Election Day: 2011
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2011-11-09/election-day-2011
Morning after 2011 election analysis: Voters in states across the country weigh in on issues including union rights, health care, personhood and immigration: 2011 election results and what they may suggest ahead of next year’s presidential election.
Guests
Ron Elving
Washington editor for NPR.
Amy Walter
political director, ABC News.
Chris Cillizza
author of The Fix, a Washington Post politics blog, and managing editor of PostPolitics.com.
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I am glad something good did come out of the election of Ohio. The citizens rejected Obamacare.
meanconser: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act? I'm not yet sure how close it was but there's always a disenfranchisement factor (2001 and 2004 fiascos come to mind). Maybe some Ohioans are too busy struggling with unaffordable health care to research legislation... vs. robocalls and ads costing millions to threaten "certain 'socialist' doom" - health care other nations/states enjoy and people are jumping state for...
Yes, congratulations Ohioans!!
Those of you who buy health insurance can continue to pay for those who don't! Woohoo! Freeeeeeeedom!!
Yeah big labor has succeeded again in pushing us(as americans) into deeper debt. But at least this will hasten the end of the unsustainable policies that cause buisness owners that put their family and money at risk to make something bigger then themselves to be held hostage by the people they chose in good faith to employ. If my business ever grows to the size that a union could come in, I'd sell in a heartbeat.
There is good news for the socialists here, property tax paying Ohioans are still held hostage to corrupt and incompetent public union workers and can look forward to lay offs, higher taxes, diminished lifestyles and bankruptcy, the exodus of well paying jobs to other states is the cherry on top. WELL DONE!
Here in the other Washington Costco won their bid to take over the liquor sales in this state. Yes, $25 million dollars later they have proved the theory that a corporation can spend enough to win an election.
WAY TO GO!
Better drop their taxes so they keep employees jobs - obviously the corporate profits must be waning since they spent so much.
The Republicans made a solemn pledge: Give us the House in 2010 and We “WILL” Create Jobs. They have yet to pass a single jobs bill! Instead they have voted against or blocked:
1).The Fair Contracts Act, ending government contract preferences for corporations that ship American jobs overseas.
2).Build America Bonds to Create Jobs Now Act, leveraging public funding to strengthen the private sector, by rebuilding schools, hospitals, transit projects, roads, bridges
3).American Jobs Matter Act, gives preference in federal contracts to U.S. manufacturers that create jobs in the U.S., build inventory, and make capital improvements.
4).National Manufacturing Strategy Act, lays out a midterm and long term plan to help ensure American manufacturers can compete, grow, and thrive.
5).Advanced Vehicle Manufacturing Technology Act investing in a broad range of near term and long term vehicle technologies to improve fuel efficiency, support domestic research/manufacturing, and lead to greater consumer options in vehicle technology and fuel.
6).Currency Reform for Fair Trade Act provides our government with effective tools to address currency manipulation by countries
like China leveling the international playing field for American workers and businesses.
7).Leahy Smith America Invents Act, makes the patenting process easier
and less easily blocked or tampered by those not interested in innovation.
8).The Economic Development Revitalization Act reauthorizes/expands a long-running, consistently successful job-creation agency, the 40 year old Economic Development Administration.
9). Small Business Act Reauthorization through FY2019, the Small Business
Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs of the Small Business Administration .
Instead they’ve worked overtime to keep tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations masquerading them as benefits to “job creators”. They are incapable of governing.
WARNING>> Teece Bowman alert, liberal agitator, bait and switch, seeks to only to frustrate conservative commentators with hoax comments. Want to receive a verbal sucker punch? respond to his posts!
Talking about mandates from the voters, the Repubs did not receive a mandate in 2010. They took a marginal victory as a mandate from the voters. Winning the House while leaving the Senate alone, is not a mandate.
I agree with the guests, the one and only thing Americans are concerned about is the economy. We want our elected officals to GET SOMETHING DONE! and by 'something' I don't mean get re-elected. Stop stonewalling (both parties) everything and do the NATION'S business not your Parties (read: financial backers) business.
I want to let you know that one reason the unions and citizens of Ohio were so outraged about SB 5 is the lies that Kasich told about our benefits. We already contribute to our healthcare and our pensions. We do not recieve Social Security and pay over 10% into our state pension fund. Kasich went around the state lying about us. If they put a bill up to require that we pay into our healthcare at least 15% or at least 10% into our pensions there will not be any backlash. We already do that.
Anne
Teece,
I gather that by knuckle draggers you are referring to Monte and myself, if you have a legitimate argument than make that, but making personal attacks simply because someone has a different point of view is certainly not adding anything of value to the conversation. I respect your right to your oppinion but ask that you show a little respect to others especially when their only sin is disagreeing with you.
Even the School Board Election in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina became politicized and funded with advertisements from outside groups, even national groups.
What should be a local, non-partisan race has torn this community apart and divided neighborhoods.
Special interests now have their talons in even the most local races and chosen candidates which reflect extremist views on both sides. How can we work together when the political opposites are fueling the fire to be more divisive?
Do not normally agree with mnemecek, but in this instance I support him 100%. Personal attacks do not have any place in any political discussion
I think you all are missing the core issue in Americans’ sour feeling about their politics these days. It’s not just that most moderates were drummed out of the Republican party, or that Democrats focused on health care rather than the economy back in 2009. It’s that our system of representative government has become almost totally UNrepresentative, rife with politicians who routinely are far more interested in their own self-preservation than they are in doing things for the good of the country.
The average voter isn’t involved in party primary politics, remember. And the average voter was indeed for health care reform and even for a public option. But all these factors got distorted and essentially ruined by 1) all the money in politics and the need for pols wanting to remain in office to court that money, and 2) the same self-interested pols controlling the very things — like districting and redistricting — that keep the current status quo alive.
It’s also one reason the Occupy movements have struck a chord with the public. We want not just economic justice — we want our civic life back!
KE Lockhart
Richmond, VA
Embo,
In Poll after Poll the american people by a large margin did not want the healthcare reform as outlined in Obamacare, other than that I agree with alot of what you say concerning representation.
"It’s also one reason the Occupy movements have struck a chord with the public. We want not just economic justice — we want our civic life back!"
I agree with you, but if you want to get any part of America back, get rid of big money in politics and both political parties that are beholden to it.
The Kentucky win for Steve Breshear must also be credited to his running mate Jerry Abramson. Jerry was a very sucessful mayor in Louisville and was one of the big pushers for Breshear.
Personally I don’t care if Herman Cain had sex with twenty women and lied about it. Spending time proving/disproving this kind of thing, in the political process is a waste of time and is not the issue.
The issue is that he is a conservative and like all conservatives his policies are wrong, punitive and misguided. A man who blames unemployed people for being unemployed in a capitalist system has no understanding about the tenets of the capitalist system.
WARNING>> Teece Bowman alert, liberal agitator, bait and switch, seeks to only to frustrate conservative commentators with hoax comments. Want to receive a verbal sucker punch? respond to his posts!
@meanconserv and Monte: I'm sorry to see that you have not adopted basic skills that public employees like teachers would have taught you long ago: research and learn before making a judgement. Public employees even when including pension and health benefits are often paid nearly 7% less than private employees. See http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wage-war-state-employees-everbody/t/story.... Furthermore, yes, I would like to subsidize the health and retirement for those in my community who will resuscitate me to life if someone hits me on my bike, or who educate my children. How about let's see what happens when you have a heart attack and because of the level of pay the responder is not a qualified EMS worker to respond to your home. Also, let me put forty children in your home and see how well you prepare them to compete in the global economy.
As I already said. Good to know we're on the same page, since one of the chief messages in both my comment and in the Occupy movement itself is to do precisely that: Get rid of corporate and lobbyist money in politics as a necessary prerequisite to both real representation in government and in creating better economic justice.
Do we-the-people have the right to agree to disagree? Yes, unless it is personal? Seems both parties have pulled away from "reasonableness" in favor of re-election.
Neither 'side' wants to give. I am a rigidly flexible conservatively liberal person. I don't agree with all put forth by either side.
One thing I see as The Problem is the special interest lobbyists and unrestrained corporate donations - both of which lead to misinformation and disinformation being the driving force of legislation.
If the lobbyists are pushing an issue you agree with they are fine, if they are pushing for legislation you disagree with they are bad.
Personally I see the lobbyists as the most dangerous threat to democracy in our country.
Since the corporations are "people" for the purposes of donating to impress legislation into being why are they not considered "people" when it comes to general taxes and services?
SB5- Issue 2,This bill was from the start was a thinley vailed attempt to turn OHIO into a low performing RED Right to work state...this is a fact. Our Gov.came out and said he will" break the back" of the teachers Union.If He and his allies, BIG outside money groups-Carl Rove,Natioal Chamber of Commerce and the Koch Bros to name a few, know that organized labor both public and private are their biggest foes.Get rid of the these groups and you know the rest...The only way this bill had a chance was his introduction of yet another unDemocratic peice of legislation HB194 which severly limted voting rights... We know consessions will have to be made
in both by both private and public sector workers...this is a good start to that process.Thank you.
example: here in Toledo we privatized our trash collection laid off the lowest paid city worker.now Im now required to pay 15.00 a month more for trash collection what gives? hardly the fault of organized labor .
I listen on the Maine Public Broadcasting Network, which doesn't play your show live. If it had, I'd have called in to address the error one of your guests made, that the Republican governor of Maine was elected with a "large majority."
In fact, Paul LePage won the election with a plurality of 38%, with a lead on his nearest competitor of barely 1.5%, in a race with 5 candidates. The very idea that this accidental governor had some kind of popular mandate is beyond absurd.
Dear M. Anne Stopper:
Several Commenters mentioned Teece Bowman's use of "Knuckle Draggers", but I found no trace of his Comment until I looked in the Archive.
I would like to know if Treece's comment was deleted because of his use of "knuckle draggers" or whatever.
Will you allow me to see the whole of his comment so I can judge for myself how objectionable it was?
And how does one "Flag" a comment anyhow?
Thanks,
Monte Haun mchaun@hotmail.com
Mchaun, he said something like "I see the knuckle draggers are out in force today" I don't remember it exactly but close enough and that's all he said, it was clear it was directed towards conservative posters.
For the record I do not recommend flagging posts as offensive and I did not flag this one. Posts will apparently be pulled quite easily if someone flags it. This flagging should stop, this is a two way street I don't think most of us want to go down.
regarding two days of sexual allegations coverage:
C'mon there are lots more important things to address worldwide than bubble-headed bleach-blond stuff.
They may warrant a mention, not a whole show. Quality and News need to be upgraded.