Here’s something we’ve been puzzling over: are Democrats delusional about 2010?
We keep seeing article after article in the MSM along the meme of “2010 won’t be like 1994″. These people insist, over and over, that Americans are not going to punish Democrats for all the crazy things they’ve been up to since Dr. Utopia took office.
They seem to believe that 2008 was the year America shifted Left, and that Americans are secretly thrilled with everything that’s been going on these last 11 months.
We don’t believe that to be the case at all.
1994 was a reaction to the Clintons, with the country thinking they had moved too far left when they campaigned as centrists. Dr. Utopia claimed to be a centrist, but anyone paying attention knows he is the most radical leftist to ever run for, let alone win, the presidency. His entire Chicago team brought to Washington is leftist-palooza. There is not one person we know who is happy with the Utopiacare takeover of healthcare. Despite the MSM’s best interests to kill the story, people we know are talking about Climategate, and how Democrats have been lying to them for years. People are talking about Democrats threatening to close military bases in Nebraska if Senator Nelson does not vote for Utopiacare…they are actually playing politics with jobs and national security on their fool’s quest to nationalize 1/6 of the American economy.
In 1994, there was not anger like this, palpable and real, so in your face. That was our senior year of high school for most of us. We remember Newt Gingrich coming seemingly out of nowhere with The Contract for America, and people racing to get behind that and dump the Democrats.
We believe early next year, Sarah Palin will come up with something similar, and her supporters will dovetail with the tea party crowd and push a great resistance to everything Dr. Utopia and his band of lunatics is doing. We think she will eminently be more successful than Gingrich, if she chooses to fill the leadership role like this.
Palin just needs to come up with something simple regular Americans can wrap their heads around — with a catchphrase they can repeat, but on bumper stickers, and shout loudly at rallies and town hall meetings. “Hope!” and “Change!” were very effective tools last year. No one, to this day, knows what they mean, but it sure got idiots revved up for Dr. Utopia. “Contract with America” was also a great tool: though people might not have known what it meant, it sure sounded important…and made people feel Republicans were going to do something considered and well-planned to get America back on course again. It sounded like they knew what they were doing and could be trusted, after people felt betrayed by the Clinton administration’s lurch to the left.
So, we don’t know if the MSM is operating a deliberate misinformatin campaign, or if they, like Democrats, are just delusional in thinking “2010 won’t be so bad” for them. Unemployment was 7% back in 1994. It’s 15% now, and 25-30% in some big cities. People we know who have NEVER struggled to pay bills are having to eat Ramen noodles and learn to sew because they can’t afford to buy new clothes. People we know are having mini-nervous breakdowns every day because they can’t go on vacation, can’t afford cable TV, can’t go out to dinner anymore. And these are the people who still have jobs! We didn’t see ANYTHING like that in 1994.
People are mad. While they suffer, the White House hosts lavish parties, and Democrats flit around spending more and more money on junk, wasting resources, and hobbling together secret, incompetent plans to raise health premiums and destroy healthcare as we know it.
Maybe the MSM wants Republicans and Independents to sit their butts home and not vote in 2010. We’re moderate Democrats here in Illinois who plan on voting straight ticket Republican next year to teach the DNC a strong lesson. The Liberal radicals in charge now need to get the boot…and we think Americans at large are going to send that same message, no matter what the MSM says now.
What think you?
December 16, 2009 at 12:14 pm
They’re not delusional.
They just plan to cheat like they did in NY-23.
Read this: FRAUD discovered in the NY election, and the board certifies the “winner” anyway!
I used to respect the Democratic party. I didn’t agree with them, but I respected them.
Not any more.
This is just as appaling as the Minnesota election with Franken where certain counties had more votes for Franken than they did RESIDENTS.
Is cheating and fraud the only way to win? What happened to fair elections in America?
http://www.thepostemail.com/2009/12/15/ny-board-of-elections-certifies-fraudulent-ny-23-election-results/
December 16, 2009 at 3:49 pm
I have to say – the fraud thing scares me. I feel 100% optimistic about the dems getting their asses kicked – until I start thinking about how dirty they are willing to play it and how voter fraud seems all too possible thanks to Acorn.
January 11, 2010 at 5:43 pm
I have commented several times that I am desperately worried about the 2010 election being rigged. Why else would the democrates be jumping off the cliff in lock step fashion if they did not know something we don’t? They do not seem the least bit worried about being voted out of office.
Check this web site:
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/12/04/soros-eyes-secretaries
I believe the Minnisota election was pure fraud to get the 60th senator. And I believe the same thing is going to happen in Massachusetts. The demos cannot afford to lose a senate seat before the health care bill passes.
Even with voter fraud, I think we can get a few seats in the senate, so Obama cannot wait until after 2010 to get the health care bill passed. Therefore, he cannot afford for the Massachusetts senate seat to go republician.
December 16, 2009 at 12:19 pm
I loved your article. I sure hope a lot of Democrats are as clear thinking as you seem to be. I am an Independant who will be voting straight Republican. Keep up the great articles and Merry Christmas % Happy New Year to all.
December 16, 2009 at 12:21 pm
If they cheat on such a widespread scale, it will be so obvious that even the sheeple will see it.
There will be a rising up that’ll make the 9/12 march on Washington look puny in comparison.
December 16, 2009 at 12:31 pm
I’m sure there are some Democrats who are relishing the coming loss. If the Republicans gain Congress and the Senate, then they can hold back Obama’s stupidest plans, but they automatically become the Bad Parent. That guarentees the guy a *groan* second term. Obviously, those are the people who adore Obama, care more about power than principles and don’t have to face re-election, but they’re out there.
The rest are either convinced that people aren’t really THAT angry, because they’re completely distanced from the people, or that they can discourage people by blaming Bush and the GOP and making them feel like there’s no alternative.
December 16, 2009 at 12:31 pm
“… they are actually playing politics with jobs and national security on their fool’s quest to nationalize 1/6 of the American economy.”
Make no mistake, the goal is to control 6/6 of the American economy.
Wouldn’t you love to know the exact location of those “secret Civil War pipes” in the Potomac … the ones the bad guys used to gain access to the WH on “24″? I don’t scuba and I swim like a rock, but I’d be willing to grab a spear gun and give it a go if it’d help take our country back from these odious thugs.
December 16, 2009 at 12:33 pm
I am embarrassed for OUR country right now. In my younger days I was stationed in asia and I remember the conversations we had about how corrupt this particular countries leaders were. And how we as americans were never like that. That we were better and we could vote and our leaders did what was right. Well, I must say that either I was extremely naive as a young man or ignorant (probably alot of both) because what I see now is worse than anything I ever saw in Asia. My wife who is asian can’t believe what the leaders of the country are doing. No one seems to be doing the right thing for the Country.
December 16, 2009 at 9:10 pm
Hi, I’m a JR on this blog, too, guess that you can call me JKR, now to keep things from getting confusing.
December 16, 2009 at 12:38 pm
I think there is a building tsunami out there and a lot of people are hella-peeved. This is MUCH bigger than 1994, trust me. The feeling I get is of seething anger over how we got screwed-over and lied to, all the way around. The banks, BOTH political parties, the infotainment industry, indoctrination/education, NGOs, climate “scientists”, and more.
Its out there and people feel it, the media is ignoring what is going on here in flyover country. Well, until 2010 that is… The Day of Reckoning is coming and its gonna get ugly.
Commercial real estate is about to collapse here in AZ, just like residential did recently. The media companies are dying too (good riddance I say) along with traditional state-funded education. It may not be a bad thing, bulldoze all of it and start over again, proverbially speaking of course. Japan and Germany needed to be bombed and occupied before they could start again…maybe 2010 will give We the People a chance to begin anew.
The US is a center-right country that is socially libertarian. Tap into this and you get truly representative government, ignore it and you get seething anger.
We live in interesting times, thanks for posting and your unique perspective.
December 16, 2009 at 4:26 pm
The other thing that makes today so different from 1994 is that so many of us have internet connections where we can get the news, uncensored and unmolested. Back then, the effort to get the truth out was so difficult. I think that the dems will completely underestimate the power of connection we have today. It’s the iceberg theory – what they see or what they think they see is actually only 5% of the real total.
December 16, 2009 at 12:39 pm
Watching today’s livefeed from the Senate floor on C-Span of the debate on the health-care legislation, it seems that Senator Coburn is beginning to employ more effective delaying tactics. The length of Sander’s amendment (all 366 pages of which are now being read aloud at Coburn’s behest) will certainly slow down the pace of this atrocity! Perhaps he’ll even decide to have the entire text of Reid’s final bill read on the floor, as he suggested he might choose to do. I just called Coburn’s office to commend him for it, and they like the encouragement.
Your website is the best I know of for the low-down on Obama and his homebase–including the information about the many shady dealings and the anecdotes about things done on the down-low! These details, censored by most of the so-called journalists, really do contribute to a better understanding of the man (using the term loosely).
I can hardly convey how much I appreciate your rare combination of passion and humor!
Keep up the excellent work!
December 16, 2009 at 4:01 pm
I think all like minded individuals should call Coburn’s and DeMint’s DC office to encourage them. Finally, the R’s have seemed to find their collective spines.
Coburn: 202-224-5754
DeMint: 202-224-6121
December 16, 2009 at 4:30 pm
PhillyCon and Amsterdam Expat: I heard that Sander’s amendment is 767 pages long. Senator Coburn did us a great favor today and you’re right – we need to call his office and thank him for standing up for freedom. I also heard that Sanders attempted to withdraw his amendment. Too bad for him that he can’t stop what’s been started. I heard that our phony senator, Durbin, had also chastised the “tactic” and might have hurled a barb at Sanders for offering the single-payer amendment, which is now part of the delaying tactic. I think we need to also call Senator Demint’s office and thank him as well since he has pledged to have the entire Reid bill read. It is much larger than 767 pages, and would really reveal who these people are who are trying to take over healthcare in the USA!
December 16, 2009 at 5:12 pm
You’re right, the number of pages of the amendment as given at first by C-SPAN, which was the figure I used initially, was around half of the actual length; and yes, Sanders withdrew his amendment in a fit of rage (I turned off the sound and watched him for a minute or two before tuning him out entirely).
Senator DeMint does deserve a kind word too, I shall call his office shortly to offer it.
From what I can gather, the machinations around this bill are ramifying even as we speak; it now seems that the big unions are on the verge of rescinding their support of the Senate version, at least in its current form (whatever that may actually contain). And it was probably a bit precipitate to worry that Reid had announced that he would submit a cloture motion: I haven’t seen anything further to confirm that, fortunately. Thus–I’m breathing a sigh of relief–he does not appear to have gained the votes of the requisite sixty Senators.
And let’s hope he never does!
By the way, I noticed that the next tea-party express will commence with a big rally in … Searchlight, Nevada.
December 16, 2009 at 12:40 pm
“You betcha!”
December 16, 2009 at 12:59 pm
What I don’t understand is why we are waiting for the 2010 elections. According to this website http://www.recallourgovernment.com/ eighteen states have some form of recall election for Congressional Representatives and Senators:
Alaska
Arizona
California
Colorado
Georgia
Idaho
Kansas
Louisiana
Michigan
Minnesota
Montana
Nevada
New Jersey
North Dakota
Oregon
Rhode Island
Washington
Wisconsin
Even if a recall attempt were unsuccessful, it would put fear into the hearts of these folks who absolutely refuse to listen to their constitutents.
December 16, 2009 at 2:38 pm
Oh, so amen to this one. I’ve been thinking it for months now. Especially with regards to the “not listening” and the “why should we wait” parts.
December 16, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Absolutely agreed!
December 16, 2009 at 1:01 pm
I think at least some of them are delusional. Others think that if they repeat the same lies enough times, everyone will believe them – hey, it worked when Obama got elected. Only now everyone’s actually seen what an Obama presidency’s done – or hasn’t done – and no one likes to be told that what they’re seeing with their own eyes isn’t true.
December 16, 2009 at 1:17 pm
They are delusional. They are also always about 8 mos behind. You point something out and they will ridicule you for it, but after close to a year they finally start to catch on. They do this with absolutely everything. It’s aggravating, because by the time they finally “get it”, it’s often too late.
December 16, 2009 at 1:22 pm
It seems that Sanders’ bill now being read aloud is even longer than that, 767 pages and nearly 120,000 words long. Which means that this is going to take quite some time, overturning Reid’s preferred schedule. Apparently Coburn insisted on this in response to a cloture motion from Reid–which would suggest that he now has the requisite sixty votes. That isn’t good, of course.
December 16, 2009 at 4:33 pm
I don’t know procedure, but if Reid has 60 votes, you can be sure the MSM would have stopped life from happening to be sure that we knew about it. With this POS bill so emasculated, I know the House will reject it. But, I don’t even want it to get out of senate because I want to deny Utopia his bragging point. You know Obama wants to emphasize that he’s got his Christmas present even if it meant our heads on his silver platter. He wants to be able to say at the State of the Union address that he’s achieved this victory. We have to keep up the pressure!
December 16, 2009 at 5:28 pm
Indeed, he would kill to be able to boast of a victory during his first State of the Union address. Me, I’d prefer he undergo a Waterloo instead (DeMint dixit).
By the way, watching the C-SPAN feed, I just listened to a Senator speak whom I haven’t ever yet heard in these two weeks of floor debate, Johnson (D-SD), who spoke in such a strange halting manner that I found myself wondering whether he was drugged or inebriated or somehow mentally deficient. Did anyone else happen to see him?
December 16, 2009 at 6:13 pm
He had a brain bleed in April 2006 and had to have a lot of therapy. Wikipedia says: Though suffering from permanent brain damage, Johnson returned to work in the Senate on September 5, 2007 to both tributes and standing ovations.
December 16, 2009 at 2:04 pm
I’m not convinced 2010 will mean anything. Yes, I do expect widespread fraud, even overt and brazen fraud in places.
But also, we must remember who Obama loves and emulates. The likes of Che, Castro, and Chavez. As he becomes less and less popular, and pressure against the government by the people increases, do not be surprised if he acts more and more like an open tyrant.
December 16, 2009 at 2:17 pm
I love your blog and have been following it for almost a year now but can’t remember if I’ve ever posted. I would think that Palin has already come up with the phrase that many do identify with from all sides of the spectrum and that’s simply Common Sense. It doesn’t have to be paired with “conservative” to resonate with a large swath of the electorate considering the mess we’re in at the moment.
I mean one of the things that draws me to this blog is that you guys speak common sense even though our lives and political viewpoints are extremely different. So, I honestly do believe she’s tapped into something major significance – the simple common sense of We The People in the face of an out of control bureaucracy.
December 16, 2009 at 4:36 pm
Your description is so right on! That’s the reason why I am almost constantly logged on – we have so many common ground areas and I always respect the opinions of those around me even if they’re not consistent with mine so as long as those opinions are honest! When there is commonse sense, decency, and truth, I’m there with you. Go Hillbuzz!
December 16, 2009 at 2:20 pm
If they can’t cheat their way into re election next year (and there is a good chance they CAN) what would be our recourse should Dr. Utopia pull a Chavez?
Nothing is more disheartening than seeing Mitch McConnell as “our” spokesman. Ron Paul makes the most sense, but reminds me of Elmer Fudd. Where are the Ronald Reagans? Can’t we get ONE senator that looks the part of a leader?
December 16, 2009 at 2:37 pm
There are an awful log of cogs in the giant progressive political machine, and they are no doubt working in tandem to try to avoid a repeat of 1994. I think their plan has always been as follows:
1) Jobs, Jobs, Jobs – The government is hiring like never before. Eventually they will enact some pro-jobs policies, but they want to time it perfectly so that people are going back to work at the same time they’re going to the voting booth.
2) Economy – It’s no accident the vast majority of the stimulus package was set to be spend in 2010 and 2011. Perfect timing for infusing the economy with (borrowed) cash right before a midterm election and then a presidential election. AND, they’re still talking about another stimulus.
3) Health Care – I said it from the beginning of this Senate debate. The public option and the Medicare stuff found their way into the bill, even though Harry Reid knew they wouldn’t survive, so that moderate democrats would have something to “kill” during negotiations. This is just a political game meant to hoodwink the public. Some type of healthcare reform will be passed, and Democrats know it will never go away, and their long tail plan is to come back — probably years from now — to turn it into full-blown socialist healthcare. In the mean time, they can claim a victory WITHOUT angering all the moderates/independents who were worried about government run health care.
4) There will be casualties. Many democrats will lose their seats. The party is willing to accept that. Some of those democrats are just going to retire. That way a different democrat, without their voting record, can run and the people will not necessarily harbor the same anger towards that new candidate.
December 16, 2009 at 2:50 pm
Excellent points Eric, but I think that Americans are getting too smart for all of these ploys. Remember, in 1994 there was little access to the internet.
The internet is the game changer this time, although I still think the Dems are going to pull more ACORN bullshit at the voter polls.
December 16, 2009 at 3:57 pm
Thank you for saying this, Hillbuzz. Every time I hear people say 2010 won’t be like 94, I think, are you people crazy? Do you not see how gd MAD people are?! Their crazy makes me feel crazy. I think it’s one of two things: 1) The MSM is simply trying to take the wind out of the tea party/conservative sales and also simultaneously belittle, demean and marginalize this grassroots conservative movement, or 2) The MSM and elites are SO drastically out of touch with and, yes, delusional about mainstream American that they actually do not think this movement is real. I think it’s probably a combination of the two. Either way it amounts to the same thing: They have NO clue what is coming in 2010, and their lack of preparedness for the ass kicking we’re going to deliver will work in our favor. I feel an all out revolution brewing in this country. Thank. God.
December 16, 2009 at 4:40 pm
Kelly – great observations! I think the MSM is completely underestimating the level of discontent and anger out there. Unlike 1994, we now have much more polling and these polls are keeping each other honest. The rise of the internet, and the alternative news media also contribute to a great idea of education of the public. I’m heartened by the fact that we have a very competitive marketplace for news, and that has to frighten the MSM. They have to be concern about people doing an end-run around them to get the news out. I am hoping that this level of competition will destroy and cause a rebuilding of the so-called “MSM.” Of course, to call them “mainstream” gives the illusion that they have some control over the marketplace of news and views.
December 16, 2009 at 4:44 pm
How many more days until 2010?
December 16, 2009 at 4:52 pm
Slogan thought: Maybe “Take Back the Wheel” with nice diagrams of the Dems driving the US off a cliff?
December 16, 2009 at 4:59 pm
Well, aroused voters can rally to put a politician or a Party into power, or they can rally to put a politician or Party out of power. Or they can vote for status quo, and stay home. But for Demos and the LSM to say these days that BHO and hijacked Demo Party will not be punished severely by voters who are apoplectic concerning Demo betrayal is clearly delusional. Those alphabetic bobble-heads on the screen are as deluded as they are maliciously ignorant. They do remind me of the captain of the Titanic, who called for full speed ahead in North Atlantic iceberg territory, while the band played on, as they say.
(And I like the idea of Michelle Antoinette presiding over yet another such fabulous evening event—her last.)
Also, RINOs like John McCain (HB mentions waffling homeboy Mark Kirk) aren’t likely to fare much better as the ship of state sinks—especially if there is a reasonable alternative, such as an actual conservative. (Even corrupt Demos seem to fare better than RINOs.)
December 16, 2009 at 5:15 pm
They do have significant machination in place to game it all if they want to, and they’ll no doubt be pulling out all the stops. I guess that helps to breed a certain amount of confidence no matter what polls say.
I am just shocked by how many people I’ve come into contact with who just have their heads in the sand, and are completely unaware that it’s not just business as usual in our country. They get involved enough with a Presidential election to get “informed” at a shallow level, make their choice, then let it run on autopilot. They are oblivious to the whole underbelly of politics, and seem to believe every word Obama says in his speeches… never mind that they have little to do with what he actually does. If the MSM just keeps up the drumbeat of manufactured reality, it will be enough to keep at least these people in line.
Whoever runs in 2010 and 2012 HAS TO come up with a very clear message that raises people’s eyes to the big issues and does and end run around the ridiculous stereotypes and lies that people get caught up in about conservatism vs. liberalism… a miraculously succinct message about what’s at stake and what’s real in the big picture to “put the cookies on the lower shelf” in communicating the nature of liberty, how wealth is actually created (um, no, Obama doesn’t have a Stash or a money tree), the meaning and role of our Constitution and of government, the reality of socialism on a grand scale, etc. Too many people have come to accept the idea that the Fed. gov’t even has any business doing the things it’s increasingly doing. Being taken care of by big government sounds lovely, until you open your eyes to the fact that government is not some magnanimous, neutral being– it is people, just as prone to confusion and corruption as the people to want to control. How to communicate
December 16, 2009 at 6:22 pm
Has anyone heard Lt. Colonel Allen West speak? He’s running for Congress in District 22 in Florida (Broward & Palm Beach counties. The clip below is worth the 6 minutes to watch it and get on board.
December 16, 2009 at 7:27 pm
Just today, Dr Utopia is saying the US will go bankrupt if we don’t pass Obamacare. Delusional doesn’t even come close. How much kool-aid do you have to drink to believe this?
December 16, 2009 at 8:46 pm
The MSM doesn’t take reports of widespread voter disgust seriously because it’s largely from a non-violent, white group of people and they just can’t visualize anything like the Watts riots or the gangland killings regularly carried out by others.
They don’t believe we’re capable of physical violence and so they dismiss us. They don’t understand we don’t HAVE to resort to physical confrontation to fight and win this battle.
Passion,commitment and sheer anger will carry the day for us when it matters – at the polling booth.
December 16, 2009 at 8:47 pm
Where’s my Post?????????
December 16, 2009 at 8:48 pm
The MSM doesn’t take reports of widespread voter disgust seriously because it’s largely from a non-violent, white group of people and they just can’t visualize anything like the Watts riots or the gangland killings regularly carried out by others.
They don’t believe we’re capable of physical violence and so they dismiss us. They don’t understand we don’t HAVE to resort to physical confrontation to fight and win this battle.
Passion,commitment and sheer anger will carry the day for us when it matters – at the polling booth.
And sorry if this is a duplicate post – I couldn’t get the first one to show up.
January 11, 2010 at 6:53 pm
Beginning in November 2010, all true Americans are going to take back America from the lieing, cheating, corrupt,and inept Politians currently residing in our national government. Why do you think Barack Hussein Obama got elected POTUS? Was it because of PEGGY THE MUCHER and all the other Liberals looking for handouts. I believe in religious freedom, so I hold nothing against Barack Hussein Obama who made reference to his Muslim faith in an interview with George Stepanopolis. However, I do believe that in order to be President of the United States of America, one has to be a U.S. Citizen. Why haven’t we seen Barack’s U.S. Birth Certificate. THE ANSWER IS THAT HE DOESN’T HAVE ONE, AND SHOULDN’T BE THE POTUS!