If G.O.P. retakes control of Senate in November, a consequence of facts or despite facts?

[post]

Bush trusted then 31 years old Dina Powell to manage his white house personnel office,

..."On Saturday, Kerik kept thinking about his decision. “But by that evening, I’d resigned myself to the fact that it wasn’t happening. I really figured it was over.” On Sunday, however, Gonzales called to ask a few additional questions. Then on Monday, (Dina) Powell, a friend from before the process began, called again.,,"

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Dina's discernment was flawed when it came to her attraction and endorsement of Bernard Kerik to be nominated as DHS Director. This is a description of the man
she chose to marry and have children with. To be fair, is Dina's discernment really any worse than Bush's, Trump's, other G.O.P. candidates, or their voters?

Sean Parnell, Pa. Republican Senate candidate, accused of ...​

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Nov 1, 2021 — The testimony by Laurie Snell cast a harsh light on Sean Parnell, a leading Republican candidate endorsed by Donald Trump.

Wife of Senate Candidate Sean Parnell Testifies He Strangled ...​

https://www.rollingstone.com › politics › politics-news
Nov 1, 2021 — Trump endorsed Sean Parnell

The OTHER out-of-state GOP Senate guy is worse - The ...​

https://www.inquirer.com › columnists › attytood › dav...
Dec 28, 2021 — prodigal son David McCormick isn't as sexy as rival Mehmet Oz, just more dangerous. FILE - President ...

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MAR. 25, 2022

Has Goldman Sachs’s Dina Powell Finally Gone Too Far?​

By Shawn McCreesh
"The Republican Party these days is full of plutocrats turned populists who think the only way to make it is to fake it as MAGA true believer. But sometimes … you might wish they had a little more dignity.

Take Goldman Sachs partner Dina Powell, the irresistibly charming, gossip-slinging, Washington–Wall Street power-brokering insider who served as Trump’s deputy national security adviser and emerged un-muddied, coming off as ,,civic-duty, adult-in-the-room types. She isn’t running for office herself, but she’s been working hard to help her zillionaire hedge-funder husband, David McCormick, win the Republican primary to replace retiring senator Pat Toomey in his home state of Pennsylvania. (Despite years in D.C. and Connecticut,...) Team McCormick got Trumpy quick. Stephen Miller works for the campaign, along with Hope Hicks. A whole raft of Trumpian camarilla is lending support. McCormick has also got Breitbart apparatchiks and ran “Let’s Go Brandon” Super Bowl ads.

,,,reported in the New York Times how McCormick and Powell schlepped down to Mar-a-Lago to grovel for Trump’s endorsement. ..Powell whipped out an image of her husband’s main primary opponent, Dr. Oz, .. that showed him “alongside others wearing Muslim head coverings,”.. ...

And so, it left many of her other Establishment friends suddenly wondering what’s happened to her.."

 

[Fishking]

Obvious bait thread is obvious. Why the **** did you go through the effort of creating this and then write the most dumb****ing poll options one could think of. A 5 year old on a sugar high could write better poll options than what you just did. Pathetic.

 

[Schism]

"If G.O.P. retakes control of Senate in November"

The question isn't if, it's how big.

 

[post]

Obvious bait thread is obvious. Why the **** did you go through the effort of creating this and then write the most dumb****ing poll options one could think of. A 5 year old on a sugar high could write better poll options than what you just did. Pathetic.

Projection

Readers are aware of what is pathetic, and it isn't my poll answer choices, it is the choices voters make that are pathetic,
and the choices made by the candidates they vote for, costing taxpayers trillions (see Bush's phony invasion to find WMD, Rudy
appointing Kerik NYPD Commissioner, Bush nearly placing Kerik as DHS Director, voting for Trump, Trump appointing and advancing
Stephen Miller, Trump pretending to drain the swamp as he appoints Bush's former aid and Kerik friend, Dina Powell McCormick and many of Dina's Goldman Sachs colleagues to Trump's own swamp ...)

-snip-
Moreover, right after the 'cane, Trump tweeted about, of all things, "billions of dollars owed to Wall Street and the banks which...must be dealt with." Seriously? Money owed to Wall St! That is what the man who in one of his last campaign ads showed ominous photos of the New York Stock Exchange and the CEO of Goldman Sachs and proclaimed it was time to put an end to the political and business elites that have "bled our country dry." Of course, he then proceeded to appoint more than a few Goldman and other Wall St. execs and principals.

• Steve Mnuchin, Treasury Secy (Goldman)
• Jim Donovan, Dep. Treasury Secy (Goldman)
• Gary Cohn, chief economic adviser (Goldman)
• Steve Bannon, chief strategist (Goldman)
• Dina Powell, deputy national security adviser (Goldman) (Apparently that she speaks Arabic and may be a Trump sycophant are her quals.)
• Jay Clayton, SEC Administrator (Goldman)
• Strategic Policy Forum
  • Stephen Schwarzman, Blackstone Group (chair)
  • Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan Chase
  • Jack Welch, GE
  • Adebayo "Bayo" Ogunlesi, Global Investment Partners

For as much as Trump loves to issue fiats, he didn't issue the right ones before Maria. He could've ordered the military, FEMA and others to prep for and execute airdrops that put "stuff" on the ground mere hours after the 'cane passed, have relief and hospital ships to arrive w/in 4 hours of the 'cane's passing to immediately start coptering supplies in and critically injured people out to the ships. He could have issued myriad orders to set in motion rapid and material relief, yet he didn't.

Note the dates... Bush's chosen 31 year old, Egyptian immigrant white house personnel director was still trying to arrange for her "mobbed up"
friend Bernard Kerik to be in charge of the Department of Homeland Security as the public was learning about the mob ties of the Kerik family.
How much will GO.P. voters overlook, aside from everything that contradicts their indoctrinated opnions?

People v. DiTommaso, 127 AD3d 11 - Casetext​

https://casetext.com › ... › 2015 › February
Feb 24, 2015 — In December 2004, President Bush announced that Kerik was his choice for the position of Secretary of Homeland Security.

Bernard Kerik's troubling ties: Links to company in mobster ...​

https://www.nydailynews.com › news › bernard-kerik-t...
Dec 12, 2004 — Three months after DiTomasso told city investigators about his interactions with Kerik and Ray and the hiring of Kerik's brother, Kerik was ...

 

[TurtleDude]

Obvious bait thread is obvious. Why the **** did you go through the effort of creating this and then write the most dumb****ing poll options one could think of. A 5 year old on a sugar high could write better poll options than what you just did. Pathetic.

you're surprised?

 

[Integrityrespec]

The republicans will retake control because of the terrible job Joe Biden is doing and the radical progressive left policies of the democrats.

 

[The Mark]

*snip*

In response to thread title, am confused.
In response to poll question:

There is a strong and well funded propaganda arm pushing the bullshit that makes them think Democrats are an existential threat.
They are constantly instructed and fed information about how bad things will be if they let the Democrats have power.

 

[HangLow]

Projection

Readers are aware of what is pathetic, and it isn't my poll answer choices, it is the choices voters make that are pathetic,
and the choices made by the candidates they vote for, costing taxpayers trillions (see Bush's phony invasion to find WMD, Rudy
appointing Kerik NYPD Commissioner, Bush nearly placing Kerik as DHS Director, voting for Trump, Trump appointing and advancing
Stephen Miller, Trump pretending to drain the swamp as he appoints Bush's former aid and Kerik friend, Dina Powell McCormick and many of Dina's Goldman Sachs colleagues to Trump's own swamp ...)


Note the dates... Bush's chosen 31 year old, Egyptian immigrant white house personnel director was still trying to arrange for her "mobbed up"
friend Bernard Kerik to be in charge of the Department of Homeland Security as the public was learning about the mob ties of the Kerik family.
How much will GO.P. voters overlook, aside from everything that contradicts their indoctrinated opnions?

People v. DiTommaso, 127 AD3d 11 - Casetext​

https://casetext.com › ... › 2015 › February
Feb 24, 2015 — In December 2004, President Bush announced that Kerik was his choice for the position of Secretary of Homeland Security.

Bernard Kerik's troubling ties: Links to company in mobster ...​

https://www.nydailynews.com › news › bernard-kerik-t...
Dec 12, 2004 — Three months after DiTomasso told city investigators about his interactions with Kerik and Ray and the hiring of Kerik's brother, Kerik was ...

 

[jaypatriot]

The republicans will retake control because of the terrible job Joe Biden is doing and the radical progressive left policies of the democrats.

Nice and succinct. I like that.

Too many choices in the poll above.
More like, "Let's see how many choices I can give Conservatives to make them look bad".
The OP was baiting anyone who is not a Progressive and who was smart enough to not vote for Biden and his AA running mate.

 

[rickc]

The majority of the Republican voter base just doesn't want the democrats in charge. To them the democrats represent the party of black and brown people. They truly fear an America when the minorities become the majority.

Now the rich and powerful own those republican representatives. They know mitch McConnell and the rest of the Republican representatives will protect their wealth, give them more tax cuts, reduce regulations to increase corporate profits increasing shareholder value and appoint conservative judges who will also protect their wealth.

The rich and powerful and spent a lot of money convincing that working class voter base that the democrats are the true enemy while all the time it's them that has destroyed the American dream.

 

[Kreton]

America is a deeply divided country and people tend to vote "against" not "for". Since a dem is president and like isn't perfect they'll vote "against". It is why we almost always see a midterm swing.

 

[jpevans]

Nice and succinct. I like that.

Too many choices in the poll above.
More like, "Let's see how many choices I can give Conservatives to make them look bad".
The OP was baiting anyone who is not a Progressive and who was smart enough to not vote for Biden and his AA running mate.

The poll questions are how you attract non participation. People like questions that don't seemingly represent on side. Less bias is better, to learn anything.

America is a deeply divided country and people tend to vote "against" not "for". Since a dem is president and like isn't perfect they'll vote "against". It is why we almost always see a midterm swing.

I think it's imperative that D's come to the polls in record numbers in November. That lovers of Democracy band together & vote D up & down the ballot & break the spiral into fascism from the right. Even Independents who value the Noble Experiment of democracy should vote D to stop the tide of authoritarianism from darkening our countries future. The future of our grandkids (6) & great grand kids (1 so far).

 

[Kreton]

The poll questions are how you attract non participation. People like questions that don't seemingly represent on side. Less bias is better, to learn anything.

I think it's imperative that D's come to the polls in record numbers in November. That lovers of Democracy band together & vote D up & down the ballot & break the spiral into fascism from the right. Even Independents who value the Noble Experiment of democracy should vote D to stop the tide of authoritarianism from darkening our countries future. The future of our grandkids (6) & great grand kids (1 so far).

I don't disagree, however, reality is that midterms never bode well for the sitting president.

Also Dems were motivated by Trump; anti Trump brought out millions. There is no Trump.

 

[Blue Dog]

Winning is all that matters.

Period/End of story.

 

[Kreton]

Winning is all that matters.

Period/End of story.

No; America fixing our problems is what matters. The win by any means mentality is destroying the US.

 

[Blue Dog]

No; America fixing our problems is what matters. The win by any means mentality is destroying the US.

No argument from me.

I only answered the question posed in the OP.

 

[jaypatriot]

America is a deeply divided country and people tend to vote "against" not "for". Since a dem is president and like isn't perfect they'll vote "against". It is why we almost always see a midterm swing.

I assume you are saying that "life" isn't perfect.
Never was; never will be.
The Dems are digging their own grave with so many policies the voters perceive are hurting the country. The biggest mistakes in the making are: immigration out of control; inflation hurting peoples' pocket books; and the bizarre energy policy which Biden is incapable of articulating.

Your comment was right on the money. I say that because I do not always agree with your assessment of the political future.

 

[Phys251]

Bush trusted then 31 years old Dina Powell to manage his white house personnel office,



Dina's discernment was flawed when it came to her attraction and endorsement of Bernard Kerik to be nominated as DHS Director. This is a description of the man
she chose to marry and have children with. To be fair, is Dina's discernment really any worse than Bush's, Trump's, other G.O.P. candidates, or their voters?

Sean Parnell, Pa. Republican Senate candidate, accused of ...​

https://www.inquirer.com › politics › pennsylvania › se...
Nov 1, 2021 — The testimony by Laurie Snell cast a harsh light on Sean Parnell, a leading Republican candidate endorsed by Donald Trump.

Wife of Senate Candidate Sean Parnell Testifies He Strangled ...​

https://www.rollingstone.com › politics › politics-news
Nov 1, 2021 — Trump endorsed Sean Parnell

The OTHER out-of-state GOP Senate guy is worse - The ...​

https://www.inquirer.com › columnists › attytood › dav...
Dec 28, 2021 — prodigal son David McCormick isn't as sexy as rival Mehmet Oz, just more dangerous. FILE - President ...

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https://web.archive.org/web/20220330010114/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/03/how-dina-powell-is-helping-david-mccormicks-senate-run.html

MAR. 25, 2022

Has Goldman Sachs’s Dina Powell Finally Gone Too Far?​

By Shawn McCreesh
"The Republican Party these days is full of plutocrats turned populists who think the only way to make it is to fake it as MAGA true believer. But sometimes … you might wish they had a little more dignity.

Take Goldman Sachs partner Dina Powell, the irresistibly charming, gossip-slinging, Washington–Wall Street power-brokering insider who served as Trump’s deputy national security adviser and emerged un-muddied, coming off as ,,civic-duty, adult-in-the-room types. She isn’t running for office herself, but she’s been working hard to help her zillionaire hedge-funder husband, David McCormick, win the Republican primary to replace retiring senator Pat Toomey in his home state of Pennsylvania. (Despite years in D.C. and Connecticut,...) Team McCormick got Trumpy quick. Stephen Miller works for the campaign, along with Hope Hicks. A whole raft of Trumpian camarilla is lending support. McCormick has also got Breitbart apparatchiks and ran “Let’s Go Brandon” Super Bowl ads.

,,,reported in the New York Times how McCormick and Powell schlepped down to Mar-a-Lago to grovel for Trump’s endorsement. ..Powell whipped out an image of her husband’s main primary opponent, Dr. Oz, .. that showed him “alongside others wearing Muslim head coverings,”.. ...

And so, it left many of her other Establishment friends suddenly wondering what’s happened to her.."

Democrats want to govern. Republicans want to rule.

 

[jaypatriot]

The majority of the Republican voter base just doesn't want the democrats in charge. To them the democrats represent the party of black and brown people. They truly fear an America when the minorities become the majority.

Now the rich and powerful own those republican representatives. They know mitch McConnell and the rest of the Republican representatives will protect their wealth, give them more tax cuts, reduce regulations to increase corporate profits increasing shareholder value and appoint conservative judges who will also protect their wealth.

The rich and powerful and spent a lot of money convincing that working class voter base that the democrats are the true enemy while all the time it's them that has destroyed the American dream.

That's a rather bleak and somber view of our society.
I would rather see the glass half full and hope that the November elections represent a reset of divisive politics in DC.
If that happens at least we won't see trillions more in spending that will further exacerbate the inflation situation.

 

[Taylor]

If Democrats wanted to be reelected, they should have addressed issues that everyday people care about. Instead, they spent a year fumbling a reacharound for special interests. Stupid is as stupid does.

 

[Phys251]

That's a rather bleak and somber view of our society.
I would rather see the glass half full and hope that the November elections represent a reset of divisive politics in DC.
If that happens at least we won't see trillions more in spending that will further exacerbate the inflation situation.

Righties don't care about Congressional spending as long as it's their side doing it.

 

[jaypatriot]

Righties don't care about Congressional spending as long as it's their side doing it.

Good talking point, phys. You should be VP.

 

[Phys251]

Good talking point, phys. You should be VP.

Seems like the truth offends you.

 

[jpevans]

Good talking point, phys. You should be VP.

The D’s job has been to fix the economy since forever it seems.

 

[Gatsby]

If the Republicans take the Senate (and I think they will), it will be a consequence of the partisan coalitions realigning in ways that are very unfavorable to the Democrats. It's just very hard for the Dems to hold the Senate for more than a couple years at a time, when the median Senate seat is something like R+7.

And rather than whine about how it isn't fair, I think it makes more sense to understand why that's the case so it can be changed. The main reason for this lopsided map is more related to the Democrats than the Republicans. Dems have gotten really bad at appealing to downscale voters in Middle America.

Honestly, the Dems probably expend too much effort appealing to people like me. They would be much better off rebuilding the Obama coalition.