GOP PUMMELS DEMOCRATS ACROSS THE COUNTRY … BUT TO WHAT END?
By FITSNEWS || Riding a wave of dissatisfaction with the policies of increasingly unpopular U.S. president Barack Obama, “Republicans” retook control of the U.S. Senate for the first time in eight years on Tuesday night. The convincing GOP win gives the party total control of Congress … for whatever that’s worth.
The GOP won its new majority by knocking off incumbent Democrats in Arkansas (Mark Pryor), Colorado (Mark Udall) and North Carolina (Kay Hagan) – and picking up open seats that previously belonged to Democrats in Iowa, Montana, South Dakota and West Virginia.
That gave them an initial net gain of seven seats … one more than they needed to retake the Senate for the first time since 2006.
The margin could grow bigger.
In addition to the election night losses, Democrats will likely give up another seat in December when Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana faces “Republican” Bill Cassidy in a runoff election.
The victories will install U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky as the new majority leader of the chamber – a remarkable turn of fortune seeing as just a few weeks ago McConnell was in danger of losing his seat to Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes. He wound up beating Grimes by 14 points – dramatically exceeding the most optimistic public opinion polling in the Bluegrass State.
In fact Republicans across the country dramatically exceeded expectations … winning the races they were supposed to win by bigger-than-expected margins and doing far better than expected in several races they weren’t expected to win. In New Hampshire, for example, former U.S. Sen. Scott Brown nearly knocked off incumbent Democrat Jeanne Shaheen – while in Virginia incumbent Democrat Mark Warner was locked in an incredibly tight race with “Republican” Ed Gillespie.
Now … does “GOP control” of the Senate matter?
Not really … America’s economy remains fundamentally unsound, its foreign policy remains dangerously reckless and its government remains hopelessly bloated and corrupt. Not to mention $18 trillion in debt.
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Obots getting the message
Thank God Harry Reid is gone.
PLUS 1,000,000!
Let us hope!
I had no idea how slim Reid’s margins have been in his home district. If he’d been on the ballot today he would already be packing…
I thought he was toast last time. He has a giant war chest but not being speaker will prevent him from passing it as much – he should be very vulnerable, in fact, you might see him step down instead of running in 2016 muttering something about family and grand children…
Reid= Las Vegas SEIU pimp, and, yes, the trade union bosses still run LV and have since they killed the Kennedy brothers.
…trade union bosses… killed the Kennedy brothers.
SML thought it was “You and Me….Wooooowoooooo!!”
My bad … maybe I was thinking of that old teamster boss … what was his name? Jimmy something.
Do you think he will keep trying to give that Federal Land to China?
Republicans got to 52 just like I predicted.
My first order of business would be the border, followed by the budget, followed by Keystone. Then I’d defund the ACA.
“My first order of business would be the border, followed by the budget, followed by Keystone. Then I’d defund the ACA.”
I think you’re about to be severely disappointed. Let’s bookmark these suggestions and check back in two years and see if anyone of them are close to happening.
I did notice though that you didn’t call for a balanced budget, so I suppose you are at least realistic on that one.
The ACA will never be defunded, just “tweaked”. The border will remain porous and I wouldn’t under estimate Buffet’s ability to keep the Keystone project from ever taking off even with a R congress.
Damnit! Can you let me have my fantasy for a few minutes?
It’s Dumb@$$#$ like you who probably hated Bush in 08, and you probably voted for Obama. You seem like such a cliche to me. If they don’t follow your very detailed instructions- like get back to the gold standard and legalize whores and dope on day one – you pitch a fit, and switch parties yet again. That is SO Stupid.
You should hate Bush too, it’s one of the primary factors that drove voters to Democrats in 2008. If it wasn’t for his epic fuck ups the Dems might not have gotten such a stranglehold over the Senate and ACA might not have ever happened.
Thanks, Bush!
No disrespect meant sir HOWEVER you are a follower, NOT a leader.
You RINO”S need to get out of the way and led ‘us’ lead or the folks will just keep giving you people fits. :-)
Just out of curiosity, what of the five things I’ve suggested starting off with makes me a RINO?
Shhh, Tango is busy talking to himself.
His list sounds like a cut and paste to me. Not saying I don’t agree with the initiatives, but he’s the kind if it’s not done exactly like he demands, he’ll be pledging support to Hillary in ’16. I’ve seen the type over and over. Like FITS, it’s all about them, not the country.
52? The countin’ ain’t over yet. It might be a bit soon to pat yourself on the back.
Well then Emily/Grand Tango/Big T/whoever the Hell else you post as, I’ll have another quandary won’t I? Where’d I go wrong, how’d I miss in my prediction?
Correct, not, not, correct.
Keystone is a go, fur sure. (Markets up nicely tomorrow).
The border will be the tough one = to many oxen still to be gored, to many “life guards” in the water.
I’m holding out hope the house budget-tears can kill the IRS and get a flat tax in next year … depends on the hearings before January.
replacing Boehner, followed by the border, followed by the budget, followed by Keystone. Then I’d defund the ACA.
Replacing Boehner? Won’t happen. No one wants to take the shit he takes, so they’ll let him keep his figurehead position.
Borders and budget won’t fucking happen. Anyone remember 2000-2006?
Keystone might happen, it’s one thing I expect Obama to fold on. A shame, because (1) Keystone XL won’t help average Americans and (2) once it inevitably spills it could ruin drinking water for thousands and thousands. But hey, Big Oil profits were always the #1 priority here, so it’s all good, right?
Defund the ACA? Won’t happen.
Give it a rest FITS. YOU Lost, You got your @$$ kicked. The economy sucks, you want to tax breathing, and gas, food and healthcare are breaking people, who have no jobs because your lord-god, is a racist, America-hating B@$T@*d…
Telling him, and you, to STFU…is an end..
You Obama-butt-pumpers need to dig yourself…I told you, you are are failures years ago…Americans are slow, but they eventually GET IT…it’s only the most ignorant, like you, who can get the slapped down, and you still keep poking your jaw out there. You are a true Dumb@$$…
I was wrong.The people in North Carolina just gave Tom Tillis a victory against the evil of liberalism, Planned Parenthood and perverted marriage.
God Bless America.
I thought you called it (or said it looked good) for Tillis?
Had him losing by a about 1,000 votes based on turn-out in Meck County and Wake County….’souls to the polls’ elected Mr.Tillis
the stock market has been doing remarkable well under Obama, and gas prices are coming down under Obama.
Wonder how long it takes them to get all worked up and distracted on social issues (gay marriage, etc) instead of meaningful work.
Oh well, the buzz was nice while it lasted.
Thanks for the buzz kill, man (albeit a well-grounded one).
+10 on this
I guess we’ll find out because Harry Reid won’t be able to block bills coming over from the House any more.
Fuck you RINO. Conservative Republicans WON tonight despite closet dems like you.
This fucking troll isn’t worth the powder to blow to hell.
I see you took your profile off private, dumbass.
I don’t think he’s a closet dem. He does not know what he is. He just says what he hears the media say…if the wind blows, so does he.
Sounds like a politician…
Correct …DJ.
Don’t you have an unemployment line to wait in?
LMAO!! America clearly rejected you perverts and socialists last night and I told you and Buz not to plug in your curling irons and blow dryers at the same time-Fits crashed.
By re-electing a gay Senator from South Carolina, nearly electing an openly gay candidate in Virginia, re-electing a moderate in Wisconsin, and again, Diamond Jim, just how may Tea Party candidates were there again. How about the guy winning re-election in Kansas – voted for every big-government program ever around and always votes to increase the debt limit. Oh yeah, the “conservatives” were really well represented last night. Expect the RINO’s to bow to Obama for two years. Hope you like Amnesty – because buddy – it’s a coming from the GOP.
Wait, isn’t that what they campaigned on? Let the distractions begin.
They also ran without a Contract for America or any other kind of unified agenda. Cue the infighting and circular firing squad.
It would be fun to watch if I trusted Obama to have any kind of backbone. I can see him acting like a moderate Republican in the name of bipartisanship. That would free up Congress to posture on social issues while still making the laws that their corporate sponsors really want.
Immediately after Obama vetoes their token “repeal the ACA” bill.
YYYEEEEESSSS!!!!!!!
…and Arkansas will go red after the runoff.
WHAT?
Did you mean Louisiana or Russia?
Holy shit…it’s been a busy night. I meant LA, obviously…
Damn, I’d hoped you were just funnin em. ;)
It is fun to get the natives fired up once in a while, but this was just a late-forties brain trying to do three things at once at 11:00 PM…doesn’t usually end well. ;-)
*Gasps*
THREE things at ONCE??
From another (late)40 something:
“That’s just crazy!
When he used *wanders” was when I became concerned for his welfare —
‘to move or go about aimlessly, without plan or fixed destination; ramble; roam’
https://10005352664844561780.googlegroups.com/attach/bb6b5f9f80efceed/grass.mp4?part=0.1&view=1&vt=ANaJVrEcIrkCf1FIskFGKPvCT_hDjS6hP1lDSRLlpgo4yZK-q9oOed4lwd_B9OWpGg6mpt_sOnw1eLLQDIO53Q5VzURiXaNhvxq7BE250sinemHmCiS-13Y
As long as Barry has ink in his pen, it should all be fine.
Impeach.
… If only!
But it will be much better to leave Him there, twisting slowly in the wind, … While each republicrat in turn takes a baseball bat to that pinyata … Just like They did to Bush for more than ten years (and still counting).
Impeachment would mean republicrats would have to start all over again with President What’s His Name. … And take an outside chance of yet another “progressive” Fascist elite might win in 2016.
By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
R. Buckminster Fuller
He was right.It doesn’t matter,anymore.:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYdiFm5hcEM
It never matters to liberals after they are rejected by the voters.
Thank God. Now we’ll see things get done. Obamacare will be repealed and we’ll keep the bi-partisan Affordable Care Act. We’ll stop surrendering and begin taking action against ISIL in Syria and Iraq. And we’ll get this economy going, and with any luck at all by the end of next year we’ll get unemployment below 6 percent. And we’ll start deporting all these illegal aliens. Finally.
Obamacare will be repealed and we’ll keep the bi-partisan Affordable Care Act.
lol…
LMAO…You SWORE the economy was EXECEELENT…Are you admitting you are a liar?
I knew you idiots would climb out of the woodwork denouncing what you have been claiming for ever. Liberal = LIAR….
Oddly, 10 million jobs in 6 years and 5.8% unemployment a recession does not make. Just because a wave of Fox watchers went running to the polls saying the economy is an issue – doesn’t mean it is. Go to a Mall and find a parking space close to the entrance. Gas prices are now below $3. Property values are coming back up. The Dow is heading to 14K. So I don’t see where I am a liar. But whaterver.
The American people know the only jobs being created are part-time service industry jobs, REAL unemployment is 12%, people go to the mall but don’t buy anything (they will spend money at Christmas as they have been saving all year and not spending), if you want to talk gas prices they averaged $1,88 a gallon when Obama was elected, property values are flat or still down in most of the country and the Dow? People are borrowing from their 401-k to eat, pay the outrageous Obama healthcare deductibles and pay off their kids student loans-middle America is losing money in their portfolio’s.
Obama is a muslim with a marxist world-view.He hates America and surrounds himself with those that believe the same.The people in this country are mad as hell and ain’t gonna take it anymore.
American’s told him that last night.
Fox much? For a guy who hates America he’s greeted a lot of dead servicemen at Dover. How many have you greated – oh great one?
My wife (“Michelle”) is really pi ssed of! Good old “Lard-Butt” is threatening to sit on my face!
and, nothing will change.
Sure it will.Better chance of Obama being arrested for treason if he continues to support radical Islam and Iran or impeached if he opens the border and gives amnesty to illegals.
Better watch your posts there Jimmy – might end up getting thrown in a van and whisked off to a cell in Cuba.
I guess that was a little harsh. Impeachment is okay. :-)
Your scare quotes grow very tiresome.
With this over, we’ll get a little nibble at ACA, then a hidden spending bill and Texas, Florida, SC, GA and WI will run to expand Medicaid.
CAN YOU IMAGINE A PRESIDENT LINDSEY GRAHAM?
American Spectator – “South Carolinians may reelect him grudgingly to the U.S. Senate in 2014,” says South Carolina political blogger Will Folks, “but he’s toast in six years—assuming he hasn’t destroyed the Republic by then.”
http://spectator.org/articles/60860/can-you-imagine-president-lindsey-graham
Hahaha hahaha…. hahahahah….I can’t breath.. hahahahah…help!
Congrats to the GOP. The Dems needed a good spanking. Having a more conservative Congress is not the end of the world. Maybe this was what the doctor ordered so that movement could begin to happen and legislation could be pounded out. The Prez could have done more. He could have been in favor of the pipeline. He could have reduced the capital gains taxes to 5% on American businesses and people who, for example, buy and sell homes and stocks, and allow businesses and their owners to keep more of their own money. The Dems needs to pay more attention to the white middle class and its needs and aspirations instead of thugs and criminals and people gaming the system. Every time you turn on the TV it’s another black male breaking the law on the news.
The Dems need to get more fiscally conscientious and the GOP needs more compassion.
SCPSD has a GREAT analysis of what happened on Election day 2014. It REALLY hits the nail on the head. (Warning: liberals better have THICK Skin, and ability to face reality before reading.)
Oh my!!!!On my way over to read it and comment.
Have you noticed that the same RINO suspects are bragging about voting for DEmocrats yesterday- The Col.’Flagg’, corruption in columbias ‘mind’, idiotcym etc…???? The morons just don’t get it. They probably just sent the DNC a check for 2016.
I could not tell in the past if Sandi’s and GT were have wild conservative sex on a church bench, or if GT was just engaged in masterbation, but now its starting to sound like a gay thing. To each his own.
Why The GOP Should Be Happy –
It’s not that “conservative” values won the day. It’s that the moderate Establishment finally kicked the Tea Party to the side. And where they did – they did well. Consider this – an openly gay GOP candidate came within a few thousand votes of unseating a popular Dem SEnator in VA (and in fact – he may still win). An openly known gay Senator was re-elected in SC. A moderate Senator from Kansas (who doesn’t even live there) defeated Tea Party challangers and then an independent. The message of this election is that where GOP candidates were moderate and – this is big – modern, they did surprisingly well. If the GOP can shake off the Don’t Tread On Me crowd, pass immigration reform and get something done with Obama in the next 18 months, they could actually increase the size of their tent. So long as they keep tracking to the center.
Impeachment. Outlaw abortion. Benghazi. Whitewater. DOMA 2. Destroy every national park, lake, stream, river, in the country. Require anyone who identifies as a Democrat to present five different photo ID’s to vote. Close down every Planned Parenthood in the country. Repeal Obamacare.
You forgot Round Up and Deport.
Not bad Rocky. I have hope for you.
Too bad you waited until AFTER election day to offer something that shows you are not a TOTAL Dumb@$$. I LOVE your agenda. I’d vote for you multiple times…Good work…and you may not have lost, if you would have spoken up sooner. Kinda stupid to show up w/ this now. LMAO…
Sounds like a plan dumbass-except I like to fish. I like clean water.
Let’s fight about things beyond our control like weather and politics. Come at me bro.
And the climate.
I’ll have to admit, it was definitely an Empire Strikes Back evening. As John Stewart said, it was in the end “a resounding victory for money.” I think it is clear now why Citizens United, and is progeny was so important to Republicans.
Oh, well. now its time to turn our attention to the election.
russell brand has it right – there is no point in voting. it makes no difference. you are far better off investing your time in becoming a billionaire.
Trey Gowdy for House Speaker!