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.

Comments

Re:Fear & Ignorance

[ArcherB]

According to many polls, the number one concern this election was the economy. Somehow in the minds of many, the economy is the fault of the Democrats, in spite of the fact that the 2008 candidates left the campaign trail to focus on the rapidly failing economy.

The Republicans couldn't have timed it better. Pillage the economy, let it fail just before the Democrats take office, and two years later when the Dems have halted and begun reversal of the worst economic disaster of all time, the Republicans come in, blaming the Democrats.

Somehow people buy that rhetoric. I guess angry shouting will beat out reasonable discourse nearly every time.

Maybe it's because Democrats have held both houses of congress for past four years. In the past two, they've had the WH and a super-majority in Congress.The unemployment rate was less than 4.5% when the Dems took congress. What did the Republicans do as the minority party since 2007 to ruin the economy and raise the unemployment to over 10% at the end of 2009 (it's currently at 9.6%)?

You can place the blame wherever you like, but the numbers don't lie. Nor do they change with respect to which party has the White House.

Re:Cut spending on Vietghanistan

[Totenglocke]

Jesus christ, do you actually believe that shit? People make choices and those choices determine how your life turns out (with a bit of luck mixed in). If you drop out of school, you're not going to have a high paying job and that's purely on your shoulders for making a dumb choice - just like you choose to have kids, especially in this day where condoms, birth control pills, and abortions are a dime a dozen. Those "evil rich" you demonize for "exploiting" workers are the ones writing their paychecks. Why is it so hard for you to grasp that these people would otherwise be unemployed if those "evil rich" hadn't decided to give them a job? You would be unemployed if the "evil" company you work for hadn't decided to hire you. Think about how much you like getting a paycheck the next time you want to vilify businesses.