Republicans Think They Won a Mandate, but Did They?

On the federal level this election was about stopping the obama and pelosi agenda. The only way to do that was to vote republican. Two years of "no" is better than two more years of "yes" to every spending program out there. On the local level, in our state, it was definitely a mandate for republicans. The dems have been in control of everything for many years and we are $3 billion dollars in debt. The people in our state want the republicans to try and clean up the mess left by the state dems. Our governorship went republican along with the state legislature. We are proudly no longer a "blue" state. The republicans need to get their act together before 2012 and have something solid to sell to the voters so obama doesn't get in by default. I hear pelosi's victory party this past week was once again on OUR dime. Shame on those dems.

They have not won anything, just this year we had too many poll watchers, and less Acorn groups helping than in the past to get our extra votes in, once the presidential election comes into play we will have regained and out purchased the votign power of the Republican party. Socializm will not be out played by some election, we will suceed at all cost.

Let the market rule. If it benefits business profits to pollute, then pollution is ok. If meat packers do not get inspected and people die, it is ok. If highway bridges deteriorate and fall into rivers and canyons it is only right and proper. The only goal is to stop spending. If this hurts this Country, so be it. It is the will of the people.

Poker is the answer. If the Republicans had to "show their hand" after all the betting is done, we could solve some problems. Instead, when asked for the answers they are allowed to walk away, claiming to have won. For example, when a discussion on the deficit takes place, Dems use numbers and math. Repubs just claim they are right, no matter what the numbers(or score) say. Don't just say "You are wrong. I'm right, but don't ask me to prove it. I just am." In poker, that isn't good enough. Nobody allows people to play like that. Why don't the news writers simply use headlines the way repubs do-"Republicans Refuse To Answer!!"-over and over. That IS what they do, so say so, and stop acting like refusing to answer is OK. Keep in mind that nobody on the Dem side thought the Repub idea to say "the stimulus failed" before it was enacted was correct. Yet people believed it. We just can't bet on the American people seeing through lies and deception, so it has to be pointed out. Tell the American people you can't get an interview with so and so, because they refuse to answer questions. Period. In BIG headlines. Over and over. Don't invite them to the poker table until they play by the same rules everybody else does.

Well, I guess if you call being rational, logical ,responsible and operating in a more financially sound manner , a mandate then, yes....hell yes.

Mandate? Landslide? Shellacking?? If you look at the popular vote for Democrats and Republicans for all House races across the country: the Democrats got about 36 million or 47% of the votes compared to 53% for Republicans - this despite high unemployment (and many races where Republicans ran unopposed, especially in highly-gerrimandered Texas). If 4 in 100 voters had gone the other way, the Democrats would have won this popular vote. This was hardly the "landslide" reported by the media, the "mandate" that Republicans are claiming, or the "shellacking" that the overly-contrite President called it. For complied House election data, see http://fairsharetaxes.org - click on "2010 Election." I voted for the President and the Democrats to fight for us, the bottom 95%. The top 5% have an army of lobbyists and the entire Republican party fighting for them. Why can't the Democrats push through the tax cuts for the only bottom 98% (or 95%) in their lame-duck session? The last time I checked they still hold large majorities in both Houses. They have the votes in the lame-duck House and can maneuver in the Senate to circumvent the filibuster - that's the way the Republicans passed the original Bush tax cuts. It just takes a little guts. Then if the Republicans want to pass additional tax cuts for the top 2%, let them bring this to floor and explain it to the people in 2011.

I am a paying member of AOL, and I will demand that they get rid of such "authors" as this who print such slanted articles. We all now know who are the rabid liberals, they have come out whining in droves since the majority has spoken with their overturning of the House.

Obama Pelosi did not ask or want what the american people wanted only what they want as eletists. Now Americans have spoken but I doubt if it will make a difference these next two years. 2012 will really make the difference. They are not stupid.

Yaw not 2 smart air ya? It has nothing to do with Racism. It has to do with Cost and right and wrong with our laws. Who will pay for it? Everyone? That is Socialism and That is not economic freedom. That is not America, or what this country is supposed to be about. There are plenty of countries to move to if you do not like the way this one is built. Why do people insist on changing the only (now questionably) free country to be like everywhere else. Do you people even know what this country stands for? We are not a Democracy we are a Constitutional republic. If you do not believe me say the pledge of allegiance. Under democracy there is too much legal corruption. Example: If 51% of the population voted to exterminate all the American Indians it would be law. That is how Democracy works. Power to the Masses even if it is unethical. Our founding fathers (yes our) were wickedly smart, they developed a Constitution and laws that keep power to the public, but cannot be abused IF WE FOLLOW THEM. I am an unemployed Libertarian American Indian with NO insurance. I am on payments from my last hospital bill, I am not asking you to pay for it, so do not ask me to pay for yours. So go ahead and attack me too. You people out there that take sides without looking at your own party are just mad at life itself. And by the way everyone has health care in an emergency.

Apparently Jill Lawrence has a problem with english language comprehension. Two leading Republicans, John Boehner and Marco Rubio, both said that the GOP should not take this election as a mandate. How much clearer can they be?...