You know the numbers: largest House majority since WWII, control of the Senate, abundant victory at the state and local level.
As I said yesterday in my post comparing the pre-election outlooks of Erick Erickson and Kurt Schlichter, I think the overall energization factor and the zeal among the fresh faces for the chance to implement del conservative policy is going to make the big-money Pub establishment rethink some assumptions.
Here in my small city, I'm immensely gratified that a ballot initiative which proposed a 5 percent property tax increase to pay for government pre-K went down. All the cool people - execs of the big corporations, the coalition-builders, the administrative-class types - had gone for it. The local paper endorsed it. You saw yard signs for it all over town. I really wasn't getting my hopes up. But the real populace of this town understands the free market (there are plenty of private pre-K programs in the area), the importance of family in the first five years of life, and the unique nature of that type of economic exchange called taxation (it's coercive), and gave the idea a thumbs-down.
Illinois got a Pub governor! That makes a solid red swath through Kansas (actually, probably Colorado) Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio. (Would like to find out more about why Pennsylvania ousted an incumbent Pub.) Pub governors in Massachusetts and Maryland!
Now, here's LITD's memo to all the newly elected: We're looking for boldness. We're looking for explicitly conservative alternatives to everything that's been imposed on us. Resist calls to "work with" Freedom Haters like you would a glass of cyanide. Reasonable Gentleman Syndrome has no place on our journey back to being the United States of America.
Ahh,that solid red swath across the Midwest, but even our little town's favorite son turned down multi millions of money we have already put in the kitty with our hard earned tax dollers, so why should the cogniscenti here cry any blues?
ReplyDelete"Our administration recently decided not to seek federal funding that would have required us to expand our pre-K pilot before it is even up and running. It's important to note that many early learning programs across the country have not been successful over the years. On behalf of the children the pilot is designed to serve, it is imperative that Indiana get this right. Indiana's program is based on parental choice and includes the flexibility and accountability needed to ensure children are in programs that get real results." -Mike Pence, 10/20/2014
Pot did well, even DC. Their version is called grow and give. Yep, you get to grow your own and give it away. Don't come knockin' on my front door if our Red state in the Red swath enacts something similar, lol. And, oh, I'm not a one issue wonder. And guess what, I HOPE YOU FAIL!
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ReplyDeleteYou hope we fail because you are still wedded to the pro-tyranny and decline ideology. The majority of the country has awakened from that. It's a new day. People want to embrace freedom and experience prosperity.
ReplyDeleteWell, I think this is a hoot, from the New Yorker (which of course you detest for being liberal, as with PBS and NPR):
ReplyDeleteWASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Exit polls conducted across the country on Election Day indicate a nation suffering from severe memory loss, those who conducted the polls confirmed Tuesday night.
According to the polls, Americans who cast their votes today had a difficult time remembering events that occurred as recently as six years ago, while many seemed to be solid only on things that have happened in the past ten days.
While experts were unable to explain the epidemic of memory loss that appears to have gripped the nation, interviews with Americans after they cast their votes suggest that their near total obliviousness to anything that happened as recently as October may have influenced their decisions.
“I really think it’s time for a change,” said Carol Foyler, a memory-loss sufferer who cast her vote this morning in Iowa City. “I just feel in my gut that if these people were in charge they’d do a really amazing job with the economy.”
Harland Dorrinson, who voted in Akron, Ohio, and who has no memory of anything that happened before 2013, said his main concern was a terrorist attack on American soil.
“I really think we need to put a party in charge that won’t ever let something like that happen,” he said.
Exit Polls Indicate Nation Suffering from Severe Memory Loss
In Texas, exit polls showed strong support for George P. Bush, who was running for the Republican nomination for Texas land commissioner. “George Bush sounds like the name of someone who would be really good at running things,” said one voter.
The national exit polls revealed an electorate deeply fearful of a number of threats, including ISIS, Ebola, and, oh, what was that other thing?
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Here's some PBS porn on ISIS, which you can watch anytime you choose, but I heard you want to take this away from us.
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And so the FHer spin begins. Real Clear Politics has a good roundup of that stuff - Thomas Edsall at NYT, Dana Milbank at WaPo, Margaret Carlson at Bloomberg. It's a quite natural reaction to being politically disemboweled.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I've even heard some whine we borrowed from your camp about low info voters.
ReplyDeleteTell me how different this disembowlment is from 08 when I 1st began blogging here? You cried like a 2 year old for 8 years.
ReplyDeleteBut now you're 8 years old, 1 year past the age of reason as the Catholics called it, responsible for your sinful choices and, well, ready to be reasonable as I know you are not and therefore will suceed only in waging wars, not stopping them.
ReplyDeleteI cant see how this election was a mandate for anything, two-thirds of the electorate that stayed home. Wish there was a law that they can't complain now.
ReplyDeleteThe world's greatest democracy and only 1/3 of those eligible voted. Fire up, Post-America. Well, the third who voted are now allowing you to do so, just what the doctor ordered? Some more soma anyone?
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