The reality of losing former Senator Kennedy's seat is that it really didn't matter.
We're still in Iraq. We're still in Afghanistan. We still have useless sanctions on Iran and Cuba. Call me selfish and unAmerican if you will, but dammit! I like a good cigar!
We still have no health insurance reform. Unions are still losing members and running scared. The Wall Street Bailout package was created by Republicans.
Face it. Things are still a big freaking mess. Just like they were when Bush and the Republicans held Congress. It's like they never left.
Coakley's loss shouldn't have been that surprising. I give her credit for being an attorney general for Massachusetts. But looking at her and her campaign, the republican's must have given her free pass to that office. Any pictures or video I saw of her revealed the image of "loser." She always walked and stood like she was freezing. Stooped over and looking scared. Her campaign whined for President Obama to come help. Or to do more.
Coat tails are over rated. Stand up straight and speak for yourself. There is nobody to blame but Martha Coakley for losing. But as i said, it didn't matter anyway. The republicans are still in charge.
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You betcha and might as well get used to it.
You and One Fly have it. But I'll say to you what I said to him, the ones that control election results in tight races are the independents, the flip floppers that vote Democratic one election and Republican the next. But I have to agree with you, no matter how many seats the Dems. have, the Republicans control the language and they are running the show.
And it was up to Coakley to appeal to the independents. She failed miserably.
It still doesn't matter. Health care reform is hostage to closet republicans LIEberman, Nelson and others like these two.
Perhaps one could say Nelson and his blackmailing ilk lost. But they're republicans in spirit. The r's will give them what they want.
Could it be that the same people are pulling the strings for both parties?
Maybe not necessarily the same people Jerry. But people with the same agenda.
It's a sad state of affairs. Our system is broken -- if not sabotaged. Is it any wonder we haven't passed any major legislation over the past 20-30 years?
I'm tired of people on t.v., in Congress and regular party members acting like government is a game. Who's up, who's down. Our government has become just another sport.
However, a sport where the games are influenced by outside groups with a stake in either winning or losing.
I'm tired of getting sick from swinging back and forth on the two party, bipolar pendulum. Sometimes you need to do a controlled burn to save the entire forest. Perhaps it's time to do that with the two-party system.
I have to agree with your sentiments, Truth. They're not the same people pulling the strings but both parties usually have the same agenda.
As much as many of my friends like to say it, Obama is really not radically different from Bush. As far as Brown goes, I can take him, but I'd rather leave him. His biggest campaign issues were his votes against the health care bill and his support for the Bush-Cheney foreign policy that is pretty much still in place.
The winner in this election was the status quo.
Massachusetts Democrats could have run a ficus tree in Coakley's place and done better against Brown than she did. The woman is a waste of skin and the (D) next to her name, while the larger party has nary a testicle to share between them. This is why I'm a Libertarian-Socialist. Our conventions aren't as well-attended or flashy but at least we have guts and balls where they count.
It certainly is no wonder why we have a nation of cynical people...
Or why only the least qualified run for public office anymore...
No matter what you do you get the cr*p beat out of you...
Nobody is ever satisfied with anything and only want more...
Of course there is always the least qualified at the ready in government to give us essentially what we deserve...
Which is ... I leave the answer to each individual to answer for themselves.
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RN: I am truly happy with my current position. My union activities revolved around making the working conditionsand pay better for my brothers and sisters.
And you're absolutely correct. No matter what I did, the crap was beat out of me.
You sound like a man who has endured similar things.
So let me get this straight. The Democrats have had the White House for a year, a 235 - 198 advantage in the House, and still a 59 - 41 advantage in the Senate, and the GOP "is still in charge?"
My, the Democrats are more incompetent that I thought.
Truth - Ahh yes my friend, that I have.
For, let me see now, 34 years.
Being a union leader, or a leader in management, which has been my cross to bear, is no picnic.
It is hard work, challenging, sometimes disapointing, but in the end usaully worth the time and effort spent.
Especially so when union and managment develop a level of trust for one another and actually work together to crete a better, more productive, and more profitable work experience for all.
One of the best books I have ever read on this subject is "Stronger Than Steel." I can't remember the authors name as I read it in the mid to late seventies. It left an indelible mark on my perception of how managmnt SHOULD treat their employees.
Perhaps that is why I succeeded but was never really popular with the mangement above me, except for a couple of men who also "got it."
I've said to much, time to go.
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