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Robert Gibbs: 'This could be lights out for the Democrats'
Posted on 3/17/14 at 9:13 pm
Posted on 3/17/14 at 9:13 pm
Robert Gibbs has obviously not received the memo from the group of PT Board experts who have predicted Republicans cannot win elections.
Notice subtle anti-GOP language in the article
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Senate Democrats, like the Great Houdini, have repeatedly escaped seeming disaster. During the past two elections, they denied Republicans control of the chamber just when it looked as if the GOP had things sewed up.
Democrats once again are facing the threat of political demise in the 2014 mid-term election – but this time they may not be able to defy the odds.
Robert Gibbs, the former Obama White House Press Secretary, said on Sunday that the Senate is “definitely” in danger of changing hands in the November election.
Gibbs, appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” said there was no doubt that the administration’s highly troubled roll out of the Affordable Care Act “is still providing a huge hangover” for Democrats scrambling to hang on to their seats. Even more disconcerting for Democrats, Gibbs said, is the possibility that the GOP will engineer another “wave election” that could result in widespread Democratic losses in the House and Senate.
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“If we lose the Senate, turn out the lights,” Gibbs said. “The party’s over.”
Notice subtle anti-GOP language in the article
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Posted on 3/17/14 at 9:16 pm to weagle99
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Senate Democrats, like the Great Houdini, have repeatedly escaped seeming disaster. During the past two elections, they denied Republicans control of the chamber just when it looked as if the GOP had things sewed up.
This is why we're so skeptical. The GOP could rain on a parade in Death Valley.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 9:16 pm to weagle99
neither party will ever be "out" and it's in each others interests to keep the other around. both will keep winning elections on the backs of the other parties failures.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 9:19 pm to Draconian Sanctions
GOP won't have a significant majority and Obama has a pen. House is 100% GOP lock.
Gridlock is our destiny
Gridlock is our destiny
This post was edited on 3/17/14 at 9:21 pm
Posted on 3/17/14 at 9:21 pm to TOKEN
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Gridlock
Posted on 3/17/14 at 9:22 pm to kingbob
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rain
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Death Valley
Does not compute.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 9:22 pm to weagle99
I have complete confidence in Republican candidates blowing it.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 9:23 pm to weagle99
quote:Thats a retarded thing to say. I'm pretty sure they said that about the Republicans in 2008.
quote: “If we lose the Senate, turn out the lights,” Gibbs said. “The party’s over.”
Nothing but sensationalism.
This post was edited on 3/17/14 at 9:24 pm
Posted on 3/17/14 at 9:53 pm to Scruffy
i think Gibbs is saying the party would be over for the remaining 2 years of the Obama tenure.
I actually think it's been more of a nightmare than a party, but that's just me.
I actually think it's been more of a nightmare than a party, but that's just me.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 10:24 pm to TOKEN
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GOP won't have a significant majority and Obama has a pen. House is 100% GOP lock.
Gridlock is our destiny
I'd be fine with gridlock. The GOP will be in the spotlight leading up to 2016..they just need to keep proposing good legislation and try to repeal and replace Obamacare with better legislation, even if Obama vetoes them.
Let the word get out what the GOP's ideas are, and hopefully the nation goes with those ideas in 2016.
Also with both houses, the GOP can put a stop to Obama's overreach and unilateral changing of laws via Executive Order.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 10:25 pm to weagle99
Odio
Posted on 3/17/14 at 10:27 pm to weagle99
I will do my duty to not only never pull a lever for a democrat, but I won't pull a lever for an incumbent ever again. Lights out to every single one of them that has put us in this current situation.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 10:28 pm to Draconian Sanctions
yup.
too bad its not in the country's best interest to keep either
too bad its not in the country's best interest to keep either
Posted on 3/17/14 at 10:35 pm to weagle99
quote:I'm absolutely confident. 100% sure. That if the Republicans get the majority... democrats will refuse use the filibuster, and advocate running the Senate on simple majority votes just like they've done for the last 6 years.
the Senate is “definitely” in danger of changing hands in the November election.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 11:22 pm to kingbob
quote:The GOP could freak up wet dream.
This is why we're so skeptical. The GOP could rain on a parade in Death Valley.
Posted on 3/18/14 at 8:03 am to Draconian Sanctions
It would be nice if the media started reporting facts instead of trying to get dems elected as their A-1 job.
Then maybe the country would be stuck in the mud with shyt ideas from dumb liberals.
Then maybe the country would be stuck in the mud with shyt ideas from dumb liberals.
Posted on 3/18/14 at 8:05 am to weagle99
I love how the problem with O-care is the "rollout".
Posted on 3/18/14 at 8:48 am to 4LSU2
quote:I've been in this boat for over 10 years now. There is a very, very, very small list of people who I'd vote for if they were in office.
I will do my duty to not only never pull a lever for a democrat, but I won't pull a lever for an incumbent ever again. Lights out to every single one of them that has put us in this current situation.
I have felt a political freedom in not voting party line, not voting the way my parents raised me, not voting the same way all of my church friends would vote, etc. I still feel guilt over voting for Bush Jr the 2nd time. Voting for him and/or anyone who has ever supported the Patriot Act is something I'll never forget. I won't make that mistake again.
I no longer will vote for the lesser of 2 evils. I'll vote for someone aligned with my views. Or, I'll stay home.
Posted on 3/18/14 at 8:59 am to weagle99
Until one of the parties wakes up and actually cuts the budget, none of this matters.
Healthcare, civil rights, abortion, yada yada yada.
We're going off the fiscal cliff, and all they are worried about is who's in the driver's seat when we crash.
Healthcare, civil rights, abortion, yada yada yada.
We're going off the fiscal cliff, and all they are worried about is who's in the driver's seat when we crash.
Posted on 3/18/14 at 9:17 am to deltaland
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Let the word get out what the GOP's ideas are, and hopefully the nation goes with those ideas in 2016.
Probably a bad idea if your goal is to win an election....the recipe for success at winning elections is to cloak your ideas until such time as you can whip them out and blame the opposition for them. What you are calling for, honesty in politics, is admirable but unlikely to be succesful....we don't want to hear that moderately succesful business men are planning to leave Hahira, Georgia and other such places and go to Washington where they and their families and friends will become fabulously wealthy and powerful at the exepense of the people back home. You would be hard pressed to get elected if you said this to the constituents but this is the goal of almost every politician who seeks office....
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