Just a note: If the Republicans want to be able to shout, “Woo! High score!” and then enter in their initials (“GOP”), they need to claim 126 seats from the Democrats. Sounds nigh impossible, but there is a bit of a perfect storm brewing with all the Democrats screw ups and how they just came off of a wave themselves.
Wouldn’t it be awesome if the Republicans had a huge majority like that? Then any time Obama has some new idea on how to expand government and tries to get it passed, the Republicans will just be like, “Shut up! And get me a soda, bitch!” Well, hopefully they’ll be that way, or we’ll need a third party.
Push the wave higher for 2010! (Next election i will be voting against any pro-amnesty republicons)
Join the revolution. Rub their face in it.
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The only thing that I know would change would be the press coverage…
If the R’s are in charge, then 7% unemployment is a miserable recession. If the D’s are in charge, then 10% unemployment is an awesome recovery.
If the R’s are in charge, then dissent is patriotic. If the D’s are in charge, then protest is racist.
It would be wonderful to have a Congress that tells Obama to shut up, or at the very least “Go back to Hawaii and pound some sand. Better yet, go back to Indonesia. We’re busy drawing up impeachment papers, they should be ready by the time you get back. And if you want to go ahead and stay in Indonesia, we’re OK with that.”
We need to go back to waving our big stick around. By which I mean we should blow up Obama’s house with the USS Missouri.
“The time for talk is over.” “We need to clean up the mess you made.” “Get out of the way.”
It will be sweet to toss these words back over the aisle.
Republicans better make sure they get with the program and stick with the program. The press is not going to cut them any breaks and neither are the people.
well said deafdog
The trouble with your synopsis is the whole thing depends on the collective memory of the electorate. Will anyone remember what was going on in April….in November, perhaps yes perhaps no. Call me a pessimist but as long as the Democrats have the loyalty of the folks who don’t pay taxes and yet are on the receiving end of the various federal giveaway programs I don’t see much changing.
By the way, what happened in 1894? đŸ˜€
And as long as ACORN or whoever they call themselves now can register illegal voters, I also remain somewhat pessimistic. I’ve seen ACORN workers registering illegals, saw it before the last election. Me and my friend told them about it, too in no uncertain terms.
You mean 1984 dodsfall?
Dodsfall and Mr. G, follow the link in Frank’s article. The biggest ever electoral wave in the House was when the Republicans picked up 125 seats, in 1894. Sean Trende makes a case for why a 1994-like scenario is no longer the “best case” but in fact the “most likely” case, and a 100-seat pickup is not impossible. However, we have a few months before the election… plenty of time to try for 126.
Thanks Joe.
zzyzx, do you believe the US economy will improve by November?
Those non-taxpayers still have to pay increasing state taxes and watch jobs dry up even more due to a deeply unpopular health care bill that was rammed through with little support fron the electorate.
The only way the GOP loses is if they really screw themselves.
zzyzx is correct, however if they don’t come out to vote they wont be a problem. I’m thinking by November, the welfare slugs and the leeches will be very full and happy probably in a crack coma and won’t give 2 shits about voting. This “Black” president that they voted for has worn the novelty off and many blacks are unhappy with the level of service they have been given…This nation is RIPE for REAL CHANGE, it’s up the GOP to put fourth the RIGHT candidates this time. Romney/Palin/Huckabee/McCain/Paul ARE NOT IT! roll again.
Actually Robert and Marco I hope I am wrong but I fear I am not. Sadly the collective memory of the electorate is notoriously short and it’s a long way from here to November.
From Wikipedia:
The U.S. House election, 1894 was a realigning election—a major Republican landslide that set the stage for the decisive Election of 1896. The elections of members of the United States House of Representatives in 1894 came in the middle of President Grover Cleveland’s second term. The nation was in its deepest economic depression ever following the Panic of 1893, so economic issues were at the forefront. In the spring, a major coal strike damaged the economy of the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic. It was accompanied by violence; the miners lost and many moved toward the Populist party. Immediately after the coal strike concluded, Eugene V. Debs led a nationwide railroad strike, called the Pullman Strike. It shut down the nation’s transportation system west of Detroit for weeks, until President Cleveland’s use of federal troops ended the strike. Debs went to prison (for disobeying a court order). Illinois’ Governor John Peter Altgeld, a Democrat, broke bitterly with Cleveland.
The fragmented and disoriented Democratic Party was crushed everywhere outside the South, losing more than half its seats to the Republican Party. Even in the South, the Democrats lost seats to Republican-Populist electoral fusion in Alabama, Texas, Tennessee, and North Carolina. The Democrats lost 125 seats in the election while the Republicans won 130 seats. This makes the 1894 election the largest midterm election victory in the entire history of the United States.
Yeah, I think we could do it again!
“Panic of 2009″ is a more accurate term than ‘great recession’
or as Obama calls the situation,”opportunity to ‘remake’ America”.
It began about a month before election day 2008,
and has been building ever since.
Actually, it is “Get me some coffee, bitch!”; as per Bill Clinton.