Posted on 11/06/2014 4:17:04 AM PST by Kaslin
I’d almost forgotten to write this column. I’m sitting here watching election returns, and I am just stunned.
Massachusetts? Maryland? MARYLAND?!?! Forget the Senate for a minute, or the massive Republican majority in the House, and think about the fact that Republicans did so well in the gubernatorial races across the country.
In Michigan, after passing a “Right-To-Work” law, Gov. Rick Snyder wins handily. Union money and muscle plus President Obama campaigning against him couldn’t sink a man with the Twitter handle @OneToughNerd.
Speaking of unions, no one had a bigger target placed on their back by the unions than Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. For the third time in four years, he beat them. And, since so much of politics is about trends, Walker has beaten the progressive machine in that blue state by a larger margin each time. That phone ringing in the background is 2016 calling…it just wants to talk.
Republican Charlie Baker beat Democrat Martha Coakley in Massachusetts. Outgoing Governor Deval Patrick has been touted as a future player on the national stage, but his leaving the keys to the governor’s mansion in the hands of a Republican tarnishes that shining future.
Speaking of tarnishing future plans, soon-to-be-ex-Gov. Martin O’Malley in Maryland (you have no idea how much I enjoy typing that) will have to hand the keys to the governor’s mansion there to Republican Larry Hogan. Democrats had a more than 2:1 voter registration advantage over Republicans – there are more Democrats in Maryland than Republicans and independents COMBINED. Yet O’Malley’s record and his machine couldn’t help his lieutenant governor, Anthony Brown, across the finish line. The shock here cannot be overstated.
Even in Florida, where Democrats were sure they had a tap-in putt when it came to defeating Republican incumbent Rick Scott, they lost. Not sure what it says about the state of the Florida Democratic Party that the best candidate it could find was Charlie Crist, a former Republican nobody particularly likes. But I’m sure it’s not good.
In Kansas, Democrats were sure to beat Republican Sam Brownback. They didn’t.
In Texas…well, come on. The only consolation for Wendy Davis is she got more votes than MSNBC has viewers, so when they finally fire Ronan Farrow she can boast of a larger possible audience than the network currently has.
There were so many victories Tuesday that it’s hard to pick which football to spike (it’s currently 2:30 am, so they’re still coming fast and furious).
The Republicans took the Senate and are projected to have up to 250 seats in the House. That’s just jaw dropping.
I was publicly hopeful, but I’m a pessimist by nature, so I never like to celebrate before the clock reads :00. Well, it reads :00.
The president undoubtedly will not care about these results. He didn’t let the Republican wave in 2010 stand in his way. Why would he care what the people have to say now? But Democrats in general will develop a newfound respect for the word “compromise.” The prospect of working with people they’ve completely shut out for eight years becomes appealing when irrelevancy is staring you in the face.
Whoever Republicans elect to be Senate Majority Leader, and it will probably be Mitch McConnell, should march into Harry Reid’s soon-to-be-former office, pick up all the bills Republicans sent over from the House and start calling them up for votes.
Every bill that comes out of Congress should have warm and fuzzy names, no matter what they do. The “Hug Everyone Act,” the “Jobs For Americans Act,” the “Chicken In Every Pot Act” – whatever. Force the Democrats and the media to report how they’re blocking these wonderful sounding bills, or the president is vetoing them.
In other words, play the game the way Democrats have been playing it.
Not a lot is going to get done in the next two years, and that’s just about the best outcome for liberty. Forcing votes and/or vetoes on popular and “nice-sounding” legislation, coupled with Congressional Budget Office scores showing how they will benefit the country, will be the best ammunition against anything progressives have in store for 2016. And that’s the goal.
Tuesday was a great and historic night, but it wasn’t a finish line. Righting the ship of state is a marathon, not a sprint. So enjoy the moment, tip an adult beverage, take the weekend to celebrate and breathe a sign of relief…then sharpen your elbows and get back in the fight. Progressives never, ever stop, and neither can we.
Yep.
Now the RINOs will meet him halfway and blow it.
First thing, too.
Excellent idea...passing bills dying on Reid’s desk.
So good I doubt McConnell will do it.
Make them eat every dang one of them.
We CAN win 2016 if GOPe developes a spine.
But I heard the lame duck president say it was a "pretty good night" for his opposition . . .
Government unions should be defeated IMO.
They are spending taxpayer money against the taxpayers in order to increase their own influence, pay, benefits against what is best for the people and the country.
Used to be government unions got less than average pay and a tiny 10% pension in exchange for a steady job.
President Kennedy and then Governors like Jerry Brown of California allowed the workers in government to unionize and have since gotten billions of money funneled back to Democrat party campaigns in exchange for it.
IMO State and Federal unions should be ended, though I hear that the Federal ones aren’t as outrageous at many State employee unions.
How many billions has the Teacher’s union given the Democrat party over the years to do things like encouraging illegals to funnel their children at $15,000 a pop into our schools to increase the need for educators?
It’s dirty and needs to end.
People don’t get that it is their tax money, their household money being overly taken for these pensions and such.
In the city where I work there was an article two years ago about how it’s 900+ city workers on average had retirement pensions of over 3.5 million dollars.
The private sector totally pays for the government sector and where in the private sector can average workers expect to retire and be given 3.5 million dollar pensions in addition to usually 50% or more over payment for their job?
Then these turds have the nerve to run ballot initiatives every election (in my opinion mostly fooling women...SORRY) because the bond claims it is for children and the teachers.
What they don’t advertise is they already get the biggest bunch of the budget and often when you put another bond tax on your home or into your rent all you are doing is allowing those politicians to throw money away as previously directed money in budget goes elsewhere away from children and education.
If someone says it’s for women and children, don’t be gullible as to what the real end result will be. Don’t vote every stupid bond in - GROW UP PEOPLE!
And it's not simply "irrelevancy" waitin' in the wings; it's the reality that Reid was able to bottle up legislation in the Senate so that Dems didn't have to vote on these bills so that their "no" votes wouldn't "stain" their voting record -- thus making rather plain their "distinctiveness" to the American public.
Not that the American public carefully traces voting records. But boy, some voting records become very painful to own up to in campaign commercials & debates @ election time.
The Handwriting is on the wall for many more Democrats in district turf previously thought to be safe -- but is no longer.
He also said that he doesn't read "tea leaves".
LOLARMAOOTF
It is nice Obama stated that elections have consequences a few yrs back...but now states that he heard the 1/3 of voters...but also heard the 2/3 that did not vote as it is justification to continue his socialist policies...
It is time he is impeached and arrested for treason against the Republic!
I will be impressed when the following happens.
1. Obama is impeached and removed from office
2. Obamacare is repealed in total
3 the rule of law is reinstated
4. Congress goes back to a limited form of government
5. The DEA, IRS, EPA, DHS, TSA, HHS, NSA, and HUD are refunded.
6. Repeal the patriot act
7. Repeal the 16th and 17th amendments
&. Go back to congresses 18 enumerated powers for a limited government.
Somehow a stone cold commie upset an (admittedly weak) incumbent Republican.
With the entire nation voting out the enemy .. I find it hard to believe there was one race that suffered so badly without suspecting fraud of SOME kind.
I think our electronic system is sophisticated enough that votes can be redirected without the youtube evidences of an obvious switch.
Oh well ... we have the house and senate ...
——should march into Harry Reid’s soon-to-be-former office, pick up all the bills Republicans sent over from the House and start calling them up for votes.-——
I have been wondering about this. I sort of thought that bills sent to the Senate by the current House died at the end of the current congress. This piece seems to imply that is not the case and that bills from the House passed to the Senate never die
Barry can ignore the voice of the people all he wants, but it was a massive rejection of Socialism/ Statism/ Obamacrap .
McConnell should ram some of these 'Harry-pocketed vetos' to the _residents' desk for action. Elections have consequences !
Then, after passage, and only then, should there be any conversation of 'compromise' and reconcilliation , and working together .
After all the immoral and illegal crap of the last 6 years , and the Reid 'nuclear option'
this is no time to act gentlemanly from those who were placed in the back seat and ignored by this administration.
Well, techinically “hillarycare” never died. It rose from the grave to kill our economy...Just under the new name of “obamacare”.
"Where appropriate, draconian prosecutions and budget cuts need to be implemented against rogue agencies for political and economic persecutions against private citizens and businesses. People need to go to jail, or have their funding and/or agencies eliminated. Agencies which have lavished funding for groups like ACORN, or which have lavished billions for housing and economic support for illegal aliens should be abolished."
A bittersweet victory. Change will only come when the Mitch McConnells of the GOP are unelectable in the face of demorats and conservatives. But, its nice to see the demorat tear this morning.
It was so bad for the Democrats in Ohio that even the Ohio Democratic Party Leader lost his reelection.
Ohio Democratic Party Chairman Chris Redfern was defeated by a Republican Newcomer (who was not supported by the ohio Republican party, sort of like an agreement between foes. Redfern was protected by the ORP)
Why is everyone surprised about MA?
Where do you think Romney came from? Or Scott brown. Or Bill Weld?
MA tends to elect Pink republicans to off set the blue State House.
I don’t suggest for a second that these guys are conservatives. But a republican in the corner office is fairly common.
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