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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: PLMerite

Stephen Cohen is her husband. I don’t get Batchelor’s show here....What does Cohen talk about when he is on.


81 posted on 11/12/2014 4:14:13 AM PST by vis a vis
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To: capydick

Surrender, Dorothy.


82 posted on 11/12/2014 4:14:26 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: Joe 6-pack

Spending the next two years rolling back decades of gun controlegiation would be a worthy undertaking. That and enforcing immigration law.


83 posted on 11/12/2014 4:18:25 AM PST by ez (Muslims do not play well with others.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I am very familiar with ms Vandenheuvel. She hates freedom as much if not more than Obama. The titular head of the Socialists in the US.


84 posted on 11/12/2014 5:13:01 AM PST by griswold3 (I was born here in America. I will die here in a third world country. Obalarma succeeded.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
But Republicans have no mandate because they offered no agenda.

So?

At least no one will be disappointed if they fail to do what they said they'd do!

85 posted on 11/12/2014 5:22:32 AM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: capydick; Lazamataz

LAZ???


86 posted on 11/12/2014 5:23:20 AM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Those waskally wepublicans are weally gona wegwet winning......huh!huh!huh!huh!huh!huh!huh!huh!


87 posted on 11/12/2014 5:24:53 AM PST by ontap
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To: vis a vis

He’s an expert on Russia, apparently he’s a well-educated individual.


88 posted on 11/12/2014 5:39:10 AM PST by PLMerite (Why did my tagline disappear? I didn't delete it.)
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To: aquila48

She’s the spitting image of the witch from the wizard of oz.


89 posted on 11/12/2014 5:55:01 AM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie; Lazamataz

I think he already did!


90 posted on 11/12/2014 6:19:49 AM PST by capydick (''Life's tough.......it's even tougher if you're stupid.'')
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Katrina vanden Heuvell, I have only one response:


91 posted on 11/12/2014 6:29:33 AM PST by Lazamataz (Proudly Deciding Female Criminal Guilt By How Hot They Are Since 1999 !)
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To: capydick; Lazamataz

Oh...

...then this is the BEFORE picture?


92 posted on 11/12/2014 6:29:37 AM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
I would not hit that.

Even I have standards.

She's probably got 20-grit down there just to spite all men.

93 posted on 11/12/2014 6:34:02 AM PST by Lazamataz (Proudly Deciding Female Criminal Guilt By How Hot They Are Since 1999 !)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She was the one, a year or so back, was backing Bevins like crazy under the notion that if he’d defeat McConnell the Dem (Grimes) would be a sure thing in KY. She published multiple articles on it.

Not playing guilt by association with that, but rather showing that she’s got some weird obsession with McConnell.


94 posted on 11/12/2014 6:38:37 AM PST by tanknetter
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To: Lazamataz

Republicans will now taste...


95 posted on 11/12/2014 6:45:52 AM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: capydick

Guilty.


96 posted on 11/12/2014 6:50:37 AM PST by mad_as_he$$
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s you Katrina who is tasting the bitter harvest. Leftists always project on to their enemies their own motives and even what’s they expect to happen to them. They are pure evil and merely tryiing to spread disinformation and lies to fool more people and comfort their crushed sense of self-importance.


97 posted on 11/12/2014 6:55:53 AM PST by WashingtonSource
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To: elteemike

Democrats tried to get butthurt covered by Obamacare.

The insurance companies told them it would sink every insurance company in the nation.


98 posted on 11/12/2014 7:00:15 AM PST by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Republicans were *already* pinned with the blame for things not getting done in Congress. The election results were the result of the voters deciding that stopping what Obama and his were trying to do was what they wanted.


99 posted on 11/12/2014 7:25:13 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Lazamataz

ouch!


100 posted on 11/12/2014 11:27:29 AM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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