2010 election roundups

NiceDeb has a great round up, links and commentary on the preliminary 2010 election results.

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FoxNews has an election map here, but the server connection is not 100% (of course I'm overseas so its probably just me). Their site recently posted Coons beating O'Donnell, but Delaware's own sites don't have the final tally yet? (hmmm... seems odd, was this one rigged? I hope Christine fights if there is any smell of fraud...)

HillBuzz has some good open threads covering various topics.

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I'm looking forward to confused, sad, dejected Democrats... who may possibly now wake up to the fact their party left them awhile back in Clinton/moderate times. The USA is rejecting current batch of marxist-commie "Dems", soggy bread RINOs AND TheWon's socialist agenda.

OH yeah, did you hear numbskull Alan Grayson LOST in Florida? WAHOOOO!

I need a new 2012 election countdown clock now!

R TEA-nami

Incoming tide of 'red' (Republicans) across the USA Nov2...? Voters ready:

Choices are clear Nov2 for America

Victor Davis Hanson explains why Americans are upset and eager to vote next Tuesday in the Nov 2nd midterm elections. Mr. Hanson summarizes just a few of the unhappy items from the 21 months into TheOne-Reid-Peelousy regime:

"A vast new health care monstrosity that will send private insurance rates through the ceiling. The Machiavellian way in which it was slammed through. Failed stimulus. Wasteful pork-barrel spending of hundreds of billions in borrowed money. Persistent near 10% unemployment. Three trillion dollars in new debt in just two years. Record levels of federal spending. The vast increase in the size of government and its share of GDP. Eight years of projected $1 trillion annual budget deficits. Record high foreclosures. Record high usage of food stamps. The Keynesian zeal of Romer/Summers/Orzag followed by their sudden resignations in the wake of failure. Constant talk of higher taxes on “them”— the promised new health care surcharge taxes, the promised return to the Clinton income tax rates, talk of a VAT, talk of lifting the caps on income subject to FICA taxes, new capital gains taxes, new inheritance taxes on the horizon.

The use of extra-cabinet czars to avoid confirmation and audit. The neglect of the law, from reversing the order of Chrysler creditors to announcing a BP $20 billion shakedown and punishments for health insurers who don’t toe the line. The ascendance of ACORN and SEIU. The months-long shutdown of Gulf drilling. The failure to encourage coal, nuclear, and oil and gas new production. The Black Panther voting intimidation mess. The bowing abroad. The apologies. The outreach to enemies, and the snubbing of allies. The unnecessary humiliation of Great Britain and Israel. The Iran serial “deadline” charade. The unnecessary announcement of Afghan troop withdrawal deadlines. “Overseas contingency operations” and “man-made disasters.” The proposed civilian trial of KSM. The Ground Zero mosque mess. The beer summit mess. NASA’s new main mission of Muslim outreach. Stopping the border fence. Suing Arizona and demonizing the state. The apologies to the Chinese over the Arizona law, which was trashed from the White House lawn by the president of Mexico, and sued by foreign governments to the apparent approval of the administration.

The constant “Bush did it” refrain. The gratuitous slurs against limb-lopping doctors. The thrashing of the “rich” going to the Super Bowl and Las Vegas. The artificial divide of them/us based on $250,000 of annual income. The racial divisiveness from a sad cast of characters that gave us “cowards,” “stupidly,” “wise Latina,” and whites polluting the ghetto. Unhinged appointees like Van Jones and Anita Dunn. The occasional unguarded admissions like “never waste a crisis” and “at some point I do think you’ve made enough money.” The wacky behavior from the whining of “like a dog” to the sudden junketing to Copenhagen to lobby for the Chicago Olympics. The Orwellian cheap damning of the Bush anti-terrorism protocols only to accept or expand tribunals, renditions, Guantanamo, Predators, Iraq, and intercepts and wiretaps. The golf obsession and Costa del Sol while trashing the indulgent rich.

I’ll stop there since we have another 27 months to go."

Crikey, Mr. Hanson's brief summary only covers SOME of why America is angry!...

If the "democrat" agenda continues unchecked? Rush gives us an explanation of "What Would the Country Look Like Should Obama's Agenda Prevail?" It is NOT pretty...

"Imam Obama said that his agenda is on the ballot. So all we have to do is look at his agenda. Well, what did his agenda do? Obama's agenda has dramatically driven up unemployment. Unemployment will continue to be high and go higher if the Democrats stay in power. Obama has driven up the deficit so we would have to expect the deficit will remain high. We also know that taxes will go up on the premise that we will lower the deficit by raising taxes. So Americans will become poorer. Fewer Americans will be working. Those who aren't working will be taken care of with transfer payments, redistribution of wealth, as Obama continues his assault on achievement. The remaining achievers in this country will become targeted even more.

With higher taxes, punitive regulations, disincentives to start businesses and what have you. A vote for a Democrat is a vote for the results of Obama's agenda. Under Obama and without any complaint from Democrats, we have deliberate attempts to spark class warfare and racial divide. We have more racial division in this country than we've had since 1964, sponsored by and brought to us by Obama. We have an attorney general who looks the other way at black-on-white election fraud. By design. We have a civil rights division of the Justice Department that says its only reason for existence is to make sure that blacks are not cheated in elections. It's okay if whites are, because that's just leveling the playing field from years ago.

Class warfare will continue, racial division will continue and get even worse. By design. We have czars. We have people appointed by the president to serve in positions that do work that we don't know. They are paid salaries we don't know. They are accountable to no one. They report only to Obama; they do not have to get confirmed before the Senate. We have an all-out effort to empower parasitic unions to continue to fund outrageous, unpayable gold-plate pensions. States' bankruptcy will proceed on schedule, the unions and their pension plans and their health payments and their retirement funds will be paid no matter what consequence occurs to you, me or our country. All of this destruction, all of this transfer of wealth, all of this redistribution, all of this overseeing of America in decline will be paid for by the American taxpayer."

So vote "D" if you want that agenda... or, better still a GREAT idea from Canada Free Press: if you're confused or don't know what is going on: don't vote.

Side note: there is GREAT news for "D"s who DO WANT the agenda Rush describes. They can go somewhere it has already been put implemented: Cuba... move there instead. Bon voyage!

6 minutes on why DE-funding O-scare is required

From NewZeal and NiceDeb, 6 minute video explains the O-scare "health care" rationing and why this whole thing needs to be DE-funded, repealed, replaced.

America: watch out for voter fraud (already occuring!)

"When True the Vote began monitoring elections last fall in Houston, we were shocked at the fraud we discovered. Precinct judges often failed to check voters IDs, and some even filled out ballots to “help” people vote. These violations are just the tip of a very large and ugly iceberg.

If you are one of the millions of Americans outraged by corruption at the highest levels of our nation’s government, then you can help us stop fraud where it begins – at the polling place, in the precinct where you live, in the streets of your city.

If you care enough to help, contact us today to become part of our action plan. A commitment of just a few hours is all it takes to help restore truth and integrity to our elections."

there's an app for that

Also, from American Thinker:
"The reports are rolling in from all over the country. A Craven County, NC resident attempts to vote a straight Republican ticket but his choices come up straight Democrat four times, despite receiving assistance from poll workers. In NC's Lenoir County, registered Democrat Ervin Norville also tries to vote straight Republican but finds that his ballot has the names of several Democrat candidates selected. Boulder City, NV resident Joyce Ferrara says that when she and several others went to vote for Sharon Angle, they found that Senator Harry Reid's name was already checked off. In Dallas County, TX' congressional district 30, Democrat Eddie Bernice Johnson's name was the only one on the ballot in a few locations (no, she isn't running unopposed). And some states have been late in mailing out military absentee ballots, whose recipients, interestingly, are known for their Republican leanings."

Don't forget Frank's record on Fannie and Freddie

Reminder for Massachusetts, thank you Barney Frank for the Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac sub prime home bubble, loan market CRASH ... remember?! hattip Gateway Pundit: "For the record…
As reported earlier at Big Government, in May 2007 Barney Frank and the Democrat-controlled House passed GSE reform legislation. Legislation which was adamantly opposed by the Treasury Dept. and the Bush Administration for limiting federal oversight of Fannie and Freddie’s mortgage holdings. Legislation which included Frank’s pet project, an “affordable housing” fund backed by tax payers.

Let it also be noted that going into 2007 Fannie and Freddie had never in history been allowed to purchase or finance sub-prime mortgages. But under pressure from Democrats in Congress (including Frank), they were granted this authority by regulators in September 2007."

HEY MASS., help save America by supporting: SEAN BIELAT

For Californians

For Californians and all hard working Americans:

USA Nov 2 - be there - votes matter

Hattip: iOwnTheWorld
•You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
•You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
•You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.
•You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
•You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
•You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.
•You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
•You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.
•You cannot build character and courage by destroying men’s initiative and independence.
•And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

13 more days til Nov 2nd midterms-Cook Report

Cook Political Report

Grandmother vs "most powerful" senator

In Nevada, if you haven't heard, Sharron Angle, grandmother, is challenging Harry Reid, the "most powerful" senator in Washington for his job.

Futrell at BigJournalism on the debate points out "The polls show the two neck and neck in this race. The Nevada media, of course, is beside itself. After the debate, one commentator asked why we would want to move from the #1 spot in political power in the Senate to #100. Many in the activist old media still do not get what this election is all about. We no longer want that sort of power structure in our nation. The supposed #1 spot in Washington, DC should be below the positions of Governors and even state representatives. This nation was designed with states holding the power, not bureaucrats in Washington, DC. I know it will take a long time for many to understand this concept, but I also know the media will be the last to figure out what is happening in this election. Besides, if Reid holds so much power in DC and says that it is his “job to create jobs,” then why is unemployment in Nevada the worst in the nation? Seems to me Reid is not doing his job and should be fired."

Comment Cents has the debate video.

... and about Nevada's tax increases under Harry Reid:

IL senate candidate Cedra Crenshaw speaks

This lady ROCKS! Listen to the mom who beat back the Democrat machine which tried to kick her illegally off the ballot.

Cedra Crenshaw, Republican state senate candidate in Illinois:

Darryl Issa will be VERY busy 2011-2012

California congressional representative Darrell Issa is going to be very busy 2011-2012 investigating corruption by current W.House regimists.

"The (Republican) Ranking Member of the Oversight & Government Reform Committee, Congressman Darrell Issa leads his fellow Republicans on the Committee and directs the investigative agenda of the Committee's minority oversight staff. Rep. Issa also serves on the House Judiciary Committee."

Oh, this list might help: 1,676 (and counting!!) Broken Promises, Lies, Flip-Flops & Scandals from Conservative American.org

#1,676 is: Obama's Made-Up Claim of 'GOP Using Foreign Money' is a Flip-Flop! He took Foreign Credit Cards during His Own 2008 Campaign!

"10/10/2010 Power Line Blog reports, "...Glenn Reynolds comments that Obama's "foreign money" claims are bogus. He adds: "They're also pretty rich, considering how his 2008 campaign handled foreign credit cards." Glenn revisits the foreign money Obama took in via credit cards with links to contemporaneous news reports. He then observes: "You know, I'd kind of forgotten this scandal until Obama brought this stuff up. It didn't get much attention then, but it may get more this time around..."

Michelle Malkin reminds us:

• Remember Obama/Hillary/Democrat top fund-raiser and convicted fraudster/campaign finance crook Norman Hsu.
• Remember Obama/Hillary/Democrat top fund-raiser and convicted fraudster/campaign finance crook Hasan Nemazee.
• Remember soft-on-China Obama Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, shady Buddhist temple cash collector.
• Remember Senate Democrats raising funds in Canada.
• Remember Obama’s presidential campaign soliciting foreign donations on its website (via Doug Ross):

Hey, McSpendyPants: your whining (about the U.S. Chamber of Commerce) reminded us all about the continued corruption and puppeteering by Soros funded organizations (from AT) and NiceDeb discusses how this is backfiring on TheWon...

Michelle M notes Bambam himself is now "backpedaling faster than high-wire clowns on a quadricycle" from the 'daily caller'... mmm mmm mmmmm... a Daily caller commentator remembers: "Obama took in more illegal campaign money than anyone in the history of the US presidency. And what did the mainstream media say about it? Nothing. Obama was too black to fail and that fact was far more important than any illegalities, shady past connections, radical current friends, and worst, the total lack of skills, qualifications, and experience for such a big job.
The media put our nation at risk to make a PC point. WE WILL ALL pay the price for such foolishness and immaturity on their behalf. Now, the pendulum will swing the other way and many, many democrats are going to be swept out to the political wilderness. And who will they blame? Obama? The media? Nope. The elitist arrogant snobs who run the democrat party and who infest our universities and mainstream media organs will blame… you guessed it… THE PEOPLE."

In Jan 2011? Better get busy Mr. Issa...

Gridlock will be a good thing

Road in Bolivia - or America's path back to fiscal sanity?

The push by the elitist bunch in Washington since a leftist majority congress took control in 2007 and installed a marxist-socialist ruler Jan 2009 has been taking America for a ride: 100 mph down a steep and dangerous hill.

Imagine America's economy is a big bus driving down a steep, winding road full of dangerous areas where plummeting off means death. Slowing down to a crawl is probably the best course of action.

Americans will have to patient. Slowing and stopping the speeding leftist bus will take time.

BHO "warns agenda will go backwards with House GOP win" ... Hilarious! He and the leftists lie and ignore reality: poll after poll, T.E.A. party after T.E.A. party, rally after rally shows the MAJORITY of America wants this regime stopped. America wants the health care monstrosity repealed or defunded. America is rejecting the 100mph-down-a-cliff push for marxist-socialist tranformation...

Slowing down the leftist agenda to the point of gridlock?! AWESOME! Not everything is a crisis needing government intervention: America is on to the Cloward-Piven strategy and Alinsky tactics. We reject that crap.

Watch OUT for voter fraud Nov 2, 2010!

From Rush Limbaugh "Well, if it makes you feel any better, the ranking Republican to whom I spoke today, I brought up that '95 budget battle, and I said, "They're gonna do it to you again. They're gonna let you exhibit the fiscal responsibility that they know has to happen, they're gonna blame you for it, they're gonna accuse you of starving kids with a school lunch cut and Social Security." I said, "You better have a plan better than you had in '95 dealing with it." The plan in '95 was nobody's going to believe this, who's gonna believe we want to starve kids? Well, by the time they had kids in New Orleans writing letters saying, "I'm starving, why won't you let me eat lunch," and so forth, look, they get it, they get it. And I think they're gonna surprise you, especially if this victory's as huge as it is. They know that it's not going to be this Pledge that's attracting the votes. It's helpful, but be confident. I am. This is just the first step of many of these steps that's going to have to happen. One election, and after this election's won, it's gonna get hard. The other side is just not gonna go away. They're not gonna say, "Oh, God, the country doesn't love us anymore, please forgive us." They're gonna ratchet it up. Always happens. Be ready. Be prepped. "

"Let me try to put this in perspective. Rolling back, not just Obama, but the Democrats of the last 50 years, folks, rolling this back is gonna take a long time, a lot of hard work, and it's going to be intense. It's going to be the intensity of football with a 162-game schedule instead of 16. That's how intense this is going to be. People take it seriously. So this is step one in November. It'll happen."

From Ned Ryun at RedState: "The 2010 primary season was, for the most part, a good one for limited government, freedom-loving conservatives. Most of the high profile challenges against the incumbent or establishment candidates, with Mike Lee, Ken Buck, Joe Miller, and Sharron Angle ended with the grassroots candidate winning. The American people clearly demonstrated that they are tired of long time incumbents, the ruling class, ignoring the will of the people and growing government spending and the role of government in people’s lives.

But we need to put things into perspective: the 2010 primary season must be seen as simply the opening salvo in the American people’s war against statism. It is the first battle in many to come in the war over whether the American people, or the ruling class, will control the American system of government."

Yep... I'm in it for the long haul... are you? Time to slow down the bus of leftist destruction...to a crawl.

Its SO the economy stupid

Couple good columns at RealClearPolitics

Congress Can't Repeal Economics - By John Stossel

"It's raining! I don't like it! Why hasn't Congress passed the Good Weather Act and the Everybody Happy Act?

Sound dumb?

Why is it any dumber than a law called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which promised to cover more for less money?"

Taxing the Rich - By John Stossel

"Progressives want to raise taxes on individuals who make more than $200,000 a year because they say it's wrong for the rich to be "given" more money. Sunday's New York Times carries a cartoon showing Uncle Sam handing money to a fat cat. They just don't get it.

As I've said before, a tax cut is not a handout. It simply means government steals less. What progressives want to do is take money from some -- by force -- and spend it on others. It sounds less noble when plainly stated.

That's the moral side of the matter. There's a practical side, too. Taxes discourage wealth creation. That hurts everyone, the lower end of the income scale most of all. An economy that, through freedom, encourages the production of wealth raises the living standards of lower-income people as well as everyone else.

A free society is not a zero-sum game in which every gain is offset by someone's loss. As long as government keeps its thumb off the scales, the "makers" who get rich do so by making others better off. (When the government allocates capital or creates barriers to competition, all bets are off.)"


ObamaCare & the Costs of the Welfare State - By Charles Kesler

"But even as American government has lurched to the left in the past year and a half, American politics has shifted to the right. Instead of New Deal-style acclamation, Obama's orgy of state-building has been greeted by an entirely new grassroots conservative movement, the tea party, as well as a firming and inspiriting of right-wing opinion across the board. Gallup reports that 42% of Americans now consider themselves conservative, an all-time high, and only 20% call themselves liberal-margin of more than two to one. Independent voters are fleeing Obama in droves. His party will almost certainly suffer severe losses in 2010, not only in congressional seats but also in governorships and state legislative houses.

With the long-term momentum of American government and at least the short-term momentum of American politics pulling so strongly, so suddenly in opposite directions, something is bound to give. Either government will yield, or the people will."

I AM BETTING ON: WE.THE.PEOPLE

I'm with Rick Santelli, hey gubmit:
STOP SPENDING STOP SPENDING STOP SPENDING

...I can see November from New Zealand

from: BenHoweBlog
hattip: Gateway Pundit

Ambassador Bolton joins a nationwide T.E.A. party

Hat tip: iOwnTheWorld

"John Bolton Partners with Nationwide Tea Party Coalition To Launch "Election Day Tea Party"

"September 20, 2010 (Nashville, TN) - The Nationwide Tea Party Coalition, in partnership with former United States Ambassador to the UN John Bolton, has launched the Election Day Tea Party, a project to raise awareness and participation in the 2010 mid-term elections this November 2.

"I joined the Election Day Tea Party project because - perhaps more than at any other in my lifetime - the results of this election cycle will determine the future of the United States as the leader of the Free World," said Ambassador John Bolton. "Election Day Tea Party is a great way for people to become involved in a substantial, productive way, no matter where you are in the country."

The project's website, ElectionDayTeaParty.com identifies the 50 contests for seats in the House of Representatives where an individual's efforts can help the challengers win their elections on November 2, 2010. The seats in all 50 of these races are currently held by members of Congress who have supported the Obama-Pelosi agenda. "

Which group is more motivated for USA Nov 2010 & 2012?

top photo: Glenn Beck's rally

bottom photo: leftist groups (400) and socialist organizations (they bussed people in)

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Which group seems more motivated in 2010 and 2012? hmmmm mmm mmmmmmm.....

answer? the sleeping giant is awake now

The Insurgency - Michael Lotus at RightNetwork

I haven't had much to say this week... Just busy reading blogs, conservative news sites and waiting for spring to bloom down here in the southern hemisphers. The south island here in NZ has had a really cold spring with winter storms killing thousands of baby lambs. NZ farmers should know by now as each year (like past 15) gets a bit colder than the next... there is no global warming, but NZ and world leftist media keeps pushing it... for the $$ only. $$ didn't help the thousands of baby lambs last week who froze to death, did it...

But I prefer optimistic news stories better than pessimistic ones. That damn glass is half full already... In the USA, the next 6 weeks until the Nov 2010 elections and the next 2 years until the 2010 elections will be interesting as "the insurgency" grows. Check out this article by Michael Lotus over at Right Network:

"Mass political movements often begin with a single, striking event. The Insurgency began in the fall of 2008, when President Bush, Senator Obama, and Senator McCain appeared together to endorse the TARP bailout. At that moment the lights came on for many Americans. It was glaringly obvious that both political parties jointly operated the system, and the system existed to protect the well connected at the expense of everyone else. The public opposed the TARP bailouts; the banks got their money anyway. The Insurgency, long brewing, began.

The Insurgency is a movement of citizens directed against unsustainable government taxation and regulation, and spending, both of which benefit insiders rather than ordinary people. The target of the Insurgency is a leviathan in Washington, D.C. that will ruin us all if it is not dismantled.

The Insurgency is part of a long tradition of mass political movements in our history. It has the potential to make a fundamental change in American life—for the better."

I hope so Michael... America has had completely the wrong kind of change the last 2 years and the last few decades. The ship, listing left, needs to be righted.

Its not your seat, Lisa

Its Not Your Seat Lisa.com
no royalty in Alaska!

NOVEMBER IS COMING

NOVEMBER IS COMING - from BreitbartTV:



Video titled "The Last Best Hope" was created by Ben Howe.