Posted on 08/25/2009 1:08:49 PM PDT by HorowitzianConservative
Last night, former Bill Clinton advisor Dick Morris joined Sean Hannity to discuss breaking news that both unemployment and the budget deficit were trending higher than forecast earlier by the Obama White House.
Morris called the news "a disaster for the Democrats." Hannity balked when Morris made the startling prediction that, given these developments, along with a looming "double dip" recession, "you could see one hundred seats changing" from Democrat to Republican in the next election.
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Now if only the 100 dems are replaced with conservatives, not RINOs.
Morris must have really sucked some wisdom out of those toes.
yeah but has this guy ever been right?
I like the news... I detest the little weasel, though. In his case, follow the money... he goes where it is.
Obama’s the man! First, “Gun Salesman of the Year,” next, “Republican of the Century!”
never
Beck has been all over the "Cloward-Piven" Obama connection for months!
Never, ever underestimate the ability of Publicrats to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
While I hope for the best, I fear the worst.
THEY ALL SUCK!!
Here’s hoping for MORE than 100 seats that will be filled by ACTUAL CONSERVATIVES in ‘10 and beyond!
Suggested agenda for
Day 1 - Nullify every act, every law passed by 0bama, Pelosi and gang.
Day 2 - Exhonorate CIA operatives and legalize all tactics they have employed to protect our Country.
Day 3 - Take back all apologies issued by 0bama and tell those countries they can kiss our a$$
If he is only half right, we will take over the house in 2010. All we need is 219 and I think the rats have 255 right now.
100 seats won’t make a difference if we fill them with low quality pretenders.
Well, I’d been hoping. But now that Morris said it ... not gonna happen.
This is just spin so that they can declare victory when they only loose 60 seats.
Day 4. Fumigate the White House.
I know. A bit juvenile, but so damn appropriate.
i suppose that anything is possible but is it likely no.
the amount of seats that flip to R will basically be determined by several key factors:
BO’s popularity in going into Nov. 2010
the message and resources the Rs have
a decent GOTV message
if the current trend continues Rs could pick up anywhere from 20 - 60 seats i think again depending on varying factors.
That’s what I was thinkin.
In my dreams, I imagine a veto-proof house, and ramming down all sorts of good things on Obama.
Too early to tell. If it’s the same or worse in December/Jan., it’s possible.
Here’s hoping for MORE than 100 seats that will be filled by ACTUAL CONSERVATIVES in ‘10 and beyond!
From your lips to Gods ears. I hope most all of the elitist, leftist, Rhinos and all the rest of the pond scum be out of our government. I want to pay the salaries of people who honor and respect our founding forefathers and our values. And, if we can get ACLU, ACORN and the rest of the morally impaired de-funded I would be a very happy American.
In the words of Gary Gilmore - “let’s do it!”
I think the courts will throw out any close gop wins, like Coleman’s in Minnesota, and prevent the socialists from losing their majorities.
Hell yeah !
Morris would really make waves if he would put his money where his mouth is, and list who those 100 at risk Democrats are. That is, assuming that it is just Democrats who are at risk.
If he is correct, this could be a clarion call for a third party to enter the realm of national politics, if they would start early and have their prospective candidates pound away at the Democrats.
Right now, imagine what would happen if the Libertarians or a Conservative party rented a hall, so that the public could see a candidate who would agree with them on stopping Obamacare, slashing the size of the federal government, and putting a stop to profligate spending. “I’m not your enemy! Tell me what *you* want!”
If they could put together a coalition of retirees, veterans, conservatives upset with the Republicans, and other third party types, they could concentrate their fire on the Democrats big time.
It may be time for the Republican party to go the way of the Whig party, which happened almost out of mutual agreement, because the party had become so stultified. A new Conservative-Libertarian party could likely begin as powerfully as did the Republicans under Lincoln.
Day 4, craft a budget that rolls back all spending to 2000 then increase for inflation and send it to Obama. Remind people how good life was in 2000 and ask why we need a bigger government than what we had then.
Day 5, launch Congressional investigations of the entire Obama administration.
Take the plastic off the furnishings
Remove the gang tags from the walls
Thanks for mentioning this - in all my studies I have never heard of them. The systematic, planned, and orchestrated overloading of the government is obvious - but I had not before read of the genesis of this strategy.
“I imagine a veto-proof house, and ramming down all sorts of good things on Obama.”
then Zero gets the credit like Clinton did for anything good that happened under an R congress. Better we pick up seats and drive Zero out of office by 2010 - by impeachment or disqualification.
[100 seats won’t make a difference if we fill them with low quality pretenders.]
EXACTLY!!
We ARE goign to gain seats..just a quetsion of how many, and hopefully many will be real conservatives. However, the first thing I want of the new GOP caucus is NEW leadership. The old crowd has got to go...
Yeah, and I’m going to eat manure and howl at the moon.
Boy, it just doesn’t take long before the “RINO” reference pops up.
Morris is nuts. We could only get 230 in 2004....
I think Republicans will retake the House, but it will be too late to do much.
Everyone tends to overlook the fact that “The Divine One” will flood the polls with ACORN “voters” and thus keep the Democrats in power. To put it another way there will be very few Republicans elected. The days of fair and honest elections may be over.
Now if only the 100 dems are replaced with conservatives, not RINOs.
The thing that isn’t being consider in all this hoopla is that if the GOP doesn’t have potential candidates out working the process now the chances are the large number of wins may not occur.
Some of the Primary contest are about seven months out. The GOP needs to have strong candidates in the primaries so that the best go up against the dems in November.
Here is a list in chronological order of the 2010 primaries:
http://www.thegreenpapers.com/G10/events.phtml?format=chronological
100 seats sounds like a good number but there are so many “Democratic safe” districts out there. I live in one, unfortunately. If Jesus Christ himself ran as a Republican in my district, the idiot voters here would still vote Dem. My district has been occupied by a donkey since FDR.
no wonder fingold (or fineman?) said no healthcare bill before christmas.
Obama is turning into a lame duck IN HIS FIRST YEAR!!!!
he better hope hillary does not start a “listening tour”
The administration and congress are acting precisely as if there will be no more elections......
Please God.
Amen
Rasmussen showed a poll the Dems would lose 40 seats, and that was about 6 months ago. Now the 'current trends' are much worse for Obama and the Dims.
I wish, but the American attention span is woefully short.
By 2010, most voters will probably have amnesia.
LET’S TAKE IT ONE NECESSARY STEP FURTHER:
I fear that many of our problems today stem from the fact that far too many of our legislators are LAWYERS. Further, I believe that we need more DOCTORS in those positions – and NO LAYWERS!!
Lawyers as legislators pose a very, very serious problem for an ostensibly free people: They LOVE making laws and the more complex and incomprehensible the better. Think about it: In the private sector – to which many of them return (hopefully in HUGE NUMBERS IN 2010!!) – they, and their buds who remain behind in the private sector, earn their often obscene incomes (in addition to the obscenely generous, COLA congressional pensions and tax subsidized HEALTH CARE!) wading through that Byzantine labyrinth of rules and regulations they, themselves, constructed. It’s a process that prompted Otto von Bismarck to remark that “Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.” Can I get an “AMEN?”
While there ARE exceptions (Bill Frist toward the end of his term, Phil Gingrey — who strays from time to time) my rule that physicians make better legislators than most lawyers generally holds true. I attribute that to the fact that most doctors are trained in the SCIENTIFIC METHOD and rely more on FACTS and EMPIRICAL DATA for their decisions. Ron Paul, Larry McDonald, Paul Broun, John Linder, Tom Price are (or were) all doctors. I’m sure you can think of other examples/exceptions.
Unfortunately, far too many of these guys are ATTORNEYS.
Our late friend and author, composer, conductor, Nashville music producer, lover of Bach, pianist and all-around Renaissance man, Tupper Saussy, who somehow dodged the family tradition of becoming one, traced the term “attorney” back to the Sanscrit word “torwa.” And what does “torwa” mean? TO TWIST!
While SOME of these attorney-legislators are conservatives, their law school moot court training forced them to argue BOTH SIDES OF THE SAME CASE. I rather suspect that experience allows them to rationalize voting against the Constitution when expediency and/or their political survival/favor with their party leadership dictates. It is textbook moral relativism and we all pay for their perfidy.
Let me tie that attorney-legislator problem into the current health care debate: I might have missed it but I don’t believe there was one mention of TORT REFORM from the lawyers who cobbled together that 1,000+ page monstrosity now dividing the nation.
I’ll give you three guesses as to why — and the last two don’t count!
And here’s something to think about for the primary elections to the 2010 general election: If the attorney-legislator representing your district does not pass muster at www.gradegov.com, if you can, find a NON-LAWYER for whom to vote after grilling him on the first principles near and dear to those who cherish freedom and the Constitution.
Too hard, say you?
No. SLAVERY is hard.
BTW, FREEDOM HAS AN ADDRESS: IT’S HTTP://WWW.JBS.ORG
I don’t know about 100, but there is NO doubt that the dems are going to lose the house in 2010.
The Senate, is a bit dicier, but they will certainly lose seats there, whether they lose 10+ seats and complete control, that would mean a complete repudiation of dems even in the bluest of blue states for that to happen.
It may happen, but that’s not as assured. REID definately will be gone, Spectre as well (though whether he loses to a Dem in a primary challenge, or to Toomey in the general is yet to be seen).
BO is a lame duck already politically, he just doesn’t know it.
By the end of this year it will be blindingly obvious, and his attempts to make congress irrellevant will be obvious even to the democratic congressmen. CZAR will be the next 4 letter word politically... just give it a few more months.
We would do well to elect more ‘regular’ people. Let’s get some farmers, small business owners, teachers, and others who work hard for a living and have an interest in doing their best for the country.
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