You want the definition of putting partisanship before country? Check this out:
As a two-term chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, Rep. Pete Sessions has never been known for reaching across the aisle.
In the year since relinquishing that gig and taking the gavel of the Rules Committee, the Texas Republican is still focused on politics and elections — and scoring points for the GOP.
And right now, he’s got one target in his sights.
“Everything we do in this body should be about messaging to win back the Senate,” he said. “That’s it. If you don’t want Benghazis to happen or you want an investigation for Benghazi, if you want an investigation on the IRS as opposed to the excuses that [Senate Majority Leader] Harry Reid is all about, if you do not like what’s happening at the [National Security Agency], then you gain the Senate.”
It’s kind of breathtaking in it’s assholishness.
I also heard reports that Pete Sessions recently told the president that he couldn’t even stand to look at him. I don’t know if those reports are true, but they seem plausible.
If true, chances are it’s not an original line – Pete probably first heard it from his ex-wife.
I also heard reports that Pete Sessions recently told the president that he couldn’t even stand to look at him. I don’t know if those reports are true, but they seem plausible.
Couldn’t that be true of about 3/4 of the GOP House caucus?
If you don’t want shutdowns to happen, or you want an investigation on how Bankers are fucking America, if you do not like what’s happening with voter registration, then you gain the House for Dems.
It’s not so much that he’s putting partisanship before country, it’s that his partisanship has repeatedly been demonstrated to harm the country and he doesn’t care.
On that note, over the weekend the shutdown briefly came up because I was visiting relatives for my mother’s birthday and I work for the Feds (asking if I was furloughed etc).
Now all of these people — save for two of them, who also don’t vote — are Republicans.
“All of them in Congress should be fired.”
“This is why term limits make sense.”
These are ostensibly smart people. I shouldn’t even put that qualifier there. They’re fairly intelligent. But when it comes to politics it’s like their brains turn the fuck off.
You all fucking vote Republican, this is what you voted for. If you want the shutdowns to stop, stop doing it. I’m sure they all voted for Ken Cuccinelli today.
I don’t care if it was a damn close race, Coochy Coo lost to someone like T-Mac. That is almost inconceivable in an off-year. We have cut off the Confederacy’s strong arm, cut it right off.
OT: Is believing the polls instead of getting out the vote going to kill McAuliffe in Virginia? Lots of underperfomance for Dems.
Here are your absolutely straight-GOP-ticket voters. Look at this.
The voting pattern for Lt. Governor.
Lee County – Jackson 3,459 73.8% 100% In
Scott County – Jackson 3,897 77.7% 100% In.
Buchanan County – Jackson 3,082 66.0% 100% In.
Those are Appalachian counties voting for a crazy black male candidate. Either there was substantial organization or substantial walking around money.
McAuliffe is still looking good from what I’m seeing, but it’s much closer than anticipated.
Yes, McAuliffe will get in, but the map looks terrible from an organizational perspective. There seem to be a whole bunch of locked-down counties.
Remember this is a classic off-year election pattern. Next year will look more like this geographically than a Presidential year will. And that is troubling for any pick-ups in VA.
In the delegate races, it looks like Dems will pick up two seats bringing them to a third of the House of Delegates. That means that Gov. McAuliffe will have a hostile legislature for two years. Better than the current runaway one, but there doesn’t seem to be blowback from the legislative overreach. I’m now very worried about NC.
All the money and attention given to McAwful who is likely to barely beat Cooch and little money to Buono and lots of hugs for Christie.
If not for mayoral races in NYC, Greensboro and hopefully Boston this would be as depressing as the day Schwarzenegger won.
Called for Marty already 🙂
It’s not against the law to be happy when a conservative dem tacks markedly to the left and wins the governorship of Virginia in an offcycle year. Really, it’s not.
Only those that don’t know who McAuliffe is would be fooled by a last minute campaign gimmick.
Unlike most here, I think Christie has the basic components to win the 2016 Presidential election. Letting him cruise to reelection victory in a very blue state was a very bad decision. That assumes that the fix isn’t already in for him.
The fix is in for Christie? Are you trying to claim that the national Democratic Party wants Christie to be the next President? What do you mean here? Paranoia strikes deep/into your heart it will creep?
Seems to me that it’s more rational to blame a highly fractured set of New Jersey Democratic Party leaders for the failure to support Senator Buono. How could the national party feel like it’s rational to spend a lot of money on this race when they’d be going over the heads of State Dem leaders who were either supporting Christie or standing down? I agree it was a bad decision, but the decision was driven by New Jersey.
I think it’s highly irritating and unjustified by the facts to believe that “the fix is in” for Christie. Here in California, the Democratic opponent to Governor Schwarzenegger’s re-election in 2006 was uncharismatic, his fundraising and other support foundered, and the Governator cruised to a 56%-39% margin of victory. That was at a time when each Legislative House was about 60% Democratic and almost all other Statewide offices were held by Democrats.
Given your supposition here, would you have presumed that the fix was in for Schwarzenegger? That’s a hilarious thought, given that the bloom came off Arnold’s rose even before the end of his term. No, a more rational explanation is that Schwarzenegger, like Christie, was a political celebrity whose outsized reputation grew his electoral popularity past rational partisan expectations in his state.
As far as Christie’s 2016 aspirations, take note of BooMan’s post from a few days ago: “Jersey don’t travel well.”
Yes, if not for winning they’d ALL be losses, and then how depressing would THAT be? 😛
In the long run, those mayoral wins may be more valuable than winning the governorship in VA. The GOP and teabaggers figured that out a long time ago which is why they control more states and the US House.
“You want the definition of putting partisanship before country?”
The Republicans have equated partisanship with patriotism for a while now. Remember when Nixon’s Attorney General Mitchell, who helped lead Tricky Dick’s re-election campaign (perhaps a mite conflict-of-interest?), testified that a McGovern win in 1972 would have been so harmful to the U.S. that breaking the law to ensure a Nixon win was in the country’s interest?
To repeat: Mitchell was the chief law enforcement officer in the country at the time.
That’s because the only real murkins are republicans.
McAuliffe’s in.
Congratulations.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/polls-open-across-virginia-in-hotly-contested-
governors-race/2013/11/04/06c6205c-45d2-11e3-bf0c-cebf37c6f484_story.html
Think about the size of McAuliffe’s win if they hadn’t of purged all those Democratic voters last week
What did the Glibertarian get?
About 7%.
McAuliffe won because of the Non-Whites in Virginia.
period.