US mid-terms: Republicans win control of the Senate

[Surya Gayatri]

Source: BBC NEWS

GAaaaag.....!


The Republican Party has taken control of the Senate in the US mid-term elections, increasing their power in the final years of President Barack Obama's presidency.

After gains in Arkansas, Montana, South Dakota, West Virginia and Colorado, North Carolina clinched victory.

Mitch McConnell will become the Senate majority leader.

According to AP news agency, the party is also set to increase its majority in the lower House of Representatives.

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29910542

[SoapBox]

1. America is doomed.

[Hulk]

2. Can we hold our breath for two years?

I guess it's OUR turn to be the obstructionists ....now.

[elzenmahn]

8. It is our turn to be the obstructionists...

...and you know what? GOOD!

If they do, at least the Dems will look like they stand for something.

And the lead that the Repubs have now is slim - they'll need to bring 9 Dem votes onto their side to pass anything.

But don't underestimate a skilled and deep-pocketed lobbyist. Or the Kochs. Or Sheldon Adelson.

[jwirr]

13. A little of their own medicine. One big problem - they are elected for 6 years. Whoever is elected

in 2016 will have to put up with them for two years.

[grahamhgreen]

3. Actually, they need 60 votes if we filibuster everything.

[C Moon]

6. The way this night is going, I'm sure they'll get that. Don't know what these people are thinking.

The things that congress did were unforgivable, now, not only are they saying it's fine, but they give them the senate as well. We live with some pretty fucked up citizens.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

7. Unless they nuke us.

[Beacool]

4. Pardon me while I get sick..........

[usspicard]

5. so

its ok. 2016 dems will sweep , all we have to do is repeat the same message of 2008 and 2012 pres elections. If dems had done this this time around good chance they would have kept senate. They let right drag them down into gutter politics instead of important national issues, such as economy, equal pay, reproductive rights, immigration etc..

[Norbert]

18. Don't be too sure

The dark money of Citizens United spoke loud and clear today.

-Koch money and mouth pieces say Obama is the worst president ever, war on coal, war on Christmas, war on guns, war on... and it worked.

-The Democratic candidates, for lack of a better explanation, became a bunch of chicken shits and couldn't run away from Obama fast enough. "Obama needs Grimes, Kentucky needs McConnell". Kynect is good, Obamacare is bad. The dumbass voters could not even figure out they were essentially the same thing. And Grimes continued to run the other way.

You control the lions share of the money you control the message. The result McConnell wins, Scott and Snyder wins, Ernst wins, Perdue wins, Roberts wins, Brownback wins and the list goes on and on and on.

Another evening like this in 2016 and the Theocrats will have control of everything and the Democrats will not have the balls to stand up to them to get elected.

Sorry for being so cheery. This is all I got.

[TomCADem]

9. Key - "Record Low Level Of Interest In The Election" - Where's the mandate?

Republicans won by either suppressing the vote while relying on a slim minority of folks who were driven insanely mad by Fox News who lived in a deluded world where they could reverse the 2012 election by voting Republican. The corporate media pandered to this to satisfy their advertisers by focusing on disapproval of the "unpopular" President whlle ignoring voter discontent with Republicans and Congress.

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/republicans-rule-house-senate-first-time-eight-years-n241126

Pre-election polls showed a record low level of interest in the election, and those who did show up were not happy. Exit polls showed that 54 percent of voters disapprove of Obama’s performance, and 79 percent gave the thumbs down to Congress.

[TeamPooka]

10. fuck

[lexx21]

11. What I cannot understand....

is why are the American people so fucking stupid voting these assholes into office? It really blows my mind.

[vrp]

12. I don't think anything will change.

Republicans filibustered everything anyway when Dems had the majority. It's not as if anything got done anyway. What's different? Dems will filibuster the worse of what the crazies try to do anyway. And then there's the veto pen. New boss same as the old boss.

[davidpdx]

14. Well at least he'll be able to afford his wife's plastic surgery

[defacto7]

15. Never underestimate the power of

fraud and manipulation. The GOP has the money and position to achieve both with the complicity of the weak whom they have groomed fairly well for their purposes.

[mazzarro]

16. Yes - things will change

I'll bet you that you start hearing Democratic leaders (Third-Way, DLC) drones repeating that Obama has to work with the reThuglicans on their priorities - it will no longer be Obama's priorities anymore - and give them what they want in order for Obama to leave lasting legacy.

Also the media will drown the public with reThuglican message and condemnation of Obama not wanting to work to move the economy and country forward.

The neo-liberal/con Democrats who want to be president will chime in in trying to position themselves as being tough like the reThugs. It will an unending deluge of RW/Conservative BS till 2016 - the way I see it.

[Art_from_Ark]

17. I hate to say it, but

I think you're right.

[quadrature]

19. did Harry Reid win any tonite?

did Reid push any Republicans to lose?

[americannightmare]

20. 79 percent give congress the thumbs down...

yet the party that controls the do-nothing House gains the Senate??? Collective insanity!

This confirms for me that the fight needs to be local. So grateful to live in a sane state. The Dems here in Oregon could do a lot more, but at least they're not sociopaths. The rest of the country, you get what you deserve!

[tclambert]

21. Congress had a lower approval rating than cockroaches, yet voters rewarded the party responsible.

Somebody actually did a poll comparing peoples' opinions of cockroaches and Congress. Congress lost by two percent.

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2013/01/congress-less-popular-than-cockroaches-traffic-jams.html

Congress also lost to Genghis Khan and Brussel Sprouts.