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I hate to say I told you so, but....
"Voters send a message on the economy; Moderate Democrats fear a shift to GOP" by Susan Milligan, Globe Staff | November 5, 2009
WASHINGTON - Democratic moderates who will determine the fate of much of President Obama’s domestic agenda heard an early warning from this week’s off-year elections: Congress had better do something about the economy, or sitting lawmakers will lose their jobs in 2010.
Republicans scored glitzy wins Tuesday night in gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia, prompting many in the GOP to cite what they saw as public disillusionment with President Obama and his policies....
It is with the WHOLE DAMN GOVERNMENT!!!!
Democrats, meanwhile, pointed defensively to their own victories in two special elections for US House seats....
Yeah, the DemocraPs capacity for self-delusion astonishes me.
But....
With economic anxiety still high, the bigger concern for Obama and majority Democrats is not the Tuesday night math but the next set of unemployment figures to be released tomorrow, lawmakers said, reflecting the harsh reality that whatever economic recovery is taking place is leaving many Americans behind, still looking for jobs.
Then it is NOT a RECOVERY!
“People on Main Street are hurting. My congressional office [in New Jersey] is turning into a counseling service’’ for people who are losing their homes to foreclosure or are being hassled by credit card companies, said Representative Bill Pascrell, Democrat of New Jersey. “This is not a Republican or Democratic year. This is a year when people reached out for a target,’’ Pascrell said, adding that voters could do so again in the 2010 midterms if Washington does not fix things.
INCUMBENTS, OUT!!!! But SO WHAT?
We CHANGED PARTIES and NOTHING CHANGED!
They STILL DO NOT LISTEN!
Between 85 and 89 percent of voters in Virginia and New Jersey said they were worried about the direction of the economy in the next year, and the Republican candidates won the majority of those voters in both states, according to exit polls. Further, exit polls in Virginia found that 46 percent of voters said the economy was the most important issue, while 25 percent cited health care.
And the WARS?
No one cares, huh?
F*** you, AmeriKa!
“People want jobs,’’ said Representative Michael Michaud, Democrat of Maine and a “Blue Dog’’ conservative still undecided on the health care bill. “We have got to start focusing on jobs and the economy.’’
Democrats and the Obama administration have pushed hard toward passing a health care bill, trying to take advantage of the momentum associated with the new president’s high approval ratings.
Are YOU sick of the LIES yet?
But while the health care package has already moved much further along in Congress than any coverage expansion in four decades, Democratic leaders are scrambling to line up the votes they need.
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Looks like they are scrambling even more, huh?
Liberals said they would not be deterred by the landslide win for GOP gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell in Virginia, and the victory for Republican Chris Christie in New Jersey, a reliably Democratic state....
I must have misread the headline. What a crowd!
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi picked up two more House allies, with Democratic wins in special elections for seats in California and in upstate New York, where a Democrat took control of the seat for the first time in more than 100 years.
Oh, ISN'T THAT INTERESTING!?
I swear EVERY ELECTION is RIGGED!!
CUI BONO?
“We had a candidate who was victorious who supports health care reform, and his remarks last night said that this was a victory for health care reform and other initiatives for the American people,’’ Pelosi told reporters yesterday. “From my perspective, we won last night.’’
You have to take off those s***-colored glasses!
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But moderate Democrats and Republicans said the election results did not affect their thinking on the health care package, which has already left many of them undecided....
“I think people are fed up with the status quo,’’ said Senator Olympia J. Snowe, a moderate Maine Republican who provided Democrats with their only GOP vote for health care change in the Finance Committee last month. While Snowe maintains the position she had before Tuesday’s elections - to slow down and “get it right’’ on health care - she said her constituents were very worried about job losses.
“It’s tough to be an incumbent when there’s an economic downturn like this,’’ said Senator Kent Conrad, a moderate Democrat from North Dakota.
Yeah, especially when you are a CROOK!
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While the ruling party tends to be punished at the polls in an economic downturn, Republicans, too, have troubles heading into next year. Conservative activists have been trying to take the party to the right, a move they said will help the GOP expand by taking it back to its ideological roots. But the embarrassing New York loss showed that the schism can cost the party seats in the general election.
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What is with the CONTRADICTORY ARTICLES, MSM?
Republicans in the Watertown-area district nominated a moderate, Dede Scozzafava, and normally would have been expected to defeat Democrat Bill Owens in the reliably GOP seat.
But Bill Hoffman, backed heavily by the conservative group the Club for Growth, ran as a Conservative Party candidate, ultimately forcing Scozzafava to drop out days before the election. She threw her support behind Owens, and the Democrat won.
I smell a rigging.
Former Arkansas governor and 2008 presidential candidate Mike Huckabee blamed his party for the debacle, saying it should have nominated a more conservative candidate to avoid a third-party challenge. “The tent can be big, but it shouldn’t have holes in the ceiling,’’ Huckabee said.
As opposed to loopholes for banks, 'eh, Mike?
He said he didn’t see the race as a sign the Democratic message was resonating in historically conservative rural New York. “The Republicans were stupid. The Republicans fumbled the ball, and the Democrats jumped on it in the end zone, as I see it,’’ he said....
Can we DO AWAY with the SPORTS METAPHORS, please!?
Republican leaders, meanwhile, seized on their state victories as evidence of a national backlash against the Democratic agenda.
It is NOT JUST THEM, Repugs, because YOURS is the SAME once YOU gain power!
And about that agenda (as blog editor holds your wrist):
"Public’s view of health care overhaul has familiar ring; Opinions are similar to those in Clinton era" by Lisa Wangsness, Globe Staff | November 5, 2009
WASHINGTON - Americans’ opinion of the health care proposals now before Congress is eerily similar to public sentiment about the Clinton health reform initiatives in 1994, according to an analysis published online yesterday in The New England Journal of Medicine - and that may not bode well for Democrats....
All the proposals would require most Americans to obtain health insurance or pay a penalty....
Maybe the Democrats are the ones who need the check-up.
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Oh, taxpayers take real good care of them, huh? Who wrote that policy?
President Obama has won far more cooperation from Congress this year than Clinton did in the mid-1990s, partly because of a difference in strategy: Obama let Congress handle the details of the bill drafting, while Clinton provoked resentment among lawmakers by employing a secretive process within the executive branch....
Jim Dau, a spokesman for AARP, said interest groups from across the political spectrum now agree that doing nothing is not an option....
Better reach for your wallet, 'murkn.
But professor of health policy and political analysis at the Harvard School of Public Health co-author Robert J. Blendon’s analysis hones in on a key point that Democrats may focus on more intensely after elections this week underscored deep concerns about the economy and, in some places, dissatisfaction with Democratic leadership.
To put it mildly.
Blendon said the reason support for health care overhaul deteriorates when the questions focus on specific legislation is that people rarely consider that fixing problems requires trade-offs....
Oh, he BLAMES US, does he?
Wees toos stoo-pids toos undertsands stuffs!!!
Okay, HERE is a TRADE OFF: Take ALL the MONEY we spend on EMPIRE, OCCUPATION, and INVASION and GET YOU SOME HEALTH CARE, America!!!
So what do you think, "doc?"
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