Hey Massachusetts! Coakley or Brown?

[St. Clown]

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i don't know him either (i didn't know rachel maddow before tonight). if he's the other end of her - i'm not sure i want to be entertained by that either.

olberman i know from sportscenter. he should have stuck with dan patrick.

I watch Glen Beck from time to time because I hope to catch it on a night where he cries. It happens from time to time.

My favorite so far is when he had on the Brewmeister from Sam Adam's. The guy pours a glass of beer on the table right next to Geln, tempting him to come close to smell it and enjoy the aroma. Beck's a recovering alcoholic.

 

[Jon]

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Speaking of Glenn Beck, the only good thing about Handsome McUseless being elected senator over the Queen **** is that now his DOOMSDAY PREDICTION about the Second Civil War won't come true. That means I won't have to build that guillotine in the front lawn.

Patman- I would have if I wasn't fantasizing about what it would actually be like to win a game against Northeastern. ****ing Army.

 

[BoomGoestheDynamite]

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MSNBC is the left's answer to the giant pile of excrement that is Fox News. Same ****, slightly different scent. I'd rather have a channel of Bulgarian water polo highlights than cable news.

Basically. Can't say this result is surprising or disappointing. 2010 will be a very bad year for the Democrats and I'm kind of excited. When either party gets up to big a head of steam, things usually go South. As for Obama's 2012 prospects? Meh. That ones about the economy, stupid. You can probably predict the outcome of that race based on 3 or 4 economic indicators available around September, 2011.

 

[Patman]

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Basically. Can't say this result is surprising or disappointing. 2010 will be a very bad year for the Democrats and I'm kind of excited. When either party gets up to big a head of steam, things usually go South. As for Obama's 2012 prospects? Meh. That ones about the economy, stupid. You can probably predict the outcome of that race based on 3 or 4 economic indicators available around September, 2011.

My biggest fear is that the republicans will get in power and start choosing the wrong issues all over again. Those guys are absolutely tone-deaf and are more interested in being in a position in power than affecting actual useful policy.

You can lose just as fast as you win... tonight shows that.

 

[Jon]

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Basically. Can't say this result is surprising or disappointing. 2010 will be a very bad year for the Democrats and I'm kind of excited. When either party gets up to big a head of steam, things usually go South. As for Obama's 2012 prospects? Meh. That ones about the economy, stupid. You can probably predict the outcome of that race based on 3 or 4 economic indicators available around September, 2011.

The good news is that the Republicans destroyed this country to extent that the Democrats won't be able to ruin it too badly. Then when the Democrats get their incompetent ***es run out of power the Republicans can start destroying things again! Whee!

 

[Dirty]

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Speaking of Glenn Beck, the only good thing about Handsome McUseless being elected senator over the Queen **** is that now his DOOMSDAY PREDICTION about the Second Civil War won't come true. That means I won't have to build that guillotine in the front lawn.

You don't have to, but you're still going to.....right?

 

[GreatLakerMohawk]

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The good news is that the Republicans destroyed this country to extent that the Democrats won't be able to ruin it too badly. Then when the Democrats get their incompetent ***es run out of power the Republicans can start destroying things again! Whee!

Arrogance is an amazing tool of destruction, isn't it?

 

[mookie1995]

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i apologize. i misspelled her name.

celinda lake

http://www.lakeresearch.com/people/president.asp

 

[Handyman]

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My biggest fear is that the republicans will get in power and start choosing the wrong issues all over again. Those guys are absolutely tone-deaf and are more interested in being in a position in power than affecting actual useful policy.

You can lose just as fast as you win... tonight shows that.

If the GOP stays conservative and acts as a check on Obama everyone wins. If they go W. Liberal we are all screwed.

Both sides need to stop drinking the kool aid, get rid of the vitriol and get to work fixing this friggin country. Sad thing is, the only way that happens is if there is some major catastrophe.

 

[dxmnkd316]

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If the GOP stays conservative and acts as a check on Obama everyone wins. If they go W. Liberal we are all screwed.

Both sides need to stop drinking the kool aid, get rid of the vitriol and get to work fixing this friggin country. Sad thing is, the only way that happens is if there is some major catastrophe.

You're way too ****ing idealistic handy... You're best bet is to elect the most partisan politicians possible and hope they knife each other on the floor of congress.

 

[BoomGoestheDynamite]

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The good news is that the Republicans destroyed this country to extent that the Democrats won't be able to ruin it too badly. Then when the Democrats get their incompetent ***es run out of power the Republicans can start destroying things again! Whee!

Oh, don't get me wrong, I like divided government not Republican government. The only time in a while we had anything resembling fiscal sanity was when the two parties canceled the other's grandiose spending designs.

 

[Patman]

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If the GOP stays conservative and acts as a check on Obama everyone wins. If they go W. Liberal we are all screwed.

Both sides need to stop drinking the kool aid, get rid of the vitriol and get to work fixing this friggin country. Sad thing is, the only way that happens is if there is some major catastrophe.

catastrophes bring lies to the fore... and often they don't even do that... i mean look at 9/11... they went back to partisan actions immediately... but we have to remember that the partisan divide is a reflection of a philosophical divide. I believe Mark Steyn (the conservative expat-British Canadian citizen commentator on US politics) has coined it the cold civil-war. People's philosophies have become very out of tune with each other... especially absent a stark competitor (Russian communism). It'll take a lot to get this country back onto a level focus as long as the philosophical divide remains.

 

[dxmnkd316]

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Oh, don't get me wrong, I like divided government not Republican government. The only time in a while we had anything resembling fiscal sanity was when the two parties canceled the other's grandiose spending designs.

**** straight. I suppose that's more of a metaphorical knifing than my more literal meaning but it worked in the 90s. What a fantastic decade.

 

[Handyman]

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You're way too ****ing idealistic handy... You're best bet is to elect the most partisan politicians possible and hope they knife each other on the floor of congress.

Will it be streamed live...cause if so I am dropping out of grad school to watch that 24/7!

You know ringers will be involved...I see lots of former UND hockey getting elected in that world

 

[dxmnkd316]

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It'll take a lot to get this country back onto a level focus as long as the philosophical divide remains.

Just how big are we talking here? I mean, I thought 9/11 was about an 8.5 on that scale.

 

[Old Pio]

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From where I sit the guy (or people) who deserve a huge amount of credit for Brown's win is the guy who prepped him for David Gergen's question in the debate about "Teddy Kennedy's seat." That business about it's not Kennedy's seat, it's not the Democrats' seat, it's the people's seat was perfect--a towering homer over the center field wall. The sort of thing a candidate preps for hoping there's some fool out there who will give them a chance to use the line (Lloyd Bentsen: "I was a friend of JFK's, etc.").

It just seems like after the debate, the air went out of Marcia's balloon. 'Course, in the debate she talked about her foreign policy experience based on her sister's address and the "fact" that there aren't any terrorists left in Afghanistan.

But that one answer seemed to crystalize his candidacy and established him as a guy who was standing up to the dynastic assertions of the Democrats. After all, they NAMED this health care monstrosity after Teddy.

Even a bad Democratic candidate like Marcia should be able to win in Massachusetts. It wasn't all Obamacare either. It was allowing panty boy to lawyer up, civil trials for terror suspects instead of military tribunals, dropping the ball on Fort Hood and the inability to say it was Islamist terrorism and not some poor "Dr." who slipped his clutch. A feeling that this administration isn't really certain about who the enemy is (or if we even have one) and how to deal with him.

 

[Dirty]

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Will it be streamed live...cause if so I am dropping out of grad school to watch that 24/7!

You know ringers will be involved...I see lots of former UND hockey getting elected in that world

But I thought they were all Canadians. How can they be elected?

 

[St. Clown]

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But I thought they were all Canadians. How can they be elected?

They're salivating at the chance to get naturalized.

 

[BoomGoestheDynamite]

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catastrophes bring lies to the fore... and often they don't even do that... i mean look at 9/11... they went back to partisan actions immediately... but we have to remember that the partisan divide is a reflection of a philosophical divide. I believe Mark Steyn (the conservative expat-British Canadian citizen commentator on US politics) has coined it the cold civil-war. People's philosophies have become very out of tune with each other... especially absent a stark competitor (Russian communism). It'll take a lot to get this country back onto a level focus as long as the philosophical divide remains.

The thing is, and I always use abortion as the example, theres plenty of evidence the general population doesn't really follow the extreme of either party. Its just the nature of the system that in the past few years, you get to choose one of two polar opposite platforms: No restrictions or (almost) No abortions ever. This might be why we have an electorate that seems to scurry in one direction or the other every two years like rats on a sinking ship.

 

[Handyman]

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catastrophes bring lies to the fore... and often they don't even do that... i mean look at 9/11... they went back to partisan actions immediately... but we have to remember that the partisan divide is a reflection of a philosophical divide. I believe Mark Steyn (the conservative expat-British Canadian citizen commentator on US politics) has coined it the cold civil-war. People's philosophies have become very out of tune with each other... especially absent a stark competitor (Russian communism). It'll take a lot to get this country back onto a level focus as long as the philosophical divide remains.

I am trying to the "Capra-esque" belief alive in my head that things can work out if people want them to. Part of that is because I am going to be teaching Social Studies and need to have that type of mentality and also because I want to believe that this country is as great as I did when I was 10. I want to believe that Mr. Smith Goes To Washington is possible, that everyone counts and has a voice. I want to think that in the end we will end up on the side of right (little r not big R) because of the adversarial system.

I was better off when I didnt know too much, because the more I learn, the more ticked off I get.