Dell-Joey-Riot

[Riot]

LOL - I'd pick Australia, due to the strong Thoroughbred horse business there. And fun.

No worries, mate - Obama by at least 307 electoral votes. Dems gain the Senate and hold, and gain in the House.

Healthcare for all, 12 million jobs in the next 4 years doing nothing additional, deficit cut when the Dems refuse to cave to GOP lame duck session screaming about Bush tax cuts (we're goin' off the cliff to let them expire, then we'll reinstate for middle class in January), fiscal spending continuing to go down, technology and energy jobs growing, manufacturing growing - it's all good.

[joeydb]

Me and about 60 million other Romney supporters will stick around and make sure this president gets his attitude adjustment. If he wants to govern and needs any help from us, we have to be made happy too.

So he has some interesting decisions to make. There is no mandate with a 50-50 split in the electorate.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by joeydb

Me and about 60 million other Romney supporters will stick around and make sure this president gets his attitude adjustment. If he wants to govern and needs any help from us, we have to be made happy too.

So he has some interesting decisions to make. There is no mandate with a 50-50 split in the electorate.

The electorate wasn't split 50-50 Obama is currently ahead by over 2.5% of the vote, and increasing as the last votes are counted.

You are certainly seemingly a bit confident in the influence of the current GOP. They've lost more seats in the Senate, Reid will adjust the filibuster so they can no longer obstruct, and they've lost the extremists and seats in the House.

If the Dems governed like the GOP, they could literally walk all over and do virtually whatever they wanted now, by simply picking up 30 reasonable GOP for every House vote needed. That will be easy to do.

They don't even need the GOP in the senate any more.

And your offer of compromise and cooperation is funny, given the complete obstruction and deliberate sabotage of the past 4 years. Boehner is already capitulating to the new reality, Mitch McConnell has doubled down on being stupid. We'll see. The door has always been open, but the Republicans have deliberately refused to cooperate at all for 4 years. If they decide to suddenly do it now, the Dems would welcome them, finally, I'm sure.

[jms62]

Originally Posted by joeydb

Me and about 60 million other Romney supporters will stick around and make sure this president gets his attitude adjustment. If he wants to govern and needs any help from us, we have to be made happy too.

So he has some interesting decisions to make. There is no mandate with a 50-50 split in the electorate.

Next stop JoeyWorld 1954, the twilight zone. You personally having any ability whatsoever to affect change is about as good as you taking a piss and hitting the ocean from the Boardwalk in Seaside Heights 29-Oct at 7:00 PM.

Make yourself useful and demand your tea-baggers don't act like spoiled 2 year old. Put them on notice that government is compromise. Put them on notice that the strategy of trying to make the president fail is down right treasonous and won't be tolerated. Put them on notice that he is OUR Quarterback and they should not allow and take joy in his getting sacked becuase the TEAM loses when that happens. You will have a chance to get a new QB in 4 years.

[joeydb]

Originally Posted by jms62

Next stop JoeyWorld 1954, the twilight zone. You personally having any ability whatsoever to affect change is about as good as you taking a piss and hitting the ocean from the Boardwalk in Seaside Heights 29-Oct at 7:00 PM.

Make yourself useful and demand your tea-baggers don't act like spoiled 2 year old. Put them on notice that government is compromise. Put them on notice that the strategy of trying to make the president fail is down right treasonous and won't be tolerated. Put them on notice that he is OUR Quarterback and they should not allow and take joy in his getting sacked becuase the TEAM loses when that happens. You will have a chance to get a new QB in 4 years.

Government is a compromise between the guy getting pickpocketed and the thief -right?

A compromise between the guy providing the "free" stuff and the other guy consuming the free stuff.

Sounds great.

[joeydb]

Originally Posted by jms62

Next stop JoeyWorld 1954, the twilight zone. You personally having any ability whatsoever to affect change is about as good as you taking a piss and hitting the ocean from the Boardwalk in Seaside Heights 29-Oct at 7:00 PM.

Make yourself useful and demand your tea-baggers don't act like spoiled 2 year old. Put them on notice that government is compromise. Put them on notice that the strategy of trying to make the president fail is down right treasonous and won't be tolerated. Put them on notice that he is OUR Quarterback and they should not allow and take joy in his getting sacked becuase the TEAM loses when that happens. You will have a chance to get a new QB in 4 years.

We are the loyal opposition, just as your side would be and has been in the reverse circumstance. We're not going along.

[jms62]

Originally Posted by joeydb

We are the loyal opposition, just as your side would be and has been in the reverse circumstance. We're not going along.

Since I voted straight Republican with the exception of the President I Demand my fuking side quits acting like a baby and works with the other side for the good of the country. I demand my side QUITS simply trying to make the other side fail so more of them can get elected. If things don't work out BOTH sides are failures not just the president.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by jms62

Since I voted straight Republican with the exception of the President I Demand my fuking side quits acting like a baby and works with the other side for the good of the country. I demand my side QUITS simply trying to make the other side fail so more of them can get elected. If things don't work out BOTH sides are failures not just the president.

Originally Posted by joeydb

We are the loyal opposition, just as your side would be and has been in the reverse circumstance. We're not going along.

that's the way to encourage discussion, compromise, etc!!
always seems funny to me when one side (generally the losing one) asks for compromise, yet will concede nothing. and then they wonder why nothing happens.

[alysheba4]

it would be nice if this president would try to work with the otherside one fcking time too.........

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by joeydb

Me and about 60 million other Romney supporters will stick around and make sure this president gets his attitude adjustment. If he wants to govern and needs any help from us, we have to be made happy too.

So he has some interesting decisions to make. There is no mandate with a 50-50 split in the electorate.

i thought of that comment when i was reading an article on slate about close elections. this tidbit caught my eye, and is a good summation about a lack of a landslide-and why.

oh, and btw, anyone here realize that the kennedy election was a squeaker? he barely beat nixon. just like truman over dewey. forgotten history i guess.


anyway:

But the Gilded Age has at least one lesson to offer about what our repeated run of close elections might mean. Conventional wisdom suggests that close elections reflect a divided electorate: red/blue, liberal/conservative, Republican/Democrat. The Gilded Age suggests that close elections may in fact be a sign that nobody, on either side, is thinking big.