If the Electorate wanted the Senate and the House to “Compromise” with the President, they would have voted for Democrats.

Washington (CNN) — President Barack Obama’s home state of Illinois elected a Republican governor on Tuesday night. Massachusetts will have its first Republican governor since Mitt Romney.

Stunning Republican gubernatorial victories came in reliably Democratic states, including those won overwhelmingly by Obama in 2012. Illinois ousted Democrat Pat Quinn in favor of Republican Bruce Rauner, while Maryland voters opted for Republican Larry Hogan over Democrat Anthony Brown. Republican Charlie Baker won a Massachusetts match-up against Martha Coakley, the state attorney general who lost a special Senate election to Scott Brown in 2010.

Republicans also continued their dominance of governors’ mansions when a number of GOP leaders fought off stiff challenges from Democrats…

ABC — Republicans have strengthened their majority control of the House of Representatives. Now, the only question remaining is how big that majority will grow.

As of 12:30 a.m. ET, ABC News had projected that Republicans had won 239 seats in the House to 180 for Democrats, which already gives the GOP a stronger hold than they had in the previous Congress, when they had a 34-seat majority. ABC News projected that by the time the night is over, Republicans will have gained between 14 and 18 seats in the House.

LA Times — Riding a surge of voter discontent, Republicans seized control of the Senate on Tuesday, giving the GOP full command of Congress
Washington (CNN) — South Carolina’s Tim Scott on Tuesday became the first African-American senator to win election in the South since Reconstruction…
Scott’s win also made him the first African-American in U.S. history to be elected to both the House and the Senate.

Image Source: 2014 Wall Street Journal 

November 2, 2010 Election Results…

Democratic House incumbents who have been defeated (49)

Rep. Bobby Bright (D-Ala.)
Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick (D-Ariz.)
Rep. Harry Mitchell (D-Ariz.)
Rep. Betsy Markey (D-Colo.)
Rep. John Salazar (D-Colo.)
Rep. Allen Boyd (D-Fla.)
Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.)
Rep. Suzanne Kosmas (D-Fla.)
Rep. Ron Klein (D-Fla.)
Rep. Jim Marshall (D-Ga.)
Rep. Walt Minnick (D-Idaho)
Rep. Bill Foster (D-Ill.)
Rep. Debbie Halvorson (D-Ill.)
Rep. Phil Hare (D-Ill.)
Rep. Baron Hill (D-Ind.)
Rep. Frank Kratovil (D-Md.)
Rep. Mark Schauer (D-Mich.)
Rep. Jim Oberstar (D-Minn.)
Rep. Travis Childers (D-Miss.)
Rep. Gene Taylor (D-Miss.)
Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.)
Rep. Dina Titus (D-Nev.)
Rep. Carol Shea-Porter  (D-N.H.)
Rep. John Adler (D-N.J.)
Rep. Harry Teague (D-N.M.)
Rep. Michael Arcuri (D-N.Y.)
Rep. John Hall (D-N.Y.)
Rep. Michael McMahon (D-N.Y.)
Rep. Scott Murphy (D-N.Y.)
Rep. Bob Etheridge (D-N.C.)
Rep. Earl Pomeroy (D-N.D)
Rep. John Boccieri (D-Ohio)
Rep. Steve Driehaus (D-Ohio)
Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy (D-Ohio)
Rep. Zack Space (D-Ohio)
Rep. Charlie Wilson (D-Ohio)
Rep. Chris Carney (D-Pa)
Rep. Kathy Dahlkemper (D-Pa.)
Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-Pa.)
Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-Pa.)
Rep. John Spratt (D-S.C)
Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (D-S.D.)
Rep. Lincoln Davis (D-Tenn.)
Rep. Chet Edwards (D-Texas)
Rep. Ciro Rodriguez (D-Texas)
Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.)
Rep. Glenn Nye (D-Va.)
Rep. Tom Perriello (D-Va.)
Rep. Steve Kagen (D-Wisc.)

Republican House incumbents who have been defeated (2)

Rep. Charles Djou (R-Hawaii)
Rep. Joseph Cao (R-La.)

Democratic-held open seats that have switched parties (14)

Arkansas 1st (Rep. Marion Berry)
Arkansas 2nd (Rep. Vic Snyder)
Indiana 8th (Rep. Brad Ellsworth)
Kansas 3rd (Rep. Dennis Moore)
Louisiana 3rd (Rep. Charlie Melancon)
Michigan 1st (Rep. Bart Stupak)
New Hampshire 2nd (Rep. Paul Hodes)
New York 29th (vacant)
Pennsylvania 7th (Rep. Joseph Sestak)
Tennessee 6th (Rep. Bart Gordon)
Tennessee 8th (Rep. John Tanner)
Washington 3rd (Rep. Brian Baird)
West Virginia 1st (Rep. Alan Mollohan)
Wisconsin 7th (Rep. David Obey)

Republican-held open seats that have switched parties (1)

Delaware at large (Rep. Mike Castle)

Democratic Senate incumbents who have been defeated (2)

Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.)
Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.)

Republican Senate incumbents who have been defeated (0)

Read more: Politico 11-3-2010

The above results have had some modifications do to disputed and delayed results at the time of publications. But, the point has been made. Democrat party WIPE OUT. A few seats here or there… doesn’t alter the historic change that will have national implications for years to come.

Republicans took control of at least 19 Democratic-controlled state legislatures Tuesday and gained more than 650 seats, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. The last time Republicans saw such victories was in 1994, when they captured control of 20 state legislatures.

Republicans haven’t controlled as many state legislatures since 1928.

Across the country, the map for state legislatures has turned noticeably red as Republicans now control 55 chambers, with Democrats at 38 and the remaining yet to be decided. At the beginning of this week, Democrats controlled 60 of the country’s state legislative chambers and Republicans 36.

Tuesday also was a historic day for many state legislatures. In Minnesota, Republicans won the Senate for the first time ever, while in Alabama, they took control for the first time since reconstruction.

The gains were truly of “historic proportions,” said Tim Storey, a senior fellow at the National Conference of State Legislatures, pointing out that the last time there was such a wave of state legislature switches was 1966.

– ABC news

Remember the end of November? The White House was in the middle of a post-election funk. President Obama had just returned from a 10-day trip to Asia where he failed to strike a trade deal with South Korea and a two-day trip to Portugal where he won acclaim, not echoed back home, for his plans in Afghanistan and on missile defense.

A pensive and introspective President Obama said Wednesday after the election was a “shellacking” and took responsibility for his party’s disastrous showing, saying that in the rush to get things done, they forgot to make good on their promise to change the way Washington works.

But Mr. Obama wouldn’t concede that the electoral blowout was a direct repudiation of his policies.

Instead, he blamed a slow economic recovery and the perception that some of the “emergency” measures taken to right the economy, such as the stimulus bill, may have been interpreted by voters as a permanent expansion of government, as opposed to a one-off response to the financial crisis.

—The Washingtion Times

I was raised to never make fun of the deaf, dumb or blind… but give me a break, President Obama has figured out a way to be all three. The Tea Party success, enraged Town hall meetings where the public expression was loud and clear, and now the results of the November election…

To not comprehend the impact of the American will, to ignore the voices shouted from the mountain tops, and to be oblivious to significance of the last election is abhorrent and destructive to the country.

This post has been expanded and continued as a permalink – See Page: OBAMA ACCOMPLISHMENTS: An ongoing Saga

I probably should have named this “My WTF list” but, being a family friendly site, I will just leave it as is.

Due to site technical issues, and missing the past month of events, I would like to extend the confusing and deteriorating accomplishments of the current administration.

Original Post: Feb. 13  Obama accomplishments shine… like a dim bulb.

In no particular order…

• The stimulus, slush fund has failed.
  How’s that “Hope and Change” working out for ya?
• Obamacare has been rejected by a large majority of Americans.
  The silent majority has spoken.
• Obama embarrassed himself twice in Copenhagen (Olympics and the Global Warming Hoax Conference ).
  Take a bow for those, Obama.
• The deficit and unemployment are destroying the Obama fiction, and the country’s identified Obama’s policies as the problem.
• Democrat candidates were humiliated in New Jersey, Virginia, and Massachusetts, and guess what? Patrick Kennedy has said he’s not running for reelection in Rhode Island. He’s got a 62% disapproval…
  Can’t wait till the 2010 elections.
• Generic polls favor Republicans by huge margins.
• Sarah Palin is getting write-ups now in the Mindless Media that Barack Obama would kill for. Joe Klein and David Broder, the same day, wrote 90% lauding favorable pieces of Sarah Palin.
  You go, girl!
• Of course, then there’s Robert Gibbs. We have to feel sorry for Obama because of Baghdad Bob Gibbs –“We’ve seen in survey after survey that Americans want to see Republicans and Democrats stand together on health care.”
  …stand together AGAINST health care.
• Guantanamo Bay is still open.
  God Bless the U.S. Military.
• Obama will not drop the idea of trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York City.
  I don’t think we’ve heard the end of this from the Big Apple.
• Michelle Obama has told the world that her daughters are fatties.
• ClimateGate, a total hoax, has been exposed. Record cold temperatures worldwide over the past year, mind-numbing blizzards and Algore nowhere to be found.
  If it doesn’t snow, it’s a sign of global warming… If it snows to much, it’s a sign of global warming… Am I missing something here? Really, that’s what it comes down to? What has happened to common since?
  Oh, right, we’re all just idiots…
• Obama embraces bank bonuses after trashing them for a year.
  Sounds a bits schizophrenic.
• Obama prematurely and awkwardly gives away the lie of not taxing the hell out of the middle class.
  Shocking, eh?
• Joe Biden has, in effect, said mission accomplished to Bush and Cheney for their brilliant policy in Iraq by claiming it’s one of the greatest achievements of the Obama administration.
  We’ve moved from schizophrenic to delusional.
• The tea parties are working.
  Thank God.
• There’s this story from The Politico: “Family Feud: Pelosi at Odds with Obama.”
  “House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s increasingly public disagreements with President Barack Obama are a reflection of something deeper: the seething resentment some Democrats feel over what they see as cavalier treatment from a wounded White House.”
  Modern day ‘three stooges’ — Obama, Pelosi and Reed.
• And then of course Dingy Harry has pulled the jobs bill. He’s reducing it from $85 billion to $15 billion.
  The only ‘jobs’ this administration understands – Union and Government Bureaucracy employment.
• The deadly shooting attack by Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad on a military recruiting center in Little Rock, Arkansas in May 2009 that killed a US soldier and injured another.
  Lets not assume he’s Muslim.  That would be acting “Stupidly“.  Terrorist 1, Obama 0.
• Obama takes three days to respond to the Christmas underwear Bomber… three days! If not for luck, the attack would have claimed the lives of at least 300 people, not to mention those who might have died on the ground.
  I do not believe our security should rely on luck… do you? Terrorist 2, Obama 0.
• Obama Refuses to Call Ft. Hood Massacre an Act of Terror.
  A shooting that killed 13 and wounded scores of others, preceded by a SHOUT OUT… Priorities, anyone? Terrorist 3, Obama 0. Feeling safe yet??

May 5, 2010 : Revised additions

• Pelosi: “But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.”
  This is how Liberals legislate. Be afraid… very afraid.
• Obamacare becomes law.
  Democrats ignore overwhelming public opposition to ObamaCare and pass it anyway, and Obama continues to ‘Sell’ his plan to no avail.
• Obama takes over ALL Student Loans, under the cover of Obamacare, hidden in 2400 pages of socialist transformation.
  Did you even know the name of the bill? Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010
• Obama snubbed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
  Not a problem meeting with Cuba or Iran, with friends like that, who needs allies?
• Obama refuses to call Massacre at Ft. Hood an Act of Terrorism. President hides behind irrational political correctness again.
  How can we fight terrorism, when the Commander in Chief won’t even acknowledge it.
• War on Terror renamed by Obama Administration.
  No such thing as ‘Islamist terrorism’ in ObamaWorld.  Man Made Disaster? Overseas Contigency Operation?
• Obama excludes private and Catholic school children from the Easter egg roll ticket giveaway.
  A Uniter, Not A Divider? Respect for religion? Really?
• Obama announces that he will approve oil and gas exploration.
  If you believe this one, I have some swampland in Florida to sell you.
• Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sign the latest Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START)
  Damn… I feel more secure already.  Love those Communist…Ya know they don’t lie.
• “NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden said Tuesday that President Barack Obama has asked him to ‘find ways to reach out to dominantly Muslim countries’ as the White House pushes the space agency to become a tool of international diplomacy.”
  Hu?? WTF… When did NASA become a Public Relations Department?
• Obama hasn’t held a formal press conference in almost a year.
  Where is the Media? Do dictators have to answer questions? Guess not.
• Obama administration continued ‘War’ on Tea Party Patriots. Racist, bigoted, violent, ignorant, hate-filled, intolerant…
  Why does the administration and it’s subordinates continue to defame the most patriotic, God-loving, law abiding, compassionate citizens I’ve ever met?
• Army Disinvites Franklin Graham from National Day of Prayer Event.
  Obama:”…we have a very large Christian population — we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation…”
  USA ranks #1 in National Christian Population.  225 Million / 85% of the Population. Maybe he wants to transform America to a Muslim Nation??
• Obama’s Katrina – Despite plan, not a single fire boom on hand on Gulf Coast at time of oil spill.
  A crisis is a terrible thing to waste, when you can blame it on BIG OIL.
• Governor Jan Brewer signed an immigration law that launched a national debate. Obama called the effort “misguided” and directed the Justice Department to monitor its implementation, warning that it could violate citizens’ civil rights.
  Obama and his regime govern against the will of the people. CBS Poll: 60 percent of Americans say Arizona’s tough new immigration law is “about right” or “doesn’t go far enough.” Are you listening, Washington?
• Times Square attempted car bombing, once again, lucky the bomb didn’t go off.  Obama spent about 50 seconds reassuring us that nothing had happened and nothing will happen, everything’s okay in New York, now back to the economy…
  Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk? …  Terrorist 4, Obama 0.
  

May 13, 2010 : addition

• Holder said at a House Judiciary Committee hearing when asked had he read the state law cracking down on illegal immigrants. — Fox News: May 13, 2010
  Wondering if anyone in Washington actually reads anything…

Unfortunately I see no end to this post and the troubling issues it exposes.

Original Post: Feb. 13, 2010  Obama accomplishments shine…

This post has been expanded and continued as a permalink – See Page:  OBAMA ACCOMPLISHMENTS: An ongoing Saga

In no particular order…

• The stimulus, slush fund has failed.
  How’s that “Hope and Change” working out for ya?
• Obamacare has been rejected by a large majority of Americans.
  The silent majority has spoken.
• Obama embarrassed himself twice in Copenhagen (Olympics and the Global Warming Hoax Conference ).
  Take a bow for those, Obama.
• The deficit and unemployment are destroying the Obama fiction, and the country’s identified Obama’s policies as the problem.
• Democrat candidates were humiliated in New Jersey, Virginia, and Massachusetts, and guess what? Patrick Kennedy has said he’s not running for reelection in Rhode Island. He’s got a 62% disapproval…
  Can’t wait till the 2010 elections.
• Generic polls favor Republicans by huge margins.
• Sarah Palin is getting write-ups now in the Mindless Media that Barack Obama would kill for.  Joe Klein and David Broder, the same day, wrote 90% lauding favorable pieces of Sarah Palin.
  You go, girl!
• Of course, then there’s Robert Gibbs. We have to feel sorry for Obama because of Baghdad Bob Gibbs.
• Guantanamo Bay is still open.
  God Bless the U.S. Military.
• Obama will not drop the idea of trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York City.
  I don’t think we’ve heard the end of this from the Big Apple.
• Michelle Obama has told the world that her daughters are fatties.
• ClimateGate, a total hoax, has been exposed. Record cold temperatures worldwide over the past year, mind-numbing blizzards and Algore nowhere to be found.
  If it doesn’t snow, it’s a sign of global warming… If it snows to much, it’s a sign of global warming…  Am I missing something here? Really, that’s what it comes down to?  What has happened to common since?
  Oh, right, we’re all just idiots…
• Obama embraces bank bonuses after trashing them for a year.
  Sounds a bits schizophrenic.
• Obama prematurely and awkwardly gives away the lie of not taxing the hell out of the middle class.
  Shocking, eh?
• Joe Biden has, in effect, said mission accomplished to Bush and Cheney for their brilliant policy in Iraq by claiming it’s one of the greatest achievements of the Obama administration.
  We’ve moved from schizophrenic to delusional.
• The tea parties are working.
  Thank God.
• There’s this story from The Politico: “Family Feud: Pelosi at Odds with Obama.”
  “House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s increasingly public disagreements with President Barack Obama are a reflection of something deeper: the seething resentment some Democrats feel over what they see as cavalier treatment from a wounded White House.”
  Modern day ‘three stooges’ — Obama, Pelosi and Reed.
• And then of course Dingy Harry has pulled the jobs bill. He’s reducing it from $85 billion to $15 billion.
  The only ‘jobs’ this administration understands – Union and Government Bureaucracy employment.

Things are getting even worse for liberals. Is that even possible?

Actually its to be expected considering their ideology.  Nothing has changed.

Operation Coffee Cup campaign against socialized medicine as it was then proposed by Democrats.

Here is just a portion, distributed by the American Medical Association.

REAGAN:

Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would never vote for socialism. But he said under the name of liberalism the American people will adopt every fragment of the socialist program.  One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It’s very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project. Most people are a little reluctant to oppose anything that suggests medical care for people who possibly can’t afford it.

And, by the way, Norman Thomas is the grandfather of Newsweek reporter Evan Thomas, and he was an avowed socialist.

REAGAN:

But let’s also look from the other side, at the freedom the doctor loses. A doctor would be reluctant to say this. Well, like you, I am only a patient, so I can say it in his behalf. The doctor begins to lose freedoms; it’s like telling a lie, and one leads to another. First you decide that the doctor can have so many patients. They are equally divided among the various doctors by the government. But then the doctors aren’t equally divided geographically, so a doctor decides he wants to practice in one town and the government has to say to him you can’t live in that town, they already have enough doctors. You have to go some place else. And from here it is only a short step to dictating where he will go.  This is a freedom that I wonder whether any of us have the right to take from any human being.

That provision was part and parcel of Hillary Care, assigning doctors regionally, assigning them geographically.  It went so far in Hillary’s health care bill as to assign what specialty they would learn.  Doctors were going to be totally controlled.  And it would be no different in this health care bill if Obama and Reid and Pelosi and Waxman get what they want.

REAGAN:

You and I can do a great deal.  We can write to our congressmen, to our senators.  We can say right now that we want no further encroachment on these individual liberties and freedoms and at the moment the key issue is, we do not want socialized medicine.  Write those letters now; call your friends and tell them to write them.  If you don’t, this program, I promise you, will pass just as surely as the sun will come up tomorrow, and behind it will come other federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have known it in this country until one day, as Norman Thomas said, we will awake to find that we have socialism, and if you don’t do this and if I don’t do it, one of these days you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it once was like in America when men were free.

Here’s Ronald Reagan in 1961 warning of the dangers of socialized medicine.

That’s how far back the left has been trying to get it.  And he’s right.  It’s a parallel, in a way, with global warming.  The environmentalist extremest have made great inroads because who wants a dirty planet, who wants to destroy the planet?  Who can possibly oppose people who say they’re trying to save animals and the planet?  The same token, who can oppose a plan that’s going to get health care for everybody?

Now, so far they’ve been beaten back, for 50 years they have been beaten back.

But they never stop.

The lesson here is they never stop and there are plenty of Norman Thomases around today.  They don’t call themselves socialists. They don’t even call themselves liberals.  They call themselves progressives now.

But when Norman Thomas said,

“The American people would never vote for socialism, but under the name of liberalism the American people will adopt every fragment of the socialist program,”

that’s no different than Rahm Emanuel saying,

“We have to take advantage of this crisis.”

It’s no different than Obama lying through his teeth about what the health care plan contains.

It’s what the left always does.  It’s what they always have to do.  They can’t be open.  You would reject everything they say they want to do if they were open and honest about it.

Remember the history of the world is communism, socialism, totalitarianism, statism.

That’s the history of the world.  That’s the history of mankind.

The United States of America is the exception and that is part and parcel how you define American exceptionalism, founded on liberty and freedom and the knowledge that those traits, the liberty freedom, all come from our creator, and there are people who for their own aggrandizement and power want to snuff that liberty out.

That’s just the way it is.

They’ve always been here in America, too, but they’ve never gotten as close to realizing their dream as they are now.  They own the White House.  They own the House of Representatives.  They own the Senate.

They must not own all of those after the elections of 2010.

But they’re never going to go away.  They’ll come back under the guise of some other issue or name trying to advance the agenda.  It’s just who they are.

I don’t care about their motivations.  I don’t care to try to explain motivations.  It’s just who liberals and socialists are.

And after they own the White House, and after they own the House of Representatives and after they own the Senate and after they own the Pentagon and after they own everything else in government they can populate, they will then own you.

And that’s what Reagan was trying to warn of back in 1961.