Blue wave my ***!
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Obama was a miserable failure at economic recovery, and I voted for him the first time... the correct move was to let companies that ran themselves poorly fail and be taken over by smaller better run companies... too big to fail was an economic disaster that really only insulated the rich executives...
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I agree. With some luck the powers that be in that party will give us a dusty ticket with the old guard running but I bet they go young.
Its a changing political climate and I think it is going to be very difficult to fend off socialism/communism much longer. The House will create laws to make the Republicans look like uncaring, women, minority and immigrant haters as they fail to pass the senate, then use that as the low hanging fruit for the low information voter to consume in 2020. I expect a radical shift to the left in 2 years and once people have had enough of that, it will shift back to the right. Rinse & Repeat Each time advancing further left and maybe getting back to center when it switches back to the right. Interesting times ahead no doubt...Lots of things to look forward to especially when it comes to healthcare, higher taxes and premiums, less competition, lower quality.
I'm pissed the Republicans could not maintain control of the House but I'm more pissed that Congress did not do all they could have done while they had control of all 3 branches. What a waste of 2 years. I do think if they had better results like actually killing Obamacare, immigration reform, etc. then the voters would have sent a lot of those folks back to DC. Didn't happen
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Killing Obamacare was never going to happen because the Republicans STILL can't decide on what they want to replace it. About 1/3rd want "nothing", about 1/3rd want something in the middle and about 1/3rd want Obamacare with changes. The proper outcome to Obamacare all along has been "changes" to it. Maybe you can get 2/3rd of Democrats and 1/3rd of Republicans now in the House to work and find good changes to Obamacare that the Senate will approve. That would be fine by me.
As far as Immigration, I'm disappointed too, but not in the Republicans. That god damn activist judge got involved and stayed the elimination of DACA by Trump's executive order was the problem (to this day, I can't figure out how a judge could decide one executive order can't repeal another executive order). That took all the bargaining power away from the Republicans to make SIGNIFICANT changes to our immigration system. The democrats just sat on that court decision and (properly) decided to do nothing. I don't blame them for that, that's what they should have done. Hopefully over the next 2 years, we get a judicial ruling that overturns the "stay" on eliminating DACA, the bargaining chip comes back, and we get solid immigration reform, and that will happen regardless of whether the House is (R) or (D).
Immigration reform is coming. It HAS too because it's too ****** up the way it is and now (thanks to Trump), everyone know it.
I am a bit disappointed in Ryan and the House that they didn't sent a lot of small laws/bills like crazy to the Senate for approval. Everything doesn't have to be massive 1000 page laws. They could have and should have passed 100's of small, significant pieces of legislation that could have helped this country run better. But Ryan was an ******* and is now part of the "one big bill a year with tons of pork" mentality that is our Congress now.
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Damn that was close. It's hard to believe that there are that many people in Florida willing to give Democratic Socialism a foothold.
WTF are they thinkin' ???
I'm thinking too many asshats from the liberal taxes to death utopia in the north move to Florida. I'm sure you can throw in some west coast folks too. They're trying to bring that bs with them. Dumb *****. Please don't retire here if you're bringing that socialist crap with you.
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Lie lie lie. They will do just that because they know the general public is ignorant as **** and will believe any ******* bs socialist fairytale they can think up. We should ban liberals from retiring here...haha...Seriously all they do is play class warfare and yell free stuff. The population has obviously been polluted for it to even be close. They'd run your *** off if you mentioned adding a state tax,tolls,gun banning or messing with health care.
Nine of the 11 that Trump campaigned for won...and the democrat that did vote for Kavanaugh won. Joe Manchin. Smart guy....in that regard anyway.
Lol at Obama. Him talking about himself more than the person he was campaigning for didn't help.
There are no more "never Trumper" Senators...they're gone, replaced with Senators on the Trump Train. That is huge in itself.
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**** Gollum even had Adolph Di Blasio shilling for him down here
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Like Rep. Rothfus in the Pittsburgh area.
Barletta was a Trump supporter, but couldn't overcome the zero empty suit Casey.
Penn Dems go back to acting like Penn Dems.
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And the Northeast continues to lose residents....Wonder why
Barletta is also an eastern PA Republican, who are a whole different breed, i.e. Democrat Lite, who think that PA west of the Susquehanna is uncharted Indian territory. Our last three GOP governors and three of our last four GOP Senators were from western PA. 1) We're more Conservative and 2) a western candidate will work the eastern part of the state but eastern candidates say "**** all y'all" to the west, we don't need you because we got all those votes in suburban Philly.
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Who was in control of Congress when the financial crisis hit and had been for 2 years. Who was in control of congress when "obama" got the deficit down?
P[ease list the Obama policies and initiatives that caused this recovery? Please be specific.
From Rush... since 1946 the fewest loss of seats, next to who else but Reagan:
The most House seats ever lost by a president’s party in power was Obama in 2010. He lost 63. Next was Bill Clinton in 1994. He lost 52. In 1958, Eisenhower lost 48, as did Ford and Nixon in 1974. They lost 48.
Lyndon Johnson in ’66, lost 47. Harry Truman in ’46 lost 45 seats. George W. Bush in 2006 lost 30. In 1950, Harry Truman lost 29. Reagan, in ’82, lost 26 seats, and in 2016 Trump is at 26 or 27 .
Blue dribble.
Blue leaky faucet.
The most House seats ever lost by a president’s party in power was Obama in 2010. He lost 63. Next was Bill Clinton in 1994. He lost 52. In 1958, Eisenhower lost 48, as did Ford and Nixon in 1974. They lost 48.
Lyndon Johnson in ’66, lost 47. Harry Truman in ’46 lost 45 seats. George W. Bush in 2006 lost 30. In 1950, Harry Truman lost 29. Reagan, in ’82, lost 26 seats, and in 2016 Trump is at 26 or 27 .
Blue dribble.
Blue leaky faucet.
Saw a link on this attributed to the NY Times, so hard to argue with the facts. Maybe that's one of the reasons he thought the day was a victory for him, as historically more seats have been lost during the midterm.
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