all of this has happened before, unfortunately. they didn't learn last time, either.

[lyssie]

Wisconsin, I am disappoint. (sure, let's elect the man who cut funding to public transportation and county parks/hospitals/etc, and wanted to privatize the zoo. Because everyone knows only poor people use those things and they're subhuman anyway)

The rest of the USA? Yeah, 1992 called. Once it's done wasting tax payer money on persecuting non-Christians and homosexuals, it'll maybe think about cutting health care to poor people. After all, rich white Americans and those poor, under-funded corporations need that money way more.

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[mamaboolj.livejournal.com]

What you said. I'm so depressed about Russ. I helped put the man into the Senate, and I sure as hell wish I could have helped keep him in the Senate.

[karate0kat.livejournal.com]

Politics just make me feel nauseas. It's not like Dems are perfect, but I would much rather have them in office.

It's not so much that I'm worried about what they'll be able to pass now that they're in control. The fact that they made it so difficult for Democrats when they were in control makes me think the same is probably going to happen now, just in reverse. It's what they're going to keep everyone else from doing, and how they're going to turn around in two years and say Obama shouldn't be reelected because he hasn't done anything, even though $10 says any inaction will probably be spear headed first and foremost by Republicans.

And the American public will buy it, because the masses are asses.

[desert-vixen.livejournal.com]

Agreeing with this comment and the 1992 is calling one above (in the post).

[scalderwood.livejournal.com]

Icon love!

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

I'm going to bed. Wake me up in 2014.

[samstareagle.livejournal.com]

I'm just trying to learn Russian and Chinese so I can get a job building absurdly huge public works projects for our future Emperor, Vladimir Putin.

:P

[obsidian179.livejournal.com]

Well, I voted Dem (for all the good it seems to have done)... except for one or two people from the... what was it? Green & Rainbow party, or some such thing?

With a name like that... Well, how could I not? ;)

[ellestra.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain. Few years ago the elections in Poland put in power the extreme right wing parties (the teabggers kind of right wing). Just like this it started with a crisis and people feeling the left didn't do enough to stop it (even though they were stuck with it by previous right side government). There were voices saying that this just needs more time and that we shouldn't give into populist rhetoric but most people didn't listen.

It was a total disaster. They were so bad the parliament was dissolved midterm because they couldn't even cooperate with each other. In just 2 years they made people so fed up the turnout in the subsequent elections was highest since the fall of communism and a lot of young people went to vote just to make sure they lose power. But memory is short. Especially in politics. They almost got presidency once again this year.

I hope the biggest kooks get boot next time.

[tafkarfanfic.livejournal.com]

Unless the economy suddenly gets awesome (I don't think it will), the Republicans will also be out on their asses in two years.

People are mad because the guy at the top didn't magically fix everything, and they feel he didn't focus enough on what is most important to them (jobs). Therefore they threw out most of the people in his party, especially the ones who were doing other things (health care!) instead of creating jobs.

It's interesting. I have lots of progressive friends and I have several Tea Partier friends. All of the Tea Party folks I know live in areas that have been hit hard by the current recession; all of the progressive friends I have live in areas that haven't been. I would be interested to see a map and learn the correlation between the two.

In my state (California), the guy at the top is currently a Republican. (And my state halfway thinks of itself as its own country anyways.) The Democrats swept a ton of races here, even a few they weren't expected to win, because everyone's pissed that Schwarzenegger didn't fix everything. If it had been a Democrat in charge, we'd be looking at Fiorina, not Boxer, in the Senate.