ELECTIONS

KTS khodet

if you're a republican then I'm santa clause:

"jerry brown .....did moderately well..." !!!

that sums us your logic

and pelosi has everything to do with it.....she was the god..n leader of the democrats

jamesh kon

Dear bahmani, thanks for a great article

Dear bahmani, I enjoyed reading your article and also the comments  on this thread.

Senator Graham "Neuter Iran"

Link: //www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/World/20101106/lindsey-graham-iran-halifax-101106/

like they have done such a good job neutering Iraq and Afghanistan...may these war mongers all rot in hell!!! They already are neutered which is why they use missiles instead...it's penis envy...

 An attack on Iran would solidify the masses behind the government in self defence of their nation. It would kill hundreds of thousands of civilians like it has in Iraq and Afghanistan and create chaos and refugee populations. America has become a war mongering tyrant. It does not have the interests of the Iranian people at heart or even on the radar screen. It seeks only to control the oil and to serve the needs of the military industrial complex and the petroleum industry and to re- install a compliant puppet regime. The US government serves only the large multinational corporations not the people. The American people are in no more of a position to change the government than the people of Iran are to change theirs.

rasool

Brian H. Appleton

aka

Rasool Aryadust

RESP: Shushtari

Most of America was not "Duped" those that voted agreed with the arguments of the right. The voting population is not a majority of America, they happened to be a majority of voters.

Pelosi? Carter? Who mentioned them? This is a perfect example of how the message was altered by the right. You just inserted an entire comment that has not a shred of validity to the piece.

OK one shred, that the left is certainly sore from the beating!

Read it again or more carefully next time before you text in your comments. I'm actually a Republican Conservative... KTS (Khak Too Sar)

bunch of sore lefties....

doesn't surprise me to see this bunch here LOL

so you want us to believe that pelosi is somehow a decent human being!!!! come on, idiots like her and carter should never be allowed to run for office

good luck next time.....

btw, it's pretty absurd to think most of the US population was 'duped'

Things Obama can still do without Congress support

Some actions he can take unilaterally:

1. Take on the banks. The Dodd-Frank act gives the President a huge amount of regulatory power. Obama is timid about using this power.

2. Climate change action. The Supreme Court has given the EPA  authority to regulate carbon emissions. Obama is timid about using this authority.

3. Campaign finance reform. Through the IRS Obama can make life very difficult for contributions abuse. He's timid about ordering tougher tax scrutiny on contributors.

Foregin policy, minimum wage increase, unemployment issues, firing Geitner, cleaning house...are all areas where he has sway as "Sherrif in Chief." But the Sherrif runs and hides whenever any of the bad guys show up in the saloon, and worse yet runs errands for them occasionally.    

 Quote from Froomkin article:

"...And Obama also needs to stop his White House's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) from crippling his own regulatory agenda; Steinzor points the finger at OIRA director Cass Sunstein, who she said "frets more about cost-benefit analyses than about regularly capture."

Sargord shut your pie hole! Now you're a Californian

You're done with Iranian politics and supporting Islamic Republic and are now mixing apples and oranges?  I'm glad Barbara Boxer's ads were featured in your face so you could get a dose of your own medicine! 

Everything is sacred

Hey we Californians didn't

Hey we Californians didn't fall for it. Democrats swept all the major offices.

Unfortunately, though, our California Democrats on the national level are beholden to the Israel lobby. But whacha gonna do. Where applicable, I voted Green.

But it was sure good to see Jerry handily defeat Meg Whitman. You really had to be a real ass to vote for that woman. (I'll bet "Iranian of the Day" Farah Douglas did.)

Election results 4 (D) Representatives who voted against Health

Rep. John Adler (N.J.) [Lost 50% to 47%]
Rep. Jason Altmire (Pa.) [Won 51% to 49%]
Rep. Michael Arcuri (N.Y.) [Lost 53% too 47%]
Rep. John Barrow (Ga.) [Won 57% to 43%
Rep. Marion Berry (Ark.) [Retired seat went to (R) 97% t0 3%!]
Rep. Dan Boren (Okla.) [Won 57% to 43%]
Rep. Rick Boucher (Va.) [Lost 51% to 46%]
Rep. Bobby Bright (Ala.) [Lost 51% to 49%]
Rep. Ben Chandler (Ky.) [Undecided Chandler leads by 600 votes]
Rep. Travis Childers (Miss.) [Lost 55% to 41%]
Rep. Artur Davis (Ala.) [Quit to become Gov, lost, seat went to (R) 72% to 28%]
Rep. Lincoln Davis (Tenn.) [Lost 57% to 39%]
Rep. Chet Edwards (Texas) [Lost 62% to 32%]
Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (S.D.) [Lost 48% to 46%]
Rep. Tim Holden (Pa.) [Won 56% tp 44%]
Rep. Larry Kissell (N.C.) [Won 53% to 44%]
Rep. Frank Kratovil (Md.) [Lost 55% to 42%]
Rep. Dan Lipinski (Ill.) [Won 72% to 24%]
Rep. Stephen Lynch (Mass.) [Won 68% to 26%]
Rep. Jim Marshall (Ga.) [Lost 53% to 47%]
Rep. Jim Matheson (Utah) [Won 85% to 11%]
Rep. Mike McIntyre (N.C.) [Won 54% to 46%]
Rep. Mike McMahon (N.Y.) [Lost 51% to 48%]
Rep. Charlie Melancon (La.) [Lost 64% to 36%]
Rep. Walt Minnick (Idaho) [Lost 51% to 41%]
Rep. Glenn Nye (Va.) [Lost 53% to 41%
Rep. Collin Peterson (Minn.) [Won 55% to 38%]
Rep. Mike Ross (Ark.) [Won 58% to 40%]
Rep. Heath Shuler (N.C.) [Won 54% to 46%]
Rep. Ike Skelton (Mo.) [Lost 50% to 45%]
Rep. Zack Space (Ohio) [Lost 54% to 40%]
Rep. John Tanner (Tenn.) [Retired seat went to (R) 59% to 39%]
Rep. Gene Taylor (Miss.) [Lost 52% to 47%]
Rep. Harry Teague (N.M.) [Lost 55% to 45%]

I made the above analysis myself.  Out of 34 Democrats who voted against healthcare bill and 31 seats up for re-election (3 retired) 18 lost to Republicans.  What does that tell you?

It tells me that voting against healthcare didn't save them, or at the least the results are inconclusive.  It reminds me of Clinton and Monica when at the time Republicans were on a sugar high glee (like now ;-) only to get themselves kicked out of office!

It cost Republicans 2 Speakers of the House and a failed impeachment and losses in Congress and more popularity for Clinton and Gore won (if not for the cheating of Supreme Court).

So in this case I'd use what Clinton taught history which is to embrace controversy and beat them with it in their own game.  Healthcare can be the death of Republicans in 2012.  In every general elections it is a major topic of debate.  Now for the first time there is (will be) healthcare in America.  

Everything is sacred

as a sidenote

I always thought of the real reason they let go of Rahm Emanuel.

He was the only Democrat that had the steel balls to answer back at conservatives with the same intensity and vigor. Instead the WH brought in the chief of staff "who quietly gets the work done" (Rouse).

Maybe it's their whole philosophy or something (of bending over and taking it in the ass). And if so, they dont deserve 2012 either.

Something to ponder on. 

You may be reading too much into this.

First of all, of the 60 seats that Republicans gained, 29 were from the so called imcumbent Blue Dog Democrats out of the total 57 in their caucaus.  One who survived was the old failed Redskins quarterback, De Marcus Russell, sorry Heath Shuler who is now Nancy Pelosi's arch rival!

Second, Faux News is where they've always been and they didn't add that many "supporters" or "new" viewers.  They were just able to galvanize their base and bring them to the polls.

About 25% - 35% voted less (depending on district) than during the 2008 general elections when people came out in droves to vote for Obama.  Democrats weren't able to bring out the vote and in some cases it didn't really matter, like the 29 Blue Dogs who would have lost anyway because they were in the Republican districts to begin with.  Quayle Jr is now the presumptive Rep for his district.

However you look at it Republicans won and I sense a little bit like when Bush won his 2nd term or a little like Ahmadi won his first term and started to open his mouth!  A feeling of guilt. Granted people going to polls more in Iran in Ahmadi's first term may not have mattered anyway, given that election is under question as well, but I'm talking about the feeling afterwards that made people come to vote for Obama and Mousavi in buses and in rain!

Republicans won fair and square but they didn't win everything like they did with Clinton winning House AND Senate.  So now it is up to Obama to stand up to them and shut down the Govt if Republicans follow through with their threats like Mitchel and Cantor said yesterday.  They want "smaller" Govt shut the whole damn Govt altogether!  Would that be "small" enough for them?!

In the next 2 years healthcare can become more important as more people lose their jobs or lose a temp job to temp job.  The economy is so bad that it could stay like this through the end of Obama's 2nd term but at least by 2014 there is that healthcare OPTION that you talked about. 

BTW Medicare is not free for everyone and for many by the time you use Medicare for the first time it's on your death bed when because of never attending to a sickness and waiting till the last minute for Medicare, it costs you your life.

Everything is sacred