EDITORIAL: What if Democrats win it all?

If Barack Obama is elected into office as the 44th president of the United States on Nov. 4 and voters, in tandem, give the Democrats 60 seats in the Senate and give them a solid majority in the House. What happens after Inauguration Day?

Single-party rule is inherently totalitarian whether the people consent to it or not. In most cases, one-party states rise out of authoritarian regimes, including former monarchies, or socialist revolutions. There are currently seven - China, Cuba, Eritrea, Laos, Vietnam, Syria, Korea. The United States would become the eighth.

Single-party rule is something to fear in and of itself - particularly from a spending standpoint, regardless of which party has absolute power. From 2003 to 2005, George W. Bush and the Republican Congress created the largest expansion of Medicare in history the prescription-drug bill and started two wars. They also succeeded in creating the largest tax cut in history.

Please read more at one of the two following links, the first a print version and the second an HTML page with other data on it.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/31/what-if-democrats-win-it-all/print/

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/31/what-if-democrats-win-it-all/

If things were to melt down to a certain point, you would be right. Are you willing to give up your home, have your sons and daughters give up theirs, your grandchildren to be out on the street?

I would suggest the ballot box is where we take corrective measures.

Folks think they know everything. Wait until they see Obambi actually doing some of the stuff he has promised to do. The left won’t be spared. All of a sudden this is going to get real for them.

It’s about the same. Remember, the only time we could get Clinton shenanigans into the newspapers, it was when they wanted to facilitate cover for him. They didn’t send one reporter to Arkansas to investigate Clinton after he declared. They didn’t care about reports of rape. They didn’t care about reports of deaths. It just didn’t matter. The obstruction of justice and witness tampering with Monica Lewinksy alone could have taken him down. They couldn’t be bothered.

No they didn’t. They voted Clinton in for a 2nd term. I see no reason to have faith that the same public that would vote for Obama - a nobody - would suddenly become conservatives. Naive thinking for losers.

I don’t know what argument they would make if we were about to get it. Frankly, after our last rule, I wouldn’t blame them if they did take us to task. We really screwed up last time. It was good for a while, then we just caved and become part of the problem.

I think the Times has been quite unbiased. They cover the good and bad on both sides.

Look, they’re making a very strong case why leftists can’t be trusted with absolute rule. If the Republicans were to be nearing absolute rule, they couldn’t compare it with the nations they compared and Obama absolute rule with.

That pic is enough to make me wonder whether Trig Palin’s Halloween elephant costume was mocking OBambi’s ears. What say you, Trig Palin, and how much did your outfit cost??

MSNBC will no doubt lead with this scandal in the near future.

...and started two wars.

I strongly disagree with this. I can't believe the Washington Times forgot that on 9/11/2001, we were attacked. We STARTED nothing. Iraq was needed to stabilize a Middle Eastern Islamic monster and provide a base for confronting it.

I don't think Obama is going to win. Too many signs pointing the other way. There is no explanation for these inflated slanted polls suddenly drawing it down to 2 or 3 points, other than they are scared they are going to be embarrassed on Nov. 4th. As mentioned on Rush's show today, one thing pollsters aren't telling us is 80%+ of Americans refuse to participate in polls.

I really think we should concentrate on WINNING, and deal with the hand we are dealt afterwards. Being highly concerned is great motivation to VOTE however.

The topic of discussion was whether we thought Congress could be turned in two years. I have stated that I think under the proper conditions it could be. There wasn’t any discussion of the public turning Conservative. There wasn’t any talk about Obama being voted out in four years.

If it could be done in 1994, it can be done in 2010. If Obama stays true to form, he is going to confirm the worst expectations of those on the right, and shock some folks who didn’t see him for who he was from the left.

One big, important point: The Supreme Court.

Stevens is 88, Ginsburg is 75, Kennedy is 72, Scalia is 72, Souter is 69. Whoever is President over the next few years will probably nominate two or three justices, and determine which way the court leans for a generation.

We NEED to retain the Presidency for four more years. And we need to make a gain in the Senate.

I think that is a fair observation. I don’t like that one liner either. They should know better than that. It is universally accepted by almost everyone, that a conscious decision was made to go into Afghanistan and Iraq. That still doesn’t mean we stared two wars.

09/11 was a focused, planned act of war on the United States. We can’t help it if the perps were not part of these two nation’s governments. They lived in those nations and we were going to respond. Was there any doubt?

If there was, there shouldn’t be any in the future.

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