Barack Obama Faces Mid-Term Humiliation After Senate Exodus

[dandi]

By Alex Spillius in Washington

President Barack Obama is facing humiliation in this year's mid-term elections after a wave of desertions by Democratic senators who have retreated from tough challenges for their seats from a resurgent Republican party.

There was speculation on Tuesday that the next to join an exodus ahead of the November elections could be Blanche Lincoln, who represents the conservative southern state of Arkansas and is behind every putative Republican challenger in opinon polls.

The Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, is meanwhile trailing all his potential Republican opponents in his state of Nevada, and even Mr Obama's old Senate seat in Illinois is expected to be close run.

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Other Democrats are expected to withdraw from fray before deadlines fall for standing in the midterms, when 33 Senate seats and all 435 House of Representative seats will be contested.

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Mr Bayh blamed his departure on a deep disillusion with the partisan gridlock in the Senate that he said failed to put nation over party.

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Other Democrats have simply lacked the stomach for the fight, amid public upset over job losses, spiraling federal deficits and spending, huge bonuses awarded to executives of bailed-out financial institutions and Washington's yearlong and so far fruitless pre-occupation with health care.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/7252518/Barack-Obama-faces-mid-term-humiliation-after-Senate-exodus.html


Boy, the hits just keep on comin' for hussein, don't they?   

I still maintain that the career democrat leeches will be the ones to finally take him down.  Soon, I don't know when, the tipping point will be reached and they will turn on him.

[Ralph Wiggum]

When are they going to start calling us racist for voting the Dem's out of office?

[thundley4]

I read somewhere that the Tea Party movement may end up helping Harry Reid. There's a possibility of the TEA Party running a third candidate in Nevada.

[dandi]

When are they going to start calling us racist for voting the Dem's out of office?

When?  Shit, the only "when" is when haven't they?

[Ralph Wiggum]

When?  Shit, the only "when" is when haven't they?

I was kinda being sarcastic, wasp.

[dandi]

I was kinda being sarcastic, wasp.

So was I, Ralph...

    

[5412]

When are they going to start calling us racist for voting the Dem's out of office?

Hi,

I thought about the race issue.  Suppose that the birth certificate rises to the top and indeed is true, he should not have run.  Then what do the democrats do?  Pelosi knows it.  They might just be the ones called racist if they try to take him down.  iy gut instincts tell me that many democrats are looking for a non-racial bullet-proof reason to take him down and when it emerges he might just get shown the door.

regards,
5412

[Tess Anderson]

If the One's numbers stay in the mid-40s  (LBJ '66, Ford, Clinton), they're looking at a loss of 40 or so in the House.

I read somewhere that the Tea Party movement may end up helping Harry Reid. There's a possibility of the TEA Party running a third candidate in Nevada.

I have heard that, too - I'm all for getting rid of all the Democrats and the RINOs, but defeating Harry Reid supercedes that, no reason to splinter the vote.

[DefiantSix]

Do not let news like this get you to let your guard down.  There are still any number of ways the idiots in the Republican party can screw this up.

As food for thought, the last time something like this has happened was during the 1934 mid-terms.  Lord FDR's "New-Deal" socialist programs were beginning to show their pathetic, ill-intentioned results and all of the pundits were predicting huge gains in the house and senate for the Republicans.  What nobody counted on was FDR using a huge 'surplus' of unspent New Deal funds in quiet, mano a mano sweetheart deals with the Congress-shits who's districts were still 'in play' for FDR.  So much money was funneled into these districts that the Congress-shits couldn't keep track of it all, and FDR's political flunkies created charts and graphs that these critters could take back to their districts, to show their voters just how much growth and jobs the 'Critter and FDR had brought to the district.  Not only did the Republicans not have huge gains in the '34 mid terms, but the Dim'Rats gained 9 seats in the house and 4 in the senate.

Now, fast forward to today; how much of that TARP money went 'unspent'?