Comments on: Evan Bayh Doesn’t Love Congress Anymore

By: michigan health insurance

michigan health insurance — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:57:43 +0000

Funny how if the roles were reversed and Paul had only gotten the 22% Romney garnered and Paul’s people booed Romney for winning, the est. would have STILL attacked Ron Paul and his supporters, just from another angle. Actually, I take that back. They would have wound a way to ignore his total altogether by not reporting the remaining totals. The est. is SCARED! They have been squirming now for 2 years trying to figure out how to neutralize this REAL conservative movement. They will fail.

By: Patrick Heffernan

Patrick Heffernan — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:19:56 +0000

Actually, while I approve of Mr. Gingrich’s politics, I do not approve of Mr. Gingrich, who never senses when it’s a golden opportunity to shut his mouth, and is a terribly sociopathic hypocrite, in my estimation. And I do indeed believe we Republicans will retake the House in November because of the terror they have instilled in Middle America (the “light blue” states, if you prefer, or perhaps “purple” would sum it up better) with their rapid departure from the will of the people and attempts at making the United States of America a socialist country, and evidently a 3rd World socialist country at that. Health care could use some improvement, to be certain, but not at the cost of tossing out the baby with the bathwater and indeed pulling the plug on grandma whether she consents or not.

And actually, Rebecca, since the Democrats control a majority in both houses of Congress (the antithesis of progress?) they indeed do have more seats at risk. History shows us that the president’s party loses seats in mid-term elections anyway, and I should think the Democrats are toast in November. Interestingly enough, I think it was a poll taken by CBS News in recent times that shows that a 92% of Americans want to remove their congress-critters.

If I’m to be utterly frank with you, my own senator from Texas, Ms. Hutchison, is running for governor and leaving the Senate, and I’m casting my vote for Ms. Medina and hopefully relegating Ms. Hutchison and Mr. Perry (the incumbent) to the political scrap yard. My own representative in the House, Ron Paul, is famous for loading bills with pork in committee and then voting against those bills to play both sides of the street, and he has voted to provide relief to the Katrina victims in Louisiana, but not to his own constituents in Texas after we were clobbered by Hurricane Ike. I’m sure-God voting against that maggot in the primaries, at the very least, and I may withhold my vote entirely in that race in November if he wins the primary. So I suppose I rank in that 92% of Americans who feel alienated by the people representing me in the House and Senate.

But yeah, getting back to the point, I do believe we Republicans will have control of the House after the November election cycle, and I pray we likewise take control of the Senate as well.

Patrick T. Heffernan

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:49:35 +0000

Patrick. I cannot tell if you are a Gingrich supporter or not from your comment so I will assume you are based on your other statements. I do not see though how you believe republicans will recapture either house. If they were able to claim one I am not sure why you would assume the House and not the Senate. Ohhh unless you remembered that your party has as many open seats as we do?

By: T. CHRISTOPHER

T. CHRISTOPHER — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:25:21 +0000

No problem and thank you. I will certainly return the favor…

By: LonelyConservative

LonelyConservative — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:16:05 +0000

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By: Patrick Heffernan

Patrick Heffernan — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:13:08 +0000

I think the Republicans stand the biggest chance we’re going to get at recapturing Congress, maybe even both houses, although I doubt we’ll regain the Senate. I just hope that if we retake it, we don’t flub it up like we did with the 1995 sweep. Hopefully, the lessons imparted by Newt Gingrich and his grandstanding are not lost on this generation, and we don’t empower a firebrand who will serve only to make the Democrats look better. Gingrich, I should say, deserves much of the credit for Bill Clinton’s second term. So right about now, I hope we stay the course and retake both houses.

Also, to those who want to impeach Obama the instant a majority of Republicans overtake the house, step back and consider if you really want Joe Biden in the Oval Office. Obama is at least ineffectual. I suspect if Biden was in the Oval Office, we’d already be spiraled into socialized medicine, and socialism in general. Obama wants it but doesn’t know how. Biden could achieve that nefarious end. Besides, it’s kind of fun watching Obama making an ass of himself at every opportunity, and I think America needs to learn that lesson about electing a man of his ilk to the Oval Office, and it needs to be a long, painful and bitter lesson, that this error is not repeated in two years, or six or ten. I know a number of Republicans are still angry about Nixon, and angry that the impeachment of Clinton failed (thank God, because it denied Gore a greater shot at the presidency), but this isn’t the time to avenge matters, but to wait patiently and let the BHO presidency collapse all on its own.

Patrick Heffernan