Yeah, the GOP is evil and will win, but the midterms are meaningless - Salon Article: [View all]

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I thought this was an interesting take on the midterms. I don't think they are meaningless at all (so excited to vote for all the great MN candidates !! My faves - Senator Franken, Congressman Ellison, Governor Dayton and so on......), but it is only 2 years, Obama has the veto pen and it will be good to show the public how crazy the Repubs really are. Once we see the shit hit the fan in Texas when so many people will not be able to vote, the Repub senate getting rid of the filibuster, sending crazy bills to be signed, impeaching Obama, it will only get better. Whether you are a Hillary fan or not, we will have the presidency and the senate in 2016.

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A few weeks ago in this space, I brought up an apparent contradiction at the heart of American government, in current theory and practice. Barack Obama occupies the White House in an era of extreme and perhaps unprecedented executive power, a species of elected king who can spy on anyone in the world, order the killing of American citizens without due process and wage secret wars by remote control. Yet in terms of conventional Washington politics, he “can’t get anything done.” The legislative branch has been paralyzed since the middle of his first term, and political discourse has grown ever more toxic. His own party has no clear mission or agenda beyond being less pathological than the opposition party, whose appeal rests largely on racial panic, xenophobia and anti-government paranoia, and whose only visible agenda is obstructionism.

It should be obvious to everyone who isn’t a profoundly deluded partisan loyalist that nothing that could possibly happen in the 2014 midterm elections will change any of that.

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