reflections on the elections...

[Hoss]

Sounds like a few people who joyously repeated the slander of people opposing Obama as "teabaggers" don't like the feeling of getting "teabagged" last night.

And Conan, about being "humble", what do you want? Are the winners last night not permitted to celebrate their victories? Moreover, we saw Boehner's humility last night in his tears and he gets mocked in this thread.

Yeah, now let's see how that 'humility' plays out over the next two years.

Glenn Beck called, he wants his shtick back...

[Townsend]

Sounds like a few people who joyously repeated the slander of people opposing Obama as "teabaggers" don't like the feeling of getting "teabagged" last night.

And Conan, about being "humble", what do you want? Are the winners last night not permitted to celebrate their victories? Moreover, we saw Boehner's humility last night in his tears and he gets mocked in this thread.

Shhh, you guys smell that?

[Hoss]

Shhh, you guys smell that?

What, burnt toast?  Or the smell of hypocrisy?  I guess Gweed has never mocked Speaker Pelosi...

[guido911]

Shhh, you guys smell that?

"Smells like, Victory!" Lt. Col. Kilgore. Eh teabagg-ee

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[Hoss]

"Smells like, Victory!" Eh teabagg-ee

Nah, victory would have been bicameral.  Just unicameral, and not even the senior chamber...enjoy two years, because when NOTHING gets done, smells like the same but different.  I actually hope I'm wrong, but I'm not holding my breath.  Most of these new Republicans strike me like my 6 year old nephew.  If they don't get their way, they'll start throwing tantrums and holding their breath...

[guido911]

I recall shortly after Obama was inaugurated and the stimulus debate was hot on the coals, Obama, in a moment of "humility", told a republican "I won".

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2009/01/23/obama-to-gop-i-won/

[Townsend]

I recall shortly after Obama was inaugurated and the stimulus debate was hot on the coals, Obama, in a moment of "humility", told a republican "I won".

He did.  That's why he's the president and Palin's grandpa isn't.

[guido911]

He did.  That's why he's the president and Palin's grandpa isn't.

Got it. Screw humility.

http://www.thehopeforamerica.com/play.php?id=5763

[Cats Cats Cats]

Promise me free tanning spray!

He is going to be the first orange American as speaker of the house.

[Cats Cats Cats]

Unless Palin decides to run.  Then whomever the Democrat is (it may NOT be our current President and he may not decide to run for another term..wouldn't blame him) will likely win as long as they can form intelligent sentences.

I just don't want to see sane Republicans getting tuned out by the likes of Rubio, Paul and others.  I have a feeling it's likely the TPers will tone down their rhetoric once the freshmen congressmen/women and senators see how the dynamic of politics in DC operate.  Much to the chagrin of those who voted them in.

There were will be many news articles ending in the term "hilarity ensues"

[Hoss]

Got it. Screw humility.

http://www.thehopeforamerica.com/play.php?id=5763

Riiiight.  Because the Republicans are just full of humility.

""If we're able to stop Obama on this it will be his Waterloo. It will break him"

Sen Jim Demint on the ACA.

They're definitely full of something.

[nathanm]

Sounds like a few people who joyously repeated the slander of people opposing Obama as "teabaggers" don't like the feeling of getting "teabagged" last night.

Maybe you should look at the results again. The three biggest teabaggers of 'em all lost. "Second Amendment solution" Angle, anti-masturbation crusader O'Donnell, and "Don't ask me questions, I'm just trying to get elected" Miller all failed.

Of course "boot to the head" Paul did make it, but whatchagonnado?

[guido911]

Maybe you should look at the results again. The three biggest teabaggers of 'em all lost. "Second Amendment solution" Angle, anti-masturbation crusader O'Donnell, and "Don't ask me questions, I'm just trying to get elected" Miller all failed.

Of course "boot to the head" Paul did make it, but whatchagonnado?

THOSE were the biggest teabaggers? Gee, I thought Rand Paul and Marco Rubio were up there.

[Cats Cats Cats]

Maybe you should look at the results again. The three biggest teabaggers of 'em all lost. "Second Amendment solution" Angle, anti-masturbation crusader O'Donnell, and "Don't ask me questions, I'm just trying to get elected" Miller all failed.

Of course "boot to the head" Paul did make it, but whatchagonnado?

Well, Paul is a little bit different than the other teabaggers, he has some libertarian tendancies.  The rest are Sarah Palin teabagers after they got taken over by the GOP.  Although I think Coburn was the original tea partier.  He did it before it was cool.

[Conan71]

We don't know if Miller failed yet or not.

Guido, watching the national channels last night, I saw a sampling of victory parties.  Certainly someone should celebrate a victory, however, doing an end zone dance and proclaiming the end of Obama tyranny (a composite paraphrase from several) is not the kind of rhetoric to ease the partisan divide in this country.  I'm hearing rhetoric today that voters gave Republicans a mandate to overturn the policies of the last two years.  Let me be real clear: no one has a "mandate".  People are desperate to get people in office who will cut spending and rein in an unsustainable, overly-intrusive government.

You cannot leave 1/2 the voters (or more) out of the discussion, otherwise we will be thrown into the chaos of overly left and overly right agendas every two years and a gridlock of trying to undo what the last Congress or Admin did.  There's got to be a move to real bi-partisanship and moderate solutions.  This is what I see as the real problem, maybe it's because I'm a moderate I see it this way. 

Let's face it though, overly conservative or overly liberal agendas are doing nothing but creating a bigger divide.