To quote Obama:
Really? You are leading us out of the ‘mess?’
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Liberal Democrats took control of the House and Senate at the end 2006 and unemployment spiked.
So, to answer the question, yes I would love to go back to the pre-2006 economy.
For the Tea Party to continue its growth going forward, it needs to remain focused on a few core issues: limited government, fiscal responsibility, Federalism, Founding Fathers and nothing more. These issues represent the political ‘center of mass’ for the American people (not to be confused with moderates, independents and reaching across the isle). Without a strong functioning economy, the rest of the issues facing our nation- Defense, Health care, Environment, Foreign Policy, Immigration etc. are strictly academic.
The Tea Party core issues reflect the values of the next wave of Americans that are fast approaching their mid 40′s and are ready to assume political leadership of our nation for the next 20 years. Via Uncommon Knowledge October 31st, 1997:
Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge. I’m Peter Robinson. Generation X, the 54 million Americans born between 1965 and 1978. It’s a generation that’s known neither war nor depression and that has attitudes fundamentally different from any generation that’s gone before. One of those attitudes- suspicion of government. Consider social security. Franklin Roosevelt enacted social security in 1935 and fifty years later, Ronald Reagan promised young Americans that social security still would be functioning when they retired. Generation X isn’t buying. In fact, in a recent poll- and this is true- nearly twice as many Generation Xers believed in the existence of UFO’s- piloted perhaps by cousins of my little magenta friend here- than believed that social security will still be sending out checks by the time they retire
Obviously, not all people in this, or any age group are Conservatives. But, many within this age group are Conservative with a large number being fiscal Conservatives. Furthermore, fiscal Conservatism is reflected in the Tea Party ideals of limited government (suspicion of government) and fiscal responsibility (social security will be gone) have been at the center of Generation X’s political identity going back to the mid 1990′s.
Everywhere you look, people are getting notices that their health insurance is getting a lot more expensive.
Thanks to ObamaCare.
Via Politics Daily:
Facing grim news in one major national poll after another, some Democrats may be hoping for a “Dewey Defeats Truman” moment. That was the headline in 150,000 copies of the Chicago Daily Tribune on election night in 1948 after a campaign in which a series of polls showed New York’s Republican governor, Tom Dewey, way ahead of incumbent President Harry Truman.
Now, the Pew Research Center joins the queue of major surveys showing the Republicans headed for a big day on Nov. 2. While the unexpected could happen in a year of surprises, it is a lot less likely that today’s pollsters are repeating the mistake that Gallup made 62 years ago when it quit doing surveys two weeks before the election even though 14 percent of voters were still undecided.
Remember, this is the beginning of the roll back process and not the end.
So, don’t get cocky kid.
“They’re fighting back. The empire is striking back. To win this election, they are plowing tens of millions of dollars into front groups. They are running misleading negative ads all across the country.”
Obama
The only person acting like an “Emperor” is Obama.
“Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared,” Obama said Saturday evening in remarks at a small Democratic fundraiser Saturday evening. “And the country’s scared.”
Obama told the several dozen donors that he was offering them his “view from the Oval Office.” He faulted the economic downturn for Americans’ inability to “think clearly” and said the burden is on Democrats “to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling.”
Really?!?!
Obama and his Democrats have created an economic DISASTER on an epic scale. They have created an economic environment where business can’t plan a single year in advance, let alone 3 or 5 years. Buisnesses are asking themselves “what are the ObamaCare regulations going to look like in 2012?” “What new and arbitrary EPA regulation are we going to be subjected to?”
Furthermore, there is no telling what scorned Democrats are going to do in Congresses ‘lame duck’ session.
Plus there is the looming Obama tax hike coupled with severe health insurance rate increases that both hit January 1. This draining of even more money out of the private sector economy is going to hurt in a big way.
There is much uncertainty in the nation right now that is weighing heavily on the average citizen. And, to be blunt, the average American citizen is thinking much more clearly today than they have in a long time.
The Detroit Free Press (Detroit more liberal paper) is endorsing all the Democrat retreads including John Dingle who has been feeding at the tax payer trough since 1955. According to the Freep:
Democrat John Dingell, dean of the U.S. House and third-longest serving member in the history of Congress, is running hard at 84 for his 29th term. Certainly he has slowed some, but Dingell remains the auto industry’s most formidable defender in Washington and proudly realized a decades-long dream with enactment of the Obama health care legislation, of which he was the prime sponsor.
The successful effort of House Democratic leaders to oust Dingell from an important committee chairmanship indicates he remains very much his own person in Congress, committed to a Michigan-focused agenda that includes clean-energy jobs and closing tax loopholes that make it appealing for U.S. manufacturers to send work overseas.
Attempting to end Dingell’s career is Republican nominee Rob Steele, 52, a cardiologist from Ann Arbor and founder of a medical practice that now has 36 physicians and 300 employees. Steele has embraced the Tea Party movement and its call for lower taxes and limited government.
Michigan still needs the clout that JOHN DINGELL can bring to an issue in Washington.
Imagine where Michigan would be without the ‘clout’ of John Dingle.
I think most people can do without John Dingle and Democrats working to control us.
In the Secretary of State Race, Republican Ruth Johnson is leading Democrat Jocelyn Benson by 6 points.
Johnson should be leading by more. Who wants a George Soros backed former community organizer running our states elections?
Lastly, the angry Liberal columnist Susan J. Demas is worried about 2012 because, if Republicans retain the Michigan Senate, capture the State House and the Governorship (with the squishy- yet at the same time supposedly tough nerd as our Governor) Republicans will be in good shape redistricting our States reduced number of Congressional districts:
Another big reason Republicans are pulling out all the stops this year is that the always-fun redistricting process starts in 2011. That’s when congressional and state legislative districts have to be divvied up based on population numbers from the 2010 census.
Contrary to popular belief, Michigan is still growing, just at a negligible rate, especially compared to states in the South and Southwest. So we are certain to lose one of our 15 congressional seats, whereas states like Georgia and Texas will gain some of the 435 slots. But National Conference of State Legislatures analysts don’t believe Michigan is in danger of losing two.
The political battle lies in how the districts are drawn. Naturally, Republicans and Democrats alike want to shape seats that are as favorable to their parties as possible. The redistricting process goes through the Legislature, so if one party controls both chambers all the better. The governor technically isn’t a big factor, but having GOP control over both legislative and executive branches can’t hurt.
“It is the great passion play of American politics,” Ginsberg grinned. “There’s emotion,the raw power is high. We get really jazzed up about the magic andvoodoo we can do. And we’re glad to perpetrate the myth.”
Right now, Republicans look assured to keep the Senate and the House is a tossup. The Democrats’ last hope is to maintain their 4-3 majority on the Supreme Court, which usually has to intervene and rule on the redistricting plan.
Did I mention Ms. Demas has a raging case of Palin Derangement Syndrome?
Republicans could crown Sarah Palin their presidential nominee, even though just 44 percent think she’s qualified (and an embarrassing 22 percent overall).
At this point, I believe that Ms. Demas is incapable of write a single column without taking a swipe at Sarah Palin.
Saw this at Heritage.org:
Via Heritage:
At this stage of the Reagan recovery from the last deep recession in the early 1980s, the economy had created almost 4 million jobs, or 6 million jobs when adjusting for the size of the labor force. In contrast, under Obama the economy has lost nearly a half million jobs since the recovery began; the growth rate remains stuck around 1 percent; and the economy is sufficiently weak that the Federal Reserve is about to embark on yet another round of quantitative easing to fend off deflation.
Social Justice:
Here, it is typically associated with left wing or socialist analyses, policies and prescriptions. For example, poverty is caused by unbridled capitalism; the solution is to heavily regulate markets, or ban them outright. Racism and sexism account for the relative plight of racial minorities and women; laws should be passed prohibiting their exercise. Greater reliance on government is required as the solution of all sorts of social problems. The planet is in great danger from environmental despoliation, due to an unjustified reliance on private property rights. Taxes are too low; they should be raised. Charity is an insult to the poor, who must obtain more revenues by right, not condescension. Diversity is the sine qua non of the fair society. Discrimination is one of the greatest evils to have ever beset mankind. Use of terminology such as “mankind” is sexist, and constitutes hate speech.
If you want to understand Democrat candidate for the Michigan Supreme Court, Ms. Denise Langford Morris, you need to understand Social Justice and the Justice Caucus:
The Justice Caucus Mission is to promote the cause of progressive democracy within the Democratic Party, in government and in the legal profession. Progressive democracy recognizes that all human endeavor, including the exercise of legal power, though continually changing, must guarantee social and economic justice, civil rights, integrity and fairness. The Justice Caucus seeks to promote these values by participating in the nomination and election of progressive people of integrity, fairness and competence for judicial and other public offices, and by encouraging the exercise of these values in our government and the legal profession.
And you need to know that she is NOT A FEDERALIST, and she has no FEDERALIST VALUES!
If Conservatives stay home November 2nd we will get Michigan Supreme Court Justices that have no Federalist values and are big on ‘social justice.’
Mark Schauer has supported the most anti-business, anti-jobs, anti-growth agenda, ever.
If Democrat Mark Schauer was half as concerned with the economy during his term in Congress as he is today, maybe he shouldn’t have voted in favor of the entire Pelosi economy killing agenda:
And this is what Mark Schauer had to say about his vote for the flop stimulus bill in 2009:
I wonder what Michigan’s unemployment rate would be without the all those short term, make work projects?