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Why the Republicans won big

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The Democrats have been colossal failures in producing anything remotely like a decent governing principle. They have run against market principles since the very start of the twentieth century and have been the party of redistribution during the whole period. They were also the party of segregation which gave them a solid south until the 1970s and then became the inheritors of the various forms of ethnic vote, basing their appeal on huge welfare payments that keep millions out of any serious need to work for a living. And finally, and by no means the least of the differences, has been the Democrat role in politicising the sexual revolution, with the only freedom Democrats absolutely stand for is the right to have sexual relations without any state restrictions. Combined with no-fault divorce, it is the policy of full sexual irresponsibility with no serious commitment required.

The result is a constituency with no core set of beliefs but which manages to pull together winning coalitions during elections as much as it ruins the nation. The actual indifference of Democrats to the welfare of those who vote for it is hidden behind a pretence of concern. But who cares? Just pass over the loot.

Obama was the epitome of all of this, and reliably. The left expects its leaders to lie about things that would cost too many votes to say out loud so they understood exactly what Obama really stood for.

But then there was the Obola virus and all was blown away.

It was not so much the probability of an epidemic which was small, but the sheer negligence finally got to people. It’s one thing to get an Obamaphone, it is quite another to have your life put at risk by a lackadaisical approach to public health. Everyone could personalise the problem. No one could be certain that they were safe. And they wanted the government to do everything in its power to reduce the risk.

But while the issue is ephemeral, the possibility that the change is indelible is genuine. You can depend on the Democrats to keep you poor, exploited and ground down by circumstance. They not only cause these problems, they benefit from the problems they cause and make worse. People are beginning to understand.

We shall see. But the death of the welfarist policies that are sinking the US is an outcome surely to be hoped for. It turns out that the greatest danger to any politician is to have Obama on your side (see Morsi for Exhibit A). He is the worst carrier of the Obola virus which hopefully is now under control, being eradicated and quarantined to a few large-city locations on the east and west coast of the US.

The damage a president can do especially if that’s his aim

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From Scott Johnson at Powerline, HOW TO UNDERSTAND OBAMA’S IRAN DIPLOMACY.

I think the easiest way to understand Obama’s diplomacy is this. Assume that Obama believes Iran should have nuclear weapons and would like to facilitate the mullahs’ nuclear weapons program. This assumption is the Occam’s Razor that clarifies what might otherwise be obscure. The assumption may not be correct, but it should prove a handy guide to coming attractions.

It is the same for every policy. If you think of Obama’s aim as harming the white American middle class, and doing as much damage as possible to American foreign policy interests, you will never go wrong in guessing what he will try to achieve. There are plenty of obstacles so he cannot do anything he wants, but he does as much as he can. The American people elected their bitterest enemy to the White House, and as obvious as it is, no one in public life will say so loudly and clearly. Is it respect for the presidency, uncertainty about Obama’s actual motives or fear of exposing just how damaging a presidential system can be?

Defending the defensible

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Here some lunatic defends General Pinochet in public. Well we all know what sort of person he must be. But what caught my eye were these two comments. The first one about the present:

But just to see how bad things have gotten in Chile: The Communist Party is back in power, and the Justice system keeps in jail veteran soldiers of the fight against the insurgents. To do this, the “Justice” system simply ignores an Amnesty Law form 1978 still valid and which covered both military and insurgents. And it also created out of thin air the category of “permanent hijacking”, for the disappeared during the regime. According to this, the old men languishing in jail still keep those disappeared who knows where. To these soldiers no benefit is given: they will stay in jail until they die. And there is a movement to put them in prison wih the general population, strip them of their ranks and their pensions. The revenge of the left is relentless. Right now, a judge is investigating the murder, in an encounter with police and secret service agents, of the head of the terrorist organization MIR in October 1974. He is accusing the agents of murder. It would be like bringing murder charges against the Navy Team that killed Osama Bin Laden. The main erson accused of so “dastardly” deed of ridding the wortld of this scum, is an officer of the army who has Russian roots, Miguel Krasnoff. Meanwhile, the head of the Communist Party, who plotted an assasination attempt against Pinochet in which several of his gurads were killed, and for which he is very proud, was recently cleared of any charges when a group of the widows of such guards brought forward an accusation. The judges applied of course the statutes of limitation, something the brave men who fought the communist takeover are being denied.

And then a reminder about the past:

What people don’t know: the socialist Allende won with a minority of votes, because the majority vote was split between the two conservative candidates. (There was no second round at that time.) Allende illegally took private industries for his own people to control, ruining the country’s economy. People even lacked food, thus the “pots and pans” march of middle-class women (which feminists hate, and never mention). Demonstrators in the cities were viciously attacked by communist gangs. Shopkeepers were attacked, the people terrorized to pacify them – the usual preparations for a communist takeover. When the communists (most of them non-Whites) were sentenced and imprisoned, Allende illegally let them out in the streets again. Thousands of times. The communist party trained guerrilla warfare in Cuba, and Cuban advisors, guns, ammo and explosives were smuggled in to Chile. It is known that people in the top of the government facilitated this – perhaps Allende himself. Finally the Senate and the Supreme Court formally asked the military to remove the president, listing his many crimes in a long letter. General Pinochet carried out their request. The communist takeover was stopped. (Sometimes brutally? Yes, it’s South America. And the communists had terrorized the people for years.) Allende committed suicide with his Soviet-made Kalashnikov. Pinochet let a Nobel Prize-winning economist fix the economy. Under Pinochet, Chile prospered and continued to do so after him. He promised to only rule for a while and then step aside for democracy – which is exactly what he did. Most Chileans LOVE Pinochet. Something the media hide from Westerners. The media and other leftists wanted Chile to become another communist dictatorship. The Chileans disagreed.

Around the same time we had our own take down of the Prime Minister via the Governor-General. All very constitutional here but the downside wasn’t quite in Allende territory either. And if you are interested in the kind of destructive potential an Allende has, just have a look at Venezuela right now.

Picked up at Captain Capitalism

Map of House Districts in the 114th Congress

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Here’s the lower chamber of the 114th Congress, in vivid color.

And I think Rush Limbaugh is absolutely right:

The results do not mean that voters want Republicans to govern. The election does also not mean that the country’s become conservative. It can’t be said that there was an ideological component to the mandate, because the Republicans did not run on ideology. The Republicans ran everywhere to stop Obama, and that’s what the mandate is. Now, whether they want to accept the mandate or not, that’s another question. . . .

The country’s depressed because of Democrats. The country is out of work because of Democrats. The country is feeling aimless because of Democrats. The country is not optimistic about its future because of Democrats! There is no way the vote yesterday was a signal to work with them. They have had six years of unstoppable destruction, and the American people — and I, by the way — want it stopped.

Sarah Palin spells it out

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The Republicans didn’t win, the Democrats lost. Now the aim must be to legislate like you mean it. Sarah Palin: It wasn’t a vote for the GOP

Sarah Palin took to Facebook early Wednesday morning to caution jubilant Republicans that voters cast ballots against Washington dysfunction, not necessarily for the GOP.

“The Democrats got mauled today, deservedly so,” Palin writes. “To prohibit that from happening to the GOP in 2016, it must learn the lesson from the last time Republicans held the Senate majority.”

She continued, “This time they must not retreat, and it’s our responsibility to hold them accountable.”

While Palin congratulated the winners and said that the midterm elections sent a message to President Barack Obama that was “undeniably received,” the former Alaskan governor and vice presidential candidate noted that Americans were voting against D.C, not for Republicans.

“Now, new Republican Congressional majority in the House and Senate, please realize that Americans were not necessarily voting FOR any party; they were voting AGAINST the continued dysfunction and corruption in D.C.,” her Facebook post reads. “We the People were saying ‘enough is enough’ to the scandals, crony capitalism, and utter lack of leadership in Washington.”

The green carding of America

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Obama cares not in the slightest about anyone else or who he harms in getting his agenda through, and this applies to the Democrats as much as anyone else. His next act of sabotage will be the issuing of 34 million green cards to illegal aliens, some already in the US and others still to come.

The only mystery I find about Obama is that anyone finds him a mystery. He has been as transparent as a sheet of glass and has been from the first moment he came into view. He is still to some extent constrained by politics and the American constitution but not by much. He has ruined the medical system, subverted the economy, ground down America’s national defence (and therefore ours as well), and is now flooding the country with millions who may never assimilate. Not much more he really could have been expected to do if his mission was to undermine the United States and the West in general.

His personal motivations are somewhat obscure but only slightly. It is either the psychological damage of his early upbringing that has left him a seething mass of hatreds, or his ideological far left cast of mind that was formed at the hands of Frank Marshall, Saul Alinsky and Bill Ayers. Some combination of the two is most likely. But the end result is an America that will never be the same as it was in 2008.

He is a political con man whose great pleasure is to laugh at those who support him as the stupid fools he perfectly well understands them to be.

The Mid-Term Elections in the US

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While we sleep, the United States votes. Come morning we will find out how far the Dems have fallen and whether they had managed to fall far enough for the Republicans to hold a majority in the Senate to go along with their majority in the House. To keep up with the results, there is Real Clear Politics to keep you up to date.

In the meantime, you can commiserate with Mark Steyn’s reflections on Election Day.

YOU CAN ALSO FOLLOW THE ELECTION HERE: There is also a live feed from PJ Media.

HOW IT’S GONE: Republicans Surge to Control of Senate.

Riding a powerful wave of voter discontent, resurgent Republicans captured control of the Senate and tightened their grip on the House Tuesday night in elections certain to complicate President Barack Obama’s final two years in office. . . .

A shift in control of the Senate will likely result in a strong GOP assault on budget deficits, additional pressure on Democrats to accept sweeping changes to the health care law that stands as Obama’s signal domestic accomplishment and a bid to reduce federal regulations.

Obama’s ability to win confirmation for lifetime Supreme Court and other judicial appointments could also suffer.

It’s the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of an even numbered year

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The US is falling apart in so many ways that if it had an even relatively unbiased media, the ruling party would be completely routed. But when the votes are all finally counted, the president will still be president and it is only one-third of the Senate up for election. There is the possibility that the Republicans will end up with a 51-49 majority in the Senate, for all the difference that will make. But to do that seven Senate seats will have to turn, not impossible but still improbable, especially with the inbuilt voter fraud that is part of the Democrat MO. The front page at Drudge has it as kind of odds on but we will know tomorrow:

WASH POST: 96% CHANCE
CNN 95%
NYT: 70%

And while the past is prelude, the biggest issue is the one hardly mentioned, Obama’s plans to order 34 MILLION green cards for illegal immigration ‘amnesty’ is ‘confirmation of the crisis facing our Republic,’ claim GOP lawmakers. The story is from The Daily Mail, an issue barely mentioned by the American press. Of course, it’s not an announced policy. The US is already a different place from the one I once knew. This would make it unrecognisable.

Obama aims to be the most transformative president in history. Having a Republican House and a bare majority in the Senate will not stop him from doing what he has set himself to do. No more elections for him after this, but how much will it really matter by then?

US Congressional elections

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Of course in this country Romney was 6% so a voice of authority he is not. Yet his common sense comes across every time he speaks, as it did in 2012. So now the elections for Congress and one-third of the Senate are a salvage operation. For us it’s Melbourne Cup but for them its an even more important race. This is Romney trying to get the 53% to finally start to do what needs to be done. But what is most interesting about this article is not what Romney said but the comments that come after which now number around 2500!

Mitt Romney predicted on Sunday that a Republican Senate would break through congressional gridlock and pass legislation on immigration reform and trade.

Appearing on “Fox News Sunday,” the former Massachusetts governor and 2012 Republican presidential nominee warned that President Barack Obama would move after Tuesday’s midterm elections toward “amnesty” on immigration reform, a reference to the White House’s decision to delay executive action on immigration until after the elections. But Romney said a Republican Congress would pass a more conservative immigration bill focused on border security that the president would sign.

“You’re going to see a provision, first of all, to secure the border,” Romney said. “Second of all, to deal with those who come here illegally. And third, to make sure our immigration policies are more open and transparent. … That’s going to happen. You’re going to see a bill actually reach the desk of the president if we finally have someone besides Harry Reid sitting in the Senate. So, we’re going to get it done.”

UPDATE: I thought I’d put in a video of Mitt Romney speaking in the last few days just to add to the colour of the post but try finding something recent on Romney that is also positive. Not easy although also obviously not impossible.

Your vote is sacred, unless you vote Republican

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The video is of another instance from the story quoted here, but the story is just the same: Voting machine casts candidate’s vote for his Dem opponent.

Admitting his confidence in Cook County ballot integrity is shaken, State Representative Candidate Jim Moynihan (R-56), was shocked today when he tried to cast a vote for himself and the voting machine cast it for his opponent instead.

voteballotbox“While early voting at the Schaumburg Public Library today, I tried to cast a vote for myself and instead it cast the vote for my opponent,” said Moynihan. “You could imagine my surprise as the same thing happened with a number of races when I tried to vote for a Republican and the machine registered a vote for a Democrat.”

While using a touch screen voting machine in Schaumburg, Moynihan voted for several races on the ballot, only to find that whenever he voted for a Republican candidate, the machine registered the vote for a Democrat in the same race. He notified the election judge at his polling place and demonstrated that it continued to cast a vote for the opposing candidate’s party. Moynihan was eventually allowed to vote for Republican candidates, including his own race. It is unknown if the machine in question (#008958) has been removed from service or is still in operation.

You will not be surprised to find that this is not a story on the front page of the New York Times. There are so many scandals within the American political system that it is impossible to keep up.