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Old 01-26-2010, 06:31 PM
 
Location: San Diego, CA
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Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.

Our brethern of the southpaw persuasion seem to be working full-time on new ways to prove that tried-and-true saying.

The last time Democrats tried and failed to take over the entire Health Care industry, the voters remembered, and in the following year's election (1994) the American people tossed the Democrats out of every majority in the Federal government, and most states to boot. Stunned pundits groped for reasons why this could have happened, their search hampered by their inability to admit the truth that was in front of their faces: The American people don't like the Democrat politicians' government-uber-alles policies. Several Democrat pundits blamed the Congressional reversal instead on voter stupidity, voter immaturity, and generally on an electorate that should be lectured, not listened to.

Fast forward fifteen years or so. Democrats have once again tried, and likely failed, to take over the entire Health Care industry of the country. Voters are showing signs of remembering once again, and have kicked Democrats out in three state elections already, a harbinger of a possibly-major reversal in the next Congressional elections to follow the Dems' repeated attempt.

And sure enough, various Democrat pundits are blaming the reversals on... you guessed it... voter stupidity, voter immaturity, and an electorate that is dumb as a flock of dodos. As usual, you'll never see a single Democrat even admitting to the possibility that there might be something wrong with their government-uber-alles agenda. No, the voters are just too stupid, and must be taken firmly in hand and have government control forced on them whether they like it or not.

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Opinion & Commentary - Wall Street Journal - WSJ.com

Barack Obama, the Angry Left and the politics of intellectual contempt.

from "Best of the Web Today"
by JAMES TARANTO
Jan. 27, 2010

Last week Boston Globe columnist Renee Loth described the election of Scott Brown as "a collective primal scream." It's an old trope, reminiscent of the late Peter Jennings's classic declaration after the 1994 election:

Ask parents of any 2-year-old and they can tell you about those temper tantrums: the stomping feet, the rolling eyes, the screaming.


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Old 01-27-2010, 10:25 AM
 
Location: San Diego, CA
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What are the chances that the Dems will also duplicate the results of the 1994 Congressional elections, this November?

One vital ingredient that isn't in place yet: A unifying Republican issue. In 1994 it was the "Contract with America", where Republicans got together and promised that, if they were put into the majority in the House, they would pry 10 (or was it 12?) bills out of committee where Democrats had kept them bottled up, and bring them to the House floor for a vote.

They made no guarantees how the vote would come out, only that they would finally be voted on; and they pointed this out in advance.

They did get the majority, and this became a rare instance where a bunch of politicians actually kept their word. All formerly-bottled-up bills got voted on, and IIRC all but one passed. Most even got passed by the (now-Republican-majority) Senate, and many were signed into law by Bill Clinton, who faced a difficult election in 1996.

No one has organized such an effort yet for Republicans this year. But in 1994, the effort wasn't put together until mid-1994. I wonder what/if they are planning.....
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