Final Comments to results of the 2010 US Mid-term elections?

[Shortline Bus]

Guys any last comments to the 2010 mid term elections? Here in NY, all of the predicted winners won i.e Cuomo for Gov, Schumer and Gillibrand for US Senate, etc.

Nationally, the GOP as expected took control of Congress and the majority of Governors race. While the Democratics barely held on for dear life in the US Senate to maintain a razor thin majority. The only bright spot for America's oldest major political party was Senate leader Harry Reid holding on to his long time seat in Neveda. While Sarah Palin protgee And Tea Party backed US Senate Contender, Christine O' Donnell in Del. lost her race.

 

And in California, voters Rejected 'prop 19' which would legalize, recreational marijuana.

 

 

So feel free to offer any comments/analysis to the post election 2010?

Some questions to ask?

 

1)Will the GOP under pressure from the Tea Party repeal the Obama Health Care Law?

 

2)How will Obama respond to the butt kicking in the mid terms mainly the US House?

 

3)Will the government be shut down due to a split majority in the House/Senate and the Oval Office?

 

Here some articles to the day after Election Day 2010.

 

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/11/03/2010-11-03_president_obama_say_he_feels_bad_takes_blame_for_republican_rout_of_democrats_in.html

 

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/11/03/2010-11-03_christine_odonnell_tea_party_darling_blames_lack_of_gop_unity_for_her_defeat_in_.html

[Kamen Rider]

Please, watch the Nazi Banksters Crimes Ripple Effect at http://jforjustice.co.uk/banksters

[Shortline Bus]

this story

 

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-28th-senate-seat,0,5103893.story

 

kinda bugs me, for two reasons.

 

1. why is this still allowed

 

2. why are these idiots wasting their vote on someone who can't represent them, then wasting a broke state's money on another election next year, while the seat sits empty...

 

Agreed. Granted 2 weeks is very short notice, but the Ca. Democratics IMO should have picked a replacement for her if she won.

[Guest lance25]

Now I could understand if she died yesterday, but a month ago? Come on!!! And this section particularly irks me:

Oropeza died Oct. 20th of complications from a blood clot. The illness had caused her to miss most of this year's Senate session.

If she was sick most of the year, you'd think that at least someone in her campaign would tell her not to run.

 

I know that this was a particularly rough election for most democrats in this country, but they couldn't find anyone else besides the nearly terminally-ill incumbent? Really??

[Dan05979]

I thought Linda Mcmahon was a sure winner, to bad.

[lilbluefoxie]

ugh I was hoping Schumer would be thrown out finally, but i think hes set to be the next robert byrd unless theres a really strong GOP candidate to finally unseat him.

[SubwayGuy]

I thought Linda Mcmahon was a sure winner, to bad.

 

I'm glad her and that loser Meg Whitman lost. I love watching the rich blow a ton of their personal money and get nothing to show for it but a sad sad song on the world's smallest violin. McMahon blew 40 million on advertising and campaigning of her own money, and Whitman was rumored to have spent as much as 140 million. That's a 180 million dollar stimulus for America right there provided they didn't pull a weasel move and hire foreign advertisers.

 

Any millionaire/billionaire (like McMahon) that claims that they've felt the "hard times" of the recession is full of it and deserves no votes from anyone ever.

[INDman]

Hey Nacey, don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out!

[St Louis Car 09]

 

I thought Linda Mcmahon was a sure winner, to bad.

Vince is going to DDT her through the dinning room table when they get home.:tup:

[Infamous85]

Vince is going to DDT her through the dinning room table when they get home.:tup:

 

I knew I wasn't crazy when I saw the name "Linda McMahon".

 

Is Cuomo the good one? I'm always getting everything mixed up.

[Shortline Bus]

Hey Nacey, don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out!

 

IND she still has her San Fran-based seat in Congress which was basically unopposed and might be the Chair of a major committee. However she is gone as speaker of the House.

 

Also Charlie Rangel not only easily won re-election as Harlem Congressman i read it was the 2nd highest pct. of victory in his career. Talk about someone checking into the roach motel woops I mean Congess and never checking out.:eek:

 

And if he was not indicted for steriods years back, I am sure Vince McMahon would have ran for that US Senate seat instead of Linda. The WWE global headquarters(unless it changed)is in Stamford, Ct.

[lilbluefoxie]

IND she still has her San Fran-based seat in Congress which was basically unopposed and might be the Chair of a major committee. However she is gone as speaker of the House.

 

Also Charlie Rangel not only easily won re-election as Harlem Congressman i read it was the 2nd highest pct. of victory in his career. Talk about someone checking into the roach motel woops I mean Congess and never checking out.:eek:

 

And if he was not indicted for steriods years back, I am sure Vince McMahon would have ran for that US Senate seat instead of Linda. The WWE global headquarters(unless it changed)is in Stamford, Ct.

 

Its Greenwich, you can see it on I-95 around Exit 8 and 9

[Shortline Bus]

Its Greenwich, you can see it on I-95 around Exit 8 and 9

 

Foxie, Greenwich is exits 2-3 on I-95. Maybe St Louie can confirm if it in the City limits of Stamford or not. I know it in or right outside Stamford, exits 8-9 which is not Greenwich.

[lilbluefoxie]

Foxie, Greenwich is exits 2-3 on I-95. Maybe St Louie can confirm if it in the City limits of Stamford or not. I know it in or right outside Stamford, exits 8-9 which is not Greenwich.

 

oh, my bad. I do know the exits are accurate tho, its between 7 and 9 going northbound you can see it

[Citaro]

http://www.nyctransitforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24698

[Shortline Bus]

http://www.nyctransitforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24698

 

My friend that a totally different topic on life expentancy. This thread is dealing with mainly just the political aspect on the days following the Mid Terms here in America. Ok. Thanks:tup:

[Citaro]

My friend that a totally different topic on life expentancy. This thread is dealing with mainly just the political aspect on the days following the Mid Terms here in America. Ok. Thanks:tup:

 

Oh, i thought the election has something to do with the healthcare reform. Sorry for that "mistake". lol

[Shortline Bus]

Oh, i thought the election has something to do with the healthcare reform. Sorry for that "mistake". lol

 

no problem. The Nov. 2 election and healthcare reform is only related in this way. Many voters voted for mostly Republican aka Tea Party canadiates who mostly says they want to either change/reform it. And a case of few, they want to abolish it and go back to the national health care system that was effect prior to Obama taking office.

 

The biggest reason Citaro, Obama's party lost the majority of the US Congress in this 'mid term elections' was the economy here in US is still terrible in a recession. Health Care refom was also a big factor but not the main reason.

[SubwayGuy]

The Tea Party has gotten hijacked from its original purpose. Even the one who coined the name "Tea Party" thinks so.

 

The original Tea Party movement against elitist jerks who believe in deregulating all businesses and bailing out big business with taxpayer money has been hijacked...by the same crooks who did it in the first place.

 

That's why the Tea Party of 2010 is a joke, and a bad one at that.

 

Read:

 

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/10/karl-denninger-tea-party-founder-tea-party-is-a-joke/

 

http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?singlepost=2222649

 

http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?singlepost=2229299

[INDman]

Many voters voted for mostly Republican aka Tea Party canadiates who mostly says they want to either change/reform it. And a case of few, they want to abolish it and go back to the national health care system that was effect prior to Obama taking office.

 

 

 

Most Americans on both sides of the isle want to repeal Obamacare. The big problem that many people have with it is that Democratic leadership pushed the Bill through with out reading the whole thing and they even admitted to doing so. i don't care what political hack you follow, but there is something wrong will legislation being passed and only those who wrote it actually know what's in the bill.

[Citaro]

Congratulation America

 

You've voted for:

 

-no healthcare for everbody

-profit for banks

-profit for insurance companies

-profit for gun industry

-less gov. = less democracy

-more poverty and less financial security (social security cuts)

-less money for education = more outsourcing

-more religion and less science

-more wars

-no oil independency

-tax cuts = more deficit

-no ARC

-no money for the broken infrastructure (no high speed rail, privatization of Amtrak, US Postal etc)

 

 

And that is what Britain does: "Britain Cuts Spending While Investing in Infrastructure

 

It seems like ages ago that Obama presented his $50 billion plan for a National Infrastructure Bank—a project that initially had bipartisan support. But Republicans took control of the House in yesterday’s elections, and John Boehner, set to become House majority leader, has already said that moving America forward “starts with cutting spending.” As Transport Politic points out in its excellent post-election coverage, “a decrease in public expenditures in general likely means fewer funds for highway and transit projects.”

 

Seems like bad news for the Infra Bank. After all, you can’t cut spending while simultaneously investing in infrastructure, right?

 

Not necessarily, says Britain. Late last month British Prime Minister David Cameron announced plans to severely slash government spending—only to follow up by calling for billions of dollars to be spent on the country’s “first ever national infrastructure plan.” Cameron hopes to improve energy, transport, digital, and water infrastructure over the next five years to the tune of $315 billion in public and private funding partnerships. The federal government will get things going by pitching in $47 billion for transportation in the next four years alone, “even in these constrained times,” Cameron said.

 

The fundamental goals of Britain’s National Infrastructure Plan 2010 are those that, in theory, would charm even Republican leaders in the United States. They include expanding the private sector, facilitating industry, and sparking economic growth both short- and long-term. The combination of spending cuts and infrastructure improvements “demands out attention,” writes Robert Puentes in the New Republic:

 

This is not merely a plan for improving infrastructure. It is a plan for improving the U.K. economy through the lens of infrastructure improvements. That’s an important distinction the US has been slow to embrace, but one we cannot afford to ignore.

 

If Republicans want to create jobs, infrastructure might be the way to go. One policy analyst recently told the Huffington Post that a $200 billion infrastructure investment could support some four million jobs. Besides, as one advocate of Cameron’s plan points out in the Financial Times (registration required), there’s “no better time” than now for such a plan, with “unusually low long-term rates on public debt”:

 

Put simply, a new national infrastructure bank can help Mr Cameron square the circle of reducing a deficit which burdens future tax payers while supporting growth.

 

The real square into a circle, of course, will be getting America’s political right to listen to the ideas of those who drive on the left." Posted on Wednesday November 3rd by Eric Jaffe - The Infrastructurist

[MTARegional Bus]

you hit the nail on the head Citaro,

 

 

It also disappointing that young people didn't vote that much,I was probably only young person in vote center,''were are all the young obama voters that I saw in 2008'':(

 

Also it really sad that the Republicans took over the senate,witch means they will do all they can to get Rid of Obama instead of working with him and will kill the new heath care bill.''congratulation American people''''you won a ticket to Pre 2007''

[PopsicleXGirl]

america has spoke. i am glad the republicans took over.

[EE Broadway Local]

In Arizona, Governor Jan K. Brewer has won reelection to a new four year term and Mesa voters passed Proposition 420 which gives the Chicago Cubs a new Spring Cactus League stadium.

 

The Cubs are popular here and Wrigleyville (which replace Ho Ho Kam Stadium) will keep the North Side team for thirty (30) years.

 

The Cubs have Spring Trained in Mesa twice - from 1952 to 1965 (when Mesa was still small) and since 1979 (they did so in Long Beach in 1966 and Scottsdale, Az. from 1967-1979.

 

Mesa voters also voted in favor of Question 1 and Question 2. These help improve public safety (Police, Fire, Streets Departments).

[Shortline Bus]

this is something that will intrest St louie Car Company. In Ct., in the Governor's race for the State house in Hartford, most of the state/national news outlets has projected former Stamford Mayor Molloy the winner. However his GOP oppopent has yet to admit defeat in the 'photo-finish' tight race.

 

This is one of the closest races for the Governor's race in Ct.'s history.

 

Also Nancy Pelsosi has stated she will try to stay on as Democratic(Minority)leader of the US House. My take is that Obama and his party should ask her kindly to 'step aside' and offer her a chairmanship of a committee or something.

It a must if Obama wants re-election in 2012 and will show how he refuses to adpat to change after the butt kicking in Tuesday's Mid-terms.