Tomorrow is gonna suck.

But whatever. The Republicans will control the House, but that's it. They can float the legislation, but most of it won't make it out of the Senate. Obama may allow a token bill or two to pass, to show he is willing to be bipartisan, but all of this is a preamble to a couple of years where not a whole hell of a lot happens.

And as far as impeachment goes, I'm not sure why I saw much talk on this. Other than, "They did it to Clinton," (who, by the way, really did equivocate under oath, if not outright lie), I don't really see any reason to suspect the Republicans would bother with anything like that against Obama. For one thing, they'd need, say, grounds for impeaching him, which they clearly do not have at the moment, and, at any rate, if is purely a political move, the Republicans won't control the Senate, so they couldn't convict anyway.

2012 will be interesting. I really can't wait to see who the Republicans nominate.

And,barring Obama killing someone or dressing up in an Osama Bin Laden costume, he is not getting a primary challenge. Despite a couple laughable reports the other day on Huffington Post.

Manan Trivedi, running against Jim Gerlach in the 6th district in PA, stopped by my pops' place of business tonight to shake some hands. woohoo,fun

And maybe the combined nastiness of the next two years and the 2012 campaign really will bring about Darren Daulton's apocalypse, especially if Sarah Palin is somehow elected president.

Rev_Beezer wrote:I'm torn about the PA Governor race.

Corbett as Atty. Gen. helped my mom out greatly when she was paying this company to reconcile her debt and they did absolutely nothing to help her. Onorato put out a commercial that made it sound like people were too stupid to figure out how to pronounce his name.

But I saw them in Hershey in a debate. Honestly, Corbett looked like a goofball and Onorato seemed like he had his head on fairly straight- even mentioned that Republicans have good ideas, and that he wouldn't be about carrying the party line.

I don't know.

I want a job and want to do my job properly, so I'm voting Onorato.

Haha.From Politico:

John Boehner has been invoking Johnny Cash on the stump lately as a figure of American nostalgia:



Remember when Ronald Reagan was president? We had Bob Hope. We had Johnny Cash. Think about where we are today. We have got President Obama. But we have no hope and we have no cash.

Displeased: Rosanne Cash, daughter of Johnny.



She tweets, with an expletive I've never had to try redacting before: "John Boehner: Stop using my dad's name as a punchline, you ***hat"

BBC4 currently doing a program comparing reagan's 1982's midterm elections vs the ones today:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006s7d6

it won't show up for access later on (the show is rebroadcast again at 9.30 our time), but you might want to check it out later.

I was watching some Republican Representative lady from Tennessee, and she said the Republicans want to extend all of Bush's tax cuts, for two years. That sounds to me like a compromise I'd jump on if I'm the Democrats. What I might try to if I'm a Democrat is make the ones I like permanent, and make the ones for the rich temporary.

biggest winner in my voting precinct - the enterprising little Girl Scout & her (quite evident) stage mom who set up her cookie stand at the exit door to our polling place

makin bangk

TenuredVulture wrote:I was watching some Republican Representative lady from Tennessee, and she said the Republicans want to extend all of Bush's tax cuts, for two years. That sounds to me like a compromise I'd jump on if I'm the Democrats. What I might try to if I'm a Democrat is make the ones I like permanent, and make the ones for the rich temporary.

You talking about Marsha Blackburn on O'Donnell's show? Saw that too. Fast Eddie actually was talking about extending the top brackets for two years and making the lower brackets permanent so you and he are on the same page. As someone in the lower brackets I would certainly be in favor of that too.

drsmooth wrote:biggest winner in my voting precinct - the enterprising little Girl Scout & her (quite evident) stage mom who set up her cookie stand at the exit door to our polling place

makin bangk

my polling place is in a church, and every election they have a bake sale right inside the church.

Hmmm....my fire company is a polling place. Maybe we should try to sell something to raise some cash.....

Bucky wrote:

drsmooth wrote:biggest winner in my voting precinct - the enterprising little Girl Scout & her (quite evident) stage mom who set up her cookie stand at the exit door to our polling place

makin bangk

my polling place is in a church, and every election they have a bake sale right inside the church.

Hmmm....my fire company is a polling place. Maybe we should try to sell something to raise some cash.....

I used to live in Highland Park NJ and voted in fire station. They sold hot dogs. For a dollar. I always bought one.

And there's at least one study that shows having bake sales and the like on election day increases turn out.

http://www.springerlink.com/content/f8863312g8077022/

drsmooth wrote:biggest winner in my voting precinct - the enterprising little Girl Scout & her (quite evident) stage mom who set up her cookie stand at the exit door to our polling place

makin bangk

Psssst, hey buddy, vote for ______ and I'll take 50% off a box of Thin Mints.

Thought some of you might enjoy this site:

http://whatthefuckhasobamadonesofar.com/

in all seriousness, what has the republican party accomplished in the last 10 years that would make me want to vote for them? they all talk about fiscal responsibility but they spend just as much as the democrats. tax cuts are cool i guess but when you dont cut spending what is the point? also the war and NCLB kinda sucked.

CrashburnAlley wrote:Thought some of you might enjoy this site:

http://#$&!.com/

I wonder when this launched. Seems like the sort of thing that, had it dropped a month ago and spread virally, could have gotten more of those young voters and anemic liberal-leaners who are still basically with the guy but planning to sit this one out to the polls.

According to my facebook feed, latte sipper turnout should be just fine.

I don't care how pissed you are if your party is not living up to your expectations.

To be a registered voter and actively sit out an election is just awful. Vote, even if it means crossing over to another party.

kopphanatic wrote:I don't care how pissed you are if your party is not living up to your expectations.

To be a registered voter and actively sit out an election is just awful. Vote, even if it means crossing over to another party.

I jokingly told my wife last night that I wasn't going to bother voting and I thought she was going to go all Sharron Angle on me. Get out and vote lazy asses!

traderdave wrote:

kopphanatic wrote:I don't care how pissed you are if your party is not living up to your expectations.

To be a registered voter and actively sit out an election is just awful. Vote, even if it means crossing over to another party.

I jokingly told my wife last night that I wasn't going to bother voting and I thought she was going to go all Sharron Angle on me. Get out and vote lazy asses!

Are you up for election?