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2010 Midterm Results Discussion

I beat you to it a few pages back... hehehehe

yeah but I am watching the Strickland camp now and they won't concede since there are lots of dem heavy precincts still to report
 
Paladino concession speech proves him a dick.
 

I went back and forth on Strickland vs Kasich because I believe Strickland is basically a decent man and he has been pro gun since being a congressman. Kasich I think is an opportunistic weasel to some extent-he voted for the gun ban after voting against it to get Clinton to sign his Penny-Kasich bill. But I ended up voting for Kasich after weighing the fact that Kasich's running mate if solidly pro gun, and Strickland's is not and the reapportionment is a powerful tool the governor will have and several small business owners-including my father in law strongly favored former businessman Kasich.

as I noted, a tough call
 
Boehner crying like a little girl.

Booze will do that to you.

He'll really be crying when he and his party don't produce and Obama is a shoe in in 2012.
 
Booze will do that to you.

He'll really be crying when he and his party don't produce and Obama is a shoe in in 2012.

you sound rather bitter

I know Boehner

he's a self made man which is also true with Steve Chabot

If the GOP won the senate I figure that would guarantee boy wonder winning

everything is up for grabs for 2012 at this point
 
The PA senate seat has just been called for the Republican. Toomey wins in PA.
 
Toomy in Penn
Reid Jr. loses in Nevada
 
Booze will do that to you.

He'll really be crying when he and his party don't produce and Obama is a shoe in in 2012.
With the economy at best months away from any significant recovery, it's hard to envision a scenario where Obama is a "shoe-in".
 
NBC won't call Kasich v Strickland YET for the reasons I listed a few posts ago
 
Michelle Bachman won her race in Minnesota... That's good news.
 
me believes you are reading a tad bit to much into this....the governor race is not a blow out by any stretch of the imagination, and ohio certainly isnt going to turn to 'your' brand of conservatism.
 
you sound rather bitter

I know Boehner

he's a self made man which is also true with Steve Chabot

If the GOP won the senate I figure that would guarantee boy wonder winning

everything is up for grabs for 2012 at this point

Not bitter just stating the facts. If you rest on your laurels in politics you're only fooling yourself. There's a lot of work to be done and i doubt the GOP is up to it. Boehner's arrogant dispostion will get the republicans nowhere.

Are you sure you know him? Everyone I know in Ohio calls him Boner.
 
Mark Kirk was just called as the winner in the IL Senate seat.
 

There are issues where Obama has signaled his willingness to work with Republicans on issues that they have traditionally cared about. Free trade, education reform, tax cuts for the middle class, etc. Boehner's speech made me skeptical if they'll actually work with him though...or if they'll either A) move the goal posts a bridge too far to get Democratic support, or B) disavow their previously-held positions since they're now being proposed by a Democratic president.

As for the issues that you mentioned: I think it's important that Republicans recognize how much leverage they actually have. Repealing health care reform and/or extending all of the Bush tax cuts is flat-out not going to happen. Obama doesn't NEED to compromise at all; he already got his way, and if Congress takes no action, the status quo is the Democratic position. At most, the Republicans might be able to work with the Democrats to change the laws in ways that are mutually agreeable to all of them.

As for the other two issues you mentioned. Cap-and-trade was already dead on arrival, so I doubt it's on the agenda at all. For that matter, neither is immigration reform...at least not as a serious policy change (although the Dems might introduce it as a wedge issue knowing that it will lose).
 
Not bitter just stating the facts. If you rest on your laurels in politics you're only fooling yourself. There's a lot of work to be done and i doubt the GOP is up to it. Boehner's arrogant dispostion will get the republicans nowhere.
agreed...now he has to lead, and cant sit back and just pisss, beyatch, and moan....big change for him, and i doubt he is up to it.
 
everything is up for grabs for 2012 at this point

A lot can happen in two years.


Meh, it looks like the Republicans take the House and Democrats keep the Senate. And now with the GOP even further to the right, it is less likely that anything will get done in Congress.
 
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