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AMERICAblog: Republicans Gird for Big Losses in Congress

  • TimRusso · 1 year ago
    cynthia ruccia's son visits my blog. hilarity.

    http://bloggerinterrupted.com/2008/06/cynthia-r...
  • artsbiz9 · 1 year ago
    It is WAY too early for these stories. With five months to the elections, the Dems have a lot of time to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory - something that happens repeatedly when we become so sure of ourselves that we become complacent. I pray this holds out until November, but until then I'm blogging like we're WAY behind.
  • ARP · 1 year ago
    Yep- I'm with you. We have an uncanny ability to screw up a shoe-in. I think the races will be much closer than people think due to heavy attack ads and redistricting efforts that have essentially made big shifts impossible. Good or bad, the party will be associated with Obama, and there's a big chunk of people who would rather vote for 4 more years than vote for the "unknown."
  • Miket298 · 1 year ago
    I'd be happy with a 2 seat pickup, then we can still get rid of Lieberman
  • Rob Mule · 1 year ago
    It is rare for a party to lose two election cycles in a row.

    Equally rare, a party that seeks to gut tradition and the Constitution to install a 1,000 year imperium...
  • Mike_H · 1 year ago
    Remember that the main reason Congress' approval rating is so low is that they've done so little to stand up to lame duck Dubya.

    As long as the people believe Pelosi's meme ("We don't have enough votes to counter Bush") then that should still work in favor of the Dems.

    But what would be even nicer is if they actually showed some backbone every now and then.
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    agreed. i don't see why they don't take stands in support of what the American public wants, even if they don't have the votes. They'd at least be able to say...we're trying.
  • BillP · 1 year ago
    "It's like 2006 never ended for the Republicans"

    Well, if you refuse to learn anything, and continue your behaviour exactly as you always have, then yes, it doesn't end. President Bush, Karl Rove, etc, have never acknowledged that they did ANYTHING wrong, and don't need to change ANYTHING. Therefore, no learning, and a dead future.

    BP
  • Rob Mule · 1 year ago
    " Republicans will attack Michelle, suggesting that she does not share American values, mining a subtext of race.
    --MoDo, today
    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/opinion/11dow...

    I hope we all find the time to attack and ridicule those attacking Michelle Obama over the next few months.
  • Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 1 year ago
  • red_dwarf · 1 year ago
    The Corporate News always shows McBush and Obama separated by 2% points; I'm sure it'll do the same with the Congressional races. I found this tidbit over at EzraKlein Archive - originally from KOS, on Obama's reasoning for supporting Roberts on the Supreme Court:

    "A majority of folks," wrote Obama, "including a number of Democrats and Independents, don't think that John Roberts is an ideologue bent on overturning every vestige of civil rights and civil liberties protections in our possession. Instead, they have good reason to believe he is a conservative judge who is (like it or not) within the mainstream of American jurisprudence, a judge appointed by a conservative president who could have done much worse (and probably, I fear, may do worse with the next nominee). While they hope Roberts doesn't swing the court too sharply to the right, a majority of Americans think that the President should probably get the benefit of the doubt on a clearly qualified nominee."

    Seems like I remember most libs had Roberts pegged as a corporate whore (trying to be civil here). Guess Obama got that one wrong.
  • jwhit · 1 year ago
    They are afraid and the only thing thay have left is to instill fear about Obama. They already have the Obama is a Muslim ad running by their favorite operative

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/11/gop-op...
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    this is exactly right, and prez dis said it below as well...
    all the GOPers can do is stir up fear among whites...fox noise is all over this.

    Limpballs routinely calls Michelle an angry militant radical black woman and his listeners hear: there goes the neighborhood.
  • Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 1 year ago
    no arguement against his politics... have to dredge up the good 'ol "American" standby, bigotry/racism.

    shouldn't this tell anyone thinking about voting repugnican SOMETHING??

    the new question each of us should ask anyone who says they're republican should be "So... you're a racist bigot then?"

    when they're aghast at the thought of that... ask them why.
  • Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago
    I call on the Republican Party to disband itself, immediately.
  • Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 1 year ago
    I second the motion, all in favor say 'aye'.
  • maggiePA08 · 1 year ago
    AYE!!!
  • Rab · 1 year ago
    Aye!
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    aye!
  • KerrynowCampau · 1 year ago
    Aye!


    (if only it were this easy)
  • Indigo · 1 year ago
    But without the Republican Party, who would we have to kick around?
  • FunMe · 1 year ago
    rubber-stamps republiCON quacks will finally get their karma.

    Living it and loving it!
  • jr · 1 year ago
    death to supply side economics
  • PrahaPartizan · 1 year ago
    "Sen. John Ensign of Nevada, who is heading Senate Republicans' re-election effort, recently told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that it would be 'a great night" if his party can hold Democratic pickups in the Senate to three or four seats in November.' "

    So, the 'Publican warlords are already starting to play the "lower expectations" game. Their internal polling research must be presenting a total disaster if this is what they're predicting as acceptable losses.
  • LanceThruster · 1 year ago
    Do we have enough of a majority to stipulate tar and feathering or being run out of town on a rail? I feel it would be wholly appropriate.
  • MNUSA · 1 year ago
    They have nothing to offer except for temper tantrums and childish antics. Let's vote in more grown-ups that are progressive. We've lost ground under these conservatives and their President.