Government by assassination

[REDWAVE]

Well, the neanderthals on the board have been busy lately crowing about the big Republican victory Tuesday night. To put all that nonsense into perspective, it should be kept in mind that most of the eligible voters didn't. Of the less than 40% who did, the Republicans got the votes of a little more than half. That means they have the support of about 20% of the country-- hardly overwhelming.

The shift in the balance of power in the Senate, with the GOP going from 49 to (so far) 51 seats, was due to very close elections in two states, Missouri and Minnesota. In 2000, Mel Carnahan won the Senate seat in Missouri that was up for grabs in this election. The only reason that seat came up for a vote again this time was Carnahan died in a mysterious small plane crash just before the 2000 election, and his widow was appointed to replace him. In Minnesota, Paul Wellstone also died in an extremely suspicious small plane crash just before the election, and just as he had taken the lead against Coleman, who ended up beating 74 year old Walter Mondale. Paul Wellstone was a major thorn in Bush's side, who made no secret of the fact he wanted to get rid of him any way he could. And he found a way. Hmmm, the shift in the control of the Senate was the result of two highly suspicious small plane crashes in two years. Coincidence, or conspiracy? You decide.

Government by assassination is alive and well. It pays to eliminate your competition. The Republican control of Congress now is just as phony and illegitimate as is their occupation of the White House.

 

[Problem Child]

I'm not even going to waste my time being creative.

You're a moron.

 

[HeavyStick]

You're an idiot.

You cry the same song with every thread and give it a new name.

Go write some more shitty poetry and update your webpage.

 

[70/30]

Actually I've done a decent job in making them curb the CROWing

 

[REDWAVE]

What?

What's that you say, Bastard Child & Heavy Stink? I can't hear you.

 

[70/30]

They still think it tho

 

[Problem Child]

If scientists could make a walnut fuck a dalmation you're an idiot.

 

[HeavyStick]

If scientists could make a walnut fuck a dalmation you're an idiot.

?wtf? lol

 

[Problem Child]

?wtf? lol

Shutup, I'm trying to make less sense than REDWAVE. It's fucking tough, I tell ya!

 

[REDWAVE]

70/30

Hey, dude. I just thought I'd post this thread to give the morons something to chew their cud over.

 

[Problem Child]

Re: What?

What's that you say, Bastard Child & Heavy Stink? I can't hear you.

HAHAHAHaHaHaHahahahhaaaaaaaaa.....pppffft.

 

[70/30]

Time erodes. My scapel's getting dull, much like

 

[teddybear4play]

Well, the neanderthals on the board have been busy lately crowing about the big Republican victory Tuesday night. To put all that nonsense into perspective, it should be kept in mind that most of the eligible voters didn't. Of the less than 40% who did, the Republicans got the votes of a little more than half. That means they have the support of about 20% of the country-- hardly overwhelming.

And? Just because you think all those nonvoters' nonvotes should count as votes of "no confidence" doesn't make it so.

Furthermore, if you really want something that will drive you nuts, consider also that the only real people with the power to swing the Senate back into Republican hands were the voters in the states where the electoral outcome wasn't already known. So it's basically the voters in Georgia, Arkansas, Louisiana, Colorado, Minnesota, and South Dakota who determined the makeup of the U.S. Senate. Go figure.

Coincidence, or conspiracy? You decide.

Government by assassination is alive and well. It pays to eliminate your competition. The Republican control of Congress now is just as phony and illegitimate as is their occupation of the White House.

Until you can produce any sort of evidence that it's a conspiracy, you have no business alleging it.

TB4p

 

[Don K Dyck]

Well, the neanderthals on the board have been busy lately crowing about the big Republican victory Tuesday night. To put all that nonsense into perspective, it should be kept in mind that most of the eligible voters didn't. Of the less than 40% who did, the Republicans got the votes of a little more than half. That means they have the support of about 20% of the country-- hardly overwhelming.

The shift in the balance of power in the Senate, with the GOP going from 49 to (so far) 51 seats, was due to very close elections in two states, Missouri and Minnesota. In 2000, Mel Carnahan won the Senate seat in Missouri that was up for grabs in this election. The only reason that seat came up for a vote again this time was Carnahan died in a mysterious small plane crash just before the 2000 election, and his widow was appointed to replace him. In Minnesota, Paul Wellstone also died in an extremely suspicious small plane crash just before the election, and just as he had taken the lead against Coleman, who ended up beating 74 year old Walter Mondale. Paul Wellstone was a major thorn in Bush's side, who made no secret of the fact he wanted to get rid of him any way he could. And he found a way. Hmmm, the shift in the control of the Senate was the result of two highly suspicious small plane crashes in two years. Coincidence, or conspiracy? You decide.

Government by assassination is alive and well. It pays to eliminate your competition. The Republican control of Congress now is just as phony and illegitimate as is their occupation of the White House.

Hi Redwave . . . I think you have called it correctly . . . sitting Senators generally don't have Reserve Candidates sitting, waiting in the wings, and this is typical CIA style operations . . . just like the ones at the Warren Commission into the JFK assassination when FBI heavies No 3 to 10 inclusive, all dies in suspicious circumstances . . . shooting accidents and car wrecks generally the day before they were to testify to the Commission . . . FBI heavies 1 and 2 were the cross dressing J Edgar Hoover and his boy friend Clyde Tollson . . . (Thanks Rose)

Then there were the other famous assassinations that have never been satisfactorily investigated . . . JFK, RFK, Martin Luther King Jnr, Malcolm X . . . and numerous lesser lights . . .

Yep, I would agree . . . government by assassination is alive and well in the good ole US of A . . . . . . must be the Republicans back in power . . . remember Nixon . . . and Vietnam . . . and Watergate . . . good ole boys just struttin' their stuff . . . and stuffin' the country . . .

 

[A Desert Rose]

Re: Re: Government by assassination

FBI heavies 1 and 2 were the cross dressing J Edgar Hoover and his boy friend Clyde Tolhurst . . .

Dammit and I was going to bed, too.

It's Tollson...... Clyde Tollson. sheeeesh

 

[Ishmael]

Well, the neanderthals on the board have been busy lately crowing about the big Republican victory Tuesday night. To put all that nonsense into perspective, it should be kept in mind that most of the eligible voters didn't. Of the less than 40% who did, the Republicans got the votes of a little more than half. That means they have the support of about 20% of the country-- hardly overwhelming.

The shift in the balance of power in the Senate, with the GOP going from 49 to (so far) 51 seats, was due to very close elections in two states, Missouri and Minnesota. In 2000, Mel Carnahan won the Senate seat in Missouri that was up for grabs in this election. The only reason that seat came up for a vote again this time was Carnahan died in a mysterious small plane crash just before the 2000 election, and his widow was appointed to replace him. In Minnesota, Paul Wellstone also died in an extremely suspicious small plane crash just before the election, and just as he had taken the lead against Coleman, who ended up beating 74 year old Walter Mondale. Paul Wellstone was a major thorn in Bush's side, who made no secret of the fact he wanted to get rid of him any way he could. And he found a way. Hmmm, the shift in the control of the Senate was the result of two highly suspicious small plane crashes in two years. Coincidence, or conspiracy? You decide.

Government by assassination is alive and well. It pays to eliminate your competition. The Republican control of Congress now is just as phony and illegitimate as is their occupation of the White House.

What a piece of shit you are. Really.

Ishmael

 

[Lost Cause]

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[scylis]

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[TWB]

REDWAVE raises an interesting point, though he does not state it directly. Both in the 2000 and in the 2002 elections such a small number of people swung the political direction of this country. In 2000, more people actually voted for Gore, and Bush won by less than 300 votes (if they had swung the other way). In this election, two close states, and they were close, decided the outcome.

Repulicans should be happy, but their support is again not extremely deep. We are not talking about any landslides in 2000 or in 2002.

 

[REDWAVE]

Nice ass-- I mean, av

That's right, TWB. Also, up until now, Bush could divert blame over the economy from himself with some degree of plausibility to the Senate Democrats. Now that he has has total control of government, he has no one to blame. As the economy continues to collapse, I expect Bush to become very unpopular over the next two years. The big question, however, is: will there even be elections in 2004?

 

[zipman]

Re: Nice ass-- I mean, av

That's right, TWB. Also, up until now, Bush could divert blame over the economy from himself with some degree of plausibility to the Senate Democrats. Now that he has has total control of government, he has no one to blame. As the economy continues to collapse, I expect Bush to become very unpopular over the next two years. The big question, however, is: will there even be elections in 2004?

REDWAVE, you are the only one I know who could make a return to McCarthyism sound like a good idea!

 

[REDWAVE]

Ignore

This Ignore feature is really cool. Filters out all the bullshit.

 

[Problem Child]

Re: Re: Nice ass-- I mean, av

REDWAVE, you are the only one I know who could make a return to McCarthyism sound like a good idea!

REDWAVE makes eugenics sound like a good idea.

 

[JazzManJim]

Repulicans should be happy, but their support is again not extremely deep. We are not talking about any landslides in 2000 or in 2002.

This is a false argument.

Since the mid-1960's the mid-term elections have hinged on a very small number of votes on one side or the other. That's the nature of the mid-term election. The one in Reagan's first term swung to the Dems by 29,000 votes nationally.

If we followed the "you didn't win by much, so don't be aggressive in your agenda" theory, Daschle better be damned quiet, since his mate in SD only won by 500 votes.

In an election, the margin of victory really isn't all that important. If you have the majority, you lead. It's that easy. The Democrats provided exactly zero leadership with the Senate and they paid hard for it. I think the Republicans saw that and won't make the same mistake.

But, for the record, the Gallup organization did a tally of nationwide congressional voting by party and found that the Republicans garnered 53.6% of the vote and the Dems a tad over 46%. That's a pretty clear majority.

 

[Problem Child]

Everything JMJ said, plus, the party in the white house never picks up seats in a mid-term election.

If you don't think this election was big, or that Bush doesn't have a mandate now, you're just dense.