Hot Air – by Noah RothmanThe results of the midterm elections are not yet fully known, but it is safe to say at this point that Republicans won a historic victory.
As of this writing, the Republicans have won a 52-seat Senate majority outright. Republican candidates are expected to take seats in Alaska and Louisiana, resulting no less than a 54-seat Senate majority in the 115th Congress. NBC News projects that the GOP will hold a 250-seat majority in the next Congress, among the largest Republican majorities in generations. On the gubernatorial level, where Republicans were expected to lose ground, the GOP defied expectations and picked up four new executive mansions while losing only one. Republicans now control governorships and state legislatures in 24 states while Democrats control those in only 7 states.
Given the above conditions, it is safe to say Republicans had “a good night.” That is, in fact, precisely what Obama said. But the president also opened what everyone expected would be a conciliatory press conference with a shot across the Republicans’ bow. The president letting the incoming majority GOP Congress know that the only reason why they enjoyed such successes at the ballot box is because most of America did not vote.
“To everyone that voted, I want you to know that I heard you,” Obama began. “To two-thirds of voters that chose not to participate in the process yesterday, I hear you, too.”
Obama made sure to draw a contrast with Republicans in Congress by noting that he is the figure with the most political legitimacy. “I’m the guy who is elected by everybody and not just from a particular state or a particular district,” Obama said when asked to address the “devastating losses” his party endured, “and they want me to push hard to close some of these divisions, break through some of the gridlock, and just get stuff done.”
And what “stuff” would that be? Obama insisted that the voters turned out on Tuesday night to support initiatives like increasing the minimum wage, rebuilding notorious roads and bridges, funding universal pre-kindergarten education, and expanding access to Medicaid.
In fairness to the president, he did say that he will seek an authorization for the use of military force against ISIS; a display of constitutional deference to the Congress which the Congress should have long ago demanded. But that seemed to be the extent of Obama’s willingness to reach across the aisle. According to the president, the voters who delivered a landslide victory to the GOP also are entirely supportive of Democratic policies.
He is not serious, of course. This is posturing for a deeply dispirited progressive base and a credulous press corps. The White House is a spent force, and America will be governed from Congress for the next two years when the president is not issuing executive orders which will necessarily be narrow in scope as they will not enjoy the support of the legislature. Obama’s pantomimed pugnacity may lift some progressive spirits for a time, but that will be a short-lived experience. They will soon find out that Obama has been reduced to talk and talk alone.
The arrogance! What a piece of dung. The usurper-in-chief daily reminds me of the perils of marxism and the low-information voter. This is what democracy gets you. This is why the Founders made no provision for just anyone to vote; a republic requires people with a vested interest in its success to function properly. This is why Senators were originally appointed, rather than voted in. The Founders knew what happens when the ignorant masses get to vote. Obama happens.
There will be no change, if it’s from Dem to GOP, or vice-versa. The shadow government wins every election if these two parties win ANY race.
Even dullest among us must have figured out by now that GOP/DEM are two sides of the same coin. The only thing Americans can do is express their opposition to the Fuhrer in Chief is to vote out his party and vote in GOP. But we all know these so-called elected officials are all just criminals scrambling for their own opportunity to secure their own wealth at the expense of the American people. They are all criminal or at least compromised and expressing only self-interest in running. Obama just stepped up the Bush policies/agenda……..all of it manipulated by the secret government for the down fall of America – taken down from within. We already have a defacto Communist government. Team Obama has worked non-stop to shred our Constitution and close us down into a total police state. Is it the banking cabal running government? Israelis?….whatever it is, it is winning as America appears to be spiraling down into a third world status, the people made poorer with each passing law and the fascist regime at the top pumping every last dime into their own accounts.
Bahahahaha! ROLMFAO!!! Barry is so pathetic, it’s unreal.
Not that voting and electing the other side of the coin makes a damn bit of difference or anything, especially when the voting is rigged anyways. 🙄
The authors name says it all. Noah Rothman who writes for Hot Air? You KNOW you’re being led by your nose with that as your given information. Lies and misdirection. Support of military action against ISIS when we know they aren’t even Muslim? Sounds like something a joo would try to present as factual information. They’re no choir boys but they have an orchestrator.