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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhich Republican losses are your favorites?
Ill start:
Dana Rohrbacher (Russia-CA) LOST
Kris Kobach (KKK-KS) LOST
Scott Walker (Beady Eyed Fuck-WI) LOST
and of course ... all House chairs go blue!
fishwax
(29,153 posts)ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)I woke up and was afraid to look at my phone. So happy when I did see the news!
The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,110 posts)33taw
(2,454 posts)Qutzupalotl
(14,359 posts)One less hero to bigots!
rampartc
(5,464 posts)Cruz, of course, would have been a perfect loser.
better
(884 posts)Plus Claudia Tenney in NY22, which is my new home district.
roody
(10,849 posts)paranoid floyd
(254 posts)to the line Beady Eyed Fuck.
Qutzupalotl
(14,359 posts)Cant stand him, glad hes a goner.
33taw
(2,454 posts)Qutzupalotl
(14,359 posts)LAS14
(13,798 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Was so disappointed when Ossoff didnt win. Glad Georgia is rejecting Handel, had not heard the news.
Demsrule86
(68,929 posts)Cha
(298,313 posts)said beady eyed fuck etc etc.
blugbox
(951 posts)We've been red for 25 years and Just flipped blue to a FEMALE BISEXUAL DEMOCRAT!!
This is one to remember!!! Go Katie Hill!!
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)and Dean Heller
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)lilactime
(657 posts)Dave Brat, and Scott Taylor.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Qutzupalotl
(14,359 posts)An economist from Randolph-Macon who blindly believes in the disproven supply-side trickle-down theory. Also a lawless rat bastard traitor who used Spanbergers unredacted SF-86 and blamed the disclosure on the post office. I hope theres an investigation.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Great move, Bratty boy!
samnsara
(17,677 posts)In It to Win It
(8,326 posts)but I cant say Ted Cruz but I want nothing more than to say Ted Cruz. I need to say Ted Cruz because fuck Ted Cruz.
3catwoman3
(24,172 posts)...congressional district in IL changing hands - which it did.
This one is a heartbreaker.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I hate that rat-faced dirty bastard.
Demsrule86
(68,929 posts)Walker
Handel
Heller
Pete fucking Sessions
Blue Owl
(50,663 posts)nocoincidences
(2,238 posts)I made a lot of calls for the Demo candidates Kaine and Luria.
I am thrilled to see Luria whoop his butt!!
Kaine was a certainty, but Luria was a squeaker. She was down when I went to bed last night so it was very happy-making when I woke up to her win.
David__77
(23,677 posts)The opportunists are terrible.
In It to Win It
(8,326 posts)Makes me feel warm inside.
Aristus
(66,587 posts)I'm not picky...
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)has just lost its Blum.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,786 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Laxalt,and of course,Eric Paulson,Jason Lewis,Scott Walker,and of course Russia's fav Roherbacker.
woodsprite
(11,949 posts)Kobach (although it opens him up to be appointed to some nefarious spot Trump or Putin see fit).
Would have loved to see both McConnell and Ryan go. We have till 2020 to cultivate a replacement for him and Ryan's seats.
I love that Colorado has elected an openly gay governor (Wonder if the Governor's Office will order a cake from that baker), and that New Mexico has elected a Latina female (love that we also had a pink wave), AND that Kim Davis lost to one of the guys she rejected for a wedding license (Karma's a bitch! Ain't it Kim?).
Being in Delaware - I was ecstatic that both Scott Walkers lost last night. The dipshit from DE and the dipshit from Wisconsin.
33taw
(2,454 posts)woodsprite
(11,949 posts)I love Schiff.
I'm wondering what they're going to try to push through before the new Congress is sworn in. You know they'll try something.
33taw
(2,454 posts)Ryan may tell Trump to buzz off.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)For the first time in over 30 years, I have a representative.
sunonmars
(8,656 posts)StevieM
(10,500 posts)He is a man who opposes liberal democracy, and who fights it with great fervor. That is everything they believe in.
scheming daemons
(25,487 posts)Qutzupalotl
(14,359 posts)Much of his state had already voted last time when the assault story came out. Finally the voters can make it right.
The press is not the enemy Republican politicians are.
onenote
(42,911 posts)Qutzupalotl
(14,359 posts)Dang.
0rganism
(24,006 posts)that guy was the centerpiece of the Republican blueprint for destroying America. seeing him go down... how sweet it is.
jmowreader
(50,614 posts)Otherwise lets put down Kim Davis, all the Rs in Michigan, Kobach and Dave Brat.
GoCubsGo
(32,116 posts)Not sad to see Peter Roskam go, either.
StevieM
(10,500 posts)Kobach is the great champion of voter suppression. I guess now Brian Kemp will take his place in that regards.
Walker is the great union buster. It was nice to finally beat him.
And Rohrbacher is Putin's favorite congressman. It was great to get a small piece of revenge on Putin for 2016.
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)vsrazdem
(2,177 posts)MaryMagdaline
(6,864 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,053 posts)It's horrifying and hilarious all at once. What a disgraceful putz.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)The ass-pimple was spanked.
15 years of his verbal pestilence and half-baked schemes (dirigible research? by a company w/ no experience in dirigibles?) are ended.
He gets his retirement pension, and Texas gets a little more freedom.
whathehell
(29,124 posts):I'm happier than I've been since November, 2018.
gopiscrap
(23,769 posts)ismnotwasm
(42,037 posts)That union busting asshole
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Also vote stealer Kobach. As a neighbor of VA, Comstock.
And Kim Davis's loss is just delicious!
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,938 posts)Better yet, he lost to a Native American woman.
TrishaJ
(799 posts)KIM DAVIS.
TlalocW
(15,396 posts)If you know anything about Kobach, you probably just know that he cries voter fraud in order to pass voter registration laws that do more to disenfranchise voters than they do to stop fraud. I think as SOS he uncovered five actual cases of fraud, and they were all republicans, and they were all older people who were confused on where they were supposed to vote.
The one thing that pisses me off the most is people trying to keep legal voters from voting. It's perhaps the most unamerican thing a person can do, and when you throw in the fact that most voter repression affects non-whites, then that makes you a racist piece of shit.
And that's what Kobach is. Before becoming SOS, Kobach helped Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce with that state's SB 1070 bill, the papers please law, which cost the state billions in taxes and tourism dollars as businesses moved out or decided to not move in, large groups decided not to hold conventions there, and Hispanic-Americans decided to move elsewhere. Pearce is well-known for being friends with various white supremacists, which as far as I'm concerned means so is Kobach.
Kobach also convinced various small towns to pass unconstitutional anti-immigrant legislation, which were of course taken to court, and he convinced the cities to hire him to represent them. He always lost, but he always made money.
Then of course he was tasked by Trump to be part of a group that was going to show that the 3 million more votes that Hillary got were from illegal immigrants or otherwise fraudulent. He quit the group early, probably because they weren't able to make the case no matter what trickery they employed. The finished report found nothing.
And he went to trial to defend his Kansas voting act that he was the force behind as SOS that kept over 17,000 Kansans from voting where he got humiliated by the judge who assigned him to take 6 hours of remedial law classes.
Samantha Bee did it best.
TlalocW
In It to Win It
(8,326 posts)onenote
(42,911 posts)It would be bizarre for it to be any other way.
cemaphonic
(4,138 posts)There are certainly worse Republicans out there than him, but it's fun to see him get kicked down over and over again. Plus, I lived in that area as a kid, so it's good to see iit moving in the right direction.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)ANd I'm happy to see that the NY state senate flipped.
lanlady
(7,138 posts)Trumpstock's loss in VA-10 was expected, but Dave Brat was so close to holding onto his seat. When I went to bed last night, he was ahead. I was ecstatic to find out that this particular Tea Party turd's career got the boot.
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