Paul Revere by Cyrus Dallin, North End, Boston

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Tuesday, December 6, 2022

Warnock defeats Walker, giving Democrats 51-49 majority in Senate



Decency, competence, and compassion won in GA tonight.


Thank goodness Warnock won.

The party of Trump ran a very, very poor candidate and they deserve the humiliation of losing AGAIN!

Senators Graham and Cruz merit special recognition for their cringe-worthy pandering for Walker. It did Walker not a bit of good and may have even contributed to his loss.

How long before the Trumpublican Party dumps Walker? We'll wait and see.


A friend who lives outside of Atlanta wrote this:

"Looks like the libertarian vote from November largely went to Warnock today

 


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Also, this good news:


The results of the midterm elections in Arizona have been officially certified, and Democrats will hold the governorship, secretary of state office, and both U.S. Senate seats in the state for the first time in over 70 years.

20 comments:

Anonymous said...



Trump continues to be the anvil hung around the necks of Republicans, but they refuse to extricate themselves from his heavy weight.

Good.

Let them all sink into oblivion.

Shaw Kenawe said...



"With Warnock’s re-election in the books, 2022 is the first midterm since 1934 that the party in power successfully defended every incumbent Senate seat, according to the Democrats’ Senate Majority PAC. His victory also makes him the first Southern Senate Democrat to win re-election since Mary Landrieu of Louisiana did it in 2008." --Jonathan Weisman

Les Carpenter said...

Given the American electorate's fickleness this could all change in two years. It means, i think, that democrats better produce some big inroads into resolving, or at least starting to, some of American's concerns. Like inflation and corporate greed.

skudrunner said...

This was an election of the better of the worst. This also emphasizes how toxic trump is to a candidate and to a party.

Not sure how the democrats will combat anything about inflation since it is their giveaway policy that caused a lot of it when they had control of the house and senate because they had 51 in the senate and now they have 52. Is it greed for the oil companies to make a 4% profit while the government taxes oil 15% plus. It does seem the invasion at the Southern border will continue since the pres and VP age totally ignoring it. Far more important to fly to Boston for a ceremony and to Delaware every week to rest up after a grueling week of gaffs. Guess crime doesn't matter because it is the worst in big cities and not in Delaware.

Shaw Kenawe said...

"But while Walker failed, Trump failed even worse. Unlike some races this cycle in which Trump simply endorsed a candidate, Walker was one Trump personally chose.

And even before Tuesday night, Georgia had rejected Trumpism, choosing some Republicans in November who had defied Trump’s pressure campaign to steal the 2020 election and incurred his wrath because of it.

Yes, Walker was a historically horrific candidate, but the Trump brand has also begun to sour in Georgia. This is in no way to excuse the Georgia Republicans who went along with the Walker charade, even after seeing up close that he was not only unqualified to be a senator, but likely incapable of performing the duties. They saw up close his incompetence, intellectual deficiencies and glaring defects, but they still hewed more to their partisanship than to their principles."
--Charles Blow, NYTimes

A friend from Georgia said...

We need to stop thinking and talking about Donald Trump. We also should realize that the Georgia was a lot closer than a lot of people thought but it wasn't necessarily because Trump chose Walker to run. True, Walker lives in Texas and probably had no desire to be a politician; he wanted to please Donald.

Walker gathered so many votes because GA is generally a Republican state, and even with Herschel Walker's crazy stories and probably not even knowing what a policy is, he did have that one magic ingredient which was he was likable. Stories were crazy but he always had a smile on his face to cover up his inadequacies because he knew he didn't belong.

I give him much credit for being gracious which is something Trump isn't known for and actually mentioning the Constitution when he said, the numbers don't add up.

This is more a blow to Trump than for Herschel because Herschel will always be remembered for being an outstanding football player who proved his worth on the field.

Trump, on the other hand, will only be remembered for being a despicable human being who never should have been president, and hopefully will never be president again.

Shaw Kenawe said...

skud: "This was an election of the better of the worst."

In what universe is a man who's an ordained minister with a PhD degree from Union Theological Seminary, a school affiliated with Columbia University, compared with a football hero with little education?

Here's Walker and his lies:

"In December 2021, Walker’s campaign website falsely claimed that he had graduated from the University of Georgia, the school he left after his junior season to play professionally. (Walker’s campaign deleted the claim after the Atlanta Journal-Constitution inquired about it.) In April, CNN’s KFile team revealed that Walker himself had made the false graduation claim for years – and that Walker had even asserted that he graduated in the top 1% of his University of Georgia class.

But when Walker was challenged about his graduation deception in an interview with FOX 5 Atlanta anchor Russ Spencer, Walker declared he had never once said he graduated from the University of Georgia."--CNN fact check

I'll stop right there and ask you how you can state that Warnock is nothing more than "the best of the worst?"

Warnock never held a gun to his wife's head threatening to kill her, never got a mistress pregnant and offered to abort that pregnancy, and never was an absentee father to several children. All of that is what Walker IS, not Warnock.

Your inability to see goodness in a person because of his political affiliation is appalling. To imply Warnock is "the worst" is a slander on a good man, but typical of you because you cannot admit any Democrat has any merit whatsoever in anything, even when that Democrat is compared with a deeply damaged and immoral man like Walker.

Ptooey!

Shaw Kenawe said...

Conservative Charlie Sykes: “The defeat of Mr. Walker, who was handpicked by Mr. Trump, culminated a disastrous year for the former president, who set himself up as a Republican kingmaker, only to watch his Senate candidates in Nevada, Arizona, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire — as well as his picks for governor in Arizona, Michigan, [Wisconsin], Pennsylvania and Georgia — go on to defeat in primaries or in last month’s general election.” — NYT

“Georgia may be remembered as the state that broke Trump once and for all.” — GOP flack, Scott Jennings

“I’m pissed tonight,” — Laura Ingraham

Ray said...

Trump promised his supporters they'd be tired of winning:


Kari Lake: lost
Lee Zeldin: lost
Leora Levy: lost
Mehmet Oz: lost
Don Bolduc: lost
Tudor Dixon: lost
Adam Laxalt: lost
Kim Crockett: lost
Darren Bailey: lost
Mark Finchem: lost
Blake Masters: lost
Doug Mastriano: lost
Kristina Karamo: lost
Herschel Walker: lost

Maybe he meant tired of LOSING?

Shaw Kenawe said...



Can't argue with this:

Wajahat Ali
@WajahatAli
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An overwhelming majority of white Evangelical Christians voted for Herschel Walker, a man who paid for abortions, lied, allegedly physically threatened and traumatized his wife, and fronts for Trump, a criminal vulgarian. Their religion is white supremacy, not Christianity.

Dave Miller said...

Ingraham said that she was pissed, but also had Kellyanne "Alternative Facts" Conway on her show. Commenting on the loss by Walker, Conway stated that he was the "most improved GOP candidate" running this election cycle.

And that tells you all you beed to know about the quality of candidate Walker was. Most improved? The man can barely speak in complete, intelligible sentences.

Now as to the ideas that Warnock was the least bad, the lesser of two evils, what pure unadulterated BS.

Warnock beat Kelly Loeffler in 2020... twice! She holds an MBA from DePaul, is a former CEO of Bakkt, owner of the Atlanta WNBA team and was a sitting US Senator. Shaw has already detailed a little of Warnock's bio.

I get people may not like Warnock, and/or know nothing about him yet dislike him because he's a Dem, or maybe even black. But to diminish his accomplishments in college, at his church and his time as a sitting US Senate is nuts.

And to say a man of Warnock's accomplishments, is little better than a man who never finished college, never worked to make up that education in some other way, never served as a public servant, beat and fathered children with multiple women and pressured others to have abortions, is off base.

No, Warnock has not been a saint, but only someone being purposely obtuse would say he's little better that Walker, simply because you don't like his politics.

Sounds like the lefties who said the same about John McCain and Mitt Romney when the ran against Obama. Pure politics, nothing else.

Shaw Kenawe said...


Dave M.

Skudrunner often contributes his ideas on how government can do better, and we agree with him in some of his comments.

But to label Senator Warnock as little more than "the worst" is pure character assassination.

I didn't agree with all of Sen. McCain's policies, but I'll never forget his decency in correcting that unpleasant woman who said then Sen. Obama, running against McCain for the presidency, was an Arab and couldn't be trusted, or words to that effect. John McCain told that woman "No ma'am, he's a good man, we just disagree politically." That's decency.

And remember that Mitt Romney was the governor of Massachusetts who gave us Mass. Health, the blueprint for Obamacare. Again, I didn't agree with all of his policies, but ushering in that health plan has helped millions of people.

I didn't agree 100% with our very popular Republican Governor Charlie Baker, but he is a thoroughly decent person, and I would have voted again for him had the Massachusetts Republican Party not knee-capped him by declaring they'd run a Trumper against him in the primary -- Baker decided not to run, knowing the Mass. Republican Party would go for the Trumper. The Mass. Republican Party gave up a governorship because of that! Baker, America's most popular governor, would have easily sailed to another term.

There are other Republicans we can politically disagree with, but who are not crazy:

Larry Hogan of Maryland, Mike DeWine of Ohio, Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas, Chris Sununu of New Hampshire.

I don't consider any of them "the best of the worst."

Les Carpenter said...

skud said... This was an election of the better of the worst. This also emphasizes how toxic trump is to a candidate and to a party.

Not sure how the democrats will combat anything about inflation since it is their giveaway policy that caused a lot of it when they had control of the house and senate because they had 51 in the senate and now they have 52. Is it greed for the oil companies to make a 4% profit while the government taxes oil 15% plus. It does seem the invasion at the Southern border will continue since the pres and VP age totally ignoring it. Far more important to fly to Boston for a ceremony and to Delaware every week to rest up after a grueling week of gaffs. Guess crime doesn't matter because it is the worst in big cities and not in Delaware.


First, Warnock is demonstrably more qualified. Both intellectually and morally.

Second, it emphasizes how toxic the gop leadership is to the general populace and the country.

Third, There is such a thing as obscene corporate profit skud. And when realizing a 4% profit means billions in profit that is absence. For example, ExxonMobil pulled in nearly $20 billion in profit. Chevron took in more than $11 billion, Shell $9.5 billion, BP over eight billion. If just half of those billions in profit were to be applied to help making life better for thousands our country would be a more compassionate and caring nation.

Your argument skud, if one can call it that, is simply a desire and call to return to the status quo of American ignorance and greed. The planet's two biggest problems that affect everything given the interconnectedness of everything. You might want to look up Dependent Arising. I'll make it easy for ya...

https://secularbuddhism.org/what-is-dependent-arising/#:~:text=Dependent%20arising%20says%20that%20we,that%20leads%20us%20into%20trouble.

Dave Miller said...

Shaw... exactly. And yet sadly, if we ask many on the right, yours and my mirror images, to name some like Dems, they will come up empty.

And that is the problem in America.

Yes, there are blind partisans on the left. But there are also plenty of us who have and will continue to vote for center right members of a sane GOP.

We have to wonder why there seem to be so few, at least in public, from the right who also could switch parties openly and still be considered Republicans.

possumlady said...

Dave said: "We have to wonder why there seem to be so few, at least in public, from the right who also could switch parties openly and still be considered Republicans."

I came out to DC in my early twenties in the early 80s to work for my Senator from Minnesota, who was a moderate Republican. Back in those days, I considered myself a moderate Republican since that was what my family was. Before I got the job, they asked me if I would commit to always voting a straight line Republican ticket. I told them no, I couldn't do that. They gave me the job anyway! I don't think that would EVER happen today.

Dave Miller said...

Ray... your riff on winning for Trump reminds of his pledge to only hire "the best people."

Without going through the whole sordid list of "best people" who based on performance should by themselves show Trump to be unfit to be president ever again, let me just put this name forward...

Former Press Secretary, 17 year Navy Reserve Vet and Naval Public Affairs Officer Sean Spicer...

Here's Spicer's tweet of today, Pearl Harbor Day. A tweet from a Naval Vet, one of so many "best people" Trump brought on board to work in his administration...


“Today is Dday... It only lives in infamy if we remember and share the story of sacrifice with the next generation."

Just let that sink in...

This alone speaks volumes about why we are where we are. Because a sizable group of ppl in the US somehow thought this crowd would be good for us.

Thank goodness Warnock won for the 4th time yesterday.

skudrunner said...

Ms, Shaw, I gave Warnock credit so I don't know what you are criticizing me about. He was a better choice than Walker.

Leslie, Should we reimburse companies who don't show a profit because that argument can go both ways. Companies should not make a profit that is not given to the government to distribute is part of the communist mantra. Your not a card carrying member are you?

PL, I think you are correct because now all politics are about nothing but politics and the people are not considered relevant. I do believe that the federal government or t least the politicians are America's biggest threat and it doesn't matter which party.

Shaw Kenawe said...

skud: "Ms, Shaw, I gave Warnock credit so I don't know what you are criticizing me about. He was a better choice than Walker."

This is what you wrote:

"This was an election of the better of the worst."

The meaning of that sentence is that BOTH candidates are "the worst," and that the "better" of the two WORST candidates -- was Warnock, who won.

Neither Dave M. nor I could suss out any other meaning, because there is no other meaning.

You dislike Warnock. But in no universe, except right wingers marinated in hate for any and all Democrats, would a rational person characterize him as one of the worst candidates or human beings in a Warnock/Walker race.

I think you know that, but you just couldn't find it in your heart to admit the BETTER man, not the BETTER of the WORST MAN WON. And that's a damn shame.

Open your heart to the essential goodness in people, even if their politics don't match yours.



Les Carpenter said...

skud, i have no ressponse to your inane remark. Other than i am not a communist, nor was Karl Marx (in his own words). That, and you're entitled to your opinion. As am i. And, i'm certainly happy to disagree with you on almost everything.

skudrunner said...

Stop the press, They only hold one seat