One of the thrills (and not one running down my leg) of Election Day was to listen to the liberal “journalists” try to sit through the Republican wave that we were all witnessing. Ever since Barack Obama was elected, the left wing media have been accomplices to his agenda — an agenda that was soundly rejected by the American people. But rather than accept that fact, they sit in stupor and wonder, “How can this happen?” They were all given a basket of lemons on Election Day, but rather than make lemonade, they simply put on their best sour face. Priceless.
First there is this gem from MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow. As usual, when she talks about the Republicans, she only talks about them “blocking Obama’s agenda.” It’s never that the American people don’t like where Obama was taking the country.
Funny… if the strategy was to “block policy accomplishments” and that strategy “paid off big time,” isn’t that a clue that Americans didn’t really want those policy “accomplishments”? Just a thought.
Then, Andrea Mitchell tries to explain that cutting taxes and cutting spending are “totally conflicting.”
Following an unprecedented and robust midterm NSSF Voter Education campaign, including the establishment of an NSSF Political Action Committee, the 2010 elections proved to be exceptionally strong for pro-industry candidates at both the federal and state levels. In the election, Republicans took back control of the House of Representatives while picking up six seats in the Senate and 10 governorships.
Though the Democrats maintain control of the Senate, pro-industry/gun Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D) won re-election — a move that keeps either anti-gun senators Chuck Schumer (D) or Dick Durbin (D) from assuming the leadership position.
At the state level, pro-gun/hunting measures fared very well. Three of four states overwhelmingly passed Right to Hunt and Fish measures, including: Arkansas, South Carolina and Tennessee. The state of Kansas passed, with 90 percent approval, the right to keep and bear arms. And in Montana, financing measures for big- game hunting were approved.
In another sign of disapproval of President Barack Obama and his broad health care overhaul, Arizona voters approved a measure that would change the state’s constitution to ban forced participation in health care plans.
Voters who approved Proposition 106, which won 55 percent of the vote, tended to be conservative, angry or dissatisfied with the way the federal government is working and strongly supportive of the tea party movement, according to an Associated Press analysis of exit poll results and pre-election polls.
Seventy percent of those who voted for Republican Gov. Jan Brewer approved the measure, while 66 percent of those who voted for her opponent, Democrat Terry Goddard, voted against it. Brewer won the race.
The measure, intended as a roadblock to federal intervention in health care, prohibits requiring a person or employer to participate in a health care system. It bans penalties against patients or businesses who pay for health care services on their own.
Yesterday’s elections will have long-lasting effects.
Now that the voting is over, political pundits are trying to predict what impact the 2010 elections will have on the next two years: on taxes, health care, judicial confirmations, and the presidential election. But Tuesday’s results are also going to have several important effects in the years beyond 2012. Here are four.
First, the GOP is now in about the best imaginable position to gain seats in the U.S. House of Representatives as a result of the 2010 census. House-district lines will soon be drawn in about 17 states, almost evenly split between states that will lose seats and states that will gain them due to population shifts since 2000. Republicans now appear set to control the governor’s mansion in 13 of them. The governorships of New York, Massachusetts, and perhaps Illinois proved beyond the GOP’s grasp, but the redrawing of lines will be heavily influenced by Republican chief executives in Ohio, Michigan, New Jersey, Texas, Florida, Nevada, and elsewhere. This matters especially because several of the affected states have Democratic majorities in their legislatures, including New Jersey and Nevada. There, GOP governors will be weighing in for their party; in other states, Republicans will dominate the process. While we’re at it, the same census results are going to shift Electoral College votes to generally Republican states such as Texas, Florida, Georgia, Arizona, and Utah, making it less necessary than ever for GOP presidential candidates to win Northeastern and even Midwestern states like Ohio.
Yesterday’s election could be the start of something grand — but not because Republicans won the House. Many of the Obama administration’s policies, including stimulus, bailouts, increased health care entitlements, and stricter financial regulation, merely expand upon Bush-era GOP proposals. Republicans have not been friends of limited government (at least, not to date).
No, we are optimistic because voters turned out in droves to make a statement against big government, not to endorse GOP policies. Voters want an end to pork-barrel spending and the vote-trading that goes with it. They see the coming entitlement crisis, with liabilities that dwarf today’s record deficits. Voters are beginning to recognize that when something can’t go on forever, it will stop. And they want to put the brakes on!
More generally, voters are telling the federal government to return to its humbler constitutional limits. And while making those clarion calls, they are citing the Constitution more than ever. Though the Constitution is by no means perfect, it’s better than what we have now. This is all for the better.
Charles Krauthammer
The beauty of this year’s campaign is that it actually has a point.
In a radio interview that aired Monday on Univision, President Obama chided Latinos who “sit out the election instead of saying, ‘We’re gonna punish our enemies and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us.’” Quite a uniter, urging Hispanics to exact political revenge on their enemies — presumably, for example, the nearly 60 percent of Americans who support the new Arizona immigration law.
This from a president who won’t even use “enemies” to describe an Iranian regime that is helping kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. This from a man who rose to prominence thunderously declaring that we were not blue states or red states, not black America or white America or Latino America — but the United States of America.
This is how the great post-partisan, post-racial, New Politics presidency ends — not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with a desperate election-eve plea for ethnic retribution. Nice.
Read the rest.
Tim Scott
Despite allegations of racism in Tea Party organizations, the Republican Party, and conservative groups, 2010 has witnessed more black Republican activism than ever before. Thirty-seven African Americans in 16 states have been in contention for seats in the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives this year.
Fox News reports, “The Republican Party is hoping to put a record number of African Americans in Congress after Tuesday’s election; despite the fact the first black president is highly unpopular within the party.”
Of course, the effort has not been without some difficulty.
According to Onnidan Online, “Black conservatives are used to having to defend their values, but they now are really taking heat for their involvement in the mostly white ‘Tea Party’ movement — and for having the audacity to oppose the policies of America’s first black president.”
One such black conservative is Timothy F. Johnson of the Frederick Douglass Foundation, a group of black conservatives who support the free market and limited government. “I’ve been told I hate myself. Black Republicans find themselves always having to prove who they are. Because the assumption is the Republican Party is for whites and the Democratic Party is for blacks.”
Ballots being mailed illegally, forged ballot requests, felons and illegals registering to vote and pressure on county employees by ACORN like groups. Chicago? Nope. Yuma, Arizona.
The Arizona Republican Party has uncovered direct evidence that Mi Familia Vota, Border Action, and Faith.Hope.Vote! who have direct ties to SEIU are attempting to influence the elections in Yuma County through fraudulent means. In the last 48 hours before the Permanent Early Voter List (PEVL) registration deadline of Friday, October 22nd, these organizations submitted 1,328 PEVL requests and then pressured the Yuma Recorder’s Office to process them by Monday.
