Every thirty years or so, one party or the other takes a huge hit at the polls. The Republicans are still licking their wounds from last November and the Democrats will not soon forget the 1994 landslide the Republicans enjoyed.
But now with 24/7 news and an exploding information age, the 30 year cycles can now come every election.
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The American people are going through a change the likes of which has not been seen since the end of WWII, and those who gage that change the best will come out the other side with a huge majority of the nation’s minds.
But it looks as if the “next round” of “blow outs” will be against the Democrats and their incumbents and new candidates. The best place to watch what is shaping up as a major defeat for the Democrats in 2012 is Senate Majority Leader and five-time elected Nevada Senator, Harry Reid.
Reid has been flying below the radar in Nevada politics since the early 1960’s and is well known for his many tightly contested and close victories on his way to Majority Leader in the U.S. Senate.
But, like so much of the country, the demographics of Nevada are changing rapidly and it appears that Senator Reid’s days are numbered even though he is the senate’s leader.
Not unlike another Senate Majority Leader, South Dakota’s Tom Daschle, Reid faces an uphill climb in a state whose politics have vastly changed with the temperament of the electorate.
For instance, Senator Reid has turned a deft ear to the outcry of his state that is opposed to a public option in health care reform being debated in both houses. Yesterday, Sen. Reid declared his support for such a bill that would include that in the final draft!
Furthermore, in a state with high unemployment, he acknowledged that a plan to charge a tax on expensive health insurance plans has been changed to include family plans worth more than $23,000 per year, instead of $21,000. Those taxes and others required to fund the $6 billion public option will be collected from ALL states, including those that opt out of the plan. 
This in itself is a small reason that the tide of the American people is beginning to change since President Obama took the oath of office in January. The Democrats have become out of touch in nine short months!
As the American people begin to see more and more the inner workings of Obama’s supporters in congress, the outcry is beginning to get louder by the day.
Whether it is the Stimulus Package Bill that passed earlier t his year now floundering with little if any results (according to most economists) or the proposed energy legislation that will add billions to the cost of energy, Americans are taking a fresh look at the administration and its policies.
Reid called the opt-out plan “the fairest way to go at this stage”. Meanwhile, the senate plans to begin debating a health care package soon.
But it was only last Sunday on “60 Minutes” that the American people got an eyeful concerning the rampant waste and corruption of the Medicare system in this country. The reporter, Steve Kroft., meticulously ran through interview after interview with responsible government officials and scammers themselves providing startling graft in that 40 year-old health care system.
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Now, with little or no real educating of the public in general, the Obama Administration, in the midst of the biggest recession in 60 years, proposes a new government bureaucracy that will cost a trillion extra dollars to administer. This while Medicare is wasting billions yearly! Yet there is no outcry anywhere in congress to fix that first.
To call this lunacy and jumping the gun for the sake of being able to say they have accomplished something, this administration and its leaders are now leading America to a place that we may never return intact!
No one is debating Senator Reid or House Speaker Pelosi that there is a serious crisis in properly caring for our 300 million legal citizens, but this project has taken on a political life of its own.
This has become a debate of the right vs. the left instead of what will work and can be paid for with what we have right now!
It’s a situation that is not eluding Americans.
And one of the questions that no one on either side of the debate wants to answer for fear of losing votes is the illegal immigration problem and health care. Are American taxpayers going to be held to pay for 40 millions illegal aliens that presently live on American soil?
How can any plan or plans be voted on or passed without addressing this massive problem? Yet, the left screams “racism” if anyone even mentions illegal aliens.
The president in his now infamous “liar” speech to a joint session of congress stated in no uncertain tones that “no taxpayer money would be spent on illegal aliens for health care reform.
Apparently what our president forgot to tell Americans, as a scholar of constitutional law, is our current federal laws on illegal aliens will allow the Supreme Court to overrule any attempt to prevent illegals from taxpayer funded health care!
Americans are waking up to see the deficit three times larger than when George Bush left office. They cannot blame the ex-president anymore for the country’s woes. They are now at a point where this deficit-spending and out-of-control government encroachment is bankrupting us and creating major concern in foreign banking markets. .jpg)
Two weeks ago I wrote a column on long-time congressman Charlie Rangel, the Head of Ways and Mean in the House. His tax problems were being brushed under the rug by a willing and cooperative IRS. Well, despite that, the media and the public have caught up with his shenanigans.
Rep. Rangel, like Senator Reid, is caught in a change of America’s needs. As Rangel and Reid go, so does the rest of the Democratic candidates in 2012.
All this government spending has come home to roost with a nation suffering over 10% (in real numbers, more like 16%) unemployment. They have lost their way and are living in a world that is plump and happy.
This is not the era of President Johnson’s “Great Society” of FDR’s alphabet government programs. It is an era of reflection for many Americans. Many who have been in the same job for years are suddenly left unemployed and without their dignity. Others have been wiped out by the fall of their only real savings for retirement ….. 401Ks. .jpg)
Now is NOT the time for huge spending and social programs, but rather strict budget spending and toned back government intervention.
The Obama people do not get it. Their mission is to bring government into every facet of our lives as the savior of our downslide. From automobiles to health care, they are planning to re-distribute the wealth of our country and “standardize” everybody that lives here.
But there is one item in the way to block this rush to socialize this country. That is called the 2012 elections when the likes of Rangel and Reid will be replaced with fiscally responsible and honest politicians that the electorate demands.
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The “experiment” of “change” that the Obama campaign successfully thrust upon the voting public is officially over. That end will soon be noticed with the upcoming governor races in New Jersey and Virginia.
Only a complete about face will save the catastrophe that awaits Democrats holding on to President Obama’s threadbare coattails.
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wow...I totally trust any reporting that utilizes exclamation points but is totally devoid of any factual evidence to back its claims. Then again, who needs facts if you're living in a thought vacume?
P.S...nice moustache, dude. Wake up, it's not 1972 anymore.
As easily as you voted for these people, you can vote them OUT? Demand NO--MORE--AMNESTIES. Rebuild a two-tier Southern border fence as originally intended. TELL THEM YOU WANT PERMANENT E-VERIFY FOR EVERY WORKER, WHO’S ON A PAYROLL. STAND WITH SEN. SESSIONS. Study the corruption in every level of government at JUDICIAL WATCH. Read about unstoppable OVERPOPULATION GROWTH at CAPSWEB. Read lists of legislators are trying to push through another path to citizenship--alias AMNESTY at tinyurl.com/CIR-letter-to-POTUS. THESE CONGRESSMAN/ WOMEN WANT TO STEAL YOUR JOB AND GIVE IT TO ILLEGAL ALIENS? KEEP THEM EMBOSSED IN YOUR MEMORY AND UNSEAT THEM WHEN THEY COME FORWARD FOR RE-ELECTION.
No need for mass deportation as E-Verify will streamline removal of foreign nationals, owing to parasite businesses will be in incessant fear of being fined or sentenced to a prison term if apprehended by ICE for using illegal workers.
Ordinary American workers have become watchdogs for suspicious activity in the working environment. My blogs, comments and articles are limited in information, but keep this issue under public scrutiny. For more details of malevolent politicians who need to be constantly reminded who they work for? For immigration enforcement grading NUMBERSUSA. To light a fire under nonchalant politicians who are selling American workers futures to highest bidder contact WASHINGTON at 202-224-3121
Even the Public option if enacted in health care could be used to verify all positive recipients and over time become a very sophisticated matrix of data bases to reject ineligible applicants for government benefits.
Senate leaders are currently negotiating which amendments will be considered for the bill, and Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is trying to prevent a vote on the amendment altogether. E-Verify is becoming a significant potent weapon against illegal immigration in the ongoing battle. It has come under constant legal bombardment by a long list of open border organizations, including the US chamber of Commerce. E-Verify however remains intact, although other enforcement tools such as 287 G, has been weakened by Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano. Without millions of dollars being appropriated, E-Verify on a continuous basis can eradicate illegal labor for pennies.
Very few businesses have enforced E-Verify, because at this time there is no mandatory law, except for federal contractors/subcontractors. Sen. Sessions has at this time been the fortress against illegal immigration through the Bush and now President Obama administrations. He is determined to adjoin E-Verify as a permanent amendment to the Senate Unemployment benefit extension bill H.R.3548 for 14 weeks. In the same amendment Sen. Sessions would require new applicants for unemployment compensation to have their citizenship status verified using E-Verify. The computer software program E-Verify could also be used for identifying applicants for drivers licenses, automotive insurance, all health care benefits, real estate purchases and mortgage and of course ineligible workers.
As I perceive it the hardest place to install E-Verify, 287 G, or even directing ICE to raid employers is Sanctuary Cities and even States? CALIFORNIA seems to be the epitome of Sanctuary States, but it is estimated to be 127 cities and towns that ignore the US government. San Francisco and Los Angeles stands out as being Sanctuary cities where it's mayors Galvin Newsom and Antonio R. Villaraigosa, along with an compliment of police departments who have cultivated over the years a refuge for the impoverished illegal immigrants, illegal criminal of other countries.
Every president since 1930 lost seats in the off year election other than FDR in 1934 and GW Bush who had very small gains in the wake of 9/11. But the Democrats will be less vulnerable than is stated above. The current economy, 24 hour news cycle aside, will not be blamed on Obama as it was not blamed on FDR or even Reagan. Certainly the critical nature of the economy can and will be placed where it belongs on the door steps of the last GOP-Hoover-type GW Bush. In fact, Hoover was a much better man then Bush and just was unprepared for the challenge that the Crash brought on and what we would eventually endure. Thirty years of Reaganomics; tax cuts for the rich, unfunded wars, deregulation, record deficits,the outflow of Chimerica and Petro dollars, and terrible immigration and energy policy can't be blamed on Obama or any other successor to Bushonomics. Seven years these clowns had a chance to clean up Afghanistan, and Cheney has the nerve to be critical of Obama!
RJ Garfunkel
All of a sudden we are seeing the bailed out banks jack up interest rates, the insurance giants boosting up premiums, the Wall Street bonus packages getting larger, the threats to leave these firms if their toys are taken away are getting shriller, the Right to Lifers squealing, the border watchdogs pealing their eyes, the deficit hawks circling in the sky, and the flat-taxers are crying for more giveaways. What is wrong with this picture? Little has changed, The greed merchants of Wall Street get hungry and cannot live on multi-million dollar bonuses and the flat-earthers are worrying that God will abandon America if unregulated capitalism is harnessed in! The truth is that we are broke! Why one cries? Too much money in too few hands and whatever is left is being saved by a wary public. The economy is 80% consumer spending, and consumers are sick of $200 cabbage patch dolls and all the other worthless junk that drives the economy. Wake up and remember who got us here.
RJ Garfunkel
THROW THE BUMS OUT!!!
From what I've read, that POS Traitor, Harry Reid, he is plummeting in the polls in NV. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that NV voters finally get rid of that POS traitor. Nevada has one of the highest foreclosure and unemployment rates in the country. Plus there are people living in a tent city in Reno and people living in the storm drains behind the casinos on the LV strip. With all this going on, Reid wants to kill E-Verify and give amnesty to illegals! Please get rid of him, NV voters!
Dwight Schwab gets my "Patriot of the Week" award next week for being the first columnist I've seen to use the number "40" as in "40 million illegal aliens" in this excellent piece. Most pundits are still laboring under the mythical figure of "11 million" or "15 million". Lou Dobbs used to use the "20 million illegal aliens" statement nightly on his cable tv show, yet even he has stopped using that number. The fact is...there were two important studies done on "numbers" since 2004--the Jan. 2005 Bear Stearns Report (20 million) and the Oct. 2007 Panel Study by CAPS (38 million). Anyone in his/her right mind and who has studied the Invasion along our porous Southern Border knows that every 24 hours, between 5,000 to 10,000 foreign nationals break in. Those include pregnant Mexican women looking to "drop their anchors" to establish citizenship for their babies and make it harder for authorities to deport them. That's 1.5-3 million per year that are breaking in and most aren't going back.
Vickie, be careful "what" you pray for! The two Republicans who are running against Reid and are ahead of him in the polls are both RINOs and are in fact Open Borders fanatics. The only conservative in the race, Sharron Angle, is well down in numbers (9%) and tries talking tough on illegal immigration, but when faced with the question of removing illegals already here, she's weaker than weak.
levotb --- Thanks for the info --- that's sad news indeed. However, I suppose that the silver lining in all of this is that if Reid is indeed booted out, at least his replacement won't be senate majority leader!
Reid and Rangel would be an excellent start. Boxer must also go. I favor voting out ALL incumbents regardless of party. It's time to fire them all and start over.
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