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Midterm elections preview with Al Hunt, Executive Editor of Bloomberg News
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doodah 11/02/2010 06:18 PM Report
... No offense, Hank Williams Jr., but you're a freakin MORON (and you look like a bearded monkey).
doodah 11/02/2010 06:04 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.
robdverity 11/02/2010 04:22 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. And Al Hunt as well.
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.
charlizecourriers 11/02/2010 04:17 PM Report
Why is there no tea party for Democrats?
markpeach 11/02/2010 03:09 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 President 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.
Slim 11/02/2010 01:37 PM Report
Finally, we all get to see how prescient all you pasty media mavens have been in your political prognostication of the demise of Democrats in congress, and your subliminal hope, incessently expressed, of the failure of black aspiration in general and "Obama" in particular. The absolute absence of black sensibility and race, as an important ingredient in this seasons political discourse, exposes white fear of the black and brown "other" rising to power in our country. Its supression by merely wishing it into oblivion, actively attacking it and its leaders, or by jinning up fear in this season of uncertainty won't undue the inevitable. This election, most importantly, shows blacks and browns the lengths to which the advantaged and powerful in society will go to to hold onto this position. Perhaps, now that this election season is over, more rational and diverse heads can come together to discuss the real issues of importance facing our nation, instead of the irrational and racist ones just given voice.
REMant 11/02/2010 12:22 PM Report
I'm not so sure Boehner and McConnell will be able to exercise total control over their new minions. But I agree that Obama acts too much like JFK. And that GOP social and security issues are nearly non-existent in the "tea party." If you want a view of tea party attitudes, go back and read the comments posted for Bill Moyers' Journal shows from 2005 or so, to 2008. But I think it is far too early to talk about 2012. I think, tho, you can probably count Palin and Romney out.