Tuesday night my faith in the American public was restored as the results from the mid term elections were reported. In 2008, the media predicted that Obamas election and the wave of Dems elected to office, spelled the demise of the Republican Party. In 2010 we saw some revival, with a slight relapse in 2012, but now as I predicted, look what has happened to all of those Dem politicians who tied their futures to Obama, Reid, and Pelosi. Many are unemployed as of January 2015 and that's a good thing. Any way the Dems tried to spin it, it was a stunning and overwhelming victory for Republicans, who captured control of the Senate, increased their majority in the House of Representatives, won nearly all of the gubernatorial races, and drove Obama kicking and screaming into irrelevancy.
My only deep disappointment was that the Brillo haired bitch that represents my congressional district, Debby (Dummy) Wasserman-Schultz, won again. Though Joe Kaufman was a good candidate, he ran an unenthused campaign. I didn't receive one notice of an appearance or event. If the Republican National Committee wants to oust this liar and mouthpiece for Barak Obama and Nancy Pelosi, they need to invest some money for a powerful ground game. There is no reason why a dummy should get 2/3 of the vote. The Republican controlled legislature should gerrymander her district to get rid Century Village in Pembroke Pines. It consists of mostly retired New York City government workers who are controlled by the same Democrat precinct boss from New York, who moved with them to Florida. Next throw a bagel brunch at every condo in Aventura and have a debate with DWS. She won't be there as she has everything to loose from a real debate, but a slick video with all of her stupid responses and lies could serve as her answers to debate questions. Just a thought, but maybe I'll try to sell my idea to the Republican Party chairman for 2016.
Though initially trailing in many senatorial races, many Republican candidates came from behind and soundly defeated their Democrat opponent. In Virginia, the outcome will be decided by a recount as the difference is only 0.5%, but I think the incumbent Democrat John Warner, who is leading, will win. Still Ed Gillespie did a remarkable job with no national funding and trailing by almost 20% two month ago. This election cycle shows what running quality candidates can do for the party. Currently the score stands at Republicans 52 senators to 45 for the Dems. After recounts, a runoff in Louisiana, and counting the absentee ballots in Alaska the finally tally will show Republicans with a 54 to 46 majority for a net gain of nine seats. Harry Reid who had controlled the Senate and blocked all legislation that would embarrass the president will now be in the minority. Hopefully the Republicans will turn his tactics that limited debate, blocked amendments, prevented filibusters, and tied up bills from the House against him, but watch the Dems and media complain. Maybe the Senate will send the President and annual budget as it failed to do under Harry Reid.
If the House and Senate can work together, they can send one bill after another to Obama, abolishing Obamacare, eliminating huge blocks of government regulations, allowing our oil, gas, and coal industries to flourish. A smart guy, Obama isn't, would encourage Congress to eliminate the 1977 law preventing exports of oil and encourage fracking everywhere we know there is oil. We have so much oil and natural gas, that allowing exports would eliminate the deficit and significantly decrease the national debt. Since we are able to extract oil and gas more efficiently than anyone else and therefore sell it more cheaply, exports of natural gas would hurt Russia and Putin tremendously as Russia relies on the hard currency it gets from its gas and oil exports. The Russian oligarchs would be very unhappy and Putin could loose his job. Maybe Ukraine could get the Crimea back and even join NATO in some sort of deal involving natural gas shipments to Europe. Venezuela, Iran, and Qatar would also be impacted by this change in policy.
I can't finish without giving a special mention to the superstar of this uplifting election, Scott Walker, Governor of Wisconsin. He has won three elections in four years including a recall elections. Millions of outside money has been poured into the campaign to defeat him. Barak and Moochelle showed up, Billy and Hilly showed up. Labor Union contributed millions. So why was he reelected in a very blue state? He took a state that was deeply in debt reduced the size of government, eliminated wasteful spending, and produced a budget surplus that allowed him to reduce taxes. This attracted businesses to Wisconsin. He took on the teachers' and public employee unions to a level more in keeping with the private sector. The quality of education improved. His plan is a model for any state that wants to serve its people and the people of Wisconsin recognized his accomplishments.
Finally, the Republican leadership ought to come up with a thoughtful plan to get the United States economy back on track. Dare Obama to veto their bills, and if he vetoes their bills, the Democrats become the party of no, unless they, seeing what happened to their colleagues who blindly supported Obama, vote with Republicans to override his veto. Then Obama becomes totally insignificant.
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