Voting Day in the United States

[dismalist]

Looks like the Republicans got the House. Here is Reuters https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republicans-one-seat-away-winning-house-us-midterm-vote-2022-11-16/

The headline laments divided government. I'd bet on gridlock, which I wholeheartedly welcome!

Cheers!

A dissenting economic-based opinion:https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/17/opinions/midterm-elections-us-economy-zandi/index.html

Oh, pshaw! There won't be a big fiscal expansion or contraction, which is fine, while the Federal Reserve does it's thing with interest rate, which is important and has nothing to do with the government in the immediate future.

More fundamentally, all this economic claptrap from journalists appears to believe that we are in a Great Depression, and that macro policy is what matters. We are not in a Great Depression!

[jimbogumbo]

More fundamentally, all this economic claptrap from journalists appears to believe that we are in a Great Depression, and that macro policy is what matters. We are not in a Great Depression!

The link I posted was essentially quotes from a Moody's analyst though. Not a journalist.

[dismalist]

More fundamentally, all this economic claptrap from journalists appears to believe that we are in a Great Depression, and that macro policy is what matters. We are not in a Great Depression!

The link I posted was essentially quotes from a Moody's analyst though. Not a journalist.

Moody's analysts are trying to make money. It looks to me like merely blabbing about these things is sufficient. Maybe it's just entertainment.

I repeat: We are not in a Great Depression.

[jimbogumbo]

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[mahagonny]

Looks like the Republicans got the House. Here is Reuters https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republicans-one-seat-away-winning-house-us-midterm-vote-2022-11-16/

The headline laments divided government. I'd bet on gridlock, which I wholeheartedly welcome!

Cheers!

'A good day in government isn't getting a good thing done. It's preventing a bad thing from being done.' - Bob Dole

Pelosi all done. Where's my martini shaker?

[Sun_Worshiper]

Republicans in the House getting right to it:

"Monday, right-wing lawmakers including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia extracted a promise that their leaders would investigate Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Justice Department for their treatment of defendants jailed in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol."

I'm sure this is exactly what the median voter wants.

[mahagonny]

Republicans in the House getting right to it:

"Monday, right-wing lawmakers including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia extracted a promise that their leaders would investigate Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Justice Department for their treatment of defendants jailed in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol."

I'm sure this is exactly what the median voter wants.

No, they want more well known racist black violent career criminals released on $1000 cash or no cash bail so they can drive their SUV into crowd of white people a week after running over a relative with that same vehicle, causing seven fatalities and dozens of injuries. And then they want to read the press and wokeademics describing the massacre as 'an out-of-control vehicle accident.' And that way we know we are striving for equity (fairness). Waukesha, WI

[mahagonny]

con't

[taking a break from sarcasm]

Things are happening already.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2022/11/17/pa-house-impeaches-philadelphia-da-over-his-policies-that-spiked-crime-n2616093

[Langue_doc]

In other news, https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/2022/11/16/madison-cawthorn-vacates-offices-before-end-of-term-congress-house-of-representatives/69653520007/

Madison Cawthorn vacates offices before end of term; constituents' calls go unanswered

[Wahoo Redux]

they want more well known racist black violent career criminals released on $1000 cash or no cash bail so they can drive their SUV into crowd of white people

True colors showing here, my poor friend Mahag?

[Sun_Worshiper]

Mahagonny, get help. I mean that sincerely.

[apl68]

Again, I'm glad that the voting, whatever the results, went as smoothly as it did.  That's a great relief right there.  Hopefully future elections will occur at a lower temperature.

[Wahoo Redux]

Again, I'm glad that the voting, whatever the results, went as smoothly as it did.  That's a great relief right there.  Hopefully future elections will occur at a lower temperature.

That's up to the GOP.  MTG is already frothing about investigations and impeachments.

[Puget]

Seems like this is an optimal political outcome for Biden:

Dems won't be able to pass anything that the electorate would see as too far out there, but Biden and Schumer can still stack the judiciary in a way that will make the base happy, while maybe passing some bipartisan legislation here and there. In the meantime, Rs in the house will constantly remind the electorate how crazy they are, taking brief breaks from that to fight with one other. And even if McCarthy is somehow able to keep his colleagues from acting on their own worst impulses (unlikely), Trump will be in full swing.

Biden really couldn't ask for a better set-up for the 2024 election (assuming he plans to run).

Yep, Rs will have the mirror image of the narrow majority Ds have had for the past 2 years, and it was only the remarkable caucus wrangling skills of Speaker Pelosi that made it possible to do anything with a narrow majority in a big tent. To put it mildly, McCarthy is no Pelosi, and a lot his members are running around naked outside the tent.

[Sun_Worshiper]

Again, I'm glad that the voting, whatever the results, went as smoothly as it did.  That's a great relief right there.  Hopefully future elections will occur at a lower temperature.

Agreed. This was a good election, all things considered: Election deniers lost and, in most cases, conceded, there was no political violence and little voter intimidation, and turnout was high, suggesting that policies that many considered to be voter suppression did not have that effect.