Liberal Republicans are becoming an endangered species. Senator Arlen Specter fled the GOP for the Democrat Party and still lost in the primary. Long term incumbent Senator Bob Bennett tried to stay in the Republican Party and got slaughtered in his recent primary only getting 26 percent, finishing third. John McCain is in a surprisingly heated race in Arizona. Despite having a huge bankroll, McCain has a mere five point lead based on telephone polls to people with land-line phones (which means the poll is biased toward old people, missing the mood of the younger Internet crowd). A recent poll of Tea Party supporters found that 91 percent of them don’t want McCain to be reelected. If you think it’s tough being a liberal Republican in 2010, life is hell for Democrats this election cycle.
The New York Times reports: “The reception that Representative Frank Kratovil Jr., a Democrat, received here one night last week as he faced a small group of constituents was far more pleasant than his encounters during a Congressional recess last summer. Then, he was hanged in effigy by protesters…The sentiment that fueled the rage during those Congressional forums is still alive in the electorate. But the opportunities for voters to openly express their displeasure, or angrily vent as video cameras roll, have been harder to come by in this election year. If the time-honored tradition of the political meeting is not quite dead, it seems to be teetering closer to extinction. Of the 255 Democrats who make up the majority in the House, only a handful held town-hall-style forums as legislators spent last week at home in their districts. It was no scheduling accident. With images of overheated, finger-waving crowds still seared into their minds from the discontent of last August, many Democrats heeded the advice of party leaders and tried to avoid unscripted question-and-answer sessions.”
The Democrats stabbed most of these people in the back with their “Obamacare” vote. A barrage of angry voters (including a large majority of Democrats) demanded that Congress vote down this huge new government mandate at a time when the economy was teetering on the edge of oblivion. In a display of government arrogance unseen since Marie Antoinette, the will of the people was completely ignored.
The Times goes on: “The recommendations were clear: hold events in controlled settings — a bank or credit union, for example — or tour local businesses or participate in community service projects. And to reach thousands of constituents at a time, without the worry of being snared in an angry confrontation with voters, more lawmakers are also taking part in a fast-growing trend: the telephone town meeting, where chances are remote that a testy exchange will wind up on YouTube.”
Looks like “Yes, we can” has been replaced by “we’d better not.” The original American Revolution was over a demand for no taxation without representation, but the trouble is that nowadays, our representatives are fools, thieves, liberals, liars and perverts, who get bought up by special interests.
Voters are increasingly screaming in anger at their representatives when they spot them in public and they demand to know why they voted against the will of the people –again and again. The Tea Party includes a large broad-section of White Americans, including many moderates and even Democrats. The definition of the Tea Party explains it all: TEA = Taxed Enough Already. White Americans are growing tired of the colossal tax burden created by millions of Latinos and Blacks.
The Democrats consider Latinos and Blacks their future, but they are also trying to fool White people into thinking they should stay in the Democrat Party. That argument gets weaker every year, and this year the Democrat politicians are HIDING from their own angry constituents.
