Originally Posted By RoadTrip To a certain extent I think he is. He did block a LARGE number of bills from going to the Senate Floor, including 50 that passed the House unanimously and 54 that had been sponsored in the House by Democrats. Politifact rates the claim that Reid was responsible for the "do-nothing Senate" as 50% true. To some extent his moves may have been procedurally wise and followed arcane Senate rules and precedents. Link:<a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2014/aug/06/lynn-jenkins/rep-lynn-jenkins-blames-harry-reid-do-nothing-sena/">http://www.politifact.com/trut...ng-sena/</a> But it also gave the Republicans one of the most effective talking points when looking to take control of the Senate. And Joe Voter understands talking points, but not arcane Senate procedures. I know from Conservative bulletin boards that I visit that Harry Reid was generally more despised than Obama was.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox I've always hated Reid. He had the opportunity to kill the filibuster when we had control of the House. He didn't. And that kept Obama from instituting the changes he ran on and got elected to implement. Reid is a DINO, plain and simple.
Originally Posted By utahjosh Republicans can't stand Reid, either. He's LDS, and most Mormons I know don't like the guy, either.
Originally Posted By fkurucz I would say that the anemic economy was responsible for the "massacre". And thing about it is that it's a global problem and there really isn't much either party can do about it. So people blame their stagnant/falling wages on whoever is in office, when it's actually globalization that's doing them in.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan I would say apathy was largely responsible for the massacre. Angry people always vote, and the right wing has done a good job at keeping the base good and angry. So they showed up and voted. Meanwhile, a huge percentage of the electorate nation wide sat on their rears and didn't bother to vote. So they handed off the Senate and more congressional seats to angry people who bothered to vote. I got a remember to vote email from nancy Pelosi's office. The email had a "click here" link to find out where my polling place was. I already knew where it was, but clicked for the heck of it. It gave the correct address (about 3 blocks from here) but the associated map and driving directions lead some 3 miles south of here, definitely not where my polling place is located. Had I actually not known better and followed those instructions I would have been in a light industrial area, no where near a polling place. Instead of all these complex voter suppression efforts by the GOP, they should just leave it to the Democrats to provide driving directions.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox How do you think I feel? I've lived in Nancy's district for over 20 years and that same email directed me to the wrong polling location. Fortunately I knew exactly where the actual location was, just 3 blocks from my house. You definitely nailed it, 2oony, regarding the apathy by the Dems. Even here in the bastion of liberal politics, less than 40% of the voters turned out on Tuesday. Unbelievable! Voting in San Francisco is sooooooo easy! Sign up for vote by mail, fill out your ballot and drop it in the mailbox, or drop it off in the big red box at ANY polling location on election day. We don't have onerous voter I.D. restrictions, so no one in SF has a valid argument for not voting, including the 70-hour-week techies. They can fill out their vote-by-mail ballots on the Google bus and drop them off in the company mailbox when they get to work. Selfishness is the order of the day. The typical American "I've got mine so F you!" mentality is what will be our ultimate undoing: "Who cares about poor people getting healthcare with Medicaid if my taxes go up. Let 'em die." "Who cares about the environment if me and my family and friends can't find jobs. Drill, baby, drill! Dig, baby, dig! Give me that oil industry job and F the climate! Climate change is all hokum anyway!" "Who cares about immigrants! They're stealing jobs from American citizens! If they weren't here, businesses would be FORCED to hire Americans! We need to pack 'em up and send 'em back to Mexico!" "Who cares about Social Security and Medicare for young people? As long as I get to keep mine, I don't care if kids in their twenties have it in 40 years or not. Privatize it for them but keep it for me!" "Why should I pay for Social Security and Medicare for old people? They aren't contributing anything to society. If they want paychecks and healthcare they should provide for it themselves. If they can't, then who cares if they die. I don't." (Actual conversion I overheard at Whole Foods from two millennial libertarian techies in the checkout.) New American citizen slogan: "I've got mine so F the rest of you!" We are soooooo screwed.
Originally Posted By TeaPartyWave << We are soooooo screwed.>> Not really. When Ted Cruz is your president you will also benefit from his Reagan style policies. Just have a churro and know you libs had a good run until it all imploded Jimmy Carter style.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox So, Dabob... what conclusions have you drawn about LP moderators now? I'm now convinced more than ever that Doobekah are gone and no longer run the web site. And whomever is in charge now, doesn't use moderators but rarely, if ever.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip Foolish people. It seems clear to me that AutoPost now owns the site. AutoPost just hasn't been programmed to delete people yet.
Originally Posted By TeaPartyWave The mods are still around, they have grown tired of you long time leftist moochers acting like this is your personal site where you get to call the shots all while doing nothing to bring any revenue to the site. My company out of Florida is buying ad space on LP....see the difference between a free ride and paying your way?
Originally Posted By skinnerbox <<Foolish people. It seems clear to me that AutoPost now owns the site. AutoPost just hasn't been programmed to delete people yet.>> LOL!!
Originally Posted By Fauxmandy The mods wont let you leftist commie trolls run the show anymore. (theres no way they bought that crap about my company. no one would hire me. i couldn't run a lemonade stand)
Originally Posted By TP2000 skinnerbox>> "I'm now convinced more than ever that Doobekah are gone and no longer run the web site." Politics aside, I think you may be on to something. I was actively on this site since 2000, then left after it sort of died a couple years ago, and came back out of curiosity a month or so ago. But after poking around on the site, it appears Doobie and Rebekah are gone. Or at the very least, no longer providing content or guidance to it. Doobie hasn't posted a Blog entry since 2012. LP Live has no photos posted by Rebekah in a long time, after regular updates from her park visits for years. And I can't find any other evidence that they are here presently or in the recent past. Which begs the question... who is running this site? And why? Is it on auto-pilot? Run by drones? Or just coasting on fumes on a pre-paid server that could be turned off at any moment? Something is definitely up. And after being such a famous site in the early 2000's, I wonder what the story is in the mid 2010's?
Originally Posted By TeaPartyWave <<Which begs the question... who is running this site? And why? Is it on auto-pilot? Run by drones? Or just coasting on fumes on a pre-paid server that could be turned off at any moment?>> I know a little something about this. You are correct, Dobbie is gone from day to day operations on LP. After years of making no money and putting up with whiners who made demands on him, all while paying NOTHING, he has backed way off. The irony that freeloading, ignorant liberals on LP who demanded their voices be the ONLY voices heard on LP is so telling and poetic. The ADMIN on LP now likes the fact that the squatters ( the half dozen or so libs ) ) on here who ran everyone off are being called out by people like me. LP management has been trying to get rid of Dabob, Passholder, ECDC and the other clowns on here for years
Originally Posted By BeausCuckolder <I know a little something about this.> hahaha! i wonder what its like to lie so easily. u must get used to it w/ me hanging around ur wife all day. <LP management has been trying to get rid of Dabob, Passholder, ECDC and the other clowns on here for years> lol right thats why they have to keep coming back w/ sock puppets all the time cause they keep getting banned!!! if only theyre was someway for the site owners and administraters to get rid of people they dont want on theyre website hahahahaha!!!! thats a pretty slow dialup modem if they cant manage it in like 5 or 10 years!!! maybe the roadtrip bro was right and its not herpes but syphilus thats busted your brain!!!
Originally Posted By barboy4 WHOLLY MIA!!!!!! This place wholly seems to be missing many familiar names lately............ ........I return to the "world" only to find a complete wasteland.
Originally Posted By TeaPartyWave Barboy, hope your world travels have been epic and full of good times! Yes, a LP wasteland indeed....
Originally Posted By TeaPartyWave Skinbox is using all kinds of fake names to post these days because he was told by Dabob and the other losers on here not to dare speak to anyone they don't approve of. We see the Skinbox posts are very vile and offensive with material I have never used anywhere, anytime..all with total silence and approval from the regulars who demand no contact with the " trolls " I rest my case about the sick nature of a liberal on LP.
Originally Posted By barboy4 ......just got back from SE Asia, AGAIN after a year stay.......yes indeed! what an epic ride that was!
