They Rolled The Dice And Lost

[dan_c00000]

Sometimes recall elections work and sometimes they don't. This one didn't. The one for Walker in WI didn't either, sadly.

Though even with the 2 extra GOPs the Democrats still have a 1 vote majority in the senate (18 to 17), a larger majority in the house (37 to 28) and the gov. is a Democrat (Hickenlooper [awesome name]).

 

[phrodeau]

It's all about Democracy and the Will of the People, isn't it? I am amazed that nobody has chosen to mention the one major force behind the entire recall - the National Rifle Association.

Do we really want a single special interest group to decide who is representing us in government? What kind of Democracy is that?

 

[Wrong Element]

Funny how these "pro-democracy" types took measures to limit the number of people who would vote...

 

[Busybody]

Funny how these "pro-democracy" types took measures to limit the number of people who would vote...

 

[koalabear]

Funny how these "pro-democracy" types took measures to limit the number of people who would vote...

No surprise you are crying because Bloomy lost.

 

[Busybody]

No surprise you are crying because Bloomy lost.

Tee Hee

Ever notice, they never lose without screaming


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[koalabear]

Tee Hee

Ever notice, they never lose without screaming


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Surprisingly no one blamed Bush.

 

[koalabear]

“Much of the disgust heaped on Senators Morse and Giron was based on their dismissive attitudes towards constituents who opposed these new laws,” Jeff M. in Colorado Springs commented. “Both cared more about their liberal ideology and the praise being heaped on them from liberals like Obama, Bloomberg and Maddow than they cared about their own voters.”

 

[eyer]

An even greater tenet of democracy is that representatives are sent to legislatures in order to represent their constituents. That is so well established a fact that it needs no proof.

A democracy is defined by the absolute absence of representatives...

...the United States is a constitutional republic.

On another note:

Have you introduced your minor-loving azz to Recidiva yet?

 

[unregistered]

 

[BotanyBoy]

Show me one of those meltdowns concerning background checks.

He can't....he knows damn well the background check meltdowns are on the left side.

He'll never admit it thought, he sucks LWCJ dick so hard he can't smell the jizz leaking out his nose anymore.

"MOAR GUN CONTROL!! WORKS GREAT IN CHICAGO, DC, NYC and every other dumb shit joint who relies on them!!" - LWCJ

"LMFAO!!!! Keep running gun sales up!!" - Gun crowd

 

[Boxlicker101]

A democracy is defined by the absolute absence of representatives...

...the United States is a constitutional republic.

On another note:

Have you introduced your minor-loving azz to Recidiva yet?

There is a form of government called representative democracy in which citizens vote for representatives to go to the capitol to vote in favor of their interests.

I hope you know the federal government is not involved in this thread, just the state of CO.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

“Much of the disgust heaped on Senators Morse and Giron was based on their dismissive attitudes towards constituents who opposed these new laws,” Jeff M. in Colorado Springs commented. “Both cared more about their liberal ideology and the praise being heaped on them from liberals like Obama, Bloomberg and Maddow than they cared about their own voters.”

It happens a lot around here. Pols get elected then get full of themselves. The sheriff just arrested the Koran burning preacher, and confiscated a truck load of Korans headed for a bonfire. The sheriff says the preacher was transporting 'fuel' illegally. His stance will delight the pansies and perfessers and pols but will annoy the Crackers, who are most of the voters here.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I bet he was all for Democracy until he saw how it actually works.

This is the same crew that has spent the past 60 years trying to convince everyone that the US is a Democracy and that we ought to shit can those undemocratic institutions like the electoral college.

All one can do is laugh.

Ishmael

Indeed. The sheep is always shocked when the wolves vote on lunch...

"A society of sheep begets a government of wolves."
Bertrand de Jouvenel
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… an immense tutelary power is elevated, which alone takes charge of assuring their enjoyments and watching over their fate. It is absolute, detailed, rigid, far-seeing and mild. It would resemble paternal power if, like that, it had for its object to prepare men for manhood; but on the contrary, it seeks only to keep them fixed irrevocably in childhood; it likes citizens to enjoy themselves. It willingly works for their happiness; but it wants to be the unique agent and sole arbiter of that.
Thus, taking each individual by turns in its powerful hands and kneading him as it likes, the sovereign extends its arms over society as a whole; it covers its surface with a network of small, complicated, painstaking, uniform rules through which the most original minds and the most vigorous souls cannot clear a way to surpass the crowd; it does not break wills, but it softens them, bends them and directs them; it rarely forces one to act, but it constantly opposes itself to one’s acting; it does not destroy, it prevents things from being born; it does not tyrannize, it hinders, compromises, enervates, extinguishes, dazes and finally reduces each nation to being nothing more than a herd of timid and industrial animals of which the government is the shepherd.
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Three elections in the last week have challenged long-held liberal premises about how elections are fought and what the public wants. It’s worth examining those results in such widely separated places as Australia, Norway, and the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.

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In all three elections held in the last week — from Australia to Norway to Colorado — liberals forgot that their priorities aren’t often those of the average voter. In each case, they were punished for it.

John Fund, NRO

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/358427/liberals-retreat-john-fund

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

There was much more going on in Tuesday's recall elections Colorado than an up and down vote on Second Amendment Issues. We may be looking at a bipartisan rebellion against a problem that afflicts both parties: lawmakers passing laws that make them feel virtuous but which are either ineffectual or actually make life worse for the voters. It was arrogance and overreaching that deposed the leader of the Colorado State Senate and a female Hispanic Democrat from a district where registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by 24 percent.

Rosslyn Smith, American Thinker

http://www.americanthinker.com/2013...bout_more_than_gun_control.html#ixzz2elzBOg40

 

[RobDownSouth]

Show me one of those meltdowns concerning background checks.

Sorry, Clyde, you've forfeited the right to demand "Show Me WHAR"!

Remember the last time you did that? Hmmm?

You asked us to show you whar you said a stock was technically a loan? Hmmm?

We did. Chapter and verse. Even the ultimate rarity: Your "bro" AJ agreeing with us and urging you to "move on".

But you couldn't admit defeat...because you lacked the personal honor to do so. You lacked the spine. You lacked the character to own up to your own mistakes.

As such, I am under no obligation to prove anything to you any longer, until such time as you man up enough to own your errors.

Have a nice day, sissy.

 

[Busybody]

Fuckimg Loons

DNC Chief Wasserman Schultz Blames Colorado Recall Election Loss On The NRA And The Koch Brothers… Reality: Opponents of the recall like Nanny Bloomberg’s group Mayors Against Illegal Guns poured $3 million into the Dem campaigns, outspending pro-gun groups by a massive 6-to-1 ratio, who managed to raise only $500,000 to try and recall the two Democrats. -

 

[Busybody]

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STFU, FREAK!

 

[Busybody]

VOTER SUPPRESSION


Pro-union teachers in the Kenosha Unified School District in Wisconsin failed to reach the 50 percent threshold necessary to reauthorize its union. Only 37 percent of educators voted to reauthorize what was the state’s third-largest union with 2,400 members last month.

The vote is a result of public-employee union reforms signed by Governor Scott Walker in 2011, which triggered a recall election, in which he eventually prevailed in 2012. The Wisconsin Budget Repair Bill required public unions to hold an annual recertification vote.

The union no longer carries any official status in representing the district’s teachers and cannot negotiate for its members as a whole, while it still may represent individual educators. Teachers can still financially contribute to the union as well, but mandatory union dues will no longer be required.

 

[dan_c00000]

Fox Revives Its Bogus New Black Panther Fear Mongering

By News Hound Ellen





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It’s scary-black-man déjà vu all over again at Fox News. This morning, as the polls opened across the country – and the New York Times’ Nate Silver gave President Obama a 92% chance of winning the election - a Fox News Alert warned, as Steve Doocy put it, that “some critics” say that a member of the New Black Panther Party “standing guard” outside a Philadelphia polling place “looks like intimidation, like in 2008.”

Well, if it is like 2008, then the only thing to fear is how Fox News may misuse and distort the incident. An excellent article in Main Justice, a website that reports on the DOJ, explains with great clarity and specificity just how Fox teamed up with GOP operatives to politicize - in an especially racial context - the Obama administration's decision not to make a federal case out of the inconsequentially semi-thuggish behavior of two black men acting as poll watchers in a district with 34 whites in a precinct of 970. Nearly two years later, Main Justice noted:


“No voters at all in the Philadelphia precinct have come forward to allege intimidation. The complaints have come from white Republican poll watchers, who have given no evidence they were registered to vote in the majority black precinct.”

Doocy didn’t mention which precinct the NBPP “guard” was at but chances are it’s the same majority black precinct. In 2010, the NBPP was there again, this time without incident. The Philadelphia Inquirer quoted Judge of Elections Lugina Robinson as complaining, “The media is still blowing it out of proportion... There hasn't been any static and turnout has been great. He's not bothering anybody."

Doocy and Fox seemed determined to fear monger and the evidence be damned – or hidden. As a lower-third banner misleadingly referred to the man as a member of “Black Panthers,” (when that group has disavowed any association with the New Black Panther Party), Doocy said,


A member of the New Black Panther Party standing guard outside a polling place in Philadelphia. Hmm. The organization claims they are monitoring the 2012 election but some critics say that it looks like intimidation, like in 2008. And in an election that is virtually tied, every vote counts.”

Guest Peter Johnson, Jr. not only advanced the “scary black man” meme but added the “Obama administration didn’t prosecute because they favor black people” meme that was at the heart of Fox’s original “controversy.” Johnson said that the black man in the video, who mostly stood with his hands folded in front of him, was in “some kind of semi-military pose.” He continued, “We know that the New Black Panther Party was not prosecuted based on what happened four years ago and that became a big, big controversy. …If someone stands at the poll in a way that appears to be intimidating, it is intimidating.”

And if it isn’t intimidating, you can count on Fox doing its best to make it so - especially if it can make political hay in a swing state. Except when they're for intimidation and not against it.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Here is a videotape of the incident in 2008. If you can look at those two men, one of them brandishing a billy club and both in paramilitary garb, and say there was no intimidation going on, I have an excellent bridge you might be interested in buying.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neGbKHyGuHU

 

[phrodeau]

Here is a videotape of the incident in 2008. If you can look at those two men, one of them brandishing a billy club and both in paramilitary garb, and say there was no intimidation going on, I have an excellent bridge you might be interested in buying.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neGbKHyGuHU

AAHHH!! Darkies are scaaaary!

 

[Boxlicker101]

AAHHH!! Darkies are scaaaary!

That was the response desired by these two particular men. I'm glad to see you are empathizing with the white voters who were scared away.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

VOTER SUPPRESSION


Pro-union teachers in the Kenosha Unified School District in Wisconsin failed to reach the 50 percent threshold necessary to reauthorize its union. Only 37 percent of educators voted to reauthorize what was the state’s third-largest union with 2,400 members last month.

The vote is a result of public-employee union reforms signed by Governor Scott Walker in 2011, which triggered a recall election, in which he eventually prevailed in 2012. The Wisconsin Budget Repair Bill required public unions to hold an annual recertification vote.

The union no longer carries any official status in representing the district’s teachers and cannot negotiate for its members as a whole, while it still may represent individual educators. Teachers can still financially contribute to the union as well, but mandatory union dues will no longer be required.