Lamb Victory Shows Democrats In a "Commanding Position" to Take House in 2018

Seems true -- it's not just bad luck that Republicans keep losing these off-year contests.

The Democrats are unified and energized, and Republicans are bitterly divided, with one faction actively assisting the Democrats.

Suburban women in particular are anti-Trump -- which is a major problem. The GOP once depended on at least splitting suburban women with Democrats to keep Democrats from winning women as a whole something better than 80-20.

Not only does the GOP's agenda traditionally appeal more to men, and less to women, but I think Trump is a big problem for women who consider themselves upscale and college-educated, too. (Consider themselves.) If Hillary Clinton reminded men of their first ex-wife, then Trump tends to remind women of their first ex-husband.

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1 FISRT!!!

Posted by: toddler at March 15, 2018 01:50 PM (8D42x)

2 second?

Posted by: toddler at March 15, 2018 01:50 PM (8D42x)

3 it's a three-peat

Posted by: toddler at March 15, 2018 01:50 PM (8D42x)

4 Third.

Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at March 15, 2018 01:50 PM (2NqXo)

5 ok, i'll grab the others.

and for the record, I read the content too...

Posted by: toddler at March 15, 2018 01:50 PM (8D42x)

6 Lamb Victory Shows Democrats In a "Commanding Position" to Take House in 2018

I still say it shows nothing. MFM hype.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 15, 2018 01:51 PM (mpXpK)

7 They keep losing? Up until Moore the GOP had been winning special elections.

And Lamb didn't campaign as a hard Lefty out to get Trump, in fact he distanced himself from the Democrat leadership.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Protect Your Despair with Gloom Guard Polish & Sealer! Only at The Outrage Outlet! at March 15, 2018 01:52 PM (hLRSq)

8 I say we ban toddler at number five for being a show-off.

Posted by: pep at March 15, 2018 01:52 PM (Lrwak)

9 It's a problem. The base that elected Trump is somnolent. They wanted to make a statement, they made it, and now they think they're done; also, a lot of them hold the GOP in contempt.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at March 15, 2018 01:53 PM (RD7QR)

10 Hillary 2020!!!!

Posted by: Roy at March 15, 2018 01:53 PM (7n4KQ)

11 I've heard more encouraging assessments but I think there are quite a few "never Trumpers" who voted against Hillary who just aren't smart enough to vote AGAINST DEMOCRATS because that's STILL the anti-Hillary vote. Their principles get in the way.

It's infuriating that liberals are effortlessly lockstep and conservatives are just all over the place. The grip on culture that these relentless facists have is so strong.

Posted by: Iris at March 15, 2018 01:53 PM (dYDe7)

12 Chicks.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 15, 2018 01:53 PM (70cRb)

13 Mikey at number seven, the problem with your argument is that lots of them do that, and then vote as left Democrats. For example, I give you Mark Warner.

Posted by: pep at March 15, 2018 01:54 PM (Lrwak)

14 But But But according to The FAB, vimen listen to their men or they get a beating?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 15, 2018 01:54 PM (5y11N)

15 I don't have a first ex husband yet so I'll keep trump thanks

Posted by: NCKate at March 15, 2018 01:55 PM (1l010)

16 8
I say we ban toddler at number five for being a show-off.

Posted by: pep at March 15, 2018 01:52 PM (Lrwak)

...and a good hard spanking.

Posted by: Harry Reid at March 15, 2018 01:55 PM (70cRb)

17 At 14, either that or a night in the Box.

Posted by: pep at March 15, 2018 01:55 PM (Lrwak)

18 When the GOP is funding democrats, it doesn't help either.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at March 15, 2018 01:55 PM (7ZVPa)

19 No, I'm not exactly buying this. For one, in the PA election the D dissimulated himself as a moderate and took some of Trump's positions. Is the democrat party otherwise "moderate"? I think Republicans will lose some seats because this is what usually happens and they're basically pathetic. But I don't see a blowout.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at March 15, 2018 01:55 PM (H8QX8)

20
I still say it shows nothing. MFM hype.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 15, 2018 01:51 PM (mpXp)

I agree. That said, Rush Limbaugh is all over the map. All year every time the Dems won one of these special elections, he was running around as though he had hair and it was on fire. Today, he's pooh-poohing the idea that the Dems are in a commanding position for November.

Posted by: JoeF. at March 15, 2018 01:55 PM (7uYFy)

21 then Trump tends to remind women of their first ex-husband.

in their dreams

Posted by: x at March 15, 2018 01:55 PM (nFwvY)

22 I mentioned this before. I don't know if a Blue Wave is actually coming, but it'd be nice if the Republican Party at least acted like it was a possibility rather than just going on business as usual. The Dems are playing to win by putting effort into each of these contests while the
GOPe is just going through the motions.

Posted by: Joe, living mobile at March 15, 2018 01:55 PM (mk7Bj)

23 Typical of the GOP to throw away any chance at real victory. The party establishment prefers to be a permanent minority and at best play the game like the Tories do in England, offering a slightly less left wing agenda. Makes for easier times at the cocktail circuit.

I figure that if the left does gain the commanding heights of the political world again, they'll do what they wanted to do with Hillary, and truly put an end to anything that resembles classical conservatism.

I'm motivated, but I don't matter.

Posted by: Average Guy at March 15, 2018 01:55 PM (KqRop)

24 And Lamb didn't campaign as a hard Lefty out to get Trump, in fact he distanced himself from the Democrat leadership.
Posted by: Mikey NTH

And may they get him. Good and hard.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2018 01:56 PM (FYqfs)

25 14
But But But according to The FAB, vimen listen to their men or they get a beating?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 15, 2018 01:54 PM (5y11N)

...and they still don't listen. go figure.

Posted by: Harry Reid at March 15, 2018 01:56 PM (70cRb)

26 When you win 1300 seats nationaly in ten years you eventually run out of seats to gain. The dems are just as twisted as the reps, both with their own problems.

Posted by: redenzo at March 15, 2018 01:56 PM (14qvS)

27 I say we ban toddler at number five for being a show-off.

Posted by: pep at March 15, 2018 01:52 PM (Lrwak)

------

for once in my life I get something worthwhile...

as lou said "today-ay-ay, I consider myself the luckiest man alive-ive-ive..." reverb...

Posted by: toddler at March 15, 2018 01:56 PM (8D42x)

28 Wimminz shouldn't vote.
That's when it all started to go sideways.

Posted by: Roland THTG at March 15, 2018 01:56 PM (xBSm0)

29 "WE" better start compainging like our lives depend on it, because they do

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 15, 2018 01:56 PM (5y11N)

30 Let all the college educated women fight the next war.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 15, 2018 01:56 PM (IqV8l)

31 Breaking NYT: Mueller subpoena's Trump Organization.

Posted by: WisRich at March 15, 2018 01:56 PM (G0vdT)

32 The (D)s are us in 2010. They're going to be a force to be reckoned with, especially with so many (R) representatives on their side, too.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Those deputies listened to the kids screaming as they were shot at March 15, 2018 01:56 PM (zuUwB)

33 Also, the DemonRats are nearly crazy with hatred for the Donald. We're talking "flying monkeys on crack and fire ants" crazy.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at March 15, 2018 01:56 PM (RD7QR)

34 Off dirty Reid sock!

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 15, 2018 01:56 PM (70cRb)

35 "Consider Themselves" upscale and educated.
Nice, Ace.

Posted by: JoeF. at March 15, 2018 01:56 PM (7uYFy)

36 I am hoping that these recent staffing changes reflect that Trump is changing direction a bit and getting his war footing (war with the deep state/DEMS/GOPe etc).

I fear that is not what it is, though. At least no totally.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at March 15, 2018 01:56 PM (wGbBR)

37 It's clear the Prog/Dems need to trot out Her Heinous occasionally to remind us that she's the heartbeat and Earf Muther of their party.

And because we all just luv being called names by her for not installing her in orifice.

Keep that up, Progs. Please.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy likes lobster at March 15, 2018 01:56 PM (GdWl+)

38 The Dems are playing to win by putting effort into each of these contests while the GOPe is just going through the motions.

I thought the idea was to destroy them both?

Posted by: Roy at March 15, 2018 01:57 PM (7n4KQ)

39 You're all worried about nothing. Lamar Alexander is trying hard to bail out the Obamacare supporting insurance companies. That'll bring in the Republican voters.

Posted by: pep at March 15, 2018 01:57 PM (Lrwak)

40 What does Nostradamus say about this? He is the only one I trust.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at March 15, 2018 01:57 PM (roQNm)

41 A bigger issue, and one I am guilty of as well, is that the "base" needs to start killing RINOs at the primary stage and taking over precincts so we get real representatives.

Trouble is that the congressional GOP isn't working with Trump - or for us.

Posted by: Laughing in Texas at March 15, 2018 01:57 PM (xQfPr)

42 And Lamb didn't campaign as a hard Lefty out to get Trump, in fact he distanced himself from the Democrat leadership.
Posted by: Mikey NTH

That's Z-Man's take on this, too:

https://tinyurl.com/y9rp6sxo

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 15, 2018 01:57 PM (kqsXK)

43 " Trump tends to remind women of their first ex-husband."

Darling,
if my ex were anything like The Donald, he wouldn't be my ex.

Posted by: RondinellaMamma at March 15, 2018 01:57 PM (SGpFT)

44 yep.

Get hungry, kids, or lose it all.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at March 15, 2018 01:58 PM (CPk08)

45 Breaking NYT: Mueller subpoena's Trump Organization.

Posted by: WisRich at March 15, 2018 01:56 PM (G0vdT)

Just when we thought it was over, they pulled us back in.....

Posted by: JoeF. at March 15, 2018 01:58 PM (7uYFy)

46 ...and a good hard spanking.

Posted by: Harry Reid at March 15, 2018 01:55 PM (70cRb)

ohh, a spanking, a spanking...

-- Voot

Posted by: toddler at March 15, 2018 01:58 PM (8D42x)

47 Okay so the Deimoscr@ps gain the House this November.

What will they do first? Impeach Trump. Which means they go crazy.

If they don't take the House, what happens? They go crazy.

And even the lapdog media won't be able to cover up this weapons grade crazy for long.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at March 15, 2018 01:58 PM (ePaIG)

48 33 Also, the DemonRats are nearly crazy with hatred for the Donald. We're talking "flying monkeys on crack and fire ants" crazy.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at March 15, 2018 01:56 PM (RD7QR)

Not only the Donald, but those of us who voted for him as well.

Posted by: rickl at March 15, 2018 01:58 PM (xjiRE)

49 I like Potatoies

Posted by: Matt Damon at March 15, 2018 01:58 PM (5oTIt)

50 The hair on fire media coverage since election day, and long before election day; has worked. We make fun of them, but they are a bit like Kamikazes or cannon fodder. Yes, some of them lose their reputations, but that is the price they pay as warriors for the cause.

Posted by: quint at March 15, 2018 01:58 PM (n13/j)

51 Their first ex-husband? Are they Liz Taylor

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 15, 2018 01:58 PM (OLCnA)

52 Also, Connor Lamb ran as a conservative republican which helped.

Don't get me wrong, Rs are facing a headwind, but also in perspective its not such a headwind that Lamb felt comfortable letting his freak flag fly.

Posted by: Jollyroger at March 15, 2018 01:58 PM (+087i)

53 Breaking NYT: Mueller subpoena's Trump Organization.

Posted by: WisRich at March 15, 2018 01:56 PM (G0vdT)

Mueller is daring Trump to get rid of him.

Posted by: JoeF. at March 15, 2018 01:58 PM (7uYFy)

54 By every discernable measurable statistic, suburban women are doing better with PDT and the Republicans in charge....we aughta point that out loud and clear. STOP letting the left set the agenda and the discussion. And spend some money broadcasting that

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 15, 2018 01:58 PM (5y11N)

55 I think Trump reminds suburban women not of their first husband but of some frat guy in college who they despised. The Stormy whats her name story CNN/MSDNC is pushing so hard feeds that narrative too, so I hope they can contain this thing before it gets worse.

Having said that I'm confident that if Republicans get out the vote, Trumps accomplishments are so extraordinary that the antipathy you mention will be set aside.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, some guy on the internet at March 15, 2018 01:58 PM (rBnYq)

56 I think Mueller wants Trump to fire him, fire Sessions, fire Rosenstein etc.

They have nothing, but it could sure look like they were close if everyone got fired.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at March 15, 2018 01:58 PM (wGbBR)

57 45. Yeah. This should go well for Mueller.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 15, 2018 01:58 PM (fA1SL)

58 Ace,

Bro. Dont worry man. All is well. Trump is just playing 17D chess. All part of the plan that leads to a huge victory for the GOP in Nov. Or so Ive been told in the comments 100000 times.

Posted by: #neverskankles at March 15, 2018 01:59 PM (bZ3QE)

59 President's party typically fares poorly in midterms. We'll see.

While the Dems don't deserve to win, the GOP deserves to lose. Apart from Gorsuch and tax cuts (barely passed) they've spent more time opposing Trump than crafting a legislative agenda that congressmen can run on.

Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at March 15, 2018 01:59 PM (N96yY)

60 The name is Zoot! You silly fidget!

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at March 15, 2018 01:59 PM (ePaIG)

61 Bullshit. Democrats are worked up after losing the election. They're motivated to get out and vote. Non-Democrats not so much. It's not surprising that Dems are doing better in these one-off elections. I don't think a Democrat victory of 0.1% is anything to worry about. GOP supporters know the midterms will be more important, and will show up when and where it matters. Some seats will be lost, but some will be gained too.

Posted by: pete at March 15, 2018 01:59 PM (meg+g)

62 31 Breaking NYT: Mueller subpoena's Trump Organization.

Posted by: WisRich at March 15, 2018 01:56 PM (G0vdT)

Still fishing.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at March 15, 2018 01:59 PM (RD7QR)

63 Turnout, turnout, turnout.

About a dozen states matter for the Senate. Rs have a structural advantage and should pick up four to seven seats.

About 50 House seats matter. The Ds only have dick to run on. A lot of things can break in Trump's favor between now and November.

Agree that losing the House can happen. Too early to speak ex cathedra, but I'm guardedly optimistic that the Rs hold the House,

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 15, 2018 01:59 PM (n+6mJ)

64 Breaking VICTIMES:

Mueller eats shit, sucks monkey penises, and lies to everybody wile wearing a shit ring around his mouth. MFM eats it up.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 15, 2018 01:59 PM (mpXpK)

65 The Dem Party is shifting Left and they act like it once they're in Congress. But they're out of power; they've lost Congress, the Senate, the White House, and a majority on the Supreme Court. They'll do anything to scratch back what they've lost. And I do mean - anything. Even if the Dem leadership has to promote "moderate" candidates. Nancy and Co. know that they can armstrong the "moderates" to toe the Party line. See Manchin, Joe, who watched Schumer's signals before making a move during Trump's SotU address.

Posted by: mrp at March 15, 2018 02:00 PM (Pqytn)

66 Mueller is daring Trump to get rid of him.

Posted by: JoeF. at March 15, 2018 01:58 PM (7uYFy)

THIS. I wish the 'conservative' congress would all start yelling for this. They should have his back. But no.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 15, 2018 02:00 PM (70cRb)

67 Meh. The FAB will never be prez and Trump makes the left pee themselves with rage. I'm happy.

Posted by: irright at March 15, 2018 02:00 PM (pMGkg)

68 And I've said it before, but we've got ten to twelve years before the South is lost for good and the nation is permanently (D). You can't stop the plague of locusts.

They'll keep the names for old times sake, but it will be for show. (D) = socialist, (R) = leftist

The most I'm hoping for right now is that Trump can get the SCOTUS leaning our way to hold it off for a bit and maybe bridge the gap for when the defecation hits the ventilation. And it will. It sucks to acknowledge, but we're just watching the warm-ups right now with (D)s demanding you live the way they want you to and have sex with who they demand.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Those deputies listened to the kids screaming as they were shot at March 15, 2018 02:00 PM (zuUwB)

69 The asshats couldn't repeal Obamacare like they promised for six years.

They lost a ton of people right there.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 15, 2018 02:00 PM (1ISKN)

70 Matt Damon thinks garlic should be a hand-fruit, like apples and bananas.

Posted by: Nationalist Pikachu at March 15, 2018 02:00 PM (5oTIt)

71 Breaking NYT: Mueller subpoena's Trump Organization.

Never seen anything quite like this. This prick seems to have been granted unlimited, unchecked powers with no expiration date.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 15, 2018 02:00 PM (vtcmf)

72 9 It's a problem. The base that elected Trump is somnolent. They wanted to make a statement, they made it, and now they think they're done; also, a lot of them hold the GOP in contempt.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at March 15, 2018 01:53 PM (RD7QR)

Well.... its hard to ALWAYS have your hair on fire about politics.

Most Conservatives don't even want to pay attention... they just want to live their lives as they wish...

So they got mad... gave Repubs the House, Senate, and Presidency.... they DID their part...

Yet... still have Obamacare... still have out of control Judges... still have sanctuary cities... still don't see a functional congress that can pay the damn bills... and still don't see the RULE OF LAW being equally applied in this country.

Yes, there have been a few wins... but now they see CHILDREN getting the ear of the President... and not them... (at least that's what they see in the news)...

Sad fact is that a lot of us, expected more.... we expected RESULTS... and because of the GOPe in Washington playing games, we are not getting them...

How many cycles can the Republicans run on getting rid of Obamacare... when we PUT THEM IN POWER????

Posted by: Don Q. at March 15, 2018 02:01 PM (NgKpN)

73 56
I think Mueller wants Trump to fire him, fire Sessions, fire Rosenstein etc.

They have nothing, but it could sure look like they were close if everyone got fired.
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at March 15, 2018 01:58 PM (wGbBR)

Trump firing Mueller and then being impeached because of it was the plan from Day 1.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at March 15, 2018 02:01 PM (UBzPO)

74 58. Tiresome. Why don't you remind us of your other predictions of betrayal by Trump before launching into a spittle-flecked tirade against the working class? That's far more entertaining.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 15, 2018 02:01 PM (fA1SL)

75 well, i guess it's off to the camps for us. that's where the deplorables went the last time this happened.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 15, 2018 02:01 PM (KP5rU)

76 I'm worried about November, but I have a sliver of hope that the D in PA18 had to basically run on a pro-2A, pro Life, anti Nancy Pelosi platform.

And he barely squeaked by. (Is that official yet?)

All comes down to Trump's base and whether or not they show up.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at March 15, 2018 02:01 PM (72PAC)

77 52 Also, Connor Lamb ran as a conservative republican which helped.

Don't get me wrong, Rs are facing a headwind, but also in
perspective its not such a headwind that Lamb felt comfortable letting
his freak flag fly.

Posted by: Jollyroger at March 15, 2018 01:58 PM (+087i)
True, but if Trump supporters or even those who want to preserve a few of the Constitutional Amendments don't realize electing someone who will vote to impeach him is a bad thing, then we have got some pretty dumb supporters.

Posted by: quint at March 15, 2018 02:01 PM (n13/j)

78 2018 is like 2010 and 1994.

Cons would walk over broken glass in 94 and 10 to vote. Dems have that same passion and drive in 18. Not much can be done to change that. In a way it means Trump is pissing them off which is good I guess.

Posted by: #neverskankles at March 15, 2018 02:01 PM (bZ3QE)

79

FIRST!!!!

Can miss today,, I'm on FIRE!!!

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at March 15, 2018 02:02 PM (mPeei)

80
Never seen anything quite like this. This prick seems to have been granted unlimited, unchecked powers with no expiration date.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 15, 2018 02:00 PM (vtcmf)

You can thank jeff sessions for that

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 15, 2018 02:02 PM (5y11N)

81 Scott ran a smart campaign in FL in 2014. He managed to use Crist's support from a strip club owner to paint Crist w negative ads, while he used these "family guy" ads on HGTV and other "women" channels to show himself as a loving husband and father of daughters. He ran from behind and won.

As compared to the idiot Romney, who appeared to only run ads on Fox News in Fl, Scott's use of the negative/positive and women's programming was impressive.

Posted by: Ever at March 15, 2018 02:02 PM (OLS0m)

82 Matt Damon mixes his Tang with Orange juice. Just to be sure.

Posted by: Nationalist Pikachu at March 15, 2018 02:02 PM (5oTIt)

83 Good Z man article. This stuck out:

"The thing is though, the establishment of both parties is locked into a model of politics that belongs in a museum, rather than a modern campaign. The old Left-Right framework is no longer relevant. Within the white vote, the issue is nationalism versus cosmopolitan globalism."

I read a book around '06 called "The Next 100 Years" that predicted this happening domestically around 2020. Pretty spot on. Better check what else it had to say

Posted by: Jollyroger at March 15, 2018 02:02 PM (+087i)

84 'Ifs' and 'buts'. In this case, I believe that the Libertarians siphoned away critical votes.

What the hell is wrong with them? What I usually hear is the phrase coined by Perot supporters, 'Vote Your Conscience!'. When confronted, they still say that.

That ended well, didn't it? Hello eight years of President Clinton.

The problem, which they can not seem to (or refuse to) digest, is that the election isn't about their conscience , it is about WHO is going to be elected.

Committed Libertarians are just as blinkered as Democrats.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 15, 2018 02:02 PM (Zdm89)

85
Dems don't have to take that many seats, so I judge the headline as true.

Which to me means nothing because split congress gives us about the same crap getting from GOPe, EXCEPT for one thing... impeachment seems inevitable, but conviction of impeachment would not happen.

Oh, except one more thing, the GOPe will step left again.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 15, 2018 02:02 PM (r+sAi)

86 "Trump tends to remind women of their first ex-husband."

That's not terribly original.
Limbaugh has been saying that about Hillary for at least a decade.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 15, 2018 02:02 PM (iv0p7)

87 Since moving to the suburbs a couple of years ago I've found that suburban soccer moms are among the dumbest creatures on earth. And they're shitty drivers too

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 15, 2018 02:03 PM (OLCnA)

88 The problem is there are too many Never Trumpers at the local level. While Trump can drain the swamp, he can't neutralize the Never Trumpers out in the Congressional districts.

Because of them, Trump has no coat tails for the candidates.

Here in New York, we have leftover Republicans from Gov. Pataki who can't stand Trump and it shows. They have no shot at winning any Congressional seats (looking at you John Faso) or the governor, AG or comptroller.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 15, 2018 02:03 PM (ATVNj)

89 No shit? So what happened between the election where suburban women voted for Trump and now in bumfuck PA they wont?
Sorry Bumfuck PA where the districts overwhelmingly Democrat suburban women voted for Trump

Posted by: Marcus T at March 15, 2018 02:03 PM (MLOHI)

90
Well, in the senate, 13 Democrats crossed the aisle to help take an axe to Obama's significant other law, Dodd-Fagg.

Does a party that is about to take the house allow its counterparts in the Senate to do this?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 15, 2018 02:03 PM (VM6ev)

91 As long as the Demoncrap Party is run by idiots like Nanny Peeliar and Shitty Shumer they are going nowhere.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 15, 2018 02:03 PM (mpXpK)

92 The name is Zoot! You silly fidget!

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at March 15, 2018 01:59 PM (ePaIG)

as soon as I hit post, I knew I had screwed up. so much for my earlier glory... lol

Posted by: toddler at March 15, 2018 02:03 PM (8D42x)

93 MFM hype.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 15, 2018 01:51 PM (mpXpK)

You said that about the Alabama senate race predictions.

How's Senator Moore working out?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 15, 2018 02:03 PM (wYseH)

94 Politics is downstream from culture - the incessant attacks on Trump are taking its toll among suburban women.

Posted by: The ARC of History at March 15, 2018 02:04 PM (Mrl1e)

95 You can thank jeff sessions for that

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 15, 2018 02:02 PM (5y11N)

---

I heard he took a law class under Professor Obama and was told why he should recuse himself from everything.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Those deputies listened to the kids screaming as they were shot at March 15, 2018 02:04 PM (zuUwB)

96 Ace mentions the concept that Hillary reminds men of their first ex-wife. Oddly enough, the pics of the young Hillary do remind me of Wife No. 1.

Wife No. 2 looked much like pr0n star Nikki Rhodes. So I definitely traded up.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 15, 2018 02:04 PM (PLO14)

97 Not sure I buy this analysis. Special elections are difficult because they operate on their own. Democrats can focus on one district with essentially national resources.

Mikey already said it but it is true. We won the first 4 or 5 special elections. I don't recall seeing any breathless "GOP SUPERMAJORITY IS NIGH" articles. Since then Moore was a terrible candidate, VA has been taken over by the Smart Set,
and Lamb ran to the right of Saccone.

I think with this economy, and more money in the average workers paychecks, the midterms are going to be better for us than the CNN jerks are letting on.

Posted by: MJP at March 15, 2018 02:04 PM (tRsql)

98 The Congress should investigate Mueller. See how he likes it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, some guy on the internet at March 15, 2018 02:04 PM (rBnYq)

99
If it weren't for the GOV money Lamb would have lost. The Dems can't spend that kind of change on every race in November. He was polled at plus 6. Didn't happen.

* goes around dousing flaming hair people *

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at March 15, 2018 02:04 PM (LOgQ4)

100 Elections usually come down to the economy. Every job gained in 2018 "should" be attributed to Trump. At a rate of 250K per month, that should be an extra 2.5M votes for GOP.

Posted by: pete at March 15, 2018 02:05 PM (meg+g)

101 not such a headwind that Lamb felt comfortable letting
his freak flag fly.

Posted by: Jollyroger at March 15, 2018 01:58 PM (+087i)

The problem is that the Dems will do anything to get elected, and the Republican party rejects that tactic.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 15, 2018 02:05 PM (wYseH)

102 Matt Damon sprinkles shredded cheese on green ice cream and calls it a Mexican Christmas Miracle

Posted by: Nationalist Pikachu at March 15, 2018 02:05 PM (5oTIt)

103 76 -I'm worried about November, but I have a sliver of
hope that the D in PA18 had to basically run on a pro-2A, pro Life, anti
Nancy Pelosi platform.

And he barely squeaked by. (Is that official yet?)

All comes down to Trump's base and whether or not they show up.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at March 15, 2018 02:01 PM (72PAC)
Last I am going to say on this subject. But how do these people not realize that they voted to undo their votes of 2016? I get that the Dem was a good candidate. But I guess even some Deploerables don't understand the two party system.

Posted by: quint at March 15, 2018 02:05 PM (n13/j)

104 60k+ fewer voters showed up at the polls this past Tuesday than did Nov 8 2016 to give Trump his 20 point lead over HRC. If just one twentieth of that number had voted for Saccone it would be a different story.

The same dynamic applied in AL special election where a huge number of presidential voters stayed home.

I don't think the new Trump type voter "gets" the importance of keeping the house GOP.

Posted by: kallisto at March 15, 2018 02:05 PM (kD8Fh)

105 Paul Ryan should be out on his ass but none of the GOP cucks want to call him out.

Posted by: Under Fire at March 15, 2018 02:05 PM (r9UYA)

106 Mueller keeps chumming the waters and fishing. And so far the only things to surface about collusion happened because of Gaylord and Hillary.

If Mueller and his 'crack' team don't watch it, a Great White is going to eat them for accidentally exposing the fully weaponized Criminal Clinton Crony Party.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at March 15, 2018 02:05 PM (ePaIG)

107 True, but if Trump supporters or even those who want to preserve a few of the Constitutional Amendments don't realize electing someone who will vote to impeach him is a bad thing, then we have got some pretty dumb supporters.
Posted by: quint at March 15, 2018 02:01 PM (n13/j)

I wouldn't call them supporters. We're the partisans. The hardcore few who hang out on a politics blog all day posting on an archaic message board. We voted Trump and wouldn't vote Lamb. For the vast majority of the civilians out there, Lamb looked like a nice young man, a vet, who loves God and guns and talked nice about Trump, and by golly we'll vote the man over party

Posted by: Jollyroger at March 15, 2018 02:05 PM (+087i)

108 The differences between Democrats and Republicans or if you prefer , Left and Right are so vast now that anyone that is looking at the candidate instead of the philosophy / platform of the political affiliation has no business voting.

It's voting for an immoral fascist socialist state or not.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 15, 2018 02:05 PM (IflZ6)

109 No they lost PA-18 because of Tim Murphy being slime & hurting turnout, 2 other candidates who lost out to Saccone were Butthurt & didn't help & didn't get their voters out & Saccone sucked as a Candidate ! Think Low Energy Jeb Bush

Posted by: DeploraBOT at March 15, 2018 02:05 PM (y3aQB)

110 Fine. Don't come whining to me about crime and blight in your suburban enclave from illegal immigration. Suck-it up and feel good for being so enlightened by opposing racist borders.

Posted by: Ripley at March 15, 2018 02:06 PM (MxEKc)

111
I don't think the new Trump type voter "gets" the importance of keeping the house GOP.
Posted by: kallisto at March 15, 2018 02:05 PM (kD8Fh)

People usually get the government they deserve. Sigh

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 15, 2018 02:06 PM (5y11N)

112 Our plan for November is to run on an anti-Trump platform!

Posted by: The RINOs at March 15, 2018 02:06 PM (MihIm)

113 93 You said that about the Alabama senate race predictions.

How's Senator Moore working out?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 15, 2018 02:03 PM (wYseH)

I said I did not believe the polls. And the Moore thing belongs totally to the RNCe. Now I have said that a thousand times. And the Moore election also means nothing. Wait for 2018 to see what happens.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 15, 2018 02:06 PM (mpXpK)

114 Posted by: pep at March 15, 2018 01:54 PM (Lrwak)

I guess I didn't write what I meant. Lamb didn't run in that district as the fire eating Lefty progressive that the Democrat activist base is full of. He ran pretty centrist and that was part* of why he won, although by a whisker. Despite all of the caterwauling in the MSM and in the blogs that sort of candidate is what the Democrats need to win (unlike Ossoff in Georgia). How he will square the circle of running to the right and bowing to the Left when in Washington and then getting reelected is going to be interesting to see.

*I don't know enough about the district to speculate on whatever other factors may have favored him.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Protect Your Despair with Gloom Guard Polish & Sealer! Only at The Outrage Outlet! at March 15, 2018 02:06 PM (hLRSq)

115 Wymmins should never have been allowed to vote.

Posted by: Archer at March 15, 2018 02:06 PM (gbWkA)

116 Conor Lamb did not run as a pro-life candidate. He assumed the traditional GOP position *except* that one important plank of the party platform.

Posted by: kallisto at March 15, 2018 02:06 PM (kD8Fh)

117 104- that one is on Trump. He chose to go after non voters, and I guess many stayed true to form. He got a lot of first timers that is a fact. Will there be a second time?

Posted by: quint at March 15, 2018 02:06 PM (n13/j)

118 "And Lamb didn't campaign as a hard Lefty out to get Trump, in fact he distanced himself from the Democrat leadership."

LOL. Lamb will vote for anything Pelosi and Schumer want - he will occasionally be allowed to cast a dissenting vote when his vote is not needed.

Many voters haven't figured out that a "conservative Democrat" is a myth - it's just something the DNC cooks up to fool the rubes.

Posted by: The ARC of History at March 15, 2018 02:06 PM (Mrl1e)

119 I think this latest move by Mueller happened because they want to suck the wind out of something else, something big, that's about to break. Maybe the OIG Report? Maybe some new evidence that Mueller's whole operation is a sham? Something.

Posted by: JoeF. at March 15, 2018 02:07 PM (7uYFy)

120 60k+ fewer voters showed up at the polls this past Tuesday than did Nov 8 2016 to give Trump his 20 point lead over HRC. If just one twentieth of that number had voted for Saccone it would be a different story.

Even worse in Alabama.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 15, 2018 02:07 PM (IflZ6)

121 Second look at rebuilding the Glass Ceiling?

Posted by: woody summer at March 15, 2018 02:07 PM (IkIB1)

122 Some seats will be lost, but some will be gained too.

Posted by: pete at March 15, 2018 01:59 PM (meg+g)

I agree with your comment; it's a rational analysis.

But you neglect to take into account the very real possibility that the Republican party will roll over and play dead in November.

Yes, individuals may feel the way you describe, but without a robust GOTV, we lose.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 15, 2018 02:08 PM (wYseH)

123 Matt Damon's first acting gig was playing Arnold Schwarzenegger's unborn fetus in "Junior"

Posted by: Nationalist Pikachu at March 15, 2018 02:08 PM (5oTIt)

124 The Congress should investigate Mueller. See how he likes it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, some guy on the internet at March 15, 2018 02:04 PM (rBnYq)

=================================
I think a lot of decisions are going to be made shortly after the DoJ's IG report is released, which is "any day now".

Posted by: mrp at March 15, 2018 02:08 PM (Pqytn)

125 So, you're saying I have a shot?

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary at March 15, 2018 02:08 PM (ATVNj)

126 I don't think the new Trump type voter "gets" the importance of keeping the house GOP.

Posted by: kallisto at March 15, 2018 02:05 PM (kD8Fh)

---

Over half of American adults are functionally illiterate. That's not posted frivolously or as a joke at their expense. Half of all adults can't read a medicine bottle or comprehend an eighth grade novel from the '50s.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Those deputies listened to the kids screaming as they were shot at March 15, 2018 02:08 PM (zuUwB)

127 I've noticed everybody wants to explain away all these special election losses, but at some point we have to face reality that unless something drastically changes, we're going to lose the house .

If I was a Democrat, I would want everyone on our side to pretend nothing is wrong and keep trying to pretend we don't have a problem with turn out

Posted by: Menu at March 15, 2018 02:08 PM (igNKc)

128 Suffragette City

Posted by: woody summer at March 15, 2018 02:09 PM (IkIB1)

129 I think this latest move by Mueller happened because they want to suck the wind out of something else, something big, that's about to break. Maybe the OIG Report? Maybe some new evidence that Mueller's whole operation is a sham? Something.
Posted by: JoeF. at March 15, 2018 02:07 PM (7uYFy)

From what I can gather- the NYT's is behind a pay wall and I would not piss on the NYTs- this subpoena is not new but weeks old

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 15, 2018 02:09 PM (5y11N)

130 Everyone who thinks this is not true needs to remember their own anger in 2010. That is what democrats are feeling now. There is not going to be an enthusiasm problem for them in November 2018.

Posted by: Ever at March 15, 2018 02:09 PM (OLS0m)

131 #94. It doesn't help that they're stupid but think they're smart because they have a college degree usually in English with a C minus GPA. And they get their news from the View or People magazine. Did I mention they're shitty drivers?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 15, 2018 02:09 PM (OLCnA)

132 Paul Ryan should be out on his ass but none of the GOP cucks want to call him out.
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Hence the bitter divide between the vast majority of people that normally vote republican and the party

Posted by: Methos at March 15, 2018 02:09 PM (XQvuQ)

133 All of the House "special elections" will be repeated in November. The GOP would be wise to see the latest results as a reconnaissance in force.

Posted by: mrp at March 15, 2018 02:10 PM (Pqytn)

134 107- yeah, that is what happened. The Dem's are smart.

Posted by: quint at March 15, 2018 02:10 PM (n13/j)

135 I think with this economy, and more money in the average workers paychecks, the midterms are going to be better for us than the CNN jerks are letting on.
Posted by: MJP at March 15, 2018 02:04 PM (tRsql)

I think the opposite will happen, but for the reasons you give. A better economy & more money in the pocket can add up to complacency among less than passionate republican voters. But the Left is filled with passionate intensity this year.

Posted by: josephistan at March 15, 2018 02:10 PM (7HtZB)

136 And I am going to meander off to do things.

Like a late lunch. And writing.

Perhaps watch some Wagaya no Oinari-sama also.

Nyah

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at March 15, 2018 02:10 PM (ePaIG)

137 Politics is downstream from culture - the incessant attacks on Trump are taking its toll among suburban women.
Posted by: The ARC of History at March 15, 2018 02:04 PM (Mrl1e)

I agree, but weren't most of them always against Trump?

Posted by: JoeF. at March 15, 2018 02:10 PM (7uYFy)

138 56
I think Mueller wants Trump to fire him, fire Sessions, fire Rosenstein etc.

Not necessary. Trump just needs to declare war on him. This means steadily destroying his reputation. Mueller has a dirty record that goes way back. But he fancies himself as holier-than-thou. Trump needs a war room with some animals like Lee Atwater. Smear the f*cker. Call out his conflict of interest. Claim he needs his own special counsel. Give him one of those patented Trump nicknames.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at March 15, 2018 02:10 PM (H8QX8)

139 The "suburban" women who I know, admire, and am truly friends with all support Trump. I have one woman friend who is a liberal but I adore her anyway because she is smart and hardworking, and actually agrees with me on most issues. All in all, the Trump supporters I know are clever, smart, pretty, accomplished, funny, and happy. That's the group I want to hang with.

Posted by: LASue at March 15, 2018 02:10 PM (Z48ZB)

140 I get that R potentially losing a race (and it being close) in a district that went T+20 is not good. But I also think it is troubling that the D may lose (and it being close) in a district where the D's have a 50k registration advantage. That, plus I don't think D's are going to run pro-gun, anti-abortion blue dogs on a national scale. I don't think there is much of a clear message either way. To me, the most telling thing is that the R's leadership PAC campaigned for the D. The loyalty to the uniparty trumps (no pun intended) all.

Posted by: Rather Not at March 15, 2018 02:10 PM (oPogG)

141 >>>115 Wymmins should never have been allowed to vote.
Posted by: Archer at March 15, 2018 02:06 PM (gbWkA)
____________

What part of only property owning males did you people not understand?

Posted by: The Founders at March 15, 2018 02:10 PM (5oTIt)

142 Dems will all run like Lamb, and vote like Pelosi. And the idiot voters will be fine with it si ce they are, well, idiots. See Montana, W. VIRGINIA and N. DAKOTA senate as well.

Posted by: #neverskankles at March 15, 2018 02:10 PM (bZ3QE)

143 @62

Maybe, but let any prosecutor with an agenda, unlimited scope and propensity to dig until he finds something or just make shit up, rummage through the finances and communications of a multinational company like Trumps.

If this is true, we are going to get a Saturday Night Massacre, possibly before this week is over.

This shit has got to stop and stop now.

Posted by: Kreplach at March 15, 2018 02:11 PM (UfMVm)

144 59
While the Dems don't deserve to win, the GOP deserves to lose. Apart from Gorsuch and tax cuts (barely passed) they've spent more time opposing Trump than crafting a legislative agenda that congressmen can run on.
Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at March 15, 2018 01:59 PM (N96yY)

Remember, Trump got some apathetic people to the polls and crossover Dem voters. The GOP is not giving Trump supporters anything to vote for. If they were solidly behind Trump's agenda they would have nothing to worry about.

Posted by: rickl at March 15, 2018 02:11 PM (xjiRE)

145 Wakanda will interfere with your 2018 elections and there is nothing you can do about it.

Posted by: Black Panther at March 15, 2018 02:11 PM (ATVNj)

146 126 I don't think the new Trump type voter "gets" the importance of keeping the house GOP.

Posted by: kallisto

I get it. It's the power of the purse. But only when dems have it.

Posted by: x at March 15, 2018 02:11 PM (nFwvY)

147 Suburban women in particular are anti-Trump -- which is a major problem.

He's nothing like their gay BFFs, unlike TFG.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 15, 2018 02:11 PM (NWiLs)

148 The GOP Congress has done jackshit.

Veto by President , veto by Congress.

Same result. Except we get more Hawaiian judges.

Posted by: woody summer at March 15, 2018 02:11 PM (IkIB1)

149
If Palsi Pelosi remains in power and keeps running her mouth, there ain't no way the Dems take the House. They know it and we know it. And I assume the GOP does as well.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 15, 2018 02:11 PM (VM6ev)

150 The Roy Moore loss bothers me much ,much more than this PA loss in a heavy Dem registered district regardless if Trump won it by 20.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 15, 2018 02:12 PM (IflZ6)

151 From what I can gather- the NYT's is behind a pay wall and I would not piss on the NYTs- this subpoena is not new but weeks old
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 15, 2018 02:09 PM (5y11N)

Either way, they are getting this "out" today in order the keep something else from getting coverage.

Posted by: JoeF. at March 15, 2018 02:12 PM (7uYFy)

152 Fine. Don't come whining to me about crime and blight in your suburban enclave from illegal immigration. Suck-it up and feel good for being so enlightened by opposing racist borders.
Posted by: Ripley

This times a Brazilian!!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2018 02:12 PM (FYqfs)

153 I'm very comfortable with the fact that Trump is an outlier's outlier.
I'm very, very uncomfortable with the fact that the narrative norm is left of Che Guevera.

Here in Illinois, I see almost no reason to vote in the primary. I may even take a democrat ballot just to vote for the craziest loons they are offering, hoping the voters here somehow finally get sick of voting for same failed policies over and over again.

Posted by: Taqyia2Me at March 15, 2018 02:12 PM (Ftuf+)

154 69 - The asshats couldn't repeal Obamacare like they promised for six years.

They lost a ton of people right there.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 15, 2018 02:00 PM (1ISKN)
yep, they went wobbly and the price is being paid.

Posted by: quint at March 15, 2018 02:12 PM (n13/j)

155 129

You can read NYT articles for free in a Chrome Incognito window. Same for WaPo.

Posted by: #neverskankles at March 15, 2018 02:12 PM (bZ3QE)

156 Matt Damon uses Jawzrsize, religiously.

Posted by: Nationalist Pikachu at March 15, 2018 02:12 PM (5oTIt)

157 The district had 70,000 more Democrats than Republicans. The Democrat candidate ran to the right of the Republican candidate. When are people going to quit falling for that old gag.

Posted by: DFCtomm at March 15, 2018 02:12 PM (50gG9)

158 Women vote with their feelings not brains....I say this as a woman. It makes me sick that they vote with their vaginas and hormones but it is what it is. Thanks to university indoctrination.

Posted by: lin-duh @ work, really...I'm working at March 15, 2018 02:12 PM (NWEal)

159 @142

Well then it's up to the GOP to go hammer tongs after these frauds and call them out.

Saccone did what a typical GOPe clown does try to stay above the fray and not hit back or make a case.

The GOP is a useless pile of dog shit.

Posted by: Kreplach at March 15, 2018 02:13 PM (UfMVm)

160 What do the children say?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 15, 2018 02:13 PM (IqV8l)

161 I hate to say I told you so.

But I told you so.

Posted by: Poll Daddy at March 15, 2018 02:13 PM (g7Suk)

162 116 Conor Lamb did not run as a pro-life candidate. He assumed the traditional GOP position *except* that one important plank of the party platform.

Posted by: kallisto at March 15, 2018 02:06 PM (kD8Fh)

He wouldn't have gotten a dime from the lefty PACs if he had taken a pro-life position. This can be a potential Achilles heel if used correctly.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at March 15, 2018 02:14 PM (RD7QR)

163 150 The Roy Moore loss bothers me much ,much more than this PA loss in a heavy Dem registered district regardless if Trump won it by 20.
____________________________________

I agree. Western Pennsylvania gave us John Murtha for decades. Pennsylvania is a joke. This race wasn't a bellwether race -- it was a gerrymandering race.

Losing Alabama hurt.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 15, 2018 02:14 PM (ATVNj)

164 So all this does is confirm that Trump was a one-off, a reaction to a horrible democrat candidate and a GOP that assists the dems more than most realized.

"Winning" gave some the idea that America's culture had changed, or at least could be changed.

Maybe not. The swamp is deep as an ocean and the left owns all the levers of messaging that count. There's Trump and the deplorables.
And the rest of America either aligned against him or too apathetic to care.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 15, 2018 02:14 PM (z79tQ)

165 The GOPe is concerned only for the races they have safe almost permanent seat status. All that delicious campaign monies flowing in. Everyone else can go to hell in their eyes.

Posted by: BluesFish at March 15, 2018 02:14 PM (mx99O)

166 I don't know about upscale, but I'm college-educated and I support Trump. I'd rather jump off a cliff into a pool of alligators than vote for a democrat, especially hillary. Of course, I've only had one husband (and still have him!) so maybe that's got something to do with it. And he sure never tells me how to vote!

Posted by: Hokiemom at March 15, 2018 02:14 PM (WUYxS)

167 Isn't it kinda the mirror of what happened under Obama though? Had every branch for the first 2 years. Of course, having nads they actually did some outrageous, practically irreversible stuff that gained them significant ideological edge in the near to mid future. GOP just argued like a bunch of old ladies

Posted by: Bigbys Olive Fingers at March 15, 2018 02:14 PM (HSD2G)

168 Matt Damon tried to book a Hotel room in Wakanda and screamed at Kaley Cuoco when he couldn't find it.

Posted by: Nationalist Pikachu at March 15, 2018 02:14 PM (5oTIt)

169 While the Dems don't deserve to win, the GOP deserves to lose. Apart from Gorsuch and tax cuts (barely passed) they've spent more time opposing Trump than crafting a legislative agenda that congressmen can run on.
Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at March 15, 2018 01:59 PM (N96yY)

Critics overlook the value of keeping out the barbarians at the Gates.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 15, 2018 02:15 PM (IflZ6)

170 What really sucks is the economy is roaring along and some people are forgetting why that is. EVERYBODY in construction - architects, engineers, contractors, developers, suppliers ... are running at 110% capacity and can't get even enough help which is causing salaries to rise. There is a reason for this and it can end very rapidly if the wrong people get back in power.

Posted by: Ripley at March 15, 2018 02:15 PM (MxEKc)

171 What part of only property owning males did you people not understand?
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I'd settle for just the property owning part...

Posted by: lin-duh @ work, really...I'm working at March 15, 2018 02:15 PM (NWEal)

172
If Palsi Pelosi remains in power and keeps running her mouth, there ain't no way the Dems take the House. They know it and we know it.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Yup. Time for a change. Someone real close to George Soros.

Posted by: Adam Schiff at March 15, 2018 02:15 PM (LOgQ4)

173 The commercials against these people write themselves. The only way Dems can flip the House is if they have 10 -15 more Lambs and the ad is simply, so you believe Mr. X who says he is pro-life, pro-gun, pro-business will really have a voice with Pelosi, Schiff, Maxine, etc? With The Who's "Won't get fooled again" being hummed in the background. Of course with dickhead Ryan campaigning for the enemy who knows.

Posted by: rammajamma at March 15, 2018 02:15 PM (AjNMO)

174 Where is Bill Ayers and Al Sharpton lately?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 15, 2018 02:15 PM (ATVNj)

175 Damn shitty cable went out again.

Also after looking at this seat a few days ago I noticed that it has traded Republican vs Democrat on and off since 1971. So it has never been this so-called 'safe' Republican seat. That truly is MFM hype. No district that included a major urban area like the Pittsburgh suburbs should be considered a 'safe' republican seat.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 15, 2018 02:15 PM (mpXpK)

176 Either way, they are getting this "out" today in order the keep something else from getting coverage.
Posted by: JoeF. at March 15, 2018 02:12 PM (7uYFy)

So I gather you have Rhode Island in the big dance?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 15, 2018 02:15 PM (5y11N)

177 Suburban women in particular are anti-Trump -- which is a major problem.

Trump won the white woman vote - 52% to whatever the losers got.

He also won the college educated vote.

These special elections are not drawing the same Trump voters that the presidential election did. So many first timers came out to vote for him, and they don't understand how important these special elections can be in a climate when the opposition to the POTUS you love is hellbent on impeaching him.

My BF is one of those first timers. If our district had a special election, though, I would drag him to the polls.

Posted by: kallisto at March 15, 2018 02:16 PM (kD8Fh)

178 Lamb didnt run anti abortion. He said personally he is against it but at a policy level hes AOK. Like pretty much every Dem says.

Only conservative part about him is guns. Everuthing else, he is typical Dem. Which is why I think post Lamb Dems will lay low on gun control for the rest of the year, then o full gun ban in 2019.

Posted by: #neverskankles at March 15, 2018 02:16 PM (R6NC+)

179 The President should refer to the Florida shooting that allowed\encouraged and then fire some FBI management. McCabe and Rosenwanker to start with.

Posted by: PhilDirt at March 15, 2018 02:16 PM (Phidd)

180 If Hillary Clinton reminded men of their first ex-wife, then Trump tends to remind women of their first ex-husband.

That's whom Pence reminds me of.

Posted by: Adam Rippon at March 15, 2018 02:16 PM (/qEW2)

181 Haven't we been waiting for this "any day now" IG Report for like three months?

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at March 15, 2018 02:17 PM (Dn4Uq)

182 105
Paul Ryan should be out on his ass but none of the GOP cucks want to call him out.

Posted by: Under Fire at March 15, 2018 02:05 PM (r9UYA)

Yeah, when his super PAC campaigns on behalf of the Democrat, you can't really expect the Republican to win against a Trump-platform Democrat.

Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at March 15, 2018 02:17 PM (Dp6qK)

183 While the Dems don't deserve to win, the GOP deserves to lose. Apart
from Gorsuch and tax cuts (barely passed) they've spent more time
opposing Trump than crafting a legislative agenda that congressmen can
run on.
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And remember that those tax cuts are nowhere near the 'you can do your taxes on a postcard' style of reform that was promised.

No attempt has been made to cut spending or repeal obamacare in full, and that is going to have consequences.

Posted by: Methos at March 15, 2018 02:17 PM (XQvuQ)

184
The GOP wants to be out of power.

It NEEDS to be out of power.

IT CRAVES being the minority.

It let's them hide their closeted liberalism and elitist aristocrat ways from the little people behind cloak of "the D's have more numbers" while they sip tea with Soros and minions and watch their Iran Deal investments climb.

Yes, the GOP is in fact, a useless pile of dog shit.

Posted by: woody summer at March 15, 2018 02:17 PM (IkIB1)

185 No, I'm not exactly buying this. For one, in the PA election the D dissimulated himself as a moderate and took some of Trump's positions. Is the democrat party otherwise "moderate"? I think Republicans will lose some seats because this is what usually happens and they're basically pathetic. But I don't see a blowout.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice

This.

We keep hearing that the Democrats nationally are incoherent, and they are.

But in some special elections, they've been able to focus money and message.

In this case, he ran against the national party.

And the MFM senses the opportunity and makes the most of it.

Can a wave be made from this? Yes.

They will have to moderate their national party and show discipline at that level. Showing it at the local level is easier.

Unless you're the Stupid party.

Posted by: Blue Hen at March 15, 2018 02:17 PM (MpOUn)

186 He wouldn't have gotten a dime from the lefty PACs if he had taken a pro-life position.

Yep.

We can only conclude that Catholic union types luvs them some baby-killin'

Posted by: kallisto at March 15, 2018 02:17 PM (kD8Fh)

187
A favorite game here is to ask "Why do the JOOOS keep voting against their interests"?

I think the same can be said for a whole host of Americans lately.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 15, 2018 02:17 PM (5y11N)

188 guys, everything's going to be OK.

the same people who have been so wrong about so much, will continue to be wrong.

Posted by: x at March 15, 2018 02:17 PM (nFwvY)

189 You'd better put some ice on that.

Posted by: Poll Daddy at March 15, 2018 02:18 PM (g7Suk)

190 Here's the one thing to know about Dems like Lamb they are full of shit

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 15, 2018 02:19 PM (OLCnA)

191 What really sucks is the economy is roaring along and some people are forgetting why that is. EVERYBODY in construction - architects, engineers, contractors, developers, suppliers ... are running at 110% capacity and can't get even enough help which is causing salaries to rise. There is a reason for this and it can end very rapidly if the wrong people get back in power.
Posted by: Ripley at March 15, 2018 02:15 PM (MxEKc)

It's Obama's Economy!!

Posted by: JoeF. at March 15, 2018 02:19 PM (7uYFy)

192 The Dems are not our enemy.

The traitors in the GOP are.

Posted by: woody summer at March 15, 2018 02:19 PM (IkIB1)

193 The only conservative thing about Kristen Gillibrand was guns till she got gifted Hillary's Senate seat and we all know how that turned out.

Her "pro-2A" BS was just that - BS to fool her rural NY constituency.

Something to keep in mind re: Lamb.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at March 15, 2018 02:19 PM (Dn4Uq)

194 173

These commercials ran non stop in PA18 and they didnt help.

The root cause is imbecilic LIV voters combined with Democrats ability to lie well.

Posted by: #neverskankles at March 15, 2018 02:19 PM (R6NC+)

195 >>>141 >>>115 Wymmins should never have been allowed to vote.
Posted by: Archer at March 15, 2018 02:06 PM (gbWkA)
____________

What part of only property owning males did you people not understand?
Posted by: The Founders at March 15, 2018 02:10 PM (5oTIt)

________

For every Tomi Lahren and Stacy Dash there are twice as many Mama Junes, Maxine Waters, and Geraldo Riveras.

We knew what we were doing unlike you morons who up and up decided to directly elect senators.

Posted by: The Founders at March 15, 2018 02:19 PM (5oTIt)

196 I think the same can be said for a whole host of Americans lately.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 15, 2018 02:17 PM (5y11N)

I mentioned one of them: ethnic blue collar Catholic union brothers. They don't care about the baby-killing promoters, contrary to what Catholics are supposed to believe and act upon.

Posted by: kallisto at March 15, 2018 02:19 PM (kD8Fh)

197 PA-18 was a seat vacated by a disgraced Republican, Saccone looked like Wilford Brimley playing a child molester, and the Dem is an ex Marine that ran basically as a conservative. Under those circumstances a near-tie is pretty good.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 15, 2018 02:19 PM (3J/LN)

198 Evil never sleeps and stupid never dies. Which goes a long way in explaining why there will always be a Democrat Party.

Minimize the damage they cause and encourage them to fly their freak flag as often and as loudly as possible.

Posted by: WonkishRogue at March 15, 2018 02:20 PM (BRpqW)

199 189. Quoting a rapist to explain a special election for a seat that ceases to exist before the end of the year.
Sad.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 15, 2018 02:20 PM (fA1SL)

200 The "suburban" women who I know, admire, and am truly friends with all support Trump.

I've experience the exact opposite but recognize that there are a lot of variables in play here.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 15, 2018 02:20 PM (vtcmf)

201 192 The Dems are not our enemy.

The traitors in the GOP are.
Posted by: woody summer at March 15, 2018 02:19 PM (IkIB1)

They're both my enemies.

Posted by: rickl at March 15, 2018 02:20 PM (xjiRE)

202 175

It was a GOP seat since 2003 un interupted. Thats pretty damn safe.

Posted by: #neverskankles at March 15, 2018 02:20 PM (R6NC+)

203 If the Dems take the house, they'll name a "Wise Latina" as the new speaker. Ain't no way a white male is getting it (sorry, Schiff-head).

Posted by: Hikaru at March 15, 2018 02:20 PM (CMbMd)

204 Posted by: Poll Daddy

...

Interesting that you quote Clenis' (D)line after he raped and beat a woman.

Posted by: woody summer at March 15, 2018 02:20 PM (IkIB1)

205 So a bridge collapses days after being installed in Miami?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 15, 2018 02:21 PM (5y11N)

206
The "suburban" women who I know, admire, and am truly friends with all support Trump.

Same here.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 15, 2018 02:21 PM (ptqGC)

207 192 The Dems are not our enemy.

The traitors in the GOP are.

This.

Posted by: Hokiemom at March 15, 2018 02:21 PM (WUYxS)

208 The media targeted specifically at suburban women is even more virulently anti-Trump that the rest of the media at large. Think about that.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at March 15, 2018 02:21 PM (Dn4Uq)

209 >>181 Haven't we been waiting for this "any day now" IG Report for like three months?

Yes and when it finally does comes out, I believe some people are in for disappointment. I refuse to get on the rah rah bandwagon. Past experiences with the Republican party following through has taught me this.

Posted by: Under Fire at March 15, 2018 02:21 PM (r9UYA)

210 the same people who have been so wrong about so much, will continue to be wrong.

++

True. But they want to prove it to us so badly.

Posted by: Bigbys Olive Fingers at March 15, 2018 02:21 PM (HSD2G)

211 Hegels Pendulum swings. Only Marx claims it ever stops.

The question is: How can left and right work in concert?

Posted by: Charlie Barker at March 15, 2018 02:21 PM (abLEI)

212 The best part about Conor Lamb squeaking to a dead heat win is that now the demunists are all ready to hand PeLousy the speaker's gavel and something will happen to once again DENY her that elusive dream.

Posted by: kallisto at March 15, 2018 02:21 PM (kD8Fh)

213 Not necessary. Trump just needs to declare war on
him. This means steadily destroying his reputation. Mueller has a dirty
record that goes way back. But he fancies himself as holier-than-thou.
Trump needs a war room with some animals like Lee Atwater. Smear the
f*cker. Call out his conflict of interest. Claim he needs his own
special counsel. Give him one of those patented Trump nicknames.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at March 15, 2018 02:10 PM (H8QX

The problem is Trump has already declared war against so many people over the dumbest things that most have tuned that stuff out already.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at March 15, 2018 02:21 PM (UBzPO)

214 PA-18 was a seat vacated by a disgraced Republican, Saccone looked like Wilford Brimley playing a child molester, and the Dem is an ex Marine that ran basically as a conservative. Under those circumstances a near-tie is pretty good.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 15, 2018 02:19 PM (3J/LN)

All true, but again, it is a district we should never have lost.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 15, 2018 02:22 PM (5y11N)

215 AND YOU RACE THEM?!?!?

Posted by: The Founders reaction to the Special Olympics at March 15, 2018 02:22 PM (5oTIt)

216 Maybe so, but still don't see Pubbies losing the Senate. At a minimum, they pick up 4 Senate seats.

Posted by: Gumby at March 15, 2018 02:22 PM (2LelM)

217 211. Doesn't work like that. Never has. Never will. Anyone claims otherwise is running a scam.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 15, 2018 02:22 PM (fA1SL)

218 Putin likes the way we play with each other.

Who's the enemy?

Posted by: Charlie Barker at March 15, 2018 02:23 PM (abLEI)

219 All true, but again, it is a district we should never have lost.
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Based on Lamb's platform, we won.

Posted by: Gumby at March 15, 2018 02:23 PM (2LelM)

220 197
PA-18 was a seat vacated by a disgraced Republican, Saccone looked like Wilford Brimley playing a child molester, and the Dem is an ex Marine that ran basically as a conservative. Under those circumstances a near-tie is pretty good.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 15, 2018 02:19 PM (3J/LN)

Well said. And in a heavy union district, an R running on right to work just seems silly.

Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at March 15, 2018 02:23 PM (Dp6qK)

221 They're both my enemies.
---

The Dems are broke and have no message. '

They are being propped up by Sorosbots like pencilneck and are basically a politically-charged lunatic asylum turned inside out.

And they are too ineffectual to hurt you without the complicity of the POS GOP.

Posted by: woody summer at March 15, 2018 02:23 PM (IkIB1)

222 If we had known you were gonna elect people like Lamb, we would have picked a King instead.

Posted by: Benny Franklin at March 15, 2018 02:23 PM (5oTIt)

223 205 So a bridge collapses days after being installed in Miami?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 15, 2018 02:21 PM (5y11N)

Pedestrian footbridge. They haven't determined how many are pinned underneath. Installed on Saturday. Somewhere out there is an engineer and construction crew that needs a kick in the nads.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at March 15, 2018 02:23 PM (RD7QR)

224 Meanwhile, CNN and MSDNC are beside themselves with glee that Mueller has issued a subpoena for PDT's Rooskie documents.

Has any administration in our history ever faced a first year like Trump's?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 15, 2018 02:24 PM (ptqGC)

225 Camera footage outside the Parkland school has been released.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 15, 2018 02:24 PM (iv0p7)

226 I just know in 2009 when we saw all sorts of special elections going our way, it was a reasonable case to be made that Republicans would do well in 2010, and they did.

What's most maddening is people like McCain screwed up an opportunity to real make some huge entitlement changes.

Posted by: Maritime at March 15, 2018 02:24 PM (lKmt3)

227 218. That statement evinces breathtaking ignorance of both domestic politics and Russia's aims and objectives.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 15, 2018 02:24 PM (fA1SL)

228 --------------------
Based on Lamb's platform, we won.
Posted by: Gumby at March 15, 2018 02:23 PM (2LelM)

Yeah LOL, wanna bet who he votes with 98% of the time?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 15, 2018 02:24 PM (5y11N)

229 A favorite game here is to ask "Why do the JOOOS keep voting against their interests"?

I think the same can be said for a whole host of Americans lately.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 15, 2018 02:17 PM (5y11N

We had the discussion yesterday where Unions and Military personal who vote Democrat were questioned.

Imagine a retired military Jewish union guy who votes Democrat. What a discussion we could have!

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 15, 2018 02:25 PM (IflZ6)

230
Its not individuals and their various quirky districts, its about majority. Majority is everything.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 15, 2018 02:25 PM (r+sAi)

231 They are being propped up by Sorosbots like pencilneck and are basically a politically-charged lunatic asylum turned inside out.
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They are owned by Manhattan Media who has been on a multi year tear doing everything possible to equate Trump, Pubbies and White Males as Satan and his Demons.

Don't kid yourself that the American people can't be brainwashed by Manhattan Media. They can. That's how we got Obama.

Posted by: Gumby at March 15, 2018 02:25 PM (2LelM)

232 Guyz,

Stop the nonesense about Lamb running as a conservative. He ran as a left of Center Dem who says he doesnt want to ban every single gun but wants common sense solution. If taht is the new definition of conservative, we have bigger problems than the 2018 election.

Posted by: #neverskankles at March 15, 2018 02:25 PM (bZ3QE)

233 Lamb pretended to be pro-life, but has said he doesn't have a problem with abortions after 21 weeks.

Thanks, PA.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 15, 2018 02:25 PM (ptqGC)

234 Get a grip, Ace. You really had no need to go further than this. "...and Republicans are bitterly divided, with one faction actively assisting the Democrats."

Go after the cause of the problem - GOP Inc. - or the rest is just preemptive surrender.

Posted by: Born Free at March 15, 2018 02:25 PM (yR0mi)

235 Somewhere out there is an engineer and construction crew that needs a kick in the nads.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at March 15, 2018 02:23 PM (RD7QR)

Greendale Community College graduate. Introduction to Theory. And Theoretical Phys Ed...

Posted by: Pug Mahon in the Upside Down at March 15, 2018 02:26 PM (xPJvm)

236 Has any administration in our history ever faced a first year like Trump's?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 15, 2018 02:24 PM (ptqGC)

Lincoln's was worse of course, but otherwise, I can't think of any.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at March 15, 2018 02:26 PM (Dn4Uq)

237 192 The Dems are not our enemy.

The traitors in the GOP are.
Posted by: woody summer at March 15, 2018 02:19 PM (IkIB1)

Both are. The former is known and open about it. The latter are liars.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 15, 2018 02:26 PM (VM6ev)

238 Camera footage outside the Parkland school has been released.

With most of it on the cutting room floor, I'm sure.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 15, 2018 02:26 PM (vtcmf)

239 I think Chairman Mao could win in VA-10 this year. The district has changed too much with all the new arrivals.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at March 15, 2018 02:26 PM (RVjrl)

240 GOP gains at least 3 in the Senate and holds House with a slimmer margin. Donk media can't nationalize clode to 500 races, much easier to do when there is only one to focus on.

Posted by: mugiwara at March 15, 2018 02:26 PM (tiv1P)

241 Every policy the Republicans develop should be for stable, traditional families. Those people vote Republican. Jill with a husband and two kids, votes Republican. Jane who did women's studies/social work/education, spent her 20's sleeping around, and now is in her 30's with only despair and cats is going to vote Democrat.

Posted by: WOPR (With Full Auto Nuclear Ability) at March 15, 2018 02:26 PM (J70i0)

242 Graduate school educated suburban mom here. Wrong. The GOP will lose because ex dems like myself are furious at open borders, chamber of commerce lying republicans who undermine trump at every turn.

Posted by: Flowerbelle at March 15, 2018 02:27 PM (AkAvN)

243

What's this crap on Drudge?

Is Mueller losing face, so he hits hard?

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 15, 2018 02:27 PM (fceHP)

244 Imagine a retired military Jewish union guy who votes Democrat. What a discussion we could have!
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 15, 2018 02:25 PM (IflZ6)

I disgraced myself and voted for carter against Ford the first time round. I have asked G-D's forgiveness everyday since then and have NEVER voted for a democrat again.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 15, 2018 02:27 PM (5y11N)

245 Are we talking about the same women that fanaticize about having sex with vampires?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 15, 2018 02:27 PM (1ISKN)

246 Huh. Learned today there's a progressive group here who call themselves Drinking Liberally.

Isn't that cute.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 15, 2018 02:27 PM (ptqGC)

247 Posted by: #neverskankles at March 15, 2018 02:25 PM (bZ3QE)
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WRONG he was for everything Saccone was for , except Abortion & Obamacare

Posted by: DeploraBOT at March 15, 2018 02:28 PM (y3aQB)

248 Stop the nonesense about Lamb running as a
conservative. He ran as a left of Center Dem who says he doesnt want to
ban every single gun but wants common sense solution. If taht is the new
definition of conservative, we have bigger problems than the 2018
election.

Posted by: #neverskankles at March 15, 2018 02:25 PM (bZ3QE)

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Modern (R) = Clinton era (D)

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Those deputies listened to the kids screaming as they were shot at March 15, 2018 02:28 PM (zuUwB)

249 233 Lamb pretended to be pro-life, but has said he doesn't have a problem with abortions after 21 weeks.

Thanks, PA.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 15, 2018 02:25 PM (ptqGC)

Nothing that those of us who don't live in that district could do about it.

Posted by: Hikaru at March 15, 2018 02:28 PM (CMbMd)

250
I see my fellow comrades are in this thread.

Posted by: The 13 Russian Trolls That Rule The World at March 15, 2018 02:28 PM (LOgQ4)

251 So, a 'rat lies his ass off about who he is, and what he'll do... and the sky is falling?

Good to know. /s

Back back to me when the 'rats come back from being dead broke, AND manage to herd the Berniebots back into the DNC tent.

Waaaaay too much drama for my taste.

Posted by: CPT. Charles at March 15, 2018 02:28 PM (W+kMI)

252 232 Guyz,

Stop the nonesense about Lamb running as a conservative. He ran as a left of Center Dem who says he doesnt want to ban every single gun but wants common sense solution. If taht is the new definition of conservative, we have bigger problems than the 2018 election.
Posted by: #neverskankles at March 15, 2018 02:25 PM (bZ3QE)

Running with a "D" after your name and being anything except moderately Shining Path Maoist is not going to endear a candidate to the Democrat base.

Certainly not in the heavy blue districts, but in battleground areas or even red states, do normally conservative and/or GOP voters believe the deception, which it most certainly is?

That is going the be the issue this November.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 15, 2018 02:28 PM (VM6ev)

253 GOP gains at least 3 in the Senate and holds House with a slimmer margin. Donk media can't nationalize clode to 500 races, much easier to do when there is only one to focus on.
Posted by: mugiwara at March 15, 2018 02:26 PM (tiv1P)

yes I agree and could even be better if events turn our way

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 15, 2018 02:28 PM (5y11N)

254 Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 15, 2018 02:27 PM (fceHP)
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bigger question is why do you still go to Drudge?

Posted by: DeploraBOT at March 15, 2018 02:28 PM (y3aQB)

255 155 129 You can read NYT articles for free in a Chrome Incognito window. Same for WaPo.
Posted by: #neverskankles
===
For certain values of "free".
- Your Google Profile!

Posted by: Morton at March 15, 2018 02:29 PM (LiloM)

256 The Jews I know in the South are not heavy Democrat voters. I suspect that this is a regional issue. NY Jews vote Democrat because people in NY vote Democrat.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 15, 2018 02:29 PM (mpXpK)

257 240 GOP gains at least 3 in the Senate and holds House with a slimmer margin. Donk media can't nationalize clode to 500 races, much easier to do when there is only one to focus on.
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A number of things can change things in favor of GOP. The first and most important is appointing a Special Prosecutor to investigate FISA Abuse within the DOJ/FBI. Appointing a SP means that a Dem House can't impede an investigation where all the suspects are Dems. Basically, Obama/Hillary's insurance policy in reverse.

Posted by: Gumby at March 15, 2018 02:29 PM (2LelM)

258 You can read NYT articles for free in a Chrome Incognito window. Same for WaPo.
Posted by: #neverskankles

I am not in that big a rush

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 15, 2018 02:29 PM (5y11N)

259 247

Oh just those 2 little things? LOL.

And he is for taxing evil rich people and opposes thr wall. But yeah man CONSERVATIVE.

Posted by: #neverskankles at March 15, 2018 02:29 PM (bZ3QE)

260 PA-18 was a seat vacated by a disgraced Republican, Saccone looked like Wilford Brimley playing a child molester, and the Dem is an ex Marine that ran basically as a conservative. Under those circumstances a near-tie is pretty good.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 15, 2018 02:19 PM (3J/LN)

Well said. And in a heavy union district, an R running on right to work just seems silly.
Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at March 15, 2018 02:23 PM (Dp6qK)

A reminder. If the map the PA Supremes drafted upon direction by those who pay for their campaigns, I mean, out of the good of their hearts, holds up, then PA-18 is no more in something like two months.

Lamb was drawn out of the district he just won. There is no way, none, that was a mistake. PA Dem politics is a complete viper pit and Lamb appears to have made some powerful enemies.

That being said, the GOP has shown no reason why it deserves to hold onto the House.

Also, and maybe I am wrong about this, but I thought the only special elections the Dems won were Alabama, won by dint of utter dirty tricks and the cravenness of most of the GOP, and now this where Lamb ran as a traditional Democrat by which I mean a moderate Republican.

Am I missing some? I will admit, I haven't paid attention. Also I'm talking Federal level positions, not state wide.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at March 15, 2018 02:29 PM (mf5HN)

261 This bridge collapse at FIU in Miami is pretty incredible. Came down right on top of a bunch of cars and pancaked them.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 15, 2018 02:29 PM (/tuJf)

262 248
Modern (R) = Clinton era (D)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Those deputies listened to the kids screaming as they were shot at March 15, 2018 02:28 PM (zuUwB)

I maintain that Modern (R) = FDR New Dealers. Either way.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 15, 2018 02:30 PM (VM6ev)

263 Mueller Subpoenas Trump Organization, Demanding Documents About Russia

WASHINGTON -- The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, has subpoenaed the Trump Organization to turn over documents, including some related to Russia, according to two people briefed on the matter. It is the first known instance of the special counsel demanding documents directly related to President Trump's businesses, bringing the investigation closer to the president.

nyslimes

mueller, f'ing a-hole
all of them

will they start subpoena'ing unborn Trump children next?

... flyby. need to put groceries away!

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 15, 2018 02:30 PM (fceHP)

264 BREAKING
Women voted for Lamb because he's dreamy .
Also Lambs are cute and fuzzy

That is all.

Posted by: Roland THTG at March 15, 2018 02:31 PM (xBSm0)

265 I maintain that Modern (R) = FDR New Dealers. Either way.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 15, 2018 02:30 PM (VM6ev)

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Hmm, that's an interesting point.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Those deputies listened to the kids screaming as they were shot at March 15, 2018 02:31 PM (zuUwB)

266 253 GOP gains at least 3 in the Senate and holds House with a slimmer margin. Donk media can't nationalize clode to 500 races, much easier to do when there is only one to focus on.
Posted by: mugiwara at March 15, 2018 02:26 PM (tiv1P)

yes I agree and could even be better if events turn our way
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 15, 2018 02:28 PM (5y11N)

13 of them voted yesterday to all but wipe out Dodd-Fagg. I see this a significant not just for the Senate but the House as well.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 15, 2018 02:31 PM (VM6ev)

267 Posted by: #neverskankles at March 15, 2018 02:29 PM (bZ3QE)
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Yes Genius 50,000 Democrat advantage, they aren't single vote issue people on Abortion or Obamacare. SUCKS but they weren't

Posted by: DeploraBOT at March 15, 2018 02:31 PM (y3aQB)

268 Back back to me when the 'rats come back from being dead broke, AND manage to herd the Berniebots back into the DNC tent.
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Good point. The Trustafarian wing of the Dem party is still furious their candidate was cheated by the DNC. But this works only in a national election, not in local ones.

Posted by: Gumby at March 15, 2018 02:31 PM (2LelM)

269 This bridge collapse at FIU in Miami is pretty incredible. Came down right on top of a bunch of cars and pancaked them.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 15, 2018 02:29 PM

Time for 'common sense' bridge construction on campuses.

Posted by: The 13 Russian Trolls That Rule The World at March 15, 2018 02:32 PM (LOgQ4)

270 264 BREAKING
Women voted for Lamb because he's dreamy .
Also Lambs are cute and fuzzy

That is all.
Posted by: Roland THTG at March 15, 2018 02:31 PM (xBSm0)

Feh. He wears braces and has Kennedy chapped jizz lips.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 15, 2018 02:32 PM (VM6ev)

271 >>Mueller Subpoenas Trump Organization, Demanding Documents About Russia

But Mueller is in on the plot to arrest Hillary and the others. I learned about that right here.

Posted by: Under Fire at March 15, 2018 02:32 PM (r9UYA)

272 Drudge is just a depressing mess today.

I just learned Shep! has a new multi-year contract, and Rupert Murdoch calls him "an exemplary journalist."

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 15, 2018 02:32 PM (ptqGC)

273 240 GOP gains at least 3 in the Senate and holds House with a slimmer margin. Donk media can't nationalize clode to 500 races, much easier to do when there is only one to focus on.
Posted by: mugiwara at March 15, 2018 02:26 PM (tiv1P)

I'm hoping for this, then pick up more in 2020 with the Donald's coattails. All depends on people showing up.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at March 15, 2018 02:32 PM (RD7QR)

274 "Stop the nonesense about Lamb running as a conservative. He ran as a left of Center Dem who says he doesnt want to ban every single gun but wants common sense solution. If taht is the new definition of conservative, we have bigger problems than the 2018 election."

With the current crop of Republican congressmen that is the definition of conservative and we do, indeed, have bigger problems than the 2018 election.

Trump's first two years, in terms of big policy moves, will resemble Obama's in that he will have achieved only one significant thing. Following the flipping of the House and, possibly, Senate, he will be relegated to running rear guard actions on everything else that requires Congress to pass something. Wouldn't be surprised to see him have to veto a lot of stuff too. If that's the case maybe he bails after one term.

Posted by: steve walsh at March 15, 2018 02:32 PM (OvWrp)

275 Am I missing some? I will admit, I haven't paid attention. Also I'm talking Federal level positions, not state wide.
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at March 15, 2018 02:29 PM (mf5HN)

There was also the GA special election. The R won but just barely.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at March 15, 2018 02:32 PM (UBzPO)

276 267. Shhh.....he's rolling.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 15, 2018 02:33 PM (fA1SL)

277 Both are. The former is known and open about it. The latter are liars.

+++

Yup. I got into this with the clear intention to clean out the GOP. I still mean it. Drain that fucking swamp and I will vote for you. No more lesser evils.

Posted by: Bigbys Olive Fingers at March 15, 2018 02:33 PM (HSD2G)

278 13 of them voted yesterday to all but wipe out Dodd-Fagg. I see this a significant not just for the Senate but the House as well.
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It may be that the Wicked Witch of the West has a pail of water coming her way. Dittos Feinstein.

Posted by: Gumby at March 15, 2018 02:33 PM (2LelM)

279 That 50k advantage led to GOP wins from 2002 to 2016. Yet in 2018 the GOP lost the seat. Wake up peeps.

Posted by: #neverskankles at March 15, 2018 02:33 PM (bZ3QE)

280 soon before the 2018 elections mueller will name PDT an unindicted co-conspirator and all hell will break loose

buy more ammo

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 15, 2018 02:33 PM (5y11N)

281 They say Bill Clinton and even 2008 Obama could NEVER win a Democrat primary today, they would be way to right wing.

Posted by: quint at March 15, 2018 02:34 PM (n13/j)

282 This bridge collapse at FIU in Miami is pretty incredible. Came down right on top of a bunch of cars and pancaked them.
Posted by: JackStraw

It's ugly looking. Prays up to everyone involved. Already reporting fatalities.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2018 02:34 PM (FYqfs)

283 Don't forget, lots and lots of schools like that one that gave Saint Trayvon his college degree have engineering programs.

And government LURVS them some underserved community hiring practices.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Those deputies listened to the kids screaming as they were shot at March 15, 2018 02:34 PM (zuUwB)

284 People weren't voting for the GOP, they were voting for Trump, in a large part because he *wasn't* a GOP candidate. He had a sense of humor, refused to dance to the opposition's tune, and wasn't incompetent (contrary to what the opposition narrative would like to have you believe).

If the GOP wants to ride a Trump election wave they need to have candidates who are more Trump-like in those ways.

Posted by: not the mama at March 15, 2018 02:34 PM (mx7rN)

285 "too" damn it.

Posted by: quint at March 15, 2018 02:34 PM (n13/j)

286 263 Mueller Subpoenas Trump Organization, Demanding Documents About Russia

WASHINGTON -- The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, has subpoenaed the Trump Organization to turn over documents, including some related to Russia, according to two people briefed on the matter. It is the first known instance of the special counsel demanding documents directly related to President Trump's businesses, bringing the investigation closer to the president.

nyslimes

mueller, f'ing a-hole
all of them

will they start subpoena'ing unborn Trump children next?

... flyby. need to put groceries away!
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 15, 2018 02:30 PM (fceHP)

Mueller is fishing desperately for something, anything actionable. The fact that he feels the need to go so far afield tells me he's not finding anything.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at March 15, 2018 02:35 PM (RD7QR)

287 280 soon before the 2018 elections mueller will name PDT an unindicted co-conspirator and all hell will break loose

buy more ammo
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 15, 2018 02:33 PM (5y11N)

So, should Trump just fire Mueller right now or what? I think he should.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 15, 2018 02:35 PM (VM6ev)

288 This is a war people, we are being attacked daily, hourly, minute by minute.

What are we going to do about it?

Posted by: Pam at March 15, 2018 02:35 PM (5FhpD)

289
Way off topic, but this is wild.

http://denver.cbslocal.com/2018/03/13/scott-kelly-astronaut-twins-different-dna/

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 15, 2018 02:35 PM (r+sAi)

290 This bridge collapse is right up shep's ally. And I think he sees people eating other people ( take that any way you see fit to LOL)

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 15, 2018 02:35 PM (5y11N)

291 it appears the prefabricated piece broke.

Posted by: x at March 15, 2018 02:35 PM (nFwvY)

292

By the way. We're 8 months away from November.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 15, 2018 02:35 PM (VM6ev)

293 soon before the 2018 elections mueller will name PDT an unindicted co-conspirator and all hell will break loose

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Yeah, I think this is a big plan for the mid-term surprise, too.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Those deputies listened to the kids screaming as they were shot at March 15, 2018 02:36 PM (zuUwB)

294 289
Way off topic, but this is wild.

http://denver.cbslocal.com/2018/03/13/scott-kelly-astronaut-twins-different-dna/
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 15, 2018 02:35 PM (r+sAi)

Magic bullet?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 15, 2018 02:36 PM (VM6ev)

295 I guess we don't have anything to worry about since no other Democrats running will ever lie about their true position on the issues just to get elected.

I agree Connor Lamb is not something Democrats can replicate in 435 races, but we also don't have a 20 point advantage in all of these districts either.

Posted by: Maritime at March 15, 2018 02:36 PM (lKmt3)

296 People are eating corpses. THEY'RE EATING CORPSES!

Posted by: Shemp, with a dick in his mouth at March 15, 2018 02:36 PM (Dn4Uq)

297 So, should Trump just fire Mueller right now or what? I think he should.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 15, 2018 02:35 PM (VM6ev)

One thing I can say with complete assurity: I have no fuckin idea. I am old enough to realize that

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 15, 2018 02:36 PM (5y11N)

298 I get the Dem advantage numbers. But these are PA Dems, not in the cities of Philly or Pittsburgh. Many of them are Trump voters, that is who he went for.

Posted by: quint at March 15, 2018 02:36 PM (n13/j)

299 The only reason to vote for GOP today is the slow the roll to our eventual collapse. That's a good enough reason for me right now.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 15, 2018 02:37 PM (IflZ6)

300 This bridge collapse at FIU in Miami is pretty incredible. Came down right on top of a bunch of cars and pancaked them.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 15, 2018 02:29 PM (/tuJf)

What the hell?

Being caught under a bridge or an overpass or in a tunnel that collapses is a huge fear of mine.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at March 15, 2018 02:37 PM (mf5HN)

301
Trump should name Mueller a co-conspirator right now. He is part and parcel of the whole set up from the beginning.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 15, 2018 02:37 PM (r+sAi)

302 279. The flip is attributable to their understandable anger at Trump for his many, many betrayals. Of course, Trump betrayed them in anticipation of their betrayal of him. Or something. Key thing is - Everybody is wrong and evil.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 15, 2018 02:37 PM (fA1SL)

303 Many of the comments here sound exactly like comments in 2010 at Kos and DU in reverse. No way Republicans win the house, everyone loves Obama. We may lose a few seats but now way do we lose the house.

Posted by: #neverskankles at March 15, 2018 02:37 PM (fwP4V)

304 297 Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 15, 2018 02:36 PM (5y11N)

On second thought, I agree with you.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 15, 2018 02:37 PM (VM6ev)

305 By the way. We're 8 months away from November.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 15, 2018 02:35 PM (VM6ev)

236 days.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at March 15, 2018 02:37 PM (UBzPO)

306 208 The media targeted specifically at suburban women is even more virulently anti-Trump that the rest of the media at large. Think about that.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at March 15, 2018 02:21 PM (Dn4Uq)

But they seem to enthusiactically swallow it like it was Paolo's essence.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 15, 2018 02:37 PM (NWiLs)

307 Mueller is fishing desperately for something, anything actionable. The
fact that he feels the need to go so far afield tells me he's not
finding anything.

---

He's got it made now. The basis for the investigation has been shown to be fraudulent, so now anyone who doesn't want to cooperate with the fraudulent investigation can be impeached on obstruction of justice whatevers. Because it's *still* an investigation.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Those deputies listened to the kids screaming as they were shot at March 15, 2018 02:38 PM (zuUwB)

308 >>That 50k advantage led to GOP wins from 2002 to 2016. Yet in 2018 the GOP lost the seat. Wake up peeps.

It's not just about numbers, candidates matter. The GOP rep that had the seat before this election held it for numerous terms which is one reason why people keep saying "It was a Rep seat for years!".

Yea, no shit. Incumbents tend to win a lot.

And by universal acclaim Saccone was a bad, lackluster candidate and Lamb a very good one who ran like a Republican. He went out of his way to dis Pelosi and took very centrist if not conservative positions. And, bonus, he's a big union supporter in a union heavy district. Saccone and Trump aren't.

The Party out of power almost always has advantage in the mid-terms and this does not appear to be any different. But it is silly to pretend the Dems can find candidates like Lamb and continue to run away from their base and have similar results nationwide.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 15, 2018 02:38 PM (/tuJf)

309 Lambs eat ivy

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 15, 2018 02:38 PM (IqV8l)

310 Posted by: #neverskankles at March 15, 2018 02:33 PM (bZ3QE)
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Becasuse Tim Murphy was a RINO who appealed to the Dems, he resigned & disgraced & the Pa. GOPe & D.C. Picked a 60 year old With a bad rug & no Charisma. Dems picks a conservative Demo. who was a Marine & also as I have said the 2 candidates who got beat by Saccone didn't help him at all. one was in Allegheny county that Saccone got killed in. I live In the MF district, I was inundated with flyers & commercials. I know WTF happened

Posted by: DeploraBOT at March 15, 2018 02:38 PM (y3aQB)

311 291 it appears the prefabricated piece broke.
Posted by: x at March 15, 2018 02:35 PM (nFwvY)

Materials problem, maybe? Physics was a long time ago but maybe they got a cheaply made prefab.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at March 15, 2018 02:38 PM (RD7QR)

312 skankles is right. we need to dump Trump. fuck winning.

Posted by: x at March 15, 2018 02:38 PM (nFwvY)

313 Way off topic, but this is wild.

http://denver.cbslocal.com/2018/03/13/scott-kelly-astronaut-twins-different-dna/
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 15, 2018 02:35 PM (r+sAi)
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Saw that. The article I read had couple of hedges in the analysis but yeah, crazy.

Posted by: WisRich at March 15, 2018 02:38 PM (G0vdT)

314 That collapsed bridge was just installed last Saturday. Was it engineered by SJWs?

Posted by: Chris M at March 15, 2018 02:38 PM (eAZVt)

315 My great grandfather who was salty as hell, may have never had his own teeth, and made moonshine up till the day he died once told me a story after a moonshine or seven.

He said that Women not getting a vote was a lie. Families had a vote and since men were the head the household they did the voting. He used words like sigogglin too.

He was probably talking crazy, but at least for today - I choose to believe him.

Posted by: Nationalist Pikachu - who really ought to be working right now at March 15, 2018 02:39 PM (5oTIt)

316 Being caught under a bridge or an overpass or in a tunnel that collapses is a huge fear of mine.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at March 15, 2018 02:37 PM (mf5HN)

---

I always think of that when I pass under one that's loaded with cars and big rigs. Not really a fear, but a persistent thought.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Those deputies listened to the kids screaming as they were shot at March 15, 2018 02:39 PM (zuUwB)

317 This election is a perfect snapshot of what we have to look forward to in November.

Dems voted for Trump in PA18 in 2016 by 20 points!

They went back home in 2018... simple as that.

Trump took a lot of union voters who were fed up with the Dems.. but they are still Dem voters..

Fortunately, GOP state legislatures across America have made it very difficult for a district to flip when they drew the districts.. but there WILL be some flips come November.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at March 15, 2018 02:39 PM (so+oy)

318 Lamb chops runs anything further left, he doesn't get elected. He faces a primary, he's not even on the ballot.

Add Eddie Munster's Super PAC sending flyers out for Lamb and the national RNC bad mouthing Saccone. This is what you get.

And allegations of vote machine manipulation. This is what happens. Saccone wasn't the strongest candidate, but he was sandbagged the entire way.

Posted by: Tim Murphy, boy that PA18 was a humdinger at March 15, 2018 02:39 PM (wjryW)

319 But it is silly to pretend the Dems can find candidates like Lamb and continue to run away from their base and have similar results nationwide.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 15, 2018 02:38 PM (/tuJf)

Yes but it is our job and the job those worthless shits in the RNC to counter that and point out that that is all bullshit and lies...yeah yeah yeah I know I am dreaming

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 15, 2018 02:40 PM (5y11N)

320 Posted by: not the mama at March 15, 2018 02:34 PM (mx7rN)

I think it had a lot to do who he was running against.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 15, 2018 02:40 PM (IflZ6)

321 314 That collapsed bridge was just installed last Saturday. Was it engineered by SJWs?

Posted by: Chris M at March 15, 2018 02:38 PM (eAZVt)

No doubt it was part of the Obama 2009 Stimulus/Infrastructure plan. Joey Bidet was the sherif on that.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 15, 2018 02:40 PM (VM6ev)

322 Being caught under a bridge or an overpass or in a tunnel that collapses is a huge fear of mine.
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at March 15, 2018 02:37 PM (mf5HN)

same here, when I lived in LA, I raced under overpasses (if I could!), because... earthquakes. Lived through too many.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 15, 2018 02:40 PM (fceHP)

323 The democrat party is not going to be willing to model themselves after Lamb at this point, and besides they are dead broke. Once the OIG report hits the fun begins and a lot of this will vanish like a bad dream.

Posted by: akelm88 at March 15, 2018 02:40 PM (dNh/A)

324 Off Murphy sock

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 15, 2018 02:40 PM (wjryW)

325 I get the Dem advantage numbers. But these are PA Dems, not in the cities of Philly or Pittsburgh. Many of them are Trump voters, that is who he went for.
Posted by: quint

_________

Those numbers are meaningless. How people consistently vote is far more accurate than what party they registered for decades ago.

Its a solid, Republican district

McCain, Romney, and Trump all won by double digits and the last Democrat that ran for Congress in 2012 lost by like 30 points.

Posted by: Maritime at March 15, 2018 02:40 PM (lKmt3)

326 So, should Trump just fire Mueller right now or what? I think he should.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 15, 2018 02:35 PM (VM6ev)

you can blame Sessions for a lot of this too, putting Trump in this position

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 15, 2018 02:41 PM (fceHP)

327 286 263 Mueller Subpoenas Trump Organization, Demanding Documents About Russia

WASHINGTON -- The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, has subpoenaed the Trump Organization to turn over documents, including some related to Russia, according to two people briefed on the matter. It is the first known instance of the special counsel demanding documents directly related to President Trump's businesses, bringing the investigation closer to the president.

nyslimes

mueller, f'ing a-hole
all of them

will they start subpoena'ing unborn Trump children next?

... flyby. need to put groceries away!
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 15, 2018 02:30 PM (fceHP)

Mueller is fishing desperately for something, anything actionable. The fact that he feels the need to go so far afield tells me he's not finding anything.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at March 15, 2018 02:35 PM (RD7QR)

They'll find some sort of financial crime to pin on him. We're all guilty of that if the IRS wanted to dig deep enough.

Posted by: josephistan at March 15, 2018 02:41 PM (7HtZB)

328 Ides of March.

Posted by: qzy at March 15, 2018 02:41 PM (wPmN+)

329 >>>314 That collapsed bridge was just installed last Saturday. Was it engineered by SJWs?

Posted by: Chris M at March 15, 2018 02:38 PM (eAZVt)
_______

Math is racist

Posted by: Post Modern Engineer - WOKE at March 15, 2018 02:41 PM (5oTIt)

330 "This is a war people, we are being attacked daily, hourly, minute by minute.

What are we going to do about it?"

A heck of a lot of people around here are full-throates for surrender.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at March 15, 2018 02:41 PM (lhV5b)

331 eing caught under a bridge or an overpass or in a tunnel that collapses is a huge fear of mine.
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at March 15, 2018 02:37 PM (mf5HN)

Yup me too, not even enough time for one last self abuse. Sigh

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 15, 2018 02:42 PM (5y11N)

332 A lot can happen between now and November.For better or worse.

Posted by: steevy at March 15, 2018 02:42 PM (LiyEm)

333 325 - we are making the same argument I think. It makes no sense for these people to turn on Trump like this. I really don't care about the candidate. He is not running for governor, he is just a yay or nay vote in Congress.

Posted by: quint at March 15, 2018 02:42 PM (n13/j)

334 So it's hair on fire time.... Yeah, it's possible the Dems re-take the House.. Possible..... Of course if they do it's gonna be all impeachment all the time.. At least it will keep them from doing anything else... Oh, and fuck Mueller...

Posted by: Macedonian content farmers at March 15, 2018 02:43 PM (O2RFr)

335 Chief of Staff Kelly is the next one to go.

Posted by: A White House in Chaos at March 15, 2018 02:43 PM (lkI+W)

336 Lol that Dems cant find 50 other Lambs to run. Find a good looking young guy who can lie easily. I could get you 100 people like that in a room tomorrow.

Posted by: #neverskankles at March 15, 2018 02:43 PM (bZ3QE)

337 @287

Absolutely.

Let any prosecutor with an agenda, unlimited scope and propensity to dig until he finds something or just make shit up, rummage through the finances and communications of a multinational company like Trumps.

If what's being reported is true, we are going to get a Saturday Night Massacre, possibly before this week is over.

This shit has got to stop and stop now.

Posted by: Kreplach at March 15, 2018 02:43 PM (UfMVm)

338 Saccone is ideologically in line with the Freedom Caucus. Paul Ryan and the cucks don't want that.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 15, 2018 02:43 PM (wjryW)

339
That 50k advantage led to GOP wins from 2002 to 2016. Yet in 2018 the GOP lost the seat. Wake up peeps.

Posted by: #neverskankles at March 15, 2018 02:33 PM (bZ3QE)

Something smells like burnt hair in here

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at March 15, 2018 02:43 PM (lKyWE)

340 314 That collapsed bridge was just installed last Saturday. Was it engineered by SJWs?

Posted by: Chris M at March 15, 2018 02:38 PM (eAZVt)

Made with imported steel?

Posted by: Don Q. at March 15, 2018 02:43 PM (NgKpN)

341 He's got it made now. The basis for the investigation has been shown to be fraudulent,

so arrest Mueller for fraud.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2018 02:43 PM (FYqfs)

342
306 208 The media targeted specifically at suburban women is even more virulently anti-Trump that the rest of the media at large. Think about that.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at March 15, 2018 02:21 PM (Dn4Uq)

But they seem to enthusiactically swallow it like it was Paolo's essence.
------------------------
All true. And then there is Trippy Hillary blaming her loss on white women who listen to their husbands. These memes have been in the mediasphere for more than a year now. They are all targeted at white women. Its as if there is a plan to cook white women's brains going on in Manhattan. Who would have guessed?

Posted by: Gumby at March 15, 2018 02:43 PM (2LelM)

343 I don't doubt the thesis about suburban, college educated women and Trump. I'm married to one and we actually had a rousing disagreement about the president Monday evening.

Connection I'm not seeing though is between the president and the results of a House election, and an off year one at that. Probably being too simplistic here, but I would think that Trump hate would be a bigger factor in presidential election years.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at March 15, 2018 02:44 PM (kUmUV)

344 -
--

That collapsed bridge was just installed last Saturday. Was it engineered by SJWs?

Posted by: Chris M at March 15, 2018 02:38 PM

----------------------------

I bet the engineers know the difference between hir and zie, which is what's important.

Posted by: Godzilla at March 15, 2018 02:44 PM (pMGkg)

345 So, we have a resurrection of the 'Blue Dog' democrat- who will run to the right and then vote right down the party line- essentially refuting everything they ran on.

Everything old is new again.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 15, 2018 02:44 PM (ycWCI)

346 177 Suburban women in particular are anti-Trump -- which is a major problem.

Trump won the white woman vote - 52% to whatever the losers got.

He also won the college educated vote.

These special elections are not drawing the same Trump voters that the presidential election did. So many first timers came out to vote for him, and they don't understand how important these special elections can be in a climate when the opposition to the POTUS you love is hellbent on impeaching him.

My BF is one of those first timers. If our district had a special election, though, I would drag him to the polls.
Posted by: kallisto at March 15, 2018 02:16 PM (kD8Fh)

This.
I'm a (cow) college graduate suburban woman who has personally found Trump to be a repulsive person from the first time I ever heard of him decades ago.

But when it came time to cut bait and get off the pot, I voted for him because
Not Hillary/not Dem
JUDGES

And he has vastly exceeded my expectations.

Posted by: stace at March 15, 2018 02:44 PM (DAevm)

347 They'll find some sort of financial crime to pin on him. We're all guilty of that if the IRS wanted to dig deep enough.
Posted by: josephistan

_________

That's what they did for Manafort, tax crimes from when Trump was hosting the Apprentice. Zero to do with Russian election meddling.

I think Trump should shoot his way out.

Posted by: Maritime at March 15, 2018 02:44 PM (lKmt3)

348 >>Being caught under a bridge or an overpass or in a tunnel that collapses is a huge fear of mine.

You must hate the Chesapeake Bay bridge/tunnel. All kinds of things that could go wrong.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 15, 2018 02:44 PM (/tuJf)

349
Nood.

Gary Johnson!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 15, 2018 02:44 PM (VM6ev)

350 Materials problem, maybe? Physics was a long time ago but maybe they got a cheaply made prefab.

+++

We don't know what you're talking about

Posted by: Chinese Asshole at March 15, 2018 02:45 PM (HSD2G)

351 >>291 it appears the prefabricated piece broke.

Chinese steel?

Posted by: Under Fire at March 15, 2018 02:45 PM (r9UYA)

352 The big thing about Mueller subpoena for Trump Inc is that it guarantees the investigation will last another year.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at March 15, 2018 02:46 PM (UBzPO)

353 The first time I saw a picture of the two candidates side by side, I knew the Repub was in trouble - young good looking earnest smiling military guy vs. older fat stodgy standard issue boring bureaucrat. You'd think the young guy was the Repub if you weren't paying attention..and lots of folks don't. We overestimate the engagement of the average voter, and reports said the Dem ran on Trump's issues while the Rep didn't. Stupid!

We need to recruit better candidates who run with Trump instead of against him, get them better coaching, and to somehow convince the GOPe that it is better to win than lose. They are such natural losers. Guess that's easier than actually winning and setting a positive agenda for the country. The Dems want to win and rule...the Repubs seem to just want to get along and collect the checks from their corporate cronies. That doesn't inspire voters. Sad!

Posted by: Just wondering at March 15, 2018 02:46 PM (WBYpW)

354 352 The big thing about Mueller subpoena for Trump Inc is that it guarantees the investigation will last another year.
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at March 15, 2018 02:46 PM (UBzPO)

Unless he fires his ass and shuts this down. They are going after Trump's $900 million write off from like 20 years ago and will find him in arrears and try to just wipe him out.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 15, 2018 02:46 PM (VM6ev)

355
You must hate the Chesapeake Bay bridge/tunnel. All kinds of things that could go wrong.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 15, 2018 02:44 PM (/tuJf)

LOL, actually I love that bridge tunnerl...it means to me I am 15 minutes or less from my destination or on my way home.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 15, 2018 02:46 PM (5y11N)

356 I live In the MF district, I was inundated with flyers commercials. I know WTF happened

Posted by: DeploraBOT at March 15, 2018 02:38 PM (y3aQB)

Where do you live. I grew up in Peters Twp and my brother lives in Murphys neighborhood in USC.

Posted by: Timon at March 15, 2018 02:47 PM (NTM5E)

357 Posted by: Kreplach at March 15, 2018 02:43 PM (UfMVm)

Look at what happened to Gen. Flynn...

He pled GUILTY to get out of the cross hairs... because legal fees were bankrupting him...

So then Meuller started playing games delaying the sentencing... so Gen. Flynn HAD to keep paying legal fees...

And there is no end in sight...

These are Evil people... ruining lives... and using a corrupt out of control system to do so.

Posted by: Don Q. at March 15, 2018 02:47 PM (NgKpN)

358 Unless he fires his ass and shuts this down. They
are going after Trump's $900 million write off from like 20 years ago
and will find him in arrears and try to just wipe him out.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 15, 2018 02:46 PM (VM6ev)

And then impeachment proceedings will begin that will last through the mid-terms.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at March 15, 2018 02:47 PM (UBzPO)

359 Sounds like it Rob, old (Republican voter) habits die hard.

Never any plans to actually fight the war, just blame those who are fighting it for us (Trump).

Posted by: Pam at March 15, 2018 02:47 PM (5FhpD)

360 >>>344 -
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That collapsed bridge was just installed last Saturday. Was it engineered by SJWs?

Posted by: Chris M at March 15, 2018 02:38 PM

----------------------------

I bet the engineers know the difference between hir and zie, which is what's important.
Posted by: Godzilla at March 15, 2018 02:44 PM (pMGkg)
__________
My A-500 Grade A steel Angle identified as an A500 Grade C steel W-Beam that day.

Gravity is racist.

Posted by: Post Modern Engineer - WOKE at March 15, 2018 02:47 PM (5oTIt)

361 The wind in the left's sails is the constant drumbeat of the network and cable channels, the newspapers, the TV shows, the movies, telling a tale every single day of the atrocities they see in Trump.

They use ever single news event to pin something on him, whether it is mass murder in schools, the mutterings of the Norks, the Mullahs, or the Kremlin, and when there's little there, they go with porn stars, his kid's divorce, or whatever he just said about some sports star, talkshow host, or reporter.

Posted by: Les Kinetic at March 15, 2018 02:47 PM (5OEn4)

362 Again, forcing Trump to fire Mueller was the plan all along.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at March 15, 2018 02:48 PM (UBzPO)

363 >>LOL, actually I love that bridge tunnerl...it means to me I am 15 minutes or less from my destination or on my way home.

I do to. I go out of my way to take it when I'm in the area.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 15, 2018 02:48 PM (/tuJf)

364 "This is a war people, we are being attacked daily, hourly, minute by minute.

What are we going to do about it?"

When I find myself in times of trouble
and the news is all bad and depressing
I retreat to my safe space in my bedroom
and burrow beneath a large pile of blankes
and try to sleep until it is safe to come out again.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at March 15, 2018 02:48 PM (roQNm)

365 If the linked article is true, maybe it's good that this is happening. We've known for a long time that we can't count on the suburban, middle-class soccer moms, the Chamber of Commerce crowd, all the people who try to distance themselves from principles in the name of affluence and going along to get along.

Maybe this is a good time to purge that section entirely and focus exclusively on the white working-class section Trump's done so much to court. It won't win the whole country, but it will cement control over a number of states.

Posted by: T at March 15, 2018 02:48 PM (sb146)

366 Mueller subpoenas Trump?

fine. Trump's comment "i don't recall"
anything ever just like you

Posted by: willow at March 15, 2018 02:49 PM (/ikqi)

367 Drumph Cadet Bone Spurs will be impeached in six months!111!!

Posted by: Every Democrat You Know 12 months ago at March 15, 2018 02:50 PM (BRpqW)

368 FIU Bridge was Figg, which had a collapse almost 6 years ago in Chesapeake. Big firm, but something going on.

Posted by: Schmegma Lord at March 15, 2018 02:50 PM (cQi2N)

369 Being caught under a bridge or an overpass or in a tunnel that collapses is a huge fear of mine.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at March 15, 2018 02:37 PM (mf5HN)

That's the only time I really worried about earthquakes when I lived in L.A.

Getting stuck in traffic on the 110 under that spaghetti-work of overpasses is no place you want to be when a big one hits. Visions of the 880 freeway collapse in '89 kept coming.

My brother has a phobia of being on high bridges. He got nervous when I drove him to Tampa on the Sunshine Skyway. Didn't figure it was a good time to tell him that the old one collapsed in 1980 when a ship hit it and dumped over 30 cars into Tampa Bay

Posted by: kbdabear at March 15, 2018 02:50 PM (eh0Va)

370 354 352 The big thing about Mueller subpoena for Trump Inc is that it guarantees the investigation will last another year.
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at March 15, 2018 02:46 PM (UBzPO)

Unless he fires his ass and shuts this down. They are going after Trump's $900 million write off from like 20 years ago and will find him in arrears and try to just wipe him out.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 15, 2018 02:46 PM (VM6ev)

As we've found out... the Statute of Limitations on most Federal Crimes is FIVE YEARS...

So what underlying crime is Mueller now investigating???

Posted by: Don Q. at March 15, 2018 02:51 PM (NgKpN)

371 Posted by: Every Democrat You Know 12 months ago at March 15, 2018 02:50 PM (BRpqW)

Plenty of GOP'ers in Congress are in on it as well.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at March 15, 2018 02:52 PM (UBzPO)

372 Investigating a huge corp like Trump's would take years and years.

The Feds just a few years ago gave Trump corp the contract to build the old post office redo.

Eric Trump said they did an anal exam on their company then.

I don't think PDT would have ran if he had something to hide in his business.

This is another smear.

Posted by: Pam at March 15, 2018 02:52 PM (5FhpD)

373 366 Mueller subpoenas Trump?

fine. Trump's comment "i don't recall"
anything ever just like you
Posted by: willow at March 15, 2018 02:49 PM (/ikqi)

LOL.... if I was President Trump, I'd get the Head of the FBI to deputize me...

Because it IS against the law to lie to the FBI.... but not the President...

I'd force Meuller's boys to be held to the same standard I was...

Posted by: Don Q. at March 15, 2018 02:53 PM (NgKpN)

374
Whomever "engineered" it may not be a company soon.

In 2018, engineers know the strength of every material across a span, its a huge incompetence in engineering or inferior materials.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 15, 2018 02:53 PM (r+sAi)

375 >>Getting stuck in traffic on the 110 under that spaghetti-work of overpasses is no place you want to be when a big one hits. Visions of the 880 freeway collapse in '89 kept coming.

My dad was at a meeting in the Bay Area when that happened. We couldn't reach him for over 24 hours.

That was scary.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 15, 2018 02:54 PM (/tuJf)

376 Keep in mind that during this special election, the new redistricting was no even in effect. But, it will be in November. Lamb's new district will add a few republican voting areas, but all he has to do is legislate from a "moderate" position for a few months and he'll win hands down. Saccone, on the other hand, and you heard it here first, will run again in the newly drawn 18th district even though he won't even be living in it (which is allowed). That new 18th added a mess of heavy blue areas. He hasn't a prayer, and the GOP will let him run anyway.

This will play out all over the state, because long standing Republican districts now have big fat pieces of urban areas attached to them.

Bloodbath...absolute bloodbath come November....and not just PA. It will be happening in NC..upstate NY, the last conservative area of Connecticut. Simply put, the impeachment hearings start within 30 days of the midterms.

Posted by: Orson at March 15, 2018 02:55 PM (tmEUP)

377 A little birdie tells me that bidding procedures for that bridge were bypassed so it could be given to a disadvantaged minority owned company. Hint: not many English speakers were part of the crew.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at March 15, 2018 02:55 PM (UBzPO)

378 Nood. Gay Johnson.

Posted by: WonkishRogue at March 15, 2018 02:56 PM (BRpqW)

379 Don, i'm infuriated yeeears of them ignoring all the progressive administration b.s yeears of them trying to frame Trump.

i like your idea.

Posted by: willow at March 15, 2018 02:56 PM (/ikqi)

380 220 has it right.

Posted by: Jen the original at March 15, 2018 02:57 PM (83p6s)

381 Trump," i just saw it on TV"

Posted by: willow at March 15, 2018 02:57 PM (/ikqi)

382 The best retort to this election is for Trump to pivot to Black Males and put on the press for Infrastructure for Cities. Black Males are the one honey hole Trump hasn't fully tapped.

Posted by: Gumby at March 15, 2018 02:57 PM (2LelM)

383 >>>A little birdie tells me that bidding procedures for that bridge were bypassed so it could be given to a disadvantaged minority owned company. Hint: not many English speakers were part of the crew

MCM Construction?
Figg?
Or you mean a sub?

Posted by: Schmegma Lord at March 15, 2018 03:01 PM (cQi2N)

384 Being caught under a bridge or an overpass or in a tunnel that collapses is a huge fear of mine.
Posted by: alexthechick

Well, that is where the spiders live.

Posted by: Morton at March 15, 2018 03:01 PM (LiloM)

385 382 The best retort to this election is for Trump to pivot to Black Males and put on the press for Infrastructure for Cities. Black Males are the one honey hole Trump hasn't fully tapped.
Posted by: Gumby at March 15, 2018 02:57 PM (2LelM)

I've been begging for this. And for Trump to really start highlighting Dem mismanagement and corruption all over the country. It'd be great if they could wake up Sessions long enough to hand down some indictments of Dems in late October, like Cuomo, who's best friend just got nailed for influence peddling, and DeBolshevik, who's friend got convicted of bribing DEBOLSHEVIK!! And yet DeBolshevik hasn't been charged. All the US Attorneys in NY are corrupt. That's what you get when Schumer gets a say in who gets picked.

Posted by: Iblis at March 15, 2018 03:02 PM (9221z)

386 And may they get him. Good and hard.

Posted by: rickb223
///
That's democracy!

Posted by: H.L. Mencken at March 15, 2018 03:02 PM (dZ756)

387 Has a mid-term ever had an October Surprise? I bet there's one this year, from the Mueller camp most likely, that's total bs but makes for great Fake News.

Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at March 15, 2018 03:04 PM (2NqXo)

388 The problem with the GOP/GOPe is that unless you're a party apparatchik or a very, narrow, 1 or 2 issues voter, what on Earth is the friggin' appeal of the Repub party? It can't deliver shite. In fact, the previous GOP President plucked the best Cal. Supreme Court justice we've had in decades (Janice Rogers Brown) and dumped her in federal obscurity. (As an S.F. land use atty, that really effing hurt.) Thanks, Bushitler.

Posted by: SFGoth at March 15, 2018 03:07 PM (dZ756)

389 I dont understand why people say lamb won. You think receiving fewer votes ever stopped a democrat from winning?

Pull a franken already and recount whatever trunk ballots you need to

Posted by: Mst3k at March 15, 2018 03:21 PM (3xQte)

390 Meh. It was bound to catch up with us eventually. Female suffrage = death of your nation. No exceptions.

LIB, bring on SMOD

Posted by: Reactionary at March 15, 2018 03:35 PM (k94zE)

391 Pish posh.

Posted by: Muns at March 15, 2018 03:36 PM (UxMNK)

392 Saccone is ideologically in line with the Freedom Caucus. Paul Ryan and the cucks don't want that.

....

Bingo.

Just like Alabama.

Dems can't win unless the GOP contrives to lose for them.

Posted by: woody summer at March 15, 2018 03:45 PM (IkIB1)

393 I lost track of the female acquaintances, friends and family members whose feeds I've turned off to escape their parroting mindless progressive slogans. It's a virus at this point. No amount of facts or logic can penetrated the hysteria. Their pea brains locked onto "the narrative" last year, and now they are set on auto-react.
These women were formerly non-political types whose conversation stayed to children and family events.

I can't emphasis how bad this situation has become.

Posted by: I'd rather be surfin at March 15, 2018 04:13 PM (pN3as)

394 Something that I saw somewhere said that Saccone was painted as being for right to work. Not sure about the truthfulness of that but that was harmful in that district, especially among swing voters.

Posted by: whig at March 15, 2018 04:23 PM (acrHV)

395 @393 No amount of facts or logic can penetrated the hysteria.

I see what you did there.

Women immune to facts and logic?! The deuce you say!

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at March 15, 2018 04:23 PM (hqZPQ)

396 Fine, by 2020, after getting raped for 2 years, women will be going back to the Daddy party.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at March 15, 2018 04:25 PM (hqZPQ)

397 HA Ace, cut it out, you make me laugh, did you know POS Ryan helped the Dem win? Do you know the seat is gone in one year?

Trump will will all 50 States in three years, and will hold the House and Senate easily, stop being scared.

The Dems are broke, and we will see the indictments this summer.

Posted by: Joe Walker at March 15, 2018 06:04 PM (S+i5q)

398 Does not help when McConnell lets Dems off the hook with the Monday Night to Thursday Morn work week. With over 60 judges to confirm and key posts in the DOJ to be filled, the Turtle refuses to keep the Senate in session during D.C Happy hour.

Posted by: Joey at March 15, 2018 06:32 PM (HrSJb)

399 A supreme Court fight this summer would really help the GOP, especially with Lefty Kennedy announcing.

Dems and the left would go Bat Crazy

Posted by: Joey at March 15, 2018 06:33 PM (HrSJb)

400 Saccone was down 4-6% last week before trump showed up.

Make the midterms about how Pelosi is botox crazy, and wants to impeach and put the country in peril

Posted by: Joey at March 15, 2018 06:35 PM (HrSJb)

401 Perhaps you think Republicans don't deserve to hold Congress. Are you aware of what the Democrat base is like? I don't want to hand over this president to a party that has a base that has literally threatened his life. Some people have already given up on doing anything to help the Republicans. I'm as aware of the record as the next person, but the House holds the power of the purse. Try getting the wall when Pelosi/an extreme leftist is speaker. Democrats have promised impeachment, and with a split legislature, conviction is possible if the Republicans don't have enough of a majority. Let's not look at a few issues and forget the big picture. Let's not rationalize sitting at home commenting on the Internet and treating things like normal when we are one or two elections from losing our rights.

Posted by: Laved at March 15, 2018 06:55 PM (l/QFU)

402 Mueller could wait until after the election to bring charges since Democrats are forecasted to win the House and impeachment would be guaranteed. If you don't vote for Republicans and don't take this campaign seriously, you are not hurting the Republican party. Congressional Republicans won't care either since they can be lobbyists. No, you are hurting the president you claim to love because you are throwing him to the wolves. I don't mean to be harsh, but we need to get out the vote and start messaging like the Democrats do. I appreciate this blog and love commenting on the Internet, but it doesn't get people to the polls. We need to stop being defeatist and look at the schedules in our states to see when primaries are. Waiting until the day of the primary is too late because the local people have already picked the candidates they want to win. We have to join the Republicans if we want our voices to be heard, and we need to stop rationalizing that things are not bad.

Posted by: Laved at March 15, 2018 07:01 PM (l/QFU)

403 I love Trump and never thought of him as my ex husband! Lol
I'm pretty worn thin with all this National Review bullshit. Women I know are all about a Trump. Bill Kristol needs to jump....

Posted by: AnnaS at March 15, 2018 09:26 PM (l4l/z)

404 #402 you are Right On! I could not agree more!

Posted by: AnnaS at March 15, 2018 09:34 PM (l4l/z)

405 The fact that suburban women are anti-Trump proves only one thing: they are stupid.

Posted by: Scott at March 15, 2018 11:47 PM (BM+Lv)

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