I am sick and tired of the talking heads and GOP'ers telling us what the message of the

[Ninga]

election was.

My message is, "wasn't big enough, bold enough"....and I'm telling it to those who think they know.

Otherwise, we will continue to hear ad nauseam, what the message was...."repudiation of Obama care."

Is there another way? What should we do? What can we do?

:argh: :grr:

[marybourg]

1. Hit the "power" button. Light will tun red. You'll never hear them again. nt.

[Andy823]

4. I agree

That's what I am doing. In a few weeks it will all mellow out, but right now the media as to come out with all this BS for ratings. Lets see what happens in the spring when republicans have done nothing but stall things! Now it's just about the right wing trying to scare democrats into submission. They want them to think the country "demands" they do what republicans want, which is not true, but they are trying to paint it that way. What the country wants is for the two parties to help them, and this country to get back on track. Fighting each other isn't going to work, and if republicans don't do something about jobs and the economy, then the next election they will be swept out!

Right now I just don't watch the BS!

[Lint Head]

2. I am sick and tired of the talking heads and GOP'ers telling us

they are speaking for the American people. I am one of the American people! My relatives fought in the War Between the States, WWII, the Korean War and Vietnam. These son of a bitches are NOT speaking for me! I speak for myself. George W Bush, Dick Cheney are damn war criminals the the cowards in Washington D.C do not have the balls to prosecute them.

I have never seen so many COWARDS per square inch in Washington in my whole life.

[mzteris]

3. they're going by the "vote"

More of "them" voted so the message seems to be that what "they want" is what should be done.


All those who "stayed home and didn't vote" in order to "send a message" - sent the WRONG GODDAMN MESSAGE! Instead of "forcing the Dems to turn more left" - they turned them even more to the right. Well-played @ssholes.

[CTyankee]

5. Cut down on your media consumption...I am doing this and finding it beneficial.

I only watch what I want to watch on TV and I read only what I want to read in the other media. I check Morning Joe's lineup of guests the night before and plan ahead. The good guys get my attention, the pukes get muted or just turned off. I plan other activities to happen then also. I got too wrapped up in "what the other side was saying" during the 08 campaign and now I don't care, because I've heard it all before, so I know what the argument is going to be.

[elleng]

6. Ditto, and getting it wrong! Message: $ and LIES!

[JohnnyRingo]

7. I don't appreciate it when Republicans tell me they represent the American people.

It's like when they hijacked the American flag as theirs after 9/11. For awhile it worked too, If I saw someone dressed like Lee Greenwood, I assumed they were a Republican. The bigger the flag pin, the further right they were. Even when Republicans lose, they claim the Democrats "aren't listening to the American people".

Now the T-Party has taken sole ownership of The Constitution. They've given themselves the duty to interperet for us how it allows for their agenda while disincluding any allowance for health care, regulation, or social programs.

I guess I used a lot of letters as usual to say I agree with you.

[State the Obvious]

10. That is such a subtle way for Republicans to reframe....

.....and it works.

Boehner is starting to say it all the time...."the American people want..."

Sadly, no one calls him on it.....the Republican base hears it, AND considers it true.

it is such a SIMPLE correction for any Democrat to make......and yet they let it slide by. Why?

[caty]

8. For a minute or two

I told myself that I would go on a news blackout once the new congress was seated. But then I heard a spokesman for the teabaggers on TV stating that they would not compromise with the Dems or the repubs. And I thought, WOW - this is going to get good. I wouldn't take out the possibility of an out and out fist fight or two breaking out in congress. Heck! I wouldn't want to miss THAT.

Before the election I heard on several news networks that the teabaggers would be the destruction of the republican party. In the next two years, little will be accomplished that will help 97% of Americans. But I see a lot being done that will degrade the republican party even more than they degrade themselves.

How can I stop watching the news. It's going to be like a soap opera that will just keep on giving and giving.

[DCKit]

9. They're calling it a mandate, often on the back of the President.

An actual mandate would have meant our slaughter in both Houses. That didn't happen, by a long shot.

The Republicans can't fix shit in the next two years, and we're going to get it back with more progressives in 2012.

[City Lights]

11. I have the corporate media bobbleheads on ignore.

If I want their opinion I'll ask for it.

We need to overthrow the media, but I have no idea how to do it. I've written endless emails, made numerous phone calls, sent faxes, and got nowhere. I finally sent some final good-bye emails and tuned out.

[miscsoc]

12. You should study the methods the right used in the mid-20th c.

They were able to destroy a fairly liberal, centrist dominant discourse and replace it with a pretty rabid conservatism.

For a start we need to recognise that there is, strategically, a place for extreme rhetoric. Overton window etc. I don't know a lot about this history but the left needs right now to learn the lessons of the right in terms of its sheer effectiveness. The teabaggers are buying Alinsky books and taking notes, we need to raid the right's ideas. For instance, our astroturfing is abysmal.

[pansypoo53219]

13. missreading the election

will bite them in the ass. it was 'the economy stupid. not republikkklan ideas.