Posted on 10/06/2021 5:11:41 AM PDT by Kaslin
Going back to the first term of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, the party of first-term presidents gained seats in House midterm congressional elections only twice.
Karl Rove reminded readers a few months ago in his Wall Street Journal column that, since World War II, the average loss of House seats of the party of each first-term president in congressional midterms is 28.
The largest loss was 63 in the first midterm elections in Barack 0bama's first term. This was after Democrats rammed through the Affordable Care Act without a single Republican vote.
Given that Republicans need to pick up only five seats in 2022 to regain control of the House, Democrats who retain any sense of reality are concerned by the political atmospherics being created by their $3.5 trillion welfare state/Green New Deal spending blowout.
But the very idea that there is something called "reality" is now politically incorrect in today's woke-dominated Democratic Party.
The sway of Democrat "moderates" – that is, those who have not detached entirely from reality, such as Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema and Rep. Josh Gottheimer -- is in question now that the on-again, off-again vote on the trillion-dollar infrastructure bill, independent of the $3.5 trillion welfare state blowout, is now off-again.
The infrastructure bill, $1 trillion of spending on public works projects like roads, bridges and trains, is something of more conventional pedigree in Washington, which we normally expect from our elected officials.
The strategy of crazy left-wing House Democrats, pushing the $3.5 trillion welfare state/Green New Deal spending, has been to link this to their support of the $1 trillion infrastructure bill. If you want roads and bridges, sign off on the $3.5 trillion socialist dream.
It had appeared that sobriety would have its day in Washington as the Senate passed, with Democrat and Republican votes, the infrastructure bill, with understanding that the House would vote on it and Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushing back on the far left's condition of linking this to the welfare state trillions.
But lo and behold, the speaker backed off on scheduling the vote, and we're back to the "roads and bridges on condition of the socialist dream" deal.
One notable factor pushing things in this direction was a visit by President Joe Biden to Capitol Hill, indicating his support of the House far-lefties to link infrastructure to socialism.
This could well do for the president's ratings on domestic policy what his horribly botched exit from Afghanistan did for his ratings on foreign policy.
Let's recall that initially the Democratic presidential nomination was heading to the far-left Sens. Bernie Sanders/Elizabeth Warren wing of the party.
Things turned around for Biden when House Majority Whip James Clyburn endorsed him, delivering for him the South Carolina primary.
Clyburn's endorsement was essentially an "establishment" endorsement of the Democratic Party. Clyburn cautioned against the far-left campaign rhetoric on issues like defunding the police.
Now Biden has put his presidential seal on that far-left wing of the party, and this will cost him.
New Gallup polling shows record-low trust in government.
Trust in federal government handling of international problems now stands at 39%, compared with an average from 1997-2021 of 59%. Trust in federal government handling of domestic problems stands at 39%, compared with an average of 53% from 1997-2021.
Earlier this year, Gallup polling showed satisfaction with the country plunging to 39%, compared with 53% in 2020. Satisfaction with overall quality of life was 67%, down from 84% in 2020; with opportunity to get ahead with hard work at 58%, down from 72%; with size and power of government at 31%, down from 38%; with our system of government and how well it works at 27%, down from 43%; and the moral and ethical climate at 18%, down from 32%.
Given how Democrats are running our government, 2022 should be a big year for Republicans.
Yep RINOS are salivating.
Election theft.
LOL Republicans. This country is so screwed. Don’t stop prepping.
Time for the young Republicans to work in the trenches to fight the fraud.
HOW CAN ANYONE BE CERTAIN 2022 WILL BE A FAIR AND ACCURATE ELECTORAL PROCESS UNLESS THE RAMPANT FRAUD COMMITTED IN 2020 IS ADDRESSED AND ELIMINATED?
Yep, 2022 Looking Good for Republicans and America is about to be bent over and raped by these thieves in three piece suits. I’ll vote for Trump and the rest of them can go straight to h*ll.
Gee, I’m glad that they have fixed all the crooked vote counting, ballot stuffing, general cheating, in every precinct, city, county and state, and banned Dominion machines from all venues.
I must have missed all the articles on that happening.
If everyone with an (R) after their name was a fearless patriot, the Republican party would be unstoppable.
Don’t count your chickens. A year is a lifetime in politics.
Agree.
Or, as I liked to put it, when RINO Orin Hatch was in power:
“Don’t count your Hatches before they chicken.”
Agreed, especially considering the caliber of today's Quisling GOP.
President Trump won 2020 easily, but when 81,000,000 votes get counted for Biden, what does it matter. Unless the election is secure and legal, polls don’t make a darned bit of difference.
This time don’t screw it up!
(They are going to screw it up aren’t they?)
Looked good in 1998 too. And didn’t turn out that way. Overconfidence is a bad bad thing.
Trump is not President
Biden is President
Trump lost
No amount of rationalization will change the fact. America is lost and only war and blood in the streets will allow it to return
2022 SHOULD be good for Republicans, and I like the fact that Trump is helping primary RINO’s right now.
The voter fraud thing is a real problem, and the fact that we’ve had little traction fixing it outside of a handful of Republican run States is infuriating.
I predict every republican will lose in a MAJOR landslide.
He who votes doesn’t count, only he who counts the votes counts ~ Joseph Stalin
How exciting.
It will be so wonderful to be back in “power” so we can start reaching across the aisle again.
Puke
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