of it's base. and it will be harder to gerrymander and vote deny. Hopefully there will be a new left sided party of people who think the democrats are the new republicans - we will have the progressive party,and if we don't allow money to reign, we may actually not have some corporate people in power.

This reminds me of the "Contract (on) America" (as I liked to call it--it was like a mob hit). Those guys came in with fanfare, and fell on their asses. Where's Newt nowadays? He's not the President? And we can find Joey Scar squinting at the world through piggy eyes from the "Morning Joe" set...hardly ruling the world.

I like what Nancy Pelosi said about cantor's loss, too..

"Eric Cantor has long been the face of House Republicans’ extreme policies, debilitating dysfunction
and manufactured crises. Tonight, is a major victory for the Tea Party as they yet again pull the Republican Party further to the radical right."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5079087

sufrommich (15,393 posts)

"Cantor's dictrict in Virginia doesn't matter in comparison to Cantor's power in Washington."

I'm going to continue to celebrate cantor's loss.. I don't who tells not to.

some GOP asshole or another to Congress no matter what. How nice that they send a weak, bleating newbie instead of one that is hooked into the Leadership/Power Machine.

Nancy P--succinct as ever!!!

It's harder for an Army to prosecute a winning strategy when their key generals are falling on the battlefield...from FRIENDLY FIRE, too...!!!!

an OMG election. Truly huge news.

Edited to add: Just heard Cantor was the only non-Christian the republicans had in Washington. That also says a lot.

will finally have to deal with the monster they helped create. Secondly, nominating freakish tea party types has not served the republican party well and those candidates don't always win- witness both 2010 and 2012.

Stop being so intimidated and timid re the tea party.

we probably won't get to hear Jim Ward make fun of Cantor on Stephanie Miller's show anymore for at least the next two years.

from the ACA (I think that's the organization's acronym). And he wasn't conservative enough. I find that chilling. This is a heavily republican district made more so in the last redistricting. I have no idea how conservative Brat is as he ran on immigration only. We're about to find out just how crazy he is.

democrats have to go after this guy big time.........

.... that area is strongly republican (and bat shit crazy) .... I will hope for a Democratic party winner, but really doubt it

into Cuccinnellli. We need to not only give reason for our voters to get out there, we need to depress their voters from turning out. It's the only way to win in a district this republican.

Bigotry won.

And it won in a way that was a huge shock to everyone else in office.

We won't see any chance of immigration reform of any kind any more. It was a long shot but doable before with a lot of the GOP corporate masters pushing it. Now? Dead.

We won't see it before the midterms. Unless we win really big in the midterms- like taking back the house big- we won't see it before 2016.

Exactly. Republicans have made themselves vulnerable to these teabagger takeovers by their own redistricting. In their zeal to make sure Dems can't get equal representation in proportion to their voters, they have left themselves wide open to takeovers from the right from people even nuttier than themselves. Our only real hope is that enough middle-right voters revolt, leaving the Dems in control of redistricting in 2020.

Eric Cantor (someone I thought was a nut-job supreme) was not bat shit crazy enough for those voters

The more control that baggers have over the republican parity is not going to sit well with big Corporate and Wall Street donors because they are unpredictable.
The real power in this country likes stability and hates uncertainty. It's bad for business and if they believe that they cannot control the outcome of major monetary issues, which is all they really care about, they are going to back another horse. That horse is going to be the Democratic Party.
Bet on it.

Not even tea party organizations would take on Cantor. So Brat is beholden to nobody right now. That's got to make the establishment republicans crap their pants.

They've made it eminently plain that absolutely nothing will pass out of Congress that doesn't in some way please utter sociopaths, thereby tainting every single piece of legislation that Democrats, desperate to pass anything at all, will subsequently hail as a triumph. So they have the power to prevent anything that's actually entirely good to pass, unless they're too dumb to think of any way to screw over the 99% on the back of naming a post office.

And let's be honest - Cantor had a 96% Conservative rating, so even the most loony sociopath they can find isn't really going to be that much worse in terms of overall effect.