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robdverity 11/05/2010 10:08 PM Report
Single-term 8 yr staggered, or kiss our arses goodbye.
EyesOnYou 11/04/2010 02:36 AM Report
Sorry Cook, Reid won with 50%. Not saying he deserved it, but there was no alternative.
Our country is doomed. The wealthy individuals, corporations and foreigners buying elections to benefit themselves is not freedom of speech. Without campaign finance we will NEVER recover.
anne4444 11/02/2010 06:25 PM Report
Money is very powerful:
It can help a person to be a president.
It can make a politician to sell his country.
It can put millions people to be homeless and jobless.
Trace the money, we will find the answer for all.
doodah 11/02/2010 06:12 PM Report
I just voted Democrat for the second time in my life (third time, if you count primaries). And first time I voted AGAINST the local republican 'favorite son'.
Now that I know he's an overly pampered puppet of the banking-lobby. That trumps EVERYTHING else. He right in there with the rest of dirty scumbags.
No offense, Hank Williams Jr., but you're a freakin MORON (and you like a bearded monkey).
robdverity 11/02/2010 04:14 PM Report
As has been laughingly said, you get the govt you deserve. That has now devolved to Sarah Palin, President. Not funny nec. but inevitable imo.
A shitty country deserves a shit pale(in) govt.
A culture that rewards financial wise-guys for scuttling the world's ec. WITH IMPUNITY, and then returns their enablers to ofc. deserves the outcome. The results cannot be pretty and by 2012 may be sorry they were ever in a position of any influence.
Reminder: Sandy Weil, Robert Rubin, Hank Paulson, Lloyd Blanfein still haven't joined Bernie Madoff. The world is waiting.
markpeach 11/02/2010 03:06 PM Report
Well that's it. It's taken a while and quite a bit of effort on my part to understand the US mind, and I give up. To penalise a Preesident who wouldn't have been able to make jobs appear from thin air anyway (take a look at the rest of the world), but who did get a better healthcare deal (something the rest of the developed world already has had for decades) and who did encat consumer protections in the wake of a meltdown, is all too much foreignness to me.
When the US officially loses its leadership of the world, I hope the electorate is slower to blame leaders who simply are not allowed to lead, and bear in mind their own wasteful and selfish decisions, this inability to see the bigger picture when the rest of the word understands what must be done to get to a desired future (for instance the UK and Brazil).
Hope has just been killed, sadly.
REMant 11/02/2010 12:21 PM Report
Cook may be a whiz at electoral statistics, but I didn't agree with any part of his analysis. It reminded me of a stockbroker's take on "the great recession." Since I have anticipated every aspect of the "tea party" in general, if not the pseudo-versions, I think I can say with some authority that it is not a resurgent GOP. It is certainly not "racist." I wrote the following to Eugene Robinson this morning: "The 'Tea Party' is not Karl Rove, nor even the GOP. It did not support Bush or his wars, patriots tho they are. What they want back, isn't a government possessed by Americans, but Americans possessed of their senses. The Constitution in it's original meaning. A return to first principles, as they said in the Revolutionary period. The president and his family, for all their middle-classness, have too often acted like an AME minister with diamond stick-pin and while Cadillac. You can call that 'racist,' but I wouldn't."
I also don't see how "the economy" could have been "focused on" without passing some kind of substantive legislation. Presumably Mr Cook is thinking like Krugman. And Clinton and Obama ran on "compassionate conservatism," too. It translates to social democracy or welfare capitalism.
Ppl away from the urban areas, feel "cut-off" from Washington all the time, not just in recessions or every 2 or 4 years. Ppl in Washington equate the "greater metropolitan area" with the nation, much the way the Parisians equate their city with France. The rest of both countries could care less, unless those creatures put their hands into their pockets. Nor do I agree with the idea that this is because we've lost some sense of deference. If anything we have more idolatry in this country than we've ever had. What we have lost is any sense of dependency in our leadership (and, it seems, our media) on the ppl - noblesse oblige - if you will, except, of course, to try as Rove and LBJ did, to manipulate it, as Tocqueville predicted. And in my experience cities contain so many contentious misfits the authoritarianism they clamor for is almost required. I suppose this is because so many rural poor have flocked to them looking for a handout. This was the situation in France in 1789. Hopefully this election will make a dent in it.
Incidentally, the PACs, or whatever they are called nowadays, will eventually learn just how effective their advertising is, I'm sure, and adjust their spending on it in proportion.