Month: November 2010
After Bellowing ‘Where Are the Jobs?’ for Weeks, Now Boehner Can’t Say When He’ll Create Jobs, How Many
Swing voters in the South and the Heartland who gave Republicans their majority in the House on Tuesday have gotten a rude awakening in the 48 hours or so since results were announced.
These voters elected the Republican candidates in their districts based on the candidates’ promises to make fiscal responsibility and job creation their top priorities.
But the swing voters should have been listening more carefully to the men back in Washington who will be their local reps’ leaders.
For example, in the final days before the vote, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell made it clear in his campaign stump speeches that the Republicans’ real objective had nothing whatsoever to do with the economy:
How Alan West Won
Surely one of the scariest characters to emerge from the primordial ooze of the Tea Party in the midterms was Alan West. You remember him — the Army colonel who exited the service not long after discharging his pistol near the head of an Iraqi detainee and the guy who thought the Outlaws motorcycle gang would make a great security detail and the guy who dismissively referred to his opponent for Congress as a “cretin.”
In case you were wondering how this whack-job got elected, here’s an ad I clipped from the Monday edition of the Miami Herald that explains everything:
There you have it — West simply appealed to “good black people.”
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Dem Damned Dems
In their no man’s land of timid otherness,
Democrats wander, lost in the wilderness.
How they acquit themselves
On the short road to 2012
Will tell whether they’re a real party — or something less.
HT to Trish for that uber-poetic first line.
Most Tea Party Candidates Lost
61.4%
Share of all Tea Party candidates who ran for Congress and lost in this election; just 32 percent won, with several races still too close to call. For all the talk of the power of the Tea Party, it didn’t “man up” in the end.
Verbatim
I think the most interesting thing to watch in the next Congress is how many Democrats start voting with us. Every one of the 23 Democrats up in the next cycle has a clear understanding of what happened Tuesday. I think we have major opportunities for bipartisan coalitions to support what we want to do.
— Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), quoted by NBC News, on why he’s not in the mood to compromise with Democrats.
Impeachment Advocates Call for Investigation into White House Visit by Beyonce, Jay-Z
In “The Case for Impeachment: Why Barack Hussein Obama Should Be Impeached to Save America,” the Republicans’ roadmap for investigating the president next year, author Steven Baldwin lists as one of Obama’s potential high crimes and misdemeanors an incident that occurred during a visit to the White House last spring by two world-famous entertainers:
