US midterm elections: Barack Obama’s legacy could be ruined in one day

[Chicog]

I quite liked Louisiana when I visited. Very hospitable people.

[JDGRUEN]

obama's Legacy -- Before and After the Mid Term Elections -- Polled Americans Reversed their Party Identification.

GALLUP POLL ...

[JDGRUEN]

obama's Legacy -- Hot Head ... yelling profanities at the Media / Press for not seeing the issues and the world as he does... Of course obama would not try to intimidate the media would he .......??? 555

Obama explodes on press corps with ‘profanity-laced’ tirade

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/dec/8/obama-went-profanity-laced-tirade-against-press-wh/

[JDGRUEN]

Final Score: GOP Gains Nine Senate Seats, Will Hold 54-46 Majority


obama's continued Legacy ...

Barack Obama has presided over more midterm losses for his party than any other president in the last six decades. "Make no mistake: these policies are on the ballot. Every single one of them,"



http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2014/12/08/final-score-gop-gains-nine-senate-seats-will-hold-5446-majority-n1928620?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=thpm1

[Ulysses G.]

This election vote says nothing to anyone and it is of no significance or consequence to the presidency of Barack Obama or to his legacy, nor does this vote have any implications for Hillary Clinton.

See post immediately above:

[JDGRUEN]

Here is why obama's presidential legacy will turn to more mush... 7 Million Conservative Americans working to defeat all vestiges of obama's regime..

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/774070-us-mid-terms-republicans-win-control-of-the-senate/page-6#entry8777959

[willyumiii]

Not one that keeps flip-flopping on the exact same issue, according to how the political winds are blowing. It makes him seem VERY insincere.

Insecure = receptive to the wishes of the people he was elected to represent.

Flip-flopps..... I am so old, when I wore them they were called thongs and I wore them on my feet, not my (GW) Bush!

[Publicus]

This election vote says nothing to anyone and it is of no significance or consequence to the presidency of Barack Obama or to his legacy, nor does this vote have any implications for Hillary Clinton.

See post immediately above:

I posted about the Senate vote over the weekend in Louisiana.

I posted earlier in the thread that the always lower voter turnout of a mid-term election was 38% of registered voters in this one and that a majority of the 38% carried the day, which is just not a mandate.

The whole world knows the composition of the 2016 election, of which the centerpiece is Hillary Clinton, will be radically opposite this one in number, percentage, outcome.

Smell the coffee.

[chuckd]

A vote of 54-46 might be considered a mandate, though.

I'm wondering if those two independents are going to caucus with the Republicans now?

[Chicog]

Where does legislation originate?

I'm guessing this one originated in the Citigroup boardroom?

WASHINGTON — Bank lobbyists are not leaving it to lawmakers to draft legislation that softens financial regulations. Instead, the lobbyists are helping to write it themselves.

One bill that sailed through the House Financial Services Committee this month — over the objections of the Treasury Department — was essentially Citigroup’s, according to e-mails reviewed by The New York Times. The bill would exempt broad swathes of trades from new regulation.

In a sign of Wall Street’s resurgent influence in Washington, Citigroup’s recommendations were reflected in more than 70 lines of the House committee’s 85-line bill.

[Publicus]

A vote of 54-46 might be considered a mandate, though.

I'm wondering if those two independents are going to caucus with the Republicans now?

The two independents in the Senate are from the New England neighbor states of Vermont and also Maine - Bernie Sanders and Angus King, where Republicans are an endangered species. Of the 12 US senators from the six New England states, 10 are not Republicans. (Neighboring eastern Canada approves mightily.)

Of the 21 Members of the US House from the six states in the northeastern-most US, 19 are Democrats...four states have no Republicans at all elected to Washington (Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont... Maine and New Hampshire each have one Rep elected to the US House.)

Sanders is a declared socialist former mayor of Burlington which is the largest city in the PRVermont where narry a Republican has been seen for decades. Two favorite pass-times for the voters of Vermont are climate watching and Republican spotting. Recall Howard Dean is a former two term governor there. This rural state voted 66.5% to re-elect Prez Obama (which should confirm your every suspicion about Barry).

Bernie is humbly flattered to share the either or short list of the D party left with Sen Elizabeth Warren of southern neighbor Massachusetts to challenge Hillary from the fringe in the 2016 state nominating process primary voting. More than enuff said there.

Independent Senator Angus King is former two term Independent governor of Maine who succeeded R Sen Olympia Snowe. King's 1998 re-election as Independent governor was the most one sided vote in the state's history. No sale there either, which leaves the new (and already doomed) Republican majority in the Senate down for the count in the 2016 presidential election year when voter demographics change radically from the mid-term and twice as many R senators nationally will be on the ballot as D senators.

[chuckd]

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Sanders is a declared socialist former mayor of Burlington which is the largest city in the PRVermont where narry a Republican has been seen for decades. Two favorite pass-times for the voters of Vermont are climate watching and Republican spotting. Recall Howard Dean is a former two term governor there. This rural state voted 66.5% to re-elect Prez Obama (which should confirm your every suspicion about Barry).

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"This rural state voted 66.5% to re-elect Prez Obama (which should confirm your every suspicion about Barry)."

Are you referring to Barry Soetoro or Bernie Sanders?

[Publicus]

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Sanders is a declared socialist former mayor of Burlington which is the largest city in the PRVermont where narry a Republican has been seen for decades. Two favorite pass-times for the voters of Vermont are climate watching and Republican spotting. Recall Howard Dean is a former two term governor there. This rural state voted 66.5% to re-elect Prez Obama (which should confirm your every suspicion about Barry).

<sniip>

"This rural state voted 66.5% to re-elect Prez Obama (which should confirm your every suspicion about Barry)."

Are you referring to Barry Soetoro or Bernie Sanders?

Barry Manelow, of course.

Lotsa gossip about him...

[VegasVic]

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Final Score: GOP Gains Nine Senate Seats, Will Hold 54-46 Majority


obama's continued Legacy ...

Barack Obama has presided over more midterm losses for his party than any other president in the last six decades. "Make no mistake: these policies are on the ballot. Every single one of them,"



http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2014/12/08/final-score-gop-gains-nine-senate-seats-will-hold-5446-majority-n1928620?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=thpm1

JD, It doesn't matter how many facts you throw at the Koolaid drinkers here as they will just pull those blinders in a little tighter and chug more of that delicious left wing Koolaid Once the Supreme courts rules on the Obamacare subsidies and the State exchanges a few months from now, Obamacare will begin its death spiral in earnest Obamas only legacy will wind up being a larger government with thousands of new regulation hindering the creation of REAL full time jobs, an increase in the national debt by over 100%, the most devisive and partisan governing and government in U.S. history, and of course the overall impression outside of the U.S. that the U.S. is a weaker nation

[Publicus]

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Final Score: GOP Gains Nine Senate Seats, Will Hold 54-46 Majority

obama's continued Legacy ...

Barack Obama has presided over more midterm losses for his party than any other president in the last six decades. "Make no mistake: these policies are on the ballot. Every single one of them,"

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2014/12/08/final-score-gop-gains-nine-senate-seats-will-hold-5446-majority-n1928620?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=thpm1

JD, It doesn't matter how many facts you throw at the Koolaid drinkers here as they will just pull those blinders in a little tighter and chug more of that delicious left wing Koolaid Once the Supreme courts rules on the Obamacare subsidies and the State exchanges a few months from now, Obamacare will begin its death spiral in earnest Obamas only legacy will wind up being a larger government with thousands of new regulation hindering the creation of REAL full time jobs, an increase in the national debt by over 100%, the most devisive and partisan governing and government in U.S. history, and of course the overall impression outside of the U.S. that the U.S. is a weaker nation

More political spam.spin.

Edited December 14, 2014 by Publicus

[Ulysses G.]

The pot calling the kettle black.

[up-country_sinclair]

I'm wondering if those two independents are going to caucus with the Republicans

I'm wondering if there should be some sort of per-requisite exam before posting on these threads.

One of those two independents is Bernie Sanders, and he is probably the most leftist politician in Washington DC and would never caucus with the Republicans. How can someone posting on these US political threads be unaware of this?

[Ulysses G.]

I'm wondering if there should be some sort of per-requisite exam before posting on these threads.

How about a prerequisite exam to see if members can detect obvious sarcasm?

A vote of 54-46 might be considered a mandate, though.

I'm wondering if those two independents are going to caucus with the Republicans now?

[chuckd]

I'm wondering if those two independents are going to caucus with the Republicans

I'm wondering if there should be some sort of per-requisite exam before posting on these threads.

One of those two independents is Bernie Sanders, and he is probably the most leftist politician in Washington DC and would never caucus with the Republicans. How can someone posting on these US political threads be unaware of this?

Now I am wondering where the "sarcasm" emoticon is for this forum.

Some of our more clueless posters apparently cannot recognize sarcasm when they see it.

[Ulysses G.]

How can someone posting on these US political threads be unaware of this?

A huge percentage of posters on the US political threads are not American and are unaware of a LOT about American politics. That does not stop them from posting anyway though.

[up-country_sinclair]

I'm wondering if those two independents are going to caucus with the Republicans

I'm wondering if there should be some sort of per-requisite exam before posting on these threads.

One of those two independents is Bernie Sanders, and he is probably the most leftist politician in Washington DC and would never caucus with the Republicans. How can someone posting on these US political threads be unaware of this?

Now I am wondering where the "sarcasm" emoticon is for this forum.

Some of our more clueless posters apparently cannot recognize sarcasm when they see it.

Sure.

But OK, then where is the alleged "sarcasm" related to Angus King (the other Independent) caucusing with the Republicans?

He openly discussed the possibility:.\

Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), one of two independent senators who caucuses with Democrats, on Wednesday openly floated the possibility of siding with Republicans next year if they take control of the Senate.

“I’ll make my decision at the time based on what I think is best for Maine,” King told The Hill on Wednesday. He was asked about a potential switch after voting with Republicans to block a Democratic-backed bill that would seek to ensure pay equity among men and women.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/04/10/angus-king-suggests-he-may-caucus-with-gop-if-it-retakes-senate/

Sorry, but you can't have it both ways.

[Ulysses G.]

But OK, then where is the alleged "sarcasm" related to Angus King (the other Independent) caucusing with the Republicans?

He openly discussed the possibility

Maybe Chuckd doubts his sincerity. Hence that sarcastic icon that you deleted from his post.

Edited December 15, 2014 by Ulysses G.

[chuckd]

If Sen King truly wants to join the winning side, then I am sure he would be welcomed.

Good old Barry/Bernie (?) Sanders probably wouldn't be a traitor to the cause of extreme liberalism.

If he changes his mind set, though, I am sure the Republicans in the Senate would appreciate another vote for cloture when the Dems start their fililbuster processes.