Landrieu gets clobbered.

[Sgt Staples]

Landrieu gets clobbered. Lost by 12 points. Obama's doing his best to make the Democrat party a dirty word, ( it is since it went off the left end of the Earth.)

People are tired of having a nanny state telling them what to do.

 

[Drumcollie]

In the final insult of a devastating 2014 election for Democrats, Sen. Mary Landrieu, the party’s last remaining statewide officeholder from the Deep South, was trounced Saturday in the head-to-head Louisiana Senate runoff election.

Republican Bill Cassidy’s resounding victory is the ninth Senate seat picked up by the GOP in this year’s elections, three more than the party needed to take control of the chamber. With nearly all the ballots counted, Cassidy led Landrieu by 14 points, 57 percent to 43 percent.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/...e-elections-results-113367.html#ixzz3LEDgeFua

Racism is now over at the national level in Congress

 

[MrMike]

I'm surprised it was by that wide a margin in a runoff. However, she was horrible for the State even prior to being in the Senate.

Good riddance!

 

[Bugsy McGurk]

Maybe now we can bring an end to the relentless improvements under Obama and return to the glory days GWB left behind?

;-)

 

[Bernard_Fokke]

Landrieu gets clobbered. Lost by 12 points. Obama's doing his best to make the Democrat party a dirty word, ( it is since it went off the left end of the Earth.)

People are tired of having a nanny state telling them what to do.

Possibly they can now find cause to jail her like they did to Nagan

 

[Addy]

Maybe now we can bring an end to the relentless improvements under Obama and return to the glory days GWB left behind?

;-)

US going backward is a good thing apparently..... according to the viewpoints of those repubs in denial of Obama's accomplishments.

 

[Sgt Staples]

US going backward is a good thing apparently..... according to the viewpoints of those repubs in denial of Obama's accomplishments.

Yep, we need more leaders like Obama. Maybe we can have race riots every day and a 36 trillion national debt and become even more of the laughing stock to our enemies than Obama has made us.

Great accomplishments indeed. Anything positive that has happened in the last 6 years is in spite of Obama, not because of him.

 

[Bugsy McGurk]

Yep, we need more leaders like Obama. Maybe we can have race riots every day and a 36 trillion national debt and become even more of the laughing stock to our enemies than Obama has made us.

Great accomplishments indeed. Anything positive that has happened in the last 6 years is in spite of Obama, not because of him.

In GOP la-la land, Obama invented racism and the massive structural deficit GWB left behind. Reality is simply not tolerated in GOP la-la land.

 

[Addy]

Great accomplishments indeed. Anything positive that has happened in the last 6 years is in spite of Obama, not because of him.

More like great accomplishments by Obama in spite of the saboteurs, he had to deal with on an ongoing basis.

 

[Sgt Staples]

More like great accomplishments by Obama in spite of the saboteurs, he had to deal with on an ongoing basis.

Oh Boo Hoo, poor Obama.

 

[Zam-Zam]

She was abandoned by her own party in the run-off, who saw no realistic path to victory for her.

Many predicted that the Democrats would lose the Senate (Joe Biden's foolhardy prognostication notwithstanding), but few thought they would lose so many seats by relatively wide margins. The President will now have less legitimate power than he has ever had, which is I believe is as the voters intended it to be.

 

[American Patriot]

In GOP la-la land, Obama invented racism and the massive structural deficit GWB left behind. Reality is simply not tolerated in GOP la-la land.

Fact is Bugsy that the race issue has actually gotten much worse under the Obama regime. Obama himself is the cause of this with his social divides and selective justice ideology. Obama has literally made these race issues political and they are no longer social issues. In spite of Obama many see Obama for what he really is and by all accounts he is the racist.

 

[justoffal]

Landrieu gets clobbered. Lost by 12 points. Obama's doing his best to make the Democrat party a dirty word, ( it is since it went off the left end of the Earth.)

People are tired of having a nanny state telling them what to do.

You know that one was very telling...she is a long time and well known face down there and was very, very popular and trusted during that time. As far as I can tell she did her best to represent her state in the Senate. However it appears that the wash of totalitarianism from the EVIL LESBIAN DWARF in the White House rolls down hill like an apocalypitc shixt storn and destroys everything it falls on including democratic allies who are now finding out what it means to be obedient to the Furher.

Most entertaining of course were the polls that showed Landrieu staging a late comeback and actually leading ( shows you how much the polls are owned by lefty media ) for a bit just before she got her left haunch extricated and handed to her.

 

[Arkady]

Landrieu gets clobbered. Lost by 12 points. Obama's doing his best to make the Democrat party a dirty word, ( it is since it went off the left end of the Earth.)

People are tired of having a nanny state telling them what to do.

It's very odd to suggest that the Democratic party went off the left end of the Earth, since in most ways the current Democratic party is more conservative than prior generations of Democrats (e.g., more conservative than New Deal and Great Society era Democrats), and in nearly all ways the Democratic party is more conservative than the center-left parties of nearly every other major wealthy nation (e.g., more conservative than the European Social Democrats).

Look, for example, at the tax levels pushed by the current Democrats. Even after the tax hikes recently signed by Obama, federal tax receipts are only 17.3% of GDP. That compares to an average of 19.9% from the start of the data series (1940) through 2001. And Americans pay lower taxes, overall, than people in all the other OECD nations except Chile and Mexico.

Or look at healthcare. The healthcare reform pushed through by Obama was essentially Romneycare, and was far more conservative than the reforms pushed by earlier generations of Democrats. Certainly compared to the highly socialized structure of Medicare, it's very conservative. It's arguably more conservative even than the plan Nixon pushed (which was rejected by Ted Kennedy, at the time, who thought we could get something more liberal):

http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2012/06/22/stockman/bvg57mguQxOVpZMmB1Mg2N/story.html

And, of course, if you took all the wealthy nations and sorted our healthcare systems from most liberal to most conservative, the current US system would still be the most conservative.

On one issue after another, with the only major exception being gay rights, the current crop of Democrats looks almost like Republicans next to prior generations of Democrats, and they look center-right or even far-right compared to the mainstream left parties in other wealthy nations.

You are free to argue that Democrats, despite their move to the right, and despite sitting so far to the right relative to other leading nations, are still too far left for your tastes. But trying to frame this as Democrats going off the left end of the Earth just shows a detachment from reality. It's simply untrue. The Democrats of today are a relatively conservative party, both compared to their counterparts abroad and their counterparts in America's recent past.

 

[justoffal]

Fact is Bugsy that the race issue has actually gotten much worse under the Obama regime. Obama himself is the cause of this with his social divides and selective justice ideology. Obama has literally made these race issues political and they are no longer social issues. In spite of Obama many see Obama for what he really is and by all accounts he is the racist.

It is a crime of the highest magnitude for elected officials like Obama and appointed officials like Holder to use their offices as racial scales to settle old and imagined bitterness lurking in their vengeful little minds.

Obana is basically not the President he is " Da Brutha at Da funky white Crib in DC" and Holder is the " Chief Muthafukker in charge of get whitey " down there in Sodom on the Potomac.

JO

 

[as seen on tv]

i view this more narrowly.

if the dems had ALREADY maintained control of the senate, then re-electing landrieu because she chairs the senate energy committee makes sense.

once the senate is in GOP hands, Landrieu has no actual power, and there is no rationale for re-electing her.

Landrieu's "i love obamacare" concession speech shows how disconnected she is from her constitutents on other issues.

 

[justoffal]

It's very odd to suggest that the Democratic party went off the left end of the Earth, since in most ways the current Democratic party is more conservative than prior generations of Democrats (e.g., more conservative than New Deal and Great Society era Democrats), and in nearly all ways the Democratic party is more conservative than the center-left parties of nearly every other major wealthy nation (e.g., more conservative than the European Social Democrats).

Look, for example, at the tax levels pushed by the current Democrats. Even after the tax hikes recently signed by Obama, federal tax receipts are only 17.3% of GDP. That compares to an average of 19.9% from the start of the data series (1940) through 2001. And Americans pay lower taxes, overall, than people in all the other OECD nations except Chile and Mexico.

Or look at healthcare. The healthcare reform pushed through by Obama was essentially Romneycare, and was far more conservative than the reforms pushed by earlier generations of Democrats. Certainly compared to the highly socialized structure of Medicare, it's very conservative. It's arguably more conservative even than the plan Nixon pushed (which was rejected by Ted Kennedy, at the time, who thought we could get something more liberal):

http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2012/06/22/stockman/bvg57mguQxOVpZMmB1Mg2N/story.html

And, of course, if you took all the wealthy nations and sorted our healthcare systems from most liberal to most conservative, the current US system would still be the most conservative.

One one issue after another, with the only major exception being gay rights, the current crop of Democrats looks almost like Republicans next to prior generations of Democrats, and they look center-right or even far-right compared to the mainstream left parties in other wealthy nations.

You are free to argue that Democrats, despite their move to the right, and despite sitting so far to the right relative to other leading nations, are still too far left for your tastes. By trying to frame this as Democrats going off the left end of the Earth just shows a detachment from reality. It's simply untrue. The Democrats of today are a relatively conservative party, both compared to their counterparts abroad and their counterparts in America's recent past.

GOP and Democratic solons have more in common with each other than they do with their voting constituency. It is important for everyone to recognize that they all have the "Weakness of the Wallet " that affects most of what they say and do.

There's no doubt that the " Nanny state " effect soured the democratic base which still outnumbers the GOP base by a fairly wide margin btw making this whole mid-term a very strange duck indeed. Low turnout is not a good way to win anything....it is not very convincing in the long run. However I don't see any evidence that the majority of the party has learned anything at all.

At least Schumer and Durbin are voicing their retrospective regrets that maybe they weren't listening when the people were speaking.

It's shit like this below that cost the Dems so dearly...

Look at this cocky bitch spitting purposely in the faces voters and citizens.....with a smirk that she no longer carries . I predicted on that very day that this kind of attitude would have a price.

 

[justoffal]

i view this more narrowly.

if the dems had ALREADY maintained control of the senate, then re-electing landrieu because she chairs the senate energy committee makes sense.

once the senate is in GOP hands, Landrieu has no actual power, and there is no rationale for re-electing her.

Landrieu's "i love obamacare" concession speech shows how disconnected she is from her constitutents on other issues.

The only hope for the dictatorial left is to somehow nullify the election process......oh right...Hitler and Mussolini already tried that!

 

[justoffal]

US going backward is a good thing apparently..... according to the viewpoints of those repubs in denial of Obama's accomplishments.

There is an argument to be made in that regard. I think you're forgetting though that the big crash at the End of Bush's term and the beginning of Obama's term was a Banker's Fukkup not a political one. Neither Bush nor Obama had very much to do with the massive derivatives catastrophe that damn near broke the whole world financially.

I will say though that the policies that enabled the American Real estate market to create the lion's share of that massive bubble of doom were conceived and coddled by both Democratic and Republican lawmakers.....most of the voting public are totally ignorant of the history behind that crash and when I say most I mean both sides of the political spectrum.

The Bush Tax cuts apparently did not have the long term effect that we were told they would. Instead of stimulating commerce and business it allowed CEO's of all stripes to hoard even more money without any responsibility to re-invest. Then of course the trade treaties ( which are a favorite toy of the left btw and especially of Mz N. Pelosi ) have been disastrous for the American Wage averages..... Why not ask you democratic lawmaker what his/her position is on the trade agreements that are destroying American Jobs? Be sure to find out how they are going to vote on the up and coming pacific treaty that certain to send another 100 American manufacturers offshore to greener pastures! You might find that they sound remarkably like Capitalists when they offer you their red faced explanations.

In the mean time the wealth of the average family is being drained by every government agency there is. Fed, State, municipal.....rising costs....an anemic dollar unit ( This is a purposeful dollar strategy by the FED not just a coincidence ) that seems to buy less and less as each day goes by. In addition to this their patience is being tried to its limits by Lefty orators who take the stage and insist that " Stupid People " don't understand how good they have it! As they vote themselves raises, escape their own personal obligations and have uncle sam pay their way as if their were kings and queens and not elected officials.

These are some of the things on the minds of the voters and for what it's worth the Dems were hurt far more by low turnout... ( Democratic voters who stayed home ) than they were by opposing vote counts. Many who voted last time were too busy working their second and third part time jobs to pay the bills....getting to the polls wasn't so important this time around ...especially when all you hear from the [Unwelcome language removed] down in DC is that " Everything is great! Money Problems??? We don't have no stinkin money problems!! "