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The Senate? Kavanaugh. The House? No Kavanaugh
Simon Templar and I were talking, and this is the simplest explanation. The Senate got to have the Big Vote — the Republicans actually had to stand for something. Even the RINOs. And the Senate swung right.
House RINO squishes did not have their Kavanaugh. They acted just like normal useless politicians. So they were punished at the polls.
This elections was not, after all was said and done, entirely about Donald Trump. The House was judged on its own merits, and came up short.
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Agree. That’s why last time the newly elected suburban D’s did okay in 2008 and only took the hit in 2010 when Pelosi asked them to fall on their swords for Obama. The game plan last time around for 2006-8 was obstruction, obstruction, obstruction, rather than forcing the House D’s to any difficult votes.
I voted for the republicans. The monolith issue was the reason!
This feels like so much gaslighting! And it makes me really irate.
Two fools that supposedly line up with the right (but actually seriously HARM the right) are supposed to outweigh the last two years of riots, antifa, and restaurant harassments?
Recency bias. It’s a thing.
Basically we are in for two more years of the same pointless arguments and impotent rage. Democrats will start the 2020 presidential campaign soon. Trump will just throw gasoline on all the fires he can because Trump. And 24 hour news services will be all covering it breathlessly with their partisanship’s showing.
I picked the wrong year to stop sniffing glue.
And even then, the GOP swung and missed on Nevada and Montana, and came dangerously close to losing Arizona and Florida. Couldn’t even bounce faux-conservative Manchin. There are a lot of warning signs out there for 2020. We shouldn’t get too giddy in a short term victory.
Is that how the people voted, or how they are registered? If they are registered dems, they were voting as they did one way or another. It would be more enlightening if this was counting everyone who voted Dem as they may have been persuaded. I also don’t think Trump handled himself well with either the attacks or the caravan. He doesn’t need to go out and remind people why they don’t like him.
I strongly agree. But let’s not forget that the judges were a VERY big deal.
It’s exit polling, so I’m assuming it’s how they voted.
And Jonah Goldberg…
Nice, but he wasn’t on Enterprise, he was on Reliant.
I’d say more Bill Kristol than Jonah — the animus to Trump is there with both, but Jonah’s yet to start tweeting out things like “…my inner socialist” as Kristol was already doing in only a half-joking manner a year ago, when the Republicans were about to pass their tax cut bill. Now that Pelosi’s running the House, supporting the Democrats over Trump and the GOP is no longer something abstract, but as of Jan. 1 is a binary choice for the hardcore #NeverTrump crowd.
Trying to simplify why millions of people vote differently or don’t vote when they have multiple reasons why they are voting a specific way. When many them don’t really know them selves. Its all just speculative fun, but anecdotal. Only G-d knows. I think considering all the close races. And plenty of first hand anecdotal stories. The hearings really did the Democrats in. How much only God knows.
That’s as good as any generalization. Also yes/no votes on an individual are easy. Crafting legislation to undo the disaster of our healthcare isn’t. It needed very strong and articulate Presidential leadership.
8 more years of Democrats? I’d not count on meaningful elections after that. They’ve learned they have to move even faster and take no risks of losing and they will. Now they’ll be able to frustrate budget cuts and deregulation that require legislation. We must understand who the Democrat party has become and we must not let them back in power before a serious swamp draining under the mistaken notion that they’re the Democrats of the 50’s or even 60’s.
The fact is that House Republicans stood for very little and as such there was very little reason to vote for them. At least the Senate Republicans had the approval of Gorsuch and Kavanaugh to run on. The border wall, which actually was approved way back in 2006, was not funded even though there was a clear majority of Republicans in the House.
The funny thing is the country voted for Hell – two years of unending Democrat accusations based on lies along with unending hype for those lies by the media. If you like political strife and I guess these “moderates” who voted for the ugly, nasty Dems must, you are definitely going to get it 24/7 big time for the next two years. And also with it probably more political killings by Prog Radicals which most likely happened last night in the Thousand Oaks country and western bar .
Speaking of strife, with Sessions gone, Mathew Whitaker and/or his replacement may take the Democrats to the woodshed big time. I certainly hope this new AG, unlike Jeff Sessions, takes care to enforce the law like in: ( among other things)
• Prosecuting those involved in Mueller travesty who criminally entrapped Papadaloulus, Carter Page, General Hayes and others.
• Prosecuting those in the Mueller team who illegally shredded Attorney/Client privilege based on a non-criminal act by Michael Cohen.
• Investigating the Clinton worldwide pay to play scheme that garnered hundreds of millions of dollars for the Clinton foundation.
• Investigating and prosecuting those who perpetuated a rogue, legally unsupported Special Counsel that was not based upon the required statutory predicate of a identified crime.
• Investigating and prosecuting those who obstructed and successfully suppressed the prosecution of the crimes by the NYPD revealed by Anthony Weiner’s second batch of emails in 2016.
• Investigating and prosecuting the conspiracy behind the “Russian Conspiracy” espionage investigation of 2016 that violated statutory protocols on the use of CIA human intelligence, fraudulent fabrication of evidence and fraudulent FISA applications.
• Fully investigate the criminal treason behind the Uranium One deal.
• Investigate and prosecute the nationwide conspiracy by Antifa to disrupt legal political gatherings through violence and intimidation.
We need an Attorney General that will again respect the Rule of Law.
I take issue with this-those “nice suburban Rs” voted for Republican candidates in 2016, when Trump was actually on the ballot. Furthermore, you cannot know that the failure to repeal Obamacare was a deciding factor, especially since, by voting Democrat, those same people have now ensured that Obamacare will never go away, barring some national catastrophe.
Supposedly, incumbents in the House win 95% of the time. Forty-one Republican House members retired, 95% of 41 is about 38, which would have held the House. Like any one else, the suburban Rs are subject to fatigue. They had the same congressman for a long time, who then retired, why not give the other team a try, rather than go with an unknown Republican? Not to mention what redistricting has done to red districts in blue states.
The Republicans who retired are responsible for the loss of the House, especially Paul Ryan, whose poor leadership and lackadaisical support for the President contributed to the poor performance of the House Republicans during his tenure.
The fact that Ryan did not want to be Speaker is no defense-there are many examples of people who had leadership thrust upon them who lived up to the duty to be good leaders. Ryan failed.