believe it or not, some democrats aren't liberals....
just like the republican party has been hijacked by extremists...
While the Republican gains in the House and Senate are grabbing the most headlines, the most significant results on Tuesday came in state legislatures where Republicans wiped the floor with Democrats.
Republicans picked up 680 seats in state legislatures, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures -- the most in the modern era. To put that number in perspective: In the 1994 GOP wave, Republicans picked up 472 seats. The previous record was in the post-Watergate election of 1974, when Democrats picked up 628 seats.
hardly
Devastation: GOP Picks Up 680 State Leg. Seats - Hotline On Call
why, just since nov 2, tsunami tuesday, thirteen state DEMS, from louisiana to maine, have come over to my dark side
are THEY extreme?
Dem State Lawmakers Defecting To GOP Post-election - CBS News
stay up
There are various forms of extremism. Far right GOP are extreme, Far left DEM are extreme, and rarely do those people do anything worthwhile. Progress isn't made by clinging to ignorance. Currently, the far right are claiming to be the most ignorant...and are proud of it.
So that we are on the same page, what is your definition of far right extremism?
Every other post is about:
how unfair it is to expect the rich to pay more taxes than the rest of us...
how only the rich "create" jobs...
how expecting the rich to carry their own weight is class envy, or class warfare...
how the unemployed are too lazy to go look for work...
and various other form of BS...
perhaps others will add to the list.
I know plenty of people who are poor due to their own poor planning, but I also know plenty of middle class who have suddenly become poor thanks mostly to the greed on Wall Street.
It is hard to sympathize with some of the newly poor. My son attends church with some who are wealthy, and he has been asked if he and his family are OK financially. He tells them that he was poor before this mess started, didn't have much, but owned all that he had, except his house, and he is able to keep up with that.
It is the overextended who are hurting, and it is mostly their own fault, but I don't think it is a good idea to be kicking people when they are down.
Currently, the far right are claiming to be the most ignorant...and are proud of it.
So many false statements here which shows lack of reseach and buying only leftwing rhetoric.
The rich do pay more taxes than the "rest of us" as evidenced by the IRS data. Last year 47% of income earners, all at 50,000 a year or less paid zero Federal Income taxes. Is that fair?
Only the rich or those trying to become rich create jobs. How many of those rich people started out rich?
The rich do carry their own weight spending and saving their own money vs. others who have to take it from the rich to exist. In some places that is theft.
What qualities does someone who has been out of work 2-3 years bring to the market place? You don't think that SOME of the terminal unemployed aren't lazy? I contend that they are and won't start looking for work until their "benefits" run out.
There are plenty of people who are poor due to poor planning and a lot of people did lose money in Wall Street. No one however forced those people to invest in Wall Street. Was it greed that forced them to do that? Have you checked history regarding Wall Street investments vs. SS? Personal responsibility remains a problem in today's entitlement mentality and something you have never addressed.
tell it the voters of ohio, pennsylvania, new york, florida, virginia, wisconsin, michigan and illinois
in those 8 bellwether battlegrounds alone, 32 house seats and 6 gubs (florida was already "red") switched sides, dem to gop
ZERO went the other way
in the senate (in just those 8 kingmaker commonwealths, mind you), my side gained 3 (toomey, johnson and portman), a fourth (florida) was already mine, and 2 more (virginia and michigan) had no upstairs seats in play
while at the state level---we gained brand new control (just in time for GERRYMANDERING!) of the ny senate, pa house, ohio house, michigan house, wisconsin house and senate
we own both houses and the gub in PA, OH, MI, WI, FL and VA
yup, it's all an appeal to ignorance
meanwhile, obamites know better
LOL!
seeya in '12, when more than a dozen upper house dem incumbents are genuinely in danger vs only ONE republican, chappaquiddick's scott brown
party on
I said just like the republican party has been hijacked by extremists...
not sure what you thought it meant....
The republican party has made a hard right turn, essentiallly a U turn, without knowing what direction we should go. BTW, I am a republican, believe it or not. And I started saying a long time ago that the GOP has lost touch with the public, and it will be thier fault if we get a dem in the WH.
So far, I don't see a GOP candidate on the horizon. We have less than 2 years, people. Keep listening to the extremists, and Obama will win again...
Either way, the debt will increase, the deficit will stay high. The GOP doens't have the balls to do what is needed to turn our economy around...
But I have said that we should all bear the burden, proportionately to our guilt...
Ubercons are mixing their koolaid a bit too strong and soon they might not be able to taste the special extra ingredient.
There is going to come a time when you wake up and realize that "extremism" which you claim the Republicans have is actually mainstream and you are out of it.
The republican party has made a hard right turn
IF that is the case, Obama wins again. There are too many voters out there who vote according to what does the most for them as individuals. And more of them are DEMS than GOP.There is going to come a time when you wake up and realize that "extremism" which you claim the Republicans have is actually mainstream and you are out of it.
opposition to obama is not moderate, true
IF that is the case, Obama wins again. There are too many voters out there who vote according to what does the most for them as individuals. And more of them are DEMS than GOP.
It is short sighted thinking and will only add to deficits and debt. Surely you can see that from your extreme right position? Or do you need binoculars?:2razz:
Sorry but bea.gov disagrees with you and that is the non partisan agency that records economic growth. The economy wasn't collapsing in the fourth qtr of 2008 because that is the quarter that TARP was implemented. Not sure where you get your information but I suggest non partisan sites and not leftwing sites that you apparently use. I learned a long time ago to trust but verify. I don't believe politicians of either side so give me just the facts. The recession ended in June 2009 and Obama has lost more jobs in 2010 than were lost in 2009.
Apparently the electorate didn't get the message this last election. this country is center right, not far left. What exactly did Obama win on Nov. 2, 2010?
I'm not sure what you are reading (or smoking), but the BEA website does indeed suggest the US economy was collapsing in the 4th Qtr of 2008, a notion that is backed up by anyone that had owned a least one share of stock and had a pulse .
BEA : Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Graph
The recession did indeed end at some point in 2009, but as we know, jobs loss and job gain activity always trails the beginning and end of the recession, often by months. Accordingly, the job losses of the first part of 2009 are attributable to the recession delievered by GW. As to Obama's performance in fixing the problem.... well, at least this did not become a depression, thanks to quick bi-partisian actions during both the waning months of the Bush Presidency and the early months of the Obama presidency, but overall, I think Obama's performance has been very poor on the economy. He is showing himself to be a very weak president. While we can certainly place some of the blame on the Republicans in congress who are more interested in party than country, the President should be able to work through that kind of political shenanigans.
It is unfortunate that our choice is between politicians from the party of the wimps and the party of the fools...
Over confidence is a trap....and if Obama is half as smart as he gets credit for, he will spring that trap using the very words and actions of the GOP over the last few years. We could make every GOP politician aware of this, and they will find a way to ignore the danger.
Obama won the WH by DEFAULT. The GOP sent in a few cheerleaders to play against a real jock. It can happen again...
The GOP sent a real weak candidate against someone who everyone wanted to believe and who spoke nothing but rhetoric. His resume showed an inexperienced candidate who would be in over his head and the results are showing that more should have paid attention to the resume.
yeah they "create the jobs" and then give those jobs to illegals.Sanity wins out over the biggest tax increase in U.S. History and the tax and Spend dreams of the "Trifecta of Doom."
What is it about the simple idea that people who make over $250,000 a year are the ones who create the jobs.
We don't need more taxes we need less spending. But if your a tax and spend Lefty you have a serious lack of mental acuity.
The fact remains, he won.....
another fact remains, the GOP is in disarray, and labeling republicans who don't measure up to your standards isn't the best approach to deal with that disarray...
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