"I hereby dub you a major loser."
Agree completely. It was a repudiation of the Obama administration policies, and a repudiation of Harry Reid’s leading the charge on behalf of that administration. Last thing we need to hear from Reid is “the American people have spoken and they want us to work together.” NOT ON YOUR LIFE, BUDDY!
Now, just inform Boehner about this.
I agree and I say if we are serious about turning the country around we seriously need to start acting now to get more conservative leadership among the house and senate and for future candidates for 2016 seats and for the White House. We need to start TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My opinion is that this country is full of excellent, hard working, pro-American, excellent work ethic types that respect our constitution and the rights that it protects. We are sick and tired of the lefties shoving anti-family, anti-American and a “no morals” agenda upon us. The mood was so agitated and disgusted with everything going on it had to come out in this election.
Well so far the lefties say this is “the end of the Tea Party”, NOT a referendum on Ozippy (really ???) and that the peeps have spoken and want us to cooperate with the dems. BWAAA
Now we need to dump Mitch and Boo Hoo Boehner (did anyone even see or hear from him last night?) and get down to brass tacks!
How do you see it?
The GOP did a good job avoiding lunatic nominees like O’Donnell, Angle, Mourdock and Akin. If you nominate unqualified people with unpopular views you won’t win. We avoided that mistake this time, and we won.
It does seem that most of the new Republican US Senators are constitutional conservatives. Two of them, Cotton and Ernst, bring with them military experience. This does not seem like a RINO group.
They may think we’re going to pat them on the back. I say we light a fire under their feet and hold them to it.
My vote was not for the Republicans. It was for anyone other than the Democrats.
Republicans have clearly shown that they have the magical capacity to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and nothing will change there. Furthermore, they still have the “go along to get along” motto that they staunchly support.
Worse yet, watch and you will see that they will leave Mitch as the leader of the Senate. That says a lot on just how hard they will be on the liberals.
Boehner in the house...Mitch in the Senate. The thought scares me to death.
They will eating massive amounts of feel good legislation along with a huge slice of compromise pie.
However, we did get some fresh “meat” in this election that may actually support and protect our rights and constitutional laws.
"I hereby dub you a major loser."
The Republican Party and the MSM and probably even the Democrats will spin this loudly as a final defeat for the Tea Party and Conservatives. The general public perception will go along with that and be reinforced by a lame deferential Republican Senate and House. The only way I see o turn that around is for McConnell to NOT be elected Majority Leader and for Boehner and McCarthy to lose their positions, too. If that would happen then I would guess maybe we have turned a corner. With those three still emplaced there will not be much change in Washington, except that now, with a Republican majority in the Senate we WILL get Amnesty and total permanent Democrat control in one more cycle.
Yes, it was a vote against Obama THUS the radical liberalism that has taken over America. The people have clearly stated, we want to step back from the edge.
Here will be your talking point in the media,
“The voters voted against their interest due to the fact that the republicans obstructed the democrats reforms and the voters got frustrated by the lack of progress that otherwise would be happing economically if the President’s agenda had been fully implemented.This cynical strategy has won them great gains tonight be whether they will work with democrats to govern and actually be responsible remains to be seen. Will the strategy of No work in 2016? Many political analyst doubt it. Here’s George Stenographer of ABC News to explain why.”
By the way I still think McConnell has the Trent Lott power sharing agreement ready to go. So get ready to watch the republican leadership surrender any advantage they gained in this election. They also will feel confident enough to continue the conservative purge since “we can win with our electable candidates” strategy.
The only thing we know for sure is that the Repubs will draw the wrong message from this and screwup in 2 years. In my opinion here are the lessons.
1. This was definitely anti-obama vote (regardless of what CNN, the democratic shill Megyn Kelley,and Juan Williams says)
2. In a midterm elections, the hardcore tend to turn out.
3. This is a mandate to impeach and remove this tyrant if he continues to flaunt the constitution
4. This election is like building a levee to stop a tsunami. We have so much work to do to restore our republic to a constitutional form
It was a vote against Obama.
Conservatism was not on the ballot last night.
This was absolutely an anti-0bama/anti-democRAT socialist policies vote.
Now for the game changer .... Senate Majority Leader Cruz
As I have posted in a couple of other places, Stephen Hayes, Senior Writer for the Weekly Standard, told us a few days ago, what this election would be about. He said, “It is about the size and scope of government, It’s about the rule of law. It’s about the security of the citizenry. It’s about competence, integrity and honor. It’s about an electorate determined to hold someone responsible for the policy failures that have defined this administration and the scandals that have consumed it, even if many in the fourth estate will not. And, it’s about time.” I was listening this a.m. to Squawk Box, CNBC, to get some business news, and all but a couple of those people were progressives who refuse to see what we out here are thinking and feeling. While our economy is very important, these other issues play into what happened yesterday, BIG TIME.
Nationally, the only thing I noticed was pro-life and pro-gun. Anti-Hussein, of course, but that’s it.
There isn’t much choice, really. For the most part, you can vote Democrat or Republican. The truth is that there is not a viable 3rd party out there yet. (And they need to build from local to national, but they insist on trying to go national to local....something that simply won’t work.)
I don’t think they voted Rino. I think they voted republican, and that because they wanted something different, and republican was the only viable alternative.
Yesterday was not so much a wholesale embrace of the GOP as it was a complete and total repudiation of Barack Obama and the gang of criminals he brought to Washington in 2008.
In the last 2 decades, it became clear to me that we were losing that struggle as those major institutions gained ground among the growing class of those either employed by or dependent upon the expanding welfare state. My way of emotionally coping with that was to tell myself that if the majority did, indeed, lust after a socialist welfare state, well then, let’s bring it on and let them have it good and hard. Rub their noses in it. Shove it down their throats!!
At the same time, I continued to tell myself that there were still enough honest-to-God adults out there who, once they had a taste of a totalitarian command state regime, they would reject it. I refused to consider that so many citizens (and I use the term loosely) would come to love and embrace the thing enough to sustain it and prolong the economic and personal agony history teaches always attends such despotic systems.
Yesterday, I THINK we began to come to our senses!
I’d analogize what happened yesterday to what an otherwise healthy human body does when faced with an existential threat. Just as our bodies are complex organisms, nations are complex organisms. Faced with ISIS, ebola, the invasion across the southern border and Obama’s criminal neglect of those threats, and on and on and on we STILL have the resolve and character to rally and turn back the threats and deal with the SOURCE of the threats.
All that said, we’re not out of the woods yet.
Now it’s up to the Pubbies to set out a serious and freedom oriented AGENDA and be RESOLUTE in repairing the damage this renegade regime has done over the last 6 years!
Obama and Valarie Jarrett are NOT going to go gently into that good night. As an egomaniacal malignant narcissist, this guy will dig in his heels. Just as a wild animal is most dangerous when cornered, Obama is now in a corner from which there is little chance escape. Ted Cruz was asked last night by if the Pubbies would take up the matter of Obama’s “lawlessness” and he stated rather emphatically that they would.
I’ll be watching to make sure that happens! I’m sure Darrel Issa and Trey Gowdy are licking their chops. I’m doubling my popcorn order for THAT show!
The only event that would please me more than what happened yesterday would be the sight of Barack Obama leaving the White House in manacles and leg irons with Eric Holder right behind him. If he and Eric are smart, they’ll spend today booking air travel to some non extradition country. I’m sure Lois Lerner would like to go along!
And speaking of air travel, tell these new Pubbies to take the keys to Air Force One away from Obama. It’s time to halt his endless taxpayer funded world apology tour!
Now comes the hard work of keeping all these new folks honest in the toxic and corrosive atmosphere of Washington, D.C. . it’s up to these same voters to watch all these new folks like the proverbial hawk and keep them within Mr. Jefferson’s “chains of the Constitution.” When you see them beginning what is the inevitable drift into the D.C. Swamp, CALL AND LET THEM KNOW WE’RE NOT GOING BACK TO “BUSINESS AS USUAL”. The Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121! Write it down. You should call just to hear the world’s worst “Music on Hold”.
The massive wins by in the statehouses MAY mean that at least SOME voters believe the 10th Amendment will be the most important tool to roll back the growth of fedzilla and return the states to the status of “LABORATORIES OF FREEDOM” the Founders intended them to be.
In that vein, the new national Pubbies need to start taking apart the federal bureaucracy, starting with the Department of Education, the EPA, the IRS and on and on.
Not to be the skunk at the picnic, but there IS some not so good news: The good guys won this one but the tight margins in many of these races mean that there are STILL large pockets of diehard Democrats who STILL DON’T GET IT!!
If you know any of those folks, spend some time attempting to acquaint them with our history, the ideas of the Founders, our tradition of freedom, the Constitution and why those things are important! There will be another election in 2 years and – unless we somehow reach them – many of these folks will be cocked and locked for payback!
Conservatives and Republicans spoke loud and clear -- nominate the most conservative candidate possible in the primaries but vote Republican in the general election.