Today I got another fishy propaganda letter from Obama’s machine. I’m still not sure how they got my email address. Anyway—-it ranked right up there with Baghdad Bob’s PR. You all remember when we’d see the tv wall to wall with leveling Iraq——and then Baghdad Bob would get on the air and contradict everything our military spokesmen would say. Well, that’s what the Obama letter sounded like—-they’re winning, happy, doing great, etc, etc. horse hockey! But, I don’t think the Dems will accept the reality of their situation. I think they’ll fight to the bitter end to jam thru anything they can—-because they have such arrogance about having the majority.

I’m coming back from where you are going.

There political behavior is irrational. And they really, really don’t see what is so obvious to everyone else.

In addition to being irrational, they are committing the cardinal sin of politics: they actually believe their own propaganda.

I keep up with Cook Political Report as a baseline for where the GOP really stands in the congressional races. I like to stick to conservative estimates of potential House pickups, not wanting to count unhatched chickens and so forth; therefore — being that Charlie Cook IS a partisan Democrat — I figure that any district HE says is in play for the GOP is most definitely a serious race.

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve seen Cook move an amazing number of Democrat seats into “in play” status, seats I don’t recall ever being in serious trouble for the Dems in a decade or longer, if ever: Brian Baird in WA-3; Rick Boucher in VA-9; Dennis Cardoza in CA-18; Bart Gordon in TN-6; Allen Boyd in FL-2, to name but a few.

(Keep in mind Charlie is the guy who waited till mid-summer to grudgingly move the New Jersey governor’s race from “Solid D” to “Toss-Up”.)

The Democrats are not likely to lose much more than the average that the party in power loses in mid term elections.

They still have enormous built in advantages. Consider, they will get all of the re-energized union vote, All of the black vote, Acorn and other organizations have been given millions in stimulus money to canvass for Democrats, They still have most of the media in their pocket. My prediction is maybe 20 house seats change for the Republicans and they MIGHT pick up one net Senate seat, but might actually lose a seat due to so many retiring GOP senators.

I have a nagging little voice that refuses to accept that the Obama/Pelosi/Reid etal, cabal of the left is going to quietly suffer **any** erosion of their power.
Not sure how, but some ‘crisis’ or other will suddenly demand a well planned and heavy handed response by entrenched powers.
As noted earlier, the left has come to believe their own propaganda, including a completely false belief that a majority of Americans really want the crap they’re selling.

It’s more than a year out and within that time, Obama and Democrats in the House and Senate are going to be funneling massive amounts of tax payer dollars into the unions, ACORN, MoveOn and other liberal/Democratic front groups.

And let’s not forget the media.

Already, news networks are testing the waters to see if they can get away with giving blatantly refusing to run ads and campaign messages that contradict Obama and Democratic Party talking points. This is in addition to the planned October Surprises and not to mention the new practice of Democratic Prosecutors and DAs bringing trumped-up charges against Republican incumbents just around Election time.

In other words, the Democrats have massive inbuilt advantages, not least of which is elected Republicans’ penchant for self-sabotage at the worst possible moments.

So let’s not get cocky, or start saying nonsense like “Stick a fork in him – he’s done …” {NOTE: I will urge the big dogs to blam with extreme prejudice anyone who uses that phrase.} It’s way too far out and if a week is a long time in politics, what is a year?

out of a complete disaster.

But I have seen this before, after HillaryCare, and when both Cook and Sabato are in agreement, and the Democrats show absolutely no sign of changing anything they are doing — they keep doing the same thing, the Obamacare cram down, they will reap the whirl wind.

and Republicans are not. That should be remembered. Reaching out, honorable, newtoneian Republicans may yet win the day for Barak.

I already see a health care trojan horse that could leave us with a public option while nobody’s looking. This talk of a “trigger” that would enact a public option seems less of a face-saving measure to give the Democrats a way back from the brink than it is a way to let Barak impose a public option unilaterally when he judges that insurance companies haven’t lived up to the terms of the trigger. Any bets on how liberally he’ll interpret the imposition of that “trigger?” Nobody seems concerned about this. Even Charles Krauthammer last night on Special Report seemed to think this is not big deal. This could be just the way to open the door to socialism while conservatives are caught napping.

Obama’s also starting to rise in the polls again. His summer drop may be over. If he tilts his head thoughtfully to one side and utters enough banalities to Congress, he might be riding high once again in no time.

The economy could turn around just in time for the middterms, and Barak might claim all the credit for it.

There is lots and lots to be scared of out there. The danger isn’t over by a long shot.

thanks to the 2003 tax cuts– Bush tax cuts— and they’ll expire in time and the effects will be felt for the presidential election.

The trick is to turn “Obama” into a five letter name like he made Bush’s name a four letter word.
So what would do that? Green jobs = what jobs?
Jobs saved = derisive laughter
Cap and Trade = AB32 California’s green mandate that made the unemployment rate in CA go up well over 10%while the national
Czars= people who couldn’t get green jobs and Obama bailed them out
Obama/Pelosi/Reid = anti bipartisans
Cash for clunkers = depressed car sales and death mobiles for the next three years
Stimulus bill right away = just before the 2010 elections

Nothing would please me more, politically, than to see Pelosi hand over her gavel.

Of course, they would have to pry it from her bony, witch-like fingers, and probably end up tazing her to get it. (Something else that would be pleasing to see. The question would then be, can her face show the shock, after all that work?)

It would be almost an UFC pay-per-view event! Boehner rolling around the the ground with Pelosi throwing elbows at her head, while she is trying to gouge is eyes out. “Give me that!” “No, I’m queen.”
“Give it to me!” “No, you go to h**l you over tanned metro-sexual! And quit biting me!”

Dems must be getting desperate in bluesome New York if Eliot, Spitzer, the star of Whoretergate is thinking about running statewide.

going to be Wednesday’s primetime joint session of Congress speech? Honestly, this speech couldn’t have come at a worse time in his presidency, unemployment numbers just came out and they’re bad and he’s speaking to school children the day before, which has some parents teed off. In addition, because of the two mentioned factors above I believe his approval numbers are bound to take another hit. This is the lead in to his “big speech” on Wednesday to “cure” the economic woes and “restore” the nation’s integrity. Is it just me or do I sound crazy, when I think people facing tough times aren’t going to appreciate this president addressing us, telling us to sacrifice and allow the government to spend more money that we don’t have? Ladies and Gentlemen, this is the “Malaise” speech on steroids.

going to be Wednesday’s primetime joint session of Congress speech? Honestly, this speech couldn’t have come at a worse time in his presidency, unemployment numbers just came out and they’re bad and he’s speaking to school children the day before, which has some parents teed off. In addition, because of the two mentioned factors above I believe his approval numbers are bound to take another hit. This is the lead in to his “big speech” on Wednesday to “cure” the economic woes and “restore” the nation’s integrity. Is it just me or do I sound crazy, when I think people facing tough times aren’t going to appreciate this president addressing us, telling us to sacrifice and allow the government to spend more money that we don’t have? Ladies and Gentlemen, this is the “Malaise” speech on steroids.

Cook is making a fundamental error. He is assuming that because the Democrats are acting arrogantly to cram unacceptable values down the throats of the vast majority of the population they will lose political control. Wrong. The census is centered in Rahm’s office and will be manned by Acorn and similar cronies – allowing the manufacture of seats. The borders are open and Amnesty is certain to occur – they have already to count illegals as equal to legals in the census – delivering tens of millions of compliant votes. By using his Trojan Horse system to nationalize the healthcare system Obama can reduce doctors, nurses, technicians – 15% of the working population – to be dependent on the government and the Democrats for their livelihood, the same electoral servitude as teachers and postal workers already experience. This is not about losing power in a democratic election, it is about ending democracy and establishing a permanent Democratic Party control. Period. End of story. End of America.

Like many of you, I never thought Americans would fall for Obama’s shtick. But, some did. Then again, on inauguration day, if anyone would have told me that over 1 million Americans would march on the capital to protest his policies 8 months later, I would have recommended urinalysis.

I’m so proud of my fellow countrymen! If we can keep it up, I think we can save our Republic.