We are going to be slaughtered next year and here is why

[TwixVoy]

Am I the only one who is seeing past this bull shit dog and pony show? I see all these attacks on LIEberman and can't believe how many people are being led around by the nose again.

Folks - he is a fall guy. If you believe for one second this candy ass has the balls or ability to actually carry out his threats you are living in a dream world. He is ONE MAN in the senate. We have a freaking MAJORITY. You think if the democrats in the senate needed someone to cross the aisle they couldn't find ONE republican to defect in his place if they really wanted to? Get real people.

This is a show for the masses. The same kind of show you would see played out in the old Roman senate to manipulate the people.

But here is the big thing most people don't get - the democrats have a majority in both houses AND we have the white house. There is no excuse for these kinds of failures. There is going to be hell to pay in next years elections. The american people are stupid, but they are not THIS stupid. There is no way you can spin "Well gee we had a freaking super majority and ONE MAN stopped us from actually making things better for the american people"

The sad truth is it is all but certain it will be a republican clean sweep. When people can't afford health care, have jobs that aren't keeping up with the cost of living, have no jobs at all, and can't pay the bills that is historically VERY UNPLEASANT for the party in power. Especially when that party freaking controls both houses and the white house.

The people will vote republican. Why? Because the republicans will be on TV 24/7 with a promise to make things better for them and the masses will believe them. Guess what though? The republicans have no intent of making things better for the average person. THIS is why I am 100% certain we will have a 2nd great depression in this country. History books will look back and see this as the last shot this country had to turn things around. The republicans will cause the economy and country to go in to a complete nose dive after they take power next year. THIS is going to be the event in the economy that no one saw coming.... the event that destroys any hope of an economic recovery.

Anyone who doesn't see the way this is going to unfold is completely blind to reality.

[rocktivity]

1. I guess us masses will have to start coming up with our own candidates

and maybe even party.

:headbang:
rocktivity

[emilyg]

8. Went for an aoil change today and started talking to

a young man from New Orleans. That's exactly what he said - he wants a 3rd party. Yes he did vote for O.

[branders seine]

2. Only after we hit bottom can we change things.

Until they have nothing left to lose, Americans will stay lazy and complacent.

[katsy]

3. Yep. All to unravel FDR's New Deal.

The GOP want to destroy all social safety nets and want everything privatized.

[Kablooie]

11. Corporatized, actually.

[abq e streeter]

4. I HATE the realization that you may very well be right

[WeDidIt]

5. The House Majority Is LOST

G-U-A-R-A-N-T-E-E-D

The Senate may be.

They've turned tossups into GOP guaranteed pickups and safe seats into tossups.

[laughingliberal]

6. Well, several of us have said this is prowrestling. I think that's true and I think we're going to

lose a lot of seats in 2010.

[pscot]

7. You;re the one living in a dream world

In your world, Lyndon Johnson is still in the Whitehouse. Harry Reid and Mr. Obama have no idea how to do what you're suggesting, nor do they have the cojones. You're stuck in the 60's my friend.

:hippie:

[OHdem10]

9. I sometimes think it would have been better if the GOP had won.

They would have continued their Hoover Policies taken
us completely over the cliff, then and then only may
the American people see the light.

Instead we won and it still feels like the Republicans
are running things. The Democrats had better not let
Rubin & Co drive the country over a cliff trying to
fix the Deficit. Just as in the Clinton Adm. the
Wall Street Deficit Hawks have Obama under their spell.
I do not like the Deficit, but there is danger in going
after the deficit so strongly in a depression ( and folks
this feels like a depression). They might pull out Samuelson
and Keynes. Friedman might be great in good economic
times but hazardous in bad economic times. Please remember
this ---we do not have the same circumstances as when President
Clinton was in charge. The same policies may not work.

Activists watch carefully who is assigned to that Deficit
Commission. Small State Senators gave us a whopper of
a health care bill.

[Joe the Liberal]

10. I hope it doesn't come to that, that's a pretty scary possibility. n/t