Posted on 09/27/2009 11:07:48 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former President Bill Clinton predicts that Democrats won't suffer the kind of political meltdown that hobbled his administration after the 1994 elections.
Democrats lost control of the House for the first time in 40 years after those elections. Republicans are forecasting that kind of backlash next year against the Democrats.
Clinton suggests that's wishful thinking by the GOP.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Considering the source, I’m liking this news.
I’m hoping it will be worse. Maybe wishful thinking on my part. Who knows?
His lips are moving....
He’s probably right... the GOP won’t regain the House...
Slick Willie is whistling past the graveyard.
That’s good news.Taking actual control of either house next year would play right into Hussein’s hands....as it played into Billy Bob’s hands in ‘94.Getting close to parity in both houses would render Hussein impotent...which is the best thing we can hope for.
We’ll see. If I’m above ground and conscious I’ll be at the polls.
Freeper Jeff Head sent me this video. Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fzKY0hS_Pw
If you do, please pass it around. Let’s watch the views climb.
And the GOP continues to try and sell us on RINOs, closet liberals and general scum of the political class. No thanks GOP, you have betrayed us.
maybe they have a new strategy to help the dems out
Here I had my hopes all up and now I am crushed.
Wanna bet?
Clinton’s about to be caught with his pants down... AGAIN!
We need to save this prediction.
God willing they will be far worse, but I doubt the Dems will lose Congress simply because once again the GOP leadership is complacent and believes people will just vote for them because they are there.
Let us go lie to a grand jury, Bill.
Wishful thinking? It could very well be worse than '94. The electorate is pissed and ready to throw the bums out!
This Obama-worshiping reporter from the AP is full of it. WHO AMONG THE REPUBLICANS IS PREDICTING WE'LL TAKE CONTROL?? WHO?????? I WANT NAMES.
The fact is, conservatives are nearly as pissed off at Republicans as they are Democrats. They're different degrees of big government clowns.
Obama is JOKER in chief, yes, but we Constitutionalists are also irritated with the McLames, Grayed Hams, and Chuckles Crists....liberals in our midst.
I haven't seen any serious predictions of a Republican takeover of Congress.
This looks like AP idiots saying this, so that when the Democrats still keep control, they can run headlines saying "PUBLIC STILL TRUSTS DEMOCRATS".
It’s possible to retake the house.
Many now are considering it is doable....
2010 GOP Comeback?http://www.willisms.com/archives/2009/09/trivia_tidbit_o_660.html
Will we ever get RID of this terrible person?
I hope dirty Bill is going to go out and campaign for Dim Senators and Congresscritters all over the country just to make sure this does not happen. We all know what a boost for a candidate him showing up is.
The Democrats are going to be spending lots and lots of money via ACORN to discredit Republicans even at the local level.
We need to wake up our neighbors and friends to just what will be happening in the next year.
Naaah
It's Clinton who is doing the wishful thinking. He needs to look at the polls for 2010. If Chris Dodd and Dingy Harry Reed are so far behind their Republican opponents, which Democrat is safe?
Very nice...
Gridlock is good.
this from the asshole in chief.....
Yup.
Lets see how many seek his support, the kiss of death.
Democrats don't even need those basic qualifications.
He is deaf, then, to the FURY We the People are feeling and the all-consuming need to clean up DC.
He’s completely correct, of course... In fact, the Slavery Party will add 1-2 Senate seats and 12-15 more House seats! After all, ACORN got the last election right, and has cemented their effects. Doesn’t matter if they go away, the fake voters are in and “confirmed” by their voting in 2008.
The republicans would have to take 40 seats to regain control of the House. About 3 weeks ago Michael Barone predicted a possible two dozen seat in danger for the Dem.
I am predicting Democrat gains in both house simply because the GOP is so weak and anemic. It simply is not playing offense. How do they expect to win if they do not play offense?
The GOP needs to go the way of Joe Wilson, minus the apologizing.
ACORN?? But they aren't “new” are they?
He also said Hillary would be the next prez.....
acorn is already damaged and the dems wouldn’t think risking having any connections with acorn.
im thinking they have another way to steal the 2010 elections.
Must have had ACORN stockpiling bogus votes left over from the ‘08 elections, so the surplus will carry the Rats to victory next year.
This is what I'm afraid of. Reid, et al, wouldn't be so gung-ho to pass the health care bill if he wasn't so sure of reelection. I wouldn't count ACORN out though. They may reform under a different name.
Secretary of State 'Clinton' busy with laundry.
I think he’s saying “Don’t worry guys, the fix is in!”
2010 will be an interesting election. Economic conditions will be worse for the Democrats than in ‘94. The general disposition toward Democrats looks to be about as poor as in ‘94. On the other hand, the public doesn’t think much of Republicans just now. Republicans might get the House by default. They’d improve their chances if they took meaningful steps to overcome the actions that caused them to lose their majority. Those things are excessive spending, corruption and pumping up the role of federal government in social matters such as Terry Schiavo. The Flordia courts made a big mistake in handling of that case. But it isn’t up to the federal government to inject itself into every big mistake that a state makes. Republicans made themselves look like the party of overweening, intrusive big government.
“Democrats don’t even need those basic qualifications.”
So true - it’s an uphill fight even under the best of conditions.
If the GOP really won’t ever successfully get rid of all of its RINOs from the party, then Bill Clinton will be correct. RINOs agree with leftists too often on many issues, and their ongoing existence from within the GOP will probably kill the entire party at some given point in the future. The other problem for both the GOP in general and conservatives in general is this: What good is it to elect GOP candidates and conservative candidates when all past, present, and future leftist legislation that already exists as law really can’t be either successfully undone or successfully made to be pro-conservative for always?
He also mentioned there is still a vast right wing conspiracy although it is not as virulent..Drudge Report, item link to Google News...URL http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gG6zOGWoZh9MbfCgUqOUgbO7djPwD9AVM4780
I’m steaming...Has this blind man not noticed that a Marxist has taken over the White House and the Far Left Newspapers (meaning all the major media newspapers) have made very little fuss about it; or that the Far Far left has used Acorn to fraudulently elect their shameless Democrat friends ?...This is just unbelievable, but then i blame Pres. Clinkstone for really bringing the ‘Politics of Hate’ to the WH and Dimrat Party..He hated Reps, had no use for them, didn’t understand them, made no attempt to understand. and would have gone far left if the Reps hadn’t pulled him kicking and screaming back to the center...What bums these Dems are...absolutely shameful, disgraceful and full of hatred for America, our Constitution, for God, family values, for anything that was radical because it makes their blood run faster like an adrenaline rush...The Reps had better rip the Dems in 2010, starting now in Congress, and continuing all the way through...Maybe the ‘Rats lost their way and their moral compass but the good American has not...
That’s because Clinton didn’t post Black Panthers and ACORN thugs at the entrance to the polling places. Hussein will!
Yeah Slick really saw 94 coming, that’s why he made those crucial changes that made the difference..... sarc> Anything, repeat ANYTHING this a$$hole says is better than 50/50 to be pure BS.
And to think a lot more PO’d voters this time. 94 was a walk in the park.
He’s smoozing the bro, just to make negabama think hitlery isn’t looking to toss him under the big bus come 2012.
bttt
They won’t be as bad. They’ll be worse!
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