George Rebane
Instead of my regular KVMR commentary, News Director Paul Emery suggested we do a little one-on-one for tonight’s news program. So we sat down for a little gabfest about the election. Paul asked me for any surprises on the outcome, and chowder-head me responded that things went pretty much as I had expected, while completely overlooking my total disappointment and frustration with the failure of Prop6 – you know, the repeal of the most recent California gas tax bamboozle from Sacramento.
Prop6 went down to solid defeat in California in the hands of a partisan majority of voters that over the years has vacillated between insanity and terminal stupidity. CA already has the highest gas taxes in the land, much of them from previous initiatives promised by the lying sacks of s#!t in Sacramento that the taxes would go to fix CA’s roads and bridges. Well, what has happened is that these tax receipts go directly into the state’s general fund to finance an endless number of programs and purposes – e.g. bullet trains, smelt salvation, succoring illegal aliens, funding govt workers pension liabilities, attracting evermore of the nation’s welfare recipients, … – that continue to leave us in an ever bigger mess. And with already the highest gas taxes in the land, we continue to pay these fraudulent takings without even a peep.
So now our roads are really a mess, and that looks like a perfect opportunity for some capitol scumbags to go to the voters – over half of whom pay no taxes, and a third of whom get regular government checks – and ask them to dance another round of the SOSO samba. Only this time the bill will be even more smelly because it has a built-in ratchet that keeps upping it ad nauseum over the years. Those Californians who pay attention did put out the word on Prop6, pointing out that these new taxes will do nothing except increase the cost of transportation (especially for the poor), while once more destined for the state’s general fund to finance the ever greater insanities and inanities from Sacramento.
Defeating such an obviously fraudulent proposition should have been a no-brainer, hence it was designed precisely for those not so encumbered. But like Lucy with the football, our Charlie Brown electorate again fell for the ‘can’t you see all them chuckholes and cracks and … all of which need fixin’?’ And, of course, today all them cracks etc are way bigger and more numerous and easier to see than last time, so the state’s not so nimble numbnuts dutifully checked the proper box to keep the most recent and onerous gas tax in place as the scumbags are already planning the next tax to fix the roads and bridges – hell, why stop a perfectly good bamboozle designed exactly for the kind of voters we worked so hard to attract, ‘educate’, and put in place. No one out there in VoterLand asks what is the word for doing the same thing while expecting a different outcome.
Oh well, on the national scene things went a little better. The Dems won the House, but the best they can do there is start more dead-end investigations of President Trump and the Executive branch, with a possible impeachment swipe at Justice Kavanaugh. Republicans actually will welcome that kind of blatant congressional obstruction which will demonstrate to the country that just putting the new and more aggressive socialist Left in power is going to do nothing to get Congress legislating for the people’s needs.
President Trump’s first-half accomplishments re the tax cut, regulation rollback, foreign policy, and immigration will stay in place. The border will not be secured, and healthcare costs will continue increasing with the bastardized system now metastasizing like a cancer. It will be easy to focus the spotlight on the source of stagnation, and Trump will have something very solid and visible to run on in 2020. The lamestream will have a hell of time ramping up their Fake News Machine enough to hide the source of grit and gravel grinding in the gears of government.
Meanwhile, the Dems will also have to work out their Gerontology Optics Problem with a leadership headed by Nancy the Penultimate Facelift, and backed up by a crowd of cretins like Mad Max Waters, Elijah Cummings, Comrade Bernie, Vacuum Head Ocasio-Cortez, the ‘Capitalist Bones’ of Fauxahontas, True Colors DiFi, SlyEye Chuckie Schumer, all straight out of Central Casting. Every one of these will be on daily display filling countless screens across the land. In the meantime, Trump will have a solid Senate majority to confirm and emplace as many constitutional judges and justices as are on his lengthening short-list. All in all, not a bad night.
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265 responses to “The Election & RIP Prop6”
Not a bad night George? Lose the House and seven governors? Really, It’s like the boxer who is getting the crap beat out of him and he tells his corner who are patching him up that he’s just “waiting him out”,
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/06/us/elections/results-governor-elections.html
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GR The big problem with 6 was the misleading title dreamed up by … Becerra.
I’d like to answer the question Paul gave Todd to get his dander up…
“No problem with NC supporting Denny, Newsom, Morse, Padilla etc”
Paul, NC is where we live. The land can’t support anybody. I’ve no problem living near people who supported Denney (except where they refused to listen to arguments about Denney’s false front of a farmer, educator and open minded gun owner and more), or Newsom, or Morse or Padilla… unless some talking head tries to tell me I’d be happier if I moved elsewhere to make room for someone more malleable to the talking head’s point of view.
I live here. I pay taxes. I vote. I think and I am. You do not have a right to point elsewhere and expect me to take the hint.
We may have an interesting two to four years of runaway spending in California. Time will tell if Newsom won’t be happy until there’s as much human feces on the streets of Nevada City as there is in ‘Frisco.
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Paul, there was no Blue Wave. So sayeth Chuck Todd. So sayeth Steffie Steffanopoulos. So sayeth Ron Silver. So sayeth James Carville and Morning Joe. Just off the top of my head.
A blue wave would have swept in Audrey Denney, if it was bad enough.
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Ouch, even the chi coms diss fauxcahauntas –
The Chinese paper was excited by left-wing “trailblazing candidates who are diversifying American politics,” especially socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and the first Muslim women elected to Congress, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.
China Daily also celebrated Deb Haaland of New Mexico and Sharice Davids of Kansas for becoming “the first two Native American women in Congress,” callously dismissing Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who has long claimed to hold that distinction.
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/11/07/chinese-state-media-celebrates-far-left-u-s-midterm-election-winners/
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make that so sayeth Nate Silver.
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Looking at the Governor’s races… assuming the guy up by 1.5% in Georgia ends up being declared the winner… it will be 27 GOP governors and 23 DEM guv’s… not exactly a crushing loss.
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It couldn’t happen to a better fakenewsman –
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/white-house-suspends-press-access-cnns-jim-acosta-1159344
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 07 November 2018 at 04:28 PM
Not a bad night George? Lose the House and seven governors?
Another weak attempt to save face after an entire year of claiming that Trump was going to be gone by this point in the game and that a “Blue Wave™” was going to sweep the democrats into control of government!
Its OK to want these things Punchy but you really ought not to call yourself any sort of libertarian.
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For those who want to know what is next and/or have the time to parse each paragraph for meaning….
“In another call, Nadler said Republicans did better than expected on election night because of the booming economy. He suggested messaging that the economy is only helping wealthy people and not other classes, and worried that changes to the economic boom would be blamed on Democrats. He also complained that the new voters being recruited to join Democrats were “Rockefeller Republicans” who are liberal on social issues and that the new group makes Democrats more vulnerable to the charge they are no longer the party of the working person.”….
“Following the train ride, Nadler weighed in on Twitter about the news that Attorney General Jeff Sessions has resigned, using the language of accountability: “Americans must have answers immediately as to the reasoning behind @realDonaldTrump removing Jeff Sessions from @TheJusticeDept. Why is the President making this change and who has authority over Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation? We will be holding people accountable.”
In March 2017, however, Nadler called for Sessions to resign:“
https://thefederalist.com/2018/11/07/incoming-democrat-chairman-dems-will-go-all-in-on-russia-impeach-kavanaugh-for-perjury/
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Gregory
If this were a fight the ref would have stopped it. The Dems won big in the House and Govs and lost a couple in the Senate. You call that winning?
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27 Gove is down from 33 Gregory. Whats good about that?
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27 Gov’s is down from 33 Gregory. Whats good about that?
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Actually 26 Gov’s
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 07 November 2018 at 06:03 PM
#Sad
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All good Paul Emery. You must admit that the Judges will be there for many years after you croak. That is why we are happy.
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Beto laundered 70 million trying to beat Cruz. Funny how a white European takes a Hispanic name and tries to beat a true Hispanic. And in Con 4 the dark money democrats spewed over 4 million to take out McClintock and still lost. But hey when democrats who rail against dark money pour it like water into their ilk’s campaigns Paul Emery is all in.
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Umm… 26 is still more than half of the governatorships in the country…and there is another on the way.
Really, Paulo, you need to slow down and breathe. In…. out… in… out… (rinse and repeat)
It would have been worse for the GOP had this been a wave election.
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The federal judiciary openings will all be quickly filled as well as all of the deputy/undersecretary’s in this that and the other depts. flushing out the 0 swamp hold overs.
The Republican Senate will be united again, not so flaky if you will. The budget is already passed.
In historical perspective Trump did save the day through hard work. Remember 0 lost 60 in the house. Botox Nancy will have as many problems from the hard core left as she has with R’s.
0’s midterm efforts look like the kiss of death in the real world. Close but no cigars on the so called ‘rock stars’ but you actually have a dem REAL native Americans now .
Locally we have a Sheriff that came from within the department which is a good thing, DA, Supervisors, NID are all good too.
Even cnn was crying in their beers about the outrageously expensive losses like TX and are second guessing the Hollywood driven concentration of cash.
You did however check off the Presidential reelection box by having a minor team lefty edge in the house.
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PaulE, in these days of America’s rampant degeneration, I take great joy in the small victories that can perhaps give us time to regain our senses as a country and change course. To many of us in this storied land, 2018 has been one of these small victories.
From PJ Media – In 2010, Obama lost 63 seats. In 1994, Clinton lost 52. You have to go all the way back to Reagan to find a Republican loss the same as Trump’s — 26 in 1982. None lost their second term. … The shellacking Obama received in 2010 — a nuclear explosion compared to 2018 — was even more of an indictment of his presidency than we are seeing with Trump’s. Core Democratic groups, including Hispanics, African Americans, and young people, refused to even show up for their own president. Independents voted Republican in numbers unlike any since 1994. A full 74 percent of voters weren’t happy with the federal government, 61 percent thought the country was on the wrong track, and 55 percent of the electorate disapproved of Obama’s job performance.
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,,,you guys never stop whining,,,not winning,,,whining.
California needs transportation funding
https://www.google.com/amp/s/sacramento.cbslocal.com/2018/06/13/california-money-gas-tax/amp/
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Does anyone think that this shit contributed to the dem failure to have a wave election as touted ad nauseum?
A group of protesters congregated outside what they claimed was Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s home in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday night to chant threatening messages.
Smash Racism D.C., a self-described “anti-fascist” group, posted a video of their members screaming obscenities at Carlson’s house and blaming his “policies” for the deaths of thousands of people.
“Tucker Carlson, we will fight!” the protesters chanted. “We know where you sleep at night!”
In the first video posted to Twitter, one protester can be seen ringing Carlson’s doorbell before running away.
“Racist scumbag, leave town!”
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/protesters-chant-outside-tucker-carlson-home-fox-news-host/
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@6:44 pm
“It would have been worse for the GOP had this been a wave election”
Exactly. Could have been a lot worse. No big names fell. Not one big state flipped, not even swing state Florida. Not even Missouri. Or Ohio. A true Wave would have swept the House, Senate, Govs, and a bunch of state houses. A wave or normal first term midterm for a new President would have shook everything up. I remember the shock when Russ Feingold and Tom Daschell were sent packing. Also, in 2018 a much higher than normal number R House members retired. So, it wasn’t bad at all considering historical results for midterms with a new President.
Obama’s lost 63 members of house in his first mid-term (2010)
Clinton lost 53 in his (1994)
Historically it’s about 37.
With the Senate pickups, not a bad night at all. The only surprise is with Trump’s approval ratings and losing the Green ($) battle, not more seats were lost. Add to that a hostile press who rather than report on the Resistance decided instead to join…nay..lead the Resistance, it was not bad at all. Blue Wave was a blue leak.
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Noticed the Democrat Party as well as the voters put healthcare at the top of the priority list. Healthcare is a big issue. Since the only thing that the Republicans have done to Obamacare is to eliminate the tax penalty for those who did not buy insurance, if is no wonder that folks are concerned about their Obamacare….healthcare. It sucks and they don’t like it or the package it comes in. It makes me wonder why the Dems did not campaign hard on replacing Obamacare….being such a top concern among voters and a top priority of Peloski.
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In the “I took my gun out of my holster and aimed at my foot and missed” dept. Looking at the counties that voted for DeLeon, it is easy to see that they were mostly the same rural areas that voted for trump. Except there was a catch. DeLeon is way more of a lefty than Feinstein. Feinstein is a corporate goon. So just to spite Feinstein you all voted for someone who would have been way more of what you all hate, a liberal thinker. Very astute on your part. It shows what a high level of thinking that goes on behind rank and file conservatives. Hate first and ask questions later.
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“Cross”, aren’t you supposed to be out drowning Jews?
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Sorry Boobie, I left the ballot blank on your heroes Feinstein and Leon. The “de” was a add on by him to appear Hispanic.
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Posted by: ”’M”’ | 07 November 2018 at 07:20 PM
It’ll go into the general fund where it always winds up and be used to buy the votes of incontinent geriatrics like you dugsKKKi! Its what happens every single time.
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Robert Cross
How did De Leon do in LA?? In Imperial County? In the San Joaquin Valley? Modesto? In San Louis O?
He sure got a heck of a lot closer to Dianne Crimescene than I would have thunk four months ago. Yep, he is left of Dianne Crimescene and Di-fi is a lefty. There are no moderates left in the Dem Party Leadership.
I like those Leftinista leadership mugs in front of the camera along with Sen.Sanders (VT-Socialist) because the only moderates in the Dem Party are the old rank and file membership……whom are watching their crazy leadership go stark raving far-Left Democrat Socialist, Antifa style. The youngest and dumbest person to be elected to Congress is a pretty young thing, the Beto of the East.
Not a good idea to slam De Leon voters. That would be racist, seeing how he is popular enough among the voters to make it into the top two. Latino with illegal aliens in his own family. Are you hating on Hispanics, Robert?
Guess if one voted for DeLeon or the 85 year old Senate Intell Leaker, you are screwed either way. Everybody knew Di-Fi the Classified Docs Leaker would win. Like Newsome, why bother campaigning? Hillary thought that as well, but along came Trump.
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Posted by: Robert Cross | 07 November 2018 at 07:31 PM
Hate first and ask questions later.
You watch that kind of talk……what do you think I am…..a proglodyte democrat?
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Gregory: ‘”Cross”, aren’t you supposed to be out drowning Jews?’
At least he’ll know that they weren’t witches.
As an aside, a rather hopeful paragraph I ran into in ‘Vox’:
“By 2040, 70 percent of Americans will live in the 15 largest states. That means 70 percent of America will be represented by only 30 senators, while the other 30 percent of America will be represented by 70 senators.”
It sounds to me like the future of the Senate is not in doubt.
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Final election takeaway: All those bull pucky cries for civility and the ensuing tone it down the rhetoric has been terminated. Temp truce got crumbled up and tossed the waste basket before the voting is gone being counted. Back to normal! Bring it on you limp dick madmen.
https://www.facebook.com/Jingoists/photos/a.124859134890160/260841344625271/?type=3&theater
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“It sounds to me like the future of the Senate is not in doubt”
The Leftinistas were already taking about that just a few weeks ago….immediately after the Senate Confirmation hearings. Wonder what Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware, Maine, New Hampsire, and even Vermont think about that. :).
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re M 720pm – Well, as if to underline my point about those bamboozled by the gas tax, Mr M did himself right proud by declaring his membership in that bunch. No one should be confused about why CA’s roads are not up to par.
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Speaking of propositions, I noticed Arkansas overwhelmingly passed a voter ID law. 68% or something. Just as surprising is that 80-90% of the blacks in Arkansas voted for Voter ID. Even more surprising, in states where Voter ID has been put on the ballot, the measure passes by large majorities.
Quotes
Troll master: “In all fairness, Nancy Pelosi deserves to be chosen Speaker of the House by the Democrats. If they give her a hard time, perhaps we will add some Republican votes. She has earned this great honor!” —Donald Trump
For the record: “How can last night be considered anything but a failure for Democrats? They took the House which was inevitable, but lost seats in the Senate and watched most of their new ‘stars’ — Abrams, O’Rourke, Gillum — lose. Paltry success for the opposing party in a mid term election.” —Matt Walsh
Rubbish: “By winning the House, Democrats can now serve as a bulwark against a White House that has shown no respect for the rule of law — and no interest in bringing the country together. The Democrats’ gains demonstrate that the American people want Congress to stand up to a reckless, divisive president — and to work across the aisle to tackle tough issues.” —Michael Bloomberg
A wave of the blues: “This is heartbreaking. … It’s not a blue wave.” —CNN’s Van Jones
“This is not a blue wave.” —NBC’s Savannah Guthrie
“It is not a blue wave.” —NBC’s Chuck Todd
“This is going to be very grim.” —New York Times columnist Paul Krugman
“Tonight is feeling horrifyingly familiar.” —CNN contributor Peter Beinart
Braying Jackass: “I feel the giant stirring. The awakening is slow, but it is underway. … Torches and death in Charlottesville. Children in cages at the border. The lying, misogyny, racism and attacks on the rule of law from our president. These things poke the giant. It takes time, but the American people are stirring. They always do. And when they awaken, these fevers break very quickly.” —James Comey
Alpha Jackass: “Juanita Broaddrick is full of s—t.” —former Hillary Clinton adviser Philippe Reines, who added, “I do not think she’s telling the truth.”
And last… “In case you wonder whether #Democrats truly care about the plight of women, Keith Ellison was elected chief law enforcement official of his state.” —James Woods
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“This is heartbreaking. … It’s not a blue wave.” —CNN’s Van Jones
Thank you for that quote, Toes… it will make going to sleep that much easier tonight.
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Kind of ironic after the election of socialists –
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/trump-honors-victims-communism/
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,,,here you go you gas tax whiners,,,look for the word ‘’’firewall’’’,,,
Construction will begin on 60 miles of carpool lanes from El Dorado County through Elk Grove.
There will be major light rail improvements to connect riders between Sacramento to Folsom in just 15 minutes, down from the 30 it currently takes.
There will also be new Amtrak stations through San Joaquin County among several other projects funded from SB1.
But larger projects may be stalled with a threat of the bill being repealed.
“Most local agencies are being cautious about not spending money too far out ahead,” Carpenter added.
Voters have also passed legislation to keep that gas tax money on the roads.
“With Proposition 69, this is a firewall that really does protect that the monies that have been raised for transportation will continue to be spent on transportation only,” he said.
While it can’t go to the general fund, money could go towards other controversial endeavors such as the high-speed rail program.
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More from the Party of Peace(tm). From sfgate.com
“I called my wife,” Carlson told The Washington Post in a phone interview. “She had been in the kitchen alone getting ready to go to dinner and she heard pounding on the front door and screaming. … Someone started throwing himself against the front door and actually cracked the front door.”
https://i.redd.it/0x00j6syq0x11.jpg
Signs of the time:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/07/dutch-man-69-identifies-20-years-younger-launches-legal-battle/
https://www.dailywire.com/news/38107/girl-scouts-suing-boy-scouts-over-leaving-boy-out-hank-berrien
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Gas prices are $2.61 in Russia
Time to move?
https://russian-federation.realigro.com/for-sale/property/
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@7:35AM
https://www.gasbuddy.com/GasPrices/Michigan/Detroit
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re: Gas taxes.
It seems to me that if there were any political honesty in the Great State of California, they’d simply raise the income tax rate. It’s nicely progressive and can be ratcheted up to any desired level. No need to bother with all the fuss about sales tax, gas tax, and the umpteen other taxes, just turn the income tax knob. I’d even be tempted to get rid of property tax, just simply throw it all in one bill.
Add in the one-party state’s ideal world, things like health care for all including an unlimited number of illegal aliens, free college, and the like, and it would be interesting to see the real rates. If you don’t like it, move to Nevada.
Serious question. Why is the Blue Mob unable to put together it’s policies in a place that it utterly dominates? I mean, look at Maxine Waters, she could do it. She’d make a great Governor.
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“House Republicans had hurt themselves by allowing the number of House incumbent retirees to become larger than any time since 1930, when the Brookings Institution started tracking it. Breaking an 88-year record for retirees is a tough way to start an off-year election for the incumbent president’s party.
Despite this institutional disadvantage, President Trump’s House losses were far less than either the 54 seats President Clinton lost in 1994 or the 63 seats President Obama lost in 2010.
Measured against the Clinton-Obama standard, you would have to give President Trump an A+ for keeping Republican House losses to a minimum – and setting the stage for a Republican majority comeback in the 2020 presidential election.”
Scenes @8:27 pm: The future of the Senate is not in doubt.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/11/republican-senate-control-frightens-democrats/
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Another final takeaway: when liberals win, they just become angrier.
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Posted by: M | 08 November 2018 at 07:23 AM
dugsKKKi……question……do you ever get tired of being so obviously wrong?
https://www.sacbee.com/news/investigations/state-parks-funding/article2575290.html#storylink=cpy
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Here’s to Justice Ginsberg’s speedy recovery from her three broken ribs, having fallen in her office yesterday.
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BillT 723
What an informative article. The Senate will be the firewall to keep the mobs of the left at bay for many many years. Just as intended by the Founders. Good pickup.
Trump may get another Justice? WOW!
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Post election takeaway: Another Dem hits on WH intern. The Tomahawk chop.
https://www.facebook.com/PaulJosephWatson/videos/256988431660939/UzpfSTEyMjUyOTYyMzA6NTA5MzI1ODQ5NTgyOTE5/
Do it for the Sisterhood.
https://pjmedia.com/davidsteinberg/105-articles-cover-ilhan-omars-win-zero-cover-her-anti-semitism-finance-investigations-or-perjury-evidence/?fbclid=IwAR2_0HiyGu3vY72YCDzrr495FSg7NtAdwvpNO_-50mL-9sWq8onKQLjQIRU
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Newt’s take. Positive as well.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/newt-gingrich-the-one-big-thing-the-liberal-media-never-told-you-about-trump-and-the-midterms
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Re: gas taxes
“It seems to me that if there were any political honesty in the Great State of California,” Whoa whoa, whoa,. Now stop right there.
https://www.kcra.com/article/senator-after-state-audit-caltrans-should-cut-3-500-jobs/6424653
Honestly found in Sacramento. Jerry Brown sez….”Confronted with those ongoing safety problems, Gov. Jerry Brown famously quipped, “I mean, look, *** happens.”
http://www.independent.org/news/article.asp?id=8506
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,,,whitefishbottomdweller,,,plumbing the depths to dredge up a 2012 Sacbee article…great work!!!
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Total dollars have the democrats up a half a billion on the R’s.
https://www.opensecrets.org/overview/
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,,,bottomdweller,,,here is a different view,,,
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article142956224.html
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