MSNBC's Johnson: "Dems just squeaked through midterms"

[edbermac]

In a January 1 MSNBC.com article titled "That was 2006: The Year of the Sneer," MSNBC reporter Alex Johnson wrote that Democrats "just squeaked through" in the November 7, 2006, midterm elections. That section of the article was labeled "From the jaws of defeat." In fact, as the result of the midterm elections, Democrats have a larger majority in the House of Representatives 233-202 -- than Republicans ever had after gaining a majority in the House in 1994. Republicans last held a majority of more than 30 seats in the House during the 80th Congress, which sat from 1947-1949 and opened with a 246-188 Republican majority.

Moreover, as Media Matters for America noted, Democrats not only gained control of the House of Representatives and the Senate, they did so without losing a single seat in either chamber of Congress. The last election in which a major political party retained all of its House seats came in 1938, when Republicans took 81 seats without losing a single one of their own. That year, Republicans -- like the Democrats in 2006 -- held all of their seats in the Senate as well.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200701030004

Whine, whine, whine...:rofl:

[LynnTheDem]

1. republics lie. It's what they do, it's what they are.

They cannot face truth, reality, fact, because truth, reality & fact are against them.

So they lie.

[Bandit]

4. It has indeed been noted that truth does have a Liberal Bias

;-)

[originalpckelly]

2. Senate, yes. House, hell no.

We have a larger margin in the House than the Republicons did.

[Vincardog]

3. Don't you just love the lies? How about the one on how the Democratic congress has to stay moderate?

Like the worst thing that could happen to this country is an overwhelming correction to the left. We all know how the corporate "Ownership side" of the country has been neglected. RE :puke: BS all of it.

[acmavm]

5. Yes, they lie. They are the Lying Party. And their desperation

and the pathetic state that they're in is stinking to high heavens (or where ever you think stink goes when it gets that bad).

[AX10]

6. Democrats won a mandate to govern!

The Internet has made the MSM very afraid. We now have a source of news that cannot be censored by the Corporate Mafias!

[EstimatedProphet]

7. "Squeaked through"?!?

Yeah, and we just barely made it to the moon! And what's more, the English BARELY won Waterloo!

What a jackass!

[bullimiami]

8. not to mention that without the massive electoral manipulation the dems would

have had an even larger majority in both houses.

[LeftishBrit]

9. One of those irregular verbs...

I have a mandate; you won an election; they just squeaked through.

[LibDemAlways]

10. Yesterday in my daughter's dentist's office I

picked up a copy of US News and World Report. (It was that or Golf Digest.)

What a fetid crock of shit that rag is. Anti-union ads and an article implying that the country is still evenly divided and many races were close and the Dems have no mandate.

Hell, the chimp allegedly "won" Florida in 2000 by a handful of votes, and I don't remember the media making a stink that he had no mandate. If anything, they were dissing Gore and couldn't wait for those big rich man's taxcuts to go into effect.

It's all about the money. Stepping on people to get it, hoarding it, and wanting more. The media will continue to actively oppose the Dems because any crumb offered to the working or poor person is seen as a serious threat to the bloated wallets of the filthy rich.