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I Cannot Believe The GOP Is Close In Any Election. We Are Such A Ship Of Fools. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Sep 2014 OP
Obama has spent 6 years pretending they're relevant leftstreet Sep 2014 #1
The biggest waste of time was when the Democratic Party had super majority yeoman6987 Sep 2014 #3
Even with a majority, Democrats need 7,435 votes leftstreet Sep 2014 #4
Lol. Yeah I know. yeoman6987 Sep 2014 #5
Dems need to Nite Owl Sep 2014 #2
Andrew Sullivan is disturbed by this (as we all are). Dawson Leery Sep 2014 #6
This is what happens when you spend 7 years letting them set the agenda Autumn Sep 2014 #7
I can't believe anyone accepts what the MSM says Andy823 Sep 2014 #8

leftstreet

(36,107 posts)
1. Obama has spent 6 years pretending they're relevant
Thu Sep 18, 2014, 07:46 PM
Sep 2014

Voters soundly defeated the GOP and its ReaganTrickleDown ideology in 2006 and 2008, but Obama and the Democrats have propped them back up like a bad penny

 

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)
3. The biggest waste of time was when the Democratic Party had super majority
Thu Sep 18, 2014, 07:50 PM
Sep 2014

So much opportunity lost. Starting with minimum wage increase. Why did they not pass the most basic bill. Don't give me the old warn out 7 Month stuff. I have seen the Senate pass a bill in 3 days easily.

Nite Owl

(11,303 posts)
2. Dems need to
Thu Sep 18, 2014, 07:48 PM
Sep 2014

set the agenda instead of letting the GOP take the lead. Instead they are afraid to cross the conservative voters who won't vote for them anyway.

Dawson Leery

(19,348 posts)
6. Andrew Sullivan is disturbed by this (as we all are).
Thu Sep 18, 2014, 07:58 PM
Sep 2014
http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/09/18/an-election-over-hawkishness/


"The party that was primarily responsible for the years of grinding, bankrupting war, a descent into torture, and an evisceration of many core liberties is now regarded as superior to the man originally tasked with trying to recover from that experience. The political winds unleashed by a few disgusting videos and a blitzkrieg in the desert have swept all before them. And we now hear rhetoric from Democratic party leaders that sounds close to indistinguishable from Bush or Cheney."

Autumn

(45,071 posts)
7. This is what happens when you spend 7 years letting them set the agenda
Thu Sep 18, 2014, 08:10 PM
Sep 2014

and continue some of the same failed policies, like bushs tax breaks and the NSA the bail outs and the same damn asses that got us into this mess are appointed to the highest posts in government and in charge of the failed war on terror.

Andy823

(11,495 posts)
8. I can't believe anyone accepts what the MSM says
Thu Sep 18, 2014, 08:54 PM
Sep 2014

The MSM is bought and paid for by who? Think about it. Republicans own the media and spew any kind of BS they want, and yet some seem to buy into it. It's all about trying to depress people enough so they won't get out and vote, and sadly there are those who are gullible enough to buy into the their bullshit!

The fools are the ones who buy into this BS and actually stay home because "there is just not hope", "both parties are the same", "my vote makes no difference". The doom and gloom crowd just loves this kind of shit.

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