Monthly Archives: September 2010

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Dems Fear Shellacking In Midwest

The Midwest was a region that went deep blue in both the 2006 and 2008 election cycles. The Christos Himself, Our Lord and Savior Barack Hussein Obama, carried every Midwestern state except Missouri, including Indiana, the first time a Democrat had won Indiana since Lyndon Johnson in 1964.

Guess what? The Democrats are in deep, deep trouble in the Midwest in 2010, facing an electoral wipeout in the midterms.

Right now, Democrats hold the governor’s mansion in all but two of the Midwestern states, Minnesota and Indiana. Both of the Republicans governors, Tim Pawlenty in Minnesota and Mitch Daniels in Indiana, are leaving office via term limits, but both states are likely to stay red.

The other states are blue, held by Democrats. Jennifer Granholm in Michigan, Ted Strickland in Ohio, Pat Quinn in Illinois, Chet Culver in Iowa, Jay Nixon in Missouri and Jim Doyle in Wisconsin. Nixon is not on the ballot; Granholm is leaving office via term limits, and Doyle is not seeking re-election. Culver, Quinn and Strickland are running for re-election.

All three are in deep, deep trouble. Quinn, who became governor, when his corrupt predecessor Rod Blagojovich, was impeached and removed from office for offering a U.S. Senate seat for sale to the highest bidder, trails his Republican opponent, Bill Brady. National Democrat groups are abandoing Strickland in Ohio, who trails Republican John Kasich by almost 20 points in the polls, and even a GOP retread in Terry Branson should oust Culver in Iowa.

In Michigan, Republican Rick Snyder, a political newcomer, leads the Democrat, Virg Bernero by double digits, and here in Wisconsin, Republican Scott Walker has an eight-point advantage over Democrat Tom Barrett, perceived as the third term of Doyle, who is leaving office with approval numbers in the low 30s.

What happened? Welcome to Obamamerica, land of high taxes, skyrocketing debt, disappearing jobs, recession and a bad economy. Everything going wrong on a national level is going wrong in these states, run by the same pack of lefties that drove the national economy into a ditch.

The Politico takes a look at the doom and gloom facing Democrats in America’s Heartland:

“There’s little doubt that the Midwest is the Democrats’ toughest region this year,” Democratic pollster Tom Jensen of Public Policy Polling wrote on the firm’s website Friday, adding that the firm is also finding an enthusiasm gap of about 10 points down from what existed in 2008.

“If the election was today the party would almost certainly lose the Governorships it holds in Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. It’s also more than likely at this point to lose the Senate seats it has in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Indiana, miss out on a once promising pick up opportunity in Ohio, and quite possibly lose their seat in Illinois as well. And there are too many House seats the party could lose in the region to count,” Jensen noted.

Top GOP pollster Glen Bolger of Public Opinion Strategies wrote in even harsher terms last week: “The Midwest is going to be a killing field for Democrats this year from western [Pennsylvania] through to the Plains, Republicans are going to sweep a LOT of Democrats right out of office.”

The states in question magnify what’s happening elsewhere in the country: dissatisfaction with Obama, unrest with Washington in general over major legislation that voters feel has merely piled onto the national debt, and the steady erosion of jobs.

“There’s two major factors. One is that there are a lot of swing voters, as well as a lot of Reagan Democrat voters, in the Midwest, and therefore I think the national mood hits harder,” said Saul Anuzis, the former Michigan Republican Party chairman. “And secondly you’re talking about record unemployment.”

But there’s also the enthusiasm gap, the flight of independent voters, unpopular Democratic governors in each state and Obama’s own sinking approval ratings, PPP found.

Anuzis said there had been very high expectations of Obama, and that the crash from such a high has been a bitter pill for voters to swallow.

To emphasize how poorly the Democrats are faring in the Midwest, they are actually polling worse in the region than in the South, which is a traditionally poor area for Democrats:

Bolger cited generic ballot data he’s just conducted showing the Democrats faring even worse in the Midwest than in the South. His numbers show Democrats getting 35 percent in that key region, compared to 39 percent in the South, which is a Republican stronghold.

In both regions, the generic Republican captures 47 percent.

The number one issue? Jobs and the economy. Nationally, the Democrats have been in control since January 2007, when they regained control of Congress and have had total control of Washington since January 2009. Many of the Midwestern states have had Democrat rule for four to eight years.

And the people have had enough of high taxes, wasteful government spending, bad economic policies that are job-killers. The only employment sector that’s growing anywhere lately is government.

It’s not just governor’s races that have Democrats in trouble. Congressional races — House and Senate — look to flip from blue to red as well. Entrenched Sen. Russ Feingold in Wisconsin is in trouble, trailing Republican Ron Johnson by anywhere from eight to 11 points. Obama’s former Senate seat looks likely to go to Republican Mark Kirk over corruptocrat Alexi Giannoulias, the Illinois state treasurer backed by Obama and heavily involved in the Broadway Bank scandal. Illinois Democrats, you see, can’t help themselves; in a year in which voters are turned off by political insiders and corruption, nominate one of the biggest crooks in the state this side of Blagojovich to run for Senate.

More bad news on the horizon: voters in this region may not be finished punishing the Ruling Class which has devastated their lives. Next up: Obama in 2012.

Such brutal forecasts suggest an intense fight could be in the works for Obama and his party in 2012 to win back independents who are clearly still up for grabs, but seem set to teach the Democrats a lesson.

“The tea party movement and all these grassroots movements on both the right and the left are not going away,” Anuzis said. “There are much more independent voters, and they’re more likely to react and punish folks they think have [failed them].”

“When Obama was elected, it was almost like he was the second coming of a political Jehovah, who was somehow going to deliver us into the promised land,” said Bill Ballenger, the pundit behind Inside Michigan Politics. “And more and more things have happened that have disillusioned people.”

That’s why it’s wise to ignore any polls for potential 2012 matchups of any specific Republican vs. Obama. Granted, two years is an eternity in politics, but few if any see Obama being able to successfully triangulate Himself in the manner Bill Clinton did after the 1994 midterms. It’s just not in His makeup.

Obama is an Alinskyite through and through. Expect Him to call out and demonize a Republican-controlled Congress over the next two years, thinking He can blame any further economic problems on Republicans in Congress. You know, the additional hammerblow to the economy that comes January 1, 2011, when taxes automatically go up without a vote of Congress when the Bush-era tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 expire and Americans of all income levels pay retroactive tax increases of up to 50 percent back to January 1, 2010.

After all, Obama needs a villain as He continues to plead His case that He’s fighting for us. Oil companies, pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies, banks, Wall Street, Rush Limbaugh, average Americans attending tea parties — they are all conspiring to oppress you, and that’s you need the Community Organizer in Chief to fight for you.

It’s nothing more than community organizer tactics as part of the endless campaign.

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Out Of This World

This looks like it should be from The Onion, but sad to say, it’s not. The U(seless) N(itwits) are almost as absurd as The Onion but nowhere near as funny.

The UN has a contact person for visitors from outer space:

The United Nations was set today to appoint an obscure Malaysian astrophysicist to act as Earth’s first contact for any aliens that may come visiting.

Mazlan Othman, the head of the UN’s little-known Office for Outer Space Affairs (Unoosa), is to describe her potential new role next week at a scientific conference at the Royal Society’s Kavli conference centre in Buckinghamshire.

She is scheduled to tell delegates that the recent discovery of hundreds of planets around other stars has made the detection of extraterrestrial life more likely than ever before – and that means the UN must be ready to coordinate humanity’s response to any “first contact”.

The first words of this contact person to the visiting alien: “E.T., phone home.”

The UN is beyond even a parody of itself. It’s time not only for the United States to withdraw from an organization whose General Assembly resembles what Rush Limbaugh has described as the Bar Scene from Star Wars but also to evict the UN and its anti-Western and anti-American bias from its soil.

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The Long Goodbye

In looking for the original Morning In America ad, I found a number of Ronald Reagan clips on YouTube, including several examples of the wonderful Reagan wit.

I also found this, written and performed by Ken Johnson after Reagan’s funeral in 2004. It’s called The Long Goodbye.

The Long Goodbye

We shared a wondrous life
It’s hard to understand
But I have to say goodbye
Now while I still can

And though we’ve done it all
There’s still so much to do
Our Spring will turn to Fall
As I Winter without you

Remember all the smiles
But if you need to cry
Love’s never out of style
Despite The Long Goodbye

And those who still believe
In love so deep and pure
Won’t feel we’ve been deceived
By the things we must endure

I won’t ask you to stay
But I’m praying that you’ll try
I’ll love you anyway
Despite The Long Goodbye

I know it’s hard to see
A mind no longer there
But my heart will always be
As long as I breathe air

And in eternity
My love will fill the sky
As I watch and wait for thee
But now the Long Goodbye
I’ll watch and wait for thee
‘Til you can be with me
But now The Long Goodbye

Words and Music by
© Ken Johnson Copyright 2004

You can visit Ken Johnson’s website and sample more of his music.

Due to some personal circumstances, this was very difficult for me to listen to. It hurts to watch someone disappear from you right before your very eyes.

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Mourning In America

From Citizens For The Republic, it’s Mourning In America:

Contrast that with the original Morning In America from 1984:

As of January 2011, the Democrats will have been in control of Congress for four years. When you go to the polls in November, ask yourself the famous question Ronald Reagan asked voters after four years of Jimmy Carter:

Are you better off than you were four years ago?

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‘Mexicans’ Were Here Before Americans

Un-freaking-believable. 2012 cannot get here fast enough to remove the first anti-American President in U.S. history.

Before Our Lord and Savior Barack Hussein Obama rewrote the Declaration of Independence to remove the idea that our rights came from God, He declared that Mexicans were here before America.

Here’s the clip (it includes His omission of rights coming from God):

Long before America was even an idea, this land of plenty was home to many peoples. The British and French, the Dutch and Spanish, to Mexicans, to countless Indian tribes. We all shared the same land.

When in doubt, blame the Teleprompter. Yeah, that’s it. That’s the ticket. The TOTUS screwed up.

A little bit of fact-checking here:

The United States declared its independence from Great Britain July 4, 1776. The Revolutionary War ended with the surrender of the British army at Yorktown on October 19, 1781 and formally ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris on September 3, 1783.

Mexico declared its independence from Spain on September 16, 1810 and independence was formally obtained September 28, 1821.

The European settlers of Mexico were Spanish, not Mexican. But here’s the Little Black Man-Child pandering to the Aztlan radicals who argue illogically that Mexicans predated Europeans in North America despite the following two pieces of irrefutable evidence:

  • Mexico did not exist until the early 19th century
  • Mexicans descended from the Spanish, who did not arrive in North America until the early 16th century

Another FAIL in an endless string of Obama FAILs.

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Absorbing A Terrorist Attack

Image from Optoons:

Needless to say, the comments made by Our Lord and Savior Barack Hussein Obama to veteran journalist Bob Woodward were stunning:

We can absorb a terrorist attack.

Meaning, it’s OK for the Islamonazis to attack us, that because we’re a strong people, we’ll survive and move on.

Tell that to the thousands — or tens or hundreds of thousands — of Americans who will perish in such an attack, the families devastated by that loss and the rest of us who will have to live in fear of the next attack because the Little Black Man-Child, the first-ever anti-American President, projects his anti-American feelings to the world, especially our enemies, as well as demonstrates weakness.

Hey, Mr. Community Organizer! The next 9/11 needs to be prevented, not ignored. George W. Bush did a good job of protecting us and preventing the next 9/11. You? Not so much. The underwear bomber turned out to be a FAIL because of dumb luck. No matter what JaNap and her skunk-do say, the system did not work. It was a FAIL, almost an Epic FAIL.

The Fort Hood jihadist slipped through the cracks as well.

It is the job of the President of the United States to protect the American people, not calculate collateral damage from an anticipated jihadist attack. How much damage is enough? It is typical of a glib remark that Mr. Coolly Detached might say. Or as Thomas Lifson at The American Thinker says:

The usage reminds one of the boxing expression “absorb a blow” and is oddly detached, fully consistent with Obama’s Mr. Cool style. But war is not boxing. You can’t toughen your abs to the point where losing downtown Dallas or the Mall of America is OK and we can move on. People will die, cities will be disrupted, and our national psyche wounded.

Reminiscent of the crass remarks made by Bob Beckel in the wake of the 9th anniversay of the September 11th attacks in which Beckel told the American people it’s time to move on from 9/11.

Writing at Red State, John C. Daly says:

First, nobody wants to absorb any kind of terrorist attack; especially one that can due grave harm to an economy that can’t even absorb the growing number of unemployed.  Second, a major terrorist attack with Obama in the White house could be a double whammy.  He has already proven through his words and actions that he is an apologist for the US on the world stage.   And let’s face it; a protracted war just doesn’t fit into his plans to “fundamentally change” the US.  How Obama would react to such an attack is as uncertain as the cloudy economic climate he presides over.

As the word “malaise” works it’s way into the daily economic dialogue, and comparisons to Jimmy Carter are becoming more frequent, it’s becoming apparent to a growing number of Americans that we have a leader who is incompetent and weak.  He’s a one term president.  My greatest fear is: can we survive another two years?

I lived through Carter. I never thought I’d see in my lifetime a President who made Carter look like a good President by comparison. Carter was arguably the worst president in the post-Civil War era, but it might not be long until we start seeing these signs:

And, writing at Andrew Breitbart’s Big Peace, Brig. Gen (Ret.) Anthony Tata is livid:

For a sitting president to declare to our enemies that it is, in effect, okay to attack our country because we’re strong and we’ll be okay in the aftermath requires swift action from our national leadership to send a strong message to our enemies overseas that, in fact, it is not fine if they attack. President Obama’s callous remarks ignore the reality that men and women were jumping to certain death from their windows in the World Trade Center on 9-11; fire and smoke rolled through Pentagon hallways killing everyone in its wake; and thousands of brave men and women have perished in response so that we may be free.

Bob Woodward does all Americans a favor by pulling back the curtain and revealing the president as a modern day Wizard of Oz; an empty suit who wanted to be president. And, if we connect his “we can absorb a terrorist attack” with his condescension about the good citizens of Pennsylvania clinging to their guns and religion, we begin to see the invisible man. Bit by bit, after 18 months Americans are seeing the real Obama: an aloof Ivy League intellectual with tremendous contempt for the people he allegedly serves.

I’ll compare Obama to Lonesome Rhodes, the character in A Face In The Crowd played by Andy Griffith. Rhodes is a character as unlike Sheriff Andy Taylor and Ben Matlock, the two characters Griffith is most associated with as can be. In the movie, Rhodes is a small town hick who becomes an overnight media sensation through his folksy charm, which masks a cynical, amoral personality who holds utter contempt for his audience of adoring fans. Eventually he is brought down by the people he originally duped, who flip a switch and allow the audience to hear Rhodes calling them “idiots” and “morons.”

We’re starting to see the utter contempt Obama holds ordinary Americans. We saw it last year during the townhall protests when people becoming engaged in the political process were called racists and besmirched in every manner possible both by the White House and Democrat leaders in Congress. We heard Obama tell his SEIU goons to go out and punch the protesters back twice as hard and saw the goons engage in physical violence on multiple occasions.

Obama didn’t have a Marcia Jeffries to flip a switch. Instead, bloggers, talk radio, social media outlets and Fox News showing Him to be a vapid, empty suit with a deep-seated hatred for traditional American culture and values and arguably America herself.

In naming this as his Obamateurism of the Day, Ed Morrissey provides even more insight into these remarks:

The point is that we lost almost 3,000 Americans in a day who should be still with us. Secondarily, we sustained billions of dollars in economic damage. The role of the executive branch and its Commander in Chief is to protect us from outside attack, not because we can’t “absorb” one, but because we want to preserve the lives, liberty, and property of Americans, which is the primary duty of the President.

The real era of Hope and Change begins this November and culminates in November 2012.