Posted on 10/21/2012 2:25:19 PM PDT by SmithL
“the GOP will hit a new high-water mark in the 2012 elections by gaining a two-thirds “super majority””
Great news, SmithL.
Now if Haslam would just resign in favor of a conservative . . . .
GO TN!
Dems to be on double secret probation in TN? LOL
I am going to move to Tennessee.
Well there's something to hang your hat on...
That’s seven seats too many, Mr. Ramsey...drain that swamp, and drain it good.
Anyone believe that? lol
A year ago, we came here from the Peoples Republic of California. I feel much better about this election than 2008’s.
A family member who is a resident of TN is living with us for awhile in NC. He told me Friday there is no point to him voting, because his guy will lose in TN. I told him that his guy is going to lose in NC too. Doing my part to discourage the other Dim currently residing in the house from voting too.
MA in reverse. It should be interesting whether TN ($36.5K) will ever catch up to MA ($52.9K) in terms of per capita income, given that MA has the advantages of top colleges within its borders, location and centuries of capital investment back when all of TN was a rural backwater.
Don’t worry, if they get a super majority, they’ll probably make a RINO Speaker like in Texas.
The difficulty for TN is the same as that for all low-income states - the talent sees the higher incomes in the blue states and head over there.
Red and getting redder!
To get 1/3 of the Hispanic vote needed to win elections, a lot of TX politicians need to be RINO's. Demographics is destiny. I expect that if the GOP is to survive, it will eventually end up adopting every pillar of the welfare state and become more or less like the right-wing parties of Europe - religious socialists not a lot different from Huckabee. As someone who thinks FDR was the worst president this country has ever had, on account of the welfare state programs he introduced to the country, I'm not happy about this, but more or less resigned to it.
If they get 2/3rds majorities in both houses, while Tennessee has a somewhat convoluted process to pass state constitutional amendments, which will go to a voter referendum, it sounds like an excellent opportunity to do so.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_State_Constitution#Legislative_method
As such, they could be a test bed of “10th Amendment” laws, to reassert their state sovereignty against the national government.
http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/the-10th-amendment-movement/
State Marijuana Laws
TSA
NDAA: Liberty Preservation Act
Health Care Freedom Act
Food Freedom Act
Intrastate Commerce
Health Care Nullification Act
Constitutional Tender
Firearms Freedom Act
10th Amendment Resolutions
REAL ID
Defend the Guard
Sheriffs First Legislation
Cap and Trade/EPA
Federal Tax Funds Act
10th Amendment Bills
I hate Obama more than I did two years ago!
Really need to get rid of Strauss and Dewhurst but unfortunately I don’t see that happening any time soon.
Being resigned to it is national suicide
Hopefully the Tennessee GOP will govern well and make their state the economic envy of the rest of the nation so we can use them as a positive example of what happens when the Republicans run things without the ‘progressives’ throwing monkey wrenches into the works.
(Then please export some of your good people to California to try to help straighten out our mess.)
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