maybe it was the mis-informed voters that were motivated to show up. Ebola Infected ISIS Terrorist Are Flooding Our Borders! http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/actual-news-headlines-vs-fox-news-headlines
Wall Street is booming because of Federal Reserve policy. The deficit has boomed to unprecedented levels under this Administration due to permanent step changes in spending levels. Gas prices have dropping because energy companies have drilled domestically against opposition from the Democrats. Drill baby drill was right. The opposition was wrong. Obama's foreign policy is globally mocked and his weakness has humiliated us in face-offs with ISIS, Russia, and Syria. Wake up -- there is no leadership today in the White House. Instead we've got a celebrity who takes selfies and dances on Ellen. It took a while for the rest of America to finally figure this out, but now they have. Yesterday's vote was the result of good solid men and women of character rising up and rejecting this weak leadership. Enough was enough. It was a victory for the people who pay their bills, pay their taxes, have a job, go to Church, take personal responsibility, and are accountable for their actions.
Truly I wish I knew the answer to that Space Ghost. One of the main factors I suppose is that Democrats just don't act like Republicans. It doesn't matter how wrong headed Republicans are, they back their party and people unquestioningly. Democrats are just not built like that. And Democrats do not know how to stand up to the BS and be proud of their accomplishments. You said it yourself, the country is actually in a better place than it was 6 years ago but you would not believe that what with the way Republicans have scared the country into believing the craziness and fear mongering. But unlike Republicans, Democrats will accept the outcome of the election and try to move the country forward with Republicans.
Obviously you can't judge on one criterion, but many of them are, yes. Anyone who lives their life with a moral code of honor, respect, and personal accountability should be pleased with last night's results.
yeah Obama is not the Commander and Chief. He can't possibly change a timeline. Who is being stupid? Stop being an Obama terd polisher.
As someone who tries to live by the things you mentioned I was very disappointed with the national results. But I was extremely pleased with the California results. It is because I try to live with a moral code of honor, respect, and personal accountability that I was not happy with the Senate election results.
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Having the biggest majority in congress in generations doesn't just happen. If Obama doesn't open the floodgates of low info immigrant voters, the republicans are in pretty good shape in 2016.
Apparently last night's winner was... Hillary Clinton? How Hillary Clinton won the 2014 midterms http://news.yahoo.com/how-hillary-clinton-won-the-2014-midterms-075943434.html
Does anyone else find it odd that the House had a lesser approval rating than genital herpes yet the same political party was put in as the majority? How does that work? It's time to diagnose the American public with Stockholm Syndrome.
Congress has traditionally had low approval ratings. And half of congress was the Senate. I find it fascinating nobody is talking about the horrible job Pelosi and Reid did as the leadership of their party in Congress. Obama takes the heat as President and has his own issues, but those 2 Democrats are the true failures who blew an opportunity to potentially create a lasting legacy of rule of Congress by the Democratic Party. If I was a Democrat, the first place I'd look to change would be to oust these two nitwits.
I'll weigh in on this. The loss is mainly on the shoulders of Barack Obama. The general public perceived him as weak. Weak in Syria, weak when ISIS exploded on the scene in Iraq, weak dealing with Russia over Ukraine, weak during this widely publicized seige of Kobani. The election was lost because of his foreign policy, and because the Roberts Court opened the floodgates to the billionaires who run the Republican Party, allowing unfettered spending that painted good Democratic candidates with Obama's weak leadership on foreign policy, which has some basis in fact, and painted them with a so-called "ruined" economy and all the other absurd domestic "failures" blamed on the President. "Failures" that were and are damned lies. We have a domestic economy that's booming - a booming stock market (I've made a LOT of money in the market in the last year or two), unemployment quickly dropping and now below 6%, jobs waiting to be filled, millions now having access to affordable healthcare who didn't before, with pre-existing illnesses covered, and families now able to keep their kids covered until age 26 (a huge help to middle and working class families with kids taking much longer than 4 years to get through college, very common now for many reasons), gas prices below $3 bucks in many areas, the US auto industry going like gang busters - I could go on. Based on where the USA stands domestically, it should have been a relative cakewalk for the Democratic Party, considering that historically a second term president's party gets hammered in these off-year elections anyway. Losses should have been moderate. Mr. President, you talked when you shouldn't have said anything ("No boots on the ground!"), and didn't say anything when you should have talked, losing much of your connection to the American people. The general public think the GOP members of Congress suck. Look at the numbers. Yet they didn't vote Democratic. Far too many people stayed home. A hell of a lot of that can be blamed on the unfettered billionaire money I mentioned earlier, but not all of it. Thanks Mr. President. I'm sending a check to Hillary Clinton's campaign as soon as she declares.
You really think Hillary is going to get the nomination? It would all but be handing the presidency to the Republicans unless they happen to nominate someone worse.
Yes, and she will beat the GOP candidate, whoever he is, like a drum. That's not what this thread is about, however.
LOL, that's optimistic. Too many people don't like her and that whole Benghazi nonsense will dominate the election cycle if the Democrats are foolish enough to nominate her.
