The Republicans Won

[whyverne]

While it is fun to chortle at the Republican's political demise, they have already won. The biggest transfer of funds from public to private hands is still going down and the Great American Sheriff's Sale is about to begin. Since only the rich have money now, they will pick over this country; taking the best properties, the best companies and the best investments for themselves. What ever they don't want will be left for the rest of us.

I remember talking to a very wealthy women right after they stole the election for George Bush. “Now it is our turn”, she said. You see the rich and powerful think that Democratic taxation stole money that was rightfully theirs and gave it to people who never deserved it. That would be the lower classes, including the middle class. Their mission was to get that money back. They have succeeded. They should hang a “Mission Accomplished” banner over Washington DC.

Obama is a great man. But he ran for president of a plutocracy and was elected president of a plutocracy. There is little he can do to change that. You might as well wait around for Ahmadinejad to get rid of the theocracy in Iran.

If the American Dream is ever to be restored, it will take years to do it. So don't worry about it; enjoy your Sunday, take care of your friends and family. Screw the chores, go do something fun.

[babylonsister]

1. In your dreams. nt

[KharmaTrain]

2. You're Being Gracious...

Bullshit is a better word.

[babylonsister]

3. OK. To the OP, "Bullshit".

Thanks, KT! :fistbump:

[Psychic Consortium]

4. Obama will restore the democracy and end the oligarchy.

Guaranteed.

[Mari333]

5. the system is rotten to the core

seems like whomever is delegated to POTUS is going to be part of the rotten system and theres not much we plebians can do about it.
I wouldnt say the republicans won. The Oligarchy always wins no matter who is at the helm.

[Echo In Light]

9. Precisely. George Carlin - Who really controls America

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGyObuH3WTY

[blogslut]

6. I love the smell of fatalism in the morning

Smells like horseshit!

[tomreedtoon]

16. Get used to the smell. It's Calvin Klein's new hot scent.

And you will line up and pay for Calvin Klein's Bullshit II, just like everyone else, because it's the scent everyone MUST wear. Because it's Calvin Klein's, which means it HAS to be the scent everyone wears. There is no other scent. Calvin Klein's Hope is so last year, and you can't get it any more.

[Vickers]

7. There's too much to do...LET'S GET ICE CREAM!

Hey wait: that actually *IS* kind of my philosophy...

:(

[Turbineguy]

8. Well, we can

all go back to bed now.

And do nothing.

[spanone]

10. they won the right to shut the fuck up.

[rucky]

11. Political parties are irrelevant in a Plutocracy.

We have the status quo and the insurgency.

[sellitman]

12. The Fat Lady voted Obama for a reason.

I wouldn't give up that easy.

We will fight the bastards tooth and nail.

[snowdays]

13. Corporations are people who also give to rich Democrats in Congress and

lobby these rich Dems now in power.

[saltpoint]

14. The Republicans did not win. They not only did not win but they lost, not

always the same thing.

In the 2008 election, Obama/Biden out-polled McCain/Palin, but the Republicans lost more than the vote count.

Voters shrunk the GOP to a fierce, loud, unstable and mostly ridiculous regional party. There are significant clusters of them in places like Tennessee and South Carolina, but states they surely assumed were in the bag -- Indiana, Florida, North Carolina, Colorado, etc. -- went blue this time. Against the first Afro-American presidential candidate and an up-nawth Yankee from Delaware.

John McCain tried to sell the hero/maverick image and voters weren't buying.

What's still standing for the Republicans in the wake of a powerful historic election does not appear to inspire much confidence regarding viability and governance for the future. Their chairman is a flibbertigibbet. Their big-time talk-host celebs are questioned and ridiculed. Their would-be candidates for 2012 are re-runs and has-beens, and that's on a good day; as well they are old miserable war horses like Newt Gingrich; new nobodies like Tim Pawlenty; prepubescent punks like Paul Ryan; ego maniacs like Mitt Romney; mean-spirited snakes like John Ensign; venal incompetents like John Boehner; and on down the list of predictable and therefore dismissable/defeatable wannabes. George Allen seems to me as viable a candidate for the GOP in 2012 as Newt Gingrich.

Some students are protesting President Obama's address at Notre Dame, but not all of them are. Most of them are not, in fact. My hunch is that History will be inclined toward the president's speeches and against a few anti-abortion protesters. Those protesting the president's appearance are free to speak up but the rest of the country appears to have left them behind in a broader prioritizing of crises. Their drawn-up protest signs may be dwarfed in just a couple paragraphs of Obama's address. He's no slouch with language and I think the smart money is on him to prevail handsomely in this extremely minor regional scuffle.

I don't believe the GOP can bring down a gifted man like Barack Obama with ignorance and anger.

I think that when you abandon Abraham Lincoln, you're asking for trouble. Under scrutiny the GOP doesn't appear to stand for anything except negative things, and voters are disinclined to endorse more negativity. If Obama is not a far-left firebrand, neither is he anywhere near conservative enough for the FOX News propagandists or the neo-con instigators like Bill Kristol.

Obama is a far-improved model than the guy who was in there the last 8 years, and voters know it. Mitch McConnell knows it. Very slowly, through their inherent cognitive difficulties, the Far Right will learn the same thing. They have no ideas. They have no strategic line of assault. Their leaders are lackluster, ineffective, and idiotic. It was quite a binge but the bottle's about empty and a ferocious hangover awaits.

The Republicans did not "win." The lost. And they lost big.

[sufrommich]

15. It's posts like this that are making DU less and less

readable by the day. Seriously, get a grip.

[WilliamPitt]

17. I make in my pants sometimes.

[lonestarnot]

18. I make in lunchboxes sometimes.

:evilgrin:

[bvar22]

19. !

NOW we have Your Children’s Money too !!!
And there is not a fucking thing you can do about it!
Now THIS is “Post-Partisanship” !
Better get used to it!!
Hahahahahahahahaha!


The WARS roll on.

Military Spending INCREASES.

"Free Trade" EXPANDS.

The beat goes on.

[leftstreet]

20. But, if politicians didn't represent the interests of the wealthy - who would?

There are so many more of Us than there are of Them.

The poor things.

:sarcasm:

[edhopper]

21. I see your point.

I don't think it's over and Obama and the Dems can reverse thing. Unfortunately, I have not seen any evidence so far, especially from the Obama/Geithner team to show that they will.
When they truly take on the bastards who wrecked the economy, I will have more faith.
Leaving the same managers in control and doing faux-stress test are not a good start.

[opihimoimoi]

22. They won some big bucks but the Price of losing Most of their CREDS and Respect

will continue to haunt them for years to come.

The Republican Damage over the Years to this Nation has been enormous...