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The Sweet Hangover of Victory

Posted on | November 5, 2014 | 59 Comments

Tuesday’s Republican tsunami left Harry Reid disgraced and desperate to rescue some semblance of Democrat relevance:

Reid has run the US Senate for the past eight years like a dictatorship, steadily eroding minority privileges to the point where Republicans couldn’t offer amendments or put up any significant resistance to Barack Obama’s radical appointments, unless Democrats forced Reid’s hand on either score. After watching his party lay a historic egg in the midterms — the size of which is still not yet fully known — Reid tried spinning the results as a mandate for the kind of compromise that he’s blocked ever since winning control of the upper chamber in 2006 . . .

Read the whole thing at Hot Air. The aftermath of a wave election always involves a contest by partisans and pundits to seize control of the narrative, to tell us What It Really Means, although usually the truth can only be known with the advantage of hindsight.

(Left to right: That’s Elise Stefanik, the Republican who last night became the youngest woman ever elected to Congress; Mia Love, who last night became the first black Republican woman ever elected to Congress; and Joni Ernst, the Republican who last night was elected Iowa’s first-ever female U.S. Senator.)

Sandra Fluke got beat and, meanwhile, back at the feminist salt mines . . .

Christian Post columnist Rachel Alexander had some delightfully blunt truths about the “catcalling” video that went viral last week:

The truth is, catcalls bother feminists because they’re jealous. One of Rush Limbaugh’s 35 Undeniable Truths of Life is that “feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society.” Feminists are highly critical of women who choose to make a significant effort to look attractive. If they can stop men from complimenting pretty women, they won’t have to observe it and feel pangs of jealousy.
The other dynamic at play here is feminists want to make men just like women. They don’t want to acknowledge there are differences between the genders . . .

Feminists reacted by going completely berserk — even more berserk than usual. There’s crazy feminism and kuh-RAY-zee feminism.

Today I’ve been chilling out most of the day, watching MSNBC and laughing. Elections come and go, but the Culture War never ends.

 

Category: Election, Feminism, Harry Reid, Senate

Comments

59 Responses to “The Sweet Hangover of Victory”

  1. Bob Belvedere
    November 5th, 2014 @ 8:20 pm

    Recharge them batteries, Breeze. We’ve got a whole lotta work ahead.

    OUTLAW!

  2. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    November 5th, 2014 @ 8:49 pm

    Stacy, ye of little faith oh we will be lucky if we get 50 last night, McCain. The wave arrived.

    Of course the real issue is making sure the GOP leadership does not sell us all out!

  3. robertstacymccain
    November 5th, 2014 @ 8:54 pm

    Yeah, I was pessimistic. The Democrats clearly never saw the wave coming, and neither did I. Probably it was the same thing as in 2012, but in the opposite direction: The poll samples were adjusted to reflect an expect turnout model that did not reflect who actually voted Tuesday.

  4. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    November 5th, 2014 @ 8:59 pm

    I have to say, I followed Nate Silver on this and while he also got snookered on the spread he played it straight (well at least with the polls). He noted that most pollsters tend to fix what they got wrong last time and often over compensate (or fail to address an issue that they did not foresee) so you tend to get polls favoring the GOP one cycle and the Democrats the next.

  5. joethefatman
    November 5th, 2014 @ 9:19 pm

    Indeed.

  6. joethefatman
    November 5th, 2014 @ 9:24 pm

    It’s been a fun day of news reading. The cherry on the top, for me, though was Governor-Elect Abbott saying that if a bill is passed for open carry, He’ll actually sign it. Promises made during a campaign are rarely even remembered let alone reinforced after the election.

  7. Buffalobob
    November 5th, 2014 @ 9:45 pm

    So what school does the former Ravens cheerleader teach in?

  8. DeadMessenger
    November 5th, 2014 @ 10:04 pm

    Which kind of goes to show the effectiveness and accuracy of polls. I mean, we already know that fully 89.4% of statistics are pulled out of someone’s bum anyway.

  9. Kirby McCain
    November 5th, 2014 @ 10:05 pm

    Democrats had nothing to run on except a long list of failures.

  10. DeadMessenger
    November 5th, 2014 @ 10:11 pm

    Coming up on a couple of hundred years worth at this point, isn’t it?

  11. DeadMessenger
    November 5th, 2014 @ 10:12 pm

    It was nice of Stacy to include the handy red/blue map, so
    I can clearly see the places I never want to live.

  12. Quartermaster
    November 5th, 2014 @ 10:16 pm

    Those are some pretty wussy looking men in the poster. Now, if they wuz women, I’d say they be mighty cute! But, since they’re men, old, and white to boot, I won’t say that as y’all would get the impression I’m batting for the other team.

  13. Quartermaster
    November 5th, 2014 @ 10:17 pm

    I’d heard that something like 95% of all statistics are made up at the time.

  14. Quartermaster
    November 5th, 2014 @ 10:19 pm

    At one time they were the conservative party. The GOP has always been leftist, but now the Dims makes the GOPe look conservative by comparison. They tend to make Hitler, Stalin and Mao look like well intentioned moderates these days.

  15. Quartermaster
    November 5th, 2014 @ 10:22 pm

    Yeah! Blue = insane peoples live here.

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  17. Fail Burton
    November 5th, 2014 @ 10:43 pm

    “It (rape) is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear… Rather than society’s aberrants or ‘spoilers of purity,’ men who commit rape have served in effect as front-line masculine shock troops, terrorist guerrillas in the longest sustained battle the world has ever known….when men raise the spectre of the unknown rapist, they refuse to take psychologic responsibility for the nature of his act.” – Against Our Will, by feminist Susan Brownmilller, 1975

  18. RS
    November 5th, 2014 @ 11:12 pm

    I’d be happier if I didn’t think that the One will try to destroy the country on his way out. He obviously couldn’t give two poops about his fellow Democrats. Why should we believe he cares about the republic? Après moi, le déluge.

  19. Zohydro
    November 5th, 2014 @ 11:13 pm

    Fully 50% of the people I know are below average…

  20. RS
    November 5th, 2014 @ 11:15 pm

    But 50% of the time, the polls are right every time.

  21. Zohydro
    November 5th, 2014 @ 11:30 pm

    Either they’s purty, or they ain’t! Which is it?

  22. Zohydro
    November 5th, 2014 @ 11:31 pm

    McDonogh School, Owings Mills, Maryland…

  23. Guest
    November 5th, 2014 @ 11:51 pm

    AHAHAHAHAHAH!

    The young, brown, conservative male here who is too scared to publicly label himself as one, lest he be lynched by his “friends”, has been having a most amazing last month as the elections, #Gamergate, #Notyourshield, and #DropDunham show him that all not lost yet, and indeed, there is still a glimmer of hope. For anyone else in my shoes: Keep your eyes on the prize.

  24. Jeanette Victoria
    November 6th, 2014 @ 12:00 am

    Wait for it cries of “Christian Sharia Law’

  25. ChandlersGhost
    November 6th, 2014 @ 12:22 am

    The wheels of the gods do seem to be grinding away in many regards.

  26. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    November 6th, 2014 @ 1:35 am

    That photo kinda suggest her to be a freaky sex offending librarian type.

  27. Fail Burton
    November 6th, 2014 @ 1:58 am

    Everyday Feminism would be more accurately titled Everyday Psychotic Breaks With Reality Is Actually the Shortcomings of Men, Mother Nature and the Solar System.

  28. concern00
    November 6th, 2014 @ 2:06 am

    Twitter seems to be overrun by left wing angst. Denial, disappointment, humiliation…and more denial, much more denial.

    “This is not the world as I imagined it to be!”

  29. Adobe_Walls
    November 6th, 2014 @ 2:34 am

    A lot of this is because ”pundits” apply ”national” trends to states and localities where they don’t. The notion that Hagan was swept into office by the 08 Obama juggernaut was never entirely true. She beat Elizabeth Dole by over 350,000 votes. Obama only won in NC by 14,000. Almost all of her margin of victory didn’t vote for Obama. 08 was as much a Dole loss as a Hagan victory just as 2014 was as much a Hagan loss as a Tillis victory. Democrats in NC are outraged at the state Republican state legislature and the Republican Gov. So Hagan ran against state government. Seemed like a good idea at the time, but the problem is the state legislative offices were on the ballot. You didn’t need to vote for Hagan to vote for or against the state Republicans. In the end that’s all she had, the rest was just blather.

  30. DeadMessenger
    November 6th, 2014 @ 3:18 am

    No objection to actual Muslim Sharia law though, we notice.

    Conservativism = Christian Morality = Bad
    Muslim Sharia = Diversity + Tolerance = Good

  31. Adobe_Walls
    November 6th, 2014 @ 3:32 am

    Those district break down maps tell you alot more than that. They don’t just tell you about the district electorate They explain why state wide elections turn out the way they do. It might be tempting tempting to conclude Georgia is a deep red state. It’s not, but it does have more deep red districts than deep blue districts. Seven of Georgia’s 14 districts had unopposed candidates including the shiny new 14th district, four Republican and three Democratic out four Dem districts. The only successful opposed Dem won again in the GA 2nd (Sanford Bishop) with 59%. The Republicans (Allen) flipped the 12th winning by 54.8/45.2 over the incumbent (John Barrow). That’s the lowest Republican US house victory margin. The rest range from 61.2% (1st district) to 80.7% for Collins in the 9th who is that districts first time incumbent. Graves won the new 14th created in 2012 and ran unopposed this year. I found that astounding.

  32. DeadMessenger
    November 6th, 2014 @ 3:32 am

    Now comes amnesty, carbon tax and a whole slew of other executive orders, funded by money extorted from me at literal gunpoint by the IRS. While the shiny, new Republican majority cries, “Nothing to see here, move along” or “We’ll write a better amnesty plan and carbon tax! Viva la republic!”

    Meanwhile, I’ll start looking around for a rent controlled apartment in the ‘hood, abandoning my house to the bank, who will sell it to a 3-generation family of 25 illlegal aliens for a fraction of its value. I’m super excited about that.

    Friggin’ politicians.

    I think of Jesus’ story of the Rich Man and Lazarus, where Abraham and old Lazarus are in the equivalent of Farmville looking across the chasm at the Rich Man, who begged for a single drop of water. Tales like that from the Bible are the only thing that keeps me going at this point, really.

  33. DeadMessenger
    November 6th, 2014 @ 3:38 am

    You’re right about that. Knowing what I now know, if Hitler were on a ballot running against the current Occupant-in-Chief, I’d have to stop and think. Probably at that point, I’d write in Ron Paul.

  34. Adobe_Walls
    November 6th, 2014 @ 4:35 am

    Not even this would get the point across to Obama.

  35. Zohydro
    November 6th, 2014 @ 4:41 am

    It’s her mug shot…

    When she was 38, she was the oldest cheerleader in the NFL at the time!

  36. Jeanette Victoria
    November 6th, 2014 @ 8:15 am

    Ayup progressives baffle me they cry about the “war on women” but say NOTHING about Muslim honor killings right here in the US!

  37. Bob Belvedere
    November 6th, 2014 @ 8:48 am

    It is well that politics is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.

  38. Zohydro
    November 6th, 2014 @ 8:59 am

    Now that right there—that’s just offensive!

  39. K-Bob
    November 6th, 2014 @ 9:10 am

    I’m going to go out on a limb and simply guess that the remaining Democrat seats in congress are held mostly by old white men.

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  41. Finrod Felagund
    November 6th, 2014 @ 11:57 am

    Not in the South. Barrow in Georgia was the last white male Democrat in the South in the House, and he lost.

  42. Jeanette Victoria
    November 6th, 2014 @ 1:29 pm

    Heh and there you have it. Liberal loon, they put their bedroom on main street and we aren’t suppose to notice. http://goo.gl/KtjAem

  43. Quartermaster
    November 6th, 2014 @ 1:40 pm

    But delightful, in an offensive sort of way.

  44. Quartermaster
    November 6th, 2014 @ 1:41 pm

    If it existed, Christian Zealot law would be far better than Leftist Sharia, which they are trying to force down our throats with great zeal.

  45. Quartermaster
    November 6th, 2014 @ 1:42 pm

    Depends what the meaning of is is.

  46. Quartermaster
    November 6th, 2014 @ 1:45 pm

    Given the type of people a Donkey associates with, that is not surprising.

  47. Quartermaster
    November 6th, 2014 @ 1:45 pm

    But, there are people that just lurves them some politics.

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  49. Jeanette Victoria
    November 6th, 2014 @ 3:02 pm

    On twitter the expression “christopath” is being use, my goodness how these folks hate

  50. Quartermaster
    November 6th, 2014 @ 3:05 pm

    The one thing that is common to leftists of all stripes is hate. To be quite blunt, they are full of the devil and his lies.