Posted on 11/08/2018 7:43:49 AM PST by Sean_Anthony
Misguided egomaniacs: In spite of the massive, collective effort all of them made to bring down our Commander-in-Chief, they now have to deal with the cold hard fact that President Donald J. Trump is indeed the smartest guy in the room!
Well, whaddaya know? In the midterm elections of November 6, 2018, the American people rewarded the president—for only the third time in almost a hundred years—with a net gain of three and possibly four Senate seats, lost half the House seats that his predecessor lost, and left the radical leftwing Democrats not rejoicing at their meager gains, but still chomping at the bit to bring down the president who has effectively destroyed everything they believed in, worked for, and thought they achieved over the past 75 years.
The Blue Wave that the leftist media has been predicting for a year now turned out to be a blue puddle, with even their most aggressive spokesperson, former House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, making nice and wanting to make deals with the man who sits in the Oval Office.
Didn’t the liberals believe that Obama was the smartest man in the room?
I remember seeing some idiots on TV once, saying that Obama was so brilliant, etc. and that him being president was actually a step down, in terms of his intellect and abilities.
And we know Hillary was the smartest woman in the world. How many times did we hear that sort of talk?
It took a while for it to sink in with me, but the fact is that increasing the number of conservatives in the senate is more important in the long run than losing a few in the house.
Because with the senate supporting President Trump’s Supreme Court appointments, the libs in congress will have a very difficult time with their harassment tactics.
Also the dim margin in the house is so thin that the house will be fighting internal battles that will make legislation much more difficult.
In a way it is irony at its most delicious. The dims packed the courts with liberal judges, got control of the government by legislating from the bench, made the house and senate impotent and the executive powers of the president much more effective....and now they are at the mercy of the very system they created.
President Trump by his actions in the next few months, not days because some of his moves will by necessity take place after the new congress is seated in January, will demonstrate his political genius.
IN other words, “You ain’t seen nothing yet”.
Get the popcorn ready.
From one old curmudgeon to another, you have broken the code!
The left got to where it is incrementally. They need to extricated the same way. Our President knows that packing the judiciary with conservative, Constitutionalists is the way to start that process.
If the left loses the capability of judicial legislation, the resulting level playing field is their enemy.
I agree.
What is depressing is that 50% of the voters are stupid and for a variety of reasons.
It will not change until we get the schools under local control and the government totally out of the schools.
The press can not be changed directly but local control of the schools will eventually improve the quality of the press.
“Nope losing the house is not a REWARD Period”
It is, actually.
Midterms are almost always a net negative for the President’s party. The 2018 midterms were more favorable for Trump than almost any midterm election in a century.
Republicans picked up governorships and senate seats, and held House losses to a historically low number. Importantly, many of the worst RINOs and GOP Trump haters in the House are no longer there.
It is clear that Trump was rewarded by the electorate for being strong, putting America first, and keeping his campaign promises.
45 vacancies was a tough nut to crack; but a necessary one. The house needed cleaning. More to do, but a good start. Here comes the Battle Royal.... Trump will ground and pound!!!
“Most voters are stupid”
I would have to agree, depending on how you define “stupid”.
Most people I talk to, even many with degrees, are not capable of critical thinking. They jump all over the place rather than following a train of logic. They engage in non sequiturs, false causation, and appeals to authority rather than using their faculties of reason.
It is mind boggling how rare it is to encounter someone who is clear, honest and rational. I have no idea whether it is lack of intelligence, lack of eduction, or simply lack of discipline and accountability; but in any case, the result is that their ideas are “stupid”.
The problem is so widespread, that voting for most people is like a coin toss - their vote is not based on reason, and therefore is essentially random.
This is why elections (assuming there is no significant third party challenge) are always so close to 50%. It has nothing to do with competing ideas, or social divisions, it is simply bacause 95% of the people have so little rational basis for their vote, that they may as well have flipped a coin.
If 45 Republicans hadn’t retired from the House it is possible that the GOP may have kept the majority.
Just sayin’, not that it makes any difference now.
Had that happened, I can’t even imagine the amount of pain and anguish on the Left.
Ditto-here.
I work at a Univ.- and mostly with grad students.
Not one is articulate or capable of expressing himself clearly.
They CANNOT make a simple sentence with a subject and predicate.... and they CANNOT listen
Yeah, but that's one way of getting rid of the RINO deadwood.
I loved how the POTUS named names yesterday.
Mia love didn’t feel the love. LOL
2002 was a reaction to 9/11. There are some problems in 2018 outcome, rust belt might be ungrateful, although Walker was foolish to run for a third term, and GA is much closer than it should be. It’s looking like Congresswoman Karen Handel, distirct six, lost her seat after beating back the backlash to Trump 2016. She beat Ossoff in the special election to replace Tom Price but loses the first time she’s the incumbent in northern metro Atl...not good. The economy is great, we’re not in any new wars, it’s just Trump being hammered everyday in the press and not credited for successes.
“In spite of the massive, collective effort all of them made to bring down our Commander-in-Chief, they now have to deal with the cold hard fact that President Donald J. Trump is indeed the smartest guy in the room!”
But LET them underestimate him - it works to his advantage (and, now, to ours also).
Nope losing the house is not a REWARD Period
While the Democrats cheer the lemons, President Trump will make lemonade.
We have entered a strange new time when the past does not give us a clue to the future. It will be an interesting two years before the next election.
There is no way Trump could have done a better job than he did
Depressing
I wish I could disagree.The purpose of First Amendment freedom of the press is to assure the country that mass media will be diverse and heterogeneous. That is its purpose, and the 1964 NY Times v. Sullivan SCOTUS decision assumed that in fact journalism was ideologically heterogeneous (so that public figures who were attacked by one newspaper would be defended by another), and public figures should not be suing for libel except in extreme cases.
That was not the reality even in 1964, and that is certainly not the case today. It’s not that the government forces ideological homogeneity among journalists, but that all the major US journalism institutions joined the Associated Press - and the AP “wire” became the mechanism by which they all coalesced ideologically into pro-big government propagandists.
“The media” must be attacked in the courts via suits for libel, and suits for violation by the AP of the Sherman AntiTrust Act of 1890. The AP was justified primarily by the application of economies of scale in the news business, but the effect of all major journalism being “associated” has been to negate the journalistic heterogeneity which the First Amendment purposed to assure. Therefore the First Amendment is not a legitimate legal defense of the AP.
Unless conservatives aggressively attack monopoly journalism in court, I don’t see how we can come out on top in the long run - or even break even.
IN other words, “You ain’t seen nothing yet”.///
Your right of course. The fun will be solely due to Trump always able to make the most of any situation. They try investigations and Trump tweets weekly about them wasting time and worse; they don’t pass a budget and Trump tweets endlessly how they’re incompetent; they ignore immigration and the same. Meanwhile Trump keeps packing the courts without worrying about those 2 moronic Repub senators.
And hopefully he’ll have a real Attorney General soon.
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