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[HawkHogan]

We should just refer to this Country as the United States of the Koch Brothers from this day forward


From College Park, Maryland, I sit here devastated.

Hogan is a tea-party type Republican. He opposes handgun background checks, thinks everyone who wants to own an assault rifle should be able to have one. Crime is already up in this state and that is just what we need -- people walking around with assault rifles.

Do you want to know what happened? Non-stop ads running the last couple of weeks -- probably financed by the Koch Brothers -- touting all the tax increases during this administration. I could not believe it. And Brown did not answer them.

We should just rename the Country the United States of the Koch Brothers because they along with the other billionaires own the Country now. We are just the minions who are led to believe by the press and our corrupt politicians that we actually have honest elections here. It is inconceivable to me that there were so many virtual ties in tonight's elections and the Republicans had all the successes they did.

And I think I am done with MSNBC and its tilted reporting. I had to turn the television off. Keith Olbermann sure called it correctly when he started looking for another job so he could leave that network. He privately said with Comcast's partnering up with NBC, he (Olbermann) would be muzzled. I could not believe some of the comments, really stupid remarks, made by the panel this evening. One of the standout offenses was made by Andrea Mitchell who said in effect this loss would ruin O'Malley's chance to run for President in 2016.

The only honest broker was Ed, who was reporting in Florida. Clearly, he was disturbed by what he was seeing.

This is a nightmare, and I cannot believe people are blaming Obama.

Sam

Citizen's United waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

[BannedFromDU]

     Meanwhile, pissy little bitch 0loser can't be a man and congratulate the GOP: http://twitchy.com/2014/11/05/shocker-white-house-not-issuing-congratulatory-statement-to-gop-tonight/

[chitownchica]

What a great night! All the wins are great, and I'm beyond thrilled that we now have an R Governor here in Illinois.

[chitownchica]

Mia Love won.  Woo hoo!!

[thundley4]

What a great night! All the wins are great, and I'm beyond thrilled that we now have an R Governor here in Illinois.

It would have been nice to get rid of Durbin, too. I'm not sure what a Republican governor can do when Chicago still controls the state capitol, though.

[chitownchica]

It would have been nice to get rid of Durbin, too. I'm not sure what a Republican governor can do when Chicago still controls the state capitol, though.

Oh, I agree.  I'd love to get rid of douchebag Durbin.  Even if Rauner can't do a lot, at this point, it's just a pleasure to shove it in the dem's faces.

[txradioguy]

Lesser Steve is calling on the President to go full Dictator:

Steven Leser shared Making Sense with Steve Leser's status update.

1 hr.


The President should give this election all of the consideration that Republicans gave his landslide election in 2008. In other words, Executive Orders and Vetoes should be the order of the day.

 

[txradioguy]

97% of the seats determined

Senate:

52-45 Republican



House:

233-159 Republican

[franksolich]

I want to thank everyone who participated in this thread, and the other one in the Politics forum, and the third one in the Rants and Raves non-public forum.

It was a great night, an uplifting night, a wonderful night, a thrilling night, an ecstatic night--sometimes the good guys do win, after all.

We all need to thank miskie, who kept the board running after problems developed; I dunno what we'd do, without him and Chris_ running things, and I personally am very grateful to both of them.

Onward and upward!

[BlueStateSaint]

3 of the 10 or so House pickups were in NYS.  Good to see.

[franksolich]

The GOP easily won the 218 seats required and was on track to match or surpass the 246 seats they held in President Harry S. Truman's administration more than 60 years ago.

Overall, the GOP gained 14 seats and counting; Democrats, just one.

Obama suffered an ignominious distinction. The president, whose party lost 63 seats in 2010, saw Democrats lose 12 seats and became the two-term president with the most midterm defeats, edging past Truman's 74 by one.

[franksolich]

“We didn’t agree on much but I admire anyone who is willing to stand up and fight for what they believe in. Well, Iowa. Well, Iowa, we did it! We did it!… It’s a long way from Red Oak to Washington, from the biscuit line at Hardees to the United States Senate. But, thanks to all of you, we are heading to Washington… And, we are going to make ‘em squeal!“

[JakeStyle]

David Burge ‏@iowahawkblog

This isn't a mandate for Republicans, it's a restraining order on Democrats.

https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/529872384921440256

[GOBUCKS]

I'm not sure what a Republican governor can do when Chicago still controls the state capitol, though.

Illinois governors rarely get anything done.

They usually have only a couple of years before checking in to a federal prison.

[Big Dog]

Agreed. At this point they are just fighting with each other like a bunch of angry,angry drunks. 

Speaking of which, where is Will Pitt today?

[Big Dog]

Lesser Steve is calling on the President to go full Dictator:

 

How... democratic of him.

[BlueStateSaint]

How... democratic of him.

And . . . Democratic of him.

[thundley4]

Steven Leser shared Making Sense with Steve Leser's status update.

1 hr.


The President should give this election all of the consideration that Republicans gave his landslide election in 2008. In other words, Executive Orders and Vetoes should be the order of the day.

Um, Democratics had control of both houses in 2008 and they still would give you your socialist utopia. 

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Speaking of which, where is Will Pitt today?

He's under the weather today.

And by "weather" I mean "bar stool."

[67 Rover]

Speaking of which, where is Will Pitt today?

Waiting for his bride to come bail him out.  Unfortunatly she is in a diabetic shock induced coma from lack of medication due to the used car salesman?

[Dori]

That freaking Obama has been having a news conference for over an hour.


 He just cannot stand not being the center of attention.   

[franksolich]

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/11/04/Second-Amendment-Crushes-Gun-Control-Candidates-In-Midterm-Elections

Oh my.

The primitives won't like this.  At all.

Second Amendment Crushes Gun Control Candidates in Midterm Elections

As the election returns came in on November 4 one thing was evident—the Second Amendment crushed gun control candidates in Senate and gubernatorial races around the country.
 
In so doing, the Second Amendment annihilated the left's relentless claim that 90 percent of Americans support more gun control.....

[BattleHymn]

That freaking Obama has been having a news conference for over an hour.


 He just cannot stand not being the center of attention.   

ED HENRY: IT SOUNDS YOU’RE ‘DOUBLING DOWN ON THE SAME POLICIES AND APPROACH’  (with transcript)

https://grabien.com/file.php?id=28293&searchorder=date   

[Flufferlie]

That freaking Obama has been having a news conference for over an hour.


 He just cannot stand not being the center of attention.   

He is STILL talking?!
I'm at work so Im not able to listen to him because the kids I nanny don't really want to hear the news.
Sorta glad. Don't know if I can watch him bury his head in the sand.

[J P Sousa]

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/11/04/Second-Amendment-Crushes-Gun-Control-Candidates-In-Midterm-Elections

Oh my.

The primitives won't like this.  At all.

Does my heart good to see all that Bloomberg money wasted. 



I'm a little tired of the dems  bringing up the Koch brothers;

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