Michael
Captain
Red Baron Fight XX and XXI Champion
Posts: 407
|
Post by Michael on Nov 2, 2010 19:26:47 GMT -5
Handel's Hallelujah Chorus sounds:FOX News can project tonight's first Republican pickup in the Senate. Republican Dan Coats will win the open Senate seat in Indiana, defeating Congressman Brad Ellsworth. This is a return to the Senate for Coats, who retired in 1998 and was replaced by Senator Evan Bayh (BYE), who dropped out this year. HA! HA! HA!
In! Your! Face! Dems!
|
|
|
|
Post by Stephen on Nov 3, 2010 10:16:02 GMT -5
As best I can tell, once all 13 retirees are removed from the equation, the US Senate has 97% of the same members it had before the election.
In the House, there seems to be 37 retirees, with 5 seats open for various reasons, plus 4 incumbents who lost in the primary and 1 more who lost in the general election.
Still looking for data, but it appears that the House has just under 98.9% of the same people in power overall, and 99.9% of those who survived their primary and sought re-election were successful.
If anyone can add anything, please do.
By the time you account for deaths and retirements, the USA has roughly the same re-election rate as the average third-world dictatorship.
Even if US elections are legitimate (and with electronic voting machines, no one will ever really know), they are of absolutely no use whatsoever in forging significant alterations in the established power structure of the nation.
|
|
|
|
Post by Stephen on Nov 3, 2010 10:28:23 GMT -5
Thank goodness Bayh is gone! We cheer in unison!
Unfortunately, he was essentially replaced by Dan Coats. Other than a brief stint at a life insurance company, Coats has never had a job in his life and has lived off money stolen from the public since the mid 1960's. He is also a criminal who consistently violates constitutional law by voting for gun control measures including the Feinstein Amendment of 1993 and the infamous Brady Bill.
Coats was also instrumental in the whitewash of the federal mass murder of the Branch Davidian church members. He also committed a criminal act by supporting the Line Item Veto Act of 1996, which gave the president the unconstitutional power to alter legislation without congressional approval.
Coats is a member of the system... the ruling class of our culture. As such, he is a friend of the "world" or "system" described in James 4:4.
I can't celebrate the election of a man like this, but I can certainly celebrate Evan Bayh's departure.
Woo hoo!
|
|
