OT: Republicans gain control of Senate
Lone_Wolf
Arizona
Full disclosure - I'm a mostly a fiscal conservative Republican.
But, I haven't heard one of the Repug assholes articulate a plan to fix anything. Only bitching about what the other side is doing. With the religious nut bags apparently controlling the party, I am concerned about where this will go. It is one thing to bitch, a completely different thing to actually have to lead.
Obviously this country is much worse economic shape than the stats show to inflict this much change.
But, I haven't heard one of the Repug assholes articulate a plan to fix anything. Only bitching about what the other side is doing. With the religious nut bags apparently controlling the party, I am concerned about where this will go. It is one thing to bitch, a completely different thing to actually have to lead.
Obviously this country is much worse economic shape than the stats show to inflict this much change.
25 comments
It's s never ending cycle and we keep paying them to do it.
Now, if they were offering more freedom like ending the winless war on drugs or some other BS I would be all for it, but I have no idea what their plan is.
Obama promised the moon but never offered a plan on how. One example: Guantanamo Bay
No it doesn't, Dougster. No it doesn't. For Juice has become the Horseman of Pestilence and the apocalypse is at hand. It is a frickin' #sausage.fingers apocalypse.
Actually, it will do one thing...I presume it will make slaux_pas feel better. That dude has been all upset since that time I facefucked his high school sweetheart right in front of him at a Dead show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUSRZo1BE…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9ixOsjut…
Hey aren’t you from Chicago?
Stop spending MY money protecting me from me -- just protect me from you. The hole our communities and our country are in are too large to be solved through cost cutting alone. Eliminate corruption and waste -- absolutely. But the only way out and up is through growth and the only way to have growth is to create a pro-business environment within which profits and jobs stay IN our communities instead of being shipped elsewhere to the lowest common denominator whether it be China, Mexico or Mississippi. Through policy, encourage business creation and innovation. Employment will follow. Competition for committed or talented employees creates wage inflation far better than mandating wage increases.
Hey House. Hey Senate. Hey Governors. Let's stop fucking around! Let's go!! USA USA USA !!!!
But beyond this, as labor has been in gross surplus for over 150 years, we do need to make major social and economic changes. Modern technology gives us the ability to provide every single person with a high quality life. But instead of letting this happen, we expect everyone to prove that they can "earn a living" or they get cut out and used as an object of pity.
We need to stop wasting resources, especially environmentally harmful and non-renewable resources, in trying to enforce social conformity via "earning a living". No one has earned any living in a long long time. It is more just a matter of who is getting a slice of the pie and who is not.
Buckminster Fuller
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Pa…
free book download
http://pdftake.org/ebook/title/critical-…
SJG
My son got an undergrad engineering degree and 80% of engineers from his Big 10 school had jobs BEFORE graduation. Why? Because they are in demand! The only people who can't find a job have no skills. Even strippers have a skill.
I don’t think the “trickle down” economic model works well for the avg joe – seems to work great for those at the top; but seems very little trickles down to the middle and lower class and those classes (the majority of Americans) seem to end up fighting w/ all their might just for scraps.
I recall the last time the Republicans were in charge during the George W years and they got drunk on their own Koolaid and were running amuck with characters such as Jack Abramoff and that other character from Sugarland, TX that I think got also convicted (or at lest removed) but I can’t remember his name
I agree with the Republicans POV of smaller gov; but don’t agree much with the way they have implemented their views post-2000.
When the founding fathers created the electoral college, it made sense, due to the poor education and communications of their time; they needed what was essentially (as I see it anyway) proxy votes for the masses. Today, communications and tabulating the votes is virtually instantaneous. Our biggest problem now is a lack of vested interest in the process. And who can really blame these folks when they say that their vote doesn't count? At the national level, it really doesn't, resulting in a trickle-down effect of apathy at all levels.
We need to get rid of the electoral college. We need OUR voices heard.
The whole thing is just a scam, a means of social control. I want there to be a revolution, coming up from the bottom.
SJG
I’m a Republican – but many of these Republican politicians just seem to be on a power trip and mainly concerned with *their* agenda rather than doing what’s best for the country even if Democrats happen to agree w/ it – i.e. it seems if Democrats are for something; then Republicans are automatically against it even if the measure has merit.