This election made for a great night. I wanted to get on the Internet and check out what everyone was saying about the election, but there was so much to do Tuesday.
I have been very quiet about this election. You can check my past editorials and see that I barely mentioned the 2010 election. Some folks on other blog systems have asked me: “Do you not CARE about the election? Do you not want to take back the government?”
Yes, yes of course I do.
But I was considering something else...
President Obama was successfully able to blame republicans FOR EVERYTHING, during his first year in office. However, it was getting harder for democrats to blame republicans, last year. People began to realize that democrats took control of the House and Senate in 2006. President Bush cannot constitutionally WRITE legislation, so from 2006- on; it was democrats who wrote the laws, and democrats held the checkbook. And, from 2006 to the present, the country has gone downhill.
Last year, people started to wake up from the Obama induced trance.
IF- republicans took everything- both the House and Senate by large margins, it would give President Obama the ability to blame republicans for another 2 years.
Lets face it, if republicans held the house and senate, and the economy didn’t improve in the next 2 year, we could (and should) blame republicans equally for not “doing enough” to improve things. This would make it much tougher for 2012 voters to sift through “who is to blame for what?”.
However, what happened last night was perfect..!! You could not plan it any better!
We control the House. However, liberals still control the White House, and the Senate. (At the time of writing this, we were still waiting for results from Washington and Colorado. However, assuming that the 2 independent senators usually vote with democrats, and VP Biden breaks all ties; liberals, basically will still control the senate.)
With control of the House, we can stop any liberal ideas that come down the pike. If progressive decide: “Hey, health care worked out so great for us, we could get more votes if we gave people free food. Let’s tell the American public that millions of children are dying because they do not have free government food, and only we progressives can save these starving children.” If liberals try something like this, we can stop it.
Yet, because liberals still control two / thirds of the government, they cannot push all the blame on republicans. Obama will have to become responsible. For the first time since becoming president; with ownership of two / thirds of government still intact, Obama will no longer be able to blame someone else. People will not believe him if he tries.
Unfortunately, because Barack Obama is an egotistical man, and because he has no business sense; he will not change course. Big business is seen as the enemy to people like Obama. Therefore, the president will make no attempt to communicate with, or work with business to create jobs. Tax and spend will be the liberal answer to everything. “If we can add a tax here, we could spend money over there.” Cap and Trade could be the next big push coming from team Obama.
If liberals think that raising taxes during a bad economy is a great idea, we can now stop it. The liberal / progressive agenda stops now.
Let’s be honest, we cannot repeal anything until we win the White House in 2012. We can’t really “change” anything, yet. But we can stop the bleeding.
Conservatives can introduce bills that will reduce spending, reward business that expand here in America, that will add new jobs. Even if liberals veto these bills, it will give business the confidence that things “will change” in the future. And America can return to a place where you can invent, you can invest, you can create, and you can start a business without the government penalizing you with sky-high taxes for being successful.
So for me, it was a little bit selfish: I wanted my little corner of the world to became conservative. (And that happened.) However, I didn’t want the entire country to go to a complete republican majority. I want Obama held responsible for all of the mess that he has created. I want no wiggle room for the president to slither out from.
Remember, President Carter held the White House and the congress for the full 4 years of his reign. People could not blame republicans for anything because democrats had a majority during the entire 4 years of Carter. What the American public did after Carter, was toss out those democrats, and for 12 years, Americans put a republican in the White House. (Which gave us Ronald Reagan.)
Maybe I was looking at it from that prospective; “Bad medicine.” If you catch your kid smoking, you force them to smoke a whole pack of cigarettes until they cough, puke, and never want to smoke again. Let the American public see what progressives are about. Tax, tax, and spend. Let them see the face of liberalism- Harry Reid. Watch as liberals continue to punish the successful business man. Watch as progressives continue to throw bags of money at a drowning man and pat themselves on the back because they think that they “did something.” (But the man is still drowning, because all they did was throw money at the poor.)
This week proved that we can stop it. Tuesday was a great night.
OK, about my little corner of the world...
My state district Rep is now a Republican- Mike Kelly. My new senator is Republican Pat Toomey, and the governor of Pennsylvania is now Republican Tom Corbett. Even next door in Ohio they went for a republican governor- John Kasich.
So now I am surrounded by republicans. Is that a good thing? I sure hope so.
Now, it is time to thank all of the people who helped republicans win big this election.
Thanks to...
The democrats- you liberals helped more than you know. By acting like you owned Washington DC, instead of remembering that you work for us, you handed this election to us.
Thanks to...
Colbert and Stewart’s day of sanity- somehow, showing people demanding “sanity” while sitting atop a porta-potty, was very fitting. People being asked if they think that President Obama believes in Keynesian economics, and Stewart’s sanity rally spectators replied- “That’s crazy, Obama showed his Birth certificate, he’s from Hawaii.” FAIL- Keynesian economics is based on John Maynard Keynes theories of business cycles, which Obama HAS mentioned in a few of his speeches.
For many Americans, the Stewart rally took the mask off of the progressives, and was the last straw. For two years, progressives have been pretending to be intelligent, all the while calling republicans childish names; “Neo-cons are stupid, and racists, and teabagging idiots.” By the results of the 2010 election, you progressives have lost your mask. People now see you for what you are.
And a special thanks to...
The mainstream media. Because the mainstream media only reports “all that is good in Obama-land” and never reports the whole story; it caused many people to become suspicious and tune into conservative media outlets. If the MS media were more fair with their reporting, these people may have never ventured into conservative outlets.
And thanks to President Obama- because he lost his “mojo”, democrats fell out of their trance and stayed home; republicans came out in droves and voted.
It was a great day..!!
AR Babonie
