Thoughts on Tuesday’s Midterm Elections
We want to congratulate our endorsed U.S. Senate candidates on their victories Tuesday: Ben Sasse of Nebraska, Rep. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Joni Ernst of Iowa, and Dan Sullivan of Alaska.
We also want to congratulate the newest members of the U.S. House of Representatives: Mia Love of Utah, Barbara Comstock of Virginia, Evan Jenkins of West Virginia, Dave Brat of Virginia, Mike Bishop of Michigan, and Martha McSally of Arizona.
To those who came up short on Tuesday, we salute your courage for trying to help save the republic.
Some thoughts…
- On October 28th, on Fox News Channel’s Your World With Neil Cavuto, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said this about repealing Obamacare:
It would take 60 votes in the Senate. No one thinks we’re going to have 60 Republicans. And it would take a presidential signature. No one thinks we’re going to get that.
However, in July of 2012, with the prospect he might become the majority leader in January of 2013, McConnell said this:
There has been a lot of talk about reconciliation. The Chief Justice said this is a tax, and we take him at his word, so that certainly makes this eligible for reconciliation…The chief justice said (the mandate) is a tax, and taxes are clearly what we call reconcilable. That’s the kind of measure that can be pursued with 51 votes in the Senate.
Our Take: Well, which is it Senator? Do you need 60 or 51? This just goes to show that Mitch McConnell should not be the majority leader this January. Whether there are enough courageous senators to not vote for him remains to be seen, but our guess is that Senator McConnell will be the majority leader and Obamacare in its entirety or close to it will remain intact for the foreseeable future.
- Mitt Romney was on Fox News Channel Tuesday during their election coverage and was being interviewed by Bret Baier and Megyn Kelly and said this:
We’re going to repair Obamacare to the extent that we possibly can with President Obama in office…
Our Take: Mitt Romney is a very fine man personally but this just illustrates why he was probably being interviewed by the Fox News Channel on election night rather than sitting in the White House watching the results as president. The American people do not want Obamacare and do not want it fixed or repaired. Millions upon millions of people are either losing their doctor, seeing their premiums raised, or worse, losing their coverage altogether. Many are experiencing all three.
The GOP’s number one priority in the new session of Congress has to be to repeal this monstrosity of a law. Full repeal. Not keeping certain parts. President Obama will veto but so what? Let him go on record again as defending his law that is hurting so many Americans.
- Also on Fox News Channel (we wish there was another channel) during the election coverage, Karl Rove was self-congratulating himself about handpicking a few of the GOP winners.
Our Take: Where to begin? Let’s keep it simple and short. Was it not Karl Rove, the “architect”, who oversaw the Democrats take over both houses of Congress in 2006 which elevated Nancy Pelosi to Speaker of the House and Harry Reid as Senate Majority Leader? Enough said.
- Harry Reid of “This war is lost!” fame, said on election night after a crushing defeat for his party and its policies, that the American people spoke and want he and Mitch McConnell to “work together to get things done for the middle class.”
Our Take: He is delusional. The American people were fed up with the current political environment and voted as such. They do not want those they elected on Tuesday to work with the president, Harry Reid, or Nancy Pelosi. They want change. They want a reversal of our current situation which consists of low wages; high unemployment and underemployment; Obamacare preventing companies from hiring and ruining people’s lives with high premiums and cancellation of coverage; leading from behind foreign policy that has left us much weaker in the minds of both our allies and our enemies; etc. Any politician in both the upcoming lame duck session or in the new seated Congress in January who votes to further President Obama’s agenda will be on notice, not just from us, but more importantly the American people.
- And finally, a few words on the Republican leadership, assuming it stays the same (highly likely). As mentioned above, the American people do not want the Republicans to work together with the president or the Democrats. They want the opposite. If the GOP wants to stay in office for longer than one election cycle, they better start listening to their constituents or there will be more Eric Cantor-size losses in the primaries the next time around.
