First, on New England. The loss of the Republican Party there is not completely ensured. They still have Collins and Snowe. And if things keep going as they are, Rob Simmons from Connecticut will join them in the next Congress. So the party’s fortunes there are dim, but not completely put out.

Do you have a source for that 15% of voters splitting votes? I can only speak for my state, but despite the loss of national-level Republicans, we frequently split votes in this state. Republicans in my town took over a couple years ago after a couple decades of Democrat control. Our governor is Republican and maintains high approval ratings, even among Democrats.

I think you have a point about demographics, but I still think mounting numbers of scandals will trump any of that if it gets too bad.

In addition, the Democrats will be able to dominate more states. The Republican party is irrelevant in all states north of North Carolina. There are no Republican Congressmen in New England that there will soon be no Republican Congressmen from either New York or New Jersey. California, Oregon, and Washington state are also lost to Republicans.

Another problem is the number of swing voters is decreasing. Less than 15% of the voters in the U.S. will split their ballot between the two parties and that number is decreasing.

The Democrats are smart enough to know that in most states, the Democratic primary is the real elections and the general election is just a rubber stamp. The Demcoratic Party is also smart enough to know that corruption, policy failure, or bad economic conditions do not affect the voting habits of non-white voters. As the non-white voters grow as a percentage of voters, the Democratic Party leaderships knows that they will be the one, dominate party.

Boy..are we in trouble.

I’m still waiting for a chance to vote for that most elusive of minorities – a wonk.

So you want a third Clinton term?

Exactly and well said. He is whatever you want him to be. As long as his teleprompter is working. Will he be found out? Most likely but when that happens Im afraid it will be too late.

Tyranny is an easy road to walk. It involves a willing press and a complacent people. With Obama we have both.

“I have sworn . . . eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man” (Thomas Jefferson).

Those interested in current events, in politics and governing, generally fall into one of two camps. One is for preserving that which already exists, and the other is for changing that status quo we’ve endured for so long.
Last year I voted for Barack Obama twice; in both the primary of my state and in the general election. Granted, I wasn’t deeply enamored of the man. At my age one looks at their tattered posterior and realizes that believing political promises is like reclining upon a chainsaw. A painful disappointment to say the least.
A great motive for voting for Obama was Senator McCain and especially his running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin. To me, they represented a status quo that was a greased toboggan headed for the abyss. After 8 years of the Bush administration, fear and doubt were put up against the “audacity of hope” promised by the senator from Illinois.
While many have analyzed President Obama’s first 100 days, I’ve been thinking over the 20,000+ days I’ve traveled around the sun. After many mistakes and good decisions; after planned adventures and unplanned disasters, I’ve reached the conclusion that Karl Marx was sort of right about the masses. Something acts as an opiate. Marx said religion, but many things have evolved that keep the eyes of the masses wandering from that which is being done to them. Like that song from O Brother Where Art Thou?…”Go to sleep little baby”…is being sung as a lullaby to put us all back to sleep for another four years.
As during the short tenure of JFK, the Best and the Brightest have come to Washington. They have much more intellectual vigor than did the Bush people. Plus, the Democrats as a whole have become the party of answers….even for questions not being asked.
Let’s be honest, if that’s possible. Barack Obama was elected to the presidency out of hope (for a better-run government) and fear (to avoid an economic catastrophe). One could list many things he was NOT elected for. But, suddenly “mandates” take on a weird cloak of having been obvious to the voters while at the same time they were quite invisible.
To this particular voter, President Obama was sent to the White House for that hope for a better tomorrow. NOT for gay marriage. NOT to rescue a handful of greedy, spoiled, stupid, and incessantly demanding bankers. NOT to pay for the largesse to Wall St. on the backs of those whose Social Security has been daily stolen from them ever since the Greenspan Commission in 1983. NOT to completely devastate an already weakened economy by a vainglorious experiment known as “cap and trade.” NOT to provide middle class health care benefits for children on the backs of the poorest quintile of income earners in the nation.
When running for his second term in 1936, Franklin Roosevelt said in a speech, “Let it be said that in my first term the forces of greed met their match. Let it be said that in my second term they met their master.” Barack Obama is no enemy of the forces of greed. He, unlike FDR, will not be a “traitor to his class.” He is a chameleon; he appears to be whatever people think they want to see. And sadly, like many other politicians, one must not pay too much attention to his words, but his deeds.
Ms. Pelosi, and Mr.’s Waxman, Reid, Durbin, et al will succeed over time in doing more to help the fortunes of the Republican Party than anyone else. President Obama is in there with them, more concerned with the Democratic Leadership Council than the average Joe/Jane Slob who trudged down to the polls to perform that sacred duty of voting. For hope. For change. Yes, this time…this time….we can.
God help us all.

It is good to hear squeaks from Obama supporters. I do not think Obama is a bad guy. I think his party and his base are people that see the opportunity to have every thing they ever wanted right now.

I hope more of them begin to squeak. The GOP earned their beating in the polls. The Democratic mandate is not a mandate for what he is doing because none of this was proposed in the campaign. This president is turning out to be the most dishonest president we have had in a long time.

Campaign promises mean nothing because they are all turning out to be lies. The problem America has today is the MSM has turned into Obama cheering sections and the Blogshpere is way more left then it is right.

Our only hope is that the GOP can make some gains in the polls in 2010. AS I said before in my many travels I find the people whom I talk to about politics are unaware of what Obama is doing because after the election they went back to work and trusted that the guys that went to DC get it right in their stead.

The caretakers we sent to congress are bullies who are shoving around 45 percent of the nation to get their lunch money. Its the tyranny of the majority we all fear.