Reply #22: The glass is more than half empty [View All]

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I heard the same "oh you're so negative" complaints before the 2010 elections. They turned out almost exactly as I'd predicted them (I was within 5 seats of the final House total).

It's called being realistic.

Here's an ugly fact for you: Out of 34 Senate seats up this year, the Republicans need only win 11 of them to make gains in the Senate. If they capture half, they've got a solid majority. If they repeat the performance of 2010 they will have at least 60 seats!

Here's another ugly fact: The 2010 Census is going to result in a number of Congressional seats being lost in Democratic states and gained in Republican states.

And another: Thanks to the catastrophic losses in 2010, the GOP is in charge of the decentennial redistricting process in 3/4ths of the states in this country, which, due to the gerrymandering that has long become standard, will virtually guarantee the loss of another couple of dozen House seats above and beyond the Census adjustment.


That's the context.

Now let's talk about what voters want.

Voters don't like the influence of big banks and bailouts for banks and other companies. Thanks to Obama, the Democratic Party stole the mantle of bailout funder from the GOP, who properly deserved it.

Voters are watching gas and food prices skyrocket. The Democratic Party is offering no solution whatsoever to these problems.

Voters are concerned about the loss of jobs and degradation of the standard of living. In response, Obama has appointed teams of aristocrats as his economic advisors and pursued additional free trade treaties.

Voters are concerned about the offshoring of jobs and industry. In response, Obama has appointed the King of Offshoring to his economic council and went on a high-profile trade mission to India where the main topic was giving US business to India.

Voters are outraged that megacorps get away with paying no taxes, while small businesses pay the full rate. In response, Obama appointed the King of Corporate Tax Evasion to his economic council.

Voters are sick and tired of endless wars and extreme military spending. In response, Obama has started a brand new war with no public debate and done nothing to wind down the existing two.

I could go on and on and on and on and on. Any of this sound "right-wing" to you? If it does, you got a different definition of that term that I ever heard before.