Thank You Arianna

[malaise]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

In the wake of Obama's overwhelming victory, and Democratic gains in the House and Senate, conservatives are desperately trying to convince the world that these results are meaningless. "Democrats should not make the mistake of viewing Tuesday's results as a repudiation of conservatism," insisted John Boehner. "Barack Obama understands this is a center-right country," claimed Karl Rove.

Drunk on self-delusion, a staggering GOP whistles past the electoral graveyard, missing the whole point of this election: the center has shifted, and positions that used to be considered left-wing -- on healthcare, on global warming, on corporate responsibility, on Iraq -- are now solidly mainstream.

[SeattleGirl]

1. And yet, they just can't stop themselves.

I wonder if they will EVER wake up.

[malaise]

2. Either they wake up or they'll be left

behind in the dust of history. They no longer matter.

[AwakeAtLast]

12. So *that's* their rapture!

:wow:

You are so right! :rofl:

:hi:

[tkayj]

3. If you listen to the Republican commentators,

they've already started saying that This means he'll be forced to govern from the center, and That means he'll be forced to govern from the center. The spin on the significance of this election, and of the electorate who gave him victory has already started. They must brainwash their own followers into believing that this is somehow simply a means to revamping the GOP. Sometimes I'm absolutely dizzy after listening to one of them spin.
:silly:

[malaise]

4. The Heritage Foundation women on CSpan yesterday

appeared to be medicated. Reality has not sunk in yet. They will learn.

[zeemike]

5. Welcome to DU TK

But I think the Obama team knows how they are and are not listening to the insider pundits.

[malaise]

6. As Olbermann said the other night

They don't matter. Let them talk.

[KharmaTrain]

7. Let Them Keep It Up

The thing they still haven't gotten is that no one is buying their bullshit anymore. For years they had a free pass with the corporate media and hate radio in framing the debates and having influence...and now it's time for them to pay for it. They've left this country in a mess and they still can't admit it. They never fail, others fail them...or that they are victims.

Yep...I hope they keep up this belicose attitude, it's seen them get their asses kicked in two elections.

:hi:

[malaise]

8. You know the results of this election are all the proof we need

that the spewers of hate on talk radio are way less influential than they believe.

:hi:

[KharmaTrain]

9. Whose Really Listening?

There's that baffoon and criminal, Grover the Nordquist. A prime example of a smug, arrogant shitstain who has mastered the codespeak and dogwhistles that these people always seem to listen to. No matter how wrong, no matter how hypocritical...it's amazing how these goons only get more popular in their coven after a big defeat.

:hi:

[malaise]

10. He's one brave man to even show up

What a moron.

[Joe Chi Minh]

11. It's always been a consipracy between two right-wing parties, as it is

in the UK now. That's why we'll never get proportional representation or even a referendum on it. Though, heck, maybe you will, being light-years ahead of us in some ways.

[spanone]

13. hey crybaby boehner...Tuesday's results are absolutely a repudiation of conservatism

[City Lights]

14. They're even more pathetic than I previously thought.

And I've always thought they were pretty pathetic.

Total crybaby losers.

[alarimer]

15. Bush's 50.7% was a mandate, yet Obama's 52% was not?

I can't figure this out. It seems that the guy who won with the most progressive agenda in at least 15 years HAS a mandate to govern progressively. Whether the spineless weasels in Congress and that snake Emmanuel will let him is another story.

Still, if only by comparison to the last administration, this WILL be a more progressive era. I take comfort in that fact, even if the reality is that he may not be able to accomplish everything he wants or some people (Democrats in Congress) may get in the way.