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Friday November 5, 2010


Newsbytes – US Mid-Term Election

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Obama Tells 60 Minutes: It’s not Policies That Were Rejected, It was Failed Communication Skills

https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2010/11/05/obama-acknowledges-failures-says-leadership-isnt-just-legislation/

The GOP’s Real Challenge

the latest national debt figures may portend unforeseen problems for the party’s future electoral prospects.

https://frontpagemag.com/2010/10/28/the-gops-real-challenge/

The Ephemeral Nature of Political Power By Philip Klein

Barack Obama went from hero to goat in two years. What does that teach conservatives? No matter how popular one party is, they could be only one election away from embarrassing defeat. No matter how badly one party is defeated, they could be on the verge of a historic comeback.

The GOP will have to decide whether they will act boldly and truly attempt to rein in government while they have the chance, or play it safe. In this sense, the true test of the Tea Party movement will be whether it can successfully pressure Republicans to actually govern as conservatives once in power.

https://spectator.org/archives/2010/11/03/the-ephemeral-nature-of-politi

Now We Know…The Shape of Things to Come

Now that the elections are over, will the Republicans go back to their old ways and be just as bad as they were before? The traditional equation has changed, and the Teapartiers have a lock on them.

https://townhall.com/columnists/RossMackenzie/2010/11/04/now_we_knowthe_shape_of_things_to_come

The Midterms: Lessons Learned and the Way Forward by Sarah Palin

Have an intelligent message, and fight for your right to be heard. The 2012 story should be about conservatives in Congress cutting government down to size and rolling back the spending, and the Left doing everything in its power to prevent these necessary reforms from happening.

https://www.nationalreview.com/articles/252477/midterms-lessons-learned-and-way-forward-mike-potemra?page=2

Now Here’s What’s Next By Peter Ferrara

The first implication of what happened yesterday is that President Obama has lost control of the Democrat party. This opens enormous opportunities for conservatives and Republicans. One of those opportunities is on the budget, where President Obama also lost control yesterday. Much more difficult will be repealing Obamacare. Republicans here should move to enact in one ideal bill repeal of the Obamacare policy atrocity, and replacement of it with the Patient Power alternatives, which would be quite popular.

https://spectator.org/archives/2010/11/03/now-heres-whats-next

Record 106 gay candidates elected in 2010

A record number of openly LGBT candidates have been elected to public office in 2010, according to the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund. In Lexington, Kentucky, openly gay construction company executive Jim Gray won election as mayor.

https://www.dallasvoice.com/record-106-gay-candidates-elected-2010-1050822.html

Progressives Increase Their Power Over Obama By Cliff Kincaid

The electoral “shellacking” he talks about came mostly at the expense of the moderate and conservative elements of the party. He never cared about them. The progressive victories virtually guarantee that Obama, despite his conciliatory talk at his news conference on Wednesday, will not compromise with the House Republican majority. He will instead count on his base and their media allies to put pressure on the GOP to compromise with their leftist agenda or else be branded as obstructionists.

If Obama compromises with the Republicans, he risks the wrath of the more powerful Progressive Caucus, which is where his heart lies anyway. So this may be the game plan: create the impression that the Republicans are really in charge and hold them responsible for whatever results from Washington policy-making. You can see it now: Republicans being blamed in the media for taking benefits away from people with real needs. The GOP will be depicted as the front men for greedy insurance companies

https://www.gopusa.com/commentary/2010/11/kincaid-progressives-increase-their-power-over-obama.php

Tuesday’s Election Was a Vote to Bring the 19th Century to an End By J.R. Dunn

The 19th century was the nursery for contemporary politics. Every form of modern political activity — fascism, communism, socialism, liberalism — has its roots in that epoch. Most leaders of the modern era were political rationalists: Lenin, Mussolini, Woodrow Wilson, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, Clement Atlee, FDR, Lyndon Johnson, Harold Wilson, all the way down to Mr. Barack Obama, who lives in Washington in a building called the “White House.” Whether communist, fascist, progressive, socialist, or liberal, all believed in the tenets of rationalism.

Rationalist political systems are the equivalent of natural catastrophes such as plague, earthquake, or an asteroid strike. It was this that American voters rejected at the polls Tuesday. The peasants will be driven no farther. This week, they voted an entire worldview dead. The process will require years. But the old, failed paradigm has been given a death blow. Now if we can only get the GOP to let go of the 1950s.

https://www.americanthinker.com/2010/11/tuesdays_election_was_a_vote_t.html

A Broad-Based Conservative Victory By Janice Shaw Crouse

When words like “huge” or “massive” don’t seem big enough to describe the scale of the conservative victories of the midterm election of 2010, the pundits reach for words like “tsunami” and “hurricane.”

We heard little about the “social conservative” issues, and the general consensus was that they were irrelevant in the 2010 election. However, the pro-life victories were outstanding. It was an especially good night for the Susan B. Anthony List — fourteen pro-abortion candidates were defeated — and a great victory for Americans United for Life, with the defeat of eleven of their twelve targeted pro-abortion candidates. My own organization, Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee, noted six new pro-life women in Congress whom we endorsed.

Yes, the deficit must be addressed, and conservatives are at the forefront of the outcry against the unconscionable out-of-control spending, horrendous debt, and a record-breaking, mountainous deficit. Many of those fiscal conservatives are also conservative evangelicals who are strongly pro-life, pro-marriage, and pro-family. They compose more than half of the Tea Party, and they voted to see change in the moral and spiritual direction of America.

https://www.americanthinker.com/2010/11/a_broadbased_conservative_vict.html

Poll: Evangelicals and Mass-Attending Catholics Helped Sweep Democrats from Office

A post-election survey commissioned by the pro-family Faith and Freedom Coalition showed that the largest voting constituency in the midterm elections was conservative Christians.

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/poll-evangelicals-and-mass-attending-cat

Memo to White House: Lawyer up

Veterans of the contentious battles of the Clinton administration warn that the Obama White House is entirely unprepared for the level of scrutiny it is about to experience.

https://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/44709.html

New House Judiciary Chairman to Obama: Prepare for Investigations

“Part of that checks and balances is in fact holding the administration accountable, is in fact insisting on more transparency, is insisting on more honesty, and getting the facts,” Smith said. “Right now, because of the one party monopoly, the Administration has been able to dodge any kind of supervision, any kind of oversight committee action, and they refuse to testify, and that is no longer acceptable.”

https://radio.woai.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=119078&article=7797170

Well-known conservative TV and radio host isn’t happy about the newly elected Republican senator in Illinois.

Voters in the “Land of Lincoln” may have elected a Republican to the Senate seat that was once occupied by President Obama, but Illinois native and longtime radio personality Sandy Rios decides it is “bittersweet” and “not very good news” because “Mark Kirk is actually quite liberal.”

Kirk, she explains, “is a sponsor of the hate crimes bill; he is in favor of ENDA, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act; he voted for cap and trade; [and] he is an abortion rights advocate, including support of partial-birth abortion.”

Rios adds that Kirk was handpicked by Senator John McCain (R-Arizona).She believes Tuesday’s outcome in this particular Illinois race provides a prime example why people should not always vote for a candidate based on his or her party affiliation. It really isn’t about the party; it is about the principles,” the conservative host explains.

https://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=1224320

Bauer: Conservatives looking for a ‘fighter’ for 2012

A conservative activist and former presidential candidate says he wouldn’t be surprised if New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will be a serious candidate to challenge Barack Obama in 2012.

https://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=1223716

BIG pro-family election wins in Massachusetts Legislature races

The “real” pro-family contingent in the Legislature has gone from almost no one to possibly a dozen

https://www.massresistance.org/docs/govt10/election10/general/results_leg.html

Mass. Republicans lose ALL statewide & Congressional races

Democrats, unions, leftwing groups made a difference

https://www.massresistance.org/docs/govt10/election10/general/results_statewide.html

Mass. Republican Party’s RINO strategy a big part of election losses in top state races

In an election where Republicans were conquering the country, Massachusetts is probably the only state in America where the Republicans were completely blanked out in all statewide offices and all Congressional districts. In April 2009 the Boston homosexual newspaper Bay Windows featured a front-page interview with newly elected Massachusetts Republican Party Chairman Jennifer Nassour. She told Bay Windows that the Party will no longer oppose same-sex “marriage”, abortion, or other divisive “social issues.” In many peoples’ opinion that was the beginning of the end, which culminated in a complete shutout of statewide and Congressional races in Tuesday’s election.

https://www.massresistance.org/docs/govt10/election10/gop_strategy/index.html

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