Posted by
Bert Chapman on Wednesday, November 03, 2010 7:26:00 PM
Following the 2008 elections, liberal punditry and academics were prognosticating conservatism's extinction and heralding a new progressive golden age under Obama's presidency. My, how the worm turns. Instead of being the messiah who would be the new restoration of FDR, Obama has greatly annoyed his core supporters who believe he's not gone far enough with his leftist agenda. However, the unequivocal message of last night's historic election, is that the American people believe he's gone to far with his messianic ideological delusions and needs a slap of conservative realism to smash his pretensions and incompetence.
The House shift to GOP control is that it will allow more effective oversight of Obama Administration corruption in areas such as health care reform, the economic stimulus, his abysmal failure to trim our debt, and numerous other failures in environmental policy, border control, foreign policy, and national security policy. Three major Democratic committee chairs were toppled last night: John Spratt (SC) of the Budget Committee, Ike Skelton (MO) of the Armed Services Committee, and James Oberstar (MN) of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. This will be an excellent opportunity for Reps. Darrell Issa (CA) who will chair the Oversight and Government Reform Committee and Paul Ryan (WI) who will probably chair the Ways & Means Committee to produce effective legislative and regulatory remedies to our economic problems.
I'm pleased with our Senate gains, although I would have liked to have turfed Barbara Boxer and Harry Reid too. Sharon Engle was to erratic to knock off Reid. Illinois' Mark Kirk winning Obama's former Senate seat from his incompetent banker buddy was nice as was Pat Toomey's win in Pennsylvania. In addition, I'm excited about Florida's Marco Rubio and his limitless leadership potential. The newly elected Tea Party members need to transition from being bomb throwing critics to learning the mechanics of Congress and governmental policymaking and becoming constructive statesmen and women. They should learn from distinguished leaders such as Indiana's Dan Coats and Mike Pence, Kentucky's Mitch McConnell, South Dakota's John Thune, Arizona's John Kyl, and other experienced Republican congressional leaders. I'm also pleased with Iowa voters ousting three activist judges who sought to impose gay marriage on that state.
The governor's races are produced desirable gains and additional gains in state legislatures which will facilitate favorable redistricting to enhance our chances of ousting Obama in 2012. Time will tell if Obama becomes more pragmatic and centrist as a result of last night, or if he will succumb to the netherworld offered by his core leftist sycophants.