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http://a2.img.talkingpointsmemo.com/image/upload/c_fill,fl_keep_iptc,g_faces,h_365,w_652/uarlt53wuevzkvoqzrpb.jpgI think they will do a good job of making Somalia look like a developed nation next to us. I wonder how Americans will like no social services, famine I am very curious how far down the rabbit hole if not to national suicide our fellow countrymen will take us.
WASHINGTON (AP) Republicans will hold at least 246 House seats come January, according to election results Saturday, giving the GOP a commanding majority that matches the party's post-World War II high during Democratic President Harry S. Truman's administration.
The GOP retained control of two seats in runoffs in Louisiana, expanding the advantage for Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, who can afford defections from his increasingly conservative caucus and still get legislation passed. Combined with the Republican takeover of the Senate, Congress will be all-GOP for the final two years of President Barack Obama's second term.
The latest count gives the GOP a 246-188 majority. One race, in Arizona, is still outstanding.
In Louisiana's 5th Congressional District, which extends from the state's northeast into parishes bordering Mississippi, physician Ralph Abraham defeated Jamie Mayo, the Democratic mayor of Monroe. The incumbent, Vance McAllister, had failed to advance to the runoff. Elected less than a year ago, the married McAllister saw his career undermined after a video surfaced earlier this year showing him kissing another woman.
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belzabubba333
(1,237 posts)former9thward
(31,804 posts)Now only 20-30 are.
merrily
(45,251 posts)New census = still more gerrymandering.
Democrats (who put ACORN out of business) should be organizing a massive voter registration effort. The Republicans sure are doing that. All those Tea Party applications to the IRS that were making headlines a while ago were about registering and educating voters. Where is our highly organized, nationwide counter to that?
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)That majority?
The media continues to lies.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)The majority who can identify the Three Stooges easier than the three branches of government...more of the seven dwarves than Supreme Court justices...that Saddam was responsible for 9/11...
Our ignorance makes us our own worst enemy.
Autumn
(44,762 posts)"Given a choice between a fake Republican and a real one, the public will choose the real Republican every time." Harry Truman
And that is just what happened. The truth bears fruit. It's ugly but that's just what happened.