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The election was a referendum on GOP failure

By: Pam On: Nov/9/06 -

Great article in the WSJ pointing out what went wrong. If we are smart, what we need to do is right there in black and white, screaming out what needs to be done to correct the situation.

  • By our count, at least eight GOP House seats fell largely due to scandal; campaign-finance ties to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff probably cost Conrad Burns his Senate seat in Montana. These columns have spent several years warning Republicans that their overspending, corrupt “earmarks” and policy drift would undermine their claim as the party of reform. On Tuesday they did.
  • The GOP “base” voted in respectable numbers, but enough of it voted for Democrats to make the difference. At 32%, the self-identified conservative share of the electorate was down only slightly from 2004 (34%), and the liberal share of 21% stayed the same. What changed is that the GOP won fewer conservative and independent votes.
  • All told, the Republicans deserved the electoral drubbing they received. Democrats will now have to prove they deserved the majority that GOP failure has handed them.

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    9 Responses to “The election was a referendum on GOP failure”

    1. Save America
      November 9, 2006 - 09:13 AM on November 9th, 2006

      Satan is in charge now. With the House and Senate both controlled by DemoRats, the Devil has achieved his short-term goal. Hillary will be the DemoRat candidate in 2008, fulfilling her pact with the Devil.

      It is a sad time for America when the Satanic-inspired leadership of the Rat party is in power. Degenerates are probably dancing in the streets celebrating the return to power of the party of trash.

      How low can they drive America down to now, culturally? That is the open question.

    2. Sasha
      November 9, 2006 - 10:11 AM on November 9th, 2006

      I think the article is dead on. The GOP has about two years to figure out what it needs to do to fix the problems.

      1. That kind of rhetoric really doesn’t help address or solve the problem, SA. If you’re talking about the biblical Satan, he’s the god of this world. He said as much to Jesus, and Jesus didn’t argue the point, so demonic takeover didn’t just happen as of 11-7-06.

      Also, given the scandals that splashed a number of House members on the GOP side, the argument can be made they weren’t playing on the side of the angels either, if you want to go there.

    3. kelf
      November 9, 2006 - 11:04 AM on November 9th, 2006

      2. Nicely said.

    4. Peejz
      November 9, 2006 - 11:19 AM on November 9th, 2006

      2- I sincerely hope they use their Christmas break to reflect on this…

      Hey, are we in the promised land yet? I loved that from Granholm:roll: This struck me as funny though: Granholm also turned the tables on DeVos by accusing him of shipping Amway jobs overseas.

      In the 1990s, faced with declining domestic sales, Amway cut its Ada work force by 1,400 jobs. Under DeVos’ leadership, the company also built a factory in China to meet that country’s requirements for selling products there. DeVos maintained that no Michigan jobs were moved to China.

      She never did address if GM would be part of those companies that she will penalize for shipping jobs oversees…How about GM in China?: China and other overseas factories accounted for more than half of GM’s total output of 9.2 million vehicles last year.
      I guess it depends on if a Union is involved?:wink:

      Let me know when we get to the promised land…

    5. Sasha
      November 9, 2006 - 11:34 AM on November 9th, 2006

      3: Thanks, Kelf.

      4: Peejz, as I look out my office window in Flint at the vast empty spaces where GM factories once stood, I can only think of one thing: In five years I’m going to be blown away.:wink:

    6. Peejz
      November 9, 2006 - 11:37 AM on November 9th, 2006

      :lol::lol:

    7. FrmrArtyOffcr
      November 9, 2006 - 11:51 PM on November 9th, 2006

      Sean Hannity read some statistics that would’ve been funny were they not accurate. They showed that a majority of Americans fell hook, line, and sinker for the Democrats as fiscal conservatives lie. They honestly felt that the Democrats would lower taxes on the middle class, spend less, and lower deficits. I guess they must have only polled people who were under the age of 32, because anyone older might actually be able to remember the history of the Democratic party before they started rewriting history.

    8. Because I'm Smarter
      November 12, 2006 - 08:36 PM on November 12th, 2006

      7 - Seriously, democrats as fiscal conservatives? Come to think of it, even the green are more fiscally conservative than Bush’s White House!

    9. Right Voices » Blog Archive » Automakers Seek Federal Help, Yet Unions Not Mentioned?
      November 14, 2006 - 08:22 AM on November 14th, 2006

      [...] Auto industry leaders plan to stress in a White House meeting that they are not seeking any federal bailout, but want support on health care and trade issues that affect large manufacturers. Keep in mind that both GM and Ford have manufacturing plants in China, and I as I pointed out, China and other overseas factories accounted for more than half of GM’s total output of 9.2 million vehicles last year. What the issue centers around is that the UAW members in this country don’t pay the weekly healthcare costs that other large companies charge their employees. In otherwords..we should pay for union members to have free insurance? I think not! [...]

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