Cory Gardner and Thom Tillis won by running to the center; will they stay there?

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“I think for the most part, what I see from the folks who are opposing our agenda is whining coming from losers,” Tillis told Politico when asked about the current political environment. “They lost, they don’t like it, and they are going to try to do everything they can to, I think, cast doubt on things that I think are wise and that the average citizen when they know what we’re doing, I think, like it.”

The Republicans' behavior in the NC Legislature since 2011 makes more sense in this context.

Those stupid rubes back home just don't understand that letting Duke Energy dump toxic chemicals where they please is for their own good.

Stop trying to make the Republicans seem arrogant. Since Tuesday, this forum has been full of people saying those "stupid rubes back home" can't pick their own Senator/Governor. Or maybe a few more rounds of "Junk Election!" and "Junk Country!" will get the point across. The left, especially the Atlas Left, absolutely oozes arrogance and condescension. Don't pretend otherwise.

EDIT: Sorry about the triple post. I accidentally resubmitted it a few times.

Today I would rather be British, Or Irish, Or French. Or Belgian. Or Swiss. Or Dutch. Or German. Or Danish. Or Norwegian. I had ancestors coming from all those countries to what would be the United States. Polish? Sure, but I have some question of where the ancestor (the name suggests "From Danzig") was Polish. Yes, I would rather be a Pole today.

I am ashamed of the 2014 election that showed what dolts American voters are.     

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I'll believe it when they denounce the Koch front.

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Dropping the Koch brothers would kill GOP support for comprehensive Immigration reform/amnesty but bring the minimum wage on the table for most of the newer less then solid conservative members, particularly in the midwest and Northeast. You want that trade?

I want the GOP to put their ideas, putrid as they may be, on the table for all to see. I want people to decide whether they really want the whole agenda -- best described with the insult, "Suffer for my greed, you peon!" I want them to expose their contempt for the poor, contempt for education, contempt for the environment, and contempt for reason out in the open so that we can all decide whether we really like it.  If people really want it, then so be it.

I am sick of the pattern of GOP pols who run as nice guys only to coordinate with front groups that flood the media with Newspeak denunciations of liberalism. I don't know whether you read 1984, but it seems that the incessant propaganda that completely destroys the ability to think in any way but the prescribed way that utterly grinds people down.     

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We shall see whether any Republican winner votes his conscience or follows the orders of the Koch fronts who want a plutocratic oligarchy in America.

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The Koch syndicate has a view to a total makeover of American politics and even education.
 
If a university wants a big donation to its endowment, there might be strings attached -- like the Koch Brothers telling the university what professors to hire in politically-sensitive subjects.

The Koch agenda on K-12 education: push charter schools to gut public education.

Who needs public broadcasting when people can instead watch FoX "News" Channel and listen to Rush Limbaugh?

According to the oily Koch syndicate and its Heartland Institute front, all the scare stories about climate change detract humanity from its 'need' to burn more fossil fuels  and make the Koch family even richer and more powerful.

The Koch Foundation does much of its politics through the tax-exempt ALEC which uses salami tactics at the State level.

Remember Solyndra? Blame Obama for crony-friendly deals of the George W. Bush Administration

Masters of plausible denial on the fake-populist effort to dismantle Obamacare on behalf of the old run-out-of-money-and-die system in America

Who cares about the environment? Just make a toxic waste pile in Detroit.

Vote as your employer wants you or risk being fired

Don't forget to dismantle Social Security so that profiteers can grab even more of America!

Do you know who sponsored the Tea Party? You can find out here. With right-wing politics, "Things go better with Koch."

They would love to deny organizing the Tea Party, but the Koch brothers organized the leadership sessions for the first stages of it

Koch-funded denial of global warming goes so far as to connect opposition to it to being in league with murderous cult leader Charles Manson and Ted "Unabom" Kaczynski