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To: i-node who wrote (545635)	1/22/2010 3:26:57 PM
From: tejek	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1576974

> There will not be any debate. Rs had their chance. That ship has sailed. Apparently, you missed last week. It is over. The fascist has been brought down. The fascist was brought down a year ago.

To: i-node who wrote (545635)	1/22/2010 3:28:37 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1576974

Look at the markets, inode.......they have pulled back every day since brownie got elected.....every frigging day. Brownie is change we can't afford.

To: i-node who wrote (545635)	1/22/2010 3:33:25 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1576974

Why the GOP should still be nervous Republicans are riding high in the wake of Scott Brown’s win, talking up an authentic resurgence for their party and a real chance for reclaiming power. Don’t bet on it. Yes, it is indisputable that the GOP has surged, especially in the past several months. Republicans won three major races in tough states — and watched the percentage of Americans who prefer Republicans over Democrats in hypothetical matchups rise to the highest level since 2004. But it is also indisputable that the rise has little to do with the voters’ view of Republicans writ large — and that the very concerns that got them booted from power persist today. Voters “have fallen out of love with the Democrats,” said Rep. Adam Putnam (R-Fla.). “They haven’t yet fallen back in love with us.” POLITICO talked with many of the country’s most experienced political operatives, and each one warned Republicans against irrational exuberance. Former New York Rep. Susan Molinari: “We have earned the right to crow a little bit. But the lesson we’ve learned from all of these races is that you ... can’t take anything for granted.” Republican strategist Mary Matalin: “Killer negatives have lost their magic. This requires no attitude. Now we have the players on the field, and we just need to play. We remember how to do it.” Former Rep. Vin Weber (R-Minn.): “Voters don’t want triumphalism. They still like the president as a person, so they don’t want to see a party celebrating his decline. ... The country wants to see the parties working together.” Matthew Dowd, who consulted for former President George W. Bush and voted for President Barack Obama: “If any Republicans are running around town celebrating in jubilation, they should remember that in the country’s constant state of change, neither party gets more than a moment.” Republicans on Capitol Hill hope their moment will come again in November. But the numbers are daunting across the board. The most important ones: 40, the net seats to win the House, and 10, the net seats to win the Senate, are very difficult — perhaps impossible in the case of the Senate — to achieve. Republicans have picked up 40 or more House seats only seven times since 1912, when the chamber grew to 435 seats. They have picked up 10 or more Senate seats only four times in that period. They have done both three times in the past century. It seems certain they will pick up some seats, perhaps as many as two dozen or more in the House. That would be in line with the historical average pickup for the opposition party in a president’s first term. But away from the cameras, Republicans admit that a series of structural problems will make it hard to transform those gains into a win-back-control movement. Privately, top Republicans tell POLITICO that they are most concerned right now about their bank balance. They are doing well in recruiting candidates but worry they might not have the cash to sufficiently fund them. Consider the House. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has $15 million in the bank right now — nearly four times more than the National Republican Congressional Committee. Officials say that, while small and large donors are still chipping in, the recession has caused a dip in contributions from middle-level donors — often the small-business types who are feeling the economic pinch. At the candidate level, if you tally up all the money for everyone running, Democrats have about $60 million more ($175 million to $114 million), according to numbers compiled by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics. Money is one of the many reasons top GOP officials wish the party had not elected Michael Steele as Republican National Committee chairman. Senior Republicans don’t like his loose lips or his wildly improvisational style. But they could live with that if the RNC were a cash cow. It is not, in part because of Steele’s unwillingness to personally stroke top donors. The RNC has outraised the Democratic National Committee, but it has less money to spend right now: $9 million vs. the DNC’s $13 million. More troubling to GOP insiders on Capitol Hill is that some major donors say they don’t want to give money to Steele’s RNC. Pages12 » politico.com

To: i-node who wrote (545635)	1/22/2010 4:32:32 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576974

"The fascist has been brought down. If you want to see fascism, Dave, look at the recent Supreme court decision allowing corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money on political campaigns. Fascism is the union of corporations and government, or as Mussolini called it, "corporatism". Why should a pol attend fundraisers when they can just promise a corporation that they'll carry their water in congress? It'll be so much easier for them. Instead of representatives from here and there, we'll have representatives from GE and Viacom. As if this wasn't bad enough already. What the HELL were they thinking?