And I thought the Republican Party was dead and gone.

[IowaGuy]

I'll believe that it's the "party of the people" when I see what they do regarding gay rights.

 

[willie metcaffe]

Don't worry. The Republicans will make themselves the downer party again soon enough...

 

[jackoroe]

Nothing in politics is permanent. Four years ago, I was happy to see the republicans lose because they had lost their way. They forgot fiscal responsibility and worried too much about social legislation.

They were pronounced dead after that election. The democrats have been an even bigger disappointment, so now they're out of the House, anyway.

I'd be happy if the incoming crowd simply got our financial house in order and in compliance with the tenets of the Constitution.

 

[White Eagle]

Nothing in politics is permanent. Four years ago, I was happy to see the republicans lose because they had lost their way. They forgot fiscal responsibility and worried too much about social legislation.

They were pronounced dead after that election. The democrats have been an even bigger disappointment, so now they're out of the House, anyway.

I'd be happy if the incoming crowd simply got our financial house in order and in compliance with the tenets of the Constitution.

You dream a lot, don't you.

 

[SuperPsyze]

And I thought the Republican Party was dead and gone.

That's what I think when people bring up John McCain.

 

[palemale]

Not bad for a party that was considered dead and gone just 2 years ago.

Not dead and gone, just dead from the neck up.

 

[Kulindahr]

Not bad for a party that was considered dead and gone just 2 years ago.

It was the JUB community that said the party was nothing but a party of straight white men. That the party was shrinking.

The party is growing! The party had a huge win last night!

More Americans are now turning to the Republican Party, because they see that it is the party for the people.

It was a good night.

Don't delude yourself: the number of registered Democrats still hugely outnumbers the number of registered Republicans, which hasn't substantially changed since last time we did this.

Truth is, if we had a multiparty system for the House -- which we should; it would actually give us representative democracy -- last night would have been just as big a disaster for Democrats, but not nearly as good a one for Republicans: people would actually have been able to vote in a way that said, "You guys have been screwing up, but we still remember who bent us over and fucked us over and over and over".

If Republicans don't get trashed two years from now, it will be because the base the stimulus provided is finally serving as a foundation for the economy.

 

[CowboyBob]

Not dead and gone, just dead from the neck up.

They're kind of like the zombies that danced in the Michael Jackson Thriller video.

Dead, animated, stinky ..... risen from the grave they should remain in.

 

[IllgetyouHackman]

I still struggle to find the reason why any of you support any party, they both are the same thing, hate to break it to you, just one is a douche and the other is a turd sandwich.

 

[Spiff]

The party is growing!

Are you really that out of touch with American history and how the balance of power routinely shifts? You speak like a high school girl talking about the popular boys she likes this week.

 

[chance1]

CoolKid, most of the Republican victories were expected. they'd historically been Republican districts.

I don't think there were any upsets.

stop the insanity

if you'd said 2 years ago ............ that a 60+ seat chg in the house and 6 senators changing .............

come on now

you're better than this post johann

 

[SuperPsyze]

My issue is that from this point on, if things get better by going along Obama's track, I think the Republicans would get credit for it

 

[JasunStrikesBack]

Not dead and gone, just dead from the neck up.

I think it's worth mentioning that the Republican Party IS dead and has been re-animated by the witches of the Tea Party.

Kinda like that VooDoo Curse in Weekend At Bernie's II.

 

[JB3]

It's the truth, Chance.

Two years ago the Democrats upsetted because they'd won in traditionally Republican districts.

The fact that those districts voted Republican this year is no surprise. It was all expected.

EDIT: my OH says he thinks the Russ Feingold loss was an upset.

All of the republican won seats (with the exception of the senate seat) in Illinois were upsets.

Contrary to your opinion, a great many of those races WERE upsets and were NOT expected.

 

[maxpowr9]

To quote FDR...

"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward."

 

[KTheLibra]

I still think it's funny that all this happened because people actually believe the economy can be fixed. That jobs can be created. That this isn't the beginning of the end for this country. They're in for quite a nasty shock.

 

[JasunStrikesBack]

I still think it's funny that all this happened because people actually believe the economy can be fixed. That jobs can be created. That this isn't the beginning of the end for this country. They're in for quite a nasty shock.

oh Bush fucked us up for at least a generation and the jobs are probably never coming back.

If the illegal immigrant problem has taught us nothing else, it's that Americans won't do hard jobs, won't work unless they're over-paid and would rather sit around the unemployment office than take a low-paying job.

that's why all the factory jobs have been sent to third-world countries with no worker's rights. (we don't want Unions to insist on safe working conditions or fair wages, now, do we?)

I'm sure that Tea Party people will be making all sorts of "it's Obama's Fault" excuses for the next couple of years.

 

[rareboy]

Not bad for a party that was considered dead and gone just 2 years ago.

It was the JUB community that said the party was nothing but a party of straight white men. That the party was shrinking.

The party is growing! The party had a huge win last night!

More Americans are now turning to the Republican Party, because they see that it is the party for the people.

It was a good night.

Even the party intellectuals like David Frum said after the elections that the Republican Party is lost because of the T-Bag influence, which is losing them the young, the gays, the immigrants and the urbans.

 

[palemale]

I was looking at the exit polls on election night. What really struck me was that, in almost every poll I looked at, age was a big factor. Where Republicans won, they won in the two oldest age groups and lost in the youngest. Time isn't on the Republicans side. They cannot cut where it is most needed if they are to cut the deficit, medicare and social security, because they will see massive defections from their aging constituency. They also can't cut defense because they can't be "soft on terrorism."

 

[kallipolis]

I was looking at the exit polls on election night. What really struck me was that, in almost every poll I looked at, age was a big factor. Where Republicans won, they won in the two oldest age groups and lost in the youngest. Time isn't on the Republicans side. They cannot cut where it is most needed if they are to cut the deficit, medicare and social security, because they will see massive defections from their aging constituency. They also can't cut defense because they can't be "soft on terrorism."

Young people grow older, and become more conservative, as a result of accumulating assets, and not wanting to surrender their entitlements. Thus it is also feasible to ponder that many young people, morphing into older people change their political allegiance in response to their expanding wealth and unwillingness to be taxed to pay for the indolence of those who are less than industrious.

Your closest ally, the United Kingdom is presenting its taxpayers with a scenario where a conservative administration is cutting the UKs defence budget, and reallocating assets to better serve changing defence needs. It has taken a centre right party to acknowledge the need to trim the budget deficit by reducing defence spending, and spending more wisely on defence matters.

The United States defence strategists also appreciate that its many tank divisions, fleets of jet fighters and hundreds of war ships are redundant in today's war on terror.

I rather suspect that deep cuts can be made in American defence spending that acknowledges the disappearance of Cold War threats from the Soviet Union. A Republican administration might well be more inclined to move in that direction, than the current Democratic administration that is under siege, even from its left wing.