Posted on 11/03/2014 12:03:12 PM PST by The Looking Spoon
LOL! The day before an expected liberal shellacking the New York Times (of course) prints an op-ed that makes even toilet paper look like Rumpelstilskin spun gold. Read the whole thing here, if you must, or you can see the main takeaway below:
There was a time when midterm elections made sense — at our nation’s founding, the Constitution represented a new form of republican government, and it was important for at least one body of Congress to be closely accountable to the people. But especially at a time when Americans’ confidence in the ability of their government to address pressing concerns is at a record low, two-year House terms no longer make any sense. We should get rid of federal midterm elections entirely...
The realities of the modern election cycle are that we spend almost two years selecting a president with a well-developed agenda, but then, less than two years after the inauguration, the midterm election cripples that same president’s ability to advance that agenda.
Steven Hayward at Power Line points out this wasn't true for Bush in 2002 when the GOP experienced gains necessary for him to move forward his post 9/11 agenda. I'll add that liberals weren't getting all weepy about midterms in 2006 when they took back the entirety of Congress. THAT midterm election was "a great victory for the American people" according to Nancy Pelosi.
Only now as they're poised to lose it all do they want backsies. They're so emotionally married to their ideology that they can't cope with the fact that there are people out there who would rejected it.
Therein lies the motivation for this farce of an article from the NYT, those people care enough to come out and make it known in a year when some flashy empty suit (or pantsuit in 2016) slinging meaningless slogans and catching the panties of (at the risk of being sexist for excluding men on the left) liberal women isn't on the ballot. The Daily Show only does GOTV for that type of politician because anything more is above the intellectual paygrade of their key demographic.
Look, liberals, it's not us, it's you...
Hey, we didn't make the rules, and you can't change them just because you lose...
Yes it is. Even young people think the GOP should have a stab at being in charge...
Let's be honest, nothing much is going to change after tomorrow. Obama already ignores Congress...but if 2016 goes the GOP's way then the potential for a new beginning after the reign of Obama ends would at least be feasible.
Thanx for the tip
Bump
Tell libs about term limits and watch their heads explode.
It’s like when Dems lose close elections they want the Electoral College eliminated. When they win because of the EC they are silent.
Case in point; Hillary Clinton. Her husband was only elected with 43% of the national vote in 1992 but won the EC. In 2000, after Bush squeaked by with an EC win but lost the national vote like Clinton, she was for getting rid of it.
See my #27 post.
Wouldn’t we all...
They love the rules when they win.
They want to get rid of them when they lose.
Another example of libtards not actually taking that last life-defining step from adolescent to independent adult.
Libtards are stuck, stunted, in perpetual adolescense. For whatever reason they never made the final step to functioning independent adult.
Think of all the negatives of teens. We all were one. We know our shortcomings at that stage. Demand everything, demand independence yet expect others to bail them out of their bad decisions. Not want to suffer bad conseuquences of actions, but not share anything for good consequences with others (all mine!). Expect others to take care of them. Idealism, never admitting they are wrong, rationalizing away obvious failures based on bad naive idealistic ideas that do not work in the real world and defy genuine human nature. Authroity figs are stupid and don’t know anything, they know far more than mom and dad. Scorn at those who went through same things before them. Think every thought they have nobody else has ever had. World should be totally focused around them, and specifically, their groins.
That’s a pretty astute observation! It’s no wonder the left virtually owns the youth vote, and why they favor giving them more (unearned) political clout.
I haven’t seen much of the original series. I was more of a TNG guy.
I’ll have to look up that episode.
It’s “A Piece of the Action.” One of the better ones.
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