Emotional reaction to the US electoral result

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by Japher
MtG forgets about Reagan?

Reagan helped keep a Dem majority in Congress for most of his two terms. That way, he could take credit for successes and blame the Dems for any failures, but Bushie has the whole banana now.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi


You mean good ol' Hoover?

20 years is not quite 50, MtG.

Even when there were Republican Presidents, they were stuck with Democrat Congresses and legislative majorities in most state legislatures, so those Republican Presidents had to kind of do "Republican Lite"

[Tattila the Hun]

Puzzled...

[KrazyHorse]

The Euros seem puzzled. A good dose of US media would go a long way toward explaining things.

[Japher]

MtG thinks that a repug magority in the house is the blame of the president, obviously. He also thinks the last time a repug majority and reug prez coexisted bad things happened. He is, however, forgetting the policy precedes affect, sometimes by years if not a decade.

[DanS]

MtG: Don't forget that the Republicans had the presidency, House, and Senate briefly under Eisenhower.

[Kuciwalker]

"Impotent" is closest to "despaired".

[DanS]

A good dose of US media would go a long way toward explaining things.

I wonder how realistically the media in their own countries portrayed the race. Did they spend their time blowing smoke up their readers'/viewers' asses or did they give the straight dope?

[Theben]

Originally posted by Japher
MtG thinks that a repug magority in the house is the blame of the president, obviously. He also thinks the last time a repug majority and reug prez coexisted bad things happened. He is, however, forgetting the policy precedes affect, sometimes by years if not a decade.

IOW, there's no standing situation in politics that can't be excused away.

[WotanAnubis]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
The Euros seem puzzled. A good dose of US media would go a long way toward explaining things.

You mean the much-maligned "liberal media" who's constantly pushing pinko left-wing ideals onto the public?

Or are we talking FOX here?

[Ben Kenobi]

Even when there were Republican Presidents, they were stuck with Democrat Congresses and legislative majorities in most state legislatures, so those Republican Presidents had to kind of do "Republican Lite"

DanS made my point for me on Eisenhower.

Though you raise an interesting point.

Will Dubya be the Roosevelt for the right?

Will people fifty years from now, vote for the party of Dubya? Will they be called Dubya Republicans?

[KrazyHorse]

Any of it.

CNN is less likely to have you twitching on the ground in hysterics though.

[WotanAnubis]

Originally posted by DanS
I wonder how realistically the media in their own countries portrayed the race. Did they spend their time blowing smoke up their readers'/viewers' asses?

From what I could gather, roughly speaking:
It was a close race
Republicans claim Bush is a good leader and Kerry is a flip-flopper who'll open America up to further terrorist attacks
Kerry says he's not Bush and he's got some actual plans


So, how far from the truth am I?

[Ben Kenobi]

Y'all can see my account on FFZ if you want the answer to your question DanS.

They were very good, until they were looking at a Dubya victory.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by DanS
MtG: Don't forget that the Republicans had the presidency, House, and Senate briefly under Eisenhower.

I thought those rotated - that the House and Senate majorities were off from each other by two years. Either way, that was just a bump on the Dem road of Congressional dominance, just like a possum carcass.