If anything, I see the Republicans in the Senate being even more stubborn. I doubt much, if anything, is going to change. The Dems don't have enough, iirc, Senate seats to overcome a filibuster, so all they have to do is threaten and the Dems will cave yet again.

I would dearly love to see the Dems serve coffee and prune danishes before a major vote and call the Repubs bluff. That's what got me the most about the last four years. Not that they threaten to filibuster, but rather that that is all it took. A threat. Call them on that threat sometime.

Obama is still going to have to try to compromise with people that have zero interest in compromise. That word is something only the other guys do. However, he could just say Fuck It since he doesn't really have anything to lose at this point and tell Cantor and Boehner to just GTFO, like I wish he had done in 2010 with that budget debacle.

Biggest news for me is that my state made recreational use of marijuana legal! (Washington State) So finally now we might be able to grow some local hemp industries. i have use for it right here on this family land. Is a freedom plant it is, allowing me to craft products that i otherwise would have to buy from rich dicks. And my county can stop wasting money on an unpopular prohibition. i'm still gonna smoke my weed the same i ever did. Now though i might grow my own. But certainly i'm looking at growing me some straight up industrial hemp next spring!!!!

Edit: Just realized you're actually from Washington. Didn't know anyone other than Colorado was voting on that.
In that case I salute your choice.

While I am happy that Obama won, unfortunately I don't see the political inaction or hyper-partisanship changing anytime soon ... Well, we'll see: expect the worst, hope for the best! That way you'll always at the very least be pleasantly surprised. :)

Thank you.

Difficult to maintain a strong, stable third party for very long with our geographical system of voting. Eventually it dies or eclipses another party. Individual independents can win (Maine, Vermont), but we'd have to have a proportional representation system rather than a geographical system (or at least a hybrid) for a strong third party. Maybe if we had 4: left, center-left, center-right, and right it could work, but I doubt it. In the ebb and flow of politics with geographical voting the bigger party on that ideological side will eventually swallow the smaller one.

Ahh nice! Colorado wised up as well!? Legalized a plant? i'm in Washington State, but have traveled backpacked and skied in the mighty Rockies. Nice country. Am glad to hear that other states in this union have rejected prohibition and the prison industrial complex it feeds.

And now, hemp ought to be fucking legal already!!! Ahh this is huge relief to me. Why wipe our asses with our beautiful trees when we can grow a short lived weed for it. And printer paper. And clothes from monsanto and dow cotton etc. Grow our own fucking oil and fiber and food oils and more. Ahhhhh. Wheh.

Hardly surprising. Remember the 2008 election, when Romney was the lunatic fringe candidate that never stood a chance in the Primaries? Hilarious that he was now the best the Republicans had to offer.

That was a labia joke. Perhaps my delivery is off. I have been in the drinking thread and my A-game was several beers ago.

I thought it might have been, but there was enough of a chance that it wasn't that I figured I would clarify.
I guess the moral of this story is: Don't drink and post.

Congratulations for making a sane choice.
On the one hand, I agree with you that it is sad and pathetic that the best guy the Republicans could put up there was Mitt Romney.

On the other hand, I don't think Romney is fringe at all. I think he's one of the most boring moderates ever. Reminds me of John Kerry.

Who and why downrepped the OP?

Osama VS. Stormin' Mormon...

*apathetic yawn*

/embraces being socio-economic lower class not pandered to by either...

I wonder what would happen if we took all the money, effort, and attention dedicated to two-year-long election cycles and put them into other things.

Like getting LucasArts and other games on GOG.

;)

Class warfare and free abortions FTW!!!!!!