Told You So!

Townhall.com ^ | November 7, 2018 | John Stossel

[kevao]

Can't compare the results

Yes, you can, when putting election results in an historical *quantitative* context.

[uncbob]

No you can't Historical means nothing compared to how great Trump was doing for the country

No Obamacare like in 2010
No homosexuals in the military-Assault weapons ban and abortion being pushed like Clinton in 94

GOP kept both houses during Bush's off year in 2002 .Then he screwed up the war and it resulted in a DEM takeover in 2006

[Kaslin]

Yes losing the house is huge, and I console myself that Marsha Blackburn will be my senator from TN. I also console myself that the candidate Mark Green, who used to be a Flight Surgeon won her seat in the House.

[Kaslin]

I went back to 2015 for John Stossel’s ob-eds and I could not find anything that he gave Hillary Rotten Clinton a 80% chance of winning. Where you got this from I have no idea. It might have been an other columnist from Townhall.com,but it sure wasn’t John Stossel, and would he? He is a libertarian.

[Kaslin]

They can clap around impeachment as much and long as they won't to, but they need the senate to remove him and they don't have it.

We have to do our best to get the House back in 2020

[chimera]

All those retirements killed us. Incumbency is a powerful tool. What is it, something like 98% of incumbents get re-elected? This is something the party has to work on with their incumbent officeholders. I know you can't force someone to stay in a job they no longer want, but they have to ask themselves whether it is better to hang in there and tough it out to hand another opportunity to your opposition who wishes you nothing but ill-will.

And please, save the flames. I know a lot of those who packed it in were RINOs and never-Trumpers, but I'm looking at the numbers here, which for some things in politics is what it comes down to. Things like the Speakership, committee chairs, and so forth. We might have not had the perfect group of legislators, but now we won't have much chance of doing anything.

[ridesthemiles]

Can someone inform Stossel that Kamala Harris is NOT ELIGIBLE to be POTUS or to be in any position that can succeed POTUS?

Both of her parents came to this country from elsewhere—India & Jamaica.

She was born here, but long before here parents became USA citizens.

Obama snookered us once.

We do NOT need an encore.

The media & others need to quit pumping up this woman for POTUS.

[jmacusa]

I think we can forget about funding the border wall.

[central_va]

No such thing as a good RINO. They suck sh!t.

[central_va]

I think we can forget about funding the border wall.

That is ONE thing I will NEVER forget about. Trump better not forget about it if he wants a second term.

[Future Snake Eater]

That is ONE thing I will NEVER forget about. Trump better not forget about it if he wants a second term.

Democrats now control the money, and they now have a significant say in (not) fixing our immigration laws. What do you want Trump to do?

[central_va]

If the Demoncats want anything legislatively then they will have to fund the wall.

[Alberta's Child]

That’s great. Just be prepared for another multi-decade period like the one where the Democrats controlled the House of Representatives every day from the mid-1950s to 1994.

[Future Snake Eater]

If the Demoncats want anything legislatively then they will have to fund the wall.

The Dems want to undo whatever few legislative victories Trump has had (notably tax cuts, I don't think there's been much more--thanks Paul Ryan). Should Trump sacrifice that for wall funding?

[central_va]

If you are asking me if a real wall is more important than tax cuts then I would say YES! But there is no reason to not get both.

There is nothing more important than building the wall and stopping illegal migration and cutting legal immigration to a trickle.

[Future Snake Eater]

So your idea of compromising with a Dem House is to get everything you want and not give them what they want? Right.

[central_va]

The want infrastructure then the infrastructure includes a big beautiful wall!

[Future Snake Eater]

They don’t want infrastructure, they want pork barrel payoffs for their cronies. That money will get turned around into Dem election coffers. If they wanted infrastructure, the baselined Porkulus money would’ve solved that problem starting in 2009.