Posted on 08/12/2009 3:26:58 PM PDT by shield
It's starting to feel like 1995 all over again.
For 64 years, the Democrats possessed a monopoly of power in the House of Representatives (the two interruptions in 1946 and 1952 when the GOP eked out a tiny majority then quickly lost it don't count).
The Dems' arrogance and conviction they had a moral "divine right" to their monopoly doubled in size when the Pubs tore themselves apart in an internal power struggle, with newcomer Newt Gingrich replacing long-serving Bob "You've got to go along to get along" Michael as Minority Leader.
The Dems laughed at Newt's "Contract With America" as an amateurish and typically "stupid Republican" campaign ploy for the 1994 mid-term elections. They couldn't care less over the tidal wave of public anger building up over their arrogance - and that of the new Dem president, who was trying to ram a government seizure of health care down the throats of Americans.
They were gobsmacked when they lost 50 seats and their majority to the Pubs, and were in a state of catatonic shock when Newt became Speaker Gingrich on January 4, 1995.
The Republicans were on a roll, Big Government was to be rolled back to its Constitutional limits, our Republic was to be rescued from the miasma of liberal cultural destruction, the Democrat Party was to be dismantled like the Soviet Union.
It was all over 105 days later. On April 19, 1995, the Oklahoma City Federal Building was blown up by a man portrayed as a right-wing anti-government terrorist.
Bill Clinton, the Democrats in Congress, and the entire gang of their enablers in the media were able to smear the Gingrich Republicans and anyone advocating less government control over their lives with the brush of "right-wing terrorist" Timothy McVeigh.
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Thanks! I want to stick around! :)
That is two Presidential elections in a row — 2004 and 2008 and we are aiming for three in 2012! :)
Does Oklahoma want BO?
Does Oklahoma want BO?
You are spot-on. I agree.
Living in Chicago, everything that comes out of the Obama war room I am suspicious of. The descriptive ‘Bottom feeders’ is an understatement.
So...anyone who points out that Iran is culturally and ethnically fractured is a “nutjob”?
In reality though Gingrich was hardly different from Michel, except perhaps that Michel like to golf more than Newt.
Writing in The London Sunday Telegraph, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard describes how things had changed by election night 1996. "Relaxing on Air Force One after the election, Bill Clinton told reporters it was the Oklahoma bombing that proved the turning point in his political fortunes. It was the moment when the militias, the Christian Right and the Gingrich onslaught against government all melded together in the public mind as one rampant movement of extremism."
When I read that opening paragraph of AE-P's book, and realized that the President of the United States had publicly gloated over the fact that his cynical use of a horrible tragedy had enabled him to turn opinion against his enemies, then, I finally comprehended the boundless evil of the political left.
No conspiracy theory there; just a clear example of how the Left works -- and how, most probably, they will work again...
It is with a heavy heart (remember that?) that I must conclude he is right.
Those scumbags. What’s the difference between that and Krystallnacht?
So many trolls emerging with membership dates in 1998 and 1999.
Of Course he’ll go. He thinks O Klahoma is a nude musical..
Yea, I signed up in 1999 to screw with this Wheeler nutjob. I am a troll. You see, we knew 10 years ago that CIA agents would infiltrate FR, so I have laid low....I am now outing this Wheeler guy.......please try to sound more like a dope....
Yes. We're all quite aware how the left "works". I don't need a paid subscription from "Dr Wheeler" to emphasize it. Turn on MSNBC.
IF..it was an open meeting... he would be greeted graciously...but with protest.
I think it's a moot point....because he won't come here. I would bet on it.
Surely you don't think that was NOT a carefully controlled event?
They got dat dar down in Muskgoee..I think
Who can this be?
“Yea, I signed up in 1999”
Did you? How does anyone know that?
I don’t remember seeing you around over the last ten years.
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