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Shouldn’t that be “deep mourning” thought for Democrats based on Ditzy Burnout’s loss to sheriff hairspray? nyuk,nyuk,nyuk
I think we should overreach the HELL out of these next few years.
And only 60% of the votes have been counted in WA-08.
I love Rick D. and his reality challenged world. According to Rick democrats should be in mourning after:
winning the Presidency with the largest popular vote ever
winning the governors race
winning the Land commisisoners race
winning Prop 1
Defeating little loser Tim Eyeman again with the pathetic I-985
winning strong control of the senate
winning even stronger control of the house
And Burner: the election is still being counted
Yup – I am sooo depressed about the election.
However, I am depressed some at the mess the republicans have made with the economy:
1.2 million jobs lost this year – notice how the job losses from the summer were UNDERESTIMATED for the election – and we find out it was even worse than we thought.
By the time Bush is through he will have Hoover like numbers. Republicans are good for Exxon, big Pharma, the banks but lousy for the economy, jobs and the average hard working person. Republicans are even lousy for the auto industry and the stock market.
If only Bush had forced the auto industry to make fuel efficient small cars – they would not be coming to Washington near bankruptcy with their hands out for corporate welfare…oh, well, the free market made them put all their eggs in big trucks and SUVs so their profits would be slightly higher in the short term.
What? Give every American an equal opportunity to get ahead? What if it hurts the to 1%’s ability to rape and pillage our treasury? Good luck.
2010 offers a lot of possibilities at the state level. There will be some defense to be played (Sen. Chris Marr in Spokane, for example), but I want the seat Barlow lost in the 6th back, Dems can make inroads into the 4th, etc., etc.
The really interesting thing will be this legislative session, when there is no money to be had. It’s hard to expand children’s health insurance, give teachers their raises, etc. in this sort of economy.
He’s little Ricky Dumbass who thought he’d be gloating over McSame and Rossi victories.
Little Ricky Dumbass. Yeah Darcy may not pull it out. There’s just too many Limbaugh-loving crapheads in the 8th who’d rather vote for the empty suit. A guy they can identify with who’s just like them.
Little Rickie Dumbass of the Larry Sinclair scandal. Yeah, we poor lefties will just have to make do with President Obama, Governor Gregoire, more Dem Governors, state legislators, Senators and Congresspeople. Too bad Darcy might not be one of them.
Be happy little Rickie Dumbass.
Omomma is going to fix everything for you, just need to wait until you can’t find or steal your food any longer from the middle income workers.
Once he destroys the middle class his plan is to make every community in Kmerica land of poverty.
He has told you sheep you need to turn your heater down to 60 deg in winter and will ban all air conditioners in summer.
Jimmy carter years are back with a caveat of Socialism with his wicked wife takes on education of hate America will the sheep care.
Will they be dumb down more than today. When the blacks don’t see all this promised money coming in will they revolt in the streets or stop voting?
It’s going to be horrible 4 years for the country and the world with this fool pretending to be community organizer in DC.
The left is in for failure on a scope no one will acknowledge.
Our enemies in the world are rattling their sabers waiting for the fool to take over DC.
We will regroup and not allow the left or media to determine our candidate for us.
@7 Don’t fret, troll. Nobody could possibly dumb you down any further.
So where’s that loser, Pudz? Hiding behind the RickyD screen name again?
I like that Obama is stepping up NOW and contacting other world leaders. That is leadership. It would be a dire mistake for him to sit back and focus on only his cabinet the next 2-1/2 months. Whether you like it or not, the world markets are responding to his election and the uncertainty about what precisely he is going to do. These contacts are a necessary 1st step…which MUST be followed by immediate committments once Inaugurated.
Obama will need to support CUTTING Capital Gains taxes and lessening corporate tax burdens. He will need to sideline indefinitely Health Care and other centerpiece campaign promises. Will he??
Anyway, I like that he is not waiting around.
I dislike Rahm Emmanuel…he will prove to be the wrong guy. A real mouthy hothead that will eventually blow-up. Not the “reach-across-the-aisle” choice one would expect. Emmanuel’s derogatory, vulgar comments about Republican’s will haunt him. He needs to apologize…1st thing. If he doesn’t, he is in for troubled times.
Obama won with a higher % of votes than reagan?
Or just because there’s more people in the country he won more votes?
Please explpain how *YOU* did not have an opportunity to get ahead.
re 11: Yes, Winston. Defeat is victory.
@3 idiot of the day.
“However, I am depressed some at the mess the republicans have made with the economy:
1.2 million jobs lost this year – notice how the job losses from the summer were UNDERESTIMATED for the election – and we find out it was even worse than we thought.”
Now we hear the excuses on why we can’t fix anything such rants from people who can’t lead a nation into wealth will have no problem in removing wealth.
Wake up call foolish one, you left wing democrats controlled congress since 2007.
For the past 25 years you idiots banned oil drilling and expanding our inventories.
We can all say except for you fools, the high rise in barrels of oil doomed the world economy. The democrats delivered this to us now they will never take responsibility.
Glad your depressed today wait until tomorrow sheep.
The fun is only begging for you losers.
One of the biggest burdens on employers right now:
Heath Insurance.
It’s time to move beyond employer based health insurance and I’d say McCain’s ideas on how to do that took a pretty big thumpin’ on Tuesday. Sorry, but we won that one.
@14 “you losers”
Have you been asleep all week? You lost. You lost huge. The Republican party is disintegrating before your eyes. It’s not a good time for Republicans to continue their state of denial.
Who’s going to lead the Republican party out of the wilderness? Sarah Palin? Mitt Romney? Newt? Good luck with that, you loser.
@14
Really? You mean there’s no drilling going on in America? Wow, thanks for cluing me in on that one. I had no idea.
There, is of course, drilling going on. We didn’t ban it. But, dear Thomas, oil companies are only drilling on about 20% of the leases they currently hold. It’s really easy to have a “ban” when there’s no pressure drill in the banned areas and now that gas prices are going up, the bans are starting to come down.
Btw, Thomas, did you know that:
The world oil tanker fleet is operating at full capacity?
That U.S. oil pipelines are at or near capacity
That refineries are at or near capacity
That the oil companies, despite record level profits, aren’t trying to change any of the above.
Ever heard of peak oil?
@16
Steve, have a problem in reading or are you responding to someone other post.
Either way your sheep.
Michael@15 – THANK YOU for making that point about health insurance being a major burden on employers. I’ve been trying to get that message across for some time, but it’s not a headline grabber, for some reason.
The two-step approach gaining traction at the moment is frustrating, but it’s going to take a while to cut out the administrative middlemen.
To find out what stymies progress in these matters … follow the money. :-)
@17
obama,wanted this price to go even higher and the dems where in glee to see this.
Now we have what you fools wanted stop crying about the past tell us how your going to really screw things up now. Remember the word CHANGE?
His cabinet is going to be the old boys club of congress such change.
@18 I have no problem with reading. However, it certainly appears that you have a problem with grammar.
Hmm, it’s kind of disturbing that a wing-nut might confuse me with a farm animal, what with the things those guys like to do to them.
@20 Yup, you’re definitely challenged when it comes to grammar.
Whoa, dude, zip up! I’m not a sheep!
@20
Now you’re really just talking nonsense.
@19
No problem.
10 Cyn is right, for once….the new administration needs to establish a working relationship with the leadership of other nations. Thanks largely to the incompetence and abuses of the last eight years, the United States is no longer strong enough to get through this crisis on its own. On the other hand, we’re still big enough to drag the rest of the world into the dumper along with us.
Cut taxes on the rich and corporations? “Get the government off the backs of business”? Yeah, right…NEWS FLASH: your guys tried that and it didn’t work! At the very least, we should be yanking the nitwits out of Mahogany Row and putting the crooks in jail instead of rewarding them with billion-dollar handouts.
You don’t like Rahm Emmanuel, huh? Good! That’s the best recommendation for the man I’ve heard thus far.
7 B
Brad, Brad, Brad, I urge you to take the opportunity of the next four years to go back and obtain the education that you seem to have missed completely.
Can anyone comprehend Thomas’s posts? He doesn’t seem able to express himself in English.
I do like this one.
Yes, hmmm. So that must be why in the mid-1990s oil cost $11 per barrel. Or maybe this guy knows not a damn thing about what he’s saying.
Another good one:
Wrong and wrong. Cynical is a day trader, so of course he wants lower capital gains taxes, even though in the opinion of the saner among us it should be taxed as straight-up income, which it is.
And “sideline” all of the policies he ran on? Yeah, Obama is that dumb. And you’re that lucky. Not.
Cynical, FYI: when Obama is inaugurated and Congress comes back into session, the universal health care bill Ted Kennedy is writing right now will be IMMEDIATELY passed and signed. And the Bush tax cut bill that lowered the capital gains tax will expire. Period. There is NO way that law will be extended. So have fun with that.
Oh my gosh! What happened Cyn? Gone is the O-Blah-Blah. Gone is the “leftist pinhead KLOWNS”…
What got into the water over there in MT?
This country badly needs to repair the damage done by Bush. Obama should go where the money is and it’s not with the squeezed middle class.
That said I don’t think Obama will tinker too much with the taxes on corporations.
29 “What happened Cyn? Gone is the O-Blah-Blah. Gone is the “leftist pinhead KLOWNS”…”
Let him get a couple more cups of coffee down the hatch. He’ll no doubt be back in his usual form in no time.
“I don’t think Obama will tinker too much with the taxes on corporations.”
Maybe not on corporations, at least at first…but I sure hope he delivers on increasing taxes on individuals who make over a quarter million a year.
Why? Well, first of all, the government needs to raise money from somewhere, and it’s pretty dumb to try to get money out of people who don’t have any. At the end of the day, Willie Sutton was a hell of a lot smarter than all of the neocons’ economic “geniuses”…except of course, now there are plenty of banks where there isn’t any money.
The second reason is that dammit, we should be rewarding people for earning money, at least as much as we reward those who produce nothing but manage to get (or stay) wealthy by skimming the cream off the top of the economy. If this means JB Got-Rocks has to go tell his pampered kid that she’s going to have to drive his year-old Porsche instead of getting a brand new one of her own….boo fucking hoo.
@14: Thomas – What a total fool you are! do you understand anything about economics?
Really? You mean the huge drop in oil prices will mean the economy will recover after all the job losses?
Where did you get your economics degree? Third grade? ‘Cause your logic is so bad that you could not have made it into fourth.
Freakin’ idiot – oil is cheap now – but the economy is tanking because of the job losses, the banking crisis (due to lack of regulation) and the horrible mismanagement by Bush.
And I am NOT depressed – if you actually could read you would see I am happy the adults are taking over for the neocon free market fools who got us into this mess.
I am worried about the economic mess, the huge job losses and the sinking Bush economy. Any real American would be worried about that.
I do Agree with cynical that meeting with foreign leaders is important. I disagree on lowering capital gains – it is already lower than it was. We need to grow the middle class – we need tax relief for the middle class, more taxes for the rich to keep the deficit down and windfall profits taxes on the oil companies that make (record amounts)of money whether oil is up or down.
From today’s New York Times re: Health Care:
HEALTH CARE: An Overhaul Will Have to Wait
Obama’s biggest challenge will be to convince his ardent supporters that many of his campaign promises will have to wait.
Obama is now dealing in reality…not campaign-speak. There is a huge difference.
Watch similiar things happen on taxes because it has to if we are going to turn things around. You folks fail to realize that for every government idea to take money from the rich, rich folks (including Democrat’s) have Tax Lawyers & CPA’s working full-time to figure out how to legally circumvent them.
You seem to think it is easy to write foolproof tax Legislation. It’s not.
I could write for hours on some of the plans to AVOID (not EVADE) proposed Tax Legislation.
Probably only Roger Rabbit can understand this. Explain it to them Rog………..
And trust me, wealthy Dems are into the “tax planning” up to their a$$holes…including heroes Gates & Buffett. That’s how they became BILLIONAIRES! They want to be in on the ground floor of writing loopholes for themselves and their mega-corporate structure.