'I just want my country back,' the Brown voter said.

[BurtWorm]

The country that Bush-Cheney drove right into the sewer, he wants back. Because that's the only country the poor schmuck has ever known.

We're way beyond the decline of American civilization, folks. :patriot:


http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2010/01/19/coakley_brown/index.html?source=rss&aim=/news/feature

...



He identified himself as Mike Doherty, a heavy equipment operator from suburban Hanson. "I just want my country back," he said. "I want to see my legislation before my face -- not behind my back."

Like many in the crowd, Doherty called himself an independent (or "unenrolled," the technical term in Massachusetts) and said he'd only recently become involved in politics -- and even more recently with the Brown campaign. "I was tired of watching the liberals run roughshod over all of us," he said.

Doherty's presence, and the presence of a surprising number of other blue-collar and middle-class voters, spoke to a key cog in Brown's winning coalition.

In accumulating more than 1.1 million votes and defeating Martha Coakley by 5 points, he racked up the second-highest share of votes for a Republican Senate or gubernatorial candidate in Massachusetts since 1972. (Only Bill Weld, reelected with 71 percent in 1994, did better.) Returns suggest that Brown's victory was built on the increasingly tax-phobic bedroom community dwellers outside of Routes 128 and 495 (the two interstates that ring Boston) and on working-class voters in and around the state's small and midsize cities -- older, largely white places like Fitchburg and Brockton.

For Democrats outside Massachusetts, who must this fall defend suddenly vulnerable congressional majorities, the challenge now is to figure out how their party -- whose candidate led this race by 30 points just a few weeks ago -- could lose in such a reliably Democratic state. Was it just a complacent candidate who fell asleep at the switch (and then proved disastrously inept when she woke up)? Was it something particular to Massachusetts -- a rejection of the Democratic Party that has dominated Beacon Hill for decades? Or was it worse: an unmistakable sign that the nation's electorate is in revolt against the Democratic Party that now runs Washington.

...

[texastoast]

1. They must be a different species

Unbelievable that they know so little.

[Deep13]

2. What a fucking idiot. nt

[Lilyeye]

3. Co-sign!!

[gmoney]

4. You KNOW this guy stays up all night readin' thet thar Congressional Record...

and ever gol-durn paragraph of each bill in the House AND Senate.

Or not.

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[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

6. The guy admits he'd only recently become involved in politics

Nice cover, pretend you never knew who George W Bush was.

[Initech]

7. What happened to my skewl?????

[duphase]

8. A right-wing friend of mine (he's a prison guard) sent me an e-mail

with that as the subject. I think it made the rounds of redneck America this past fall.

[KansDem]

9. "I want my country back! I want my country back! AWK!!!"

[MUAD_DIB]

10. I want to see my legislation before my face -- not behind my back.

What the fuck does that mean? Does he understand that the whole health care bill has been in circulating in Congress for a few months now?

Does he understand the fucking legislative process??!! Could he actually articulate it?


So now instead of legislation he will get "NO!"

"NO" on healthcare.

"NO" on fixing Wall Street.

"Yes" on tera.



Wow. This guy is just another "Joey" from the sticks.

[Political Heretic]

17. Excuse me but the legislation process was FULL of closed-door deals and secret meetings

Not open to the public and not at all transparent.

[MUAD_DIB]

31. Excuse me. Was there a bill that the moran could access/read?

[Political Heretic]

32. Even I want to see more than a final bill. I want to see the process transparency WE WERE PROMISED

PROCESS.

PROCESS.

Not final result.

[MUAD_DIB]

34. Do you want to sit in their office when they discuss it as well?

:sarcasm:

[Political Heretic]

37. Yeah, mock the process transparency we were PROMISED.

That's fine.

[MUAD_DIB]

38. No, I'm mocking your apparent grade school idealism.

I didn't know that Obama was in charge of congress.

[Cosmocat]

39. Which, you know ...

is what occured times 100 under republican rule ...

NOT SAYING it makes it OK, but the choice boils down to the process for legislation that might reform health care or legislation that might tap our phones ...

[poverlay]

27. Of course not. If the legislation isn't short enough to fit on a bumper sticker and simple enough

to grace a pre-school picture book it's all "back room deals" and "unwieldy behemoth, no transparency" liberal, socialist country stealing.

Every time I get one of those asinine "I want my country back" emails, I just reply: "NO".

Idiocrats...

[gateley]

11. "....from the Black guy." nt

[malaise]

13. Ding ding

We have a winner

[shawcomm]

20. Yep, that's the hidden addendum

[Bluerthanblue]

12. hmmm..... "my country"---

'I want'- 'me' 'my'....

yep, sounds like a real wonderful country to live in- :sarcasm:

The me vs. the we.

I'll take the we anytime. A society of one isn't going to last or succeed.

[proud2BlibKansan]

15. I made that same observation almost a year ago

I drove by one of their rallies and every sign had either ME or MY or I on it.

They are just selfish and painfully ignorant.

[krabigirl]

25. exactly!!

[Grand Taurean]

What was so great about Bush's era?

Bush burned the constitution.
Or perhaps they see a black President as the end of their dominance?

[11 Bravo]

14. Yeah, damnit! More white guys running things, that's the ticket!

[REACTIVATED IN CT]

16. Was he a Native American ? n/t

[BurtWorm]

18. No, A nativist American.

A know-nothing.

[jpak]

19. "I want my country back" - teabagger racist code-speak

yup!

[TxRider]

21. Yup go ahead and believe every voter is that guy

And every independent is a clone of him.

Makes it so easy to dismiss this fiasco, and even easier to lose in November.

[BurtWorm]

22. I never said every independent voter is that guy.

And I don't blame this fiasco on ignorant voters. I blame it on the failure of Democrats to give people a reason to want to keep Democrats in power.

PS: American civilization is beyond decline because fewer and fewer people will remember when it ever worked.

[Froward69]

23. tea bagging idiots

have a country. and it is Somalia.

they fear any real progress.

unrec... tea baggers did not "win" this election... it was handed to them.

FU Martha Coakley you should have campaigned better.

[krabigirl]

24. Typical. Ignorance...he deserves it, but why do the rest of us? there is no hope...

[liberal N proud]

26. Either a beckerhead or dittohead

Makes no difference they are stupid as the radio or TV the use to get their "values"

[butterfly77]

28. Did he care when ..

Cheney did the energy bill behind closed doors and then our energy bills skyrocketed..

[shireen]

29. His campaign sounds more like he was dating the voters ...

he was courting them, charming them with his charisma and good looks, paying attention to them. And they fell in love. Never mind the issues.

:loveya: ..... awwww ....

[edbermac]

30. "I just want my country back."

Yep, let's get back to the good old days! :sarcasm:

[Roland99]

33. Welcome to the face of Willful Ignorance.

[SammyWinstonJack]

35. My My My Me Me Me Mepublicans!

:silly:

[librechik]

36. wait a minute--Liberals are barefoot! How can they run roughshod over anybody?

liberals like Lieberman and Geithner, I guess. I don't know any liberals with the power to run anything.