and white, Christian and Muslim and non-religious, academic elitist and man-of-the-people -- not an angry identity splitter. But that was then. Now President Obama thinks people who drive trucks should be mocked, so clearly he's forgotten the lesson of his campaign as well.
We need to be outright demonizing the Republicans, which shouldn't be all that difficult - they practically demonize themselves. You mean you haven't been demonizing Pubs all along? Sloppy, sloppy. No wonder Brown won.
While we keep the policies we've been advocating, we don't go to the next election emphasizing them. Technocratic arguments don't work. The electorate's too irrational and stupid. And the electorate never figures out that you're disrespectful to them ...
We need to be asking our members "Are you with us or against us? We need to be picking fights. We do literally need to be waging war against the Republicans.
That's how we win.
So call me a hater. I do [nasty word] hate the Republicans with the heat of a thousand suns. And if you don't like it, [perform an unnatural sex act on me]. Use the Dark Side. Let the hate flow through you. In politics, it's power. He's seen too many movies.
Exhibit C: Keith Olbermann apologizes for his rhetorical excesses
Exhibit D: Rep. Alan Grayson, paragon of objectivity and good sense
#5
Liberals are needy people, they want to be liked. They will do anything to be liked. They are full of "good" intentions and they think that everyone should like them.
When they find out that they are not liked, they respond with anger and irrational behaviour.
Its the same scenario thats played out everyday with the narcissistic bully and the abused spouse. The second the spouse raises up and says no, the needy bully reacts with anger.
Let's just say this country has been abused by these needy people for far too long.
It also explains why they will engage in endless "negotiations" with people that hate us because they don't believe anyone hates them, we just have to be nice to them and they will like us.
What we need is a national psychotherapy week to cleanse our brains of the toxic crap these people spew.
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The funny thing is most people watch Keith to see what over-the-top stupid comment he will make. To me he should be become fodder for conservatives. Let's talk about inclusiveness, fairness, or diversity: . Well feels the same way as his/her good friend Keith. When they get keith's "worst person" award, they can reply "No Keith I am YOUR worst nightmare."
So this clueless leftard thinks it is about Republicans. About 20% of the people that elected Brown were Democrats. Some 50% were independents, and the rest Republicans. This election is about turning back a big, non-responsive to the voters, out-of-control Federal government.
#13
I'll bet a lotta mom's didn't have to turn their heat on last night. Their houses were well heated by the seething anger of their loser children living in the basement.
#14
...and Olbie's becoming like a caricature of himself. "Heeheehee heeheehee...watch this. Hey, Keith. Great campaign by Brown, huh?"
WAAAA WAAAAA WAAAAA WAAAAA WAAAAA...
It's like throwing a circus monkey some peanuts.
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When I got up this morning my wife told me there had been a Dem representative on Fox who'd been saying the party needs to step back and have a look at what went wrong. Then I saw an article on how Barney Frank sounded chastened.
I was surprised. I expected the Dems to dig in their heels and complain that the Brown victory (oh, how I love that word!) didn't count for anything -- Marsha Martha had been a bad candidate, who ran a bad campaign and really the voters favored all the things Dems stand for.
Not to worry. This morning's voice of sweet reason seems to have been the one-off phenom. Hoyer somehow managed to complain that the election of a Republican was a symptom of voter anger against the Republicans. The beauzeaux in this posting are shrieking and howling and barking at the moon.
If all goes our (conservative, Hayekian, anti-Marxist) way the Dems will continue just as arrogant and unashamedly corrupt as they've been for the past year. They'll continue telling the public what's good for the public, continue passing out the boodle to loyal hacks. If they do they'll lose everything in November.
My desire to see them do that stems from a political outlook that's nearly as partisan as theirs is: I was offended by Obama's announcement that he was "ready to rule from day one." Americans, I hope, aren't ruled but governed.
The Dems bitched and moaned about Limbaugh's statement that he hoped to see B.O. fail. I'd have phrased it differently, that I "expected" to see him fail. If he hadn't failed that would have meant that we're wrong in the way we view the way the world actually works. It would have mean that the Marxists and the Junior Marxists and the New Agers and the climate hystericals were right and we were wrong.
The economy's battered, the nation's image is battered, but my world view's vindicated. If enough other people feel like I do the economy and the nation's image can be repaired.
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I find it unsettling when the other side does not respect the process. If they don't why should we? And don't forget which side has all the guns...
#21
I think some of the house Democrats are going to be taking a good long look over their shoulders before the follow Queen Nancy in voting for Healthcare.
#26
I can't see Snowe or Collins breaking to the left. Not now, anyway. They can count as well as anyone. They're in the middle, politically, and that's just what the folks in Massachusetts want our politics to be.
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Arlen has to be thinking Sestak may not be his biggest problem this year. Snowe and Collins gotta be thing they';re glad they didn't jump on that bandwagon.
#3
A butch lesbian Political-Commentator that bothers like an itchy sweater. Regularly guests on Keith Olb's show and has her own show "The Rachel Maddow Show" on MSNBC. Annoying but Olbermann still out runs annoying circles around her.
A liberal group is stepping up its offensive against White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, urging its members to sign a pledge claiming they will not to support the former Illinois congressman if he ever runs for public office again.
The Progressive Change Campaign Committee launched a television ad in December questioning Emanuel's handling of the health care issue.
On Monday, the PCCC initiated a pledge campaign in response to a January 12 New York Times article that detailed how Emanuel met with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and helped broker the decision to abandon a public option in order to garner the support of Independent Sen. Joseph Lieberman. The Connecticut senator had just gone on a Sunday morning talk show to announce he would not vote for the Democrat's health care bill, and thus, could not be counted as Reid's 60th vote. The PCCC said Emanuel "undermine[d] progressives behind the scenes."
"There's nobody in Washington, D.C. who caves at the slightest hint of a fight with corporate interests more than Rahm Emanuel," PCCC co-founder Adam Green said in a statement. "We're making clear to Rahm that when he undermines progressives and the overwhelming will of the American people on issues like the public option, he will pay a political price back home."
The pledge Web site says the PCCC's goal is 1000 signatures; as of Monday afternoon, about 950 PCCC members had signed the pledge, and the group planned an online ad campaign in Illinois to boost awareness of the campaign.
China removed as top priority for spies
Intelligence chiefs object By Bill Gertz
The White House National Security Council recently directed U.S. spy agencies to lower the priority placed on intelligence collection for China, amid opposition to the policy change from senior intelligence leaders who feared it would hamper efforts to obtain secrets about Beijing 's military and its cyber-attacks.
The downgrading of intelligence gathering on China was challenged by Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair and CIA Director Leon E. Panetta after it was first proposed in interagency memorandums in October, current and former intelligence officials said.
The decision downgrades China from "Priority 1" status, alongside Iran and North Korea , to "Priority 2," which covers specific events such as the humanitarian crisis after the Haitian earthquake or tensions between India and Pakistan .
The National Security Council staff, in response, pressed ahead with the change and sought to assure Mr. Blair and other intelligence chiefs that the change would not affect the allocation of resources for spying on China or the urgency of focusing on Chinese spying targets, the officials told The Washington Times. Paging Senator-Elect Brown, Senator Brown, your next issue is waiting at the red courtesy telephone ...
White House National Security Council officials declined to comment.
The other tell-tale came not from Google but from Adobe, and I think that it’s been ignored and understated. Adobe was hit as well, and may also have been key to the intrusion process. Again, they aren’t saying much — but their newer products have potential back doors in them, and the PDF file format has become so ubiquitous in business that virtually everybody in the business world has multiple PDF files on their computers at any time.
LetÂ’s speculate and imagine for a second that the search warrant system which allows all governments to request user information requires submission of a warrant in the form of a PDF fileÂ…
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WMF > US-CHINA STRATEGIC COMPETITION AND GEOPOL RIVALRY IS NOT THE "FINAL STRUGGLE"!
IMO Read, NOT YET.
* PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUMS > [GOOGLE-China War]CHINA TO MONITOR/READ ALL TEXT MESSAGES. Beijing orders all Telephone + Communications companies to suspend services to Users resorting to "suspicious" message contents, even iff as per SPOUSE-TO-SPOUSE MESSAGING. Complaints of violations by Beijing-CPC agz Chinese Basic Rights.
* SAME > INDIA FACES SECURITY THREAT FROM CHINA HACKERS.
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ION CHINESE MIL FORUM/WAFF/PRAVDA > WILL EUROPEAN UNION KILL ANY CHANCE OF GLOBAL ECONOMIC RECOVERY + EURO MAY COLLAPSE?
Standard & Poors, Mody's, + Fitch Ratings have seriously downgraded the financial ratings of various EU countries, namely POTUGAL, IRELAND, SPAIN, + GREECE. Greeece's situation is seen as particularly dire as to LT consequences for the EU as a whole.
VARIOUS PERTS [above] > EURO may disappear as a VALID CURRENCY OF INTERNAT-GLOBAL EXCHANGE ANYWHERE BETWEEN 5-20 YEARS [15 years > circa Year 2025]
POSTER > opined its hard to maintain a common EU CURRENCY = "EURO" with all the EU states essens doing their own thing mostly independent of EU Brussels + the Others.
The Obama administration's choice to lead the Transportation Security Administration withdrew his name Wednesday.
In a statement, Erroll Southers said he was pulling out because his nomination had become a lightning rod for those with a political agenda. President Barack Obama tapped Southers, a former FBI agent, to lead the TSA in September but his confirmation has been blocked by Republican Sen. Jim DeMint, who says he was worried Southers would allow TSA employees to engage in collective bargaining with the government.
Questions have also been raised about a reprimand that Southers received for running background checks on his then-estranged wife's boyfriend two decades ago. Southers wrote a letter to lawmakers earlier this month acknowledging that he had given inconsistent answers to Congress on that issue.
In an October affidavit for the Senate Homeland Security committee, Southers initially said he asked a San Diego police employee to run a background check on his then-estranged wife's boyfriend and was censured by his FBI superiors 20 years ago for what he said was an isolated instance.
But a day after the committee approved his nomination and sent it to the full Senate, he wrote to the senators and told them that he was incorrect, that he had twice run background checks himself.
The White House said Wednesday that the president had accepted Southers' withdrawal with great sadness and continued to believe he would have made an excellent TSA administrator.
The withdrawal of Southers' nomination was another setback for the TSA at a time when the government is still trying to answer questions from Congress about how a man was able to carry out a bombing attempt on Christmas Day on a Northwest Airlines flight found from Amsterdam to Detroit.
When one voter loudly announced, "Where do I vote for Scott Brown?'' some others in the lobby shot disapproving looks.
"It was like it wasn't reverent,'' said Jo Petercuskie, who was working at a bake sale for the Barnstable High School girls' hockey team. "It was like, we're in Hyannis, and that's the Kennedy rink.'' Privilege. Expectation of electoral victory without doing *any*thing to deserve it. How dare the proles express their opinions.
In downtown Hyannis, where he had managed to find room for two Brown signs on his compact storefront, La Petite France Cafe owner Ian Parent railed against the notion that the Kennedy legacy should have any hold on the Senate seat.
"It's the people's seat, it's not Ted Kennedy's seat, and people have lost sight of that,'' AMEN!!
he said, standing by a rack stacked with loaves of fresh-baked bread. "Ted Kennedy never voted to help small business.''
Most of the response to his signs had been positive, he said, but yesterday morning a customer called and told him she would never come into the cafe again. She hung up on him before he could respond, said Parent. Typical hate-filled liberal spewing her bile. Surprised?
Not only funny but has some spot-on insight, otherwise it would be off-topic, eh? The best part was at the end: "Should have stuck with Hillary." Quote of the week.
#3
One of the better ones, although my favorite Downfall recaptioning is the one where Hitler is a Dallas Cowboys fan and he's cussing out Tony Romo and Terrell Owens.
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BO might have even failed recess. Afterall, there was the Chicago olympics, Copenhagen, Virginia, New Jersey, and now Massachusetts. What next, health care? CAP and Steal? Immigration? Er, er, er even re-election and no more shiny medals?
Only quoting parts for fair use, but you can't make this stuff up.
Forget "can," "change" and, above all, "hope." The new word echoing in the blogosphere and beyond as Obama enters Year Two: disappointment. Yes, AP actually said this.
They speak of disappointment in the state of our union. Disappointment in themselves for expecting so much so fast. Disappointment, especially, in the man who, as Boyd says, "raised the bar so high." Alas, we lost a single election and now it's the end of the world and we should give up all hope.
Still others are more disappointed in their fellow Americans' impatience. Yes, it's America's fault this tragedy happened.
But others do,
Others do what? Calling an AP editor, any AP editor, to the white courtesy phone!
and they feel so strongly that they are moved to write about their disenchantment - on the Web and in letters to the editor, some in anger, others in sorrow, in language intemperate or aggrieved. And then the article goes on for TWO THOUSAND WORDS listing various Obama supporters crying into their beers. And yet the AP defends itself as a fount of objectivity.
#7
“...the sense that if Obama - with leadership skills, charisma and determination - cannot change it, nothing can.”
The headline should simply read “Buyers Remorse”. The same feeling I had when I discovered I really couldn’t see through the girl’s clothes with the X-ray goggles I bought from the back of a bubble gum wrapper. Then again I was ten years old at the time.
#8
Brown just said... "I didn't mind it when the President came to campaign for my opponent and critisized me repeatedly, but when he critisized my truck, that's where I drew the line."
#9
Of course there is disappointment. It is always disappointing when you find out your New Messiah is just another guy in a messiah suit with his hand in your pocket.
#10
Damn, they finally knew they'd found the one person who could make communism work. Time for the government to disband the people and elect a new one.
In an epic upset in liberal Massachusetts, Republican Scott Brown rode a wave of voter anger to win the U.S. Senate seat held by the late Edward M. Kennedy for nearly half a century, leaving President Barack Obama's health care overhaul in doubt and marring the end of his first year in office.
The loss by the once-favored Democrat Martha Coakley in the Democratic stronghold was a stunning embarrassment for the White House after Obama rushed to Boston on Sunday to try to save the foundering candidate. Her defeat signaled big political problems for the president's party this fall when House, Senate and gubernatorial candidates are on the ballot nationwide.
Brown will become the 41st Republican in the 100-member Senate, which could allow the GOP to block the president's health care legislation and the rest of his agenda. Democrats needed Coakley to win for a 60th vote to thwart Republican filibusters.
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#6
CF -- Don't forget the VA and NJ governors' races. LOSER!
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In a related note, I happened to bring up Yahoo's homepage for a second tonight, and thought to scroll down to see what the headlines were. Not a mention of this special election. Top story was something about web-based efforts to help with Haiti relief or something.
The most consequential special election in - well, in recent history - and not even a mention in the top headlines on the homepage of one of the biggest websites.
Tonight's good news doesn't change the grim outlook if, somehow, something resembling a real press is not re-created in America.
#10
I love how the media's entire "narrative" consists of how bad this is for Obama. I mean, they spend most of the article talking about it. They don't say jack about the new Senator.
The tranzis will just see this as another example of how democracy needs to be replaced because it made an "incorrect" result.
#12
Oh, and you have to love how Ted Kennedy must be spinning in his grave, the seat he held as a lifetime entitlement passing to the opposition so quickly.
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:
His truth is marching on.
Thank you to the voters in Massachusetts.
California are you listening ?
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I think any candidate running in any state that supported higher taxes/healthcare is in trouble. Doesn't matter if they have a D or an R next to their name.
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Verlaine-- I'm not so sure. Over the last week or so, I was following the election on articles in the Boston Globe and Herald. I was surprised to see negative articles about Coakley, her actions and record as Mass AG. Her personality didn't resonate with the 'commoners'. Maybe that's why she didn't get out there earlier. The compressed campaign cycle brought out her personality with 'more than usual' press and BLOG coverage. Witness Washington lobby dinner captured video and released, she denied she saw it.
#16
This means that Barbie Boxer's now vulnerable.
Forget Carly Fiorina. The favorite now is Tom Campbell, Stanford economist, social moderate and the most fiscally conservative-- and most intelligent-- congressman over the last decade.
#17
Boxer better tighten her boxer shorts...Campbell or Carly just needs to run over and over again the clip where she upbraids the Gen. who refers to her as ma'am and forgets to call her Queen.
#18
THANK YOU LORD! There is an independent and conservative (Republican and Democrat) revoution rising. The voters are coming for all the fools who are to arrogant and stupid to listen.
Ditto for me xbalanke. Voting for a winner in MA has been an all too rare experience in my 40 years of "pulling" the lever. If my mother-in-law wsa still alive her head would have exploded.
#27
It looks like even Barney Frank is feeling the heat.
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Ted K may be spinning in his grave. Mary Jo K may be smiling.
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My heart feels like an alligator. This is a gut punch to Bam, Nan and Harry:
No health care reform
Brownie is pro-military and anti-terrorist (in the Guard for a decade+)
Anti-taxes
Huge turnout; everybody knew the stakes and what they were voting for.
Posted by: regular joe ||
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You're socialist takeover of Americas healthcare system has been stopped by the election of a conservative in Massachusetts of all states.
SUCK IT, DONKS!
Posted by: Mike N. ||
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As good as I feel about the win, I'm withholding "huzza's" until after Sen. Brown establishes his track record in the "Adult" pool....
#32
I told you all two weeks ago he could take this...
#4 I think you're wrong, Odysseus. He's either gonna beat her or push her right up against the wall. Democrats are even uninspired by this woman, from the leadership to the average voter on the ground. They think her campaign has been absolute shit, which it has. She's an ineffectual, lazy AG and a career party hack who thought she had this all wrapped up when she won the primary and put it on cruise control while Brown has been working his ass off. The poll last week that she was only 9 up with two weeks left struck like a thunderclap up here. Now the lawn signs and the bumper stickers are showing up and I have literally seen NONE going up for Coakley. This woman inspires NO ONE to go out in a snowstorm to vote for her. Brown's people will if they think he's got a chance. She's gonna have to work for it and the woman is anything but a workaholic. Believe me, she's beatable. VERY beatable. And the opposition smells blood in the water. A REPUBLICAN with a shot at Teddy's seat? If you told me I'd be saying that that was true two months ago, I'd have told you you were out of your mind. But it's true. He's got a chance. And if he does, it'll be like an earthquake. Both here and nationally.
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Picked up about 350 bucks from a few of the moonbats I work with too. They made the same mistake Gergan did. One guy wanted to match paychecks but I didn't want his starving family on my conscience. And he actually is a good guy.
Massachusetts Senator John F. Kerry is calling on Republican Scott Brown, who is waging a surging campaign against Democrat Martha Coakley, to curb his supporters, saying that they have engaged in "bullying and threats" in recent days and that some of them are from out-of-state.
"I'm no stranger to hard fought campaigns, but what we've seen in the past few days is way over the line and reminiscent of the dangerous atmosphere of Sarah Palin's 2008 campaign rallies. This is not how democracy works in Massachusetts," Kerry said this afternoon in a statement.
"Scott Brown needs to speak up and get his out of state tea party supporters under control. In Massachusetts, we fight hard and win elections on the issues and on our differences, not with bullying and threats," Kerry said.
Brown campaign spokesman Felix Browne said, "People are tired of John Kerry's partisan politics. His baseless accusations reflect the desperate last gasps of a flailing campaign."
"Scott Brown is running a positive campaign and has been since the beginning of the race," Browne said in an emailed statement.
Beth Lindstrom, Brown's campaign manager said Coakley had run "the most malicious campaign Bay State voters have ever seen" and charged that Coakley was "manufacturing non-existent controversies."
Democrats have pointed, among other things, to a video posted on the Web in which a supporter at a Brown rally on Sunday can be heard saying, "Shove a curling iron up her butt." Brown can be seen grinning briefly right after the remark. That's a reference to the case of a union-connected cop who diddled his two-year-old neice with a hot curling iron. Marsha Martha declined to prosecute.
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Next shot at him, 2014. He'll be 71. I think it's 50/50 if he runs again. Although what else can the boob do?
1. He can leave the rest of us alone.
2. He can write a book about his days as a hero in Viet Nam.
3. He can live off of Teresa Heinz's fortune and be a kept man and house husband.
4. He can become a French citizen if they will have him.
5. Go off in the corner and contemplate how he lost the 2014 election--how he too dumb to avoid getting "Swiftboated."
6. Continue to mumble obscene remarks on MSNBC with the moron twins Keith Olbermman and Chris Matthews about "right-wing racists Tea Baggers" where no one will hear him anyway.
#6
"This is not how democracy works in Massachusetts" Maybe he should check his zip code and definately the constitution. Wht the long face John? YOU ARE NEXT.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) on Tuesday said that angst voters have expressed early this election year is the result of GOP obstructionism, not the Democrats agenda. "McGinty!"
"Yessir!"
"You speak Gobbledegook! What's he saying?"
Hoyer's remarks come as Republican state Sen. Scott Brown has surged in the Massachusetts special Senate election in part due to his pledge to be the GOP's 41st vote to filibuster healthcare reform legislation. "I think what the public is angry about is they see, first of all, an opposition for opposition's sake," Hoyer told reporters.
Meanwhile, Brown has taken the lead over state Attorney General Martha Coakley (D) in some polls tracking the election to replace the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D). Coakley has campaigned on her support of the Democrats' healthcare bill, appealing to Kennedy's role in trumpeting the issue through Congress for years.
But the issue seems to have fallen out of favor with Massachusetts voters who will go to the polls Tuesday night. A recent Suffolk University poll showed that 51 percent of voters oppose the "national near-universal health-care package" and 61 percent say it is too costly.
Other national polls have shown declining or stable support for the healthcare bill and the Democrats in Congress.
Republicans say that the fact that the race in deep blue Massachusetts is close shows the unpopularity of the healthcare bill and Democrats in Washington.
Hoyer, however, implied that the Republicans' strategy could backfire.
He said that Republicans see the failure of the Democratic agenda as politically advantageous for them this year, an attitude that voters dislike.
"People are angry, people are fearful, people are very concerned about where the economy is...Very frankly they knew that in November of '08 and they voted accordingly," he said. "They did not know, and frankly probably none of us in the room knew, how deep the recession was. But they knew the policies of the past administration were not working to bring about change."
He also deflected suggestions that the contest is a referendum on the Democrats and President Barack Obama.
"I don't need the Masachusetts race to tell me the struggles of the American people. I just need to go to the grocery store," he said.
The Maryland lawmaker did acknowledge that Democrats have been hit because they are the party in power and the economy continues to struggle.
"We're all pretty unpopular..Why? Because people don't feel good and we're the leaders and we're in office and they expected us to do something," he said.
Overall, though, Hoyer defended the Democrats' ability to right the ship.
"We've been trying to do something. I think we're making some progress," he said.
#3
So let me get this straight, Steny: The were so mad at the Rethuglicans that they elected another one?
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This is just the type of comment I would expect from someone living in an alternate universe.
Overall, though, Hoyer defended the Democrats' ability to right the ship.
"We've been trying to do something. I think we're making some progress," he said.
If you can not define the problem how can you expect to find a solution ?
What have you done, on what subject, progress on what, which problem ..... ?
I'm sorry Mr Hoyer, but you, your party have had the absolute power this last year, the veto proof majority and failed to provide solutions to America's domestic problems.
Sir Your Ship will never come in, it has sunk.
In the last year
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Misdirection. I think only the "kool-aide" drinkers are buying this. (and maybe some DUMB Americans/illegals).
#6
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
- Sun Tzu
#7
Hoyer's quote is one of the best examples I've ever seen of postmodernism.
All facts which do not support the narrative are to be ignored. And stories will be told to support the narrative regardless of their reality.
Have Hoyer and Baghdad Bob ever been seen in the same room together?
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GOP obstructionism, not the Democrats agenda
Someone better clue this clueless idiot that the GOP had no power to obstruct. This is insulting to the voters. They are better informed and smarter than this. See Massachusetts' outcome Stony Steny. The let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy...
It's September 2016, year 15 of America's "Long War" against terror. As weary troops return to the homeland, a bitter reality assails them: despite their sacrifices, America is losing.
Iraq is increasingly hostile to remaining occupation forces. Afghanistan is a riddle that remains unsolved: its army and police forces are untrustworthy, its government corrupt, and its tribal leaders unsympathetic to the vagaries of US intervention. Since the Obama surge of 2010, a trillion more dollars have been devoted to Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and other countries in the vast shatter zone that is central Asia, without measurable returns; nothing, that is, except the prolongation of America's Great Recession, now entering its tenth year without a sustained recovery in sight.
Disillusioned veterans are unable to find decent jobs in a crumbling economy. Scarred by the physical and psychological violence of war, fed up with the happy talk of duplicitous politicians who only speak of shared sacrifices, they begin to organize. Their motto: take America back.
Meanwhile, a lame duck presidency, choking on foreign policy failures, finds itself attacked even for its putative successes. Health-care reform is now seen to have combined the inefficiency and inconsistency of government with the naked greed and exploitative talents of corporations. Medical rationing is a fact of life confronting anyone on the high side of 50. Awfully perceptive of a Lefty to realize that this is where Obamacare ends up.
Presidential rhetoric that offered hope and change has lost all resonance. Already happening.
Mainstream media outlets are discredited and disintegrating, resulting in new levels of information anarchy. Already happening.
Protest, whether electronic or in the streets, has become more common--and the protestors in those streets increasingly carry guns, though as yet armed violence is minimal. A panicked administration responds with overlapping executive orders and legislation that is widely perceived as an attack on basic freedoms.... If you click through and read the rest of it, you'll find that the author's prescription for preventing the "coup" is taken straight from Pat Buchanan and Noam Chomsky: reduce the defense budget and withdraw from the world. He does have one item on his list, though, that will make the Mother Jones readership go ballistic:
7. Let's take Sarah Palin and her followers seriously....
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I read the "Mother Jones" ONCE, it was plain that all it was, was crap.
Never again.
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I hit the link and read the article. The writer is seriously whacked.
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Wait, I thought it was the Bush suspension of the election coup in 2004 they predicted. Or was that the Chaney coup of 2008 that was suppose to happen. Freudian projection runs rampant among the left. It's hard to keep track of all the coups.
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as I read that I imagined a "Fwap fwap fwap" sound as the author typed it...one handed
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OBAMA "AFGHAN SURGE" + IRAN NUC + POST 2012 > IMO, once Radical Islam + Aligned MilTerr Gruppen formally declare they have possession of ADVANCED NUCTECHS + OTHER WMDS [NBC-CBRN], THE MASSES MAY ALL BUT OFFICIALLY DEMAND
"IMPERIALIST" + SOCIALIST-GOVTIST NATIONAL-FOREIGN POLICIES, ETC. JUST FOR PERSONAL SECURITY FROM TERRORISM OR THE POTENTIAL FOR SAME.
IOW, IIUC when NATO Officios say that POTUS BAmmer's new mil surge in AFPAK theater has "ONE YEAR" to prove its merits, THEY ARE ALSO INDIR SAYING THAT BAMMER = USA/US-ALLIES HAVE UNTIL 2012 TO DEFEAT THE MILITANTS + ISLAMIST JIHAD, ONCE THE JIHAD GOES NUKULAAR, ANY US-ISRAELI ATTACK ON IRAN WILL BECOM A MINOR OR SECONDARY FRONT TO STOPPING NON-GOVT/STATE WORLDWIDE NUCLEAR TERRORISM-MILITANCY.
Lest we fergit, 1990's + PRE/POST-911 NET > "NATURE OF THE BEAST" > the intrinsic or inherent danger for the US in fighting international Militant-Terror Groups is that, as per TOTE DOMESTIC-NATIONAL-GEOPOL SECURITY, the US may be forced to milpol dominate or take over the World + any desired OWG-NWO REGARDLESS OF WHETHER MAINSTREAM AMERICA = US VOTERS WANT IT OR NOT - WHY? YOU SAY, BECUZ AMER'S ENEMIES are waging a TOTAL WAR = WAR OF ANNIHILATION/DESTRUC AGZ AMER WHILE DEMANDING AMER FIGHTS AT MOST A LIMITED WAR = WAR OF RESTRAINT; + IFF AMER DOESN'T RULE THE WORLD AMER WILL BE DESTROYED.
Again, MSM-NET > RADICAL MULLAHS = better for the WORLD to be destroyed than for ISLAM/
ISLAMISM to NOT RULE.
POST-2012 NUCLEAR-WMD TERRORISM = What de facto NATIONAL GOVT-STATE is POTUS BAMMER going to attack iff NYC, etal US CONUS targets is destroyed on 9-11, Yarn 2013 or 2015 by a NUKE-ARMED JIHADIST GROUP(S) DENIED BY ANY AND ALL MUSLIM GOVTS INCLUDING NOW NUCLEAR IRAN???
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AND, a 2013 or 2015 America = Amerika suffering from PERT,MSM-NET-verified PERVASIVE ECON TRUUUUBLES, i.e. LT NATIONAL-GLOBAL RECESSION IFF NOT DEPRESSION???
"LT" = DECADES, NOT "DECADE" ala PRE-WW2 GREAT DEPRESSION = TENS/SCORES OF YEARS/YARNS???
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A liberal group is stepping up its offensive against White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, urging its members to sign a pledge claiming they will not to support the former Illinois congressman if he ever runs for public office again.
The Obama administration's choice to lead the Transportation Security Administration withdrew his name Wednesday.
William Astore, Mother Jones
