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ProSense

(116,464 posts)
Thu Nov 6, 2014, 01:24 PM Nov 2014

Robert Reich:

I was in the Clinton administration Election Day 1994 when Democrats lost both houses of Congress, and Newt Gingrich became king of the Hill. It was horrible. But you know what? It created all sorts of opportunities. It smoked Republicans out. They could no longer hide behind blue-dog Democrats. Americans saw them for who they were. Gingrich became the most hated man in America. The 1994 election also marked the end of the coalition of conservative Republicans and southern Democrats that had controlled much of Congress since the end of the New Deal.

What opportunities do you see coming out of Tuesday?

Bernie Sanders has a point
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Robert Reich: (Original Post) ProSense Nov 2014 OP
Actually this debacle creates TREMENDOUS opportunities for people like Bernie randys1 Nov 2014 #1

randys1

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1. Actually this debacle creates TREMENDOUS opportunities for people like Bernie
Thu Nov 6, 2014, 01:38 PM
Nov 2014

It will mean people like Rachel Maddow, you know, one of the truth telling journalists, will sharpen her pen and skills and mind because she will have a plethora of insanity and obstruction to talk about.

Expect to see Alan Grayson and Bernie Sanders and Nancy Pelosi and more to become vocal and talking about OUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS and that the lying, thieving republicans CANT take credit for them.

Expect to see Bernie draw a distinct line for people to see between the greed and hate vs his common sense spiel.

I am EXCITED to see Ernst or Gardner on a morning show talking about why there should be NO birth control or how they will use their gun to oppose Obama

PLEASE

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