Posted on 11/07/2018 11:26:31 PM PST by Kaslin
Well, I guess there wasn't a blue wave or a red wave; instead, there was just kind of a puke green splash. The Democrats took the House, by a pretty small margin, beginning at least two years of a divided Congress. And they’ll almost certainly screw it up because they are dumb, crazy, and bad.
It’s annoying to lose anything, especially to a party that is so manifestly unworthy, but the nature of an electorate that is split 50/50 is splitting. Chin up. Remember, we have the other half of Congress and the presidency and the courts too, so our agenda is not totally stalled. If you are going to lose anything, lose the House. It’s the Maroon 5 of our governmental institutions – always there, but no one really likes it.
We won more seats in the Senate, meaning Cocaine Mitch’s expanded cartel is going to be pushing even more conservative judges into our lib-infested courts. It was pretty great. Beto crashed his party’s $70 million car into Ted Cruz and skateboarded away from the wreck. Rick Scott scraped out a narrow win and will now have six years on the national stage where people around the country will wonder “Wasn’t he the lead singer for Midnight Oil?”
And we’re rid of Bob Corker and Jeff Flake – ahoy, Conservative, Inc., they’re now available to headline your cruises! On the downside, we still have the useless Ben Sasse, until a real conservative primaries him, and Utah decided it would be funny to send us Mitt Romney for some reason that remains unclear. Get ready for his binders full of virtue signaling to the very same media that humiliated him in 2012. But in general, the Fredocon contingent is definitely in decline.
No, you never win by losing, but there is opportunity for the GOP in this win. When life gives you lemons, you should take those lemons, sell them, and buy beer. While the loss of the House is annoying, Trump has options because he can play it successfully whether the Democrats make the smart move – pretending to be bipartisan – or do what they are inclined to do and act like horrible creepy fascist weirdos. Nancy Pelosi’s problem is that though she’s smart enough to see that “Everybody hug” is the smart play, her insane caucus is likely to demand the horrible creepy fascist weirdo option.
Pelosi outlined the foundations of a bipartisan charade in her odd victory speech with the clown car crew that will make up the new House leadership Tuesday night. Infrastructure programs and drug price reform were her top objectives. The thing is, both ideas are shovel-ready for Trump to steal.
After all, Trump was promising an infrastructure plan back during his campaign; it was the GOP that was stalling it, not the Democrats. He should push the infrastructure program he always wanted, and dare the Democrats to oppose him. If he wants to be really aggressive, he should aim it towards minority communities that the Democrats have traditionally paid attention to right before elections and then ignored for the next two years. He should insist that those communities get a share of the work and the skill training that goes with it, and he should go to them and take credit for it. Polls already show minority approval of Trump is higher than for any other Republican – time to push that.
Now, the smart move for the Democrats is to go along and rack up accomplishments, because these purple districts that just elected Democrats want to see progress. These are not the hardcore commie lefty districts you find on the coasts. These are suburban districts, with vast numbers of unsatisfied, neurotic college-educated women who are scared of Trump, and who are probably secretly attracted to his virility – it’s weird and there’s no need to explore that further. Regardless, they would happily vote for the usual old-school GOP dork in normal elections, and even though this time they sent a bitter, frustrated message, they are still suckers for politicians who “get things done.” But the leftist crew from the coastal urban kale-munching strongholds are the ones with the seniority and the ones who will guide the Democrat Party over the next two years. And they do not want to work together for a brighter tomorrow.
No, they want all #resistance, all of the time, and they are going to do everything they can to appease their looney base by launching investigations and screaming and yelling. That's not going to help the newbies keep those new House seats in 2020. It’s going to be especially funny when all these rookies who promised the suckers back home they would never vote for that San Francisco liberal monster get strong-armed into casting their very first vote for Mistress Nancy.
And if they decide to obstruct and agitate, then Trump can be in opposition to them and run against the do-nothing House in 2020. Nobody is better than Trump when he has an enemy. I’m kind of hoping the Democrats choose the path of jerkiness just for the nicknames he’ll bestow in his tweets.
Oh, and please, impeach him over Russia Treason Traitor stuff. Please. Toss the Trump in that briar patch and he’ll be president forever.
Incumbents win over 90%V of the time and we had a crazy amount of our incumbants give up/retire last year.
F’KN losers.
40 seats open for SOROS money to swamp the competition. If the incumbents were still around that carries a lot of power with voters. But nah...our side threw in a towel.
Was it because they hated POTUS?
When have the rats ever been anything else BUT jerks?
Jerkwads
I say good riddance to bad rubbish.
I’m glad it happened now, rather than in 2020.
that’s what the Democrat Party is , a vast circle jerk
“Was it because they hated POTUS?”
Do you even need to ask that question? Most of ‘our’ repubikan congressmen[house and senate] voted for Hillary. They want Trump gone as much as the dems do. We knew they were scum when they did nothing to stop Obama from fundamentally transforming America.
The swamp is irreparably corrupt.
Yes, these two years will be the empire strikes back phase of the Trump years. They captured Han Solo (the house) but We’ll consolidate our forces and return even stronger in 2020.
Pelosi will be the perfect punching bag for Trump.
lead = led :)
Funny thing about women. They all say they hate bad men but do their best to get one to protect them...
On the bright side, the ones that ran from Trump were all GOPe. Who knows, they may have been as dirty as Hillary.
They wanted to lose the House:
1. They are the COP - Controlled Opposition Party - of the UniParty. They support the DNC and oppose Trump.
2. Many of them want to be gone in case the Hush Fund is made public.
3. Some of them want to be gone in case their complicity with the ongoing Deep State sedition is made public.
2 & 3, IOW: They are hoping that in leaving they will be left alone.
Regardless, by supporting the UniParty, they have guaranteed they will be rewarded in the private sector. None of them is going to suffer as we do under their collective heel.
And contrary to Rush Limbaugh’s disingenuous characterization:
They did not leave because they feared a Blue Wave. They left in order to create the Blue Wave.
They know better than anyone that incumbents nearly always win. They did not want to win.
Rush loves to give the RINOs cover by saying they are afraid of this, that, or the other. He refuses to call their treachery what it is.
They are not cowardly about attacking real conservatives.
But; will he MOVE his residency to Utah??
Time will tell...
“good riddance”...
agreed. This is deep-state, uniparty, entrenched since Bush ‘41 picked up the reins from Reagan. Takes time to weed this garden, replant with bonafide, E Pluribus Unum Americans, and continue cleaning up/saving the Republican Party (...the only party left that is capable of being brought back to American values...).
the JG
Both sides talk about bipartisanship activity. That is a stupid matter to discuss. The answer is no and will not change. Why it is even discussed is a waste time. Wake up people.
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