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quinnox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 10:48 PM
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Democrats will go conservative is my guess
Edited on Tue Jan-19-10 11:02 PM by quinnox
Be prepared for a conservative Dem administration, it will be just a tad better than the Bush administration.

Nothing good will get passed, but maybe not too much harm done either.



I'm sick to my stomach, I can't even think about this anymore. God this sucks.
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FLAprogressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 10:49 PM
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1. Be prepared for a conservative Dem admin? We're already seeing it.
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beardown Donating Member (193 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 11:28 PM
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27. Beat me to it.
Although I was going with "more conservative".
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 10:51 PM
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2. I prepared for that when I voted for Clinton.
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TheIdiot Donating Member (260 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 11:01 PM
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14. Hillary never looked better... nt
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 11:06 PM
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18. Meh.
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DJ13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 10:51 PM
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3. Then they WILL lose
Obama and the party didnt run in 2008 on a platform of "just like the GOP", they promised change FROM the GOP.

Thats what the voters were expecting, thats why MA just repudiated the party.
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TheIdiot Donating Member (260 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 11:03 PM
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15. You couldn't be more wrong...
if our "leaders" take that attitude, then it really IS over.
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DJ13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 11:04 PM
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Fine, become a faux GOP party
See where that gets you.
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Mojambo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 10:51 PM
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4. Tim Kaine and Rahm Emanuel in charge. They've been conservative for a while. n/t
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arthritisR_US Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 10:52 PM
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5. then organize and form a viable third party. n/t
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Nite Owl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 10:52 PM
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6. They are already way off to the
right. If they don't see that, and they probably won't, there isn't much chance for 2012.
People need to 'spend more time with their familes' starting with Rahm.
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lurky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 10:52 PM
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7. That's all they know how to do. Too bad it never works...
It doesn't matter what the problem is, the solution is always to veer even farther to the right.
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DebbieCDC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 10:53 PM
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8. My guess too -- they'll be even more to the right than they are now
Edited on Tue Jan-19-10 10:55 PM by DebbieCDC
Exactly the WRONG lesson to take from Mass.

But Dems are stupid that way.
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greatscott15 Donating Member (104 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 10:54 PM
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9. Yep, blewdawgs heading for the hills
we are toast
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TheIdiot Donating Member (260 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 10:59 PM
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12. Or just maybe they'll reach across the aisle...
and put together something bi-partisan that will actually fix what's wrong with the system without taxing us into the poorhouse.
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obliviously Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 10:58 PM
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10. There will be a fight between the pragmatists and the progressives
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iceman66 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 10:59 PM
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11. They might as well all just switch to being Republicans.
If you can't beat them, join them, right?

Our leadership seems to think so.
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TheIdiot Donating Member (260 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 11:01 PM
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13. They are ALREADY beaten...
we just have to stop beating OURSELVES!
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Blaukraut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 11:04 PM
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16. They *should* go more populist. That was the message sent
by Brown. Of course he didn't meant it, but what's important is that he managed to fool voters into thinking that he cared about the little guy. Something the Dems seem to have forgotten. This isn't a left vs center vs conservative fight. It's much simpler than that. Don't let the teabaggers co-opt the populist message that should, by all rights, belong to the Dems.
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ibegurpard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 11:06 PM
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19. yup
spot on
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ibegurpard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 11:05 PM
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17. Then they'll lose more
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flyarm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 11:07 PM
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20. if they do..it will be a bloodbath in Nov! eom
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treestar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 11:08 PM
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21. Their hands are tied now
Repukes march in lockstep. This locks up the Senate. Only budget bills can pass.

Progressives who think the repukes are no danger are insane.
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 11:10 PM
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22. If repukes are so dangerous why try bipartionship with them for the last year?
Centrists who think you can play with people so clearly dangerous are insane.
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ProgressiveEconomist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 11:11 PM
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23. Buck up. The "60 vote supermajority" was an illusion. And IMO the MA special
election means EVEN LESS than the VA and NJ gubernatorial wins for the Rs two months age.

Faux News blasted plenty of propaganda on those two events also, bu, like the MA Senate race, local factors, not national factors, were at play. Three unpopular Democrats went down to defeat. And the MA Senate race was a special election with limited campaigning and limited turnout.
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 11:20 PM
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24. God help us all.
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Blasphemer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 11:24 PM
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25. Of course they will. And then repeat the same cycle all over again in 12 years.. nt
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 11:27 PM
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26. Dem leadership is apathetic, they will find it easier to stop pretending they are Progressive
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Lorien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 11:30 PM
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28. Raise holy hell and demand that they listen to their BASE
or November will be no different than tonight.
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