Posted on 05/24/2011 7:19:58 PM PDT by Perdogg
BREAKING NEWS: Democrat Kathy Hochul wins special election for US House seat in NY
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“Let’s face it, the majority of people in this country are morons.”
I’ve said it once and will say it again: New Yorkers are far more gullible than your typical country “bumpkin”. They are rubes. They are almost as gullible as people who live in Detroit. Their city is attacked on 9-11 and they STILL vote democrat. How stupid is that? Their brains shut off when it comes to politics. Ancient Athenians had a word for people like typical New Yorkers — idiots.
New Yorkers are such idiots, they elected Bloomberg for crying out loud.
A Democrat victory thanks to the fake Tea Party candidate but it is being spun as a vote to “protect” Medicare. Watch the Pubs bail on the budget cuts now.
A Democrat victory thanks to the fake Tea Party candidate but it is being spun as a vote to “protect” Medicare. Watch the Pubs bail on the budget cuts now.
New York city, Bloomberg’s city — the city that doesn’t care if wacko democrats get control AFTER 9-11 blows its largest skyscrapers to smitherines ... you think THAT is a bell-weather state?
They’ll play this same fake Tea Party game now everywhere they can find a chump to do go along with it.
The right should find faux “green” candidates to try to offset most of the damage.
That could be enough for Nancy Pelosi to get her Speakership back.
I expect the Dems to run the “Cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps and Pell Grants” line heavily, especially in swing states, important Senate races, and in congressional districts that we took in 2010 (or are otherwise seen as vulnerable by the Dems). In fact, the Democratic National Congressional Committee and the DSCC are already running using this.
“New York city, Bloomberg’s city — the city that doesn’t care if wacko democrats get control AFTER 9-11 blows its largest skyscrapers to smitherines ... you think THAT is a bell-weather state?”
FYI - West New York is essentially Midwestern, very little in common with New York City. It’s far closer to Toledo or Detroit than New York City. If this district is an indicator of any region, we’re headed for trouble in the Midwest.
the city is a cesspit of elitist fools, but the upstate is supposed to be more republican as this district was.
We all know that this vote was not a seal of approval for the Dems but this is what the headlines will call it .
We know the rat was not a tea party member, but it seems the fools up there fell for it and shame on them.
We know something has to be done with medicare but we should have called out the Dem for their budget.
Now we have given them something to attack us and it is working plus of course the George Soros paid off media are helping them and now spinning this.
I'm well beyond giving a damn about what may, or may not be, "dangerous territory".
I tell everybody I talk to, liberal or conservative, old or young, that Medicare has to be significantly cut now - and that means that some services now currently available will be provided only on an out of pocket basis - or it will crash and burn in the next fifteen years.
We no longer have the luxury of kicking this can down the alley until all the political stars are perfectly aligned.
“I’s like those under 55 are thrown off the cruise ship into the ocean(after they retire) told to swim on their own, to protect important voters OVER 55 on the cruise ship.”
—Yep. Especially when a fairly large percentage of individuals under 55 are already unemployed/underemployed, being foreclosed upon, etc. (and seeing a bleak future for America ahead).
And the Repubs always seem to forget: the Dems lie. They will say, as they did in NY26, that the GOP is “cutting Medicare” regardless of the facts- and the MSM will gleefully report the distortions.
The Ryan plan was always politically short-sighted- that’s why I preferred something closer to Rand Paul’s plan (or even Toomey’s proposal). You have to start with massive cuts to discretionary spending- even if they aren’t the biggest problem with the deficit- in order to get people mentally accustomed to bigger cuts in other areas down the road (when the economy is better and the timing is right). The GOP fumbled the ball during the budget battle (when large discretionary cuts should’ve occurred), and now they’re trying to go straight for the more politically toxic cuts. Not wise.
I was wondering when you would get to me, I saw you lecturing some others on this last night :)
I have no objection to your point of view, but I also understand those that have objections. The bottom line here is what will actually become law and this specific plan is not going to be law. You have alot of convincing to do at this point with entitlement reform being so toxic, and this specific plan is not something I find easy to argue for. It looks like 'the right's' (opposite) version of 'you have no choice' Obama-care to the average voter who has little reason to trust either party and thinks he 'paid in'.
Sure, the candidate was a loser. But apparently it was the real NY State Tea Party leader who put him in there, because his nose was out of joint.
LOL!
Your spoof of the ignorant is funny, but I bet there are even some FReepers who think that, having no understanding of the difference between New York and New York City.
“This was not the result of the faux tea party candidate”
The difference was 7%, the fake Tea got 8%. How do you figure?
Split the vote, and the rat wins.
Sure so between the 3 candidates, 48% voted for the lib and 51% voted for who they believed were conservative.
Maybe we get it back in 2011, who knows.
But do the seniors realize that Obamacare deeply cuts medicare and contains provisions to set up advisory boards that can curtail medical services for the elderly, who Obama says we can just send home with aspirin instead of a new hip? Of course not!
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