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Let the jockeying begin:

AmericanDreamer — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 18:56:21 +0000

In reply to After doing my second stint

Let the jockeying begin: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-kuttner/post_1183_b_776752.html

(Robert Kuttner, with an early take on the meaning of the elections)

After doing my second stint

AmericanDreamer — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:32:00 +0000

In reply to You Can't Sell Your Soul If the Devil Ain't Buying

After doing my second stint of poll work (first was Saturday 9-11 at the in-person absentee ballot polling place; wrote about it as an update to my "My Adopted Progressive" post from October 4 at http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/my-adopted-progressive-7090) tomorrow morning, 6-8 early bird shift, I am looking forward to taking my son, and maybe my daughter, too, if I can persuade her to go, to see John Wall's home debut with the Washington Wizards basketball team.

I would not watch TV coverage of the election results anyway. The talking heads may reliably be counted upon to offer any of 3 takes on "what tonight means":

1. Large Republican gains mean Obama will be forced to move to the center; or

2. Large Republican gains mean Obama will be forced to move to the center; or, alternatively,

3. Large Republican gains mean Obama will be forced to move to the center.

I'll go online to find out about the results.

A recent survey revealed

Oxy Mora — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 02:54:07 +0000

In reply to You Can't Sell Your Soul If the Devil Ain't Buying

A recent survey revealed that an overwhelming number of people want to elect politicians who are unwilling to compromise--including virtually all Republicans and most Democrats. Boehner and O'Connell have eaten our lunch on this issue, shouting it out even before the election. No Compromise. This makes them look tough. Apparently that's what angry voters want.

Instead of showing anger, outrage, indignation or any of the other knee jerk Republican manufactured emotions, Democrats keep trying to compromise. But in this climate it is self-defeating behavior.

Just the notion that you might compromise signals that you are a chump and a coward. You would be shunned. Without our legal safeguards you would probably be stoned.

The person who should be the first to say he won't compromise is the President, not Boehner or O'Connell. I'm waiting to hear those words. Actually, from any Democrat.

My adivice to Obama, and I've never been elected to anything, is to throw down the gauntlet to the Congress on the Middle Class tax cut as a stand alone piece of legislation, no other tax breaks, no other deals, period. If he does nothing in his entire second term but stick to that statement without compromise, and throw every other piece of legislation back in the face of Congress, I think he could reunite and re-energize those who voted for him in 2010 and be relected easily.

I am a native of the

chucktrotter — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 02:42:55 +0000

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I am a native of the "fly-over zone." Yes we midwesterners are an odd lot. I make no claims relative to studies related to quality of life, graduation rates or any statistics that compare states by relative quality of living. I did spend eleven years working in Kentucky. Stepping across the Mason\Dixon Line was equivalent to taking that final breath of fresh air before submerging into the salty depths of a coral reef. Today, I can contact many friends and associates that I grew fond of in Kentucky. But, I will be honest and, unforgiveably, outspoken. Why does a majority of inbred , uneducated morons have an effect on my life? Lincoln can do what she must, but how can a habitant of the "Land of the Mental Dwarf" have the right to have "ANY" effect upon my future?