The Republicans gave it their best shot . . .

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  1. mamooth

    mamooth Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Democrats got more total votes in House elections than Republicans, by about half a million, or about 50.3%.

    The reason Republicans kept the House is because they gerrymandered it so thoroughly in the 2010 redistricting, and because incumbency is a bigger advantage in House races.
     
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    You couldn't possibly have lied any harder!
     
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    Wow you have excuses all ready to go don't ya?

    Well I guess you have a mandate then. Republicans would have been swept from office if every state hadn't totally set up districts for them to win in 2010....gotcha. Well I would recommend you keep up the blame game then since it obviously worked out well for you and make sure you make the gerrymandering issue a key point in the 2014 elections. Something that serious really needs to be addressed.

    We don't want republicans in there only because of a loophole in the system. Technically the democrats should have a supermajority and its really unfair that they were so obviously robbed of what is rightfully theirs.
     
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    http://forward.com/articles/122772/welcome-to-the-jewish-tea-party/

     
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    Really LOL thats Euro-trash M-O.... bust into your country.. cheat..steal destabilize .. steal rob some more.. then maybe commit some genocide ... look around you so you dont sound like a complete Idjit. What you just described is White America in a nutshell.

    When I was serving this country in war I dont ever remember checking the skin color of my fellow soldiers.. they were just Americans. When I am out with my unit during work ..I dont filter calls for assistance by skin color.

    Its not jews that are raping this country by corrupting our government... its Zionists... get it right
     
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    You're not very clear in what you're trying to say. Like, what do you mean by "thats Euro-trash M-O"?
    Are you implying that Europeans are "trash" or what?

    And who are you talking about "cheat..steal destabilize .. steal rob some more.. then maybe commit some genocide ." ?

    You really need to be specific. Don't you understand that whoever may commit these kinds of acts should be held accountable? That would include Jews or anyone else, don't you think?

    Are you saying that "Zionists" are "raping" this country?
    Did you know that none other than the illustrious Michael Weiner said that anyone who wasn't a Zionist was an "anti-semite"? You're not an anti-semite are you?

    Exactly what action are you referring to when you say "raping"? Surely you are not talking about literal rape. Be more specific.

    Why are you bringing up the subject of "skin color"?

    It sounds as though you are under the mistaken impression that "Jews" are not white.

    Who is committing genocide?



    Who's "bustin' into whose country?

    Are you talking about Iraqis, Afghanis?

    You are aware that these people are not considered "white" aren't you?
    You don't have anything against them because they're not do you?

    Your post doesn't make any sense so I don't know quite how to answer it.

    Have you been drinking?
     
  7. Jango

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    To say Republicans "gave it their best shot" is ridiculous, hyperbole, and a lie. They could have kept the House, taken the Senate, and won the Presidency if they had tried their best. I mean, I sit here feeling that, as an American, that both parties are (*)(*)(*)(*) poor. President Obama should not have been reelected. Yes, he did inherit a truly horrific situation as President, but he also inherited America, and its people. Most of all to me, personally, he had moral choices to make. However, as history would go, President Obama made questionable and immoral decisions as President. Moreover, he was supposed to be the runner that held our torch and took us running into the promised land, not take us deeper into the abyss. And the Republicans needed to find someone that could actually keep his word, and fix the cataclysmic destruction our nation is enduring, and the man that was chosen not only lost to McCain, but can't keep his word either. To top it off, Romney's other numerous other flaws only showed him a man of substance not fit for service as President of our nation. Furthermore, colleagues of his in the Senate only made matters worse for the Republican party by having personal views that are wrapped in religion that are just incompatible with most people, especially women and minorities.

    We're (*)(*)(*)(*)ed if things don't get better. It's time to step away from being partisan and it's time to start do the right thing for America. Write your Congressmen and Congresswomen, please, in fact, get your friends and family to do it as well, and tell them to stop this partisan gridlock that is posioning us and destroying our country.
     
  8. dujac

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    it didn't look like an excuse to me

    it refuted your idiotic claims
     
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    How many Governors do you have, or control of State Legislatures? Might want to start there.

    No religious test?
    http://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/520/305

    Stop smoking dope, you might have a chance.

    I remember the debate with Walker L. Chandler, he stood dressed like he was in a barbershop quartet, there all by himself on the local PBS station. It was a good debate, so I voted for him.
     
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    The term Republican in it's original meaning no longer applies. The people in charge do not even merit the term Neo-Con.

    They are Neo-Bolsheviks.


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    http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2011/10/neocons-and-the-incredible-jewish-ethnic-infrastructure/
     
  12. Libhater

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    LOL! I don't remember the Republicans being a part of obama's pushing through of obamacare that no one wants and no is prepared to fund that monstrosity. Republicans didn't exactly obstuct obama's bailouts and porkulus policies either. My advice to the Republicans in congress is to let obama finally own this fiscal mess. Bush isn't around anymore for the dems to place balme on, so I say let obama sink after America falls off the fiscal cliff.
     
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    The Repubs are pretty much forced by their own no tax pledge to force by obstructionism the nation over the cliff on 12/31/2012.

    There is no way they can agree to raising taxes on their own rich donors. Otherwise no more donations.

    After the cliff is gone over, then the Repubs can agree to some kind of tax cut for the middle class, in exchange for something else. Nobody knows what yet.

    There have even been some high level well informed predictions that there may be no new legislation at all for the next 2 to 6 years.

    I can live with no new legislation. That would force austerity. No more debt ceiling raising. No more tax cuts for the rich or anyone else. Everybody pays.

    The only problem is that during a depression or great recession, that would not be the Keynesian way to resolve the world wide financial problem.

    Hoover wanted to let the 1930s depression get even worse. He was then defeated easily by FDR, who used Keynesian means to create jobs and infrastructure projects as well as pork barrel jobs too.

    If Boehner follows the Hoover approach with his continued obstruction due to his power over the US House, it will be interesting to see what voters in Ohio then do in 2014.
     
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    How many seats did they pick up?
     
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    I never understood this liberal talking point of..."no more tax cuts for the rich". Didn't everyone get a tax cut under George Bush? And doesn't the rich pay close to 90% of our taxes anyway? And you do know that placing more taxes on the rich is only going to fund our bloated government for some 8 1/2 days. So you see this talk about taxing the rich is just used as a political strategy by obama and the dims...nothing else. It wouldn't accomplish anything. Boehner isn't obstructing anything. Its obama's silly plans that are obstructing any real talks of a serious plan. Boehner already said the Repubs have offered a revenue enhancer, but obama hasn't submitted anything to reduce spending; and in fact tim gietner plans to tax Americans another 1.6 trillion. Does that sound like sound policy to you?
     
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    Your questions are amusing. Right wing radio myths throughout.

    You should be more careful about listening to right wing radio. It will rot your mind.
     
  17. dujac

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    tv isn't much better is it?

    [video=youtube;-XMiG-21niA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XMiG-21niA[/video]
     
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    And they still think those people are telling them the truth.

    The question is this, if 300+ for romney was a "landslide" and a "mandate, a HUGE mandate" then why isn't for President Obama?
     
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    The Republicans lost seats in both houses of Congress and obviously lost the presidency. There's really no way at all that you can spin that as any type of win for them. This really speaks volumes about the Republicans and I hope they interpret this as a critique on the grandstanding and obstruction they've been doing these last three years. They won't, of course, as the bubbleheads are already making excuses about phones and voter fraud (which, to be fair, they've been doing for years...just in case).

    The Republicans can either step up and try to work together or they can repeat the same asinine mistakes that cost them seats and the Oval Office this year. Their only hope with the latter strategy is to make things so bad, and then somehow convince people that it was all Obama's fault, which didn't work for them this year and there's no reason to think it would work in 2016.
     
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    They lost 8 seats in the House, did they not?
     
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    Judging by the number of House Republicans bailing on Grover Norquist and the fact that Wall Street is now telling Republicans to take Obama's offer, I believe the budget deal will be the first of many deals Obama clubs you with. A lot of House Republicans interested in keeping their seats in 2014 are thinking that way already.
     
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    I don't think there's any way to slow leftists on jihad down other than to throw the country into an economic tailspin. There are disputes over taxes, spending and debt limits.

    As a result of ongoing trillion dollar plus budget deficits the national debt is going to expand. That means all taxes must go up...including middle class taxes. Defense and entitlements (other than SS and Medicare) must be slashed to the bone. And the debt ceiling can't be increased.

    The result will be a recession. That will reduce policy options available to leftists.
     
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    I completely agree, and we are seeing now even that the obstruction continues. Boehner actually wants to go over the cliff.

    Going over the cliff is actually not such a bad thing however. Sure it will be a drag on the economy. But it will go a long way towards reigning in run away federal spending.

    I am surprised that Obama and Reid are fighting the cliff. But then maybe everyone wants to go over the cliff, Obama, Reid, Boehner and McConnell, just nobody wants to admit it.

    At any rate the expiration of the Bush tax cuts are long overdue. And the cliff beckons.
     
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    The ones that invade and steal through colonialism.. yes

    Imperialist scumbags

    Specifically.. if your a murdering, stealing, duplicitous invader.. you destabilize governments ..promote strife so that you may benefit... your a piece of shiat... white black... any color or creed

    Yes... see AIPAC
    Thats just farking retarded, All Jews are not Zionists... there are alot of Jews who condemn Zionism as the political movement dressed in a yamika.

    get real man, do you really think i was referring to literal rape? or are you just being purposefully obtuse?

    because thats what separates us in the U.S ( besides financial strata) ever hear what euro-amerericans refer to themselves as?.. thats right, white.. so i will go by what the current majority chooses to see itself as... even though every group of people was treated like shiat (when they first came to this country) by the current group of squatters.

    having been to Israel I can tell you for a fact that a great many jews are not "white"... some are descendants of euro-Jews.. there are many Mediterranean Jews, Black Jews... Spanish Jews.. I even met some Mexican Jews! I would even go as far as to say that the modern Jewhood has more to do with religion than bloodlines... kinda like Mormons

    Groups of people that are trying to eradicate large groups of people they find inconvenient.



    Look at any country in the past 300 years to present day... if the people there originated from some other land.. and the native people who live there now are subservient to those invaders and it should be easy to figure out who the busters are and who the bustees are.

    Sure.. they fit the bill as bustees

    Yep, they aren't white and i couldn't give a (*)(*)(*)(*).. in truth there aren't any "white" people... just a group of Euro Americans who needed convenient a way to coalesce under a label.. kinda like the "star bellied sneetches"

    Its not too hard to see where I was going with it if you read the O.P and then red my post.. my post was not a work of literary art ..but it can be contextual to the O.P if you had a CPU capable of that sort of computation.... or have you been drinking?
     
  25. dujac

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    what exactly are you referring to?
     
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