So that happened. Ugh. Four more years of that shit. I was wrong about my own prediction, and others were right (Jim Cramer still was a nut, though)
It's going to be so much fun seeing all those "unexpectedly" stories continue for the next four years. Medicare patients "unexpectedly" seeing their actual healthcare access go away. Full-time employees "unexpectedly" getting turned into part-timers.
And of course the entirely expected "unexpected" public pension failures. Btw, there were some ballot measures on pensions, some meaningful, some not, and I'll get around to those later in the week. I will definitely not be lacking for those stories.
I am under no illusion that anybody outside conservative circles is going to make Obama own whatever economic failures continue – it will continue to be Bush's fault, of course. That Bush, man, he was so powerful.
And yes, it may be that U.S. servicemen were disenfranchised and that there was widespread fraud, but someone other than me needs to sift through those numbers. We always knew that we'd need a Romney win to be bigger than the margin of Dem shenanigans.
In any case, congrats to Nate Silver. He got his tipping states correct, and the simulations panned out. Looks like he got the popular vote percentages correct, too (well, close enough). So yay – the state polls weren't biased (in statistical terms) and Silver gets to keep his job… until the NYT can no longer pay him.
Unexpectedly.
Carlos on November 7, 2012 at 4:01 am said:
Aw, cute. Someone mad? The American people spoke, so you might want to, y'know, shut the fuck up.
meep on November 7, 2012 at 6:04 am said:
welcome to our little blog!
feel free to spread your sayings here – you sound like a persuasive chap. unexpectedly!
John on November 7, 2012 at 6:43 am said:
Like your ilk did during the Bush years? Me no think so.
Starless on November 7, 2012 at 7:25 am said:
Thank you for summing up Obama's second term agenda for us in twenty words or less.
Zilla on November 7, 2012 at 10:14 am said:
"Dissent is patriotic" – Hillary Clinton
The left is the establishment the rest of us are the rebels, you are the conformists, the sheep, the lemmings, the jackasses.
We will not be shutting the fuck up, but you can go ahead and fuck yourself, Carlos.
Moish on November 7, 2012 at 7:44 am said:
Hey, Carlos, way to stay classy.
I suppose everyone who didn't like George W was supposed to STFU back in 2004 when he was reelected? Or is it just conservatives who aren't allowed to voice opinions?
Idiot.
Tregonsee on November 7, 2012 at 8:07 am said:
Given how entrenched Obamacare will be, and the probability of two SCOTUS appointments, we are looking at far more than four more years.
Meep on November 7, 2012 at 8:12 am said:
Of course. How long have we had so many of FDR's programs sticking around?
Perhaps I should have put "at least four more years". Just take it as implied.
jefferson101 on November 7, 2012 at 8:19 am said:
I've pretty much concluded that we might as well go all Cloward-Piven on them and keep turning the handle the way it goes until it breaks. Since the Republican Party has not been successful by nominating people who would drive us over the cliff at 60 MPH instead of at 125 MPH, I figure they'll inflict Christie or Bloomberg on us next time.
The RINO's havent been able to win by being Socialism Lite, so they'll probably go the full Monty now.
Who's turn is it in '16, anyway?
Zilla on November 7, 2012 at 10:17 am said:
It's time to make the RINOs who inflicted this on us pay dearly, Burn the establishment GOP down to the ground, dance on the ashes and build a conservative Republican party in i's place starting with our nearest primary elections. My suggestion for among the 1st to feel our wrath is that gutless surrender monkey, cryin' John Boehner.
Jeff on November 7, 2012 at 5:42 pm said:
Look, as a Dem, I was unhappy in '04 when GWB was reelected, but I hadn't gone around telling people for weeks that the polls were biased when Kerry was getting his butt whupped. You have a serious cognitive dissonance going on here.
Like it or not, the socially conservative ideals espoused by many R candidates (Akin, Mourdock) this year ARE in the minority. It's not 4 more years of social liberalism you should get used to. It's the rest of your lives. America is getting bluer (as in less Puritanical). In order to attract more young voters, the Republican Party might have to *gasp* change it's platform! There is no reason that fiscal conservatism has to be tied to social conservatism. That's what the RINOs have figured out, but the Republican Party excommunicates them for it. It's the social conservatives that disenfranchised the young and female vote, NOT the fiscal ones.
jefferson101 on November 7, 2012 at 7:04 pm said:
You are confused. You relate "bluer" with less Social Conservativism, and even a lot of us hard core Evangelicals are not what even you would call Social Cons. But that's not what screwed Willard over.
Willard got screwed over because he was being Obama Lite, in the first place, and refused to attack any of B.O.'s weaknesses in the second. He might have hurt someone's feelings. That person wouldn't have voted for him anyway, but the RINO's wanted it that way, and they got it.
We are either going to change Party leadership big time, or we will no longer have a Republican Party by 2016. You won't like what comes out of that crash if we don't have, but you won't like what comes out of it if we do, either. The reckoning is coming for the RINO's first, but it'll get around to you Democrats fairly soon thereafter.
OTOH, if I can't get a new Republican Party, I'll cheerfully settle for a new Country. How did they put it back in the day? "Deo Vindice", I think it was. I'm not interested in having slaves, but I'm not going to be made into one, either.