Since January of this year, has it occurred to anyone as to why the Democrats are in such a hurry to push their harmful legislation through quickly? I have a theory* about this and it has to do with the realization that with their man in the White House, the current leadership of both Houses understand that they will likely lose their majority come November of 2010. They Understand that once legislation is passed, it will not only take a new Republican majority to repeal their legislation but a super majority. Let me explain…
There are 435 seats in the House and 36 of the 100 seats in the Senate that are up for grabs in 2010. In order for the Republicans to have a veto proof chance at repealing any of the current Congress’ harmful legislation the GOP will need to have 280 House seats and 66 Senate seats for the 2/3 majority required. Democrats know that it isn’t likely that the GOP can pick up the necessary super majority needed to remove their harmful legislation. So they are pushing through all this harmful legislation in record time to insure that it is in place before the current crop of liberal leaders are ousted.
Recent data collected by the Gallup Organization suggests that the vast majority of Americans are beginning to lean further to the right. This at a time when the government of the United States made a 90 degree turn to the left.
From Gallup…
Despite the results of the 2008 presidential election, Americans, by a 2-to-1 margin, say their political views in recent years have become more conservative rather than more liberal, 39% to 18%, with 42% saying they have not changed. While independents and Democrats most often say their views haven’t changed, more members of all three major partisan groups indicate that their views have shifted to the right rather than to the left.
These findings, from a June 14-17 Gallup Poll, somewhat conform to Gallup’s annual trends on Americans’ self-defined political ideology. Thus far in 2009 (from January through May), 40% of Americans call themselves conservative, up from 37% in 2007 and 2008, and the highest level since 2004.
However, the results are conspicuously incongruous with the results of the 2008 elections, in which the Democratic Party won the White House for the first time in eight years, and increased its majority control in the U.S. House and Senate. Rather than suggesting an upturn in conservatism, the elections, the tattered image of the GOP, depressed identification with the Republican Party, and President Obama’s broad popularity have many in and outside of the Republican Party wondering whether the country has outgrown the GOP’s largely conservative platform.
Conservatives currently outnumber liberals in the population, and thus, conservatism has a natural advantage on any question asking the public to choose between these standard ideological labels. So that’s part of the explanation for the incongruity.
Indeed, in the latest survey, 38% of Americans describe their political views as conservative, and among this group 58% say their views have grown more conservative in recent years. Although a large segment of liberals (42%) say they have become more liberal, far fewer Americans in the poll (18%) describe themselves as liberal — thus providing little counterweight to the rightward movement of conservatives. At the same time, political moderates are twice as likely to say they have grown more conservative as opposed to more liberal (33% vs. 18%), thus further tipping the scales in favor of conservatism.
Rasmussen’s numbers seem to concur…
Fifty-four percent (54%) of U.S. voters say the average Democrat in Congress is more liberal than they are, while 36% believe the average Republican congressman is more conservative in comparison to themselves.
But a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that when it comes to their own representative in Congress, 44% of voters say he or she is about the same as them ideologically.
Twenty-eight percent (28%) say their representative is more liberal than they are while 21% say he or she is more conservative.
Interestingly, despite big gains in last November’s election which further strengthened Democratic control over both houses of Congress, voters are more likely to say congressional Republicans have about the same views they do than Democrats – by a 33% to 26% margin.
Among the Political Class, however, 47% say the average Democrat in Congress is about the same as them ideologically, but just 21% feel that way about the average congressional Republican.
Seven-out-of-ten voters (70%)believe that Barack Obama is politically liberal.
Perhaps this mixed assessment comes as no surprise since three-out-of-four Americans (74%) trust their own judgment more than that of the average member of Congress when it comes to economic issues facing the nation. Just 18% of voters think Congress is doing a good or excellent job, while 47% rate its performance as poor.
A growing “throw the bums out” mentality is sweeping the nation. No one is happy with the performance of either party. But the distain for those on the left side of the aisle is about to increase exponentially. The American people gave Demcorats what they’ve always wanted. A clear path to implement their socialist programs. That said however, the American people are also wise enough to recognize that when those programs fail, and they will fail, the Democrats only have themselves to blame for the failings.
As Barack Obama’s agenda is implemented with SanFran Nan’s left-coast twist, the poor who will be subjected to unprecedented hardships will have no one to blame but the very people they invested their ‘hope’ in on November 4, 2008. The American voter (of all races and creeds) are fickle in that we require results. Unfortunately they voted for ‘change’ but the ‘change’ they are getting is not the ‘change’ they were promised.
Obama’s campaign ‘change’ is not the ‘change’ that is being delivered. As more and more people join the unemployment line and Congressional Democrats prepared to implement a “stealth” taxation scheme, the people who voted for them are going to notice that they’ve been played. Knowing this, what do you think the current leadership needs to do in order to…
- Get their agenda passed by any means necessary.
- Insure that their agenda isn’t repealed by the next Congress.
The first key was Barack Obama. He’s in until noon, January 20, 2013, and there is very little the American people can do about that. The second key is to pass legislation quickly. So quickly in fact that moderates within their own party as well as the Republican opposition have no opportunity to object to its passage. They do this by employing tactics like introducing 300 page amendments to bills at 3am the day of a vote so that members have no opportunity to read the bill in its entirety.
They need Obama’s veto ability in 2011-12. If he can insure that every piece of socialist legislation is securely implanted it will become permanent. The only way the GOP can undo what they are doing is to get a super majority elected in both houses come November 2010. The likelihood of that is extremely small.
And this my friends Is The Master Plan. One that is only a theory* of mine, but you have to admit, it’s probably the reality of the situation. We’ll have to wait until January of 2011 to see how this theory* of mine plays out.
So what will the GOP’s Master Plan be? They need 66 Senate Seats and 280 House seats. The Dems are ripe for the picking, but will the American voters allow them the opportunity to eliminate the damage? I guess we’ll find out on November 2, 2010.
Gribbit Reporting for YGCRadio – Ohio
Theory* – read also hypothesis, educated speculation. This definition provided for the benefit of the trolling libtards of the left side of the blogosphere.
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