'I just want my country back,' the Brown voter said.

The country that Bush-Cheney drove right into the sewer, he wants back. Because that's the only country the poor schmuck has ever known.

We're way beyond the decline of American civilization, folks. :patriot:


http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2010/01/19/coakley_brown/index.html?source=rss&aim=/news/feature

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He identified himself as Mike Doherty, a heavy equipment operator from suburban Hanson. "I just want my country back," he said. "I want to see my legislation before my face -- not behind my back."

Like many in the crowd, Doherty called himself an independent (or "unenrolled," the technical term in Massachusetts) and said he'd only recently become involved in politics -- and even more recently with the Brown campaign. "I was tired of watching the liberals run roughshod over all of us," he said.

Doherty's presence, and the presence of a surprising number of other blue-collar and middle-class voters, spoke to a key cog in Brown's winning coalition.

In accumulating more than 1.1 million votes and defeating Martha Coakley by 5 points, he racked up the second-highest share of votes for a Republican Senate or gubernatorial candidate in Massachusetts since 1972. (Only Bill Weld, reelected with 71 percent in 1994, did better.) Returns suggest that Brown's victory was built on the increasingly tax-phobic bedroom community dwellers outside of Routes 128 and 495 (the two interstates that ring Boston) and on working-class voters in and around the state's small and midsize cities -- older, largely white places like Fitchburg and Brockton.

For Democrats outside Massachusetts, who must this fall defend suddenly vulnerable congressional majorities, the challenge now is to figure out how their party -- whose candidate led this race by 30 points just a few weeks ago -- could lose in such a reliably Democratic state. Was it just a complacent candidate who fell asleep at the switch (and then proved disastrously inept when she woke up)? Was it something particular to Massachusetts -- a rejection of the Democratic Party that has dominated Beacon Hill for decades? Or was it worse: an unmistakable sign that the nation's electorate is in revolt against the Democratic Party that now runs Washington.

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Unbelievable that they know so little.

and ever gol-durn paragraph of each bill in the House AND Senate.

Or not.

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Nice cover, pretend you never knew who George W Bush was.

with that as the subject. I think it made the rounds of redneck America this past fall.

What the fuck does that mean? Does he understand that the whole health care bill has been in circulating in Congress for a few months now?

Does he understand the fucking legislative process??!! Could he actually articulate it?


So now instead of legislation he will get "NO!"

"NO" on healthcare.

"NO" on fixing Wall Street.

"Yes" on tera.



Wow. This guy is just another "Joey" from the sticks.

Not open to the public and not at all transparent.

PROCESS.

PROCESS.

Not final result.

:sarcasm:

That's fine.

I didn't know that Obama was in charge of congress.

is what occured times 100 under republican rule ...

NOT SAYING it makes it OK, but the choice boils down to the process for legislation that might reform health care or legislation that might tap our phones ...

to grace a pre-school picture book it's all "back room deals" and "unwieldy behemoth, no transparency" liberal, socialist country stealing.

Every time I get one of those asinine "I want my country back" emails, I just reply: "NO".

Idiocrats...

We have a winner

'I want'- 'me' 'my'....

yep, sounds like a real wonderful country to live in- :sarcasm:

The me vs. the we.

I'll take the we anytime. A society of one isn't going to last or succeed.

I drove by one of their rallies and every sign had either ME or MY or I on it.

They are just selfish and painfully ignorant.

Bush burned the constitution.
Or perhaps they see a black President as the end of their dominance?

A know-nothing.

yup!

And every independent is a clone of him.

Makes it so easy to dismiss this fiasco, and even easier to lose in November.

And I don't blame this fiasco on ignorant voters. I blame it on the failure of Democrats to give people a reason to want to keep Democrats in power.

PS: American civilization is beyond decline because fewer and fewer people will remember when it ever worked.

have a country. and it is Somalia.

they fear any real progress.

unrec... tea baggers did not "win" this election... it was handed to them.

FU Martha Coakley you should have campaigned better.

Makes no difference they are stupid as the radio or TV the use to get their "values"

Cheney did the energy bill behind closed doors and then our energy bills skyrocketed..

he was courting them, charming them with his charisma and good looks, paying attention to them. And they fell in love. Never mind the issues.

:loveya: ..... awwww ....

Yep, let's get back to the good old days! :sarcasm:

:silly:

liberals like Lieberman and Geithner, I guess. I don't know any liberals with the power to run anything.