Yeah, if there's one group of people that have had it rough over the last 30 years it's real estate developers.

Tea Party's going to have difficulty staying together with boardroom Repubs as "more deregulation for Wall St and real estate developers" isn't exactly what all the anger was about. It's going to be an interesting two years. BO will challenged in the primaries 2012 - wonder who will step up, probably Kucinich or simiilar. BO is re-elected w/52% - although not sure that's the best thing for progressive ideals.

Conservative Christian, right wing Republican, straight, white, American male.
Gay bashin’, black fearin’, poor fightin’, tree killin’, regional leaders of the South
Frat housin’, keg tappin’, shirt tuckin’, back slappin’ haters of hippies like me.
Tree huggin’, peace lovin’, pot smokin’, porn watchin’ lazyass hippies like me.
Tree huggin’, love makin’, pro choicen, gay weddin’, widespread diggin’ hippies like me.
Skin color-blinded, conspiracy-minded, protestors of corporate greed,
We who have nothing and most likely will ‘till we all wind up locked up in jails
By conservative Christian, right wing Republican, straight, white, American males,.

Diamonds and dogs, boys and girls, living together in two separate worlds
Following leaders of mountains of shame, looking for someone to blame.

Diamonds and dogs, boys and girls, living together in two separate worlds
Following leaders of mountains of shame, looking for someone to blame.
I know who I like to blame:

Conservative Christian, right wing Republican, straight, white, American males,
Soul savin’, flag wavin’, Rush lovin’, land pavin’ personal friends to the Quayles
Quite diligently workin’ so hard to keep the free reins of this Democracy
From tree huggin’, peace lovin’, pot smokin’, barefootin’ folk-singin’ hippies like me.
Tree huggin’, peace lovin’, pot smokin’, porn watchin’ lazyass hippies like me.

Buried in this is a link to the New Yorker feature on the Koch Brothers who are widely-known as the "underground" funders of and architects of the anti-progressive "Tea Party". They're obviously brilliant manipulators of the mentally challenged and mad-as-hell white Americans.

Yeah, the enemy building buildings for offices, small businesses, even homes and shit.

Tuesday's vote "is a tectonic shift," said GOP strategist Adam Mendelsohn. "Republicans are going to have to think seriously about how to reestablish their relevance."

Well it's a commonplace to remark that California is fulll of "fruits and nuts" and outside the mainstream (balancing by the also frequent observation that CA is a bellwether that presages what will happen in the other 49). But this election is bizarre. Here's a quote from LA Times by GOP strategist about the devastating impact on the party this election has had:

And everywhere else in the country, the Dems feel the same. Losing 16 Legislative Chambers will have a bigger impact than you think. That's usually a party's "bench" to go to the next level. MN, IA, NH, AL all had 2 houses controlled by Ds and now have none.

When it became clear that Cuccinelli wouldn’t be fielding questions in the media room, as promised by the organizers, Jay and I vowed to each other that we’d ask him at least one question, no matter what we had to do. After Cuccinelli left the stage he went behind a curtain. We followed him to the loading docks–a media credential and a confident stride will get you most places in this country. My heart raced; if the Tea Party beast had a belly, it was this cavernous concrete room.

“We’ve got to do this, right?” I asked Jay. He nodded. I put my hand on my chest to feel my heart and felt plastic on my shirt; I had forgotten that, in an ironic moment, I had stuck a “Cuccinelli for Attorney General” sticker over my breast pocket. I sidled up to my attorney general. He saw my sticker and smiled. I smiled back.

I asked him for his way of determining which academics to investigate. He swatted away my question in a way so odd and disarming I had to smile. I knew I only had time for one more question. I had to make it good.

“You’re a Catholic, right?”

He nodded.

“But you’re pro death penalty, which is against what the Pope said. So where do your allegiances ultimately lie, with the Catholic Church or with American rule of law?”

He put his hand on my shoulder and started shaking me. I’m a 195 pound man. I’m not a small man. And as you can see by the video, he physically moves my body back and forth.

“That is a truly offensive way to phrase a question,” he said. “We are done.” He called in the dogs. And off he went.

When class warfare amounts to standing up for 98% of the country against the remaining 2% of the country, the idea the democrats have that is is somehow a losing strategy has always seemed completely absurd to me. Anybody know what I am missing?

I'll take a stab:
There are various reasons but a stand out one is the clinging to Guns and God Values of the conservative agenda. Repubs pushing these lifestyle values is manna for the masses. It tends to break up the 98% and as a result a good part of the population tends to vote against their own self-interest, at least economically.

Anyone please contribute or elaborate or dismiss at will.

It's a belief in a set of ideals that don't necessarily all jibe with one another (example: being against taxes but demanding a robust military).

I'll take a stab:
There are various reasons but a stand out one is the clinging to Guns and God Values of the conservative agenda. Repubs pushing these lifestyle values is manna for the masses. It tends to break up the 98% and as a result a good part of the population tends to vote against their own self-interest, at least economically.

Anyone please contribute or elaborate or dismiss at will.

When class warfare amounts to standing up for 98% of the country against the remaining 2% of the country, the idea the democrats have that is is somehow a losing strategy has always seemed completely absurd to me. Anybody know what I am missing?

"Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. But he’s run off with all the toys."

Transcript of an excellent speech given by Moyers at Boston University on 10/29:

http://www.truth-out.org/bill-moyers-mo ... dirty64766

I think he overstates how much the guy pushes him.

I'm on the fence about, and have some reservations about this sort of you tube "gotcha!" stuff that goes on now. I'm sure it's the worst fear of someone like Loogs.

I guess the duality of it is this: while it is certainly more democratic for ordinary people who are not professional journalists to go around and ask people questions, (because they presumably don't feel like they are getting the whole story from other media outlets) I'm not sure it's ok to then use some minor missed word or phrase to castigate someone and run them out of office or off a ticket. That seems to me to be the antithesis of free speech.

When class warfare amounts to standing up for 98% of the country against the remaining 2% of the country, the idea the democrats have that is is somehow a losing strategy has always seemed completely absurd to me. Anybody know what I am missing?