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In reply to the discussion: So, let's say Pelosi gets replaced by (insert name here). Do you think that will stop the . . . . [View all]deurbano
(2,980 posts)What happened the very night President Obama was inaugurated? ('Young Guns') The Tea Party was formed that first year. (It's now clear just how very much they care about deficits.) And what happened in the 2010 midterms?
Of course, you don't HAVE to be black and/or a woman to be targeted. The same guy that helped get one of the Young Guns (McCarthy) elected, also saw the low turnout in a California gubernatorial election and just 12 DAYS after that election cooked up a plan to recall the newly re-elected Gray Davis in order to eventually install Schwarzenegger. (Who was not conservative enough to make it through a CA Republican primary.) Gray Davis was a white guy, with no "baggage" and little drama... whereas the guy installed had quite a bit of those latter two qualities, not unlike that thing occupying the White House. (Which is to say, baggage only matters to them when supposedly carried by Democrats.) Davis had been damaged by rising electricity prices (thanks, Enron)... but basically Abernathy, a Republican political operative, and another Republican, Costa, just saw that they COULD overturn the election since the number of signatures needed for a recall would be a percentage of the low number that turned out for the election. They decided to do this before Davis had even been sworn in again. It was just shameless political maneuvering. Power is all they care about and they will do anything to get it. We can't pick our leaders based on how much they hate them. They hate anyone from the "Democrat Party"... and the more effective/successful our leaders are, the more they are hated.