First, they lost the reliably Republidolt seat of former Speaker of the
House Dennis Hastert.
Then they got their GOPhool ***** kicked in a LA district the Republidolts
have held since 1974.
This week the GOPricks will lose another long time Republidolt seat in
Mississippi.
Three special elections, three big losses for the GOPhools, all in
reliably
GOPhool districts, to boot.
Every metric indicates we're going to see a bloodbath this fall. And it
couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch of hypocritical assholes...
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SPECIAL ELECTIONS
As Losses Mount, GOP Begins Looking in the Mirror
By Paul Kane
Wa****ngton Post Staff Writer
Sunday, May 11, 2008; Page A13
Since losing 30 seats and their 12-year stranglehold on power in 2006,
House
Republicans have kept asking themselves the same question: Can it get any
worse?
On Tuesday, they may get another answer they won't like.
....
The stakes in the 1st District special election couldn't be higher,
strategically or symbolically. The loss of a traditionally GOP seat to a
Democrat would be the third in a special election this spring and the
second
in the Deep South after the May 3 victory of Rep. Don Cazayoux (D-La.).
Rank-and-file Republicans say that would force a day of reckoning for
their
leader****p.
....
Just when Republicans thought they had seen everything, Rep. Vito Fossella
(R-N.Y.) admitted Thursday that he has a 3-year-old daughter from a
long-running extramarital affair with a retired Air Force officer.
Fossella,
who is married and has three young children at home in Staten Island, is
also facing drunken-driving charges in Virginia. GOP strategists are
debating whether he should resign or announce that he will not seek
reelection in November.
Fossella's resignation would mean another special election, this one in
the
nation's most expensive media market.
....
Democrat Travis Childers, a court officer in Prentiss County, came within
a
few hundred votes of outright victory in the first round of
special-election
balloting April 22, prompting national Republicans to send out an SOS for
Tuesday's runoff. Davis, the NRCC and conservative allies have flooded the
airwaves with a multimillion-dollar campaign that tries to negatively tie
Childers to Pelosi and Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).
This is the second special election this month in which House Republicans
have tried to turn the race into a referendum on a Democratic candidate's
ties to Obama. The strategy was unsuccessful in Louisiana
....
House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), in a private meeting with
Republicans on Tuesday, admitted the limitations of the anti-Obama
strategy
and tried to sell his troops on an Obama-like message of "change" as their
only hope for success.
....
Hensarling, in just his third term, is part of a group of mostly younger
conservatives who are pu****ng for a more aggressive agenda that rejects
in***bency perks such as multimillion-dollar earmarks. He endorsed the
call
for even deeper introspection followed by a sharp new message if Greg
Davis
loses Tuesday.
"I don't want to tap dance 'The Good ****p Lollipop,' " he said. "But I
don't
want to crawl into a fetal position."
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Dance, crawl, curl up into a fetal position and such your thumbs, if it
makes you feel better. It won't make any difference...
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Welcome to reality. Enjoy your visit. Slow thinkers keep right.
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Why are so many not smart enough to know they're not smart enough?
http://www.apa.org/journals/features/psp7761121.pdf
© 1999 by the American Psychological Association
December 1999 Vol. 77, No. 6, 1121-1134
Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own
Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-*****sments
Justin Kruger and David Dunning
Department of Psychology
Cornell University
ABSTRACT:
....the authors found that participants scoring in the bottom quartile
on tests of humor, grammar, and logic grossly overestimated their test
performance and ability. Although their test scores put them in the
12th percentile, they estimated themselves to be in the 62nd.
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