Posted on 12/01/2014 5:15:34 AM PST by Kaslin
In spite of President Obama's bravado in the wake of the mid-term catastrophe that befell Democrats in every geography and at every level, huge cracks have developed in the ranks.
To prevent the story line of "Obama Rejected at the Polls" from taking root, the President held a news conference the day after the election, then took off on a multi-nation Asian tour, then made good on his delayed threat to use "the executive order pen" to change immigration law.
In the run up to the election the White House was reading the same polling numbers as everyone else. Like a good chess player, they looked several moves ahead and postponed the immigration action so the GOP wouldn't be able to say that the election was a referendum on dealing with illegal immigrants.
Truth to tell, it's working. The national GOP did not have a plan in place - or if they did they didn't execute on a plan - to follow up on their pre-election strategy: Make it all about Obama.
Don't make it about specific issues or programs that Ds could push back on. Make it about Obama. Americans voted against a government being led by Barack Obama. They voted against him in U.S. House and Senate elections, in Gubernatorial elections, in elections for State Legislature and, for all I know, for Marietta (Ohio) City Council.
That would force Democrats across the nation to defend what they cannot: The Administration of President Barack Obama.
Coming in to save the day for Republicans was, of all people, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY).
Last week Schumer announced that the election results could be traced back to … Obamacare.
He didn't say Republicans came out in great numbers because of their anger over Obamacare. Schumer's point was that Democrats stayed home because Obama used every nickel of political capital he and the Democrats who controlled both chambers of Congress had available passing a bill that did nothing to help the middle class.
As reported by Forbes, Schumer said:
"When Democrats focused on health care, the average middle-class person thought, 'The Democrats aren't paying enough attention to me."
Schumer went on to say that huge percentages of the middle class already had health insurance and,
"It has been reported that only a third of the uninsured are even registered to vote…it made no political sense."
Schumer is not a back bencher struggling to get on MSNBC. He is known to have a strong affinity for everything from TV cameras, to radio microphones, to reporters' number 2 pencils. He is a senior member of the Democratic leadership in the U.S. Senate.
Not only did Schumer throw the President under the electoral bus, but the newest member of the Senate Democratic leadership, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) added to the noise level. While she didn't specifically address Obamacare, the Wall Street Journal wrote:
"Ms. Warren offered a similar prescription for the party last week, warning Democrats they must not get too cozy with large corporations at the expense of the middle class."
Warren is the representative of Senate liberals in the leadership, so she might have been warming up the old pipes in the wings before she steps on stage for the 114th Congress.
Schumer is in the Hillary Clinton camp for 2016. In a speech in Iowa just before the elections (and when Schumer as well as Clinton and others had exactly zero impact on the U.S. Senate race there) he said, according to The Hill newspaper:
"Run, Hillary, run. If you run, you'll win, and we'll all win."
Granted, this was at a state Democratic party dinner, but that kind of exhortation doesn't exactly shove Winston Churchill out of the prime spot on the "Great Speeches" shelf.
The interesting part of all this is there is growing background noise for Elizabeth Warren to jump into the Presidential chase so she and Schumer might not be able to sit next to each other at the weekly caucus lunch.
The big defender of Obamacare on behalf of the President was none other than House minority leader Nancy Pelosi who once famously said of Obamacare:
"We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what's in it ?"
She said there were "14 million reasons" why Schumer was wrong - adding together, according to CNN:
"Those who have signed up through health care exchanges, those allowed to say on their parent's health care plans through age 26 and those getting coverage through the expansion of the Medicaid program."
No matter. It will be fun to watching to see how quickly this crack in the Dems expands.
<><> Democrat losses stretch from the Carolinas westward to Texas
<><> As Landrieu's loss looms, Southern Democrats control not a single governorship, US senator or legislative chamber.
<><> Of the 140 Southern States election districts---110 went Republican.
<><> the GOP's majority in the House will be so big and solid NBC's Chuck Todd says Democrats can't recapture losses until 2022.
<><> Some pundits say Republicans have a 100-year majority;
<><> When the next Senate convenes, 29 lock-stepping Democrats who voted for Obamacare will be gone.
<><> Even Arkansas and Illinois (Clinton hometowns) have Repub governors---important in a prez race since guvs control party machinery.
THE "GRUBER STUPOR" CONTINUES Braindead Democrats are going for "Unapologetic populism" --- that the Democratic Party is for justice and opportunity—with no qualifiers—for everyone."
Yeah sure. "Opportunity for everyone"----just as long as you're not one of those stupid mental defectives taking up space in Democrat Utopia.
FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA A sweet irony---the "party of the people" lacerated, and dumped, by "the people."
What the Republican takeover looks like as of midnight 11/5---Alaska is Repub, LA goes Repub Dec 6.
Midterm Map courtesy of http://www.nationaljournal.com
I'll drink to that.
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Read more Schlichter here:
A Massive, Humiliating And Awesome Rejection Of The Liberals
Townhall.com ^ | November 10, 2014 | Kurt Schlichter / FR Posted by Kaslin
Conservatives & Republicans need to focus on "average middle-class person". In fact drop the "middle class" so we are not playing the Democrat class warfare game.
the average person thought, "The Democrats aren't paying enough attention to me."
bttt
I don’t really want either political party paying attention to me. I just want them to leave me alone. Every time you turn around, they’re fiddling around with something with “good intentions” and it ends up making it much worse.
I wish they’d just play golf all day and have three martini lunches (and dinners) and do nothing. (Although some tax relief would be terrific.)
Under no circumstances should ANY of them be allowed by the GOP to distance themselves now.
The “cracks” are diversions as DIMs reposition their lies. The DIMocRATs are chronic liars who are incapable of telling the truth about anything. LIBeralism is a mental disease. The ultimate goal of all DIMs/LIBs is to have control of everything, including you. They feel you are stupid and beneath them.
The marxists must remake themselves as 'reformers' again for 2016.
“A Crack in The Dem”
How could so many people have voted for such contemptuous, arrogant, self-appointed messiahs?
Just asking.
IMHO
Those two gray (undecided) congressional districts in Louisiana are also likely to go GOP when the voters flush the Landrieu turd in the Dec. 6th run-off.
And there goes trouble down the drain----thanks for the update---two more Dimwits annihilated is great news.
Sorry, but 3 seconds is way to short to make any sense
They guy in the clip says “delicious”.
Oh
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