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To: tejek who wrote (815580)11/5/2014 1:34:37 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1578341
 
Ted, the way I see these midterm elections, it wasn't an endorsement of the GOP and its policies as it was a vote of no confidence in Obama.

You are right, the Dems did indeed run for their party's star. But why would they if they, along with the media, helped this star rise in the first place? You're probably thinking, "Because the Dems are stupid; that's why I was an 'independent' until 2008,'" but I don't think that's an honest answer.

No, the real reason is because Obama is only good at one thing, and that is campaigning for himself. He soundly beat McCain and Romney, and many liberals pointed to that as examples of how Obama must be good at something. But in both cases, Obama didn't really run on his record (the same record that in 2008 Bill Clinton infamously called "the biggest fairy tale" he's ever seen). Instead, he ran on the strength of his celebrity status while simultaneously smearing his opponents as "too white, too rich, too conservative."

In the midterms, however, Obama isn't really running against anyone. In fact, Obama isn't even running. Hence the elections turn into (a) a regional state-by-state battle, and (b) a general vote of confidence in the current Washington leadership. And in both 2010 and 2014, these contests have gone the way of Republicans, but not because the Republicans are well-liked. Instead, it's because people are truly sick of what they continually see coming out of Washington.

Of course, Obama remains in complete denial. He still thinks yesterday was just the result of geopolitics being tilted against the Democrats this year, and he refuses to believe that he is at the center of the mess in Washington right now. In fact, if you listen to his speeches, Obama continues to act like he's an outsider to Washington politics.

He should realize that after six years, he has to take ownership, or else he'd be forever branded as aloof and an incredibly unsuccessful President. When even Michael Moore is turning against him, that should serve as a wake-up call to Obama.

But I predict that, just like the past six years, Obama will just coast on through his remaining two years and try to get things done by "executive fiat." And that means more gridlock in Washington and an even bigger, earlier focus on 2016 than ever before.

Tenchusatsu



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By Charles Hurt - - Wednesday, November 5, 2014


If President Obama suffered a “shellacking” in the 2010 elections, then what he endured Tuesday night was nothing short of a vicious gangland beatdown the likes of which have rarely been seen before in the history of electoral politics.

Voters clearly and forcefully rejected the party, politics and policies of President Obama. They slapped his socialist agenda back into the days of Soviet gulags, where it belongs.His grand visions of mighty government ruling unchecked over desperate ghettos have been snuffed out.

Gone, too, were the so-called “low-information voters” who have been coaxed to the polls since 2008 on lies and false promises that the federal government would solve all their problems.They are used up and wrung out.

Even the onslaught of threats and desperate accusations in endless emails to their Obamaphones couldn’t motivate those people to the polls one more time.

Voters rejected the craven, crass and mafioso tactics of Senate Leader Harry Reid.

Voters stripped him of his baldly partisan use of the United States Senate as a graveyard for all House legislation in order to protect his Democrats from tough votes and insulate the President from reality.

The little man with giant fists got staggered by a nasty uppercut from voters even though Reid saw it coming for weeks. Now, the ex-boxer stumbles on the canvas all tangled in the ropes, waiting for the bell.

And voters also rejected the loony-toon delusions of House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi. Honestly, the woman should be running a hat and wig shop in Haight-Ashbury, selling weed and prescription pills on the side. How it is that Democrats in Congress have taken her so seriously for so long will baffle historians for decades.

The silver lining for Democrats today is now they now have the perfect excuse to bounce both of them out of leadership forever.

And this is where things get very, very dangerous for America. President
Obama still has two more years left in his final term.

Already, he has demonstrated again and again that he has no regard for the constitution or the legitimacy of laws when they do not suit his agenda. He flaunts his disregard for the constitutional process, dismisses laws he doesn’t like and rewrites others.

He mocks the powers of Congress. The Supreme Court has slapped him down more than any president in recent times. All of this as he tells us he is an expert on constitutional law.

Now come his very explicit threats to pass more illegal and unconstitutional presidential edicts to grant amnesty to illegal aliens already in the United States. This, in turn, will issue invitations for millions more illegals to come streaming across the border.

It will not end at immigration. Unchecked power is addictive.

Disowned by Democrats and made to feel irrelevant in this election, President Obama’s enormous and unjustified ego is deeply wounded. He is frustrated and feels caged, cornered. This is when people like him are most dangerous.

Buoyant Republicans will make an effort to engage him.

But President Obama is not a listener. He is not a negotiator. He is not a learner. He will just take what he wants. It is easier that way.

Franklin D. Roosevelt’s court-packing scheme during the Great Depression was nothing like the strains this president has put on Constitution. Indeed, not since the Civil War has America faced such a dire threat to her existence as a lawful, constitutional republic.

washingtontimes.com