Republicans won control of the Senate last night and now
will hold 52 of the 100 seats. They may add to their majority in runoffs to
come. They also added more seats to their majority in the House.
Now what?
Well, now we start the season of bullshit from the
Democrats.
Despite a stinging defeat practically everywhere Democrats
will say that this election had absolutely nothing to do with their policies,
or those of Obama and his imperial presidency. They’ll say their turnout was low;
they’ll say this is not uncommon in mid-term elections, especially in the sixth year of an incumbent President. They'll note that Republicans only won a "narrow majority" anyway, so they shouldn’t consider this a mandate, by any means.
They’ll deny this was a referendum on where the country is
headed under their leadership.
Then they’ll say the most outrageous and hypocritical thing
of all.
They’ll say Republicans now need to start reaching across
the aisle and learn to compromise with Democrats if they want to get anything
passed.
No, seriously, that’s coming. Just wait for it. Some Democrat hack like
Reid, Pelosi, Schumer, Durbin or “Plugs McKenzie” Biden is going to say those
words. And the weirdest part of all is that they will honestly believe that the
Republicans need to take a more conciliatory tone with Obama and Democrats now
that Republicans control both the House and Senate.
WTF?
This will come from the same weasels that used their
Senate majority to block every piece of legislation from the
Republican-controlled House for years.
The same people that – when they controlled both House and Senate – rammed
legislation down Republicans' throats with zero Republican input, and passed it
with zero Republican votes. It was Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats who used the “nuclear option” –
a procedural sleight of hand – to bypass Republicans entirely and lower the
threshold for certain Senate confirmations from 60 to 51.
The only time Democrats reached across the aisle was to give Republicans the finger.
And now they’ll want Republicans to compromise?
I think the appropriate response would be to quote what Dick
Cheney said to Patrick Leahy.
Please, dear God, I hope the Republicans don’t fall for this
nonsense about their “responsibility” to compromise. When the Democrats held all the cards, did
they compromise? And don’t get caught up
in restoring the “traditions of the Senate” by repealing the confirmation rules
change the Democrats railroaded through when they were in power. Don’t do it. Use it.
Republicans – do not forgive and forget. That’s what Obama
and the Democrats hope you are naïve enough to do. They’ll take advantage of
any goodwill you show them and turn on you. They will backstab you in a
heartbeat.
Democrats are not interested in moving the country forward,
just making the Democrat party bigger.
They hope to do that by allowing more illegals in and empowering them to
vote, increasing the number of people dependent of government handouts, and
appealing to people who prefer to vote for living instead of work for a living.
So I hope for once Republicans don’t get sucked into the phony compassion issues. Republicans need to deal with securing our
borders, and then deciding what to do with everyone here illegally already – in
that order. They need to start reining
in entitlements rationally, not expanding them. They need to make it more
attractive to work than to not work. They need to drop the pretense of making
our enemies love us and let them start to fear us again.
Most of all they need to start making government more
trustworthy.
Republicans need to get off the issues of cutting taxes, excessive
regulation, personhood, repealing ObamaCare entirely, and personal vendettas against
the IRS, Eric Holder, and yes, Obama. These are all non-starters and “trap
games” not worth expending political capital.
The reason Republicans won big yesterday had nothing to do with
these specific issues. Instead, they won
because of an overall sense that the Democrats and Obama were incompetent in
governing and had been unable to fix the continuing bad economy.
So the people voted against the Democrats, and by proxy
Obama, rather than for Republican red-meat issues. If the Republicans have a modicum of common
sense, they’ll keep this in mind.
Fix what’s broken and move on.
And don’t feel compelled to compromise.
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