The Politics Thread

[Roman]

Big defeats for Republicans. I wonder if these two measures are signs to come. Personally, I think whoever wins the Republican nom is going to get blast next year by Obama and his campaign. How anyone can put Romney or any of the other candidates over this POTUS is beyond me. Not trying to get anything started, but none of them have NO PLAN whatsoever.

[Roman]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/08/russell-pearce-recall-election-jerry-lewis_n_1083129.html

Oh boy. The wave may be coming.

[Roman]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/08/obama-health-care-reform-_n_1081865.html

A CONSERVATIVE appeals court upheld Obama's health care program.

[DRW50]

To round up - the Ohio union-busting law was repealed by a huge margin. Gov. Kasich has said he is going to try to pass various parts of the law into separate bills.

Mississippi voted down the personhood amendment by a comfortable margin (about 57%). They also passed a voter ID law. Their state senate will remain Republican and the state house, controlled by Democrats, is now either tied or will be controlled by Republicans.

Virginia's state senate is now, thanks to a vote mishap at the last minute, likely to be controlled by Republicans. A recount is pending.

New Jersey stayed the same.

Kentucky elected mostly Democrats to state offices, although by a narrower margin than some expected. The only Republican to win was for ag commissioner, as the Democrat running decided to joke that Eastern Kentuckians were hillbillies and that he wasn't qualified for the job.

Arizona recalled the anti-immigrant senator who has become a national icon among tea partiers.

Michigan recalled a Republican legislator due to anger over role in laws against teachers and teacher unions. He says he wants to move on, but the House GOP says the voting was irregular and they want a recount.

Maine repealed the law which got rid of same-day registration.

[Max]

Here's a CNN article explaining why the "Personhood" ballot measure went down to defeat in Mississippi:

http://news.blogs.cn...sure/?hpt=hp_c1

Clearly, any objective, non-partisan adult would have to conclude that CNN is part of the "Conservative News Media" after reading this article. (Thank goodness for truly non-biased sources of news such as the Huffington Post.)

Edited November 9, 2011 by Max

[DRW50]

Many conservatives opposed this measure; I'm not sure what they have to do with each other.

[Max]

Carl, a major reason why some conservatives were opposed to this measure is because they thought it was too extreme. If CNN was some tool of the right-wing, they wouldn't have reported that, nor would they have mentioned the concerns that women had with the law.

Edited November 9, 2011 by Max

[DRW50]

The right wing media is corporate, not social. They have as little reason to support this amendment as anyone. It's extremely divisive to the right.

[DRW50]

This is an interesting article. Until I read this I didn't quite get why some on the far right were so adamantly defending Cain. Now I see. It's not about Cain, it's about convincing people that there is no such thing as sexual harassment.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2011/11/herman_cain_s_conservative_defenders_are_going_totally_overboard.html?fb_ref=sm_fb_plugin_activity

[Roman]

http://www.huffingto..._n_1083427.html

I saw this this morning on the news. There is truly no possible way that campaign can screw this up more. This is truly laughable.

http://www.huffingto...tml?ir=Politics

http://www.huffingto..._n_1084129.html

Republicans now want their names removed from the Norquist pledge.

Edited November 9, 2011 by Roman

[Roman]

I just saw that Tom Ridge might take over as Penn State's President. I'm now catching up on this story, and I just cannot believe the truly horrific things that happened at that university under the watch of so many people.

[Roman]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/09/fannie-mae-bonuses-freddie-mac_n_1084141.html?ref=politics

Even though I feel he's really short a loaf, this makes perfect sense, and I back him all the way.

[Roman]

Was that supposed to be a debate?

[DRW50]

This seems to be the big moment from the debate. I think this will cause a sympathy backlash for Perry. It's kind of quasi-Reagan.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/rick-perrys-oops-in-republican-debate-could-have-long-lasting-implications-for-his-campaign-video/2011/11/09/gIQAqUBr6M_blog.html

[Max]

Today, all employees at Jon Corzine's former company--MF Global--were terminated.

Perhaps, now more than ever, we need more government stimulus that President Obama and Congressional Democrats are pushing for. After all, I am sure that the white-collar ex-employees at MF Global can easily transfer their skills and apply them to a shovel-ready job.