People voted for Brown to fix the economy??!

[mreilly]

This is one thing I've been hearing in Massachusetts this morning that has me just plain fucking stunned. Brown was selected to fix the economy, people are saying. He was chosen to stop the bailout and the giveaways and get the economy back on track.

It's talk like this that really has me convinced that there is some sort of mind-altering ray being aimed at the population that causes long-term memory loss, hallucinations and the inability to deal with or process complex information. And somehow a few people such as myself and you, dear readers, are immune to this (personally, I believe that "ray" is just talk radio bullshit from the likes of Jay Severin, Michael Graham and the other turds polluting the radio waves in Masschusetts).

People, Brown's party CAUSED THE ECONOMIC PROBLEMS WE FACE TODAY.

Brown's party OPPOSED ANY AND ALL REGULATION OF THE WALL STREET FAT CATS WHO FUCKED US.

Brown's party RAMMED THROUGH THE TAX CUTS FOR THE WEALTHY WHICH HAS NOW NEARLY BANKRUPTED THE COUNTRY.

Brown's party SLASHED THE SOCIAL PROGRAMS WHICH HAVE RESULTED IN A CRUMBLING NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND SUBSTANDARD EDUCATION FOR OUR KIDS.

Brown's party IS STILL AGAINST ANY SORT OF POLICY NO MATTER HOW SMALL WHICH WILL HELP THE PEOPLE AND REDUCE THE MONEY FLOWING TOWARDS THE WEALTHY.

Jesus, it's not rocket science. What scares me more than the Brown victory is the absolute delusional outlook of some of Brown's supporters who think he has such good ideas. Those same fucking ideas (protect the wealthy, start wars around the Globe, rail against anything that might impede big business destruction, deny global warming) are the cause of the problems this country faces.

There is a fire burning in this country that threatens to extinguish every hope we have the future, that our kids might inherit a sane country with a healthy economy and reasonable leaders who make decisions based on logic and facts. And Brown supporters actually think pouring gasoline on the fire is the way to put it out.

Incredible. Educated adults in my state who think the way to stop crime is electing criminals, so to speak. And their actions are justified as being "good ideas."

[uponit7771]

1. Coakley & DNC did NOT define Brown as being close to Bush POLICIES if not the man, that in and of ..

...itself would've gotten this meme out the door.

[mreilly]

3. That's exactly what should have been pointed out

If I could grab a microphone that would reach every corner of my state I'd simply like to yell to Brown supporters: "His party had eight fucking years in Washington to show off their 'good ideas' and the recession, unemployment, broken-down schools and bankrupt communities we're dealing with now are the result! How could you people think electing a fox in charge of the chicken house again would bring about change for the better? It's only going to get better for the fox and his buddies, at the expense of all us chickens!"

[atreides1]

4. Sheep don't think

They just follow the Judas goat into the slaughter house.

[abelenkpe]

2. Scary

"Those same fucking ideas (protect the wealthy, start wars around the Globe, rail against anything that might impede big business destruction, deny global warming) are the cause of the problems this country faces."

You are right, how the heck can the right still run with this message and win??

[TxRider]

5. Well

Obama was given a year, almost a couple of trillion dollars in TARP and stimulus to fix it, and unemployment is still growing. Wall street is in the white house and bankers are walking away from this economic crisis with a smile.

I really think it is mainly just that simple.

Independents gave us our majority swinging to our side, and they look set to take it away if things don't change, and fast, or at least leaders start listening to them and working harder on those issues than on things like HCR.

[Ganja Ninja]

6. They should have let the banks collapse.

Apparently the brush with disaster we had wasn't enough to get through the thick skulled morons or the right.

[pipi_k]

8. I've thought that too, but then figured it would be damned if you do, damned if you don't

And if this election was a "statement" on change, it'll be interesting to see what happens if/when things either don't change, or if they do change, they change for the worst.

[HughBeaumont]

7. 57 million people . . .

. . . thought putting John McCain and Sarah Palin in charge of this country was a good idea.

Are we really all that surprised by the utter stupidity and over-the-top impatience of the electorate?

I mean, did people seriously think 28 years of Republican economic malfeasance was going to be cured in 12 months or less??

Does anyone not get that the problem lies in Corporate America, the private sector and the MIC? They're the ones who haven't been creating new jobs in 10 years. Not really much you can do about that, short of violent overthrow. They don't want to be taxed, they want all of their jobs offshore, they seem to cringe at the thought of hiring American workers, they're sabotaging progress. Plain and simple.

If it's not coercion, it's compliance. Money shouts and bullshit rides the Space Shuttle.

All I know is that if you had Republicans back in charge, this country would take a fast rocket ride into the abyss.

[mreilly]

9. Offshoring jobs

This is another excellent point. I work in IT, and unfortunately the Republicans have permeated my field. They LOVE sending American jobs overseas so they can fire a 60K programmer in favor of a 6K worker and pocket the remaining 54K (of course they claim it's "invested in the business" which translates to "given to execs as bonuses for smart management"

Nothing gets Republicans in IT more excited than new technology that can fire American workers. Even said workers... who inexplicably vote Republican apparently not realizing that these politicians don't give a shit about jobs, merely making sure the bottom line for businesses is covered. IT business columns are full of smug predictions by Republicans who proclaim the "death of the IT department" due to offshoring and other tactics... and the sheep who support them apparently think that's just fine. If that's they want, that's their issue, but when they lose their jobs they should know not to bother asking their Republican representatives for any kind of assistance including unemployment benefits or health care coverage.

Sheep jostling one another in line to be the first ones through the door of the slaughterhouse. Mind-boggling.

[Larry Ogg]

10. I use to be shocked at how incredibly and extremely misinformed people are!

In fact I see it as being so bad that no better explanation can be given than those who say that the inter-species predator known as psychopath is running the world, i.e. the world that most people see through the main stream media (aka the mind altering M$M). But when you shield your mind from the political party paradigms and the M$M, and start letting - the psychological research along with the internet - be your filter for looking at past and present events, you would begin to see the disturbing truth for what it is, and isn't pretty.

To put it simply: America is not divided between Democrats and Republicans, and it is not divided between Liberals and Conservatives; it is divided between the hypnotized and the politically aware. And as far as those who are hypnotized, they are the majority, so don't expect any real changes for the better coming out of Washington, because the M$M controls, for the most part, the electorates information gathering part of the process, long before the poles are open. And if they (the M$M) wanted a corporately owned Democrat to win in Massachusetts, guess what, a corporately owned Democrat most likely would have won in Massachusetts.

[Festivito]

11. Nobody is reaching these people and now we all look stupid. /nt

[REACTIVATED IN CT]

12. Brown said he's going to vote against HCR in DC - but

he voted for it in MA Senate. He's against the proposed fees on the banks who rec'd TARP funds.

This is the stuff Coakley should have been repeating over and over

[zbiker]

13. wow, i cant believe that i am still hearing this crap

guys !!!!!!!!!
it's this exact same sentiment that is shooting us in the foot, please pull your heads out of the sand here and realize that what your hearing is based a a realistic view of what WE DID. not a "as it was perceived" sentiment statements like


People, Brown's party CAUSED THE ECONOMIC PROBLEMS WE FACE TODAY.

Brown's party OPPOSED ANY AND ALL REGULATION OF THE WALL STREET FAT CATS WHO FUCKED US.

Brown's party RAMMED THROUGH THE TAX CUTS FOR THE WEALTHY WHICH HAS NOW NEARLY BANKRUPTED THE COUNTRY.

Brown's party SLASHED THE SOCIAL PROGRAMS WHICH HAVE RESULTED IN A CRUMBLING NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND SUBSTANDARD EDUCATION FOR OUR KIDS.

Brown's party IS STILL AGAINST ANY SORT OF POLICY NO MATTER HOW SMALL WHICH WILL HELP THE PEOPLE AND REDUCE THE MONEY FLOWING TOWARD THE WEALTHY.

stop and think for a moment, just because some folks have worked hard and made it ( many of them Democrat by the way) does not mean they are our enemy,it just means they have been successful.

the supposed wall street fat cats are us, as a people as a whole, no political distinction needed here, they were able to do what they did because of the laws we let get passed and a lack of supervision by the people WE put in place.

regardless how much we wanted that mass seat to be kept on democratic hands, we spent a whole year behaving like we were the cock of the walk and not thinking about how the rest of the country felt about what we were doing or how we were doing it, now it's bitting us in the hinder.

sorry to say the independents weren't stupid, just observant ,and pissed when it came time to decide at the voting booth. have we learned our lesson yet ???

we need to get over the mind set that our way is best for everyone or in 10 months there wont be enough of us left to make the point, we have managed to turn the term "Democrat" into something to be avoided, and we did it to ourselves

[butterfly77]

14. Kick &Recommended!

[krabigirl]

15. Most people aren't very bright.