why let math get in the way of your message: they just can't help themselves...

[islandmkl]

current makeup of the House of Representatives (awaiting final determinations):

D - 184 R - 237

yeah...that pretty much says that the american people have TOTALLY rejected the Obama agenda...

these asshats run the same tired message year in, year out...and the people (well, some of the people) buy it every couple of elections...

and the repukes always do the same shit year in, year out...and it always, ALWAYS comes back to bite them in the ass...

unfortunately, they accomplish a great deal of damage in the interim....and the downward spiral is becoming its own force...

they don't need to be IN POWER...they have things so f***ed-up, no one can seem to correct the situation...and the american people want results NOW...

and don't really want to think about it...and definitely don't want to think about things that got started six or eight or twenty years ago...

hey...isn't sarah's baby girl on DWTS?

[ellenfl]

1. house repubs have already announced that they will

raise the debt ceiling and not enforce the volcker rule. the tea party has been had and the repubs are not even TRYING to hide that.

ellen fl

[islandmkl]

3. every con knows that once you nail the mark...move on...

of course, the best con is the one where you take the mark, and the mark comes back for more...

teabaggers will be pissed, then ignored, then negated...then will come crawling back for another shot at the power ring...

it is almost, ALMOST, worth enduring just to watch it happen...

[Nuclear Unicorn]

2. Are you talking as a % of the 435 total seats?

Honest question.

All they need is 50.1% to decide which bills do (and conversely, do NOT) come to the floor for votes, committee chairmanships to set the agenda and subpeona power.

*sighs*

[islandmkl]

4. my point is that their 'message' is that the election proves that EVEYBOODY...

has rejected the Obama agenda...

simple math exposes the fundamental lie that is their base...

[Toucano]

5. No I think it means all 435 seats were up...and not all were "rejected".

So the narrative that the Obama agenda (whatever that means) has been totally rejected is an overstatement.