They Smell Blood.

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100512/D9FL5DIO0.html

I've been saying that the voter mood in November is ANTI-INCUMBENT. Republican Bob Bennett got the shiv Saturday, and now this Democrat in West Virginia.

 

[xssve]

Well Mollohan does seem a bit shady, but I suspect it is probably more of a payback for Delay - no honor amongst thieves, there's a lot of shady characters on both sides of the aisle, so why else go after this one?

Bennett merely voted for the bailout, which in spite of the spin, was practically compulsory - the TARP program was Bush Treasury Sec. Paulson's brainchild and was a done deal before the election.

 

[DeeZire]

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100512/D9FL5DIO0.html

I've been saying that the voter mood in November is ANTI-INCUMBENT. Republican Bob Bennett got the shiv Saturday, and now this Democrat in West Virginia.

According to this Bennett interview, the mood is not only anti-incumbent, it's anti-reality.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/05/bennett_utah_primary_loss.html

They just wouldn't listen.

That's what Republican Sen. Bob Bennett of Utah says of the "tea party" activists who on Saturday denied him the GOP nomination for a fourth term in office.

Convinced by what they had been reading on conservative blogs and what they had been hearing on some conservative talk shows that he wasn't conservative enough, Bennett says the activists he would encounter in recent weeks told him he's part of the "problem" and needs to be voted out of office.

In a lively conversation with All Things Considered host Michelle Norris earlier today, Bennett recounted what a conversation he had with such voters would often go like.

"Why didn't you kill Obamacare?!" he would be asked.

"Well, you know, politics is a team sport and you need 51 votes (to defeat a bill in the Senate)," he would say, "and in the of a cloture vote (to sustain a filibuster) you need 41 votes."

But "you're a senator! You have power!" Bennett says he would be told. "You let Obama pass that plan!"

"I would say, well, the reality is I couldn't. ... No, they won't buy that."

 

[TE999]

What's interesting is that Mollohan was ousted by a conservative Democrat.

I think we're going to see a lot more of this swing to Conservatives in the Fall.

The Obama administration and the sitting Congress have finally succeeded in scaring the bejeezus out of Joe and Jane Six-Pack with their out of control spending...tossing trillions of dollars around like it was nothing and no regard for the future...especially since Greece has descended into financial chaos by implementing many of the same policies the current administration is advocating.

Candidates that favor cuts in taxes and spending and a reduced role of the government in the every day lives of Americans have an excellent chance of being elected in the fall.

The pendulum is finally swinging the other way.

 

[amicus]

"The pendulum is finally swinging the other way..."

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Long overdue in my mind, TE, and I suggest it involves more than the practical, cost/benefit details that American's are beginning to reject.

I am no doubt an optimist and a bit of a dreamer, but when I hear my own words of thirty years coming back to me from many directions, perhaps indeed, it is time for a sea change.

Along with a news item that 41% of all children born last year, were to single mothers and that half of all children will never know their biological fathers, there was some contemplation of the Johnson Years and the Great Society programs that invited a moral change across the nation and created the 'welfare state', we now have.

Well intended, as most bleeding heart programs are proclaimed, single mother's were granted a welfare income, free housing, food stamps, free education or job training, supposedly to make them self reliant and independent. Unfortunately the vast government programs worked just the opposite way, they enticed other single mothers to go on welfare and for those already there, to have another child and another, until they became fully dependent on the State.

The moral consequences of that whole sick program was to alienate potential responsible father figures and promote promiscuous and non consequential behavior by an entire generation.

The unintended consequences include a destruction of a school system that was expected to be both father and mother and nurse to the child, who was often neglected and/or abused at home and projected a lifestyle reflecting his environment.

Defining the General Welfare Clause to mean providing for the total welfare of each and every citizen, inflated the bureaucracy at every level, increased the cost of living for everyone and created a permanent poverty class where one in every eight Americans receive Food Stamps today.

These are not aspects your 'Joe Sixpack' considers, when visiting the ballot box; rather they are political science and philosophical determinations that need be expressed and publicized to give body and foundation to the general political unrest that may result in 'throwing the bums out!'.

It is the moral filth of bleeding heart left wing progressive liberalism that I have been confronting for most of my life.

It is somewhat rewarding to hear my own words coming back after all these years.

Good luck America!

Ur gonna need it...

Amicus

 

[DeeZire]

...The pendulum is finally swinging the other way.

Yes it is, and it's a testament to the utter stupidity of the electorate. After watching the Bush administration turn a budget surplus into a deficit, and then flush the economy down the drain, the enraged conservative voters are now going to punish Obama for cleaning up Bush's mess and saving the world from another Great Depression.

What's interesting is hearing the howling coming from the Right when anyone talks about cutting defense spending, or trimming Medicare, or scrimping on the Social Security cost of living adjustment. How else are we going to cut spending if all these programs are off limits? It can't be done.

So now we get to watch the thundering heard of dumbasses flock to the polls and reinstate the same conservative policies that brought this country to it's knees a year ago. How may Deep Water Horizons and Wall Street meltdowns will it take before the public figures it out? (Rhetorical question, since, obviously, the public lacks basic reasoning skills.)

 

[JackLuis]

Incumbents are in trouble and the Tea Baggers are a lot of the problem. The other half is that since Obama has been in office we have not seen the "Change", so many are ready to deep six the Dems who had a majority in the Senate and full control of the House and couldn't accomplish anything comprehensive because they didn't control the Blue Dogs.

If BHO had put the word out that Blue Dogs were to be primary opposed and get no DNC funding, there might have been a different tune sung by the Blue Dogs.

While I would as soon die as see a Bushite in office, It might not hurt to see the Congressional makeup rescrambled. If we could elect a couple of Independent or third party candidates in the Senate, It would sure improve the Comedians lives.

I fear I have no hope that the American Voters will get a clue and drop some of the Corporate front men from the Senate.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

No party has ever advocated cutting spending. It's just a matter of where they spend it. The GOP wants to spend it on guns and corporate welfare and the Dems want to buy votes from the mendicant classes. So forget cutting spending. Either taxes will rise or we will collapse. That's all. And since about 40% of the electorate doesn't pay any taxes at all, guess who gets hit?

 

[TE999]

Thanks to the initiation of numerous federal programs that were intended to give the less fortunate a hand up, but became a hand out, the US has a significant number of persons in 3 generations that are totally in the thrall of big government for their very existence. Significant reductions in future appropriations for these programs are met with cries of anguish from those whose 'compassion' and a sense of moral superiority routinely override their common sense.

In the past, the economy could absorb the costs of these programs, but it can no longer. Congress' burdening a barely recovering economy with costly programs and a crushing debt is ridiculous, but capitalism's still the villain of the piece for making 'obscene profits' and giving executives huge salaries.

The meddlers, the nosy pokes, the organizers, the do-gooders and the bleeding hearts who want the government to make it 'fair' for everyone have done more to ruin this economy than any bank or insurance company could think of doing.

 

[xssve]

Like who?

 

[TE999]

Like who?

Don't be intentionally obtuse. It makes you look foolish.

 

[DeeZire]

The meddlers, the nosy pokes, the organizers, the do-gooders and the bleeding hearts who want the government to make it 'fair' for everyone have done more to ruin this economy than any bank or insurance company could think of doing.

It wasn't the "meddlers, the nosy pokes, the organizers, the do-gooders and the bleeding hearts" that took down Wall Street, it was the banks and insurance companies. In case you didn't notice, it was this economic crash that required the deficit spending you're complaining about now. Granted, social welfare spending does contribute to the deficit, but it could easily be offset with cuts in defense spending and the elimination of corporate welfare and tax loopholes for the wealthy.

The fact that conservatives would rather buy bombs than school books doesn't make them right, it just makes them fearful and shortsighted. Fearful and shortsighted people have been influencing politics since the beginning. The supposed clout of the Tea Party movement isn't something to brag about - unless the braggert is just trying to prove how fearful and shortsighted he/she is.

 

[Pure]

ami //It is somewhat rewarding to hear my own words coming back after all these years.//

ami's words come back since they're always the same, and always wrong. whatever the voters do, it won't bring in 'limited gov't' nor 'decrease in gov't' or its spending.

remember the prediction of a massive doctors' strike?

social security and medicare will continue. no sitting politician can touch them without facing voters' wrath.

likely, the democrats' health plan, based on *private insurers*, will continue as is, more or less. it is a very fat goose laying lots of golden eggs for the shareholders of the health services corporations.

look at the Humana stocks for the past year. click on 1Y.

http://simulator.investopedia.com/stocks/hum
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NOTE TO JBJ:

Yes, incumbents will be battered. Too much help for the big guys that did not 'trickle down' as hoped. How much the republicans as a party will benefit, is unclear, though 'midterm' losses are standard in US and elsewhere. people are impatient and pissed.

given that 'limited gov't" is hot air, all i can see the tea baggers calling for is 1) US sealing its S. border, and 2) everyone carrying guns everywhere. hard to judge how that will impact various segments of US voters, other than some whites in the border states.