2010 elections gave the Baggers GOPers a Thrill...thought it was mandate

[opihimoimoi]

After taking office...went in for the KILL...rushed in so fast...did the same thing Germany did in WW2 at Stalingrad

did not think far enough ahead....

Now look...Baggers revealed for what they actually are...poorely prepared for the office they hold...

They shorted the normal ladder climbing by them Peters....at Principle High

went straight to the top without the baptism of debate and Fire...

hence 5th grade gaffes, boo boos, and "oops"

are we ready to face up to it....?

The Entire GOP Party is Disordered to the Betterment of the Nation and its People...never mind the friggen Planet

86 the GOP outta be on a Bumper thing...T's even

They are an Evolutionary deadend...better to prune them now else sour fruit...even if low hanging...the Sweet is at the very top...

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

1. Has little to do with the Teabaggers, per say. ANY time ReThugs are in power they get drunk on it!

They abuse it! And they destroy everything in their path, then blame it on the Democrats when we are forced to clean up behind them.

[GreenTea]

2. Only 41% of eligible voted in 2010-Republicans received 22% of eligible voters-Hardly a "mandate"!!

[Hart2008]

8. Many disillusioned Dems stayed home in protest of Bush's third term policies.

The wars weren't ended.

The bank bailouts continued.

Mandates to buy health insurance weren't the change for which they had been waiting.

[joshcryer]

9. No, many disillusioned Dem's didn't get out the vote due to MSM PSYOPS inventing the Tea Party.

The PSYOPS was designed specifically to create something that didn't exist, talk about it incessantly, and basically create a reality that wasn't real.

Basically we were had. For the Republicans to win as they did we had to stay home by nearly 10%. That's ridiculous.

[Hart2008]

10. The midterms ensured that Obama will never compare favorablely with FDR.

Franklin D. Roosevelt - Second New Deal 1935-36

After the 1934 Congressional elections, which gave the Democrats large majorities in both houses, there was a fresh surge of New Deal legislation, driven by the "brains trust" of young economists and social planners gathered in the White House, including Raymond Moley, Rexford Tugwell and Adolf Berle of Columbia University, attorney Basil O'Connor, economist Bernard Baruch and Felix Frankfurter of Harvard Law School. Eleanor Roosevelt, Labor Secretary Frances Perkins (the first female Cabinet Secretary) and Agriculture Secretary Henry A. Wallace were also important influences. These measures included bills to regulate the stock market and prevent the corrupt practices which had led to the 1929 Crash; the Social Security Act, which established Social Security and promised economic security for the elderly, the poor and the sick; and the National Labor Relations Act, which established the rights of workers to organize labor unions, to engage in collective bargaining and to take part in strikes in support of their demands.

http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/franklin%20d.%20roosevelt%20-%20second%20new%20deal%201935-36/id/1404818

Obama is no FDR.

[opihimoimoi]

11. Poor Obama...he has no real hugh majorities in both Houses....like FDR did

[Hart2008]

12. Poor Obama lacked the leadership skills to get super majorities, or to expand them.

Really, if Repuke obstructionism blocked popular legislation, then how did Obama let them get away with it?

The buck stops with Obama on that.

[joshcryer]

14. FDR had massive control of the media, like Bush did. He didn't have a corporate...

...right wing media to contend with, and generally the American people were more left leaning (it took a World War, and decades of right wing manipulation to bring us into our current predicament).

The media is hostile toward Obama and always will be, because it is a corporate entity that thrives on conflict and trumped up stories (with a miniscule bit of truth to it).

[opihimoimoi]

16. There come a time whenNewt is in the Oval and we gonna block his ass too

fuck HIS leadership skills....Obamas team did not quit as Newts did.

[joshcryer]

13. It's basic demographics, though, we get out the vote, we win.

And while some will argue that Obama's centrist policies were the reason we didn't get out the vote, even if true, it doesn't change that fact. I argue that mostly the reason we didn't do it is purely as a result of a misleading narrative in the media, trumpeting the Tea Party as a response to Obama's "left wing socialism" (which all of us know wasn't real, Obama is a moderate, he campaigned as a moderate).

How we know this is true is that 2010 had a voter turnout similar to 2006. In 2006 we sent a strong message to the country that we aren't a force to be toyed with. The only way 2010 is different is that we didn't send that message, otherwise the voter turnout would've been much higher.

Cities helped us maintain the Senate without losing too many people, because large population centers and minorities got the vote. Meanwhile in areas that historically require more get out the vote efforts (such as deeper red areas), we were shellacked. And then, mystifyingly, we decided this was even more proof that Obama was too centrist and that it was a referendum on blue dogs. We neglect the progressives like Grayson and Feingold and can't seem to figure that one out; hint, they were both in areas where Republicans got elected. The last time a Democrat held Grayson's seat before him was in the early 80s, by Andy Ireland, who changed to a freaking Republican. Feingold is the real bellweather, as he was in a state that had only 3 out of 8 districts that were Democratic, one of which (the 3rd district) had small margins. Feingold lost by almost 5 percent. In 2010 Feingold won by 10 percent. Given that the Tea Baggers got out 9% more votes than we did (overall) and given that vote averages were the same as in 2006, the 8.5 point swing against Feingold is completely reflected in our inability to get out the vote.

[Number23]

3. There was a meme here on DU very briefly

that one of the many, MANY reasons that Obama was just so terribly ineffective was he "resurrected the GOP." Anyone remember seeing that? Posters here were claiming that the GOP was on its death bed but because Obama was just so terribly horrible, he had somehow brought the GOP back from the dead.

I thought it was utter rubbish then and it is thoroughly laughable in its stupidity now. Like you said, all that's happened is that the Tea Party idiots that were swept in because voters were so aghast (!!!) at the perceived uber-liberalness of the Dem party have been shown to be incompetent, ineffective idiots. And the Repub nominees for president are even more so.

[zbdent]

4. "Posters here were claiming that the GOP was on its death bed" ... you won't see my name in those

unless you count me COUNTERING those claims ...

I was pointing out that in November 2002, the "liberally-biased media" had written the obituary for the Dems ... it took (almost literally) an act of "God" (Katrina) for the LBM to finally stop sucking on his **** long enough to expose the failure.

I'm also one of those who keeps pointing out that the LBM made the TEA Parties "respectable" by focusing on it in 2010, instead of exposing the circus clowns that they really were. The (allegedly) LBM will be polishing the turd, no matter which it is that comes out of the GOP primaries as the frontrunner, because the cash will be flowing to the LBM to run all those attack ads.

[opihimoimoi]

5. When a Group resists Truth and Facts..embraces Emotional issues with such fevor that allows delusion

it risks sudden collapse by exposure of INEPTNESS

such is todays GOP.

They have been trapped by their own excesses and weaknesses...

weak knowledge base

[joshcryer]

15. Lest we forget that the Tea Party would've never 'existed' were it not for 24/7 MSM coverage...

...of a 'movement' that was almost entirely fictional, and was created in part due to this coverage.

MSM coverage of OWS pales in comparison to a movement 100x smaller.

[DCKit]

6. They think everything is a Man Date. Then they get stood up and get all homophobic. nt

[opihimoimoi]

7. LOL.... :o)