"I have a plan"
Posted on 11/08/2006 4:48:25 AM PST by NotchJohnson
A WELL-EARNED KICK IN THE GUT
The voters gave the Republicans a well-earned kick in the gut yesterday. They have taken control of the House of Representatives by an overwhelming margin. They needed 15 seats to get control. They have won at least 28. As of this morning the Senate is still in play. At best the Republicans will have a one-seat margin in the Senate.
When I got up at 4:00 this morning and started to look at results, I can honestly say that I was neither surprised nor disappointed. I've been saying this for weeks ... and I'll say it again right now ... this may be the best possible outcome for the future of our Republic.
This is good news .. and bad news. Good news because of the message it sends to Republicans. Bad news because of the message it sends to Islamic jihadists who are dedicated to the destruction of our culture.
One thing is certain. The Republicans worked very hard for this defeat. They've earned every lost seat. The Republican majority that was sent packing yesterday bore little resemblance to the Republican majority that rode to power 12 years ago. In 1994 we were promised less government. Over the next 12 years the Republicans more than doubled the size of the government. We were promised control over runaway spending. In the last six years discretionary spending has doubled. We were promised fiscal responsibility. We got a bridge to nowhere in Alaska. We were promised the elimination of the Department of Education. After all, educational achievement had been on a steady decline since education was federalized under this Department. In no time at all the Republicans doubled funding for the Department of Education. In the meanwhile America continues to slip on the international scorecard of educational achievement.
The Republicans, in full control of the government, couldn't even manage to stop the Mexican invasion. How many Hispanics invaded our country across the Mexican / American border in the last 12 years? Twelve million? Twenty? Funny, but I don't remember pressing 1 for English in 1994.
So how did I actually vote when I got that provisional (see below) ballot in my hand. Straight Libertarian. I voted for every Libertarian candidate on the ballot. I couldn't bring myself to vote for the Social Democrat Party ... and the Republicans simply had not earned my vote. I was heartened this morning to read the following line from an Augusta Chronicle story on the vote: "With the aid of statewide distribution of Libertarian Neal Boortz's radio talk show since the last election, the Libertarian Party is enjoying its strongest support ever, making Georgia one of the party's most vibrant states." Good to hear.
I was wondering how I would feel when I woke up on November 8th to find the Republicans out of power in the House. Now I know. I'm rather enjoying this. I'm enjoying the thought of Republican party leaders getting together somewhere to try to figure out what went wrong. Will they second guess their free-spending habits? Will they re-think their big-government agenda? Will they swap recriminations on their failure to stem the Mexican invasion? Will the wonder what would have happened if they had adopted a national agenda as they did in 1994, rather than insisting on their concentration on local issues? Will they ask why President Bush never pulled out his veto pen ... not until the issue of federal funding for stem cell research was on the table?
If the Republicans had maintained their power we would have faced two more years of business as usual. Two more years of spending and government growth. Now we have two years of Republicans figuring out how they can convince the American people that they deserve to lead again.
I'm certainly not going to sit around and cry like the moonbats have done for years. Now it's time to start hammering the democrats on the same things we pounded on the republicans over.
If he's this happy now, I guess he'll be ecstatic when Hillary wins in '08.
Well, at least nobody seems to be flipping out...
I totally agree! NOW we have to concentrate on 2008. It's over and done with we have to move on.
Agreed and they just need to do an objective analysis as in any type of failure evolve and move on.
I hope they get back on track being conservative and get some decent leadership...Senator "Limp Wrist" and Dennis Hastert (With the personality of a lump of coal does not cut it....
The dems are going to have to lead now - AND THEY HAVE NO PLAN. It will be entertianing for the next two years...
I had a dream last night that Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton went postal on the radical jihadists and nuked Iran and North Korea.
Bull's eye.
No matter how much the Dims pat themselves on the back, you are right, IMHO. More people voted against the Reps than for the Dims.
Between Alabama football and this...my world is ALL upside down and backwards! lol
When I got up an hour later at 5:00 and looked at the results, I was physically ill. I grieve the demise of the great party rejuvenated by Ronald Reagan. The thought of the children now running the House, likely the Senate as well as statehouses across this land is terrifying.
bttt
Elect Pelosi Speaker, that will really show the terrorist. *eyes rolling*
That was the second thought I had when I heard the news. I'm especially looking forward to Pookie18's Today's Toons daily thread. It's a great way to start the morning.
I seriously doubt it, Neal.
Wait 'til Hillary and her friends try to get rid of the Electoral College. Republicans will never win another election.
And the old media now feels that prevarication and lies works.
Bad days ahead.
Damn straight they'll assure a Hitlery win.
Nancy Pelosi promised: "Democrats intend to lead the most honest, the most open and the most ethical Congress in history."
Didn't we hear something like that in 1992, right after the "co-Presidency" of the "Shan" (later to be known as the "Former Occupant of the Oval Office, 1993-2001") and Herself, the Cold and Joyless, got elected? And does everybody remember just how well THAT went? In fact, does anybody remember when Jimmy Carter said something similar in 1976? We were MUCH better off then, weren't we?
Get to work, folks. Right now. We are burning daylight here.
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Well, the country will pay a dear price because the Republican party took everything for granted and didn't lead. Everyone's talking about how we will win back the House and the Senate in 2008. I just hope we still have a country left by that time.
I haven't slept yet, nor have I left the toilet area yet.
They are the only ones the media would back if anyone were to do that.
A bunch of complacent RINOs got their asses deservedly kicked.
Bush is the main culprit.
Yup.
I'm not happy, but I am motivated to work on reform for the Republicans. We need candidates for whom we can vote without holding our noses.
I was not happy with Allen, but I voted for him purely for the numbers game.
"I have a plan"
It is likely that the Republican party strategy will be a move to the middle, and not to the right.
Well atleast Republicans got some decent tax cuts.
With Dems in charge of house now,middle Americans wont get any decent tax cuts.
Since it is hard for Republicans to win back control of House from incumbents, its back to tax and spend policies.
Yeah, it will be amusing to see them come out of their "we're moderates" masquerade! I say let them impeach Bush and all the other nutjob things they want to do to this country.
It is likely that the Republican party strategy will be a move to the middle, and not to the right.
I think you're right. This election was the end of the "issues voter."
"The Republicans worked very hard for this defeat. They've earned every lost seat."
Truer words were never spoken. And even though my vote for George Allen is still in play, he should have been able to win by 10 to 20 points, not by 1/10th to 1/2.
The immigration debacle in the Senate says everything we need to say about GOP leadership there, and the spending bills from the House are also self-explanatory.
I wonder if they "get it".
If it wasn't for the fact that we're up to our eyeballs in a war against Islamic nutburgers--even if people don't quite realize it--I might've done the same thing. I'm not happy with the Republicans. But handing the Congress over to a bunch of utter whackjobs like Pelosi, Reid, Conyers, and the Swimmer? No way in hell I could do that.
What's done is done, and there's no use going moonbat over it or forming a circular firing squad. It's time for us, as conservatives, to shake it off, suck it up, and start fighting again. We've been in a hell of a lot worse political situations than this...sheesh, we THRIVE under adversity. Hugh Hewitt said it best, we don't have to play defense any more. We can attack.
Jim Webb thinks he's "Born Fighting?" He hasn't seen anything until he sees us in 2008.
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Folks we can beat up Bush all we want. That won't get us anywhere. We can also beat up RINOs but the fact is, if Conservatives are going to win they need to start convincing RINOs as well as mushy moderates instead of kicking them when they are down.
I suspect that I have seen the last GOP-controlled Congress in my lifetime...
It feels like when John Major performed so badly and reduced the Torries to do-nothing simpletons.
Ed
And if they do, they will continue to lose to the Democrats--it's as simple as that.
The right attitude, cripplecreek....
I guess Kneel Bortz is also happy that abortions will continue in South Dakota and human cloning will begin in Missouri
If anyone can find a pony somewhere in this horsesh*t ladened hay ...it's him.
It was "Reagan Democrats" returning to their party.
The GOP became arrogant. The view became we don't need those unsophisticated blue collar workers in their pickup trucks - because they are stupid and belong to unions.
So they voted for people who did not turn them away, by their words and their actions.
The democrats will now determine what happens. If they have the wisdom to act like Reagan, the GOP is in very serious trouble.
The GOP let internationalists into line, ahead of those who believe in America First. Democrats may now step in and fill that void.
Or - they may sell out to those same internationalists. In which case the GOP had *better* be the ones who stop it.
I understand what Neil is saying but now the Dems will go for the kill the next 2 years. They will try to set the groundwork for Hillary. If you were worried about vote fraud in this election, you have seen nothing yet.
The Dems will have no agenda. With Pelosi's speech last night about ethics, it looks like they will be turning over every rock to try to get Republicans. The House will come up with all of these spending bills for the so called "poor" and will label Bush and the Republicans "heartless." Same playbook different year.
It is not going to be much fun unless Republicans learn how to really fight and stand up for conservative principles.
It's bait and switch. Big Mommy's loving bosom becomes Big Daddy's iron fist.
Ah-yup.
have to "move on."
PLEASE don't use that term. Reminds me of that Moore guy who is overjoyed this morning about the results .
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