After a good night's sleep I feel better. I'm glad they "won." Let them have it.

[live love laugh]

This is yet another opportunity for them to demonstrate how absolutely horrible they are.

This is me for the next two years :popcorn:

[Kolesar]

1. Filibuster President Obama's next supreme court appointment, great

:sarcasm:
Fuck up energy policy, great
:sarcasm:
No campaign finance reform, great
:sarcasm:

[T Wolf]

4. As if good things would have happened if the Dems held on to smaller majorities.

They did shit with larger majorities.

All this does is give Obama cover to move even further to the right. That you can count on.

[Kolesar]

18. Well!

:angry:

[Bitwit1234]

7. Reid promised to get rid of the filibuster.

I know, I know, with not much of a majority they don't think he can. But remember right now the Republicans think they are Kings of the World. And they might be afraid that if the filibuster remains the Democrats might use it against them if the win the majority in the next election. The Democrats should start floating that right now. How they are going to use the filibuster, since it worked so well for the republicans.

And Ginsberg better retire before the end of Obama's term. I wish Thomas would be impeached or Roberts has a sh*t fit of an epilepsy attack and has to retire.

[ieoeja]

16. The first goes to the Democratic Senate.

The second was going to be fucked up by the conservative majority in both houses of Congress anyway.

As to the last, if you are referring to doing something about crafting a new law to replace the one overturned by the Supremes, then you are correct. That will be dead unless they address it during the lame duck session.

[T Wolf]

2. Think of it like watching a disaster movie - and you already have the popcorn.

The only doubt I have is whether they will fuck up enough to finally wake people up.

I do not have faith that the American people are that smart.

[AndrewP]

3. That's my problem also. The typical American voter isn't that bright.

[Johonny]

5. If I didn't live in the US it would be easier to watch

but it's my life they will make worse, when I know that it is so easy to pass laws that would make it better instead.

[SammyWinstonJack]

8. +1. nt

[CoffeeCat]

6. Like 1994?

When the Repubs took over the House and Senate in 1994, they brazenly demonstrated what
extremist idiots they were.

America wholly rejected the "Contract On America" and their bullying behavior. Repubs
flat out told Democrats that they had a "mandate" and were not interested in working
with the Democrats, so they owned the disaster.

America was able to see, in full glory--how awful these jerks are--despite the fact that they
can run a terrific, bamboozling campaign of fear.

My biggest concern is that they only took the House. Yes, it would be horrific if they
had control of the House and Senate. Terrifying. However, will America truly get
to see how radical, ridiculous and foolish these people really are, if they only control
the House?

Control of only one chamber allows them to dispense their campaigns of fear and hate--but
we'll never get to see their bad ideas implemented. Those ideas will remain lofty slogans
that they swear will work. No, they won't work. But America won't get to see just how wrong
their ideas are--because the Senate and WH will block it all.

Don't get me wrong. I don't want their agenda. However, it will be incredibly exasperating
to watch them fearmonger and whine about how wonderful things could be--if only they could
implement their ideas.

[katnapped]

10. Problem with your theory

No FauxNoise and hate radio was still in it's infancy

[pipi_k]

9. Well, I can't say I'm glad, but...

like you, I'll be sitting back watching things unfold with great interest.

If Democrats lost because people wanted change, and if change doesn't happen, then guess what...Republicans could be out on their asses again in a couple of years.


Although, you know, seeing the back and forth stuff every couple of years sort of makes the US look like a nation with Bipolar Disorder.

[Towlie]

11. Unrecommended. The welfare of our country is not expendable just to prove a point.

[live love laugh]

19. I appreciate the sentiment but who exactly has control of the welfare of the country? nt

[Ganja Ninja]

12. I hear ya.

Sometimes I wish we could hand the whole mess back to them. Let them and the short attention span idiots that voted for them deal with the problems they created.

[pipi_k]

14. There are times when...

I believe that the Republicans didn't really WANT to win in '08.

Makes sense to me. Dubya and his ilk fucked things up so badly that they probably knew it could take more than four years...maybe more than ten years...to put things right again.

Right about now they're probably sighing in relief that they didn't win the presidency in 2008.

[live love laugh]

17. They didn't want to win IMHO. They LET and I do mean LET Obama have it

because thinks were so fucked up that they knew he could accomplish very little and that it would make Dems look bad--and it worked.

Unfortunately, although Obama and the Dems don't have stratospheric ratings, they still beat the Republicons because right wing obstructonism is so blatant and it turns people off.

[NNN0LHI]

13. Yea we are going to show them how smart we are again

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/24/us/a-nation-challenged-a-snapshot-gives-bush-90-approval.html

A NATION CHALLENGED; A Snapshot Gives Bush 90% Approval

Published: September 24, 2001

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 — Ninety percent of Americans approve of the way President Bush is handling his job after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, the highest rating for a president ever recorded by the Gallup polling group, USA Today and CNN reported today.

The 90 percent rating, measured in a poll of 1,005 adults on Friday and Saturday, outranks the previous record, a rating of 89 percent garnered by Mr. Bush's father, former President George Bush, at the end of the Persian Gulf War in 1991.

The current poll had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points, so the difference between the two approval ratings is statistically insignificant.

[treestar]

15. True, nothing's going to happen and I hope the progressives are

satisfied. This Congress will give them single payer. :sarcasm: