Election 2010: Teabaggin' the Ds & Rs

[sgtclub]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

if you are eating middle eastern food, and not in the middle east, or the 313, 586 or 248 then you are not having an optimal experience. no offense. for that matter probably most of the middle east is sub-optimal due to quality/cleanliness concerns.

Add the 310 to that list.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

if you are eating middle eastern food, and not in the middle east, or the 313, 586 or 248 then you are not having an optimal experience. no offense. for that matter probably most of the middle east is sub-optimal due to quality/cleanliness concerns.

With that build up, we'll have middle-eastern when I come to Detroit.

[Penske 2.0]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

With that build up, we'll have middle-eastern when I come to Detroit.

I expect to be in Ann Arbour in a few weeks.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Penske 2.0

I expect to be in Ann Arbour in a few weeks.

ann arbor? try the granola!

[Tyrone Slothrop]

The Senate's rules really need to be fixed. This is absurd.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

The Senate's rules really need to be fixed. This is absurd.

it will be fixed. in about a month and a half there is a vote that will return the country to where the two parties have to work together. several Dem Senators will be selling used cars by February. WTTW- don't trust them.

[Cletus Miller]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

it will be fixed. in about a month and a half there is a vote that will return the country to where the two parties have to work together. several Dem Senators will be selling used cars by February. WTTW- don't trust them.

I thought they'd already voted to close most of the used car dealers?

Aren't they just going to get UAW jobs?

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

it will be fixed. in about a month and a half there is a vote that will return the country to where the two parties have to work together. several Dem Senators will be selling used cars by February. WTTW- don't trust them.

Do you really think the Tea Party Party is going to get constructive any time soon? The only thing they hate more than the Dems are the Rs who work with the Dems.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

Do you really think the Tea Party Party is going to get constructive any time soon? The only thing they hate more than the Dems are the Rs who work with the Dems.

Scott Brown distanced himself from the Tea Party in a hurry and has made a couple moves across the aisle already. Once they get into DC, they reform toward the center. DeMint's the only Orthodox (perhaps Hasidic) tea partier in the chamber.

[Cletus Miller]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Scott Brown distanced himself from the Tea Party in a hurry and has made a couple moves across the aisle already. Once they get into DC, they reform toward the center. DeMint's the only Orthodox (perhaps Hasidic) tea partier in the chamber.

What about Coburn?

And DeMint's just an idiot.

Scott Brown wasn't a bona fide TP'r in the first place.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Cletus Miller

What about Coburn?

And DeMint's just an idiot.

Scott Brown wasn't a bona fide TP'r in the first place.

Thune is sucking up to the tea party like crazy.

We've learned over the years that the Rs value their radical right hard core supporters vastly more than their middle of the roaders. They'll continue to play to them.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

Do you really think the Tea Party Party is going to get constructive any time soon? The only thing they hate more than the Dems are the Rs who work with the Dems.

What I think will be more interesting than any post election bizarreness from tea parties is voters' reactions when they get gridlock and business nevertheless continues to hoard cash and refocus on emerging markets abroad. Jack Welch has a point about HCReform being a goddamned economic abomination. But aside from that, all this bullshit about "uncertainty" caused by Obama is that and not much more. Business is investing abroad because it can find profits there it won't find here, and the real uncertainty here isn't what Obama or a titular twit like Warren might do. The uncertainty is that we're turning into an insolvent country. People are still running to our debt because its the most dependable, seemingly safest form around. But even China's pulling back on its Treasury buys (10% decrease). That trend can accelerate awfully fast, and with it, we'll get the mother of all crises.

I want to know what happens in 2012 when voters realize neither party can, to borrow from that terrible SNL skit, "fix it!"

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Cletus Miller

What about Coburn?

And DeMint's just an idiot.

Scott Brown wasn't a bona fide TP'r in the first place.

Coburn has reached across the aisle. Not much, but he has done so. DeMint's the only sorched earth, fuck-them-even-if-in-so-doing-you-fuck-yourself-a-little nut.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

Thune is sucking up to the tea party like crazy.

We've learned over the years that the Rs value their radical right hard core supporters vastly more than their middle of the roaders. They'll continue to play to them.

The party will play them like it plays pro-life loons. The same way the Dems play the DailyKos arseholes.

[Cletus Miller]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

Thune is sucking up to the tea party like crazy.

We've learned over the years that the Rs value their radical right hard core supporters vastly more than their middle of the roaders. They'll continue to play to them.

SoDak is a near perfect (Repub) polity for the TP'rs--just so long as the Gub'mint keeps its hands off of farm subsidies and ethanol requirements. And doesn't let that cheap Brazilian ethanol get dumped on the USA. And keeps funding highway repair. And stays out of Indian and public lands issues. You know, all of the big libertarian issues.