Blue Dog Democrat can’t understand why Pelosi’s still in charge

Imagine that you’re Ben Chandler, a blue dog Democrat from Kentucky. You just watched 63 of your House colleagues go down in flames while you managed to hang onto your seat by the razor thin margin of just 648 votes…

Imagine that you’re Ben Chandler, a blue dog Democrat from Kentucky. You just watched 63 of your House colleagues go down in flames while you managed to hang onto your seat by the razor thin margin of just 648 votes.

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Blue Dog Democrat Ben Chandler: Is he dumbfounded or just plain dumb?

Heads are going to roll, you think to yourself. And then you find out that your surviving colleagues think Nancy did a dandy job and should remain as the Democrats’ leader in the House.

Do you think you’d describe yourself as (a) shocked, (b) pissed, (c) dumbfounded, or (d) all of the above.

Rep. Ben Chandler (Ky.), who won reelection by only 648 votes, said in a recent interview that he blames outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for Democrats’ deep defeats in the midterms.

“If not there, where else does the responsibility lie?” Chandler told McClatchy. “You’re talking about the loss of 60 or something seats held by capable public servants. There had to be something going on at a level above them.”

He added, “If that isn’t the lesson, I don’t know what is.”

Chandler, a member of the moderate Blug Dog Coalition, voted against Pelosi for caucus leader, saying that her opponent, Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.), was a “better fit” for his district.

“It baffles me that you can suffer the largest defeat since 1938 and still maintain the leadership of your caucus,” Chandler said of Pelosi.

Well, Ben, you’re one step ahead of us. We still can’t figure out how a radical like Pelosi became your party’s leader the first time around.

Source: TheHill.com

Back up the moving truck: Low-tax states to gain seats, high-tax states to lose them

We’re not going to get crazy like James Carville and predict 40 years of Republican rule, but let’s just say that the trend is not the liberal’s friend.

We’re not going to get crazy like James Carville and predict 40 years of Republican rule, but let’s just say that the trend is not the liberal’s friend.

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It's like the Beverly Hillbillies in reverse

The Washington Examiner details the relationship between democracy and demography:

Migration from high-tax states to states with lower taxes and less government spending will dramatically alter the composition of future Congresses, according to a study by Americans for Tax Reform

Eight states are projected to gain at least one congressional seat under reapportionment following the 2010 Census: Texas (four seats), Florida (two seats), Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, South Carolina, Utah and Washington (one seat each). Their average top state personal income tax rate: 2.8 percent.

By contrast, New York and Ohio are likely to lose two seats each, while Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania will be down one apiece. The average top state personal income tax rate in these loser states: 6.05 percent.

The state and local tax burden is nearly a third lower in states with growing populations, ATR found. As a result, per capita government spending is also lower: $4,008 for states gaining congressional seats, $5,117 for states losing them.

And that’s the problem. Per capita spending goes crazy when politicians lose there capitas.

Source: Washington Examiner

Freud and schadenfreude: Departing Democrats cry in the House, Republicans party

The headline we wanted – really wanted – on this story was, “Don’t cry for me, Art and Dina.” The story has a weeping Democrat named Dina, but, unfortunately, we couldn’t find one named Art. Damn it. We were so near and yet so far.

The headline we wanted – really wanted – on this story was, “Don’t cry for me, Art and Dina.” The story has a weeping Democrat named Dina, but, unfortunately, we couldn’t find one named Art. Damn it. We were so near and yet so far.

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Dina Titus, typical liberal woman (if you know what we mean)

The Hill has the details of the Democrats trail of tears:

House members returned to the nation’s capital for the first time since Republicans captured the House two weeks ago.

Freshman Rep. Debbie Halvorson (D-Ill.), who lost her reelection bid, wiped away tears as she hugged fellow members of the class of 2008, many of whom lost on Nov. 2.

Less than three feet away, ousted Nevada freshman Rep. Dina Titus (D) appeared to brush away some tears in a less obvious manner.

The mood was much different on the other side of the aisle.

Joyful House GOP lawmakers, who will take control of the House in January with at least 85 new members, made no effort to conceal their elation.

Republicans slapped backs, shook hands and laughed with each other, while their dejected Democratic colleagues huddled in clusters consoling themselves.

C’mon, Democrats, buck up. It’s the lame duck session and you still have time to pass a billion dollar bill authorizing grief counselors for all outgoing politicians and a trillion dollar takeover of Kleenex.

Source: TheHill.com

Teach your children well: Is Obama’s Organizing for America guilty of voter fraud?

The Obama Youth guilty of voter fraud? Why that’s just not possible. No, we’ve given it considerable thought and it’s simply not possible. Except that it is.

The Obama Youth guilty of voter fraud? Why that’s just not possible. No, we’ve given it considerable thought and it’s simply not possible.

Except that it is.

As you may know, Minnesota has a goofy law that allows any Tom, Dick or Abdul off the street to vote as long as someone else comes along and vouches for them. Yeah, it’s probably the dumbest election law in America, but this is Minnesotistan we’re talking about, so don’t be too damn surprised.

Students at the University of Minnesota, students associated with B. Hussein Obama’s “Organizing For America,” now stand accused of –- prepare to be shocked — vouching for people they didn’t really know. This is, of course, a felony in Minnesotistan.

We eagerly await President Obama’s angry denunciation of this outrageous election fraud.

(Pause)

(Sound of crickets)

(Pause)

Ahem. President Obama?

Progressives won the midterms! Obama should rule by fiat! And other progressive hallucinations!

Delusional. The George Soros-funded Institute for Policy Studies says progressives won the midterms and that President Obama should use that mandate to rule by fiat.

Delusional. There may be another way to describe progressives, but if there is it slips our minds at the moment.

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Central casting couldn't find a guy who looks more evil than George Soros

Need proof? The George Soros-funded Institute for Policy Studies says progressives won the midterms and that President Obama should use that mandate to rule by fiat.

World Net Daily has the irrational ramblings and delusional details:

“Progressives won in the 2010 mid-term elections,” wrote Karen Dolan, a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, or IPS, and director of the Cities for Progress and Cities for Peace projects based at the radical organization.

“The Congressional Progressive Caucus, the largest caucus in the House Democratic Caucus at over 80 members, emerged virtually unscathed, losing only three members,” she wrote, in the piece published on the IPS website.

… “The veil of a happy Democratic governing majority is finally lifted. We didn’t have it then; We don’t have it now. But what we do have now is a more solidly progressive bunch of Dems in Congress and a president presumably less encumbered by the false illusion that playing nice will get him a date with the other team.”

She went on to recommend that progressives “throw our support unabashedly behind the Congressional Progressive Caucus, and let’s push Obama to finally do the right thing through as many Executive Orders as we can present to him.”

“As many Executive Orders as we can present to him.” We? Apparently, Obama’s Executive Orders are now being written by George Soros and he’s not even pretending to support democracy any more.

Source: World Net Daily

Communists make it clear that they support the Democrats

Call us old fashioned, but we still think communism is a bad thing, a political philosophy responsible for more deaths and more misery than any other “ism” in human history. So, naturally, American commies are terribly disappointed that the Democrats didn’t do better in last week’s elections.

Call us old fashioned, but we still think communism is a bad thing, a political philosophy responsible for more deaths and more misery than any other “ism” in human history.

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"I'm Josef Stalin and I approve this message."

So, naturally, American commies are terribly disappointed that the Democrats didn’t do better in last week’s elections.

As election results roll in and the Republican party notches up a great victory for reaction, many people will probably ask, “How did this happen here?” How could an electorate fired up for progressive change just two years ago fall flat on its face? What did the Democratic Party do to lose the overwhelming support it received in the last election cycle?

Many will say that it is because fantastic amounts of money were unleashed to support the hysterical theatrics of the ultra-right as embodied in the Tea Party movement. This is, of course, correct…

However, there were some other factors that made it easier for the right wing to do their dirty work…Anti-communism has been unleashed once again through the voice of hysterical pundits and this has served to confuse the working people of this country. Anyone who falls to the left of Karl Rove on the political spectrum has been branded a “socialist” and many people fall for this since they don’t have a clue about what socialism really means. Socialists have failed to meet this challenge and have made little effort to clarify what socialism actually means.

It’s just an interesting twist of fate, we think, that communists should support Barack Obama, a guy who’s appointed more czars than anyone in history.

Or it may just be another case of liberal linguistic gymnastics.

Source: Communist Party Houston

Liberal civil war on MSNBC: Sit back, watch, enjoy

Trust us, you’ll get great pleasure out of watching this clip. Post-election recriminations fly as Salon’s Glenn Greenwald, who calls himself a progressive, goes up against MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell, who proudly calls himself a socialist.

Trust us, you’ll get great pleasure out of watching this clip. Post-election recriminations fly as Salon’s Glenn Greenwald, who calls himself a progressive, goes up against MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell, who proudly calls himself a socialist.

In fact, he says, “I am a socialist. I live to the extreme left, the extreme left of you mere liberals”

We actually like Lawrence O’Donnell a little more after watching this clip. At least he seems to have a bit of a grasp on reality, which is not something you can say about some other MSNBC hosts, who shall remain nameless simply because we can’t bear to type out their names again today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8FipvbDI6E

H/T: Breitbart.tv

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to be Nancy Pelosi

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who saw her powerful position taken from her in Tuesday’s landslide election, was adamant the day after Democrats lost 60 seats in the House that the results were not a rejection of the agenda pursued by President Obama and herself.

There’s the old story of the guy who finds his friend pounding his head against the wall. “Why are you doing that?” he asks. His friend replies, “Because it feels so good when I stop.”

Nancy Pelosi is not, apparently, smart enough to stop pounding her head against the wall.

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Nancy "Mommy Dearest" Pelosi interprets the elections

The Daily Caller has the painful details:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who saw her powerful position taken from her in Tuesday’s landslide election, was adamant the day after Democrats lost 60 seats in the House that the results were not a rejection of the agenda pursued by President Obama and herself.

“Let’s understand the message,” Pelosi told ABC’s Diane Sawyer. “The message was not, ‘I reject the course that you are on.’ The message is it didn’t go fast enough to produce jobs.”

Ms Pelosi will now begin pounding her head against the wall even harder and faster.

Source: Daily Caller

Dead Democrat wins state senate seat in California

We’ve heard of local candidates being propped up by state parties, but this one sounds like Weekend at Bernie’s.

We’ve heard of local candidates being propped up by state parties, but this one sounds like Weekend at Bernie’s.

With 100 percent of the precincts reporting, deceased candidate, Democrat Jenny Oropeza, defeated Republican John Stammreich in the race for State Senate in the 28th district.

Oropeza, 53, died on Oct. 20. Because her death was within 10 days of the election, her name remained on the ballot.

The governor now has two weeks to declare her seat empty, and schedule a special election within three to four months. This allows Democrats a chance to find a new candidate to run for Oropeza’s seat.

A week after her death, Democrats sent out mailers to residents, calling for voters to still reelect Oropeza. The mailers featured Secretary of State Debra Bowen and Democratic Party general counsel Martha Escutia.

Naturally, this district, which encompasses parts of Los Angeles and Long Beach, is overwhelmingly Democrat.

Democrats are often accused of turning out the dead vote, but this is one of the rare times when they’re able to vote for one of their peers.

Source: NBC Los Angeles

Let’s celebrate the elections with free Slurpees for everyone

It’s not every day your team wins a landslide victory. So let’s celebrate. To commemorate President Obama’s 25th reference to “Republicans are sippin’ Slurpees,” IHateTheMedia.com is giving away Slurpees to 25 lucky winners.

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Hey, these things cost $1.89 down at our local 7-Eleven, so 25 of them damn near depletes our annual promotional budget

It’s not every day your team wins a landslide victory. So let’s celebrate.

To commemorate the Republican’s Tuesday Tsunami and President Obama’s 25th reference to “Republicans are sippin’ Slurpees,” IHateTheMedia.com is giving away Slurpees to 25 lucky winners.

A reporter even asked the President about Slurpees in today’s post-election press conference. So let’s strike while the subject is hot and the slushy, icy drinks are cold.

It’s easy to win one of IHateTheMedia.com 25 Slurpees. Just submit your entry in a comment on this post. Tell us in 25 words or less what you liked most about Tuesday’s elections. Contest ends midnight (PST) November 12, 2010.

This ain’t no liberal contest, so creativity and cleverness will get you extra points.

Please, only contest entries allowed in comments; sorry, but we’ll have to delete anything else.

Source: CBS News

Legendary: Alan Grayson’s concession speech

In this concession speech, Alan Grayson modestly describes his victory in 2008 as “legendary.” And his wacko supporters don’t help matters when they take up the “Yes We Can” chant two years too late.

Alan Grayson is a lunatic to the bitter end. And we don’t use the word “bitter” lightly.

In this concession speech, Grayson modestly describes his victory in 2008 as “legendary.” And his wacko supporters don’t help matters when they take up the “Yes We Can” chant two years too late.

Grayson also explains that the only reason he lost was that his district was gerrymandered by the evil Republicans.

Ahhh, we’ll miss you Alan. You were good for at least one hysterically funny story every week.

Big news from Media Matters: America rejected the Republican Party in Tuesday’s elections

Media Matters Karl Frisch attempts to spin the Tuesday’s tsunami as a defeat for Republicans.

If you watched TV on Tuesday night or checked the internet on Wednesday morning, you may have come to the incorrect conclusion that the Republican Party was victorious in the elections. You know, 60 or so seats in the House, half a dozen in the Senate, an additional twenty or more state legislatures.

Nevertheless, when your livelihood depends of finding fault with “the other guys,” that’s what you must do no matter what. Even when the claim is ridiculous.

Like this little gem, where Media Matters Karl Frisch attempts to spin the Tuesday’s tsunami as a defeat for Republicans.

H/T: Breitbart.tv

Let’s see if lib radio host Stephanie Miller is all talk

Back in August, conservative talk show host Hugh Hewitt said Republicans were going to kick ass in November. Lib radio talker Stephanie Miller scoffed, said Hewitt was wrong and announced that she’d play this clip on her radio show to prove it.

Back in August, conservative talk show host Hugh Hewitt said Republicans were going to kick ass in November. Lib radio talker Stephanie Miller scoffed, said Hewitt was wrong and announced that she’d play this clip on her radio show to prove it.

Miller: Hugh, I’m going to play this tape of you on my radio show after you’re wrong in November.
Hewitt: Good, nobody will hear it.
Loesch: Ohhhhhhhh!

Let us know what time you’re going to play it so we can tune in, Stephie.

Now he can walk through hell with a can of gasoline for all the American people

Retired Colonel Allen West has a new title – Congressman Allen West. He kicked butt in Florida-22 just like you’d expect a Marine to do. We love this guy and can’t wait until he tells Harry Reid to drop and give him twenty.

Retired Colonel Allen West has a new title –- Congressman Allen West. He kicked butt in Florida-22 just like you’d expect a Marine soldier to do. We love this guy and can’t wait until he tells Harry Reid to drop and give him twenty.

Continue reading “Now he can walk through hell with a can of gasoline for all the American people”

A brief message to the Democrat Party

Here’s Nelson Muntz from the Simpsons with an insightful message for the Democrats who tried to change America instead of merely changing Washington, DC.

Here’s Nelson Muntz from the Simpsons with an insightful message for the Democrats who tried to change America instead of merely changing Washington, DC.

A theme song for yesterday’s victories

My, oh, my. Time flies when you’re being socialized. Hard to believe it was only 24 months ago that we were banished to the wilderness for 40 years by James Carville.

My, oh, my. Time flies when you’re being socialized. Hard to believe it was only 24 months ago that we were banished to the wilderness for 40 years by James Carville.

The Editor’s old disc jockey days are coming back to haunt him. Here are the Chambers Brothers expressing exactly how we all feel today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxpcZrQQM-4

Election Night Open Thread:
Share the craziest, dumbest, most preposterous things you hear liberals say on TV tonight

Welcome to IHateTheMedia.com’s election night open thread. Share the craziest, dumbest, most preposterous things you hear liberals say on TV tonight. Gloating is encouraged.

Welcome to IHateTheMedia.com’s election night open thread. Share the craziest, dumbest, most preposterous things you hear liberals say on TV tonight. Gloating is encouraged.

Michelle Obama tells Democrats to vote early and vote often. Or something like that.

Michelle Obama: “You need to tell them that they can’t just vote once and hope for change to happen.” Spoken like a true Chicago Democrat.

Michelle Obama was on the stump … ugh. Don’t know about you, but that gives us a disturbing mental image.

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Vote early, vote often, vote Democrat

Let’s just go straight to Politico:

“We don’t have much time,” Michelle Obama declared to voters on Monday, urging them to get out the vote as her husband stayed at the White House and worked the phones the day before the midterms.
Rallying Democrats for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in Las Vegas, Obama told the crowd to round up people who voted in 2008 but “who are planning to sit this one out.”

“You need to tell them that they can’t just vote once and hope for change to happen,” she said. “They’ve got to vote every single time.”

“Tell them that they can’t just vote once.” Spoken like a true Chicago Democrat.

Source: Politico

Hip hop mogul Russell Simmons: If you don’t vote you’ll get an Alice In Wonderland Congress where lies are truth

Another day, another liberal warning about the evil conservatives. The Huffington Post highlights hip hop mogul Russell Simmons’ hallucinations:

Another day, another liberal warning about the evil conservatives. The Huffington Post highlights hip hop mogul Russell Simmons’ hallucinations:

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Conservatives love being lectured about right and wrong by a hip hop mogul

If we don’t wake up on Tuesday and rush to the polls, by the end of the day, we will find ourselves with an Alice In Wonderland Congress, where up is down and wrong is right, and lies are truth and hating diversity is seen as patriotism. In the new Alice In Wonderland that is today’s Republican Party, Sarah Palin is the Queen of Hearts screaming “Off With Their Heads”; Glenn Beck is the Mad Hatter with all his tears; Rush Limbaugh is the Cheshire Cat, laughing at the madness and loving it.

Unless moderates and progressives quickly put aside their disenchantments and VOTE on Tuesday, we will wake up on Wednesday to newly elected politicians whose meanness, duplicity and downright madness is unique even by the standards of past American moments of extreme right.

Tooooooo late, Russell. Let the madness begin. Feel the madness. Embrace the madness. Luxuriate in the madness. Roll around naked in the madness.

Source: Huffington Post

“A few hundred” show up to see “rock star” Michelle Obama

Remember when Michelle Obama was supposed to be the Democrats’ secret weapon? Oh, yeah, they were going to send her out on the campaign trail and unleash her remarkable powers of persuasion on the American people.

Remember when Michelle Obama was supposed to be the Democrats’ secret weapon? Oh, yeah, they were going to send her out on the campaign trail and unleash her remarkable powers of persuasion on the American people.

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Yeah, Michelle Obama's a rock star like Neil Sedaka's a rock star

Looks like it’s not working out that way.

The Independent UK has the “L-shaped fingers to the forehead” details:

The crowd went wild when Michelle Obama swept into a high-school gymnasium in Las Vegas yesterday morning, with little Harry Reid trailing in her wake and a local Mariachi band, in full dress uniform, entertaining the crowd. But behind the flag waving and anthem-singing, and the sunny optimism of a typical American election rally, there was a palpable sense of unease.

Two years ago, at the height of Obamania, the First Lady was a sort of rock-star; with a following wind, she could fill an outdoor stadium. Today, her stock has fallen. A few hundred people did turn out to hear her speech, but there were swathes of seats left empty at the back, and plenty of standing room around the stage.

Michelle speaks to empty seats. Biden speaks to 200. And even the Chicago Savior himself speaks to an arena with 5000 empty seats.

Would someone get us a box of Kleenex? We’re wiping away tears of joy.

H/T: WeaselZippers.us

Black Republicans – the oxymoron that keeps Democrats awake at night

in 2010, highly-qualified black candidates all across the country have abandoned the Democrat Plantation and are running as – gasp – conservative Republicans.

The phrase “black Republican” used to be an oxymoron. But here in 2010, highly-qualified black candidates all across the country have abandoned the Democrat Plantation and are running as – gasp – conservative Republicans.

Check out this video. It’s a clarion call to other black voters: “Vote Republican. For the very first time.”

Too good to be true: Final Gallop Generic Congressional Ballot shows GOP up by 15

The results are from Gallup’s Oct. 28-31 survey of 1,539 likely voters. It finds 52% to 55% of likely voters preferring the Republican candidate and 40% to 42% for the Democratic candidate on the national generic ballot

We’re not religious, but we’re praying that Gallup is right.

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The latest Gallup Poll is a real eye opener for Nancy Pelosi. Or maybe it's just her latest nip and tuck.

The results are from Gallup’s Oct. 28-31 survey of 1,539 likely voters. It finds 52% to 55% of likely voters preferring the Republican candidate and 40% to 42% for the Democratic candidate on the national generic ballot — depending on turnout assumptions. Gallup’s analysis of several indicators of voter turnout from the weekend poll suggests turnout will be slightly higher than in recent years, at 45%. This would give the Republicans a 55% to 40% lead on the generic ballot, with 5% undecided…

Fact is, Gallup has a long track record of calling congressional races closer than any other polling group. So let’s assume they’re correct this year, too.

If that’s the case, what’s your prediction? How many seats will Republicans pick up?

Source: Gallup

Voter fraud? What voter fraud? We don’t have a voter-fraud problem.

This is classic. Minnesota Democrat Betty McCollum was debating Teresa Collett, her Republican challenger, when she made the remarkable claim that there’s no such thing as voter fraud. None. It’s all in her constituents’ heads.

This is classic. Minnesota Democrat Betty McCollum was debating Teresa Collett, her Republican challenger, when she made the remarkable claim that there’s no such thing as voter fraud. None. It’s all in her constituents’ heads.

The response? Laughter and catcalls from the audience and a pointed rebuttal from Collett.

H/T: HotAir.com

Democrats “surging” in Delaware. Biden draws crowd of 200.

Two hundred? Two friggin’ hundred? They should have been able to round up 200 union pipe fitters or government workers on an hour’s notice. Two hundred?

Two hundred? Two friggin’ hundred? They should have been able to round up 200 union pipe fitters or government workers on an hour’s notice. Two hundred?

The Associated Press has the bad news for Delaware Democrats:

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Joe Biden counts the number of Democrat supporters at his Delaware rally

Biden headlined a Democratic rally in downtown Wilmington on Monday evening that drew about 200 people. He was confident Democrats would hold on to the Senate seat that had been his for more than 30 years.

Joining Biden were New Castle County executive Chris Coons, who is considered the favorite in his U.S. Senate race against Republican tea party favorite Christine O’Donnell.

Former lieutenant governor and Democrat John Carney also appeared at the rally. He faces Republican Glen Urquhart for the seat held by Rep. Mike Castle, the Republican who gave up his spot to run for Senate and lost the primary to O’Donnell.

Two hundred? They had the vice president of the United States, the state’s candidate for the United States Senate, and a House candidate and they only drew 200 people?

Christine O’Donnell’s coven is larger than that.

Source: Associated Press

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