Election puts 10 Democrats on high alert
Will the GOP pick up the seats or will this be another NY 23rd?
Politico-Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) says Tuesday’s Republican victories in Virginia and New Jersey should be a “wake-up call” for Democrats in Congress.
Here are 10 likely to be hearing alarm bells.
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HUH?
Conservatives on NY-23: We didn’t lose
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29161.html
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sect of hard-right Republicans is celebrating their loss in a New York House race—but that’s just the beginning of a plan to purge moderates. Benjamin Sarlin speaks to the ringleader.
Insurgent conservatives have declared all-out war on the Republican establishment, and Erick Erickson is helping to lead the charge.
Erickson, who runs the influential Web site RedState.com, drew fire on Wednesday from Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, after Erickson expressed glee over the outcome of New York’s hotly contested 23rd Congressional District race. With help from Sarah Palin and Dick Armey, Erickson had led the online charge to drive the GOP favorite, Dede Scozzafava, from the race, believing her to be too moderate. Erickson’s preferred candidate went on to lose to a Democrat—handing the GOP its first loss in this Adirondacks-based district in more than 100 years. Erickson nonetheless declared victory, saying he’d done “exactly what we set out to do—crush the establishment-based GOP candidate.”
“I’m talking to my own side, rallying the troops to take action,” said Erickson. “I want to make things happen. I want to blow things up and get things done.”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-11-04/operation-target-moderates/?cid=hp:mainpromo3
The GOP can sing the saw of cutting taxes & smaller gov’t but to regain power they must get a solid platform and a solid leader.
Cutting taxes while getting their share of “one time” handouts, encouraging debt leveraging and keeping interest artifically low do not differentiate themselves.
How about a list of real things to do:
Savings & Investment encouraging
Debt discouraging
Dollar strengthing
Housing continues to crash as arms come due & folks can’t hold on with some of the lowest interest in modern times that is also tax deductible –
as the Feds hold so much of the mortgages when will they begin to inflate themselves out of the hole ?
Of course the new president’s party will lose seats in the mid-term. That’s the nature of American politics.
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The real question is what will GOPers do when confronted with the fact that Mr Obama is just as popular (54%, CNN poll) today as he was a year ago (55%, same source) ?
Per the Communist News Network, one would think Obama would be even more popular.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 30% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -10