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The Dems still have the Senate and Obama still has the veto pen, and the Republicans didn't get to this point by making compromises with the other side--and if they attempt to do so, they now have a powerful wing of their party that will punish them for it. The government probably won't be doing anything to create jobs, but since the possibility of action will still appear to exist, companies probably won't be encouraged to start hiring because they won't know what, if anything, will come out of Washington. Hence, I doubt the economy will substantially improve in the next two years, and in 2012 it will be Boehner and friends explaining to the country why they didn't bring jobs and happiness and unicorns that poop ice cream.

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[ShadowCell]

I suppose this isn't much of a lost opportunity anyway, because even if the Democrats had held the House, their majorities would have been narrowed, especially in the Senate. And seeing as how the Dems had such difficulty passing bills with sixty Senate votes and a commanding House majority, passing the kind of massive stimulus bill that the economy needs would have probably been near impossible. That's the sort of thing that needs a retaken House and a mandate from the people for the president, like what he had in the beginning of his term, and two years of the Republicans investigating Obama's birth certificate and shit will help that.

But, yeah, two more years of the economy idling isn't really a good thing for the country. America shoots itself in the foot again.

EDIT: Case in point: McConnell's top priority is to make Obama a one-term president. How's that bipartisanship workin' out for ya, America?

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Insanity can be used as cause to prevent one from voting? Really?

I mean, that question *should* be a joke, followed by a "just look at ______" type example, but it's an honest question right now.
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[Sam]

my longer 'why I enjoyed this election' list

- Meg Whitman is out 140 million in a failed attempt to buy an election with personal funds.

- Tea Party involvement in Republican primaries pushed out electable candidates in favor of inelectable candidates who, effectively, saved Democrats some seats and cost the Republicans a real shot at the Senate.

- KY gets Rand Paul. Oh, I wanted this. I cannot wait for disillusion season.

- Bad Three died on fire.

- Personhood Amendments died on fire.

- I got a small pre-christmas present in the form of tossup win for Bennett over Ken Buck for CO Senate.

- The Democrats lost the "Senate Supermajority," a false conceptualization which worked primarily to the benefit of the Republicans. Sure, Dems got an amazing amount of things done, but this was via a common caucus. The Republicans could foist Lieberman against democrats and then say things like 'look they have total control and still can't get anything done!' — these next two years, Republicans have every opportunity to show the nation what a real deadlocked congress looks like, and otherwise pander with endless investigations equivalent to when they spent weeks investigating Clinton's christmas cards or whatever.


Next, The Palin Candidates acted as a good referendum on Palin's vetting, spent an election season doing dumb, dumb, things that got weird stares, and then went off to get trounced.

ONE: Sharron Angle proves she's just dumb enough to racially alienate herself, and scare the latinos into re-electing Reid.

TWO: O'Donnell, the most comically inviable tea party embarrassment possible, flames out and immediately begins blaming her inevitable loss on "GOP cannibalism."

THREE: Former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina lost. This is a very, very good thing.

FOUR: Lisa Murkowski is teh win in Alaska, as the first successful write-in candidate since Strom Thurmond in the 1950's (?). a stinging defeat for the Tea Party backed candidate Joe Miller, right in Sarah's backyard.

[Dogen]

You can't register in Oregon because you have to be a resident to register, so to be eligible for your scholarship you have to maintain residency in WA. Makes sense.

Though I never thought your single vote would afford you credit for the outcome of the election anyway.
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