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Insanity - a deranged state of the mind usually occurring as a specific disorder; such unsoundness of mind or lack of understanding as prevents one from having the mental capacity required by law to enter into a particular relationship, status, or transaction or as removes one from criminal or civil responsibility; extreme folly or unreasonableness; something utterly foolish or unreasonable.
For those people who voted for Cicilline just gave him legitimacy and accepted his lame apologies for looting the City of Providence. You were hoodwinked by the scare tactics these people have perpetrated on you.
You had a clear choice between good and evil - casting aside a former State Police Superintendent for a career politician who has given you NOTHING in return just illustrates the insanity of the people voting patterns in this state.
Anyone who walks around with the big “D” on their chest and a donkey tail on their butt is guaranteed a life in politics in RI, regardless of your background or character. You can have people with convictions running as democrats and unseat honest people that are trying to turn this state around. (cont.)

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Rhode Island has been and will continue to be a corrupt little state until the people regain their sanity and see what is being done to them. The tax and spend party is turning this state into a nanny state and forcing people to be dependent on it. With the re-election of this President, you will see major changes in the healthcare system going forward.- your government will determine your healthcare, not your doctor! You have believed their lies and now you will see the results. Medicare as you know it will be changed for the worse and seniors will experience it. “Oh? But the Democrats said they would protect it. Guess what? They lied to you.”
Your currency continues to be devalued, we will be seeing inflation around the corner and jobs will continue to be a myth. RI is a bedroom community to Boston and you can thank the tax and spend party for that AND they thank you for your vote! Fools!

Let's not be a sore loser Govstench, the people have spoken. I'm shocked Ciclline won but oh well.

It amazes me that someone like Sheldon Whitehouse, when as our Atty General refused to uphold court orders when it came to chasing down child support with the lame excuse"he's making an attempt"even though in violation of multiple court orders, can now "make laws"?? for our protection--and the jokers go on in litlle Rhody.
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Listen, the only way we can possibly stop this is by a RI Citizens sponsored referendum in 2014 to enact an eight year term limit of municipal, state and federal elected officials effective retroactively. Govstench your letter was right on.

The welfare dependent Americans, unions, and illegal aliens have chosen for the rest of us the dark path of serfdom

Rhode Islanders don't know how to vote for individuals, they only look at the party symbol, which is a very unhealthy outlook on voting. Our state will only improve when people start to care about the actual integrity of the candidates.

Fantastic and very true post about Rhode Islanders. That is why this state is in such a mess and is at the bottom 3 for business development now and top three for unemployment. This is a state that eats itself alive, while everyone keeps voting in the people, just because they wear a Democrat button, that make this state sink lower and lower. Leaving in 2 years for a much better run state with people in the state who actually vote for the candidates platforms, principals, morals, integrity and positive direction they want the state to go in...not the Democrat button they wear on their shirt. We won't even look back now as we hightail it out of here.

Instead of blaming the voters, look at the candidates you're putting before them. Obviously, they do not align with the voters on some of the issues.

This election once again illustrates why nothing ever improves in RI and never will.

There are many reasons for the ongoing death spiral. Mike has hit upon one of those reasons in a general sense. But the larger issue goes to the poorly educated population in RI. By that I mean that they are uninformed or do not care to be informed on issues that directly contribute to the strangulation of the state.

We have approximately 50% of the population receiving $ from the government in one form or another. Elections are a case study in classic Pavlovian behavior. I (the pol) give you $ and in turn you see me as a source which cannot be disturbed or terminated. As the provider, I plant the change/loss issue of your goody bag in your mind. Once that is ingrained it's easy to demonize anything that becomes a threat to me the provider and I control you and your vote. Then it is extrapolated to a group, then to a general population.
I believe that we have exceeded the tipping point in this mind game. The guiding principles this country was built upon have successfully been eroded over a period of the last 50 years beginning with the "Great Society" of LBJ. We are now in the throes of the Saul Alinsky presidency. If this were a chess game it would be analogous to a few moves before checkmate. I believe it was Patton who said "We have met the enemy and the enemy is us". How true.

Hard to believe we sent the trash back to the Washington!!! NOTHING will change for sure. Totally disgusted with the results.

Dear potential candidate in RI, Our great little state has a few requirements before you can run for any office. 1. Lie to us about the financial condition of our cities and towns. We will forgive you only if you offer free pasta dinners to our grandparents and continue to tell us we are a business friendly state without any proof. 2. Rob our constituents through insider trading. We beg that you tell us that it’s okay and tell us you are not Martha Stewart so you are held to a different standard with different laws. We are all aware we are held to that same standard and Martha is part of that evil 1%. 3. Most important as a state we beg that all continue to be strictly blue or red because complacency, naiveté, ignorance, arrogance and haphazardness have been beneficial, profitable and really everyone, look our state, it’s in great shape. Why would we not vote them all back in they are with out error so far, right? Do we get a first place plastic trophy for being last? After all, last place is the first place loser and we deserve it because we all worked so hard to get here never mind that it’s just equal and fair.

Heads up Rhode Island citizens. Enough with raising taxes --- reduce cost. If progressives tax the “rich” and “middle class” in an unfair manor, they will leave the state, which in turn will lower the tax revenue generated. “In the end it comes back to us” and everyone in the state will have to pay even higher taxes. The progressive answer is always to raise taxes until they run out of OUR money. How about make government smaller and more efficient, which will reduce costs. Progressives are for higher taxes and more government and are not pro-liberty that is for sure. Introducing and sponsoring 88 bills in 2012 is not synonomous with liberty or efficient government. Teresa Tanzi is just an example and is the sponser on the bills below.

“Surcharges” imposed if the governor signs this bill into law
http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText12/HouseText12/H7581.pdf

If you make over 26,575 your personal income tax may go up if the governor signs this bill onto law “Over $26,575 but not over $64,250 $996.56 plus 7.00% of the excess over $26,575” and so on……..
http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText12/HouseText12/H7454.pdf

Check up your reps
http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/

This election was just another example of why RI is a place to leave. It is a story that has been repeated here for as long as I can remember. The players change but the results are the same. No amount of wishing or hoping or wanting to make things better will accomplish what has been for a longtime the impossible.

RI is an example of evil triumphing over good. Regardless of the sad state of affairs the people have spoken and we are now left to deal with the results.
I don't even think God can help us anymore. God's probably too busy with issues that hold some hope and promise. It is truly a shame to watch the demise of our state and country. History will mark November 6, 2012 as the fork in the road when we chose the path of final destruction for the greatest experiment in history. Just as all previous democracies imploded we are doing the same, funny how history repeats itself. I just never thought that I would live to see it.

My heart goes out to all those young faces we see at the soccer fields, the schools, our neighborhoods. All of us, the adults, have failed them. We have failed because we have ignored the problems and taken the feel good way out.

Ask yourself do you truly feel good?

Very sad to see the rhetoric and what's going on here. When one side wins, the other blames it for being idiotic. It feels like 90% of the country thinks the "other" 90% is unintelligent. Nobody will have to attack us to destroy us. We are doing that pretty well on our own. It's not our policies that will destroy us. It is this constant bickering, fatalism, and intolerance.

The majority of RI voters ask one question. What can Government do for me ? It's not hard to see why the State is in the condition it's in.The down ward spiral continues as more get on the dole. When we hit the bottom only the strong will survive.

I've always wondered what would happen if the election system didn't cater to parties. No R's or D's next to a candidates name. No straight party voting.

Romney said when asked about his Cayman Isle accounts: "Bain would get investors to invest through the Cayman Isle account so as not to have to pay US income tax."
That is a direct quote. What does that tell you about this man as a candidate for President.
Tax avoidance advice is not exactly a way to build up the economy.
Society is responsible for its own delinquency. In this case, it was right.

After reading this, all I can say is "wow".

Just for the record, had you been following me on Facebook or Twitter, you would have had the winners in all races but 2 a week before the election and the 69-6 General Assembly result back in August. (That was in a letter to former, God that feels so good to say, Rep. Ehrhardt which was posted on Tumblr at the time and is up at QuahogsUnitedBlog.org in, you guessed it, another Blog.)

These things called elections work very simply. Why are some of you trying to complicate them??

(I get what Joe Sousa is doing after the total rejection of everything he believes in but some of the rest of you are making this way harder than it should be.)

i like freedom and liberty not high income tax. RI General Assembly considering higher income tax for people making 27,000ish or more. FYI: I voted Democrat / national election and a mix of R and D locally.

http://www.rifreedom.org/

i am sure the many will say just leave RI. i am running a bcr (benefit cost ratio) right now just like other people and business owners in RI. People should be wondering- what is the cost of staying here vs the benefit. I predict a failed bcr for most. A fight or flight type of choice-flight seems to be the best choice.

observer, Some business owners have invested their live savings into buildings and equipment. They would loose their investment if they tried to move. Those owners face insolvency. They have no chose but to stay and fight for their livelihood . The Legislature has yet to learn that a small State like ours can't just raise taxes every time they need more money. People will shop where it's the cheapest. On line sales are booming. When the State hits the bottom and the bills go unpaid a new understanding will come to pass. The people who retired with State pensions and those who rely on social programs will take a big hit. It's to bad we can't work together to solve our States problems.

This State is going down. Vote Democrat, they know best. Just look at how well the State has been run over the last century. As long as Democrats (Unions)run this state, we need to Change the state motto to "No Hope". Leave the anchor on the seal as that makes sense. "Anchors away" as it sinks to the bottom of the ocean.

If some bloggers sent as much time crystalizing the issues and articulating the solutions as they envision them for their candidates and spent less time in insults and hate mongering calling everyone fools, their political views might be embraced and their candidates given a fairer chance of getting elected.
The conservatives, for example, never articulated what they would cut, how they would cut it, and what results it would have on all ecomomic classes. They talked in platitudes so general that many did not believed their sincerety.
Try logic, sometimes it works.