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At this hour, Democrats have lost in 45 congressional districts. Several of those defeated have served in Congress for over two decades.
Reps. John Spratt of South Carolina and Rick Boucher of Virginia were both first elected to the House in 1982.
Ike Skelton of Missouri, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, has served since 1976.
Chet Edwards of Texas began his career in Congress in 1990.
Rep. Earl Pomeroy of North Dakota, who was running for a tenth term, was first elected in 1992.
All five were defeated tonight.
Between just those five "Old Bulls," that's 128 combined years of service in the chamber.
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Being a life long resident of the "rust belt" I also feel very strongly about unemployment, but I have seen much of our Democratic voters have to leave at any possibility of a job. Palin is clueless, PALIN FOR GOP PRESIDENT 2012!
Being a recently laid off aviation casualty,i pulled up my bootstraps and got a job as a hotel valet.It can be done.God bless the TEA PARTY and God bless AMERICA,land of oppotunity IF you want it.
the old garbage smelled so bad --it had to go.
next step--odumbo and micodumbo need to go they are stinking up the "white house".
A good start but I still feel we need to purge every one from office. At least for now, Pelosi will no longer be the leader of the House and Obama will not be as able to cram his leftist, defeatist agenda down our throats as easily.
let's see what good old Rep. Corporate ties will do for you...outsource more jobs? or perhaps they will just get rid of minimum wage so you too can make a third world wage, and oh yes, with no health insurance. Oh yes, god bless America and the Republicans who care oh so very much for the little people. Just remember they will give those poor Corporations back their tax breaks. You feel for their lies once again.
just shows that the longer old trash sits the worse it stinks.
oh happy day!
Two words "term limits"!!
The people finally used the TERM LIMIT on those in office for 20 years. Remember, if they aren't doing the job you want, vote them out. Best term limit there is - the vote.
I can't gloat over the outcome of this election, some good people lost their jobs. Alot of good people lost their jobs in the last few years. I can't say it was all the fault of the Democrats but they have to take their share of the blame. Our Founding Fathers were actually a pretty smart bunch. When the country veers too far in either direction, left or right, we seem to head back to the center. In 1994 we might have gone a little too far to the right. In 2006 - 2008 we corrected and went a little too far to the left. Today we saw a correction back to the right.
I am a Tea Party Republican as I was the first time I voted in 1980. I am uneducated by your standards, just enough education to make me dangerous. I have read the Constitution and the Federalist Papers. Unlike most others I have read the Congressional debates too. One of the two most racist things I have EVER read was the Constitution of the Confederate States of America and Mein Kampf by Adolph Hitler. I resent being called a RACIST. While I didn't read Plato in the original I read the translations. Like Marx he strove for an ant like colony of content drones with everyone in their place, happy and silent. Read Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm to understand my distrust of the Government.
I have read the Communist Manifesto and I understand. From Plato to Marx through Woodrow Wilson and FDR to Carter and Obama I have read and I understand. The Berlin Wall was not built to keep people from flocking to the East, it was built to keep people from fleeing to the West.
In Europe, after many years of following a Socialist path, some of the countries are trying to find a New Path. France and Greece have rioting in the streets and civil unrest over unfunded pensions and the "HUMAN RIGHT" to make their grandchildren pay for their lifestyle. THAT I don't understand. The social contract I learned was that " if you worked hard and played by the rules America would take care of you."
Today if you work in a public sector job it seems as if the contract reads " If you show up and don't commit an overt crime (Look to the NYC teachers sitting in rooms for pay not allowed to be in contact with students for years before they can be fired) you will be taken care of. President Carter with the backing of a Democratic controlled House was the one who allowed the government employees to unionize. The first strike was of the Air Traffic Controllers Union. President Regan Fired them.
god you are stupid. orwell was a social democrat. his distaste for stalinism was in no way an indictment of government as a whole. most americans "work hard and play by the rules" but are getting nowhere thanks to thirty-plus years of stagnant wages and outsourcing. this country doesn't make anything anymore and is totally beholden to china and our other suppliers. enjoy living your delusion, old timer. my generation is suffering for your incredible selfishness and likely will continue to for the foreseeable future. the boomers can't die fast enough in my opinion.
zltz, I agree with you totally, but many of us "boomers" are the ones still fighting with you
Originally from California, I have been living in the UK since 1983. What I do not understand is how forgetful the American voters appear to be. Bush and the Republicans caused the recession, the housing crisis, the banking mess and led us into the Iraq "Police Action". It took them 8+ years to do all that.
Obama has been in the White House for less than 2 years and has been fighting the Republicans to try and resolve the underlying causes of the various problems yet he has been stymied by their constant obstructive tactics. I have seen no indication of any cooperation on the part of the GOP to resolve these issues, and yet they blame Obama for all that is wrong with the economy, the massive unemployment and the shocking state of medical care.
Why can't they work together to solve the economic problems instead og being at each others throats for the next few years?
Because it is easier to point the finger than to accept responsibility. That is something the American Electorate has allowed to happen and hence they to take the easy way out and continue to vote crooks criminals and thieves into office. You get what you vote for.
Unfortunately, there are far too many nitwits who tend to forget what George Bush and his cronies did. We are doomed to suffer now because we fail to remember. Now the party of no ideas will get their chance to show that they have no real ideas to correct the problem. All the Tea Party nimrods will once again remind us.
Which is worse in what way exactly than the party that looked to spend us into oblivion on theory and charisma?
well exodite, I think you do have it right. Yes, the Party of no, will now give all those tax breaks adding to our deficit, to the rich. You just sealed our fate once again. A third world nation we will become since the GOP is talking about privatizing social security, geting rid of minimum wage. Oh yes, that sounds like a plan.
Wee-wah! Wee-Wah!
You think it's bad now progressives? We are just getting started with eliminating you people! 2010 is going to look like a joke after 2012 is said and done.
America is sick and tired of progressives, it is full hunting season from now on with no bag limit!
you are just plain stupid. So I have no reply. Maybe you will shoot yourself in the foot with your big gun. Progressives have gotten you those very things you rely on. So give back medicare, social security and any other benefits you receive that those progressives fought to get you.
Remember Bushes last 2 years in office... the dems ran the show. The media held none of them accountable... only Bush. See where the country goes when you have (had) dems in power... Go GOP, Go Tea Party!!! Oh and fyi... My mom has worked for Wal-Mart for over 20 years, as a HR Manager... Wal-Mart is always hiring. If people want a job bad enough, they can find one. As a Air Force dependant, the US Military is also always looking for "a few good men or women!"
One ringing complaint from the sun belt about the impending demise of Social Security and Medicare and we should chainsaw the borders and float the seniors who voted themselves out of both, out to sea. There should never be one complaint when all the safety nets are destroyed for the benefit of the wealthy and the corporations so they can send the rest of our jobs overseas, and give you the option to flip burgers until you are 90. REMEMBER THIS... by the time these fascist pigs are done totally destroying the middle class...
YOU VOTED THEM INTO POWER!
Have a nice time being old and homeless.