No "Red Wave" b/c Republicans shot their wad too soon.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. The Dobbs decision. Eventuality of a federal statute banning abortion and subsequent SCOTUS decision that would legitimize that legislation.

2. McCarthy and friends shooting off their mouths about how they were going to sunset Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

3. Permanent tax cuts for the rich.

4. An era of one-party rule. Not Democrats. Not Republicans. Donald Trumpers.

If the leaders had restrained their hubris and said nothing, they could have had their majorities via deception and then gone ahead with their wishlist. They don't care if they're called hypocrites. They'd be in charge -- indefinitely.

We dodged a big one.

[TheBlackAdder]

1. All over their faces.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

14. Stop it ... you guys are turning me on ...

[TheBlackAdder]

19. Wanda Jo said it best!

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19:00 into the video

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[paleotn]

2. Hubris. Also known as a couple bridges too far.

Like death and taxes, a third human constant.

[Meadowoak]

3. How it wasn't a BLUE tsunami really scares the hell out of me.

[Buckeyeblue]

8. You could argue that it sort of was a blue tsunami

History was against us. Certain heavily gerrymandered states (Florida) made gains impossible. Biden has been hammered over inflation that he didn't cause. The fact that we didn't have a repeat of 94 or 2010 was nothing short of amazing.

[Lonestarblue]

24. And Texas gerrymandered new districts to enaure that the two additional representatives

would be Republicans. I was disappointed that Maloney lost his race in New York. But my fingers are still crossed that we can keep the House, if onoy by one person.

[Demsrule86]

10. It was a blue tsunami...you do realize this has only happened three times in almost 100 years since

Roosevelt in 34...the depression and Bush II because of the war in Afghanistan. We are still in the hunt for the house too...and if the GOP wins the house it will be by a tiny amount. We basically accomplished a miracle in this divided country. And Roe won everywhere...even in Kentucky. Honestly, when I hear this (and I am not singling you out), I just think some people are never happy.

[Meadowoak]

13. I'm very happy with the results, I m just surprised, given what the GOP

Plans to do, if they get power, that anybody voted for them. I'm really surprised that a lot of Republicans didn't switch parties and vote for Democrats.

[ecstatic]

15. Honestly, that's been my take as well, but

for my own sanity and mental well-being, I truly appreciate the positive spin.

That said... I hope that karma is swift and cruel for the individuals who decided to vote red, especially in states that have total abortion bans (or the BS "heartbeat" bans). I'm pretty sure that kkkemp is about to pivot hard right, and the 6 week ban will become a total ban in Georgia as well. All of this was foreseeable, but idiots will be idiots. I will not waste one drop of compassion on the MFs who enabled gop fascists by either not voting or voting red. Not one drop. I will literally pull up their voter profile first before I decide how to feel. Lol. Ok... Back to positive thoughts. 😌

[ProudMNDemocrat]

4. Republicans...Keep saying the quiet things out loud.

Their perfect strategy.

[underpants]

9. And several times a day. I completely agree with the OP's assessment

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but their media has became their own enemy. Fox et al were great at foisting on to and forcing the regular media to air their themes. Florida Florida Florida in 2000 is a perfect example. Now however to be relevant their people have to say the same things or they don’t get on tv. This includes tweets that become news. It’s no longer themes but a wild array of god knows what AND they internally have to keep out outraging each other. That’s fine in their little world but it doesn’t play to the unindoctrinated and frankly it is received as weird.

[Sky Jewels]

18. All right-wing media worked for them for a long time, but now the demographic shift

has them spouting off to a rapidly dwindling audience. Every time the sun comes up, about 8,000 fewer Americans who were born before 1965 are still around around. And Millennials and Gen Z ain't buying what they're selling.

[SWBTATTReg]

12. Even if they (repugs) didn't say anything and kept their mouths shut, why would any of us

believe anything they say or do anyways? IMHO, I will never ever trust a republican again. And most importantly, everything they say or do or represent is against a great many of my beliefs, help the poor, love thy neighbors, etc., common things that a great deal of us believe in, that is, the true Christian Spirit that went missing in action when the tRUMP scourge was upon us.

They've lied to us big time already, rushed in and confirmed their Supreme Court pick regardless of the negative evidence at hand (I'll have a beer Kavanaugh), Alito (never overturning Roe vs. Wade, a lie), Clarence Thomas and his meddling wife (partisan as hell) that would disqualify democratic candidates when the slot was available, and ignored their own rule against confirming a new Supreme Court Justice (Barrett) during an election cycle

[WA-03 Democrat]

5. Show me the rule of law being applied against Donald Trump

He and in minions walk free above the law. Trump has a tee time today.

They are not defeated until they are charged and given a fair trial.

He is above the law.

[Mz Pip]

6. They always overreach

After Roe was overturned they went full draconian in some states. Most Republicans didn’t even want that.

Promising endless investigations into trivial matters, sunsetting SS and Medicare didn’t play well.

Investigations and abortion bans won’t fix the economy.

[relayerbob]

7. Not at all. They did what they thought their base wanted.

And in fat, it's exactly what their base wanted. Problem for them is that their base is shrinking. Those *were* their plans - to show they were able to get the GQP agenda done despite the pesky liberals. Do not underestimate their cruelty nor their stupidity.

[ecstatic]

11. The Supreme Court was sooooo cocky

It's been like something out of a horror movie. States rights for this but not for that. I pray that we can increase the seats or Clarence resigns. This is horrible to say, but we need dirt on alito. This is war. And since no one is in a rush to increase the judge count, we have to replace justices who are already there.

[samsingh]

16. i think they can't get their faces out of trump's feces and putin's too

[IronLionZion]

17. Maybe the red wave was aborted

since America wasn't ready for it yet.

[ZonkerHarris]

20. Graham's bill for a national abortion ban this summer helped. #toosoon

[dembotoz]

25. yep he made is all real

[ShazzieB]

21. It's bad enough to gloat over winning something.

Bad, rude, and childish. But gloating when the contest hasn't even happened yet is all that AND ridiculous.

That's what Republicans did; they were so sure of their victory that they committed the sin of anticipatory gloating. And now they look like the world's biggest fools!

[world wide wally]

22. Premature electionation

[Hamlette]

23. I wonder if 2 other reasons were at play

January 6 and what the right did about Pelosi's husband. The latter one might not seem like much but laughing off a hammer attack on an 82 year old is disgusting.

[Lonestarblue]

26. I think Pelosi's attack brought out just how violent Republican rhetoric has become.

[JCMach1]

27. No wad to shoot. Political paradigm shift has kicked America

Into a kind of political tribalism.

[cutroot]

28. Their fearless leader is sucking them dry with all of his legal woes

[Captain Zero]

29. We have to make them answer 2 every election now

And/or state our position every election on Social Security and Medicare, Minimum Wage, and Labor Rights. And ask them where they stand and if they won't affirm or answer at all then we need to campaign on it up and down the ticket, everywhere.

[jimlup]

30. Actually we were on to them from the beginning

They are fools and Charlatans.

They are destined to lose to the people because the people are smarter than they are.