[sarcasm]Gee... My heart just broke for the people of Louisiana.[/sarcasm]
Don't let the door knob hit you where the Good Lord split ya on your way out!
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry Ford
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
I have not followed since the outcome was a foregone conclusion. I was wondering if she would blame the stupidity of the voters but found this instead. Hopefully he grows some between now and being seated. Course this is the CNN POV
"And Cassidy ran a largely error-free, if exceptionally safe, campaign. He held infrequent campaign stops during the runoff and stayed entirely out of the state for the final week of the runoff, returning only for a Monday debate and two rallies Friday."
www.cnn.com/2014/12/06/politics/louisian...f-results/index.html
That means for all practical purposes the current makeup of the Senate is almost exactly reversed for the next one. Might one dare say a "fundamental" transformation of the Senate?
I read an op-ed somewhere that said something to the effect that the dems should not be supprized the south voted them out. Why should they vote for the party that has spent the last 50 years defficating on them.
On liberal threads southern liberals say there is more racism in the north than the south. Non-southern dems pile on them with every negative steriotype in there echo chamber.
..."And that is what Louisiana, and almost the entire South, has become. The victims of the particular form of euthanasia it enforces with such glee are tolerance, compassion, civic decency, trans-racial community, the crucial secular values on which this country was founded… I could keep this list going. But I think you get the idea. Practically the whole region has rejected nearly everything that’s good about this country and has become just one big nuclear waste site of choleric, and extremely racialized, resentment. A fact made even sadder because on the whole they’re such nice people! (I truly mean that.)
With Landrieu’s departure, the Democrats will have no more senators from the Deep South, and I say good. Forget about it. Forget about the whole fetid place. Write it off. Let the GOP have it and run it and turn it into Free-Market Jesus Paradise. The Democrats don’t need it anyway."...
I really hope with the loss of the South that the Democrat party goes much more liberal. Fingers crossed.
Just makes it easier to mock them and get people to vote for alternatives.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
I fundamentally agree with you Fred. The problem I see is that the alternative (meaning in this case the GOP) is not a whole heckuva lot better and third parties, no matter how good, don't have a snowball's chance in Hades. Just when you think the GOP is going to get their - uh - act together and do something politically meaningful and right (no pun intended), they choreograph that good old circular firing squad again. It's really frustrating.
I'm just hoping that come January they'll put some brakes on that petty, petulant tyrant.
DELUSION IN LOUISIANA
Mary Landrieu’s defeat was one of a number of blows that the Democrats suffered in Louisiana this year. They are now just about extinct in the state:
Landrieu was the last statewide elected Democrat holding office in Louisiana. Republicans now control both U.S. Senate seats, five of six congressional districts, the Governor’s Office, the state Senate, the state House of Representatives, and all other statewide elected offices.
Democrats are in equally bad shape across the Deep South, where Republicans now control every Senate seat, every governorship, and every legislative body. You might think this would cause Louisiana Democrats to reconsider what they are doing. Or possibly switch parties. But no: Louisiana’s Democratic Party chairwoman Karen Carter-Peterson thinks she knows what the problem is:
In a column on the Cenlamar website, Carter-Peterson wrote that while the party enjoyed some success in this year’s election cycle, the Kochs and Fox News kept the party from selling it’s [sic] message of working for Louisianans.
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