Posted on 11/16/2004 6:32:51 PM PST by You Dirty Rats
All of the "Red State, Blue State" talk is nonsense, as are the discussions on Blue State secession, the needless worrying by Conservatives, and the whistling past the graveyard by Leftists praying for a miracle. The Election is over and the result is a clear, decisive victory for the Republicans. When the Congress is sworn in next January, Red Nation will be officially in power.
There is a reason so many of the Lefties have lost their heads. It's funny, really. Their era is over and they know it. The decades of dominance from FDR on down started to turn our way with the 1994 election; now, the completion of the job is at hand.
Remember the Imperial Congress of the 1980's? Remember Tip O'Neill, Jim Wright, Tom Foley, and George Mitchell? Remember how they dogged our great President, Ronald Reagan, on everything from Iran-Contra to Bork? I sure do. They ran roughshod over all of us. Whenever we though we had won -- they changed the rules and we lost, or at least tied.
We could win the Presidency, but not Congress, and certainly not the Supreme Court. Part of the latter problem was sending up bad choices, to be sure, but Nixon couldn't get two if his choices through -- so he ended up with Blackmun. Reagan also had trouble, ending up with Kennedy as Justice because of the Bork fiasco. So our Presidential triumphs after the long days of FDR, Truman, JFK, Johnson and Carter just weren't enough. We were NOT the real power in Washington. We were gradually making headway, but we couldn't sustain it. The South was in the balance. It was tentatively moving to the Republicans .. but the momentum just wasn't enough. Reagan was gone, Bush wasn't dynamic or a Party-Builder ...
Enter Bill Clinton. Like Nixon, he was a man of questionable character and uncertain political principles. Like Nixon, he possessed a tremendous understanding of American politics. It was clear to Clinton that the trend in this country was to the Right and the Democratic Leadership Conference, with him at the forefront, attempted to capitalize on this trend. Unfortunately for Clinton and the Democratic Party, the latter loved him as a candidate but totally disagreed with his relative moderation. The fringe groups that controlled the Democratic Party since at least 1972 tightened their grip. January 1993 was their signal. They had the Presidency and both houses of Congress. Nothjing could stop them. The Hillary Health Plan was inevitable, as was the total triumph of the Left ...
But they didn't have the votes. They never did. Too many Democrats simply didn't buy into the agenda of the Left, particularly Southern Democrats. It was time for a REAL change, and in the 1994 election, the Republicans were ready to start the return to power ...
The 1994 capture of the House by the Repblicans shocked the Democrats. It ended the Clinton Presidency that the Left had wanted. Clinton, domestically, was forced to go along with Republican reforms to keep his job. Everything was on the line in 2000, but the close election and uncertain victory for a Washington newcomer did not mean the Left was done yet. They got Jeffords to jump; The Senate was still a source of power and a check on real reform. Surely, the 2002 election would see this weak, foolish, reckless cowboy lead his party to defeat and allow the Democrats to add seats in the Senate, and perhaps retake the House. Everything was still OK ...
Election evening, 2002. For the first time, a sitting President added Senators. The weak, stupid, bumbling, dangerous cowboy actually lead a Senate takeover! For the first time in decades, the Democrats were locked out of power. This could not be! Government power was and is the source of the Democratic Party -- they could not be locked out! Better people, more compassionate people, smarter, more cultured ... how could they not be in power? Is our era over? Are we through? Is James Carville's head in the trash can where we really are? WHO DID THIS TO US, they all said.
January, 2003. The new Congress convenes. All the Democrats have is a minority in the Senate to block via filibuster. The Supreme Court was still narrowly tilted Left, as were the Courts in general; this could not be reversed! In desperation, having no alternative other than surrender, the filibuster of Court nominees was adopted. This was justified because the President was a minority President and the nomiees were extreme (i.e. not in the tank for the Left).
While this rear-guard action went on, preparations for the decisive 2004 Election were underway. There was no more room for losses; any further loss of Senate seats, and the filibuster would give way. Loss of the White House, along with loss of the filibuster, meant loss of the Supreme Court and all remaining Federal Power. Losing was not an option. The entire Left establishment, built in the 1960's with roots in the 1930's, was in peril. It had to be saved -- for the children, the elderly, the sick, minorities, women, elite university graduates, government workers, gays and lesbians, environmentalists, artists, feminists, inhabitants of the cities and the Coasts, and other important groups. In their blindness, they look at these groups and convinced themselves that they represented an overwhelming majority. How could they not? Their only opposition was white middle-aged healthy uneducated straight uncultured males living in the rural South.
So the entire establishment signed on -- including an unprecedented contribution by the formerly mainstream media. The Left was in trouble, but the real causes of this decline were set aside and a visceral hatred of the President was substituted. The Campaign began right after the 2002 Election and continued for two years. The War on Terror, the Economy, permitting votes to fill vacant seats in the Courts; all were sacrificed in pursuit of the desperate attack on the President and the win-at-all-costs mentality of the politicians and media of the Left. The very credibility and pretense of objectivity of the press was tossed into the raging fire of hatred and distortion. Bush had to be defeated! Losing is not an option.
Results of November 2,2004: The President is re-elected by over 61 million votes and 51% of the total. MANDATE.
The Seante goes to 55 Republicans, enough to break filibusters. MANDATE MANDATE.
The House increases its Republicans to over 230. MANDATE MANDATE MANDATE.
The President will be able to get his judicial nominees through. The Supreme Court will become Consevative. MANDATE MANDATE MANDATE MANDATE.
The Democratic rule since 1932 is over. The South is now solidly Republican. The Future of the Democratic Party is bleak. Reform on Taxes, Social Security and othe rdomestic concerns is inevitable in 2005. The President is going to secure peace and freedom in much of the Middle East, and win the War on Terror.
The President will now have the ability to get all of his agenda through the Congress -- affecting all states, Red and Blue.
Red Nation Has Risen.
Read this last night. Splendid overview. Thanks.
Actually, the title was a takeoff on Tom Clancy's novel. I'm surprised nobody picked up on that. Guess it's been too long since the Soviet Union had that enormous Red Army.
I suspected that book title was your inspiration. One of Clancy's best - and big enough to make into a decent-sized miniseries. Do you recall how the action began in that novel?
Well for Hispanic immigration, or any immigration for that matter, to benefit the GOP they would by definition have to win more immigrant votes than the Democrats do. Even if Bush did win 44% of the latino vote (assuming here that the naturalized Hispanic vote was similar to the overall Hispanic vote) , he still lost by 10 points among them.
And the big question is whether or not Bush's results are the harbinger of a real trend, or are they anonmaly? Will the GOP nominee in 2008 be able to maintain 40-45% of the latino vote against Hillary?
If the Republicans play their cards right (and with the Specter business, they are playing their cards very, very badly right now), in 2008 the Hispanic vote will split almost evenly for the Republicans and Democrats, and will trend Republican. The trick is to remember that Latinos are more Catholic than ethnic. Appeal to Catholics consistently and deliver on their issues, and you will get the Latin vote along with the rest of the Catholic vote.
I recall. Muslim terrorists.
I think that was my favorite Clancy book. There were so many places in Europe mentioned that I had actually been to myself. Clancy was able to explain the "plan" for war in Europe. I found that book to be enlightening and fascinating!
My point was that there are a significant number of liberals that are Republican in the Senate. It would be impossible to kill the filibuster, unless they "go nuclear" with Dick Cheney as describled below: (see full article why Cheney is important as President of the Senate)
Excerpt:
Their approach calls for employing a rarely used parliamentary tactic to overturn current Senate procedures.
Under the strategy envisioned by Senate Judiciary Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), among others, the Republicans would strip any Senate minority — currently the Democrats — of their ability to filibuster presidential nominees.
Approval by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (Tenn.), which is being sought, would all but assure that the plan would go forward.
Under the most likely scenario now under discussion, they would secure a ruling from the chair that Senate Rule XXII does not apply to executive submissions to the Senate — and that includes judicial nominees. Rule XXII provides for unlimited debate on all legislative issues that reach the floor unless three-fifths of the Senate calls a halt.
With such an approach, a favorable ruling from the chair on limiting the scope of Rule XXII could stand after only a simple majority approved it.
End excerpt.
Here is URL to full article:
Hatch group may go ‘nuclear’ on judges Plan would limit use of Rule XXII in Dem filibusters
The odds of it(that) happening... ZERO....
For obvious reasons but the discussion would be telling..
A real out'ing party..
You need 60 to invoke cloture on a particular debate. But if you wanted to eliminate the filibuster for judicial nominees altogether, you only need 50. 60 is just set by Senate rules, which can lawfully be changed at any time by a majority vote, parliamentary rules be damned. If the President sends over a nomination, and 50 Senators plus the VP caucus and approve, that meets the requirements of the Constitution. In essence, you just ignore the rules.
I hope you're right. But I must admit, I don't believe that Bush did as well with Hispanics this year as the exit polls indicate. I think he did better, but I think it was more along the lines of the former high-water mark of Republicans; Reagan's 37% in 1984.
I just hope their isn't something about Hillary that excites the latino community. If not, then I can see maybe getting about 40% in 08.
But again, I hope you're right about this and I'm wrong.
Let the blue go ...
As I heard one person state ... we can take all of our money and intellectual know how and be gone...
I wish I knew who said it because they forgot something ...
Red staes have all the food and need I say ... guns!
I wonder who will last longer? I can just see the VP of some company having to kill his food and live in a dwelling without all of the "finer things". Come to think of it, can you order sushi in Iowa?
Don't forget to pray for our brave men and women!
God Bless Our Troops and God Bless America!!!
The only thing I don't understand about the Red State/Blue State issue is why are the Republicans Red and the Dems blue, and not the other way round?
Red is the color of Communism, socialism and labor movements the world over and Blue is the color of Conservatism worldwide except here in America.
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