Gawd! I hope you're right. But, frankly, you sound like our resident Sunshine Pumpers....Holtz will go 14-0 and finish ranked in the Top 10! Yeah...right.Originally Posted by LEEDAWG
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Gawd! I hope you're right. But, frankly, you sound like our resident Sunshine Pumpers....Holtz will go 14-0 and finish ranked in the Top 10! Yeah...right.
Good stuff:
https://youtu.be/GJ8VV6TqeXI
I would never predict a Holtz team to go undefeated or be ranked in the top 10.
There is a chance my midterm predictions can happen.
Looking like record numbers in voter turnout for these midterms. Haven't seen anything official, but it terms of anecdotal evidence, and based on what the pundits are saying this could be all-time high. Of course, a few weeks from now goosey will claim that the midterms during obummer's reign (of terror) the numbers were much higher!! Watch... and he'll cite some "source" which is really just him under an alias with some site that has a following of 25. Also all of him and his various aliases.
Back to our awesome POTUS, love him or hate him, you have to admit he makes things happen. Record turnout for a midterms' election.
So, the dems retook the house, but the senate may go further red. Does this qualify as a blue wave or was the dems taking of the house more like a fart in the pool?
About what I expected. I was surprised how the pundits on CNN and ABC were honest that the Blue Wave was certainly not what they thought it would be. I believe Carville said there was no blue wave. Florida was huge for the GOP last night. Republican results continue to defy the polling numbers.
The gerrymandering issue is a losing one for the dems in the short term, but it may be their best long term play. I still don't see then winning the White House in 2020.
Time is your friend. Impulse is your enemy. -John Bogle
It's not a surprise that the party out of power picked up seats in the midterms. I think the final count will be 28 seats flipped. Klinton lost 50 and obummer lost 63 in their first MTs. GWB got hammered in his first...don't recall the number, and lost 30 more in his 2nd MTs. BUT! the GOP also suffered from self-inflicted wounds. I think it was 39 GOP reps who retired, many in traditional blue districts, and it was nearly impossible for a GOPer to prevail in an open seat. However, the pundits say as incumbents, the GOPer would have likely held the seat....at least in half of those races, meaning if not for the flood of retirements, the Dems would not have taken the House yesterday. Closed the gap, yes, but would have come up short.
Oh, the Dems and their willing accomplices in the lib media will spin this as some great victory. But privately they know they "lost" or at least "didn't win."
What is done, is done. You can lament over it, or, make lemonade from the lemons. If the Dems stupidly follow a plan of "investigate" instead of "legislate" nothing will come from it, except to piss off those independent voters who were responsible for painting the House blue yesterday. 2020 will be here soon! In fact, in January, the next presidential campaign cycle officially begins. Along with that will be all the Congressional seats up for grabs in 2020.
GOP wins in Florida and Ohio were large wins.
Yep. If Trump maintains the Rust Belt in 2020, the dems have NO path.
Time is your friend. Impulse is your enemy. -John Bogle
Yep! huge wins in two key states.
What y'all think of the new senator from Utah, Mitt Romney? He was a never-Trumper….probably still is, privately...but recently he has publicly tempered his comments. Really, and I don't dislike Romney, but he's the consummate career politician. As is Donna Shalaya who won a Congressional seat in Florida. People like these two LIVE for the power and wealth-building provided by holding office.
I have mentioned before I used to have a VERY INSIDER's view of the whole political system. If you're into "what's in it for me" it can be an intriguing career path. If you actually care about our country, and for the average American, it can be disturbing. AND! you're goddarn fool if you think the parties are any different. Not on the inside, they're not. Yes, I still have a LOT of connections. I was bombarded with phone calls, texts, emails from insiders, from both the Dems and the GOP, seeking my help with this election cycle. NO! I am not some power-wielding political operative, but I have connections and in any tight race both sides are gonna play all their cards. In the end, I helped a little with Mike Johnson and Steve Scalise, neither of whom needed my help winning yesterday, but I channeled some donations to other GOPers across the nation....in perfectly transparent and legal donations, BTW.
And, I did just enough to keep a line tied to the very powerful Louisiana Dems. That's where the real money is. And in my business dealings, I have to stay connected to that real money. The truth is, and this is probably no surprise to some of you, those powerful Dems don't give a rat's ass about the causes or the people they publicly claim to be concerned about. It's all about the money.
Navy SEAL mocked by 'SNL' for war injury gets seat in House
During a "Weekend Update" segment, Davidson said Crenshaw looked like "a hitman in a porno movie," when he referred to the veteran's black eyepatch. Davidson continued, "You may be surprised to hear he’s a congressional candidate from Texas and not a hitman in a porno movie. I'm sorry. I know he lost his eye in war or whatever."
Crenshaw lost his right eye in 2012 after a bomb exploded during a mission in Afghanistan, his third military deployment.
Does it worry anyone like it does me that the dems they won are really far left?
Republicans paid for the John McCain drama queen stunt on repealing and replacing Obamacare last night. Health care was an important issue, and repubs have no solutions for that (as opposed to the POOR solutions of the dems).
Dems paid for being tribal idiots on Supreme Court vote.
Maybe dems will learn to be less tribal and a$$holey and repubs will learn how to legislate. Nah! Expect more of the same.
Is there not a lame duck session between now and T'giving or Christmas? The GOP should pass everything they want, ram it home! More tax cuts, more deregulation, fund the wall, pass it all. Then in January, the Dems will try to undo it all. But, they barely hold a majority in the House, and many of the newly elected reps are not far-left wackos (some are, yes), and they won in "purple" districts, so they know their re-elections, in two short years, hang in the balance. Meaning Pelosi and her fellow lefty creeps don't have the power they want/need in the House, and they won't have 100% support from the Dems. Then of course, the Senate will NOT support new legislation coming from the House, and Trump holds the ultimate power....the veto pen. So! the next two years will really be stalemate, so any present laws, rules, policies are likely locked in. It'll be status quo. Make that status quo as pro-American as possible.
But, that all makes too much sense, and the GOP can't organize a good bar-b-cue let along enact such a legislative strategy.
Gotta visualize the small pockets of congressional districts. Contrast those in NELA with two of those in most any metro area. It was to be expected, just not quite as bad as it has been in the past.
Two excellent points.
I'll add that most people don't understand how screwed up health care really is. They judge in on how much they pay weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly. Most don't even know the difference between group coverage or individual coverage. Sadly, these ignorant people are the one voting and the Dems don't even want to require voter IDs.
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