Posted on 10/10/2014 10:17:10 AM PDT by IChing
It was pretty ugly back in 2006. War fatigue and the sharp political divisions over Operation Iraqi Freedom combined with residual fallout over the federal response to Hurricane Katrina. President Bush’s popularity had steadily declined, partly also due to his base’s disgust with him pushing amnesty for illegal aliens. He watched his Grand Old Party get massacred at the polls, losing control of both houses of congress in the mid-term elections that November.
Democrats were elated. The preceding several years of humiliation and defeat were over, and they sensed their continuing resurgence. Sure enough, they parlayed their catbird seat all the way to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, catapulting the most inexperienced, radically far-Left, and probably ineligible candidate ever into the Oval Office, based mainly on the unusually deep tones of his voice and skin, not to mention the “historic” overtones of what he represented — and what he so eloquently misrepresented.
It’s taken the broader electorate quite awhile to come out of the false spell cast on them by Obama, but they mostly have. It’s turned into a rude awakening. His administration is a disaster, with an unending parade of high crimes, abuses, and colossal frauds exposed. His approval ratings have dropped to the correspondingly same low point as Bush’s had in 2006.
That’s why certain political analysts are saying that the mid-term elections about to be held next month are going to be a repeat, in political reverse, of the incumbent slaughter seen in the 2006 mid-terms.
Obama is where Bush was, in terms of how far along for both men in their respective second terms, and his party’s prospects are looking about as bad as things were for the GOP then. One difference is that the Republicans already control the House of Representatives now, but it looks like voters are about to give them back the Senate, with a significant number of seats in the House added on.
In terms of Senate seats, we might not see a numerical landslide. However, what that chamber changing hands would say about people’s trust of Obama and his party, and the ramifications for Obama’s final months in office, will amount to a political holocaust.
For conservatives, there is now a chance to undo at least some of the damage done by this criminal administration, and perhaps even undo the mistake of allowing him into the White House in the first place.
The Democrats deserve it. They crammed Obamacare down the country’s throats, despite the fact that a clear a majority of the population did not believe in it nor want it. It was shoved on us as strictly a Democrat-only supported program, with not one single Republican representative or senator voting for it (what kind of ‘representative’ government is that?). The blatant lies that were told by Obama and his friends in their months of loudly arguing for Obamacare have finally been shown to the entire nation for what they are, a gross fraud of proportions unseen in our history; deliberate deception and treachery affecting a sixth of our nation’s economy, harming businesses and millions of people at a time when we are already struggling to make ends meet in an economy limping along on faked numbers.
Then there are the dozens of other abuses and abominations that the Obama presidency and Democrat majority power have brought. If I tried to itemize them here (did I just type ‘itemize’? don’t get me started on the IRS), I’d never stop typing — or, my keyboard would seize up from the vomit and tears cascading down on it.
Still, no assessment of the coming Democrat bloodbath would be adequate without at least touching on the double-apocalyptic implications of the ongoing ISIS and Ebola catastrophes.
Barack Obama has been shown to be so derelict in his job, ignoring all kinds of urgent intelligence and advice about ISIS from wise and experienced people for months and even years on end, until backed into an impossible situation — impossible chiefly because we must somehow stumble on as a country without a real Commander-in-Chief. Instead, we have an anti-American interloper, a sneering saboteur who only clogs up the office while brashly refusing to get out of the way while blaming others for his failures, even as he reluctantly gives a somber speech and belatedly takes token action. The few allies we have left don’t trust us anymore, and the enemy scoffs at us while freely recruiting from among the Muslim segment of our population and lopping off the heads of our citizens, here and abroad, right in front of our faces.
Meanwhile, a few short years after the Obama administration rejected enhanced quarantine and travel restrictions specifically designed by previous CDC staff to deal with threats posed by the deadly Ebola virus, Obama (who himself is now being called “the African virus”) and his present flunkies refuse to even consider putting prudent flight bans in place, even now that Ebola is being brought over on crowded planes.
Obama and his remaining supporters seem to think that the best way to approach the Ebola threat is to increase our contact with it, instead of reducing contact with it. They are actually saying and doing that!
Banning commercial flights into and from Ebola-stricken countries would not preclude charter and military aircraft from transporting critical aid shipments and willing personnel to the hot zones to assist with treating and controlling the spread of Ebola. Alas, such sane and reasonable safety measures are beyond the ken of ideologically malevolent agents such as the bug-chaser Obama, who actually relishes the idea of America being brought down a notch or three or however many, to be closer on par with his father’s continent.
Some conspiracy-theory types have speculated that Obama’s refusal to protect our homeland’s population from the influx of Ebola is a strategic ploy to protect his party from an impending massacre at the voting booths — by allowing Ebola to take hold and spread here on our shores, the resulting panic and public health threat (a national emergency if there ever was one) would give him cause to suspend the mid-term elections, lest people gathered in crowds at polling places increase the chance of spreading the deadly virus.
That theory would only somewhat go against the CDC’s own highly dubious claim that Ebola is only transmitted by bodily fluids, but can we really put a scheme like that past this administration? For that matter, if Ebola does start spreading rapidly here, and regardless of untrustworthy official proclamations, would you want to go into crowded public places? Maybe you’d risk your life to go vote at some neighborhood school cafeteria crammed with hundreds or thousands of others milling in and out throughout the day and evening, to occupy the same cramped booths marking and casting their ballots, but many people wouldn’t. Obama and his Democrats can count on that scenario to at least reduce turnout and alter the outcome of elections.
Either way, there will be blood. Best to shield ourselves from the splatter. Oh, and if you’re white and live in or around St. Louis, I suggest Kevlar too.
Love it!
If they won’t throw us some bones, Reid can keep his crown.
If they want our votes...
I would say so. I know the Democrat Party will not go quietly. they have some type of skullduggery up their sleeve.
Catalist is scary as hell, however if the commiecrat base is truly demoralized (and fraud is minimized) it won’t matter.
Exactly, it is our choice. My vote is not owned or owed to liberal R’s and I have no duty to vote for those whose ideas and policies I disagree with.
That is not a hard thing to understand.
Things do seem to be breaking late for the Pubbies.
Not that they are liable to do much with it.
Such a typical Connecticut loser attitude you have.
Name one Connecticut Democrat that you have an ability vote for this election who outshines his Republican opponent.
Go ahead. Name one.
And then tell us all why, based on all his/her glimmering conservative credentials.
FReegards!
Simmer down and switch the green can. You call me a loser because I rightly assess the pansy-load nature of republican leadership? I suppose you admire Boehner and McConnell. I suppose you hang on every word Karl Marx Rove utters. If you like the current state of the GOP-e you’re the south end of a north bound horse.
Have a grown-up reread my original comment and its just possible you’ll find out that I was WONDERING if deadlock was preferable to the go-along-get-along GOP-e
Careful reading is a valuable life skill, look into it.
It pains me to think there may be some positive in voting for a democrat ...
I was able to read quite plainly what you wrote.
I suppose you admire Boehner and McConnell. I suppose you hang on every word Karl Marx Rove utters.
Maybe its you who needs a basic reading comprehension course. Where did you read that statement anywhere in what I wrote?
YOU ASS-umed way too much
...and its just possible you’ll find out that I was WONDERING if deadlock was preferable....
Not possible at all.
Now you're just "wondering" are you? No, you weren't just wondering anything. The larger quote you wrote is this: "...perhaps the best strategy in the near term is to keep both parties from achieving total control. It pains me to think there may be some positive in voting for a democrat but I’m considering the options.
You are speaking personally about what -- in your presumed enlightenment -- YOU are considering doing.
That's not "wondering." Wondering is mere philosophizing. Considering involves the willful act of planning.
You're just using weasel words now as some feeble attempt to back away from what you wrote.
If you think "wondering" is a word equal and interchangeable with the word, "considering," it is evident that you'll need to develop more accomplished English composition skills.
You live in Connecticut as do I. I challenged you to name the (D) YOU are "considering" voting for as a better choice than any other (R) that it is possible for you to vote for.
We're all waiting.
FReegards!
LMAO!!! I’ve been waiting for this!!!!!!
The only place where it might make sense to vote for the dem is Grimes vs McConnell in order to preclude McConnell becoming Sen Maj Leader *AND* only if we are confident there will be a GOP senate majority with ample room to spare. In that scenario, Grimes would be a newbie, junior senator with no power or influence vs McConnell’s well known public penchant for actively fighting against conservatives and conservative issues. Why give him dictatorial control of senate legislation if we don’t *have* to, knowing him like we all do?
All other congressional races, in the *GENERAL* election, we really need to vote R even if you have to hold your nose to do it. If we are back in the good Lord’s graces, perhaps we will win the house, the senate and have a conservative (not GOPe) president.
Now, if we are scared we will *NOT* take senate majority, then vote R regardless. And as much as it pains me to say it, even vote McConnell in that case.
As a young man I worked briefly in retail. That means I’ve spent enough time speaking with the likes of you and won’t waste another minute doing so. I can’t make my message plainer and for most folks, it needn’t be any plainer. Sorry about you.
3% is usually a pretty fair number. Much more requires too many “acorn” types getting involved with their usually sloppiness and tendency to brag.
Who know this time is right, the dems will be “ebola” desperate and max out, which could blow vote fraud wide open for all to see.
One million more people voted for Romney than for McCain. Don’t blame conservatives for Ibama
Thanks IChing.
The pleasure is mine, SunkenCiv.
Not sure. Dems do have huge money. We scoff at lame Baraq flying around the country to these dopey dinners, but he is pulling in big $$$ from mega donor statists.
Jason Mattera is doing great work lately with promoting his new book, “CRapitalism,” on how liberal politicians get rich abusing their offices/abusing the taxpayers. He’s making ambush-journalism videos that are going viral, too—he’s nailed Lois Lerner, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi all in the last week (if you haven’t seen the videos, tell me and I’ll link to them).
With any luck, he’ll get at least some mainstream attention, and the electorate will have increased disgust for the big-bucks hypocrisy of the Koch-bashing democrats....
Go ahead and link to Jason’s vids. I’ve seen the Lois JustLernin vid, but not the other two.
We can help to spread them around ;-)
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