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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 02:34 PM
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The repubicans are close to being marginalized
They did this to themselves.

They are so about fucking up the black guy that they have themselves twisted into knots. They fight what they favor, oppose what the masses want, all the while embracing the kookiest extremists imaginable.

They see as a leader a woman who is a grifter, con artist, and self-interested self promoter who is even more intellectually bereft than was the bush family's eldest idiot.

They have offered no new ideas. Not a one.

They have as their party leader a man chosen for skin color but lacking in the common sense to do the job at hand rather than the job he thinks he should do; a man who demands to be paid for speaking when he is already paid to speak.

Their party's luminaries are bat shit crazy - Michelle Bachman, Marsha Blackburn, Virginia Foxxx, Patrick McHenry, Mike Pence, and on and on.

They have applied litmus test after litmus test until all they're left with is the remains of dehydrated backwash. They are now at the mercy of their only remaining primary voting base, the teabaggers. Imagine what that will beget in the way of candidates.




As shortchanged as I am feeling from the Democrats, I am actually growing increasingly of a mind that the Democrats, in the next cycle, will maintain their numbers or perhaps increase them.

I also think that had we gone for single payer or Medicare buy-in, we would be doing even better.

As crappy as I think this offshore drilling shit is, I think it will matter little, and may well help Democratic numbers in the Fall.




Yeah ...... as the grass gets greener each day, so do the political traffic lights .......
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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 02:40 PM
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1. Funny, that's the same thing they said about the dems
circa 2002-2004. And we see how that worked out. The rigged playing field theater requires two actors to function.

There will always be an "oppostion," even if it's a pretend one, like we have now.
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Winterblues Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 02:49 PM
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5. Democrats were not just opposed, they had things to offer.
What do the Republicans offer...Tax Cuts...?
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get the red out Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 02:46 PM
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2. I wish it were true
Where I live liberals are terribly marginalized.
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zipplewrath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 02:46 PM
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3. It's not just about "them"
"As shortchanged as I am feeling from the Democrats, I am actually growing increasingly of a mind that the Democrats, in the next cycle, will maintain their numbers or perhaps increase them.

I am still dubious. I was concerned very early on that the economy alone would hurt the democrats. The whole health insurance fiasco was only piling on. There's an anti-incumbent attitude out there and it may be decisive.

I also think that had we gone for single payer or Medicare buy-in, we would be doing even better.

I want to believe this. I think the real factor was if they had just done it last August, even by November, they'da been fine. Dragging it out to March and then having it be this pile of confused "accomplishments" that came in about 3 waves just killed them.

As crappy as I think this offshore drilling shit is, I think it will matter little, and may well help Democratic numbers in the Fall.

It's one of those "all politics are local" kind of things. The states that are "threatened" by this drilling could find negative reactions to the proposal. Places that aren't, won't pay any attention at all either way. Florida is a big state, and between this, and what they're doing to the space program, I'm afraid it will be a sum plus loss. Strange, considering how many citizens will be having their donut holes closed (a phrase that just doesn't sound right).
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Beetwasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 02:48 PM
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4. Yup
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 03:25 PM
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6. Yes, they are. nt
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 09:49 PM
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7. I don't know what the republicans will do to get back in control of the situation. Because the tea
partiers have escaped and we all know how much the tea partiers love FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDOM!!
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