People have the mind of Swiss cheese. They won't even remember the shutdown in a year.

never happened ...

Won't remember it next WEEK!

Nicely placed to have an effect on primaries.

They could completely destroy any chance they have in far less time with their current strategy.

Oh how I wish we were voting next month!

I don't doubt they will provide many more opportunities to piss off the voting public.

any common sense. Did you not see Sarah Palin at the million vet march? How is she even still relevant?

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Come on, she like so many others such as Ted Cruz are still grandstanding. They just keep giving the gift that keeps on giving.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014623932

I am optimistic about the future, there are to many bat shit crazy tea baggers that will keep up the good fight, for us! Think Ryan, Rand, Bachman!

I will leave you with this image...



Call me crazy, but I think we have a great future.

unless she chokes, I don't ever want to see it again! lol

I think we have a much better chance as well. Obamacare will help a lot, but I really think the majority of Eisenhower type Republicans have turned the snooze off and finally woke up.

All we have to do is run what they've said.

Cheap and easy.

and stupid.

.....in the mouth of the Batshit queen?

Dave and Charlie Koch will continue to bribe contribute large sums of money to re-election campaigns of enough Republican continuecritters to get the House to pass the craziest legislation.

Besides, I would ask the question of the first response here - SOOOOOooooo then, that means, we do nothing???????

Yeah, certainly. It's a year away. Things could change. Does it not then become incumbent upon every last one of us to do EVERYTHING we can think of to build upon these gains? To protect the initiative we've gained, with all the fresh new talking points and on-offense tactics that are popping up like bubbles to the top of a glass of champagne? We have so much new ammunition to fight with now!!! We have a year to USE that time to reinforce and nurture the little buds of clarification that have started to break through the dirt. We now have the example of...

1) WHO was it who behaved like the adults in the room?

2) WHO was concerned about our financial future and WHO was it who wanted to go for the stunt, even while conceding it was a fool's errand?

3) WHO didn't give a rat's ass if 800-THOUSAND people were furloughed from their jobs? Good AMERICAN workers - turned out of work - for that same fool's errand!!!

4) WHO was it that thought this LOSER stunt was worth flushing 24 BILLION dollars down the crapper? Just to make a point? WHAT point? And we can afford that when you guys are yammering on and on about how we're spending too much money????????? How 'bout it, 'eh? Okay, ted cruz made a lot of money in donations. Is he gonna be hiring more people, then? Is he gonna be donating more to food banks? Is he gonna be covering some furloughed worker's mortgage payment? Did he give up his paycheck while this went on? Was he okay with screwing his own staff out of affordable health care?

5) WHO was it turning their collective noses up at the warnings from every credible financial analyst and voice and outfit in every corner of not just the country but THE WORLD? WHO was it shrugging it off with another "meh, not gonna happen, not gonna be that bad..." How correct have they called it on ANYTHING lately??????

6) WHO seemed more deserving of your trust to govern? Seriously????????? You LIKE the idea of a pack of baboons controlling your local zoo or wild animal park? How do you think THAT would work out?

I could go on but I'm probably way past boring people here. But I'd put it directly to anyone who huffs and puffs - "what the hell do you want? ANARCHY??????????????"

If I had a title it would be the Insufferable Bloviating Schmuckette!


One postscript - I've never quite figured out which is the proper spelling of the root word of the above - is it "schmuck" or "shmuck"? I use the word a lot but I'm a Catholic, so whaddo I know?

But what do I know? Catholic school for 14 years. But it's a great way to generate material!

If budget negotiations fail:

October 2013-November 2014 - Immigration reform fights
December 2013 - Government shuts down ... just before Xmas
February 2014 - Debt ceiling extension expires
Any natural disaster between now and November 2014

The modern gop will show their ass is on the wrong side of history, again.

the State of the Union Address, where Obama will surely provoke them to do so.

letters news, etc....

We can not let our guard down, keep pushing like there is no tomorrow, get good candidates to run and work like hell to GOTV.

Chances are it will be more than that now. A Democratic take-over it not a given, as it is still a year off until the election.

How do we know, really, that it isn't? We have a year to build on what's just happened.

I'm totally with calimary. Most voters don't follow all the details as closely as we do here, and many are still learning what was behind this shutdown. IMO the polling will keep getting better for Democrats for another week or two, and we need to make sure the numbers stay there. That, plus the tea party will more than likely continue to piss off moderates and people sitting on the fence, therefore I believe retaking the House is entirely possible.

a Democrat? They have him as a Republican...

Grassroots will be critical in getting us closer to taking the House back. People must understand that this group of GOPer's need to be electorally eliminated for this nation to move forward in a positive direction. It needs to be hammered home each day between now and next November.

Can't wait to see how it turns out here in Florida. People have been waiting for 4 years to get their hands on The Medicare Fraudster Rick Scott and people are already fired up to get him out of Tallahassee.

GROUND GAME! Start organizing it now.

Comparing between this week and last, I count only 7 seats moving in the Dems direction...

Plus 1 (+1) for good measure.

And there are about 30 R's (according to the Businessweek story on here the other day) who are at risk of losing. I think it said 29. Nonetheless, I feel we could get 19-20 of those.

I'll be surprised if we pickup 25. But anything is possible.

Please, please tweet Rohrabacher. He's up for it and I'm hoping to cause many sleepless nights.

"Dana Rohrabacher: Chairman of the Trolling Caucus
Obama is a fascist--and other interesting opinions shared by the California Republican through 6,000 tweets."


http://www.nationaljournal.com/congress/dana-rohrabacher-chairman-of-the-trolling-caucus-20130924

That we Liberals are so glad the T-party backed-off and stopped fighting.
And thank god the T-Party didn't stick to their Conservative principals, because
Liberals' policies would have no chance against boldly-aggressive "pure" Conservatism,
etc etc blah blah woof woof.

"Democrats still have a very uphill climb to a majority, and it's doubtful they can sustain this month's momentum for another year,"

Unless the GOP try a stunt like this again in January and then again in February.

As long as Dem's remind voters of this shit these scumbags put us through, we should be fine. And remember there are R's that are government employee's who got shafted by this too.

Hopefully they are sane R's who see the difference.

GD Silver Platter!

thanks Don

They know the rethugs will try to repeal it another 40,000 times.

The flyer my employer put out about how much our insurance policy is going
up in January has upset and pissed off an AWFUL lot of folks. I work for Lowe's,
a Fortune 500 company. If OUR rates are going up that much, what's ACA going
to do to smaller companies?

When folks get hit in the pocketbook, they take notice. And if elections roll around
when they are pissed off and there is a TARGET for their frustrations......uh oh.

How many R's voted for ACA again?

All I'm saying here is let us not be patting ourselves on the back quite yet.

Democrats should be thinking of the next Legislative and/or Executive and/or media initiative to corner Republicans on an issue that they lose. And continue this momentum.

Any ideas?