Showing posts with label voting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label voting. Show all posts

Sunday, November 2, 2014

Harry Reid Squealing Like A Piggy

The Drudge Report had a blaring red headline on its website proclaiming “Joni Takes 7 Point Lead” and linked to The Des Moines Register bearing an almost identical headline.

News of Ernst’s sizeable lead over Democrat Bruce Braley has sent Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid squealing like a piggy in desperation—a kind of flop sweat you get when you realize you’re in peril.

Politico’s Burgess Everett (I refuse to link) reported that Reid held a conference call on Saturday with the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Roll Call shared some of what Reid said during the call. 
“If we win Iowa, we’re going to do just fine,” Reid told the liberal activists. “Iowa is a key in what we do. You know, we’re doing really quite well now in New Hampshire. I think we’re going to win in North Carolina. I’m not going to go through all the races. Iowa is critical. There’s no other way to say it.” 
“What Joni Ernst would mean, coming to the United States Senate, is that Mitch McConnell would be the leader of the Senate, someone who agrees with her on virtually everything. Think what that would mean to our country.” 
Did Dingy Harry unwittingly give Minority Leader McConnell something to smile about?

With just two days left before America’s voice is heard, we are witnessing a complete unraveling of the progressive agenda.  Democrats across the board have put their loyalty to The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer above their duty to America and voters, it would appear, are ready to give Republicans control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

Friday, October 31, 2014

Ten Buck Friday: The Haunting Of Harry Reid And The Democrats

With four days to go before Election Day, there is a palpable hope that control of the Senate will change hands.  The Democrats have had control of the Senate since 2006—eight years of purgatory for the American people.

The obstacle to bipartisan cooperation, Harry Reid has “piles of bills waiting for attention that could help Americans with jobs and help move the economy forward.”  Blocking GOP proposal after proposal after proposal, Reid has deliberately avoided tough votes that would embarrass The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer.

His strategy may have backfired.  Some are saying that not taking up GOP amendments gave embattled Democrats few chances to break with the president.  Their lockstep allegiance isn’t playing well and may portend a disastrous day at the ballot box.  Reid’s stifling hold on the Senate shaped the records they are defending this midterm.
Roll Call, which covers Capitol Hill, reported this week that “all of the most vulnerable Democrats voted with the president at least 96 percent of the time on the 120 votes on which he urged a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ vote.”  So, yeah, when The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer said his “policies are on the ballot, every single one of them,” you’d better believe they are.
Aaron Blake of The Washington Post cites the latest Harvard Institute of Politics poll which shows that Latinos, unmarried women and young people “have soured on the Democratic Party” and favor a GOP-controlled Senate.
Paraphrasing Dr. Charles Krauthammer, an anemic economy, governmental incompetence and the sense of national decline under this president and the minions in his party are the impetus for the current disenchantment.

Stuart Rothenberg opines that "President Barack Obama is about to do what no president has done in the past 50 years: Have two horrible, terrible, awful midterm elections in a row."

For the past nine weeks, a handful of conservative bloggers have taken part in a movement called Ten Buck Friday.  We highlighted a different senate race each week encouraging our readers to contribute $10 to the campaign coffers of Republican challengers to entrenched Democrats in Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, Louisiana, New Hampshire and North Carolina.

In this, our final posting before Election Day next Tuesday, our message is to ask you to volunteer by making phone calls, talking with friends, family, co-workers and neighbors encouraging them to exercise their right of franchise by casting their ballot.  Low turnout leads to bad government.  Make sure your vote counts to prevent a theft-proof election.  Let’s make this midterm a haunting experience for Harry Reid and his messiah.


Friday, October 24, 2014

Ten Buck Friday: The Train Wreck's Arriving Right On Schedule

Graphic courtesy of Diogenes’ Middle Finger and modified with permission
Eleven days remain until Americans cast their ballots in the 2014 midterms.  Conservatives need to show up in record numbers if there is any chance to offset the stuffed ballots, rigged voting machines and illegal immigrants voting not only in early voting but on Election Day.

In 2010, voters gave the GOP historic victories and handed The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer a “shellacking” at the polls.  Most notable was the ouster of Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House and Scott Walker’s victory in Wisconsin.

While I am loathe to quote a Democrat, this one from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt sums up what Ten Buck Friday is all about:
“Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves—and the only way they could do this is by not voting.”
When retiring Tom Harkin (D-IA) isn’t confident Democrats can hold the Senate the edge the GOP has in the polls seems promising, but the decades-long agenda of the political/judicial/bureaucratic Democrat infrastructure will continue to give elections to Democrats unless we fight them at the voting booth.

If control of the Senate can be wrested from the hands of Harry Reid, America may be able to secure enough breathing room to recover from the failed presidency of The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer.

If Americans are truly dissatisfied with the direction of the country they simply must turn out at the polls.  Not bothering to vote because you are disgusted by politics guarantees the continued entrenchment of corrupt Democrats.  Rest assured they are counting on you staying home. 

Don’t kid yourself.  By staying home you are doubling the value of some diehard Democrat’s vote.  Is that what you want?

Get off your duff.  Talk with your friends, family, co-workers and scoop up five people on Election Day and go to the polls.  Stand guard over liberty and live in dignity.  We cannot afford to sit this election out.

Please consider contributing $10 to the candidate(s) listed below.

Contribute to Bill Cassidy (LA) here.
Contribute to Tom Cotton (AR) here.
Contribute to Joni Ernst (IA) here.
Contribute to Cory Gardner (CO) here.
Contribute to Thom Tillis (NC) here.

Please consider visiting the other bloggers who are participating in Ten Buck Friday:

Friday, October 3, 2014

Ten Buck Friday: Clearing The Decks

As recently as Wednesday of this week, The Hill  reported that dingbat Nancy Pelosi said voters weren’t responding to the GOP agenda.  She said, “We’ve out-mobilized them; we’ve out-recruited them; we’ve outraised them to a shameful extent. They’re desperate.”

She further opined, “Their days are numbered. I know that in two years, I know we’ll have a Democratic Congress and a Democratic president. I’d like it to be in two months.”

Asked if she was conceding that Republicans would hold the House in November’s midterms, Pelosi insisted, “No, I’m not." 

Michael Barone begs to differ. “Republicans retain big leads to pick up three open seats in states carried by Mitt Romney—West Virginia, Montana and South Dakota. Republican nominees have moved ahead of three Democratic incumbents in Romney states (Alaska, Arkansas, and Louisiana) and in two target states carried by President Obama (Colorado and Iowa)."

"Only in North Carolina, which Romney narrowly carried, has the Republican not yet overtaken the incumbent Democrat Sen. Kay Hagan—and her edge is narrowing in the most recent polls."

If Barone’s pedigree as a political analyst isn’t convincing enough, he points to analysts at The Washington Post, The New York Times, Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight, The National Journal’s Charlie Cook, Stuart Rothenberg and the guy who’s analysis I put great faith in, Larry Sabato, who all agree.

Sabato contends, “Right now, Democrats are behind the eight-ball.  So many undecided contests are winnable for the GOP that the party would have to have a string of bad luck—combined with a truly exceptional Democratic get-out-the-vote program—to snatch defeat from the wide-open jaws of victory. Or Republicans would have to truly shoot themselves in the foot in at least one race, which has become a clear possibility over the last few weeks in Kansas.”

The Free At Last PAC uploaded a damning ad on YouTube™ which employs a powerful quote from Thomas Sowell to criticize Louisiana’s Democratic senator Mary Landrieu:  “Politicians are not trying to solve our problems.  They’re trying to solve their own problems of which getting elected and re-elected are No. 1 and No. 2.”

Elbert Guillory expounds on Sowell’s quote, “You’re not Mary’s cause and you’re certainly not her charity.  You are just a vote.  Nothing less and nothing more.  For her, you’re just a means to an end so that she remains in power.  While you scrounge to gather food stamps to buy Kool-Aid™, she sips champagne at cocktail parties.  While you dig through the couch for gas money, she flies around in private jets funded by taxpayer dollars.  Mary Landrieu knows she doesn’t have to do anything for our community because no matter what she does 95% of us will line up and vote for her every single time.  Since 1996 black unemployment has doubled and the poverty rate for blacks has skyrocketed.  Mary hasn’t helped us at all.  So on November 4th, let’s send her back home to her father’s house or to her mansion in Washington, D.C. or to wherever the heck she lives because one thing is for sure she does not live here.”

While Guillory is critical of Landrieu, the sentiments are certainly applicable to too many incumbents, especially of entrenched Democrats.

While speaking at Northwestern University on Thursday, The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer said, "I am not on the ballot this fall.  Michelle’s pretty happy about that.  But make no mistake: these policies are on the ballot.  Every single one of them."

If ever there were a reason for Americans to be motivated to vote 31 days from today, those words from the president should be all the impetus they need.

Doyle McManus seems to think the November balloting is a “Seinfeld election” inferring its because “so much of the campaign seems to be about nothing.”  McManus writes for The Los Angeles Times.  It is a well-known fact that California has the largest state deficit in American history. Furthermore, California also has the dismal distinction of having the nation’s second-highest unemployment rate.  To this observer, McManus’ assertion that this election is about “nothing” is patently and egregiously absurd.

Each Friday between now and November 4th we are asking our readers to consider contributing $10 to the campaign of the candidate(s) we have highlighted that week.  Make sure to mark your contribution “Ten Buck Friday” so the candidate(s) will know the conservative blogosphere is with them in standing guard over liberty.  Remember to call your friends and remind them to go to the polls, to volunteer.  We cannot afford to sit this election out. 

Contribute to Bill Cassidy (LA) here.
Contribute to Tom Cotton (AR) here.
Contribute to Joni Ernst (IA) here.
Contribute to Cory Gardner (CO) here.
Contribute to Thom Tillis (NC) here.

Please consider visiting the other bloggers who are participating in this movement:


Friday, September 26, 2014

Ten Buck Friday: Six Weeks To Go—Five States In Play For Senate Control In 2015

With six weeks to go, the fight for control of the Senate is down to five states, four of them currently held by Democrats.

This election cycle is vital from the standpoint of not only regaining control of the Senate but also to have an impact on The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer’s ability to appoint (and have confirmed by the Senate) judges to the federal bench and the Supreme Court.

“Democrats have reversed the partisan imbalance on the federal appeals courts that long favored conservatives, a little-noticed shift with far-reaching consequences for the law and President Obama’s legacy.”
“With so many of the administration’s policies facing legal challenges, the increased likelihood that those cases could end up before more ideologically sympathetic judges is a reassuring development to the White House. Nowhere has this dynamic been more evident than at the District of Columbia court, which is considered the second most important appeals court in the nation, after the Supreme Court.”
“With control of the Senate at stake in November’s midterm elections, the success of Democrats in reshaping the courts is a reminder of the subtle power that the majority party has even in a moribund Congress. Republicans, who have watched with growing alarm as the Obama nominees passed through the Senate, have begun raising the issue as they try to win six seats they need to take the majority.”
In November 2013, Senate Democrats reined in the filibuster through a tactic so extreme is it known as the “nuclear option” which allows a nominee to be confirmed with just 50 votes rather than the 60-vote supermajority that has been the standard for nearly four decades.

Data compiled by The Wall Street Journal indicates, "Since July 3, the largest Super PACs aligned with Democrats have raised four times the money of pro-GOP Super PACs, and have now spent $60 million to Republicans' $38 million.  And, it's not just on the Super PAC side.”

“The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee doubled the fundraising haul of its Republican counterpart in August and had an almost $10 million cash edge heading into the fall. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee ended August with a $5 million lead over the National Republican Senatorial Committee. And, Republican strategists closely watching ad spending in key Senate races acknowledge that they are being outspent—in some cases badly—on TV. In Colorado, for example, Democrats and their allied groups dropped over $1 million on TV ads in the first two weeks of September; Republicans spent just over $300,000.”

“North Carolina and, until recently, Iowa are other examples of where Democrats have used their spending edge to boost their candidates. And, that advantage will get even more important in October. Democrats' early money allowed them to reserve air time at lower rates while Republicans are just now doing that.”

Each Friday between now and November 4th we are asking our readers to consider contributing $10 to the campaign of the candidate(s) we have highlighted that week.  Make sure to mark your contribution “Ten Buck Friday” so the candidate(s) will know the conservative blogosphere is with them in standing guard over liberty.

Contribute to Bill Cassidy here.
Contribute to Tom Cotton here.
Contribute to Joni Ernst here.
Contribute to Cory Gardner here.
Contribute to Thom Tillis here.

Please consider visiting the other bloggers who are participating in this movement:


Friday, September 19, 2014

Ten Buck Friday For September 19, 2014

Jeffrey M. Jones writing for Gallup notes, “Americans now view the Republican Party as favorably as they view the Democratic Party. While the Democratic Party's rating has been steady, the GOP's rating has improved, restoring their image to what it was prior to the federal government shutdown in the fall of 2013.”  Ace distills it down further saying, “I suppose it's just that the Democrat Party is being discredited by events.”

With the Senate’s passage of a short-term spending bill on Thursday that avoids another government shutdown, Harry Reid’s attempt to provoke a shutdown has failed and this certainly benefits the GOP.

The latest Quinnipiac poll indicates that Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO) is trailing his Republican challenger Cory Gardner by 8 points.  This remarkable advantage seems to come on the heels of Udall’s outrageous claim that ISIL is not an imminent threat and news that Udall’s campaign reneged on a series of debates with Gardner.

Whereas last week Real Clear Politics reflected a 1.2 point lead by Bruce Braley (D-IA) over Joni Ernst, the very same Quinnipiac poll shows Ernst pulling ahead and now leads Braley 50% to 44%.  The RCP average has the two in a dead heat. 

The North Carolina race is really troubling to me.  I’m not certain that a visit by NJ Governor Chris Christie to stump for GOP challenger Thom Tillis has helped his cause.

The Senate Majority PAC, a group connected to Sen. Harry Reid and heavily funded by billionaires and labor unions, has been the biggest-spending Super PAC of the 2014 midterm contests. The Center for Responsive Politics database shows that in addition to Reid’s aforementioned Super PAC, another group called Patriot Majority has flooded Hagan’s campaign with $36 million for ad buys and voter outreach.

North Carolinians have been receiving mailers from Concerned Veterans for America reminding voters of her broken promises to improve the Department of Veterans Affairs.  CEO Pete Hegseth said, “Based on her own words, Senator Hagan was sent to Washington to improve care for North Carolina’s veterans. But since 2008, North Carolina’s VA facilities have deteriorated to become some of the worst in the country. Plain and simple, Senator Hagan knew that delays were taking place and only became interested in fixing the VA when it became politically expedient. How can North Carolina Veterans trust that this time will be any different?”

The group published an ad that highlights her saying, “We have got to do a better job of supporting our veterans,” and urged the people of North Carolina to call and tell her to fix the VA.

Jim Geraghty noted as recently as September 12th that it is disconcerting that Tillis is having trouble gaining traction against Hagan in a state that Mitt Romney won.

This week I’d like to ask my readers to consider contributing $10 to Thom Tillis for this week’s Ten Buck Friday.  Make sure to mark your contribution “Ten Buck Friday” so the candidate will know the conservative blogosphere is with him in standing guard over liberty.

You can contribute to Thom Tillis here.



Friday, September 12, 2014

Ten Buck Friday For September 12, 2014

Before we talk about this week’s Ten Buck Friday candidates, it’s important to note the Congress will avoid another shutdown through a Continuing Resolution that would fund the government through March 27, 2015 according to Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and GOP strategist John Feehery.

The most recent Washington Post/ABC News Poll has some devastating data points that will most likely impact the 2014 midterm election:


Obama’s Job Approval:  51% Disapprove
Handling of the Economy:   54% Disapprove
Handling of International Affairs:   56% Disapprove
Implementation of Obamacare:   56% Disapprove
Handling of Immigration:   59% Disapprove
Is America On The Right Track/Wrong Track:  65% Wrong Track
Will Republican Party Take Control in November:  45% Yes
Has Obama United or Divided the Country:  55% Divided
Is Obama A Strong Leader:  55% Weak
Has Obama Presidency Been a Success Or Failure:  52% Failure
Is Economy Excellent, Good or Poor:  69% Poor
Support/Oppose Obamacare:  52% Oppose
Is ISIS A Serious Threat:  91% Yes

The remedy now is for voters to send a message that will thunder through the halls of Congress and give The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer another well-deserved “shellacking”.  Just this past Sunday The New York Times projected Republicans have a 61% chance of taking control of the Senate.

This week we’re going to concentrate on the five Blue States that are toss-up races in the Senate:  Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Louisiana and North Carolina.

The Real Clear Politics Average through September 10th shows that Dan Sullivan is up 1.3 points over Mark Begich in the Alaska race.  Arkansas’s Mark Pryor is trailing his opponent Tom Cotton by 2.4 points.  Iowa is proving a little tougher with Bruce Braley continuing to lead opponent Joni Ernst by 1.2 points.  Bill Cassidy continues to hold a 1.3 point lead over a weakened Mary Landrieu in Louisiana and finally North Carolina has flipped again to Kay Hagan leading Thom Tillis by 1.8 points where earlier he held a negligible 0.8 point advantage.

Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball has already stated that the best-case scenario for the Democrats is a 50/50 tie in the Senate with VP Joe Biden’s tiebreaking vote narrowly keeping Dingy Harry as majority leader.  The weight of an unpopular president [as noted above] and a GOP-leaning Senate map is subtly moving things a tick or two in the Republican direction.

That’s where you come in.  Each Friday between now and November 4th we are asking our readers to consider contributing $10 to the campaign of the candidate(s) we have highlighted that week.  Make sure to mark your contribution “Ten Buck Friday” so the candidate will know the conservative blogosphere is with them in standing guard over liberty.

Contribute to Dan Sullivan here..
Contribute to Tom Cotton here
Contribute to Joni Ernst here.
Contribute to Bill Cassidy here.
Contribute to Thom Tillis here.

Please consider visiting the other bloggers who are participating in this movement:  Adrienne's CornerDiogenes' Middle FingerFisherville Mike, Laughing ConservativeLeft Coast RebelMind Numbed RobotProof PositiveTexas Conservative NewsTheo Spark and Wyblog.

Friday, September 5, 2014

Ten Buck Friday For September 5, 2014

On Tuesday, I posted an article informing my readers that a cadre of conservative bloggers were banding together to relaunch a movement called “Ten Buck Friday”.  Four years ago that cadre was determined to help elect fiscal conservatives to Congress.  That was the year that Republicans handed The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer a “shellacking”.

Political strategists agree the House is solidly in GOP hands, and no one thinks the November midterm elections will change that.  House and gubernatorial contests pale in comparison to the question of who will control the Senate next January.  If Republicans win back the Senate, it could have a profound effect on the president’s final years in office and on the future of the Republican Party.

“Ten Buck Fridays” will concentrate on the Senate races of Republicans vying for seats to effectively put this Administration in an “oversight headlock” and rid the Senate of Harry Reid's obstructionist leadership.

Larry Sabato has already called the races in Alabama, Idaho, Maine, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wyoming as “safe” for Republicans.

This week I have chosen to highlight what strategists agree are the most vital seats to win:

A victory for Thom Tillis (R-NC) could determine whether the Senate remains in Democratic hands.  Iowa is supposed to be the Democrats’ firewall, but State Senator Joni Ernst has the enthusiasm of Republican circles.  Cory Gardner (R-CO) is running a highly competitive race and a GOP victory would make would make it much more likely that Republicans would win control of the Senate.  Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Tom Cotton (R-AK) are giving fits to Mary Landrieu and Mark Pryor.

Real Clear Politics shows Tillis up by 1, Ernst up by 0.2, Gardner down by 1, Cassidy up by 3 and Cotton up by 1.7 points in their most recent polling.

With all that said, what is “Ten Buck Friday?”  Each Friday between now and November 4th we are asking our readers to consider contributing $10 to the campaign of the candidate(s) we have highlighted that week.  Make sure to mark your contribution “Ten Buck Friday” so the candidate will know the blogosphere is with them in standing guard over liberty.

Contribute to Thom Tillis here.
Contribute to Joni Ernst here.
Contribute to Cory Gardner here.
Contribute to Bill Cassidy here.
Contribute to Tom Cotton here.

Please consider visiting the other bloggers who are participating in this movement: Adrienne's Corner, Diogenes' Middle FingerFisherville Mike, Laughing ConservativeLeft Coast Rebel, Mind Numbed Robot, Proof Positive, Texas Conservative NewsTheo Spark and Wyblog.

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

The Return Of Ten Buck Friday

During the 2010 midterms, conservative bloggers united in a movement called “Ten Buck Friday”.  The concept behind TBF was to contribute $10 to the campaign of a candidate who had risen in a poll conducted in the week prior.  There are only nine Fridays between now and the 2014 midterms so there will be no polling just an effort to push vital funds into the Republican candidates’ campaign coffers.

Our country has not had a budget passed in the Senate since 2009, forcing a series of continuing resolutions which keep the nation at the brink of a shut down and hides the obscene amounts of money that the President and Congressional Democrats are hell-bent to spend.  I needn’t remind you of our $17 trillion debt. Taking control of the Senate means we will effectively fire Harry Reid.

Many have asserted that the 113th Congress has been the least productive in history. Congress has passed the fewest number of bills into law in decades, a fact that some falsely blame on the Republican House. Until the last few years, Congress had been able to send more than 100 and sometimes more than 200 bills to the White House.  There are over 300 bills passed by the House that are now waiting for action in the Senate. 

The naked truth is the hundreds of bills passed in the House go to Harry Reid’s desk to die.  Reid will not allow amendments because he wants to protect his members from actually being held accountable by the voters of the United States of America.

The day after the 2010 midterms, The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer appeared to be “somber” when he conceded a “shellacking” at the polls.  He needs another shellacking.  Let’s make that happen with Ten Buck Fridays.

The state of many key races, including enough Senate seats to decide the majority, remains fluid, and it is the Senate that will define this midterm. Given electoral conditions and the red-leaning geography of the map, Republicans have few credible excuses if they don’t take Senate control in January.

The unofficial start for the general election in 2016 is Labor Day.  Taking control of the Senate is imperative to stop the agenda of this regime.  Below are the Senate races that that we can affect by volunteering and with our votes and our monetary support:


The 2014 midterms are clearly a referendum on the president. We need a GOP wave to sweep across the country.  If that happens, at least four more Democrats in other states could get sent packing. The Republicans need a net gain of six seats to take control of the Senate. They might just do it with our help.  Let’s get to work and stand guard over liberty.