Councilman
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- Riverside, County, CA.
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GOP Threatens Once Safe Democratic Seats - WSJ.com
By NEIL KING JR. And PETER WALLSTEN
Republican challengers are suddenly threatening once-safe Democrats in New England and the Northwest, expanding the terrain for potential GOP gains and raising the party's hopes for a significant victory in next month's elections.
Republican advances in traditionally Democratic states, including Connecticut, Oregon and Washington, may not translate into a wave of GOP victories. But they have rattled local campaigns and forced the Democrats to shift attention and money to races they didn't expect to be defending.
Rising sentiment against the party in power has washed ashore even in coastal Oregon, where Democratic Rep. Peter DeFazio won his 10th re-election two years ago with 82% of the vote.
“Longtime readers will observe that while we rarely rate unindicted incumbents worse than a Toss Up to win reelection, today we are moving 13 incumbents, 12 Democrats and one Republican, into the opposite party’s column to reflect their underdog status,” wrote Cook’s House Editor David Wasserman. “It’s not that these endangered members’ prospects have suddenly taken a turn for the worse, or even deteriorated gradually over the last several months. Most of these members have trailed all year, and it’s simply exceedingly rare to see a candidate in their position in October come back to win reelection, especially now that early voting will be underway in many states very soon.”
correction: hawaii is governed by a republican, linda lingle
before she took office in 02 the state was 42 years democrat
sorry
Councilman thinks this a pirate movie.
To crib from "Red Dragon," Republicans have at least one disadvantage this election season: They're insane.
Why?
They're talking about tax cuts to people who don't have jobs...
raving about deficit spending to people whose main concern is that they lack access to support services
and railing against highly popular government programs to people who've become increasingly aware of their importance in the bad economy.
I make no specific predictions, but their election strategy is better suited to make marginal gains against a weakened opponent than to sweep anything.
Mr. Soros, a champion of liberal causes, has been directing his money to groups that work on health care and the environment, rather than electoral politics. Asked if the prospect of Republican control of one or both houses of Congress concerned him, he said: “It does, because I think they are pushing the wrong policies, but I’m not in a position to stop it. I don’t believe in standing in the way of an avalanche.”
Soros: I Can't Stop a Republican "Avalanche" - NYTimes.com
Just so that we are clear in what we are saying, I asked you why you view republicans as "insane" and you say that we are talking about tax cuts to people whom don't have jobs?
Whom is lacking access to anything in this country?
Who are these people?
If you are talking about say Medicare which has a 33 Trillion dollar unfunded liability then I would say yes, something has to be done, but that in no way is railing against the program, or wanting to take it away from those that have it now. That is wanting to address it and fix it.
Then Sir I would pose that you are either just NOT paying attention to the news out there
I give you Geo. Soros.
Yet you are tilting at windmills here...How can that be?
the one that sees nbc and fox news as part of the same vast right wing conspiracy?
To crib from "Red Dragon," Republicans have at least one disadvantage this election season: They're insane.
Why?
j-mac
wow that is some inciteful bs for such a novice. I guess the thought of hard work, self sufficiency, and patriotism is insane to people who think working is for suckers. why work when you can live off the effort of others.
Everyone who can't afford something and doesn't qualify for the handful of limited social programs remaining.
Who are these people who live in the Horatio Alger America you seem to believe in?
If you want examples of deprivation, I have a toothache and can't do anything about it because my dental coverage won't cover what needs to be done. The tooth is rotting in my mouth, and they can't do a simple extraction because it's fractured and would shatter.
According to the dentist's quote, I would have to pay over $3,000 to get this dealt with - something I can't do even with a payment plan because of bad credit due to bankruptcy from medical bills.
I am denied necessary care because my employer doesn't consider me valuable enough
I have no knowledge of whether that figure is accurate or not.
But as I recall, presidential candidate Al Gore had wanted to create a "lock box" for Medicare and Social Security
I pay attention to all news.
It's not a conspiracy, just convergent interests resulting in similar behavior.
Just remember, if youre not republican youre not for hard work and you hate your country.
that's absurd
That's the impression one gets hearing Republicans talk about non-Republicans.
I guess the thought of hard work, self sufficiency, and patriotism is insane to people who think working is for suckers.
why work when you can live off the effort of others.
anyone who can't afford something is by definition denied access because there is some limitation of social programs that would provide it?
there're millions of us, we're all around you, can't you see us?
you're deprived because you have a toothache?
i hope you get some relief soon
yes, indeed, dentisty can be very expensive
go on
for someone who is unaware of the unfunded liabilities facing not only medicare and medicaid but also social security as well (also public pensions, city, state and federal), you certainly seem to have some rather strong opinions about how the world works
that's the solution folks, it's odd obama hasn't found it, all we need is the LOCK BOX!
then how could you possibly have missed last friday's jobs report, it was even on olberman?
olberman and beck share similar interests?
Those are just words to Republicans.
Capitalism in a nutshell.
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.
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.
The concept of a lock box was to ensure that such surpluses would be held exclusively for Medicare and Social Security
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.
No, the organizations that employ them do.
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