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Republicans will now taste their bitter harvest
The Washington Post ^ | November 11, 2014 | Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor & publisher, The Nation

Posted on 11/11/2014 6:53:26 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

In the early 3rd century B.C., after King Pyrrhus of Epirus again took brutal casualties in defeating the Romans, he told one person who offered congratulations, “If we are victorious in one more battle with the Romans, we shall be utterly ruined.” In his more sober moments, Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), about to achieve his lifelong ambition of becoming Senate majority leader, may wonder whether he, too, has achieved a pyrrhic victory.

Republicans are still crowing about the sweeping victories in 2014 that give them control of both houses of Congress. They will set the agenda, deciding what gets considered, investigated and voted on. Their ideas will drive the debate.

But Republicans have no mandate because they offered no agenda. Republicans reaped the rewards of McConnell’s scorched-earth strategy, obstructing President Obama relentlessly, helping to create the failure that voters would pin on the party in power. But the collateral damage is that the “party of ‘no’ ” has no agreement on what is yes. Instead of using the years in the wilderness to develop new ideas and a clear vision, Republicans have used them only to sharpen their tongues, grow their claws and practice their backhands....

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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2014; 2014midterms; democrats; gop; republicans; whistlepastgraveyard
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To: gov_bean_ counter
Exactly. What she means is “you didn't propose or pass anything that's on the far left's agenda”

Her husband is cut from the same cloth. Stephen F. Cohen, professor at N.Y.U. and a Russian/Soviet apologist of the first order. He frequently reminds me of Walter Duranty (N.Y.T.) who failed to report the famine in the Ukraine at the hands of the Soviet Union.

If you want to see how corrupt the world view of these two are, check out the article form the New Republic article by Isaac Chotiner (March 2, 2014), “Meet Vladimir Putin's American Apologist”. A quote from the article reminds me of both Cohen and Katrina vanden Heuvel "He is well-informed, and yet also completely clueless." The Article. http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116820/vladimir-putin-defended-american-leftist

41 posted on 11/11/2014 7:48:09 PM PST by Tallmadge
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Someone tell Katrina that Halloween is over.
I mean Jeesh:

“Republicans will taste their bitter hahvest....”
Bwuahahahaha....
(rubbing long-fingered, gnarled witch’s hands together
over a green-glowing, bubbling brew
in a large black kettle in a
dark clearing of a creepy forest.)


42 posted on 11/11/2014 7:48:13 PM PST by WKTimpco
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
She needs two bottles, NOW.





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43 posted on 11/11/2014 7:50:00 PM PST by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Who talks like this?

If some old broad were to walk up to you and say “The Republicans will soon taste their bitter harvest.” you’d look at her like she was some kind of Squeaky Fromme. Is she racking a slide about to fire a bullet into me?

If you asked what in blazes she means by that and her answer began with “In the early 3rd century B.C., after King Pyrrhus of Epirus again took brutal casualties in defeating the Romans...” you’d be looking for the nearest exit.

Wow. What a crazy old broad. Is one of California’s women’s correctional facilities missing one of their Manson girls or what?


44 posted on 11/11/2014 7:50:17 PM PST by The KG9 Kid
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
But Republicans have no mandate because they offered no agenda.

The Republican mandate is the one the GOP-E doesn't want to embrace: stop Barack Obama.

45 posted on 11/11/2014 7:50:31 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg ("Compromise" means you've already decided you lost.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

46 posted on 11/11/2014 7:51:15 PM PST by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: Colonel_Flagg

Cruz is about 6 months from neutralizing the gope-STAB RINOs.

It will be 1980 all over again. RATS shrieking about how stupid the voters are OOPS can’t do that, it was scared Dems giving the Conservatives the mandate!

This is what’s really hurt them. All these years of shaping minds to their commie thinking.. just BUSTED OUT of and away from Marxism.

Eat it, Katrina. You LOST.


47 posted on 11/11/2014 7:59:20 PM PST by txhurl (2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

48 posted on 11/11/2014 8:00:04 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: InterceptPoint
A double for the `cube...



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49 posted on 11/11/2014 8:00:11 PM PST by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: capydick

Her mouth looks puckered from sucking Obama’s a$$.


50 posted on 11/11/2014 8:00:42 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Enjoy Barack Obama's Legacy America (EBOLA))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Where is that graphic of Cartman and the bitter, salty tears?


51 posted on 11/11/2014 8:01:08 PM PST by rabidralph
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She can’t even get her history straight. Her analogy is irrelevant.


52 posted on 11/11/2014 8:01:11 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: eyedigress

I knew someone would post it. Thanks!


53 posted on 11/11/2014 8:01:45 PM PST by rabidralph
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Here she is dancing for joy in 2008 and 2012:


54 posted on 11/11/2014 8:02:22 PM PST by Slyfox (To put on the mind of George Washington read ALL of Deuteronomy 28, then read his Farewell Address)
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To: TLI
Katrina van den Heuvel personifies the two most dominant characteristics of a progressive:

1. Arrogant

2. Wrong

55 posted on 11/11/2014 8:02:30 PM PST by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Found her picture.

56 posted on 11/11/2014 8:03:31 PM PST by rabidralph
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
One more example of a lib explaining why last week's election was bad news, and no prez has ever been criticized as Obama, or had their agenda blocked...since George Bush.

Your side lost, honey...learn it, live it, love it.

57 posted on 11/11/2014 8:04:08 PM PST by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the Republican Party does not want you.)
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To: gogeo

Agendists don’t learn from their defeats. They only up the attack.

That’s what I’m watching for.. who is upping the attack.


58 posted on 11/11/2014 8:07:22 PM PST by txhurl (2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
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To: going hot

It appears she has.


59 posted on 11/11/2014 8:07:29 PM PST by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the Republican Party does not want you.)
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To: The KG9 Kid

Sounds like a comic book villain.


60 posted on 11/11/2014 8:09:26 PM PST by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the Republican Party does not want you.)
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