Quote of the Day

Posted on 01/20/2010 at 12:21 pm by Bob Cesca

“Scott Brown Wins Mass. Race, Giving GOP 41-59 Majority in the Senate” —Village Voice headline

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  • SensesFail

    When you spin something so much that it requires you to re-define words (such as “majority”), it really just doesn’t seem to work all that well. :P

  • laddieluv

    These idiots are even re-defining the word “lie”!Sadly, the tea-baggers and the Nazis on the Fux Nooze channel will repeat this large pile of chit until even more mental midgets believe it!!!I need to go be sick.

  • http://www.twitter.com/theredmond Redmond

    HA! I had no idea the Village Voice did zingers.

  • eve

    The Village Voice is so right — unless the dems want to figure out how to play hardballwhat a headline

  • J0hnGalt

    I bet Joe Lieberman is PISSED! His ego over being the guy that could kill HCR swelled to unimaginable proportions and now he had his thunder stolen by Scott Brown…I wouldn’t be surprised to see Lieberman hold a life-long grudge against Scott Brown over this…

  • Ghetro

    Hilarious post on Gawker today about this very same semantic point. My favorite FTA:

    Oh, sure, you may hear someone say that “Democrats are back to a majority in the House, control of the White House, and 59 Senate seats” and “the Democratic Party continues to be more popular than the Republican Party” and “the President’s approval rating continues to be over 50 percent,” but none of that matters. The Republican Superminority completely controls the legislative process and they have veto authority over the president’s appointees. Mid-January special elections in individual states are actually stand-ins for public referenda on whatever issues are before the congress. A Republican victory means that Democrats must act like Republicans and either kill their health care bill altogether or scale it back considerably, because that is what the public wants, even though they keep claiming they want to bill to “go further” or “include a public option,” which 60% of Americans and 51% of Senators (a “traditional majority”) support

    http://gawker.com/5452813/the-republican-superminority

  • brutlyhonest

    And of course the democrats are tearing themselves apart – again. Sam Stein reports on a poll in MA of Obama voters who didn’t vote or voted for Brown. Rather eye-opening that they thought dumping the stuper-majority would make things better.

    And greenwald today denying that the far left had any effect on the outcome. Poor little part of the party couldn’t possibly have been a factor. And neither was nader in 2000 or 2004.

    The real problem is the gutless dems in congress that have refused to do the right thing. Now they’ll run further right and we’ll get another repug congress.

    And I thought I was frustrated the bureaucracy as a lowly CO. Why would any dem ever want to be president again?

  • J

    @Ghetro: Great piece. Pareene was on fire today.

  • eljefejeff

    Any word on whether Morning Joe, Fox News, etc, will blame today’s stock market drop on Scott Brown?

  • Irish Girl

    If you thought the last 8 years were bad, it’s only going to get better. In the good ol days we had simple doublespeak from politicians. One shining example of that glorious verbage was the naming of The Patriot Act. Now we’ve got newspeak where minority becomes majority. Welcome to a new decade of douchbaggery!Open wide America the freedom lovin’, gun totin’, border protectin’, teabaggin’ “majority” is going to make you do what they want OR ELSE. I gotta get my mind right boss!

  • roxsteady

    Jed Lewison has on article on the dailykos today titled :The new bipartisan math: 41 is greater than 59This portion really hits the nail on the head-”Instead of challenging the filibuster, Democrats have bought into the notion that you need 60 votes in the Senate to pass legislation.Bullshit.You need 50+1 votes to pass legislation in the U.S. Senate. On most measures, you can block a vote with just 41 Senators, but that is just a Senate rule, and that can be changed. Now that the GOP is abusing it in unprecedented fashion, the argument for changing the filibuster is as strong as it has ever been.But Democrats have shown zero interests in doing so. They seem to like the idea of letting 41 Republicans rule the roost. They may not agree on policy, but they sure do agree that 41 is greater than 59.At this point, it seems that the Democratic plan is to hope Republicans will work with them. Who knows? Maybe they will strike gold. But everything we’ve learned in the last year tells us that Republicans will not be willing to work with Democrats.And why should they? After a year of Limbaugh and Beck and Fox and teabagging, the Republican plan of lurching hard right and using the threat of a filibuster to block progress on just about every major issue has worked like charm. They’ve scared the Democratic Party shitless. They’ve rendered Democrats impotent.”Exactly! They should hold hearings on CSPAN laying out last year’s entire session of obstruction by these idiots and I mean every piece of legislation that the Dems tried to pass. At the end of it, they should take a vote by a simple 51 vote majority to remove the 60 votes required and put it back to a true majority of 51. If these dicks don’t like it they can try to win back the majority an put it back to 60. If they don’t do this, they’re not going to get anything done and will lose badly.

  • Heather Cochrane

    This is the golf score theory of politics. The smaller number is the winner…WHEEEEEEOf course, I’m just a girl, math is hard

  • NaturallyConservative

    (If these dicks don’t like it they can try to win back the majority…)I thought we were already doing this????

  • bibimimi

    59% of the Senate are independent dry cleaners.41% are mobsters squeezing protection $ out of them.