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2010 Election Results Are In
The election results are in, and there are one trillion web pages now up helping you find out what happened. The short story is that the Republicans cleaned up, although the Democrats maintain a one-seat majority in the Senate. The GOP now has 239 seats in the house, giving them a huge lead over the Dems' 183.
Theoretically, it shouldn't matter what party is in power. Each representative should vote in a manner that is consistent with the best interests of their constituents. Right? Right?
ROI for their investments.
Yes, they truly treat congress like an ATM machine.
We're simply swapping from ineffective democrats that want to take my guns away and give all my money to the lobbyist interests to ineffective republicans that want to take my aborted fetuses away and give all my money to the lobbyist interests. Progress is zero sum.
You make a good point. We shouldn't allow ourselves to be swayed by fear tactics. We should think through the issues, and make careful, reasoned deci-
OHMIGOD NET NEUTRALITY AAAAAGH
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A couple of relevant quotes from last night's losers, of either party:
"The voters have spoken, and if that's what they want - the hell with them." - Ted Baxter
"The people have spoken, the bastards." - Dick Tuck
Dark Reflection
Andy Revkin, former NYT science reporter, sees a threat to science in the election results. http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/03/the-real-threat-to-science-in-the-new-political-climate/
Yeah. And Bush was further left than Kennedy and Harry Roosevelt.
And blue is green and up is down...
Democrats are demonized for trying to stick to theirs
Then don't have demonic principles in the first place. Problem solved.
HUGE mandate.... of course knowing some Repubs, they're probably actually hoping for a "man date".
No...that would be Barney Frank....
If you've never been modded as "flamebait" or "troll," you've never tried to argue a minority viewpoint here!
Wow, balanced stories from mediamatters? Here, let me go get a counter argument from Glenn Becks website...
Do not meddle in the affairs of sysadmins, for they are subtle, and quick to anger.
Why don't you guys just ban filibustering?
That'd be a terrible idea. It's one of our key tools in introducing gridlock. Remove it and they'll get more done, which is extremely bad.
William of Ockham had no beard. The most likely explanation is that it was chewed off by squirrels every morning.
The Republicans are fiscally more responsible than the Democrats, just like Ted Kazinski was less insane than Jeffrey Dahmer.
Urge to beat Slashdot's liberal armchair politicians with my autographed Dubya baseball bat rising... RISING!!!
Can we just remove the politics section? It's like when your favorite actor gets on TV and says something political that you disagree with. You immediately hate them and try to comprehend why their heads are screwed on sideways. The OP is flame bait.
I'd love to get into how the real world functions and all but I've got a job to do