Posted on 12/09/2014 11:20:50 AM PST by Starman417
Do you ever wonder sometimes why Americans vote? How many times have you heard people say “I don’t vote because my vote doesn’t really matter, those politicians are going to do what they want regardless of how I vote.” In some cases that’s true. Obamacare was a perfect example. In January 2010 Scott Brown won his campaign for the Senate in deep blue Massachusetts by promising to be the 41st vote against Obamacare. The Democrats didn’t care, and despite the fact that 60% of the American people were opposed to Obamacare, they sidestepped Brown and used “reconciliation” to shove the law down the throats of the American people. As a result, that November the GOP retook the House in a landslide election, but by that point the damage had ever been done. If there was ever an example of politicians doing exactly what they wanted in the face of constituent opposition, Obamacare was it.
So why did citizens reward Democrats in 2012 and send Barack Obama back to work? Because presidential elections are personality driven contests (as opposed to issue driven contests) far more than are midterms, with the presidential candidates generating an unparalleled level of attention. Voters in midterm elections are generally more engaged and more aware of the issues than many who vote in presidential elections. Not sure? How many videos did you see in 2008 where voters could barely name the vice presidential candidates, nevermind the issues or candidates lower down the ticket. That reality repeated itself in 2012 with the cult of Barack Obama. Add to that the fact that Mittens Romney ran a campaign so uninspiring that millions of conservatives didn’t even bother to show up and it’s easy to understand how the country got another 4 years of The One.
Just two years later however, 2014 proved to be 2010 on steroids as the GOP picked up 9 seats in the Senate. Why? Not only had Obamacare proven to be exactly the disaster Republicans had predicted, but more timely was the fact that Barack Obama was basically promising amnesty to 4 million illegal immigrants. For the GOP, the numbers were clear: fully 70% of GOP voters were against Obama’s amnesty and at the end of the day those voters delivered a victory.
But alas, that doesn’t seem to matter. Like the Democrats in 2010 voting for something 60% of the Americans didn’t want, in 2014 the Republican leadership plans to ignore the wishes of 70% of their constituents by surrendering on immigration.
Surrender? That is essentially what the leadership has done as it promises there will be no government shutdown. The purse strings are one of the few checks the legislative branch has on the executive. As such, the primary way Congress can impact what the administration does is by deciding what to fund and what not to fund. In this context, a shutdown would occur when Congress passes a bill to fund the entire government except for those DHS functions involved in the president’s amnesty and then the president vetoes it. No dice say Boehner and McConnell. They are scared that the GOP would be blamed for any shutdown and get hammered in 2016. That’s an illusion, as most of the government would still function, and, frankly, most Americans wouldn’t even notice a shutdown were it not for the bleating of the administration’s media minions. In last year’s shutdown, once it was over a full 78% of Americans reported that they weren’t inconvenienced by the shutdown at all and another 11% felt only minor inconveniences. And a year later the GOP went on to flatten the Democrats in the midterms!
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But it depends on HOW you fight. I prefer to start by not supporting the individual progressive politician, regardless of which side of the uni-party they ‘hang their hat’ with.
Well I`m sending him a pair of blue balls as a reminder.
So why are the crats greasing the rails on their surrender?
Like hell, their alter egos won, they still get some of their Christmas list while we get the coal. Cause to celebrate? OK! Let`s call Santa, The Tooth Fairy, and the Easter Bunny and throw a party!!!
Boner etc have shown they will fund obamacare and amnesty, post election.
Levin just went ballistic and noted torus Conservatives that the GOPis going to FUND ALL of Obama’s ‘unconstitutional Amnesty decree’, fund ALL OF OBAMACARE and approve all his whack-job Marxist Judicial appointments.
It was a coup that took place over the last few years folks. The election meant NOTHING, and the fruits are going to be self-evident as this Imperial Fascist Oligarchy turns down the screws on us.
And no votes or elections are going to alter or ‘fix’ what they intend to do to us.
History is repeating and happening right under our noses, and we pretend it is not so.
Genocides are created under such circumstances we now find ourselves.
/johnny
Because the Democrats are much, much worse!
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