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truckinslave -> RE: Last week for predictions.... (10/27/2010 3:09:46 PM)
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ORIGINAL: MrRodgers
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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic
The prediction then is pretty much the prediction now, only with more confidence. A wave is coming, and the Democrats will lose the House. Catch me drinking, and I'll make 1894 jokes (the Republicans gained well over 100 seats).
I think the best outcome would be about a 50 seat shift to the Republicans in the House, 6 or 7 in the Senate. That yanks the pursestrings shut, maybe without convincing the Repubs that they now have an obligation to "get" the President.
What I think would be best, usually isn't what I think is going to happen. My hunch is that a lot more seats than that are going to change hands. I'll watch Barney Frank next week. If he goes down, he'll be the canary for a lot more.
Trust me when I tell you that the repubs of 1894 were nothing at all like the repubs of 2010. At that time...they were the progressives and would be considered almost liberal by today's repub standards. For example...
Imagine...the repub platform from 1894:
“If you are willing to take for security the promise of a party upon which no man can safely bank and which no man can safely discount, then vote the Democratic ticket.
If you will trust a party which has always done better than it promised then vote the Republican ticket.
If you wish to join the party of slavery and disunion, of rebellion of bankruptcy, of failure and despair then vote the Democratic ticket.
If you wish to join a party of progress, of union, of freedom and victory and hope, then vote the Republican ticket.
If you want the mortgage on your house foreclosed you had better vote the Democratic ticket.
If you want it paid off you had better vote the Republican.
If you want wages to go down, then vote the Democratic ticket.
If you want wages to go up then vote the Republican ticket.
If you like three days’ work in the week better than six then vote the Democratic ticket.
If you like six days better than three then vote the Republican.
If you like to have two men for one job vote the Democratic ticket.
If you like to have two jobs for one man, then vote the Republican ticket.
If you want your mills managed by college professors, then vote the Democratic ticket.
If you want them managed by business men, then vote the Republican ticket.”
Oh, BTW, the repubs will likely win a few seats as almost always occurs in the first mid-terms with a new pres. They however, will NOT win any majority in either house and all of the conjecture is basically irrelevent because Obama isn't going anywhere.
Just in case there is anyone... naive... enough to think you posted, above, the Republican platform from 1894 or any other year, I will post it below:
THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
The principles of the Republicans of Massachusetts are as well known as the Commonwealth itself; well known as the Republic; well known as Liberty; well known as Justice.
Chief among them are:
An equal share in government for every citizen;
Best possible wages for every workman;
The American markets for American labor;
Every dollar paid by the Government, both the gold and silver dollars of the Constitution, and their paper representatives, honest and unchanging in value and equal to every other;
Better immigration laws;
Better naturalization laws;
No tramp, Anarchist, criminal or pauper to be let in, so that citizenship shall not be stained or polluted.
Sympathy with Liberty and Republican government at home and abroad;
Americanism everywhere;
The flag never lowered or dishonored;
No surrender in Samoa;
No barbarous Queen beheading men in Hawaii;
No lynching;
No punishment without trial;
Faith kept with the pensioner;
No deserving old soldier in the poor house;
The suppression of dram drinking and dram selling;
A school at the public charge open to all the children, and free from partisan or sectarian control;
No distinction of birth or religious creed in the rights of American citizenship;
Devotion paramount and supreme to the country and to the flag;
Clean politics;
Pure administration;
No lobby;
Reform of old abuses;
Leadership along loftier paths;
Minds ever open to the sunlight and the morning, ever open to new truth and new duty as the new years bring their lessons.
The Fitchburg Sentinel (Fitchburg, Massachusetts) Oct 23, 1894
You can't make this shit up.
Selah
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