“It’s going to take a crisis”: Why Republicans have a stranglehold on U.S. politics

Salon ^ | February 11, 2015 | Elias Isquith

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

The Pubbies should campaign using the following “slogan”:

The GOVERNMENT is broken and you, the people, need to fix it!

Kinda simple, really.

[txrefugee]

Look at what has happened to the country since Obama was elected. If you are a White person with a private sector job, why in the world would you vote Democrat???

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Exactly.

[Mr. Jeeves]

"The coalition [Republicans] have is again something that looks a lot like 1980: white working class, middle class, and the very wealthy entrepreneur class."

The very wealthy have French Revolution Syndrome, and still look to Democratic Socialism to anesthetize the masses.

[VaRepublican]

“The coalition [Republicans] have is again something that looks a lot like 1980: white working class, middle class, and the very wealthy.”
So what yer saying is the people paying the bills are getting pissed.

[Liz]

Forget the BS these people are pedaling. Let’s put this in its proper perspective.

Now, remember.... the treasure trove of “The Midterm Democrat Demolition Derby” and down-ticket state wins have yet to be fully- mined, but this list categorically defines the post-Obama national mood:

<><> REPUBLICANS WON STUNNING HISTORY-MAKING ELECTORAL VICTORIES

<><> midterms were a massive and awesome rejection of liberals;

<><> Southern Democrats control not a single governorship, US senator or legislative chamber,

<><> Democrat losses stretch from the Carolinas westward to Texas,

<><> 110 Of 140 Southern States election districts went Republican.

<><> GOP’s House majorities are so huge and solid NBC’s Chuck Todd says Dems can’t recapture losses until 2022.

<><> Some pundits say Republicans have a 100-year majority;

<><> when the next US Senate convenes, 30 lock-stepping Democrats who voted for Obamacare are gone.

<><> Ark and Ill (Clinton hometowns) have Repub governors-—important in a prez race b/c guvs control party machinery.

<><> Unprecedented MINN 6th Congressional district-—every single House and Senate district went Repub

<><> GOP now controls the MINN State House.

<><> Ohio’s historic GOP statehouse takeover (Gun Control is toast)

<><> Ohio’s Gov, Lt. Gov, AG, Secy of State, State Auditor, State Treasurer—all R-—Sup/Ct - 6 R/1 D

<><> Britt Hume: “latino vote is zilch”-—”over-50” is significant 30% voting segment.

<><> Republicans unified control: gov/legislature in 23 states (Ntl Conference of State Legislatures factoid).

<><> Repub governorships: Florida, Tx, Ill, Ohio, Mich, MD, Wisconsin, NC, GA, Mass.

<><> GOP holds every congressional seat in Arkansas; first time in 141 years...

<><> Environmentalists fogged out-—suffered huge losses.

<><> Gun Control Candidates blitzed.

<><> “War on Women” became a ntl joke.

<><> Clinton’s labeled politically useless-—most candidates they flacked lost.

<><> Montana, So/Dakota and West/VA Dems were forced to retire; no hope of getting re-elected,

<><> Arizona House recount race went Republican.

<><> AZ Republican McSally wins last open House seat (Dem Gaby Giffords seat),

<><> Repub McSally’s win gives GOP 5-4 advantage in AZ congressional delegation,

<><> Repubs hold 247 House seats (Dems 188), the largest GOP advantage since the Truman admin after WWII.

<><> 73 percent of LA’s white voters say told they “strongly disapproved” of the president.

<><> Republicans hold the largest House majority in 83 years.

<><> Republicans holds 68 of 98 state legislative chambers.

<><> 2015 Republican grip on state government has not been seen since the 1920s.

<><> Republicans hold or share control in nearly every state (7 states’ legislature and Governor are Dem-held).

<><> 12 states, including Missouri, Arizona, Arkansas, NC will push income tax cuts and fiscal reform.

<><> Illinois’ new Repub Governor’s top priority is reforming its nearly-bankrupt public pension system.

<><> Vermont Democrats allied w/ VT conservative Repubs to ward off voter backlash

<><> controversial and seemingly incompetent VT Democrat governor did not get the requisite votes to stay in office.

<><> VT poised to install Vermont’s first Republican governor in over four years

<><> Republicans now control two-thirds of the state legislatures.

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The Nov 2014 message delivered by Americans to their govt: “ The people have spoken.”

FREEPER ACTION ALERT: Any and all communiques w/ the new Congress should include “The List”...photocopy it by the gross, and blanket Congress with it ...... including GOPE’s, RINOS, etc.

[Political Junkie Too]

middle class vs working class?

He means salaried workers vs hourly wage workers.

-PJ

[ronnie raygun]

Working class are not working they are collecting sitting at home while the real middleclass is out there working. Funny when they say “the workers party” notice this is past tense not the “working party”

[exit82]

I think that if the Republicans want to win, they need to nominate somebody who is not identified either with their Wall Street wing or with the religious right/Tea Party wing … If they nominate somebody who can actually move to the center beginning in June or July of 2016, they’ll be in pretty good shape. If they nominate somebody who is going to be identified too much with their capitalist wing or with the religious right/Tea Party “dismantle the IRS and Social Security!” wing, then they’re going to be in trouble.

The whole purpose of the article was to state this paragraph.

This is what the Dems are afraid of happening. a right wing conservative candidate with American convictions who can destroy their progressive mush mouthed candidate.

The rest of the article is pure rubbish. This is the nugget.

The Dems want to keep hammering away on the Jedi mind control stealth theme that "these are not the droids you are looking for".

Our problem is not a lack of good candidates.

Our problem is not the Dems.

Our problem is a dysfunctional GOP-E that will work to prevent the cream from rising to the top in 2016.

And these GOP losers are being influenced by stupidly nuanced articles like these.

[ballplayer]

I beg to differ,stopped reading after the first paragraph,millions knew exactly where the country was going after this ass hat was elected.
What the hell did they think fundamentally transform meant?

[Repeal The 17th]

(2012 presidential election results in 3D)

[Old Sarge]

Is that the author?

She looks like that guy Maddow...

[buckalfa]

Interesting article, but does it really matter? My take is that GOPe equals Democrat in the desire for government power. All your citizens and monies are belong to us?

[Liz]

Thanks-—is there a 3D 2014 midterm map?

[Old Sarge]

The people may have spoken, but the party elite says otherwise.

[Repeal The 17th]

There was no “single nation-wide election” in 2014,
so there would be no tabulation.
Maybe one exists for total votes cast by party?
I’ll poke around and see.

[Alas Babylon!]

I believe Obama was elected in 2008 due to racism.

“What’s that, you mean?”

I mean that many people voted for him as a novelty; being the first black man running on a major ticket. Even when he was running against Hillary in the democrat nomination fight this novelty very much worked to his favor; and the Clintons had very little room to point this out without being accused themselves of racism (just read about the fallout from Bill Clinton’s—the FIRST black president—comments on Hillary’s South Carolina loss).

So Obama was the benefactor of being black at the right time and place.

It’s very hard to beat an incumbent president who can selectively dole out favors to portions of the electorate he needs to win. Many of those who turned out in droves to cast a vote for this novelty in 2008 didn’t show up in 2012 but Obama was supported heavily by the Gimme-Dats and Romney was THE RINO who did not encourage the great American conservative base to turn out and vote.

The question is will the same idiots who cast a novelty vote in 2008 do so again in 2016 for the first woman major candidate?

AND... No move to the center for the GOP! That is ridiculous because this is what the GOP has been doing for the past 30 years now: GHW Bush, Dole, GW Bush, McCain, Romney. No—all have either failed or almost failed with the exception of the 2004 war vote for GW Bush.

Moving to the RIGHT is the right way to go. Then this election can be significant and the results will tell us what will be the future of America.

[VaRepublican]

wow ping

[Buckeye McFrog]

well....as we’ve seen....

The Democrats KNOW how to engineer a crisis whenever they need one.

(amazing how they continue to telegraph what they are going to do in these left-wing blogs and publications)