Posted on 10/01/2009 7:16:19 PM PDT by RobinMasters
That's the question Byron York asks, based on Gallup poll results indicating that most Americans are back to wanting the government to promote "traditional values" rather than "not favoring any particular set of values." That preference has generally existed over the last 20 years, but the balance swung away from "traditional values"--which means whatever the poll respondent has in mind--beginning in 2005.
Byron argues that this is more evidence that the Democrats have badly misread their mandate:
[T]hat period of revulsion at Bush and Republicans from 2005 to 2008 left a legacy: a Democrat in the White House and large Democratic majorities in the House and Senate, at least until 2010. That is why you see Democrats racing to enact their agenda, even as they see the political conditions around them changing. They have the majorities, based on the public's very temporary mood of 2005-2008, and they are determined to put their preferred policies in place no matter what the public thinks now.
The Gallup numbers also suggest that Barack Obama and the Democratic leadership in the House and Senate have fundamentally misread their own victories. Did voters elect Democrats because they desperately wanted national health care? Sprawling and expensive environmental regulation? Federal deficits triple the size of just a few years ago? No. The voters elected Democrats because they were sick of Bush and Republicans. Now Bush and the GOP are gone and out of power. Democrats are doing what they thought the voters wanted. And it turns out the voters didn't want that at all.
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
Ping.
No! it’s true. Liberals are giving up. /good Lord
The liberal “moment” is in its death throes and the “tsunami” of conservative backlash is rapidly building up momentum.
Always the hazard when your campaign depends so completely on “I’m not the other guy.” Sooner or later the public finds out what guy you are. “Change” isn’t always for the better.
[most Americans are back to wanting the government to promote “traditional values” rather than “not favoring any particular set of values.”]
TRADITION involves values!
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You tell ‘em potlatch!
Just remember: Democrat candidates spend their time trying to convince people that they are not liberals. Republican candidates spend their time trying to convince people that they are conservative. That says it all.
No, not true.
It's plainly obvious what the majority of voters want or don't want now. The Democrats are just doing what they wanted to do all along - and they plan on ramming it all down the voter's throats!
Not according to Dick Grayson. America is sick of lying republicans who want people to die.
What they haven’t counted on is getting it shoved straight back up their a$$.
[You tell ‘em potlatch!]
Hey, Halloween is coming.......do you want candy or a trick?
And you DO know what I mean by trick, lol.
Oh how wonderful it would be if thier moment was over. If so, it time to repair the damage.
>Hey, Halloween is coming.......do you want candy or a trick?
This year I’ll be giving out .22 ammo instead of candy.
>And you DO know what I mean by trick, lol.
lol - Perhaps.
Hope your right, Hope the next generation of so called leaders see it that way. But I do not believe it will be that way. The political class exist to be re elected. Term limits are required, Removing incentives to stay until death are required, removing incentives and that health care package are required.
A lot of their voters fell for the Centrist/Moderate shtick because the MSM was in the tank lock, stock and barrel. Those voters are not happy.
Grayson thinks if he speak out like the senator who told obama “you lie”, he will also get tons of campaign money.
Problem for him is, we are mad as hell the the liberals sheep are scared as hell.
Lol, the little kiddies ain’t gonna like that.......!
>Lol, the little kiddies ain’t gonna like that.......!
But that ammo will become hard currency when the SHTF and the Revolution goes hot.
[Term limits are required]
I think we all agree on that. Making it happen is another thing.
Someone wrote; I believe in two terms per person, one in office and one in prison......
Sure is! It has now slid completely and openly under the umbrella of Marxism.
That reduces the number of "labels" we have to bandy about and target for extinction by one.
Well.........maybe the dads will be happy when they go through the goodies bags.
Obama read all of that in the campaign and ran as a safe centrist, to the extent of muting his conviction pacifism to support the Afghan war as cover for opposing the Iraq war. In office, the Dems have instead rolled out a radical expansion of government no one wanted, and one that is economic malpractice in its timing, even to Keynesians on the left.
This is a great way to please their base for about five seconds and then blow up. Which is approximately what is happening.
They can hope for the natural turn of the economic cycle to give them a second political life. But it will probably be too little and too late to save fallout in the congressional elections next fall.
They hate him for fooling them and know now they were duped by a big government, big business con man. “Their words”.
“[T]hat period of revulsion at Bush and Republicans from 2005 to 2008 left a legacy...”
“The voters elected Democrats because they were sick of Bush and Republicans.”
1. So, he’s saying it’s Bush’s fault—still.
2. I wonder how much of the “revulsion” and “sick” he writes about was real and sprung from the hearts of the general population, and how much was created or incited by the media.
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Hoo moi?
Yes, ewe!
Judging by the things I hear people say around me, people are so fed up with what the Dems are doing that they really should start worrying about their safey! If normal everday people are this upset what about those who would act on their feelings?
I have a new tagline. I wish we could edit our posts here.
the only reason the “fools” turned against W was because of the 24/7 drumbeat of the media.....
That is the same bunch of assholes who have given us a scumbag who could never have been elected if they had done their job.....
I blame the media and I show my disapporval by never turning on NBCCBSABCCNNPMSNBC................ever
I'm glad they learned their lesson. Here's hoping that in future elections, they'll pay as much attention to what a candidate has done in the past, as what he or she says they want to do in the future.
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