The Battle for America 2010: Signs of a Gathering Superstorm in November
As we approach President Barack Obama’s first midterm elections, the question regarding the outcome is not whether Democrats will lose seats in the House and Senate, but how many they will lose. Patrick Ruffini, a well-known political operative and blogger, declared earlier this year that House losses for the Democrats would reach 70 seats or more, surpassing the 54 they lost in the landmark Republican wave election of 1994 and nearly doubling the 39 seats the GOP needs to wrest control of the House from the Democrats. And Fox News contributor and former Clintonite Dick Morris has claimed for months that Republicans would take not just the House, but the Senate also.
Are these bold statements just sensationalism and wishful thinking, or are there valid reasons for reaching such conclusions? Even a cursory perusal of the current political landscape and recent electoral history reveals indications that Democrats need worry about November. But if we take a deeper look, a picture of a potentially massive superstorm on the horizon begins to form.
Let’s start with some structural obstacles Democrats face heading toward Election Day 2010.
The president’s party generally loses seats in midterm elections.
From Harry Truman’s first midterms through George W. Bush’s first, the party in the White House lost an average of 24 seats in the House and just over 2 seats in the Senate. So history says an immediate disadvantage confronted Democrats right out of the gate.
Democrats have gained substantial seats in recent blue wave elections.
Ironically, Democratic successes in the elections of 2006 and 2008, ushered in by a strong political wind at their back, are making this year especially difficult now that the winds are blowing in the opposite direction. Many of the 55 net House seats won since 2004 would be difficult for Democrats to hold in any year. With a strong Republican wind blowing, holding many of them this year will be next to impossible.
Beyond structural disadvantages, there are many signs that the electorate is eager to issue an emphatic rejection of Democratic leadership and their policies on Election Day.
Voters who plan to vote Republican are far more enthusiastic.
One of the well-publicized aspects of Election 2010 has been the tremendous enthusiasm shift among the electorate. It is hard to overstate the importance of voter enthusiasm, and Republicans are clearly reaping a substantial advantage in this area. Polling results aside, one need look no further than the open primaries held last week in Missouri and Michigan to see the difference it can make in the voting booth.
Both states conduct open primaries which allow folks to vote in either party primary. In Michigan, a reliably blue state, voters chose the Republican primary by a 2-1 margin! Missourians did the same by 65% to 35%. This kind of partisan lean foretells hefty Republican margins all over in November.
The Republicans should easily capture the House of Representatives and possibly even the U.S. Senate. Do you earn your living in the private sector? If so, you should in the majority of circumstances vote only for Republican candidates. The Democrats are your natural enemies—and I am not even slightly exaggerating. My words are carefully chosen and precise. Democrats have every intention of turning you into something of slave to pay for their utopian schemes. You are supposedly obligated to pay “reparations” to every self described victim of capitalist aggression. Their calls for equality are also mere excuses to justify their ceaseless power grabbing. They want to stick it to you good and hard.
The Democratic Party is dominated by those who attended the “best” universities and hold free market principles in contempt. They subscribe instead to the crony capitalism of John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul Krugman, and others who prefer close partnerships between larger companies and the political class. God help the smaller entrepreneur. You are being played for a sucker.
I’ll believe it when the votes are counted.
I don’t see the ‘Pubbies doing anything earn a victory. Will the voting public really put them in just because they’re disgusted with the Democrats and Obama?
And what will they do with the gift? They don’t call the GOP “The Stupid Party” for nothing.
The voting public put the Democrats & Obama in because they were disgusted with the Republicans & Bush (after an 8-year attack by Democrats, which went unanswered by either the Republicans or Bush). Obama & the Dems have quintupled EVERY negative thing that the Republicans & Bush did (even including Bush’s last 2 years, when the Dems controlled spending–and bashed Bush even harder) and the economy has sunk deeper and deeper into the toilet under the “protect-and-reward-the-unproductive-and-the-unions-and-the-trial-lawyers-to-He!!-with-business” philosophy of Obama & the Dems. If a number of genuinely conservative Republican candidates can win office, it’s just possible America will survive & thrive.
I notice that social issues have taken a back seat to fiscal this time around. It’s about time. But it’s unfortunate that the Republicans have not yet formulated a central, consistent pro-growth message. Maybe Newt will give them a hand again?
The one positive thing the Dems have done in the months since they took over Congress & the White House is to render the terms “racism” and “racist” completely meaningless and without effect. It’s not much, not enough to make me want them to continue in power (especially since they did it by accident), but I appreciate it.
Voters in November must keep their priorities straight. The first goal is to stop the bleeding! Obama and the Democrats are causing incredible and long term damage to the economy. Republicans might sometimes be hypocritical and weak willed—but they will put a stop to the current reckless government spending.
Mr. Horrible -
YES, we will vote for every fiscally responsible Republican out there. WE MUST GET THE DEMOCRATS AND OBAMA OUT OF OFFICE BEFORE THEY DESTROY AMERICA.
And speaking of stupid, you might want to take a look into the closest mirror. Your (short) little rant reeks of many things, EXCEPT reasonable intelligence.
Go back to democraticunderground where you belong, troll
gee…. I thought the dems were represented by stupid asses. So, I think you got your parties mixed up!
What a well written Post. Thank you!
David Thompson: This is well said. The Democrats are the natural enemy of those who rely on the private sector for their livelihood. Of course, government and Public Service workers are hopelessly wedded to them. Private sector unions have been bought off by all manner of legislation that saves their pensions and gives them control over their industries.
The so-called Progressives have also been very clever in dividing the large non-unionized private sector based by falsely invoking our natural feelings of generosity and a desire to help the less fortunate. However, this is not exactly what happens. What happens is large scale programs that result in individually scant and demeaning handouts, crony capitalism, bloated inefficient programs that focus on their own growth and survival, fraud and waste, a privileged governing class and a diminishment of opportunity for everyone else.
I pray these predictions will come true !
From my point of view,since his election, everything I loved and respected about USA turned into a fuzzy nightmare.
The relentless hostility against Israel and other traditional allies,conjugated to obamacare and stimulus measures added to my hate against the current administration
I really thought tha my beloved America was lost
Fortunately, a recent trip in my beautiful NY city and Connecticut proved me wrong
USa are still alive and kicking !
Trumpeldor from Brussels,eurabia
I pray H.Shem ehat,never USA will fall into the trap the EU devised for his own citizens:
a demographic replacement !
I can’t wait to follow this right through. Compliments for good journalism.
There is a wave coming but not sure it will bring back GOP…it seems to be taking out incumbents that are not performing more than a GOP / DEMO Issue.
Will be interesting to see, either way. Good article.
One thing the voters have learned since the last election is that they were wrong to think “It canNOT be worse.”
They learned that the “I’ll withhold my vote from Republicans and teach them a lessen” thing could backfire.
Would they have voted in Obama if they had known Congress would fall to complete Democrat control and that Obama could ram through anything he wanted? Who knows. But then again, how many voters knew Obama’s true nature? Between the MSM’s Obama love-fest and McCain’s over-playing of his “gentleman” tactic, most of them never had a chance to learn.
I think you may be right in part. I’m wondering if there are many that are simply in an anti-incumbent mood, or if folks are coming out for conservatives, but being fended off by cross-over Dems. The Rick Snyder for Michigan primary win makes me wonder…. he’s less conservative than most of his opponents, but he’s also just plain “not a politician”. His slogan was “One Tough Nerd”. It will be interesting to see what happens. I pray the Lord has mercy on us all.
“In Missouri’s primary last week, the Show-Me State had the opportunity to show us all how they feel about ObamaCare. Seventy-one percent came down against it. For Democrats in Congress who voted for the bill, that result has to be a chilling omen.”
I hope this sends a chilling message to every worthless, gutless, cowardly, selfish Democratic politician out there who voted for Obamacare, not to mention the many “bailouts” (especially to the car companies) and the “stimulus” that stimulated nothing. A pox on them all. The political tsunami that’s coming will sweep them all out of office and rightfully so. Hopefully, this will put an end to Obama’s socialist agenda and in 2012 we can bring a little sanity back to the White House.
Be afraid of November, Democrats. Be very, very, afraid.
Don’t forget, ex-Pres. Clinton assured the Dems that the only reason the Republicans had such a great resurgence in ’94 was that he & Hills didn’t pass their healthcare takeover. It’s possible there are many Dems who were too stupid to realize that was a fiction, possible devised to help Hills in a run for the presidency in ’12?
It’s possible the nutcase-Dems really thought America would thank them for taking over one more aspect of their lives. They overestimated the number of Americans who want to be treated as helpless children of The State.
Liberty-it would be mice, if after they lose office, some of these anti-american communist sympathizers could be put on trial for crimes against the constitution. Obama and his ilk must NEVER be allowed to attain power again.
…and the “stimulus” that stimulated nothing.
I disagree. It stimulated Washington D.C.
Looks like Stimulus 2 (or is it 3?) has stimulated the union bosses to order their minions to reward the Obama-ites for their generous support of union jobs (with our money, of course). Certainly that IS stimulating D.C., but it has also moved unionistas all across America to action, so it’s not ONLY D.C. being stimulated.
Any American that can think for them self’s should be able to see that America has to go back to the Constitution and keep God in what we do. The Government is trying its best to take God out of America that will not work America was founded on Godly Principles and that’s what we need to go back to.
I have always been a Republican but 3-5 years ago I would have disagreed with your statement. I fully agree now. Freedom and equality before the law is based on Christian-Judeo concept that everyone has a soul. We have different bodies and minds of different capacities but our soul are all equally divine.
Our Republic was founded by people who think this way for people who think this way. The nihilist left will bring it all down.
Muslims believe in souls too, but they do not believe in there equality. Man>women, Muslim>nonbeliever. The ‘golden rule’ is not in Islam and in compatible with our culture.
“Political winds have a way of abating quickly or even making U-turns without warning,,,”
No matter what happens one thing is not going to change.
The majority of Americans cannot stand Barrack Obama. The man has made a complete ass and fool of himself. He has done more damage to our country than any one person that has ever lived.
The people want to permanently get rid of Obama and they want to punish the living snot out of every person that supported him.
Call that what ever you want to; they are rock solid facts that will not change.
Amen, Amen, Amen. Where can I knock out some of that snot?
I wasn’t for Obama, but I totally distrust him! He takes money from the poor to help Goldman-Sachs(I thought Republicans did that!) He wants a ‘switch’ to control content on the Internet(The Internet was what got him elected!); Jews can build Menorahs, Muslims Mosques, but no Christian symbols are allowed for Christmas! The wars continue unabated….I could go on and on, but he makes Jimmy Carter look good!
I would like to be more optimistic. However, I never underestimate the Republicans (a.k.a. ‘The Stupid Party’) to pull defeat from the jaws of victory. I would like to see a simple, unified set of goals from the party.. but right now, they just seem to be keeping their mouths shut.
I know many of my fellow conservatives, or people just sick and tired of Democratic idiocy, are hoping Republicans will win big come November and hopefully unseat such Democratic giants like Harry Reid.
But let’s keep our eye on the prize and keep working hard. We haven’t won anything yet. Just remember that Democrats and liberals were so sure that former President Bush wasn’t going to win his reelection bid in 2004 and yet he gave them a solid spanking.
So let’s not become those Democrats who only hope for change but don’t do anything to get it.
We have just emerged from rule by the most divisive, anti libertarian, West hating regime in modern history.
I watched with envy as those Tea Party’s of yours ripped into the falsehoods of big state as they were being simultaneously rammed down our throats.
The lies, the deception, the cronyism, the cosy to big business and huge unions alike. We the proletariat were mere pawns. We the indigenous who had worked hard afforded second class to new arrival Muslims in housing, healthcare, cultural norms and the helping hand.
They’ve gone but it took twelve years of the dismantling of Britain before that happened.
I applaud those activists and true Americans who value and love their country. America is still the best but there’s a huge amount of unravelling the damage of this new Obama behemoth before it returns to a semblance of former glory.
Sure there’ve been mistakes along the way but the the triumphs certainly overwhelm the tragedies. And the inate good overwhelms the desire for harm.
From that Cairo speech to the way he undermines Arizona’s right to tackle immigrant crime, Obama has proved he is no friend of America.
He is basically an overpromoted race hustler whose credentials were honed at the feet of Alinsky, Wright, Farakan and Sharpton.
He’s been rumbled and not one moment too soon.
America goes, we all do is my view. There are plenty here who agree.
Keep it up. That Churchill spirit demeaned and dragged in the mire by our left is alive and well, only it’s now 3000 miles west of where I’m sitting.
I don’t hear any fat ladies singing yet and its far from over. This is a moment to sieze.
To paraphrase the great man, its not the beginning of the end of this pernicious regime, but it is, without a doubt the end of the beginning.
“Democrat” is neocon code for “black.” You are a racist bigot.
Although the adjective “racist” has been rendered powerless and meaningless, the term “bigot” has merely been redefined:
bigot: 1) one who values industriousness more than he values sloth;
2) one who loves his country more than he loves his country’s enemies;
3) one who values freedom more than he values servitude to The State.
Before long there will be tee shirts bragging “I’m a racist bigot.” Probably a little too soon right now, but surely they’ll appear before much longer. (No Dem will ever wear one, if only because they haven’t the wit to recognize the irony.)
And “racist bigot” is a code for “anyone who disagrees with me.”
So John McCain, Olympia Snowe, Orin Hatch, et al are back in power. How exactly is that going to give power back to the people?
The elitist Republican insiders are no more interested in you and me than the elitist Democrat insiders. They’ll just sell you out to a different gang of special interests.
But Bud, three is all you can come up with? You expect perfection from all pols? And besides, if you had to choose between one set of special interests and the other, which would you prefer:
This group: a) Trial lawyers, who will soon be suing the Weather Channel and the Catholic Church for the pain and suffering of bad weather and climate change; b) teachers’ unions, who fight for change, changing mediocre schools into poor schools; c) Alinsky socialists, who lie in order to change the economy from prosperity into overwhelming debt and change citizens from asset-holders into asset-distributers, except for the ruling class of course (see the Kennedys, John Kerry, Irish Chris Dodd, Michelle Antoinette, et al)?
Or this group: a) gun rights groups, who want Americans have recognized, as in the Constitution, the right to lawfully defend themselves from deadly attack; b) companies, corporations, and the military, who protect us from foreign enemies and supply what we need and want, employ millions, and struggle under unneccesarily heavy burdens of often arrogant and silly bureaucratic interference and rules of engagement; Constitutionalists, who want to change the rule of law into “how I FEEL” the law should be (see the judge who ruled that the 3000-thousand-year-old definition of marriage around the world is mere bigotry)?
Democracy is special interests, including the interests of the people in general, which our present government proves every day it cares not a dry f-rt about. You choose.
Sigh. I’m going to slow down the next salary increase for my copy editor.
“…gun rights groups, who want it recognized, as in the Constitution, that they have right to keep and carry arms in order to lawfully defend themselves and others from deadly attack…”
Fred Beloit:
“Democracy is special interests, including the interests of the people in general, which our present government proves every day it cares not a dry f-rt about. You choose.”
As you well know Fred, the United States of America is not a democracy, but a Constitutional Republic.
A Constitutional Republic is not about feeding special interests, rather It’s about preserving, protecting and defending the Constitution and the Bill of Rights which gives it its authority to govern and do legitimate business on behalf of the people in general.
In a Constitutional Republic it is up to the people indiviaually to represent their own interests. The Commerce Clause, nor any other, was intended to provide a bank accout from which overlords had a divine right to redistribute income from those who work and save to those who don’t and won’t.
Safety nets are a necessity in civilized societies. Legal thievery is not a safety net, yet it is made possible by a distortion of law, including corrupt Judges, and is quite another thing. Absolute power is the bludgeon that needs to be removed from the hands of the ruling class. The current one as well as the ones that will surely follow after the elections in November.
In a functional Constitutional Republic, the people are governed, not ruled and that’s what needs to be clearly understood by not only the ruling class but the people as well. Absent that understanding, the great experiment, government of the people, by the people and for the people, is dead.
CGW, thanks for the correction and you are basically right, but I was referring to the present state in the country of today, not as I would like it to be.
Hatch isn’t up for reelection until 2012. Believe me, though, we in Utah will do all we can to Bennett him.
Washington DC is like a Port-a-Can…no matter who goes in the door, the result is the same.
Don’t look too highly at Michigan’s results for comfort. Primaries are open in MI; are you sure that Democrats didn’t cross over and vote for the less conservative Rick Snyder for Governor? And for those of us in Michigan Congressional District 1 (the seat currently held by the infamous Bart Stupak) the Democrat ran unopposed. So, Dems had another reason to cross over and try to spoil that race.
Now that many white collar jobs have been eliminated in the auto industry and those folks have moved, that leaves many union employees bailed out and staying in Michigan. I would love to be positive like you are, but I’m going to remain vigilant and pray.
1. For the Republicans’ long term political benefit, the best outcome might be for the Democrats to retain razor thin majorities in both houses. The resulting gridlock would not necessarily be bad.
2. If Republicans get over-confident (which they are on the verge of doing) they won’t win either house.
3. If the Republicans do win one or both houses, they must continuously trumpet their principles (small, limited, government; low taxes; follow the constitution as it was written; strong defense) and act on them. When they last controlled congress, they did neither of these things.
I’ve lived in California for over 30 years. Although I trend GOP, I vote for Diane Feinstein each time since she was always better than her GOP opponents, and always seemed to be adult and sensible.
I’ve often found GOP candidates to be too smug, too focused on opposing gay marriage (I want my taxes lowered and spending cut, you stupid republicans, and violent robbers locked up: gay marriage is just not the priority. And I don’t want fat stupid GOP office holders to be corrupt and incompetent).
From this year forward, I will probably vote for anyone–ANYONE–on the GOP side, even against Feinstein, who I will miss if she loses whenever she is up again. The Democratic party proved itself the unleashed danger I knew it was. I just never imagined they’d control all three houses.
I only hope the GOP has enough sense to realize that millions of peolpe my age and younger will jettison the GOp again if it elects and empoers incompetent, corrupt boobs like Dennis Hastert and Ted Stevens.
Fat, smug, stupid politicians are certainly not limited to the GOP, although they have had their share.
Seems to me that being smug (or arrogant) comes with time in office and has little to do with party affiliation. Feinstein has been around long enough, to say nothing of her policy deficiencies.
Hey Snark-maybe you be doing a little homework on Findslime and check out how rich her hubby is getting on the taxpayer dime. Seems DIFI has been slipping DOD cash to her hubbys company for years. Mad Maxine Watters is in trouble ethically for similair reasons. Charley Ranghole is no less corrupt than Findswine. Shes as ethically challenged as anyone is.
Snark:
I feel your pain, but you could choose a wiser course.
“From this year forward, I will probably vote for anyone–ANYONE–on the GOP side, even against Feinstein, who I will miss if she loses whenever she is up again. The Democratic party proved itself the unleashed danger I knew it was. I just never imagined they’d control all three houses.”
The wiser course would be to vote against every incumbent dimocrat and every incumbent republican who has served more than two terms in elected state or federal office. Blood transfusions are what is needed in the body politic.
Successfully administered, one might save the life of a once great nation.
You’re wrong. Fight incumbent Republicans in the primaries, not in the general election. No Republican is worse for the country than any Democrat is.
yesterday were primaries here in CO. “Blessed” republican candidates for governor and senate were rejected. Republicans here in Colorado are less than pleased with the party itself and what it has to offer.
Very likely the current democrat senate incumbent will go down, especially due to his rubber stamping of obama’s agenda. That never flies here. Unfortunately the governorship may well fall to the democrats again due to the baggage of the candidates and how little people really know about the liberal mayor of Denver and all the bad/stupid things that have gone on there.
The republican party *must* reform itself and not just ride the wave of “we’re not those guys” or else they will find themselves in a less than favorable position 2 years from now.
You’re right, of course, the Republicans do need to rally around a real message. Then again, “We’re not those guys” worked very well for the Dems in ’08, aided by the fact that no one in the Republican party bothered to say that “those guys” were Democrats for the last 2 years of the Bush administration.
So far I’ve heard no one mention that Obama was one of “those guys” for two years, or that he happily voted for TARP. In reality, “those guys” who are most responsible for the mess we’re in now are the Democrats. The Democrats cheered for–and extorted lenders to issue–loans to those who could not afford them, in the name of “affordable housing.” The Democrats allowed/encouraged Fannie and Freddie to lower the standards for the loans they would buy from mortgage lenders. The Republicans (and regulators) warned that there were too many such loans and that the housing market would crash; the Democrats scoffed and called them uncaring racists (Barney Frank explained that it was all safe, because there wasn’t much leverage in the market). When the Republicans tried to rein in Fannie and Freddie, the Democrats refused (and the Republicans didn’t have the ‘nads to fight harder, in the face of MSM and Democrat charges of “scare tactics”), to enact any such legislation. And now the Democrats cheerily blame the Republicans’ “deregulation,” along with “Wall Street greed” and capitalism in general, for the whole mess.
Oh yeah, and they’ve failed to rein in Fannie and Freddie, too. Notice we’re still giving them billions of dollars to cover their continuing losses. Think any Republican might mention that?
I have to sympathize a bit with the Republicans. It’s nearly impossible to successfully fight a Left-leaning MSM.
[I also occasionally wonder what might have been in those FBI files the Clinton White House "accidentally" came to possess early in Clinton's first term. Sometimes blackmail is the only thing that might explain any particular Republican's votes.]
The Republicans shot themselves in the foot big time in the Colorado primaries. The winner in the gov primary, Dan Maes, who beat the anointed & blessed one, Scott McInniss, thinks encouraging of bicycling where possible instead of driving cars is a United Nations plot to take over. He also doesn’t understand campaign finance reporting requirements and has presented himself as a successful businessman when in fact he is not.
Colorado Repubs. need a thorough housecleaning. They’ve been controlled by the anti-gay, anti-abortion in all forms, crowd for nearly 10 years. In that time, Repubs. have lost the governorship, a Senate seat, two House seats, and both houses of the State Legislature. I disagree with Brian in that I think the incumbent Dem senator, Bennet, will win. His Tea Party/Repub. opponent, Buck, seems more interested in pushing a far right wing agenda than in governing from the center, where the majority of Colorado citizens reside.
Too few realize that this is NOT Obama’s economy…nor is it George W. Bush’s economy. Not in the true sense. Economies belong to Congress. The Democrats in Congress have run this economy since January 2007. What we’re living right now was wrought by Democrats in elected office. Obama accelerated the death spiral by removing the attenuating influence of a veto and pushing for more “drunken sailor” spending, but in the end Congress actually owns this mess.
The American electorate gave the “anti-Bush” policies and politicians a shot in the 2006 and 2008 elections. Now they can see where this has led them. People all have those issues that are important to them. In the not-too-distant past Jews voted as a bloc, Hispanics voted as a bloc, Blacks voted as a bloc and the elderly voted as a bloc. Whites have never voted as a bloc. But today those traditional voting blocs are eroding as folks feel threatened by more than “their issues” coming under fire. People, at the core, are not stupid. You can’t keep spendin’ when the money’s all gone. And they know it…
abortion — a process whereby career politicians are terminated for the safety and security of the nation.
TERM LIMITS
or all we’ll get is more of ‘meet the new boss, same as the old boss’
TERM LIMITS
TERM LIMITS
TERM LIMITS
Both parties need ‘time in the wilderness’ to get their heads on straight. The main hope is that the upheaval in the Republican Party in FL and NV, and possibly OH, will start to liquidate its current structure and decentralize it. If not there is a second party that has lots of open positions at the lowest rung… it, too, needs to have its centralized system decentralized.
Term limits are only part of the problem. The other part is gerrymandered ‘safe’ districts that allow for entrenchment of interests. To disrupt that requires that the House become more representative and move away from set size to set proportion. Those two, term limits and set proportion, will see politicians move out of seats involuntarily either through time limits or demographic shifts in districts that will happen when districts are made smaller to the point that they can’t be effectively gerrymandered.
Rollback must go beyond Obamacare and include the entitlement system and the hugely overburdened federal government with too many ‘voluntary’ departments and not paying enough attention to the ‘mandatory’ duties it has. If we don’t rollback the government voluntarily, and in a measured way, then we will get economic collapse and get it by default. And then the people to blame will be the Progressives in both Parties who pushed this house of cards upon us telling us it was so ‘good’ to have our children pay off our debts… and that is pure evil, making our sons and daughters pay for our sins and luxuries.
If the Republicans win big in November, and I think they will, we still face the Republican history of never truly fighting for limited government. With enough power to halt statist overreach — will they? I only hope Republicans will be more terrified of their Tea Party base than they are of the In Crowd’s opprobrium.
Let’s stop calling Comrade Zero and his Commie rats “progressives.” Democrats are no more “progressive” than they ever were “liberal.” These fascist thugs are simply gangsters, lawless looters out to take whatever they can get away with. Their “climate change” scam is a perfect example – when people caught on to the Left’s “global warming” hoax, they simply changed the name. Just maybe this latest travesty, with sneering, incompetent, lying Elephant Ears and his odious, barrel-of-monkeys sidekick making bigger fools of themselves every day, will get enough people’s attention to give them the hook.
Before cleaning the stable you have to muck it out.
How does America like it’s transformation into Trudeau’s Canada?
I wish you had paid more attention to the HIDDEN enemy to the north… We are the home country for Maurice Strong, your new ruler…
Just sayin…
It’s too bad Mo Strong is in China… I’d love to run into him on the street myself.. I know what I would do…
Bob Etheridge is my Congressman! He’s awful, but coming from a state and district that don’t swing, it is really great to hear him mentioned.
Its so frustrating living in a gerrymandered district where the incumbent simply can’t lose in anything approaching a normal election season.
If he loses, that spells more trouble for Democrats than even the most optimistic projections have suggested. I normally vote against him just to let Bob know not everyone thinks he is great, but I think a lot of Republicans in my area have been disheartened about this seat for years. I’m extremely excited that for once I might have someone in Congress who represents my views. The Challenger Todd Gailas is a strong Conservative of a Tea Party/ Constitutionalist mindset and he should have everyone’s support. He’s on facebook if you want to check it out.
Oops, looks like it was Renee Ellmers that won the primary. Oh well, her positions are the same when it comes down to the issues that will ever actually get voted on. The Fed isn’t going anywhere, for instance.
My wife recently changed her affiliation from Democrat to Republican while I shifted more to the Sharron Angle and Rand Paul, independent conservative category. What will the Republicans do to Newt the country over?
(1) Defund Obeymecare.
(2) Ruthlessly cut funding for government agencies e.g. EPA, DoE, etc.
(3) Since federal government workers now earn (pay plus benefits) approximately DOUBLE workers in private business doing the same type of job — legislatively cut federal worker pay by 20% – 50% depending upon government pay grade
(4) Reduce corporate income tax to zero for corporations that can prove that 75% or more of their workforce are US citizens (I say “workforce” and not “employees” to cover outsourcing and contractors)
There’s your plan. Fiscal conservatism.
Australia’s election is 8 days away. It will have an impact.
When Kevin Rudd won in 2007 beating the conservative veteran John Howard it was trumpeted as a good sign for Obama by the main stream media. Many Australian left wing players flew over to help with the Obama campaign. They couldn’t vote but they could hand out leaflets, stick up posters and do the back room work while others went out to shout ‘Yes we can’ and vote early, vote often.
If Kevin Rudd’s successor Julia Gillard losses to the Christian conservative Tony Abbott the press will go cross eyed. If Rudd’s win was good then they must admit Gillard’s loss will be very bad. The left in Australia will go berserk. We can’t rule out riots among some groups and vandalism. They will go nuts. that will make the US left panic and do silly things.
The mainstream media wont be able to shut out the loss. It will be a signal. The left is loosing globally. France and Brittan have already gone. Australia may be next and then America votes.
Though I disagree with the gutlessness of the Republican Party. I prey the take back the power. I want to be able to sleep again. Though I’m not sure rather the damage the Dems have done can be reversed. Please America never vote these asses into power again. It’s time for a new constitutional party but right now we just need to stop these BASTURDS.
The only poll that matters is the one in November. Don’t get overconfident.
Any one who defends EITHER a democrat OR a republican is lost!
If the Republicans or the Democrats could have fixed this nation, they would have done it long before now. Both major U.S. political parties are dominated and controlled by the “money trust” (banks/corporations). They do NOT work for, nor do they represent “We the People”; but instead represent the global elitists; the super-rich foundations; the NGO’s; the global bankers; the global corporations; and the lobbyists. Bankrolled by the money dynasty (principal owners of the federal reserve banks), they have emerged as our present day aristocracy, the “ruling elite families” which includes generations of Rockefellers, Kennedys, and the Bush family; perennial “intellectuals” like Kissinger, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Albright, Christopher, and Rubin; the gang at Goldman Sachs, all the members of the “Council on Foreign Relations” and the “Trilateral Commission”; and all of the one-time and/or yearly attendees at the annual “Bilderberg” conference.
This criminal cabal of power elites, banks, corporations, revolving door government officials, and the mainstream media have effectively destroyed our economy, and the foundation of constitutional government which we have taken for granted. These evil people have stolen the wealth of the US Treasury whilst exploiting the power and might of the US Military to achieve their agenda. Meanwhile, corrupt government officials continue to pass unconstitutional laws to the benefit of themselves and the elite. They believe our Constitution and Laws don’t pertain to them. It is imperative everyone know that both political parties are controlled by the “elite”, and that our presidential election is a fraud between their two preselected candidates. Their “man” always wins.
We transition from the lies, deceit and prevarication of one administration to the lies, deceit and prevarication of another; it is, in fact, a continuation of the same betrayal of constitutional guarantees, unlawful and unrestricted immigration, insecure borders, wild frivolous spending, and government encouragement of the continuing transition to a deeply immoral society. The government will persist in eroding our constitutionally protected unalienable rights, and what little is left of the people’s sovereignty will most assuredly be legislated away. In days gone by our leaders were chosen from among the people: they were the servants and we were the Master. Now our leaders are chosen from (and by) the elite: they are the Master, and “we the people” are their servants.
In 1922, New York City Mayor John F. Hylan tried to warn people: “The real menace of our republic is this invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over city, state and nation. Like the octopus of real life, it operates under cover of a self created screen… At the head of this octopus are the Rockefeller Standard Oil interests and a small group of powerful banking houses generally referred to as international bankers. The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both political parties”.
“They who control the credit of the nation direct the policy of Governments and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people” – Reginald McKenna (Chairman of the Board – Midland Bank) speaking to stockholders in January 1924.
“The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.” – Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, 1952. (there is much more, stop watching “tv” and do the research!)
Everytime a new congressman turns up in Washington District of Criminals, he or she is offered a blank-check credit card good for 1 million dollars to do with anything he or she chooses. The catch? He will be told to vote a certain way on a certain issue and he must do this to keep his million! In these times, who would turn this down?(Answer: A truly honest person-that’s who). Seems to me that to make Washington honest, we should CONSTANTLY throw out the encumbant! No matter which party he is affiliated with-
You can fool all the people some of the time….
And foriegners are laughing at all the infighting between the extremists on the left,…and the right.
Instead of looking at politicians as Liberal vs Conservative…
Look at them as Authoritarians vs Libertarians.
People who steal freedom and liberty from Americans don’t deserve any freedom in America.
And there are plenty of them in BOTH the media parties.
(Anti-drug, anti-gun, and anti-abortion are ALL Authortarian Values!!!)
It is time to TAX FORIEGNERS who pander in American Politics…
Starting with the bribe money and “gifts” given to politicians from the Vatican, Tel Avi, and Saudi Arabia. Theocracies that pay no taxes deserve no representation in MY Government.
The First Amendment is for Americans… not third world tinpot religious theocracies.
Any Congressperson who votes to send money to a religious theocracy is commiting a Constitutional Crime and that crime is Capital TREASON.
It is time to return the Gallows to the public square…but not for civilians. But for government officials who think they are ABOVE civilians.
The government cannot be trusted to execute civilians anymore!
Because elected and appointed officials can no longer be trusted to be telling the TRUTH.
It is time to return to a government that FEARS the People and not vice versa.