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What's for tea daughter?
http://espanol.video.yahoo.com/watch/173…
http://tinyurl.com/2af8fvn
http://blog.oregonlive.com/mapesonpoliti…
Also, anti tax conservatives failed to defeat two moderates who had raised taxes to avoid budget cuts:
"Nine legislative incumbents survived their primary challenges Tuesday, including veteran Rep. Bob Jenson, who appeared to have won his hotly contested race in eastern Oregon against newcomer Mike Mathisen.
Anti-tax groups from around the state had vowed to unseat Jenson, R-Pendleton, from his House District 58 seat because he voted last year to increase business and personal income taxes on high-earners.
Mathisen is new to the district and to politics. But he won key endorsements from Oregon conservative groups -- including the Oregon Family Council and Oregon Right to Life.
In neighboring House District 57, incumbent Rep. Greg Smith, R-Heppner, also won even though the state's GOP leader said both Smith and Jenson should be kicked out of the party for supporting tax increases."
http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index…
No one could have predicted that Democratic voters are enthusiastic when given the choice between a Progressive and Conservative Dem, or between a Conservative Dem and not-quite-conservative Dem, or a Democrat and a Republican: they vote for the closest thing to a real Democrat they can find, outside the cracker barrel districts, in any case.
Ya think the Obama administration and the DCCC will take note, or just continue to ride the corporate pigs they came in on?
Obama backed Specter.
Obama's endorsement has been
the kiss of death in EVERY ELECTION.
And what's up with backing turncoat Specter?
Obama is a poltical whore,
just a very ineffective whore....
So yeah,
if you think having your party leader,
President and FARCE ADVOCVATE's
balls cut off (again) is Good News
then we guess it was your night....
Looks like the 32% of Americans who identify as TeaBaggers are taking their votes and enthusiasm to the Republican Party.
But if your real talent is being a smug whining prick who loves to make fun of Real Americans then, yeah, good news cause that gig is still open.....
The Democraps are busily purging moderates and hunkering down in their base- the 19% of Americans who call themselves Liberals.
But that is good news-
having that SuperMajority created nothing but performance anxiety and stress; having that huge 60 vote Senate doesn't really do any good when it just lies limp and flaccid in your pink panties now, does it?
Don't worry, come November we'll see that monster on a Party that knows what to do with it.
Possibly in some dark corner, licking his wounds or licking his balls.
There's our nitwit boy who never fails to provide the necessary fodder for our reading enjoyment.
Conservatives Maintain Edge as Top Ideological Group
>>Compared with 2008, more Americans “conservative” in general, and on issues
by Lydia Saad
PRINCETON, NJ -- Conservatives continue to outnumber moderates and liberals in the American populace in 2009, confirming a finding that Gallup first noted in June. Forty one percent of Americans describe their political views as conservative, 36% as moderate, and 19% as liberal. This marks a shift from 2005 through 2008, when moderates were tied with conservatives as the most prevalent group.
>>Independents Inch to the Right
Changes among political independents appear to be the main reason the percentage of conservatives has increased nationally over the past year: the 35% of independents describing their views as conservative in 2009 is up from 29% in 2008. By contrast, among Republicans and Democrats, the percentage who are "conservative" has increased by one point each.
As is typical in recent years, Republicans are far more unified in their political outlook than are either independents or Democrats. While 72% of Republicans in 2009 call their views conservative, independents are closely split between the moderate and conservative labels (43% and 35%, respectively). Democrats are about evenly divided between moderates (39%) and liberals (37%).
don't spill the beans-
these are New and Improved disaffected right wingers ;
with Extra Brighteners!!
A better question is why are the Democraps so gleefully dumping moderates like Lincoln for Lefties who have no chance to win in November?
Bush I vows to make gov't smaller. Gov't grows larger during Bush I's term.
Bush II vows to make gov't smaller. Gov't grows larger during Bush II's terms.
Teabaggers vow to make gov't smaller...
This WAS a great night for Democrats. In KY and PA we got the stronger candidate. In both those states the Republicans got the most extreme and most conservative candidates.
And Rand Paul is known as a nut job. He already stepped in it by having his victory party at an exclusive country club for the mega rich. Then he defended that be mentioning Tiger Woods! I hope this is how he runs his campaign!
Oh and we won the PA-12 special election.
So Dan is not spinning anything, just stating facts.
The Dems also lurched, to the left.
The diff is a lurch to the right takes you closer to a 41% slice of the country (and independents are moving right as well) while a move to the left is taking you to 19%ville.
Democrap "victories" last night are planting seeds of disaster in November.
The trend among the Democrats does not really reflect a shift to the left so much as a shift away from corporate interests; that's only going to make them more popular.
On the other hand, he was better than our favorite former junior Senator, Rick Santorum.
This is America.
It is not France.
Or Denmark.
Or Canada.
Real Americans are a Conservative people.
Two to One.
And, under Obama, getting more and more so every day...
Shifting to the Right and shifting to the Left are not equivalent or equal actions.
Which is why every successful Democratic President of the past half century governed as a moderate. And was usually a Southerner.
Never as a Liberal.
And do you know why that is? Because the moderates are the swing voters. Sure, the GOP might lose a few conservatives to the Libertarians, and the Green Party might take some votes from the Democrats, but for the most part, conservatives vote R and liberals vote D. Where the moderates fall depends on what the two main parties offer them. So when the Republicans purge all those who don't mindlessly follow the party line, they lose a lot of moderates who aren't particularly fond of the GOP's party line.
The metamorphosis of the Democrats is less purist and more anti-big-business. And frankly, I don't think that the Democrats will suffer from that decision, given Wall Street's poor image in the eyes of America.
Besides, if America loves the Republicans so much, how'd they manage to drop what could have been an easy victory in Pennsylvania?
And please cite your source for your assertion that ~.667 of America is conservative. I'll be waiting.