Posted on 11/01/2010 12:10:47 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
Conservative Republican control of the House is step one. Taking control of the Senate is step two, regardless of whether we do it in 2010 or 2012. And step three is electing a conservative president in 2012. It will not be as easy as one-two-three, but it can be done. It must be done to take back our government.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Democrats expect such a depressing Election Night that Chris Matthews's office windows were reportedly nailed shut to keep him from leaping off.
The political climate is so miserable for Democrats that Republicans are leading in CNN polls. In a shocking break with CNN tradition, the GOP's double-digit lead wasn't called "too close to call."
For months, the Democrats' legions of opposition research teams -- officially known as "The Media" -- have worked themselves into a frenzy, cooking up one fake "GOP scandal" after another, the corrupt bastages. All to no avail.
The idiotic push to find "evidence" of Republican candidates cheating on their wives, molesting children -- in other words, behaving like Democrats -- proved such an epic failure, frustrated "reporters" for Alaska's KTVA ended up nailing themselves. In a recorded phone call to the Joe Miller campaign, they were heard conspiring to fabricate stories about Miller, but the tech wizards apparently forgot how to hang up a cell phone.
KTVA general honcho Jerry Bever tried to quell the controversy by confirming the recording was authentic, then claiming "the Miller campaign's analysis of the recording is incorrect in many material ways!" Husband caught cheating tells wife, Honey, your analysis of this is incorrect in sooooo many material ways -- honest!"
KTVA is now so completely discredited, Dan Rather swiftly put in a job application.
Libbies are busy disastrously working through the various stages of grief, beginning in denial (everything's honky dory -- CBS tells me so!) and ending in "acceptance," but the "acceptance" consists of thinking that a shellacking Tuesday is honky dory news for Obama. Getting creamed at the ballot box will be AWESOME! Just wait till you see Obama 2.0!
In other words, it's back to Stage One, "denial." The one big hitch with the 2.0 plan is that it won't work. Liberals seem to think that voters reelected Bill Clinton in '96 because they voted Republican in '94. Voters feared and loathed the Gingrich Congress, goes the theory, so they reelected Clinton. In fact, they feared and loathed the Gingrich Congress so much, they reelected it in '96. Left out of this bit of convenient historical revisionism is that the U.S. economy in '96 was growing gangbusters (the Reagan boom had resumed) and the Republicans had nominated Bob Dole. The current housing mess will take years to resolve and even experts know the economy will still be limping along with high unemployment well into next year and the year after. Obama 2.0 can't trump an economy "growing" 2.0 percent.
Obama last year famously told Rep. Marion Berry that "the big difference here and in '94 was you've got me." And the big difference between '96 and 2012 is that you'll still have Obamanomics.
Anyway, that's...
My Two Cents...
"JohnHuang2"
One more day to go! Monday morning ping!
Hey, you! Long time, no see! First, from the article...
“And just as the citizens’ tea-party movement has heavily impacted the midterm election results of 2010, the movement will also impact the results in Congress going forward. Contrary to the wishes of the liberals and the political elites in Washington, those “tea-party people” are not going away.
They are not going away because of the power and reach of the Internet, the pent-up frustration with the government’s inability to truly solve anything of substance. The passion of the people has enabled and empowered a movement to take our government back.
It’s a long road ahead, but the sleeping giant called “We the People” is not going back to sleep again.”
I just wanted to highlight this portion of his brilliant article.
Now...I’m going to read your 2 cents...which I have no doubt will be as brilliant...and maybe even more so. ;o)
If the GOP does not radically reform government from top to bottom including entitlements it won’t make a difference. We will continue to spiral downward with debt debasing our currency. We can’t grow our way out of the entitlements problems or the pension problems at the state and federal levels. If the GOP tackles these issues they will be swept from power just like the rats on Tuesday.
Definitely hoping we can turn the ship around but not too optimistic no matter how happy I am this week. We have real fundamental problems and I don’t hear too many Republicans addressing them. It’s now or never!
Oh, man...you are at the top of your game! Absolutely brilliant!!!
One thing...”corrupt bastages”...good usage. You won’t have to apologize to your mother. ;o)
BTW, voters reelected Clinton in ‘96 for two reasons...he successfully triangulated, and moved way to the center, and two...Bob Dole was his opponent.
I think we are in uncharted waters with the Won...and so are the ‘rats. However, I have a lot of faith that he well let them down by not moving to the center.
He’s been his community organizing self all over the planet, and has managed to alienate many more than us bitter clingers.
I can’t wait until Tuesday to break out my new tagline. ;o)
“We have real fundamental problems and I don’t hear too many Republicans addressing them.”
Yes...we do. If the establishment Republicans refuse to address those problems, they will have a lot of us picking their bones clean.
I hope they realize that they are on notice.
Anybody have a claw hammer I can borrow? Need to pull out some nails.
Can you imagine the seismometers registering that hit?
“And just because we might have a Republican controlled Congress does not mean the Tea Party is going away either, because the Tea Party is going to hold this new Congress accountable too.”
That, my Friend, is THE point! The establishment in both parties are on notice.
POWER OF “ THE PEOPLE “ ....
“POWER OF “ THE PEOPLE “ ....”
BTTT!
Obama last year famously told Rep. Marion Berry that "the big difference here and in '94 was you've got me."BWAHAHAHAHAHA! Yup, he's all yours mindless dimwits.
Good morning John.
“If the GOP tackles these issues they will be swept from power just like the rats on Tuesday.”
Say what ? The GOP NEEDS to tackle these issues. ALL government spending needs to be addressed. There are no sacred cows anymore:
Farm subsidies and price supports should killed. There is no reason for American farmers to be paid to NOT FARM. They’ve become complacent accepting government payments rather than innovating and becoming more productive so they can compete in a free market with imports.
Stop paying single women to become single mothers. EITC, FoodStamps, child tax credits, etc. are just ways to buy voters and turn those people into dependent slaves of the government. Slavery was abolished 145 years ago, and then reinstated by LBJ 40 years ago. Time to abolish it again.
Military procurement needs to be streamlined, and foreign bases closed. We don’t need to be in Germany or South Korea or Japan. We could get bombers anywhere in the world in hours. All those bases do is shift military burdens from other countries onto the American taxpayer, while servicemen spend money supporting foreign economies rather than our own.
Foreign aid has become a joke. It hasn’t bought us any friends, just padded the pockets of corrupt foreign bureaucrats. We can send food and supplies when a natural disaster strikes, but that’s it.
Change Social Security so the employee’s half goes into their own personal account, and the employer’s half continues to pay off the old ponzi scheme obligations.
Every government expense has somebody that signed off on it — and no I’m not talking about anybody in Congress. I’m talking about the bureaucrat that actually signed off on the hiring of staff or purchase of equipment or lease of office space, or ... etc. THESE are the people we need to convince to reduce costs, and the only way to do that is to change how they are paid. Hit them in their own pockets by making raises in percents equal to reductions they achieve in costs, and conversely they get a pay cut equal to any “unavoidable” increase they ask for. Rather than being rewarded for growing their personal empires, suddenly they’ll be rewarded for shrinking those empires. Personal productivity has decreased the costs of operating virtually every business over the past 20 years, yet government costs constantly increase ? Ridiculous. I’d be surprised if operating costs can’t be cut by at least 30%.
Give those bureaucrats a free hand in simplifying and throwing out regulations in the industries they oversee. Fewer regulations mean fewer staff needed to verify compliance, and fewer costs.
Freeze all hiring and allow attrition due to retirement to trim the ranks even more than the headcount reductions the bureaucrats made to get their raises. Adjust all pension programs for those retirees where possible so they are more in line with private sector pensions.
Pass a Balanced Budget Amendment, and another one that requires the Federal Budget never to exceed 20% of the average GDP of the prior three years. Force people to actually fight over the money available, rather than starting with blue-sky costs and then taxing or borrowing the money to pay those costs.
Wipe out the existing Income Tax and start over. The existing Income Tax — individual and corporate taxes combined — collect roughly 10% of total annual personal income. So toss out all the government incentives, loopholes, and tax breaks, and simply collect 10% of all income. Period. That will bring in the same revenue in the short term, and MORE revenue as businesses around the world realize America is the best place to operate a business, with the only 0% corporate income tax. Those businesses will hire employees and have investors that will then pay individual income taxes at 10%. Make America the best “Tax Haven” in the world.
For Medicare and Medicaid, pass tort reform that gives doctors immunity from malpractice suits when providing services to Medicare and Medicaid recipients. That will reduce the doctor’s costs and make them more willing to accept those patients. At the same time, the reduction in income tax rates to a flat 10% will allow ALL doctors to reduce their fees even further. Isn’t it funny how in all the talk about rising healthcare costs, nobody pointed out that virtually ALL doctors pay the highest income tax rates, and those obviously contribute to the high fees they must charge their patients ? Same with profits from drug companies — the government takes 35% of their profits, and obviously that affects the prices they charge for the drugs they provide. If we want to talk about why healthcare costs are so high, we can’t ignore the tax burden the government has added to the industry.
See Tag Line!
Yep, I’m going down to vote in 27 hours!
I work long hours so I took the day off to be sure to make it to thr poll.
CBS covers with another lie.
John BOlton/Herman Cain 2012
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