Posted on 10/22/2006 8:02:16 AM PDT by kellynla
The conventional wisdom (how often does it prove wrong?) is that the 2006 midterm elections will be 1994 in reverse. The Republican tsunami of that year will be replicated this year by a Democratic wave that will wrest control of the House of Representatives and perhaps the Senate, too, from the GOP.
That may happen. Certainly the polls suggest a dismal night Nov. 7 for the Republicans.
And yet, there is one especially startling difference between the 1994 GOP blowout and the apparently pending Democratic sweep this year.
In 1994, Republicans nationalized the midterm congressional elections by uniting around a national agenda, Newt Gingrich's Contract With America, endorsed by 370 Republican congressional candidates. In stark contrast, the Democrats this year have no agreed-upon national agenda.
The Democrats' strategy, to the extent they have one, is to make the 2006 midterms a referendum on an unpopular president and an unpopular war. That may be enough to get them elected, but then what?
Here is where the 1994 analogy breaks down completely. Gingrich and the new Republican majorities in the House and Senate went on to pull Bill Clinton's erratic presidency back toward the center from its liberal excesses of 1993-94. Welfare reform, spending restraint, and a balanced-budget compact followed by successive years of budget surpluses were all products of the Gingrich revolution in Congress.
(Excerpt) Read more at signonsandiego.com ...
Beyond the Democrats' missing agenda, Bush strategist Karl Rove and Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman have one last ace to play. In the final 72 hours before this election, they will implement the most sophisticated and best-financed plan ever devised for mobilizing the GOP base and getting its voters to the polls. Democrats have nothing like it."
if Democrats win the House...
John Conyers will take over the Judiciary Committee and he has promised to launch impeachment hearings.
Two years of impeachment hearings !
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
I sort of think that two years of impeachment hearings may only help the GOP's chances in 08.
"unpopular president and an unpopular war."
Saying it doesn't make it so.
JMO, the drive by media is in for a surprise the morning of November 8th.
They will be proven fallible and will lose even more influence.
You have a good point.
Many voted for Perot and against Bush 41...then we got Clinton.
Thus we should not make that same mistake.
IMHO
I don't think they will actually have impeachment hearings. I think that is just a carrot dangling in front of the noses of liberals to get them to vote Democrat. Vote for us and we will make your dreams come true and impeach the President, but they know they can't possibly do that and when it gets right down to it they will come up with some line about there being more important things to concentrate on to 'fix' what the evil Republicans have done to our country.
It really is lame. I watched the RI senate debates last night. The Dem talked about bringing troops home by December, raising FICA cap to reform Social Security and eliminating the donut hole in Medicare D Prescription drug plan. That was it. If elected, my guess is that he could not do any of these.
Bill Clinton: "No they weren't. Those were all my ideas. The Republicans stole my ideas and then forced me to sign them into law."
The media have certainly have firmly set that meme. Of course, if the media's polling reports had been accurate in 2004, we would have President Kerry in office.
Their "polling" seems to be less about presenting some sort of reasonable guess about future events and more about trying to drive those events. Certainly with the lack of accuracy that these "polls" have shown, it seems ridiculous to actually use them as a news source --- paying a haruspex to create an "entrails" report would be about as credible based on polling's equally embarrassing track record.
“He wanted to be a haruspex, but didn’t have the guts.”
The only polling I'm interested in is 11/7.
Every time I hear one of these polls I am reminded of the polls that stated that Gore would beat Bush in 2000 and Kerry would beat Bush in 2004...and we know how correct those polls were. LMAO
Still for most of the Dems doing that sort of sweep would shock their spouses. I'm sorry "Significant Other" < /--- pcism < phleeepppppp!
If the democrats win you will see the following:
1. Stevens and maybe Ginsburgh will retire from the bench. The seats will stay vacant until 2008 in the hopes that a Democrat will be elected. Any Bush appointee to any bench will be immediately tied up in committee. Upon a Dem win in 08, the RATS will immediately go nuclear, pushing through their lib appointees.
2. Bush will veto everything and the RATS and the MSM will accuse Bush of obstruction.
3. Any comrimise bills that do make it to Bush's desk will be praised on day one then hammered by the RATS as Republican pandering.
4. Funds for the war will be cut off and a date for withdrawal tabled. Bush will be forced to sign it and then the RATS will label Republicans the party of cut and run.
5. Impeachment.
6. Tax cuts eliminated. Bush will try to make them permanent but without the majority, it won't happen.
7. Interest rates will rise, unemployment will rise, taxes will rise, inflation will rise and the RATS and the MSM will blame Bush.
I simply dont believe and dont agree with the notion that only the GOP can do GOTV. Actually here in our county, the Dems are pretty welloiled on GOTV. It depends on the area.
GOVT btw doesnt happen out of thin air. It take *volunteer effort* to help make it happen* ... So if you want to help defend the GOP Congress, here is what you can do:
1. Write letter to editor.
2. Call GOP HQ and ask if you can do some calling
- calling just 50 people (takes one hour) can help remind enough people to increase voting by 5-10%. That is, of the 50 people, maybe 35 would vote anyway, 10 wont vote anyway, but there will be 5 of them who wouldnt have voted who now have a reminder that pushes them over the edge to vote...
3. Get your friends, neighbors, colleagues etc. to vote Republican.
Get the message in front of them about how screwed up the Democrats are.
Exactly
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