More money was spent on this midterm election than any in modern history. Record amounts of cash poured in from–well we don’t really know from where. Beto O’Rourke raised over $70 million, and still lost. Obama came out of “retirement” to campaign….all his supported candidates got slammed.
Still, the left was out marching and hashtag resisting in stupid-looking hats. But, the Great Blue Wave ended up being a Blue ripple instead.
Democrats now control the House, but they actually lost seats in the Senate. They picked up just 20 seats in the House. In the 2010 midterm elections, the GOP picked up 63 seats when they took over the House.
Despite the biased news media, the bullying and the massive amount of dirty money that poured into the Democrats, real America (you know, the ones that work) rejected the Democrat narrative that anyone who didn’t agree with them was a fascist, a bigot, a racist and even a Nazi.
Americans in the heartland were not going to be bullied by elitists that feel superior only because they choose to dwell in crowded, filthy, feces and urine covered cities.
They won the House, but more importantly, they lost their ability to use shame, guilt, and fear as a weapon.
So now we get to sit back and watch as the party of Maxine Waters makes a fool of itself as it launches a million petty investigations as it tries to #RESIST the memory of the ass-kicking it took back in 2016.
Realize, Trump still has the upper house. And that is “HUGE”.
Paul Plante says
What a mockery our national government has become.
Everything that the authors of the Federalist Papers, Jemmy Madison, and Alexander Hamilton, said would not come true in America in terms of destructive combinations taking control of our national government pretty much has.
For example, in FEDERALIST No. 60, Concerning the Power of Congress to Regulate the Election of Members, from the New York Packet to the People of the State of New York by Alexander Hamilton on Tuesday, February 26, 1788, he states as follows:
There is sufficient diversity in the state of property, in the genius, manners, and habits of the people of the different parts of the Union, to occasion a material diversity of disposition in their representatives towards the different ranks and conditions in society.
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But where do we see any genius in the American people today?
We have a national government fit to be the ruler of a nation of morons and idiots, not a people of genius.
In that same paper, Hamilton posed this question, to wit:
Or, to speak in the fashionable language of the adversaries to the Constitution, will it court the elevation of the wealthy and the well-born, to the exclusion and debasement of all the rest of the society?
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That being said as we witness the most costly mid-term in our history.
In FEDERALIST No. 57, The Alleged Tendency of the New Plan to Elevate the Few at the Expense of the Many Considered in Connection with Representation, from the New York Packet to the People of the State of New York on Tuesday, February 19, 1788, either Hamilton or Madison stated thusly:
THE THIRD charge against the House of Representatives is, that it will be taken from that class of citizens which will have least sympathy with the mass of the people, and be most likely to aim at an ambitious sacrifice of the many to the aggrandizement of the few.
Of all the objections which have been framed against the federal Constitution, this is perhaps the most extraordinary.
Whilst the objection itself is levelled against a pretended oligarchy, the principle of it strikes at the very root of republican government.
The aim of every political constitution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society; and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust.
The elective mode of obtaining rulers is the characteristic policy of republican government.
The means relied on in this form of government for preventing their degeneracy are numerous and various.
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HAH! is my answer to that.
We no longer have republican government in this country, it has been replaced with a democracy, so all those safeguards are out the window with respect to the House of Representatives.
In the beginning, perhaps, back when it was republican government, the aim of the political constitution might have been to first obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society; and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust, but now, it seems to be a case of selecting for “rulers” those with the proper sexual orientation, at least among the Democrats, anyway.
And we have no way of keeping these people virtuous, because the nation itself does not see value in having as public officials those with virtue.
Virtue gets in the way of cash flow, and so, we can’t have it in America.
In that same paper, the author, whether Madison or Hamilton, stated thusly:
If it be asked, what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a particular class of the society?
I answer: the genius of the whole system; the nature of just and constitutional laws; and above all, the vigilant and manly spirit which actuates the people of America, a spirit which nourishes freedom, and in return is nourished by it.
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And again I say HAH!
How naïve they were, as can be seen in this sentence from that same Federalist Paper:
Duty, gratitude, interest, ambition itself, are the chords by which they will be bound to fidelity and sympathy with the great mass of the people.
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Not really, if anyone bothers to check on the approval rating of the United States Congress today.
Does Nancy Pelosi have a sense of duty to the American people regardless of party affiliation?
Does Nancy Pelosi feel any gratitude for the people of America, regardless of party affiliation?
Not hardly is the answer to both of those questions, which leads us to this further question from that same Federalist Paper, to wit:
What are we to say to the men who profess the most flaming zeal for republican government, yet boldly impeach the fundamental principle of it; who pretend to be champions for the right and the capacity of the people to choose their own rulers, yet maintain that they will prefer those only who will immediately and infallibly betray the trust committed to them?
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That one is simple to answer – they were right.
And here we are today, with Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats back in charge of the House of Representatives.
Isn’t insanity doing the same over and over again while expecting a different result?
Shirley Taylor says
‘Beto O’Rourke’ ???
‘The O Rourke family surname is thought to be one of the oldest in the world, originating in the 10th Century following the death of a young prince named Ruarc. The name Ruarc was a name originating with the Old Norse Hrothekr, meaning ‘famous king’ and the prefix ‘O’ signifying ‘grandson of’. It is believed that Ruarcs mother would have been a Norse woman as for 6 centuries after the name first appeared there are Norse names among the O Ruairc clan such as Lochlann, Sitric and Amhlaibh. O Rourke is the anglicized form derived from Ruairc.’
…..yet he pretends to be latino to pander their vote/support. What a trip! Sad little man.
Paul Plante says
Which has the Democrats touting him as their presidential standard bearer in 2020 as a shoo-in to beat Trump, because nobody in the Democrat party is going to question him if he tells them the O’Rourke clan really started out being Hispanic before they became Norse, and they became Norse because that is where they would go to kick *** and take names and maybe some slaves, which is what the pastime of “Viking” was all about, whether we like it or not, and a branch of the family that gives rise to that story stayed there and were mistaken for Norse, while he has the pure Hispanic bloodlines in him.
Mike Kuzma, Jr. says
Don’t hurt that Daddy in law is a Billionaire RE developer.
Yes, BILLIONAIRE.
Odd how that never got mentioned during the campaign.
Ray Otton says
I think they should go with Anthony Wiener / Eric Holder as the team to beat Trump / Pence.
Paul Plante says
Anthonys Wiener and Eric Himpton Holder, Jr. – now there is winning combination for the Democrats in m2020, alright!
I bet they win in a literal landslide.
Go Democrats!
Weiner and Holder, 2020!