Posted on 01/01/2010 3:48:49 AM PST by Scanian
A number of House Democrats have announced they are retiring, and party officials say more could follow in a tough midterm election year of high unemployment, a slow economic recovery and a very angry electorate.
A growing number of Democrats have read the handwriting on the wall that tells of bleak prospects for their party in 2010 when Republicans are expected to pick up seats in the House and possibly in the Senate, too.
Historically, the party out of power makes gains in an administration's midterm point, and that seems to be what is in store for the Democrats this time around as well, if recent polls are any guide.
It is difficult to remember when the American people have expressed such a deep level of disdain for Congress as they do now under the leadership of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. The latest NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll finds a pathetic 7 percent of Americans give Congress an above average job approval score. Worse, 34 percent now call this Congress one of the worst.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
I’ve found Mr. Lambro to be overly optomistic the past several years. Not to say he isn’t going to get it right this time, but I pretty much ignore his columns.
Trouble is, Hussein is splurging uncountable taxpayer dollars nailing down the votes of all federal, state, county, and municipal government workers, plus those of all OTHER welfare recipients. [Disclosure: I did useful work for a useful part of a local government — and washed often.]
Hussein will also bend the census as much as he can, and send out ACORN and SEIU to damage the election as much as possible. “If you can win, you should, by any means at your disposal.” We’ll have to neutralize his foot soldiers with a minimum of violence... and save our violence....
Why the Democrats will lose the House in 2010
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2417733/posts?page=1
It is particularly important that each of us gets our own family to the polls because the future is at stake. Of course, if your off-spring are clueless Socialists who support the Resident, discourage their participation...and change your will.
Unfortunately the GOP machine is working overtime to save the RINO's rumps.
I don't care what the polls say today. By the time the election comes around if the economy hasn't collapsed I don't think the GOP is going to gain much. I want the GOP to at least gain in the Senate to take away that 60 majority. Unfortunately there are enough RINO's to be bribed so unless we gain at least 5 we are not safe.
I have very little faith in the American electorate. Sure, there are those of us who care and fight for what we see is right but the pendulum has swung over to the side of "people who can vote themselves stuff".
The next hurdle, or should I say attempt at deconstructing the U.S. is the amnesty bill. If it should pass we are done.
Honestly, I am to the point of marching into reps' offices and actually showing them buckets of tar and bags of feathers. It's that bad. My reps don't care a whit what we think. They are hell bent on cementing their voting with unions and thugs.
I do.
Republicans have been ahead of the Democrats in the Rasmussen generic congressional polls for 6 straight months. With 3 Islamic terrorist attacks already, the abominable 0bamacare bill which Americans hate by a margin of 2:1, and 0bozo’s repeated incompetence, the Democrat's numbers can only go down next year.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/generic_congressional_ballot
“By the time the election comes around if the economy hasn't collapsed I don't think the GOP is going to gain much”
Yeah?
The Demlocrats are finished. Nothing is going to save them.
Why?
Well, to start off with, it's going to be virtually impossible for unemployment to improve by much over the next 12 months.
For example, its gonna take a year of 4 percent growth generating 200,000 to 250,000 jobs a month to bring the unemployment rate down to 9 percent. Good luck getting those kinds of growth figures next year. Not gonna happen.
And even if by some miracle, 0bozo managed to get those those kinds of growth/job figures next year, that 9% unemployment by November next year, would still be twice as high as what Americans have been used to during the past two decades.
In addition, don't forget that back in 1994, when Democrats lost the House and Senate, the economy had actually been growing steadily since the nasty 1990-91 downturn, and unemployment had fallen sharply, though not fully to its pre-recession levels. Yet 72 percent of Americans at the time still thought the economy was “fair” or “poor,” according to Gallup, and the Democrats got destroyed in the 1994 congressional elections.
While this of course is important, the re-apportionments do not happen until long after the 2010 elections.
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I don’t care what the polls say today. By the time the election comes
around if the economy hasn’t collapsed I don’t think the GOP is
going to gain much.
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That’s my general opinion.
Obama and Co. have bought enough votes to make them bullet-proof
except when the Dem. candidates are incompetent campaigners (e.g.,
Virginia governors race).
I’ve got to hand it to Obama. He’s learned a lot from FDR on how to
take former Republican districts/states with the mother’s milk of
politics.
Money.
I'm glad you have hope. I have very little and it gets worse every day.
That’d be great, and I hope that it happens.
Ummm..0bama himself campaigned tirelessly for John Corzine in new Jersey, in addition to sending his own top campiagn staff from his 2008 campaign ( the best in the busines, to go run John Corzin’e campaign. Plus Corzine outspent Republican Christie by a massive 3:1. Plus New Jersey is one of the strongest Democratic Party strongholds in the country, which hadn't voted Republiacan since 1993. Despite all that, the Republican still won. And it had nothing to do with your so-called “incompetent Democratic campaigners” either.
See my booklet on vote fraud and what YOU can do to stop it. Also see my post on recent efforts to run a clean election:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1991953/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378786/posts
We need a Freeper Army to counteract the vote fraud. But, believe me, YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. In the 2000 election I was a Poll Watcher. I prevented over 100 fraudulent votes.
Who will join me?
Yes, but reapportionment is why 2010 is so crucial. By taking over state legislatures, the dims can GERRYMANDER A PERMANENT MAJORITY IN CONGRESS.
Our opponents are very clever lawyers who will commit all the felonies it takes to win. They are committed.
I worry that conservatives will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory once again because of their apathy. If conservatives don’t volunteer and donate in HUGE numbers this election cycle, the commies will cement their permanent control.
“I prevented over 100 fraudulent votes.”
Sincere congratulations and thanks.
Who will join you? I will.
Hope I don’t have to collect panther pelts.
Do remember this Alinsky rule: Do the unexpected.
We’ll need to expect the unexpected.
I’m not great at this. Old and slow, I guess.
THIS is one reason why WE the People must demand that the ‘retirement’ perks given to elected and appointed officials in the Three Branches of Government be TERMINATED or GREATLY REDUCED.
It’s as if the retired Congressional Democrats are spitting in the face of the Conservative Constitutional Tax Payers and Voters.
We must, must, must be sure that Conservatives show up in abundance to vote in the November elections.
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