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Why the Midterms Matter: The GOP’s agenda has to be stopped.
Newsweek ^ | 10/23/10 | Jonathan Alter

Posted on 10/23/2010 7:14:37 AM PDT by paudio

The depressed Democratic base needs to ask itself some questions: Do women want more representatives who oppose abortion? Do Hispanics want to see immigration reform postponed? Do young voters want college loans slashed? If they don’t, they’ll set aside whatever valid grievances they may have with Obama and mobilize.

If Democrats lose control anyway, maybe nothing too bad will happen. Obama will veto GOP bills, and politics will be paralyzed for two years as the parties jostle for 2012. But a right-wing Republican takeover of Congress and state capitals isn’t something to accept with indifference. Midterms matter, and voters tempted to skip this election should have their heads examined.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
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To: skimbell

Yes, very positive news.


41 posted on 10/23/2010 9:49:11 AM PDT by SC_Pete
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To: darkangel82
It can not possibly have been directly dictated by the great bonghit.

If it were it would be filled with Umm.. errr... that is... etc. The man can not talk with out stuttering and meandering.

That is why his handlers write all his statements for him, and spoon feed them to him through a teleprompter. Even when talking to children.

42 posted on 10/23/2010 10:00:24 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.8)
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To: Patrick1
Newsweek was recently sold for one dollar.

I'd gladly buy it for $2, just so that I could have the pleasure of walking up to this guy and saying "you're fired!"

43 posted on 10/23/2010 10:19:47 AM PDT by meyer (Tax the productive to carry the freeloaders - What is it with democrats and slavery?)
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To: darkangel82

I was driving home from the park and on Fox A-hole Colmes is repeating DNC talking points, blaming Republicans for the economy etc.


44 posted on 10/23/2010 10:34:38 AM PDT by misterrob (Thug Life....now showing at a White House near you....)
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To: Patrick1
You know your ideology is in trouble when it is based on killing babies, breaking the law and debt.

Ideology or budget? Sounds like Planned Parenthood to me. I'm not sure that the vestigial lefties have an ideology anymore; their voting seems a mere reflex of a brain-dead organism. God only knows what's going through the mind of a young Democratic voter these days. Maybe that's why they're staying home this election.

45 posted on 10/23/2010 10:37:29 AM PDT by mrreaganaut (Necessity leads you to things, to which reason does not lead you. - Machiavelli)
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To: paudio
The good news is that the state-run media has dropped all pretense of being "unbiased."
46 posted on 10/23/2010 11:01:38 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The only stable state is one in which all men are equal before the law." -- Aristotle)
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To: paudio

Hey Alter, your magazine`s poll just reported a huge surge in popularity for Obama and the dems. So what`s to worry for, since.... oh, it was a SHAM poll..ahhh, I see. Well then... back to begging.


47 posted on 10/23/2010 11:06:39 AM PDT by ScottinVA (The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
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To: MEG33

Newsweek at one time was a legitimate news mag. Now it`s nothing more than a far-left rag on par with “The Nation” and “Mother Jones.”


48 posted on 10/23/2010 11:14:43 AM PDT by ScottinVA (The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
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To: Patrick1
Newsweek was recently sold for one dollar. With Alter you are certainly getting your monies worth.

Considering what a dollar is, or is soon to be, I still think somebody got gypped.

49 posted on 10/23/2010 11:22:42 AM PDT by thulldud (Is it "alter or abolish" time yet?)
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To: skimbell

Notice how this a-hole Alter uses the pejorative term “right-wingers” instead of “conservatives.”

Apparently Alter and his fellow bed-wetters are not liberals, not “progressives,” but left-wingers.


50 posted on 10/23/2010 11:54:10 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (The rallying cry of American patriots.....REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER!)
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To: paudio

So basically if Republicans win we’ll be dying like animals in the streets? Unburied bodies be stacked 10 feet high and flies will devour the living after feeding on the dead..

The end of civilization as we know it will happen due to these crazy GOP policies (possibly) cutting government, I see.


51 posted on 10/23/2010 11:59:59 AM PDT by Tolsti2
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To: paudio

Nothing but the spouting of liberal marxist whores. I’m for pulling the plug and letting all the socialists, marxists, communists, democratic socialists, leninists and all their ilk sink to the bottom of Lake Superior. Hell, most of them can even spell that. They and all their followers shoud learn to get a job, work to their highest potential and strive to do more; instead of whining about not getting enough because they didn’t do what it takes to get ahead in this world.


52 posted on 10/23/2010 2:14:09 PM PDT by Shamrock-DW
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To: paudio

Nothing but the spouting of liberal marxist whores. I’m for pulling the plug and letting all the socialists, marxists, communists, democratic socialists, leninists and all their ilk sink to the bottom of Lake Superior. Hell, most of them can even spell that. They and all their followers shoud learn to get a job, work to their highest potential and strive to do more; instead of whining about not getting enough because they didn’t do what it takes to get ahead in this world.


53 posted on 10/23/2010 2:14:15 PM PDT by Shamrock-DW
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To: snowrip
I believe they have suspended print, and gone to internet website only. They couldn't sell any advertising in their magazine, and nobody wanted to subscribe to the same ol' same ol'. It had shrunk to about 60 pages when it was folded.
54 posted on 10/23/2010 3:41:37 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: JPG
Alter needs to be put on 24/7 suicide watch. The guy is losing it and may blow at any second.

I hope you are right. Maybe a bottle of scotch, a loaded pistol, and a few hours alone would give him a bright idea.

55 posted on 10/23/2010 3:45:06 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: paudio; SunkenCiv; Clintonfatigued; fieldmarshaldj; theothercheek; Just A Nobody; smoothsailing; ...
I can't tell if this Alter piece is supposed to be news, opinion, or a 'Rat pep talk - not that Newsweek cares.

Alter missed at least a couple of the 'Rats' standard ranting points: he said nothing about Republicans being racist or homophobic. Well, better luck next time around, Jonathan. (Sarc.)

56 posted on 10/23/2010 5:00:28 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: paudio
Do women want more representatives who oppose abortion?

If recent polling is any indication, actually, yes they do.

57 posted on 10/23/2010 6:52:12 PM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (is a Jim DeMint Republican. You might say he's a funDeMintalist conservative.)
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To: paudio
Do women want more representatives who oppose abortion?

This woman does.

58 posted on 10/23/2010 7:13:24 PM PDT by conservativegramma
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To: justiceseeker93

NewsweAk? Thought they went out of businesss since no cares what they have to say. ;*)


59 posted on 10/23/2010 9:09:40 PM PDT by Just A Nobody ( (Better Dead than RED! NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA))
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To: paudio

Alter’s mother was a lefty Dem alderman or councilman in Chicago.


60 posted on 10/24/2010 12:00:13 PM PDT by Inwoodian
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