Posted on 01/17/2014 10:57:45 AM PST by Din Maker
At the end of 2013, the Washington Post’s electoral number-crunchers calculated that the Democrats had a 1 percent chance to win back the House of Representatives. Barely into 2014, that already seems pretty optimistic. In the last week, several Democratic representatives saw the writing on the wall and voted with their feet — or with their seat — and announced they will be retiring.
One reason for that: The Obama administration is poised to give an incredible gift to the Republican party. Before the end of the year, up to 80 million people could see their health plans canceled. Economist Stan Veuger, my colleague at the American Enterprise Institute, estimates that at least half of the estimated 157 million people on employer-provided health plans will start losing their existing coverage by the end of 2014 because their plans don’t conform to the more generous — and expensive — demands of the Affordable Care Act. The bulk of the cancellation letters notifying employees should be going out in October, right before the midterm elections. This could be the single most effective direct-mail campaign material in American history, and Republicans won’t even have to pay for the postage.
In 2009, retiring Arkansas representative Marion Berry presciently warned that Obamacare was setting up the Democrats for a huge defeat in the 2010 midterms, just like “Hillarycare” had led to a loss of 54 House seats in 1994. According to Gallup, the American people consider government itself to be the No. 1 problem facing the country.
The interesting question will be whether liberals question the soundness of their faith or insist that the fault lies entirely with the false prophet who failed to deliver them to the Promised Land.
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never underestimate the Republicans ability to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory
Most in the Republican establishment WANT the democrats to win, if it means thwarting conservatives. So we need to remove republican establishment!
GOPe has blown it already by their actions against the Tea Party.
at least for the RINO’s
Exactly. The GOP will take all this good news that all Americans now love them and will pass amnesty. On election night 2014 it will be the GOP who will be singing the blues while the ‘RATS and their “media” toadies will be popping the bubbly open and laughing their @$$e$ off.
Those letters should be going out, but probably won't. No way Obama is going to allow this disaster happen. Just like with other politically inconvenient deadlines, he'll ulilaterally "relax" and few dates and make this problem magically disappear. He does what he wants and has no fear whatsoever of the wimpy bystanders in congress. They are, in fact, his enablers.
Oh I’m sure. Some way or another they will corn hole themselves
The weak and clueless GOP will once again snatch defeat from the jaws of victory (always a safe prediction). They will then blame the Tea Party for the fiasco.
The Stupid Party has earned its moniker.
Don't count on it - he'll jsut use more illegal EOs to push it further down the road. When someone points out that he should be locked up and tried for treason, they will be painted as cold-hearted, mean-spirited folks who believe that all them folks should be swept under the rug. Despite the fact that the Constitution does not contain a "Nobel Cause Clause", they will twist it to demonstrate why the Constitution is a bad thing.
I’m sure the House is a lock.
But the Senate is no slam dunk.
The MSM gets involved in Senate races bigtime (only 33 elections).
I think they swing a lot more weight than in the multiplicity of House races.
The GOP continues to attack their base by lurching left. It’s a wash.
alienation of the base is a real stupid move. Coddling the left isn’t going to generate you any votes
Me too.
By contrast, the Dems are counting on all the jerk-wad defeatists who routinely show up to post on FR threads like this who have no strategy of their own to win elections, but plenty of self-satisfied know-it-all spit-balls to shoot, all in the mistaken belief that any of the readers who are actually on the frontlines doing something about winning the 2014 elections give a rat's rear-end about what conservative voter suppressionists like them think.
FReegards!
He may find a way to extend the deadline for those out early anyway.
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