Wednesday, November 5, 2014
It Is The Day After Obama
A new American Revolution occurred in the United States yesterday. Not with guns or on the streets but in the time-honored American constitutional way - with ballots. For six years, the world has watched, bemused and often frightened, as America struggled to accommodate a President who was elected to open the way for a new America. On November 4, 2014, Americans finally voted their convictions instead of continuing to bend over backwards to support that President, Barack Obama. The love affair was long over. It probably ended in 2009 as he told a young Cairo audience that America was not so special as to be the leader of the world. But, because Americans are not, and did not want to be called, racist, they held on to the outsider from Chicago. They questioned his birth, his religion, his goals for the United States, and his aloof indifference to the American constitutional process. In 2010, they sent a Republican House to put the country's fiscal affairs in order, but they watched in dismay as this unfathomable President rebuffed them and The Peoples' House. In 2012, he pleaded to be allowed to finish the job he went to Washington to do. They vacillated but finally gave him his second term. And then it all came crashing in on President Obama. Obamacare. Benghazi. The IRS scandal. Foreign policy failures of monumental proportions. ISIS. Ebola. And through it all, Americans were being punched and kicked by an economy with few real new full-time jobs or wage gains or protection for their retirement savings or even for their homes. But yesterday, America woke up. America had finally realized that Obama would not change. His policies were stripping them of their economic security, their hopes for their families, their safety in a violent world, and their faith in the future of America. So, they did the only thing they could. They cleaned their political house, sweeping away any candidate who had agreed with or supported Obama. Democrats paid the price of standing with a party leader who had led them to destroy their compact with their fellow Americans. Americans are neither racist nor anti-female and they rejected those who tried to tell them they are. Americans have governed themselves with distinction for 238 years and they rejected those who tried to tell them they were no longer competent to govern themselves. Americans know that smaller, more efficient government with balanced budgets promotes jobs and economic growth and they rejected those who tried to convince them that those days are over. Americans know they are exceptional, called by God to bring human freedom to fruition on earth, and they rejected those who told them they cannot feel that pride or act as the world's beacon of liberty. Their voting was decisive and unequivocal. Yes, the Senate now has a Republican majority. But, consider. There are now more Republican House members than at any time since 1928. There are now more Republican-controlled state legislatures than at any time in America's history. And there is now a President isolated for the next two years in his White House sterile of the ideas that made America great. A President who tried to change America into a second-rate copy of herself. And tomorrow, because Republicans take America and her government seriously, there will be the beginning of a GOP plan to repair the damage done in the past six years by Barack Obama and his Democrat Senate, and all the hangers-on who tagged after them because they have no idea what America is all about. As House Speaker John Boehner said this morning : "We are humbled by the responsibility the American people have placed with us, but this is not a time for celebration. It's time for government to start getting results and implementing solutions to the challenges facing our country, starting with our still-struggling economy." The Grand Old Party has been called upon to right the Ship of America several times in history. The GOP is being called upon once more - sleeves rolled up and ready for work. The future is bright. It is the day after Obama.
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America is back in all her glory, her grandeur and her strength.
ReplyDeleteAmerican has been given the first step down a very long path that leads us back to our world leadership and domestic prosperity.
DeleteOur newly elected House and Senate must understand that the American citizen had only the GOP to turn to. Now it's time for the GOP in the House & Senate to muster up and work on the economy, jobs, our huge national debt, the disgusting Obama foreign policy, secure our borders, stop the illegal immigration and the promotion of illegal immigrants from coming here, repair the areas of our Constitution that have been damaged by the Obama administration, etc., etc.
That was just round one folks. Time to get to work and get serious about driving the stake through the heart of the flawed liberal ideology. Be happy with yesterday, but don't let your foot off the gas pedal, there is still a ton of work to get done.
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ReplyDeleteJuan Williams last night insisted the election results -- at that point -- was a rejection of incumbents and had nothing what-so-ever to do with a total repudiation of democrats and especially Obama! Seems Williams' sycophancy is complete and total, he's slavishly coupled with Obama and shows no embarrassment at appearing nuts on live National TV!
The next goal should be to frustrate Obama to the point of his voluntary resignation! I look favorably upon a Biden Presidency, it'd be a fun departure from the nightmare America has had to endure with a certified charlatan inhabiting the White House for the last 6 years!
The two major political parties are more alike than they are different. On the two paramount issues of our day — war and debt — they are identical. With the exception of Democratic progressives and Republican libertarians, the two parties stand for perpetual war and perpetual debt. Both stances increase the power of the government, and each invites present and future destruction.
ReplyDeleteA healthy society should avoid war at all costs, except when immediately vital for its own self-defense. A healthy government should pay its bills and not push them off to the next generation. There are two great freedoms being assaulted under the radar that will soon come to the fore: the freedom to live and the freedom to speak. Both parties use abortion as a litmus test. You want the Democratic nomination for any federal or state office; you need to support a woman’s right to abortion. You want the Republican nomination for any federal or state office; you better claim that you are pro-life.
Outraged that corporations can spend money to affect the outcome of campaigns, rejecting the concept that buying an advertisement in a newspaper or on TV is speech, and wanting to remove the word “free” from free speech, the Democrats attempted to circulate to the states an amendment to the Constitution that would have made the government the arbiter of acceptable political speech. Is Vladimir Putin consulting the Democrats?
A lame duck President Obama facing a Congress he hates and fears may become reckless. We should expect that.
Tuesday was a great night. Republicans won the Senate handily, picked up 14 House seats and won gubernatorial races in Massachusetts, Maryland and Illinois. Good times.
ReplyDeleteMcConnell once cited as his ideal Senate leader Mike Mansfield, a Democrat who took the gavel in 1961 and spent “16 years restoring the Senate to a place of greater cooperation and freedom.”
On Wednesday, McConnell told reporters, “There will be no government shutdowns.” McConnell is such an adult that Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, the head scout in last year’s failed bid to “defund Obamacare,” pointedly refused to endorse McConnell as GOP leader in a recent Washington Post interview.
The question is: With an adult across the table, will Obama act like Cruz or like McConnell?
The Republican Party now has one of the most important and unquestionable mandates a political party has ever had at its junction with American history, especially a political party which did not run on a national agenda. The Republican Party purposely stood mute nationally.
ReplyDeleteNow in January, if Democrats will have him, Harry Reid will find himself the leader of the minority party without filibuster rules. Ironic, isn’t it? Last time Democrats were in the minority, Republicans stupidly agreed to share power with them- this time, boy that had better not happen.
Individual Republican candidates won, and they won big. They won in a wave landslide running against Obamacare. The national Republican brand or image didn't say a word, which makes the mandate that they have all the more incredible.
It is rare that a political party running for office in a midterm election not standing for anything ends up with a mandate, and they have one, and it is the biggest and perhaps the most important mandate a political party has had in the recent era, and it is very simple what that mandate is. It is to stop Barack Obama. It is to stop the Democrats. There is no other reason why Republicans were elected yesterday. Republicans were not elected to govern. How can you govern with a president that disobeys the Constitution? How can you govern with a president that is demonstrably lawless when he thinks he has to be? The Republican Party was not elected to fix a broken system or to make it work. The Republican Party was not elected to compromise. The Republican Party was not elected to sit down and work together with the Democrats. The Republican Party was not elected to slow down the speed the country is headed
As much as some of us would like to see a new leadership team in the House and senate come this January – it’s not going to happen. Not today, next week, next session of Congress, What we have today is what we have to accept and move on.
ReplyDeleteBoth John Boehner in the House and Mitch McConnell and inside the beltway fixtures – nearly immune form party politics defeat at this point. They both singularly have far too many IOU’s owed them that would be called in if a formidable challenge would arise.
So all we have is the hope that these two warhorses can muster up the fortitude to change back to the conservative politicians that they once were years ago as their careers were nothing more than floundering freshman legislators full of enthusiasm and the desire to do good for the people & country – instead of doing good for self.
Do what is right gentlemen … not what is expedient or popular. You will both be ascended to the pinnacles of your careers because the American people have decided that under your leadership a Republican House and Senate can and will alter this disastrous course that Obama has set us on to failure.
Tuesday’s Republican tide wasn’t surprising, but there’s more to be said about it than just the obvious. The obvious is that this class of Senate seats was last up in 2008, a presidential year that was the high-water mark for Democratic turnout going back a generation. There weren’t going to be nearly as many Democrats heading to the polls this year, but what should have alarmed Democrats all the more is that 2008 rather than 2012 remains their high-water mark: Obama is the first president since World War II to be re-elected by a margin smaller than that of his original victory. That can hardly be interpreted as a vote of confidence in the Democratic brand, even if two years ago voters found the Republicans’ “dog food” even more distasteful.
ReplyDeleteTom Cotton’s brand Republican Party appears to foreshadowed. The market for realism and non-authorities politics remains. But can anyone organize the institutions and policy-making cadres to serve this demand? If not, there is little chance of a lone politician or small group of liberty-movement Republicans redirecting their party, much less their country, away from futile wars and executive consolidation: we will be back to the Bush and Clinton era, with Rand Paul as lonely a dissenter as ever his father was. At least, that is, until the Cottons and Clintons lose another, bigger war and plunge the country into something even worse than the Great Recession. Then we’ll get change without the hope.
"Remember, remember, the 5th of November"
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