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Conservative Commentary
by Ed
Donath
September 16,
2011 |
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Defending
the right to rant! |
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"It's
time for Obama to fire a lot of people on his staff. For God's sake, why are we still
looking at the same political and economic advisers that got us
into this mess?"
- James Carville |
Long-time
Democrat strategist James Carville might have been right in
predicting
40
More Years: How the Democrats Will Rule the Next
Generation
(the title of his 2009 book)
had Barack Obama
resembled,
even slightly, the savior of the Democrat brand and all things liberal
that he had promised to be. But mere months after
40 More
Years
was published, the ineptitude, attitude and hypocrisy
of the left's' heroic new Dear Leader had already caused Carville to waffle on his
grand prediction.
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"Things were a lot
like they are today. A young, exciting president.
Big majorities in Congress. We figured we'd have
plenty of time to build the America we wanted. You
know what happened next. Fifty-four new Republicans
elected in the House. Eight new Republicans elected
in the Senate. Our moment of opportunity had
passed. Republicans are hoping 2010 is the new 1994.
But heck, they don't need eight new senators. If
they gain just one or two, it's going to be that
much easier for them to scuttle vital legislation."
- James Carville 6/25/09 |
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According to the book
blurb of
40
More Years: How the Democrats Will Rule the Next
Generation
"James
Carville demonstrates why the right-wing faithful
shouldn't be holding their breath for their party's
second coming." Of course, that was
before any lefties could have realized just how
incompetent Obama was destined to be; how he would squander the potential 40-year
"liberal" reign
along with everything else. |
Carville's prescient warning came prior to the gubernatorial
elections in Virginia and New Jersey in which
Republican candidates each won by astonishingly wide
margins despite Obama's victory in their states a year
earlier and despite the president's numerous campaign
appearances with the unsuccessful Democrat
candidates.
Later,
in an even bigger shocker, Republican Scott Brown
overcame yet another hug-me-Obama candidate to win
the senatorial seat left vacant by the passing of
uber-lib Ted Kennedy in Massachusetts. National health care legislation was a lifelong
political ambition for Kennedy -- shared, presumably,
by his unswerving constituents. Since Obama
had hitched
his wagon to Kennedy's, Scott
Brown actually beat two of the most powerful candidates of
our lifetime -- Edward M. Kennedy and Barack Hussein
Obama -- along with his lesser-known ballot opponent.
Finally, in the 2010 general
elections the
"shellacking" of Obama not
only included flipping the House's majority but
numerous GOP and Tea Party senators and
governors were also added -- many of whom won
ostensibly as a result of their
opposition to Obamacare.
This
week's special elections to replace Democrat
congressmen in Nevada and New York were both won by
Republicans. Anthony |
Weiner's district in New York City
(he was preceded by such liberal notables as Chuck Schumer and
Geraldine Ferraro) will have its first Republican
representative in nearly a century.
Carville's latest reality-based,
here-and-now warnings are much less about Obama's squandering of
the left's potential 40-year reign and more about Democrats'
pure survival. Writing for CNN Carville asks:
What should the White House do now that Republicans
have won the special elections in New York and Nevada?
"Panic!"
Carville declares.
He
continues:
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"The course we
are on is not working, The time has come to demand a plan of action that
requires a complete change from the direction you are headed.
It's time for Obama to fire a lot of people on his staff. For God's sake, why are we still
looking at the same political and economic advisers that got us
into this mess?
Obama also needs to indict a lot of people
-- all those people in
American finance who haven't been held responsible for utterly
ruining the economic fabric of our country. The attorney
general may be a good friend, but Obama must demand answers from
him about the investigations concerning those people...and if
his explanations aren't good, fire him, too. People are
furious, and they need to see that the president is angry, as
well. And finally, it's time to dig in as a Democrat, instead of
caving to the Republicans at every turn."
- James Carville |
"Wake up! ...The
hour is late, and the need is great. Fire. Indict.
Fight."
- James Carville |
I know what
lefties would say if I had written those remarks or if they were
presented as quotes from some other conservative commentator.
Let's see how they vilify one of their own -- or not.
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