What you are seeing here is that the cowards that have bankrupted our nation see that the era of free money is over.

Rats fleeing a sinking ship.

Jeez. Here I thought it was gonna be a bloodbath for the dems in Nov what with so many of them retiring.

Huh! Who could have foreseen...

It's a tsunami, I tells YA!

Aflac

Not enough.

Nowhere nears enough.

Not near enough from either side. I'd like to see any congressman on his second or greater term retire.

It was "fun and games" when times were easy and you didn't need to be held accountable for your malfeasance; now when the times are tough (from that malfeasance), the cowards get moving.

And how many dems are quiting?

And how many dems are quiting?
#8 | Posted by Sniper

And how many dems are quiting?

#8 | Posted by Sniper at 2010-02-12 10:50 AM | Reply | Flag:Mom not home to read article to him

It is going to be very interesting listening to the Rtards try to explain why the voted NO so many times. The teabaggers will gulp down any excuse but the real Republicans will not be so gullible.

A lot of these GNOPers are going to fail BIG. With most of them facing multiple teabagger candidates in the Rtard primaries, a lot of Dems are going to get elected because the R's commited suicide by circular firing squad.

axe, that's quite a spin on what is happening. Will you remember your post is November?

The teabaggers will gulp down any excuse but the real Republicans will not be so gullible.

Independents even less gullible.

Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. I honestly don't care which side of the isle these guys are from, its time for a changing of the guard. The old guard has old ideas and we know where that got us. Those ideas no longer apply, it's time for some new thinking (ANY thinking would be good actually).

Every time a Democrat Announces that he or she is leaving the Congress, the F0X REPUBLICANS, have an ORGASIM. Of course they don't tell you that the REPUBLICANS, are leaving in even larger numbers. But of course that would be against the FOX- Republicans narrative.

Someone should tell these Fox-Republicans that we are in the year 2010, the age of the Computer an the Internet, this Retiring thing is not out of the ordinary, it happens every election cycle, but again FACTS is not what the Fox-Republicans are about.

Hard to believing that Kit Bond is retiring. He was an absolute master of walking that razor thin line between pompous ass and sanctimonious twit.

#9 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis

FF

Hard to believing that Kit Bond is retiring. He was an absolute master of walking that razor thin line between pompous ass and sanctimonious twit.
#17 | Posted by igmoramus

LOL! I'm sure he'll be contacting you for a letter of recommendation.

This is possibly the worst thing that can happen to the Republicans. Primaries are run by zealots. And the tea party brings them out in droves. You're going to get far more conservative candidates; many of whom may appear batshit crazy.

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What you are seeing here is that the cowards that have bankrupted our nation see that the era of free money is over.

Rats fleeing a sinking ship.

#1 | Posted by 726 at 2010-02-12 07:29 AM | Reply | Flag:
I can only assume you mean from the democrats because they have controlled congress for how many years now?

"the democrats...have controlled congress for how many years now?"

Not recently, if you stand the word "control" up against such terms as "filibuster," "cloture," and "Lieberman."

But I think I know what you're going for and the answer is 3 years (after 12 years of nearly unbroken GOP rule).

They're dropping like the flies they are...

"can only assume you mean from the democrats because they have controlled congress for how many years now?"
#22 | Posted by ELCIDCE90 at 2010-02-12 12:27 PM | Reply | Flag:

This is Where the "Bush Got Everything he Wanted" and "He Thwarts Democrats at Every Turn" ---- Conveniently morphs into "The Dems Controlled Congress"!

In WIngDing World, it's perfectly reasonable to believe and say things are credited to a single man when it's perceived as a success---- only later to attempt to spread the blame when it becomes apparent it really wasn't a success at all!

Whats next I wonder --- claiming it was Someone Else who paraded that poor dead woman around for cheap political points!?

Let's see, 10% of Republican Representatives retiring, another 5% of Democrat Reps; 5% of Republican Senators retiring, and another 4% of Democrats. That is an approximate total of 15% of House seats and 14% of Senate seats up for new blood.

A good time to vote in third party and independant candidates.

The Republican Party is a morally and ideologically bankrupt institution. Even with the Dems at a lowpoint, GOP rats are still fleeing that ship.

The Republican Party is a morally and ideologically bankrupt institution.

#27 | Posted by moder8 at 2010-02-12 02:14 PM | Reply | Flag: Still thinks anyone cares what someone wielding a broad brush has to say

"That is an approximate total of 15% of House seats and 14% of Senate seats up for new blood."

It's about 9% of the Senate seats.

I can only assume you mean from the democrats because they have controlled congress for how many years now?

#22 | Posted by ELCIDCE90 at 2010-02-12 12:27 PM | Reply

You can assume anything you want. It is not the first time you announced that you are an idiot.

Maybe you try reading the article or the very least the blurb at the top of the thread.

#16 | POSTED BY CELISARY
"Every time a Democrat Announces that he or she is leaving the Congress, the F0X REPUBLICANS, have an ORGASIM."

Ahem......they have a what?

I suspect the Republican Party would not be seeing so many retiring legislators during an off-year election unless there were something currently deeply wrong with the Republican Party.

I suspect the Republican Party would not be seeing so many retiring legislators during an off-year election unless there were something currently deeply wrong with the Republican Party.

Excellent point. TOo bad the democrats aren't as smart and start retiring their own, too.

It's about 9% of the Senate seats.

#29 | Posted by TrueBlue at 2010-02-12 02:18 PM

What? Oh damn! I was using the free calculater I got from Fox News.

What? Oh damn! I was using the free calculater I got from Fox News.

Posted by GMDuggan at 2010-02-12 03:23 PM | Reply

They stole Vern's calculator?

#6
you'd like to se Ron Paul bow out then, right?
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#25
it was Someone Else who paraded that poor dead woman around for cheap political points!

that really was the epitome of it wasn't it? the beginning of the[ir] end.

congrats.

#26
A good time to vote in third party and independant candidates.

i see, just pull the lever for any I or L? moron. you sure you passed the SC literacy poll?

i see, just pull the lever for any I or L? moron. you sure you passed the SC literacy poll?

#38 | Posted by ichiro at 2010-02-13 03:17 AM

I see. A proponent of the bi-polar political system perhaps? What, do you have a sticker of an elephant or a donkey that you just stick at the top of the ballot? Of course vote for the candidate that will actually represent the people. In case you have not been paying attention, both Dems and Reps have been playing party politics and seemingly well entrenched in the lobbying game.
For some time now I have found myself more often voting against the worst candidate rather than for a good candidate. Now imagine if the Senate was not just D and R but 10% other. Do you think some negotiation to pass bills might be in order? That would make even a random selection of other than D or R viable.
In the past, when I could get at information about "others", often they seemed down to earth citizens willing to try and make a difference. Try doing some research before voting. Oh, and the choices are not just D, R, I, L, there is also G, A, AI, M, IP, W, U and more.