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Democrats divided on their path to 2016 (loser locksteppers' midterm agita)
washingtonpost.com ^ | 12/14/14 | Karen Tumulty, ntl political correspondent; w/ Sean Sullivan

Posted on 12/15/2014 6:17:34 AM PST by Liz

.....since their midterm repudiation, Democrats once-disciplined ranks show fissures......an internal struggle between over their ideological identity and tactical direction.

Having lost big in November, they've been trading recriminations over which wing was more to blame while jostling for position to be the face of the Democrats going into 2016.....the $1.1 trillion spending bill acted as matches to gasoline: a provision rolling back portions of the 2010 financial Dodd-Frank Act; loosened campaign donation limits, allowing the wealthy to give three times the current maximum to the national political parties. That means even more clout for rich donors and the interests they represent.

.....a House Democratic schism pitted Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) against her second-in-command, Democratic whip Steny H. Hoyer (Md.). Democrats who opposed the spending bill claimed a moral victory, with Pelosi writing in a letter to her rank-and-file members that their resistance had “strengthened our position.”

As the drama was playing out on Capitol Hill on Friday, more than 300 former Obama campaign staff members released a letter calling on Warren to run, saying, “we want someone who will stand up for working families and take on the Wall Street banks and special interests that took down our economy.” ...... many on the left think Clinton is too sympathetic to Wall Street and corporate interests. She has yet to make clear what her main rationale for running would be if she decides to seek the presidency.

“I think the overarching narrative that is most powerful right now is that everyday citizens are being left out — almost locked out — of their own democracy, when you look at Washington, when you look at the influence that special interests have,” said Rep. John Sarbanes (D-Md.). “Democrats want to find a way to give people their voice back.”

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1 posted on 12/15/2014 6:17:34 AM PST by Liz
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To: Liz

The DemocRATS need to “rebrand” their party. They need to start by the moderates taking back the party from the radical, leftwing extremists.


2 posted on 12/15/2014 6:22:16 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The trouble with America is that it's full of Americans. - The commie DemocRATS.)
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To: All
Airheaded Dems still can't fathom the "party of the people" was lacerated and dumped "by the people."

TAKE A GANDER AT THIS DUMBOCRAT BALDERDASH: “I think the overarching narrative that is most powerful right now is that everyday citizens are being left out — almost locked out — of their own democracy, when you look at Washington, when you look at the influence that special interests have,” said Rep. John Sarbanes (D-Md.). “Democrats want to find a way to give people their voice back.”

The people's vote as of midnight 11/5---Alaska and LA went Republican later.

Midterm Map courtesy of http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/here-s-what-a-republican-takeover-looks-likes-20141105

The national revulsion caused by the lies and deceit of lockstepping Dumbos pedaling Obamacare are still resonating. Obama lied and lied-- the sycophants around him lied----and they are still lying. The universe of lies to promote Obamacare, amnesty, and the rest of the Democrats' anti-America agenda----has infected the entire body of US law.

We are still being given false information in order to disguise their unrelenting failures. In the diseased minds of Obama and his acolytes, chaos itself was the goal----to destroy what existed to give rise to the Democrats' New Order.

Americans are totally revulsed....and showed it at the voting booth on November 4. Obamacare and amnesty have proven to be the Democrat Party's death knell.

3 posted on 12/15/2014 6:30:08 AM PST by Liz (Pres Reagan on govt shutdown: "Let's close it down and see if anyone notices.")
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To: GOPJ; Jane Long; notted; SeekAndFind; abb; sickoflibs; txhurl; MrB; stephenjohnbanker; ...

ping


4 posted on 12/15/2014 6:32:24 AM PST by Liz (Pres Reagan on govt shutdown: "Let's close it down and see if anyone notices.")
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To: FlingWingFlyer

That goes for BOTH parties. Both have been infiltrated by leftwing progressives.


5 posted on 12/15/2014 6:36:17 AM PST by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Jane Long

Ted Cruz for president 2016 New Conservative Party


6 posted on 12/15/2014 6:37:14 AM PST by morphing libertarian (Defund , sue, impeach. Overturn Obamacare, amnesty.)
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To: Jane Long

I agree.


7 posted on 12/15/2014 6:48:08 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The trouble with America is that it's full of Americans. - The commie DemocRATS.)
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To: Liz

.....a House Democratic schism pitted Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) against her second-in-command, Democratic whip Steny H. Hoyer (Md.). Democrats who opposed the spending bill claimed a moral victory, with Pelosi writing in a letter to her rank-and-file members that their resistance had “strengthened our position.”


Total BS. That was all theater. The Dems were always going to release enough votes to pass it. They weren’t going to pass up the deal of the century. The Dems just wanted to double cross and weaken Boehner, put on a fireworks show for their base, divide GOP, etc.


8 posted on 12/15/2014 6:52:57 AM PST by lodi90
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To: Liz

Americans are totally revulsed....and showed it at the voting booth on November 4. Obamacare and amnesty have proven to be the Democrat Party’s death knell.


That’s a misleading map. Some of the reddest areas on your map have Congresspeople who just voted to fully fund the Obama amnesty and obamacare. Red is the new blue?


9 posted on 12/15/2014 6:55:30 AM PST by lodi90
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To: Jane Long

The media and the RINOS always demand that the Republican party be moderate to win, but they NEVER suggest that the ultra left wingers that run the dem party from Obama down do anything but stay as far left/commie as they can get.


10 posted on 12/15/2014 7:11:53 AM PST by dandiegirl
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To: Liz
ag·i·ta

/ˈajətə/

noun informal

noun: agita

indigestion.
"I ain't a healthy guy! My stomach can't take this agita"

•anxiety, stress, or aggravation.
"there will be times when he causes the Democratic leadership some agita"

11 posted on 12/15/2014 7:15:23 AM PST by Steely Tom (Thank you for self-censoring.)
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To: lodi90
Red indicates the entire spectrum of Repub victories including down-ticket wins. The detailed treasure trove of "The Midterm Democrat Demolition Derby" and down-ticket state wins have yet to be fully- mined, but this we know:

<><> REPUBLICANS' ELECTORAL HISTORY IS STUNNING...

<><> midterms were a massive and awesome rejection of liberals;

<><> Landrieu's loss means Southern Democrats control not a single governorship, US senator or legislative chamber,

<><> Democrat losses stretch from the Carolinas westward to Texas,

<><> Of 140 Southern States election districts---110 went Republican.

<><> GOP's House majorities are so huge and solid NBC's Chuck Todd says Dems can't recapture losses until 2022.

<><> Some pundits say Republicans have a 100-year majority;

<><> when the next US Senate convenes, 30 lock-stepping Democrats who voted for Obamacare are gone.

<><> Ark and Ill (Clinton hometowns) have Repub governors---important in a prez race b/c guvs control party machinery.

<><> Unprecedented MINN 6th Congressional district---every single House and Senate district went Repub

<><>GOP now controls the MINN State House.

<><> Ohio's historic GOP statehouse takeover (Gun Control is toast)

<><> Ohio's Gov, Lt. Gov, AG, Secy of State, State Auditor, State Treasurer--all R---Sup/Ct - 6 R/1 D

<><> Britt Hume: latino vote is meeh---"over-50" is significant 30% voting segment.

<><> Republicans unified control: gov/legislature in 23 states (per Ntl Conference of State Legislatures factoid).

<><> Republican governorships: Florida, Tx, Ill, Ohio, Mich, MD, Wisconsin, NC, GA, Massachusetts. .

<><> GOP has every congressional seat in Arkansas; first time in 141 years...

<><> Environmentalists fogged out---suffered huge losses.

<><> Gun Control Candidates blitzed.

<><> "War on Women" became a ntl joke.

<><> Clinton's deemed politically useless---most candidates they flacked lost.

<><> Montana, So/Dakota and West/VA Dems were forced to retire; no hope of getting re-elected,

<><> Repubs hold 246 House seats (Dems 188), the largest GOP advantage since the Truman administration after World War II. An Arizona recount leaves one House race still outstanding.

<><> 73 percent of LA's white voters say told they "strongly disapproved" of the president.

12 posted on 12/15/2014 7:19:32 AM PST by Liz (Pres Reagan on govt shutdown: "Let's close it down and see if anyone notices.")
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