Memo to GOP on the cliff: you LOST the election

The uber conservatives fail to take into account exit polls and comments made to candidates that the majority of people want compromise and higher taxes for the 1%. It isn't just Democrats, it isn't just liberals, it is both parties.
 
Plus the president ran on it and was elected with 332 EV. The majority of the voters are behind it. Elections have consequences.
 
Stargazer said:
The layoff tsunami has just commenced. More businesses will shut down and lay off employees because losing profits or breaking even simply isn't worth the headache.

Higher unemployment, Obamacare taxes, job-killing EPA regulations, higher energy bills, sequestration layoffs, higher insurance premiums, lower wages, record deficits, weakening of the dollar, higher grocery bills.

You voted it in. You own it.

Let the misery continue. It's what the majority of people wanted.

I welcome it with open arms.

Forward!

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Nothing is more stupid than laying people off now, just because Obama won. Contrary to the right-wing gloom and doom pronouncements, absolutely nobody knows for certain what's to come in the immediate future, let alone years down the road. But go ahead, turn it into a self-fulfilling prophecy while I laugh at the absurdity of it all..
 
Dixie said:
Here's the thing, you're probably now going to get your tax increase on top wage earners, like you wanted. Then we're going to see that the maths don't add up, and we're nowhere near the level of revenue we need to pay for all the shit you've dreamed up, and THEN... we'll hear you whine and bitch about the tax increases not being enough, like the never-ending stimulus and bailout plans. You will probably also get your massive defense cuts, and we'll see the results of that didn't pan out like you anticipated either, but again, you'll cry that it's because obstructionist republicans wouldn't let you cut enough. By 2016, I predict the Democrats will be talking of a plan to physically confiscate the property of the wealthy, something the 4th Amendment expressly forbids, but that won't matter, the constitution never matters when it comes to liberal ideas. We're also going to be introduced to the VAT tax. It stands for "Value Added Tax" and is basically a national sales tax. So not only will we be paying more income tax, and the extra Obamacare tax that isn't really a tax but a penalty, but has to be called a tax to be constitutional, but we'll be asked to pay a consumer tax as well.

In a nutshell, you won an election by a few percent, not a mandate, not a landslide. You won against a moderate who the conservatives didn't turn out the vote for. That simply does not mean that conservatism is dead, or that conservatism now needs to take a back seat on the bus. If you want to live in a dream world and pretend that is the case, so be it, I can't stop you... but I am telling you right here and now, that is a fantasy you are having in the wake of your win, and you need to seriously wake the fuck up.
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Electoral votes: Obama, 332; Romney, 206. Landslide.
 
Thing1 said:
Enough with the "we refuse to raise the rates on the rich." You lost that perogative this past Tuesday. You want to dictate policy? You need to win an election. You didn't.

And enough also with the bogus claim - gleefully parrotted by your minions at Fox - that raising these rates will hurt job growth. The only independent study of the effects of increased rates on the rich, by the CBO, says that allowing the cuts for the wealthy to expire would increase the GDP and create 1.6 million new jobs.

Beyond that, only 2.5% of small business owners would face higher rates as a result of increasing those rates, according to a treasury study.

Elections have consequences. You lost. Time to compromise a little.
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given the many thanks you got, i can only conclude liberals are retarded.

the GOP did not lose idiot.
 
Haiku said:
Plus the president ran on it and was elected with 332 EV. The majority of the voters are behind it. Elections have consequences.
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how odd....you never said that when bush won...and sure are not saying it about the house. in fact, you're claiming the gop victory in the house is actually a loss.

lmao
 
Dixie said:
Here's the thing, you're probably now going to get your tax increase on top wage earners, like you wanted. Then we're going to see that the maths don't add up, and we're nowhere near the level of revenue we need to pay for all the shit you've dreamed up, and THEN... we'll hear you whine and bitch about the tax increases not being enough, like the never-ending stimulus and bailout plans. You will probably also get your massive defense cuts, and we'll see the results of that didn't pan out like you anticipated either, but again, you'll cry that it's because obstructionist republicans wouldn't let you cut enough. By 2016, I predict the Democrats will be talking of a plan to physically confiscate the property of the wealthy, something the 4th Amendment expressly forbids, but that won't matter, the constitution never matters when it comes to liberal ideas. We're also going to be introduced to the VAT tax. It stands for "Value Added Tax" and is basically a national sales tax. So not only will we be paying more income tax, and the extra Obamacare tax that isn't really a tax but a penalty, but has to be called a tax to be constitutional, but we'll be asked to pay a consumer tax as well.

In a nutshell, you won an election by a few percent, not a mandate, not a landslide. You won against a moderate who the conservatives didn't turn out the vote for. That simply does not mean that conservatism is dead, or that conservatism now needs to take a back seat on the bus. If you want to live in a dream world and pretend that is the case, so be it, I can't stop you... but I am telling you right here and now, that is a fantasy you are having in the wake of your win, and you need to seriously wake the fuck up.
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You loved Romney before the election.

I see that reality still hasn't sunk in. No matter how you spin it, this was a devastating election for conservatives. To actually lose ground in the Senate was astounding. With FL being called for Obama, the map looks horrific for the GOP now, and will only get worse if they do not adapt.

This election was absolutely a mandate, and it's absurd that the GOP is threatening to draw a line on taxes for the wealthy. For what purpose? There is no empirical evidence that this will cost jobs, and in fact, the CBO study says it will add them. They just want to reward their big donors, at the expense of the other 98%.
 
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