The left in this country has made much of the big electoral victories that the Democrats won in 2006 and 2008 -- and for good reason. Not since 1977, when Jimmy Carter swept to victory along with huge Democrat majorities in the House and Senate, has there been such lopsided partisan rule in this country. With Al Franken seemingly a lock to win the Minnesota Senate seat, the Democrats are on the verge of a 60 vote "supra majority" that is virtually filibuster proof. The immediate future seems to all be swinging the left's way, and all the things that come with it are now a foregone conclusion: major health care reform, tax increases, deficit spending and a spate of intensive, restrictive environmental regulation.More at the link.
But will it last? As we know, Jimmy Carter's 1977 victory gave way in just four years to the Reagan Revolution -- and though Barack Obama is much more politically sophisticated than was Carter, a former Georgia peanut farmer who was poorly schooled in the ways of Washington, there are many similarities thus far between the two presidencies. Carter took over after a period of eight years of Republican rule and in the wake of an unpopular war and scandal; his campaign was based on a promise to "change" Washington -- to clean up government and restore the nation's image in the world. The economy he inherited was suffering from high unemployment and high inflation -- and Carter's typical "tax and spend" policies made both worse. He oversaw the expansion of government with the creation of the Departments of Energy and Education, instituted price controls and rationing on energy, oversaw the bailout of a Detroit automaker (Chrysler) and pursued Middle East Peace by promoting the cause of the Arab states over those of Israel.
Sound familiar?
But it is not a lost cause, for as Carter gave way to Reagan, Obama’s left-wing policies and programs may lead to a new conservative revolution. In fact, there are signs now from Europe that the purported "death of conservatism" has been greatly exaggerated. As the BBC reports tonight, in European Parliament elections this weekend it appears that Center-right parties have made major gains ...
Sunday, June 7, 2009
European Tea Leaves for Conservatives
From Ken Davenport, "From Europe, hope for conservatives":
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Hmmmm interesting Dr.
But I submit to you that the pattern you reveal is incomplete in that
Carter- his 911 was the hostage Crisis, along with the "malaise"...... Fail
Gave way to Reagan- Free market indulgence AND the fall of the Berlin Wall And the Fall of the Soviet Union......Pass
Bush......Desert Storm....Somalia
Incomplete and Fail
Clinton.......Scandal upon, sex scandal upon.....Decent econimic deficit reduction....but still Fail
GW.....the mother of 911 and a war of choice.....Truth revealed in results, .....Fail
which creates the latest presidential landslide.......it doesnt matter the party, the pattern now is headed for a pass....at least through the skinny man's two terms......its nothing more than stats, from that point of view.
Eventually,Obama will be compared to Reagan in that he will be considered a great communicator.
If you cant see it, its cause you dont want to.
Cheers
Eventually,Obama will be compared to Reagan in that he will be considered a great communicator.
So was the Serpent in the Garden of Eden ... at the end of the day, substance matters.
(Including the substance of Iraq as something other than Afghanistan 2.0, which is where it was already heading before we went in)
And "mother of 911?" You don't want to go there, cracker ...
Thanks Rich....
I thought that the "mother" thing didnt quite sound right there.....but you got the drift.
expand on this for me....
"So was the Serpent in the Garden of Eden ... at the end of the day, substance matters."
If I read you correctly, all your saying is "in time the results will speak for themselves" which indicates we're on the same sheet of music.
but you might be saying, "good communicators are snakes?"
I would differ on that, like most rational folks would......
This country's Rubicon will most likely be the looming government takeover of our nation's health care system.
The left doesn't care if they blow up the building to fix a hole in the roof. Like everything else with these freedom-hating Marxists, it's all about power.
Should Al Franken be seated in the Senate, it will essentially be the same thing as handing the left the keys to the abyss, as they will no-longer have to try and take the door to it down by slowly prying out the hinge pins.
Once the Imperial Federal Government manages to nationalize our health care system, which represents 1/7th of our economy, then you factor in the ongoing takeovers of the financial and mortgage industries, not to mention the rape of two of our three automakers which is well under way, and probably a private energy producer or two will be snatched up as well, this country will pretty much be irretrievably lost.
So much so that it won't much matter what happens in the voting booths in the next mid-term election.
There comes a point when a slide into totalitarianism can no-longer even be halted, much less reversed. I believe we as a nation are right on top of that point.
John Gault is somewhere penning his speech at this very moment.
-Dave
As for the Europeans apparent "shift" to the right, I wouldn't get too terribly excited over it, as they would have to move about ten miles in that direction just to get back to the political center.
-Dave
Obama calling the Iraq War a war of choice is code-speak for idiots. It reveals a lack of education on his part and the stupidity of others to echo his retarded comment.
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