+MSM bias – MSM bias
+Voting psych Bandwagoning – Voting Psychology (Bandwagon and other effects)

Without question ACORN will be working over-time in 2010 to try and stem any Baracklash (h/t: scarlos) and avoid Congressional “CHANGE” being any mandate against the ObamAgenda

in 1994 Republicans were relentless in throwing out policies and challenging Dems to come up with one of their own…and they didn’t…we won in 1994 for a reason…we grabbed the Democrats by the nose and kicked them in the ass all the way to election day…all I see Republicans doing now is looking up the Dems nose to find something to eat!

The Republican Party needs work in a quit claim deed and renounce any involvement or ownership in the Democrat agenda and ensure there is no ownership or occupancy of the premises once ownership of the economy is transferred to The One!

That may not please many around here (myself included), but the truth is the GOP could run on nothing more than “The Dems have screwed up!” in 2010 and do very, very well at the polls. (See: Dems in 2006…)

Historically, Gamecock is correct – there is nothing that doesn’t point to GOP gains in 2010 based simply on historical trends, and people liking divided government, alone. Add in a recession, that all signs indicate will powerfully linger into 2010 (and, personally, I predicting a ‘double dip’ recession anyway, which will be exacerbated by Obama’s policies), and everything points to the Dems going down.

Now, I can’t tell you whether that’ll be enough for the GOP to take back the House, or get is a majority of governorships next year.

Nor can I tell you whether the GOP gains will lead to any kind of productive policies.

But it’s inevitable.

All Lefties like Ornstein are doing here is laying the groundwork for the necessary ‘framing’ of why that will happen. They’re just preparing their compatriots for the inevitable.

The ugly tentacles of Leviathan are everywhere and the dumbed down education of multiculturalism and diversity and identity politics has made it almost impossible to speak common sense and reason to people.

Its a nasty cancer and its spreading fast.

For someone like me whose work directly involves government; either working for government or for a union working against the government, I well know that every word is speak and every action I take, public or private can impact my ability to make a living. We’re both retired and we can live comfortably, if not in the manner we prefer, off our retirement so we have more freedom of action than others might, but nevertheless, I know I have to be careful about what I say and who I associate with; I have enough enemies without making new ones.

Fishing here is a good example: if the Seattle big operators wield more influence over the government, the independent Alaska commercial guys get hind teat on quotas etc. If the commercial guys generally have more influence, the six-pack charter guys and the sportsfishers get hind teat. Right now I can’t take a personal use king crab in my district yet the commercial guys are free to scoop them up only a few miles away. I have to use a single hook and a single rod for halibut but Alaska Native “subsistance” users can longline them by the boat load.

On the sightseeing/whalewatching side who you know and the politics of who you know in large measure determines where you are in the pecking order of who gets trips off the cruise ships, the lifeblood of a serious charter operator. And, here too, it is a lot better for your economic health to work for DF&G than to fish or charter. Kristofferson had it right; “Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.” If you have something to lose, or something to gain, government’s pervasiveness poses real limits on your freedom.

The first “tipping point” that will be reached is the one where there simply isn’t enough tax revenue to fund all the Democrat pie in the sky programs, trasnfer payments, bailouts, stimuli, welfare state handouts, etc.

The tax rates required to support even half of Obama’s agenda will be astronomically higher than they are now – we’re talking income, payroll, & energy taxes…..maybe even a VAT.

Right now, we haven’t got the bill for Obama’s agenda. But it will come, and that’s when the backlash will occur. It won’t be just the “rich” that get hit, either.

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