Oh, now you've done it.
See? You see what happens when you young liberal voters get so disgruntled and disillusioned that you drop all your party's newborn, hard-won ideas about hope-and-trade and change-and-trade, without any patience, without really giving them sufficient time to mature, without understanding that hugely foreign, anti-American concept known as "the long view"?
See what happens when you wallow in hollow disappointment, trudging all over your liberal arts campus and refusing to vote in a rather important mid-term election, all because your pet issues and nubile ego weren't immediately serviced by a mesmerizing guy named Barack Obama just after he sucked you into his web of fuzzy-happy promises a mere two years ago, back when you were knee-high to a shiny liberal ideology?
Well, now you know. This is what happens: The U.S. House of Representatives, the most insufferable gaggle of political mongrels this side of, well, the rest of Congress, reverts to GOP control like a brain tumor reverts to a more aggressive form of cancer, and everything gets bleaker and sadder and, frankly, a whole lot nastier.
What happens is this: Many kinds of fragmented, muddled, but still constructive Democratic progress might get stopped quite nearly dead, and even a few pieces of legislation we actually did gain get slapped around, threatened, stomped on the head like a scientist at a Rand Paul rally. Happy now?
Check it out, kiddo: This is not just any Republican party you allowed back into power; these mealy folks are not anything like the war-hungry, Bush-tainted army of flying monkeys and Dick Cheney moose knuckles you so wonderfully helped bury in the history books last election.
No, the GOP of 2010-2011 is even weirder, dumber, less interested in anything you even remotely care about; this GOP is infused like a sour cocktail with a bitter splash of the most cartoonish, climate change-denying Tea Party dingbats imaginable -- most of whom think you're an elitist, terrorist-loving, gay-supporting threat to "real" American values, btw -- all led by a guy named Boehner who wears a bizarre, shellacked tan so fake and creepy it makes Nancy Pelosi looks like a supermodel.
And you made it all happen. Or rather, you failed to prevent it from happening, by not voting, by turning your collective back on Obama's tough love, by getting all whiny and dejected like some sort of sullen teen vampire who can't get laid.
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Obama could have interpreted the elections to mean that he needs to move to the left. He won't. And that's precisely why such weaklings should not be voted for in the first place.
Why, when Democrats win the election, do Republicans call the shots, but when Republicans win the election (even one house), Republicans call the shots?
Because people like you keep insisting that we vote for spineless center-right Democrats.
Other than that though you once again prove what is 100% wrong with young Dem voters. You punish the people who agree with you 75% for not going the other 25...and in so doing allow people that agree with you 0% to take power. Also, this contention that Dems would have won if they had done more is simply silly and any real journalist like Fareed Zakaria pointed this out. The moronic Independent's who by the way are statistically most likely to be 30-55, are flip floppers. Yes maybe they would have turned out less, but they weren't going to pull the lever for Sharron Angle because they wanted Obama to be MORE liberal. Common that's just silly and you know it.
Your still living in a dreamworld where a real liberal could get elected. Notice how the right rarely actually puts up someone that is far-right....Bush paid pure lip service to the social issues that matter most to many of them. WHY? Because they know a true conservative could never win. Its time you realized that a true lib could not win currently on the national level, and its time you started acting like a pragmatic adult as opposed to the child who cries at his b-day because he only gets half of what he wants and in so doing ruins the party for everyone.
The biggest Dem losers were the "Blue Dogs", aka the most conservative Dems in the party.
To me, that sounds like a good thing. No I take that back- it sounds like a GREAT thing. If the DNC won't clear out the ConservaDems, the voters are going to have to do it instead.
I may respect the ones sides views more, but fundamentally the liberal left and conservative right are the exact same...purely ideologically driven. The difference...the conservative right still votes pragmatically.
It seems to me if we want any group to get involved it might be best if we first take responsibility for our own role in letting things get this far. Then, we might want to try something other than leading with "whiny Democrat," regardless of the degree to which the description is true.
It also doesn't help to lead with "Plenty of whiners" in the first sentence then "Thanks for nothing" whining at the end.
But I guess its easier to blame the youth who dont have a single voice then look at the people at the top who drove the poltic car right off the cliff instead of guiding it right.
Obama has made a little headway on the international front, and that is about all that has matched expectations.
What will happen now? Gridlock. Nothing gets done. I expected the Dems to make things happen with control of both houses and the presidency and they didn't. They failed miserably to make any real headway and the only winners were the lobbyists.
Maybe the whole nation will need 50 years of Republican idiocy, mismanagement and economic catastrophe before things change. I don't know.
Change and progress was being made and now we will be pushed back further beyond our 1/20/2009 starting point.
Like the Tea Baggers, we need to stop looking for either party to solve the problems and start getting all up in their face.