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Alabama Democrats to Barack Obama: ‘Hey, Thanks for Killing Our Party!’

Posted on | December 1, 2010 | 9 Comments

Alabama’s leading political columnist summarizes the near-total destruction:

Both our U.S. Senators are Republicans and after November we only have one Democrat in our seven member congressional delegation. . . .
With Dr. Robert Bentley’s election as our 53rd governor we have now voted for a Republican for governor in six of the last seven contests. That means that at the end of Bentley’s term in 2014, a Republican will have been governor 24 out of 28 years and a Democrat only four.
When Kay Ivey is sworn in as lieutenant governor it will be the first time since 1901 that a Republican governor has served with a Republican lieutenant governor. All seven of our constitutional offices of governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, secretary of state, state treasurer, state auditor and agriculture commissioner are held by Republicans. Eight of our nine State Supreme Court justices are Republican, as well as 12 out of 12 members of the Courts of Civil and Criminal Appeals. That makes our state judiciary 20 out of 21 Republican.
The most shocking and telling story of the 2010 tsunami is the sweeping away of Democratic control of the State Legislature. This was the last bastion of Democratic control and the Republicans took both chambers. Both the House and Senate had been overwhelmingly majority Democratic for 136 years. However, the Senate went from having 20 Democrats, 14 Republicans and one independent, to having 22 Republicans, 12 Democrats and one independent. The House went from having 60 Democrats and 43 Republicans with two vacancies to having 62 Republicans and 43 Democrats. Then four more Democrats switched parties last week making the numbers in the House 66 Republicans and 39 Democrats. This gives the Republicans a filibuster proof majority in both the House and the Senate.

And, by the way, Roll, Tide!

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  • blaster

    They say it like its a bad thing

  • http://waxingerratic.wordpress.com/ ECM

    That’s my kind of crimson tide.

  • http://www.facebook.com/annecink Anne Cink

    Way to go BAMA!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1385852725 Richard Mcenroe

    welcome to my world, said the CA republican

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  • Donspqr

    Yes, but most people here are employed by the town, city, county, state or federal gov., or are collecting a pension from one of those entities. Even the liquor store workers are government employees here. And the people here talk about government jobs the way children talk of Santa Claus and teen-age boys talk about naked women. It’s just like being in a Democrat ruled Northern state. Self-reliant? LOL

  • MM

    Oh poor baby. Cry me a river. So are you joining the millions of pREgressives that are leaving?

    Have fun in Cuba or where ever you think utopia is now. Wha??? You’re not leaving but just indulging in your usual gasbaggery?

    And if think 2010 was a bad year for dems, count on President Poopy Pants to make 2012 a whopper.

  • Ellie Light

    Obama the Kenyan is the gift that keeps on giving!

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