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Seize the day, control the agenda
The Washington Post ^ | November 6, 2014 | Charles Krauthammer

Posted on 11/07/2014 1:17:40 AM PST by right-wing agnostic

Memo to the GOP. You had a great night on Tuesday. But remember: You didn’t win it. The Democrats lost it.

This is not to say that you didn’t show discipline in making the election a referendum on six years of Barack Obama. You exercised adult supervision over the choice of candidates. You didn’t allow yourself to go down the byways of gender and other identity politics.

It showed: a gain of probably nine Senate seats, the largest Republican House majority in more than 80 years, and astonishing gubernatorial victories, including Massachusetts, Maryland and Illinois, the bluest of the blue, giving lie to the Democrats’ excuse that they lost because the game was played on Republican turf.

The defeat — “a massacre,” the Economist called it — marks the final collapse of Obamaism, a species of left liberalism so intrusive, so incompetently executed and ultimately so unpopular that it will be seen as a parenthesis in American political history. Notwithstanding Obama’s awkward denials at his next-day news conference, he himself defined the election when he insisted just last month that “these [i.e. his] policies are on the ballot — every single one of them.”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2014elections; barackobama; elections; obama; republicanlandslide

1 posted on 11/07/2014 1:17:41 AM PST by right-wing agnostic
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To: right-wing agnostic

I really want to see them ban the use of the TelePrompTer in the Capital building. Watching Obama give the State of the Union speech without one will be priceless.


2 posted on 11/07/2014 1:21:46 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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To: right-wing agnostic

The GOP wants to trade and share the oil with Democrats instead of nurturing their base.

The GOP is foolish and corrupt. They do not address the people, they address the Democrats who address the people, as if they had conceded to them the role of motherhood... Abortionist prostitute science pimping motherhood.


3 posted on 11/07/2014 2:21:25 AM PST by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: lavaroise

The planes....letters.....bushmeat....are still coming from africa.....

apparently


4 posted on 11/07/2014 2:53:15 AM PST by therapsida (t)
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To: right-wing agnostic

If the Washington Pest says “Massacre” for the Liberals, then it must be really bad.


5 posted on 11/07/2014 3:11:33 AM PST by sr4402
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To: right-wing agnostic
Start by sending a serious border protection bill to Obama's desk, demanding a REAL fence.

Let him veto that one.

The problem is, our GOPe RINO Quislings don't want to protect the border from the invasion either.


6 posted on 11/07/2014 4:02:05 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: right-wing agnostic

Excellent op-ed by Krauthammer and a very good way forward IMHO.


7 posted on 11/07/2014 4:30:51 AM PST by refermech
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