In the states: GOP control puts women, students, the poor in crosshairs
Kansas to become an “abortion free zone” … states enacting “covenant marriages” that are near impossible to leave … privatized Medicaid that allows HMOs to function as literal “death panels” and more. Glimpse the future — one that could be especially hard on women and the poor — in several states where Republicans won governorships and strengthened their hold on state houses. Read more
Pew poll: voters unenthused by midterm results
Americans care about jobs, not elections.
A new Pew poll finds fewer than half of Americans feel good about the results of last week’s “shellacking” election, and an alarming number don’t expect the new Congress to get much done. Read more
Rick Scott: ‘let’s get to work…! now take this awesome gift card’
You really can’t make this stuff up. Rick Scott, the guy who slinked out of his former hospital corporation, Columbia/HCA, with a $300 million golden parachute before the company settled with the federal government to the tune of $1.7 billion over Medicare fraud… whose new company, Solantic, also is being looked at for Medicare fraud, who spent $73 million of his ill-gotten gains to make himself governor of Florida, in part by running against a Republican establishment that among other things, handed out American Express cards paid for by donors, which Florida politicians like Marco Rubio abused like they were on an episode of “Pimp My Life,” paid some of his campaign workers not with cash or checks … but with gift cards … American Express … gift cards. Wow. Read more
Alex Sink: meet the mirror. You lost because of YOU, and your state party (**UPDATED**)
I wasn’t going to do any more retrospectives on the 2010 election, because I’m already on to the business of how we progressives move forward. But if there’s one thing I hate in politics, it’s people pointing the finger at everyone other than themselves when they lose. President Obama is catching hell from some of his base for capitulating to a barrage of reporters’ demanding that he take responsibility for the beating Democrats took on November 2nd, but at least he manned up. Alex Sink on the other hand, thinks she lost the Florida governor’s race because of … Barack Obama. Madame, please. Read more
Tim Wise to tea party: enjoy it while it lasts
The bad guy always gets it in the end ... even if it takes a half dozen sequels.
The inimitable Tim Wise breaks down the election as only he can:
There have always been those who wanted to take the country back.
There were those who, in past years, wanted to take the country back to a time of enslavement and indentured servitude.
But they lost. Read more
Read this: why Democrats lost
Kenneth Quinnell, formerly of the Kendrick Meek campaign and now back to the Florida Progressive Coalition (and ThinkProgress) offers a candid assessment of what went wrong for Florida Democrats on November 2nd. Short version: a suckish state party, a compromising president, a lackluster progressive movement, and voters who could give a damn. Read more
(Video) Joy on MSNBC: the Fox News candidates
I think it was a bit of a faux pas mentioning the Network that Is Not News on MSNBC, but Media Matters picks up the clip in which your humble TRR editor discusses the Fox training received by our “grassroots” GOP Titans of 2010:
Meanwhile, over at Comedy Central … Read more
The Age of Orange
Republicans are poised to go from a 77 seat minority in the U.S. House of Representatives to a 37-seat majority in what is looking like the slowest wave in recorded history. Behold, the Age of Orange. Read more
Gulp … Get your TRR Election 2010 predictions here
A Sestak surprise on Election night?
Okay, here we go… enjoy (or hate) and we’ll see if I’m right at poll closing time. Short version: I think it might not be as big a tsunami as Republicans are hoping for. The idea that Republicans are going to pick up 70 or more House seats just strikes me as too giddy by half. And the Senate will stay in Democratic hands (by the way, to all my rightie friends, and an alarming number of liberals — the term is “Democratic” … not “Democrat.” Enjoy! Read more
Blogsurfing: An ill wind blowing through the Sunshine State?
What’s percolating on the Florida blogs this morning?
Over at SaintPetersblog, Peter Schorsch breaks down the bad, very bad, nasty numbers facing Democrats in the I-4. Read them here, but only while sitting down, preferably with a good, stiff drink. Oh, and the answer to the question: is Dave Aronberg the last man standing? … is yes. Read more
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