(11-06-2010 10:06 AM)WMD Owl Wrote:  a totally trashed economy coupled with a foreign policy/military humiliation.

Do you have any reason to believe that isn't exactly what is going to happen?

(11-06-2010 02:12 AM)Jonathan Sadow Wrote:  One other point, which I don't think has been appreciated as much as it should be, is that the Tea Party helped the Republicans to huge gains in state legislatures. Here in Texas, the Democrat Party has been effectively destroyed as a party with any significant statewide influence, thanks to state House seats lost to Tea Partiers (and even a couple of Republican incumbents were knocked off by Tea Partiers in the primaries). Similar things happened in other states such as Michigan, which will have ramifications for redistricting.

Wonder what Sissy Farenthold thinks about that Ortiz race.

So we've had 3 nationalized "wave" elections dating back to 2006, all directed against the perceived party in power.

It'll be interesting to see how this plays out in a presidential year in states like PA and IL with, I suspect, higher D turnout.

One small quibble - the Texas Senate didn't change ideologically, so unless the R's toss the 2/3rds rule, Kirk Watson-D, et al, will have influence on the debate.

Given that the great state of Texas has a structural deficit and a 20-25 billion dollar hole to fill and zero chance of getting another round of Obama stimulus dollars, and just elected a bunch of folks promising no new revenue, Tuesday may be the R high water mark in the Leg. Esp. if the House R’s decide to blow the place up fighting about the speaker’s race, immigration policy, and walking away from Medicaid. See Warren Chisholm’s Wednesday press conference announcing his bid for speaker as entertainment.

And then there's the whole redistricting thing - which will be rural R v. urban R hand to hand combat all while puzzling out a plan which will get through the Obama DOJ or set up a fight in the US S. Ct.

There's never anything boring about the Texas Leg.

(11-03-2010 04:20 PM)emmiesix Wrote:  1) Abortion is bad
2) Killing people in other countries is good
3) The economy is simultaneously Obama's AND Bush's fault
4) Gays are bad
5) Health care for all is bad
6) Tax cuts are good, even when we're facing a huge deficit
7) Bailing out the banks/GM was bad, (even though we would have done the same)

Did I miss something? Were there conservative candidates who didn't agree on all these points?

Yes. And yes.

#2 is especially insulting. Nobody supported that point.
4&5 are not far behind.

I'm not pro-life or pro-abortion, I don't care one way or the other about other peoples sex lives, and I do believe that that there are bad ways of doing good things, which covers 5, 6, and 7.

I hope 69 was right that you were trying to be humorous, but even if TIC, the stereotype(s) that this list was drawn from make me angry. Oh, great, now now I fit the tea party stereotype. (That was MY attempt at humor).