What’s Coming for We the Peons Next Year?

Pajamas Media ^ | October 26, 2010 | Dan Miller

[DanMiller]

The best-case scenarios are probably that Republicans/T.E.A. candidates et al will win simple majorities in the House and in the Senate, that within those majorities there will be sufficient conservatives to play dominant roles beginning in 2011, and that others — maybe even including some lapsed Democrats, particularly those up for reelection in 2012 — will fall into line, sort of. Nevertheless, we will continue to be “blessed” with President Obama at least until January of 2013.

Will ObamaCare be repealed in 2011? Will the EPA and other monoliths respond to a new and improved Congress quickly? Will the economic future become bright, clear, and sunny and the threat of terrorism to cease? Not likely, at least not immediately. Will there be a Republican betrayal? Maybe, but with continued efforts comparable to those exhibited during the months leading up to November 2010, it can at least be minimized. Will there be rampant disappointment? Probably. One of President Obama’s biggest blunders was in raising expectations so high that even were he as people were led to believe during the 2008 campaign he could not have met them.

It is said that everyone can serve as an example, and even bad examples are very useful; to that extent, we must learn from President Obama — the very model of a modern U.S. president — who claims not to have done as well as he thinks he should have because the nasty people on the right have caused We the Peons to become absurdly afraid and frustrated. Some of us aren’t even grateful that he lowered himself and deigned to run for the presidency to help us, the simple folk who cling miserably to guns, religion, and dislike of those who aren’t like us.

[DanMiller]

The video linked to "the very model of a modern U.S. president" is pretty funny.

[whitedog57]

And if they win and try to cut spending, the Dems will whip up the entitlement/union crowd and get elected again.

You don’t get it. NO ONE will fix the system. It has to crash and crash badly.

EVERY politician is scum. Sorry, they represent THEMSELVES and not us.

[DanMiller]

I share your pessimism to some extent, but if We the Peons remain as active as during the recent months, there is a chance. Stranger things have happened.

[Mouton]

“You don’t get it. NO ONE will fix the system. It has to crash and crash badly.”

Unfortunately, you got that one right. With more than 40% of the people not paying any income tax, and in fact, some of them getting a check from the IRS for what I don’t know except they allegedly don’t have income already, and with probably more than 50% of the population on some form of federal or federal subsidized handouts, nothing will change until the system stops running, period. Perhaps the moocher class then will go on a rampage in a snit, who cares but the system must be recast based away from the current entitlement mentality to one of you get is what you work for.

[ZOOKER]

Prediction for 2011? Malaise.

Simple majorities won't be able to pass anything, the Dems will block it.

The economy will sputter as tax cuts run out and businesses struggle under the laws the Dems passed while in the majority. Frustrated businesspeople will vote with their feet, or rather their dollars. Tax revenues will drop again.

2011 will look much like 2010, except the Republican Congress will get the blame.

[jimmyray]

You don’t get it. NO ONE will fix the system. It has to crash and crash badly.

I HATE that sort of fatalistic despairing. I hate it all the more because I agree with you, it won't be fixed until it collapses catastrophically! We can only delay the inevitable, IMHO.

[umgud]

There is a large contingent of voters who woke up in the last year or so. If they stay awake in ‘12, we should be in pretty good shape for at least a couple more election cycles.

[Dudoight]

Obama will veto any health care repeal...we cannot get that accomplished.

With a conservative majority in the house, the only thing we can hope for is to block further progressive legislation. Even if we get a senate majority Obama stands to veto.

I hope dissatisfaction with what the conservative majority is unable to do doesn’t set up a win for the O in 2012.

[Dudoight]

“2011 will look much like 2010, except the Republican Congress will get the blame.”

That is my worry...setting up a win for O in 2012.

[eyeamok]

Armageddon is what is in store for we the people.

Regardless of who gets elected, thing will get much worse, as soon as the Ruling Class figures out that they cannot BUY all of the New people elected to Congress and States, or at least a Majority of them, they will immediately begin destroying the economy and peoples lives in order to retain control.

If anyone out there actually believes the Banking Cartel and Wall Street are going to let a bunch of newcomers in Congress start calling the shots with regards to We The People, I have a nice bridge for sale in Long Beach.

Hold on tight, you aint seen nothing yet

[sonic109]

Obama will veto every move we make. We need to continue to educate the moronic public and we also need to oust the MSM and their propaganda in order to change anything

[combat_boots]

We shall not win if we do not FIGHT.

I hear what you are saying. But now is not the time to lie down and quit.

And if the Republicans don’t turn this around, it really will be up to us, and we’ll be alone.

Toe the line, Zooker. We need you—and ‘they’ want you demoralized and discouraged. They need that feeling to make themselves feel good, like the sociopaths and cultural rapists they are.

[Le Chien Rouge]

Part of the lefts plan—Cloward Piven—is to crash the system so THE LEFT can take charge.

The left is anticipating the entitlement crowd—inner city, minorities— becoming an angry mob and attacking outward demanding THEIR ‘RIGHTS’ with a sympathetic MSM urging them on.

The fly in the ointment is middle America that is well armed and that is not European weak.

If the system crashes -—hold on tight and prepare for blood.

JMO..

[DanMiller]

That, Sir, is the entire point of the article. We need to do more than simply stay awake. We have to remain just as active in 2011, 2012 and even thereafter as we have been during the past months. It's important. If not, things will get even worse. As stated in the last paragraph of the article,

"It will take time and effort to overcome governmental inertia and to make President Obama’s paradigm irrelevant; but it very simply has to happen. If it does not, we are likely to find our country in an even worse pickle than at present. We the Peons must, absolutely must, remain involved with a level of commitment at least comparable to that demonstrated during the lead up to the November 2010 election. There is no other way."

[sergeantdave]

Anyone who thinks we can roll back 100 years of Marxism in one election is living in a fool’s paradise.

We also need to take back our neighborhoods in local elections. I live in an area that votes 70% + for conservatives in national elections, but liberal RINO cockroaches have managed to burrow their way into county government.

Liberals need to be thrown out of every elected and unelected position in society. Taking back the US House is a good battle won, but it’s only the first step of many.

[BobP]

EVERY politician is scum. Sorry, they represent THEMSELVES and not us.

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Yeah, that's what the Hell care bill was all about.

Obamacare continues the scheme of taking money from those who pay for insurance and funneling it to lawmakers and their families. Lots and lots of money funneling will flow to politicians and their buddies (those lucky enough to have politically protected CAT/MRI scanning centers) through inflated reimbursments.

Everyday is Christmas for the politicians and its only going to get worse.

Now as to the question of what's coming:

More of the same (job losses) and inflation like never before.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

By far, the very most important thing that the new Republican majority can do is in the House, and right at the very start of the new term:

The first and second most important House committees, rules and appropriations, need to right at the beginning of the new congress, repartition the major appropriations bills into “Those we want to fund”, and “Those we don’t want to fund.”

That is, huge chunks of the government are lumped together in a few appropriations bills. When the Clinton Republican majority tried to cut them back, Clinton vetoed the bills, then accused the Republicans of “shutting down the government”.

So the way around this problem is to put all the cutbacks into their own bills, and it won’t *matter* if Obama vetoes them. In fact it is *better* that Obama vetoes them, because then he gets the credit for *killing* them, from his followers, irate at them having been killed.

And the Republicans should really take a broad axe to the government when they do this. Cut more than needs to be cut, so they will have bargaining chips.

Since the Senate is a much more liberal institution, little can be done there other than playing defense. They will likely try to counter the House with radically different bills to “save the pork”, and will pressure the House to restore funding when the bills are justified in conference committee.

So this is the second most important thing for the House to do: stick to its guns, and *not* restore funding for cutbacks. Tell the senate to stick it. If they don’t agree to cutbacks, then the entire agency dies.

No continuing resolutions if there is an impasse. Arrange it from the start so that impasses are over agencies the House is trying to eliminate, that have no chutzpah when segregated from other bills.

The bottom line for the House is that “The more you win, the stronger you get.” And in this case, winning means slashing the heck out of the size and power of the federal government.

[DanMiller]

I agree. And we need to keep after them, constantly, if that is to happen.

[Texas Fossil]

Obama will veto any health care repeal...we cannot get that accomplished.

Wrong. Supreme Court on Constitutional Grounds?? Cut off all funding by House for the programs. Impeach the B___tard for Treason.

If those fail, whatever it takes to save the nation.