THIS is what we had in ‘06 when Republicans held both houses of congress and the WH, and dem0s were running for control of congress promising “CHANGE.” How’re yall liking the “CHANGE?”
2006 unemployment #s
4.7...jan.
4.8...feb.
4.7...march
4.7...april
4.7...may
4.6...june
4.7...july
4.7...aug.
4.5...sep.
4.4...oct.
4.5...nov.
4.4...dec.
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When Republicans had both houses and the WH.........................http://www.icmarc.org/xp/rc/marketview/ ... oduct.html
The 1st quarter of ‘06 saw 4.8% growth in GDP. Then came demos running for control of congress promising “CHANGE.” They won, and after 2 years in power, things HAVE “CHANGED” GDP growth dropped to negative 6%. Happy with your “CHANGE?”
The nation was 40% wealthier
The nation still had a AAA credit rating
12,600 12,621.77 January 24, 2007
DOW open and close
Deficit in january ‘07, 1.2%
Take down the Democrat’s propaganda arm (MSM), and the Republicans (actually, conservatives), will be in control for years to come.
/johnny
They won't. I'm very happy to have [some] adults in charge again, but the establishment Republicans have shown us that they are now "Democrat Lite" while the Democrats have gone completely off the reservation and turned into far-left, world-power statist Liberals. If there's not a concerted effort to pull the political pendulum even further to the right, away from the centrist garbage we've seen over the last 15 years, we're not going to pull up the nose in time to save America as she once was.
CarVILE (spelling intentional) promised us that we would have decades of democrat reign when the republicans win one cycle...
Why anyone pays this clown (Carville, that is...no offense meant to actual clowns...) a penny for his political "expertise" is beyond comprehension.
A permanent Republican majority will need 70% of white votes and at least half of Asian and a third of Hispanic votes, with a strong replacement dynamic (i.e., young white voters trending strongly Republican, and young Asian and Hispanic voters not trending hugely Democrat). There is a LONG way to go to achieve any of these targets.
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Here's Todd Akin's career: "In 1988, he was elected to the Missouri House of Representatives. He served in the state house until 2000, when he was elected to the United States House of Representatives, in which he served until 2013." Todd Akin was an elected Republican for 25 years. The GOP had no problem with him until he made a stupid comment about rape. Todd Akin was NOT a Tea Party candidate and to blame the Tea Party is just stupid and unnecessarily divisive. The GOP in DC had 13 years to train Akin in communications and to vet him. The GOP-e dropped the ball on Akin.
Now to Christine O'Donnell, she never would've defeated the GOP-e selected candidate for Senate in the Republican Primary, if the GOP-e had not selected a LEFTWINGER, Mike Castle, to step up from the House to the Senate. The Club for Growth ranked Mike Castle as the least conservative Republican in the House. Mike Castle was the President of the Main Street Republican Partnership, belonged to the Republican Majority for Choice, Republicans for Choice and Republicans for Environmental Protection.
Left, left, left and again left and that's who the GOP-e was shoving down Republican's throats in Delaware. That's the only reason Christine O'Donnell won. If they can't push a leftist in Delaware, they can't do it anyway.
So the stupidity of the GOP-e cost the GOP-e a US Senate seat because their choice was rejected in a protest vote. Christine O'Donnell was just the vehicle for the protest.
The GOP-e is a Club, not a political party. The GOP-e pushed club member Mike Castle just to get a club member in good standing iswth an R behind his name.
Good article…it echoes what Rush has said. Good thread. BTTT!
That's because they work for the same people - i.e., "not us."
To answer the author, he’s incredibly naive. The gop is just one branch of the same political party. Same agenda, just a different set of actors.
Now that the gop has some power, we’ll get to see that conservatism is always just a little too difficult to actually implement. Just like the last time they were in power.
And the time before that.
And the time before that.
And the time before that.
It would also help if the incoming Congress could be known for relegating McCain, Graham and those of similar ilk, to the corners of the building where they can drool and talk to themselves in peace.