Congratulations, GOP class of 2010. Meet the Georgia woman who’ll keep you in line
Congratulations, Republican members of the Class of 2010. Welcome to Congress.
Allow me to introduce your orientation leader, a woman who could determine whether your next two years are merely tough, or a brick wall — a woman who may figure deeply when it comes to renewal of your rookie contracts in 2012.
Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin takes part in an Election Day demonstration on the lawn of the Capitol in Washington on Tuesday. AP/Cliff Owen
She is 40-year-old Jenny Beth Martin. Less than two years ago she was cleaning houses in Cherokee County to make ends meet. On Tuesday night, this co-founder of Tea Party Patriots was in the ballroom of a New Jersey Avenue hotel in Washington, D.C., celebrating her large part in the historic overthrow of the lower half of Congress.
“We’re asking people to really enjoy tonight,” she said by phone, before the party began. “Tomorrow, our real work begins.”
Martin, the mother of 7-year-old twins, is Sarah Palin without the flash, the quips, the winks or the designer glasses. She’s become the face and voice of the best-funded and most organized – admittedly a relative term – tea party group in the country.
Before Tuesday, Martin had spent the last 12 days in a private jet, touching down in 20 states for rallies. The high-end transportation was donated by the founder of a semiconductor firm. Last month, an anonymous donor gave the tea party group $1 million – on the condition that all of it be spent by Tuesday.
National exit polling showed that four of 10 voters on Tuesday expressed support for the tea party’s brand of constitutional fundamentalism. But jetting around the country, setting the grassroots afire, was the easy part.
Martin and her fellow tea partyists now must persuade the GOP that it would be wise not to squander the chance they’ve been given.
“If they don’t vote the way we expect them to vote, then we’re going to do to them the same thing we’ve done to many Democrats and a handful of Republicans. We’ll melt their phone lines,” Martin said.
First on the Tea Party Patriots’ post-election agenda: An orientation for freshmen members of Congress on Nov. 14 and 15, where they will be informed of tea party expectations. Martin and her group will do more than threaten brimstone and melted phone lines. They intend to offer cover.
“If they’re getting pressured from the House leadership or lobbyists, they can let us know and we’ll give them the political support they need,” Martin said.
Martin doesn’t expect an immediate repeal of health care reform – but she does expect to see it quickly defunded. “Given the current administration, an immediate repeal isn’t going to happen,” she said.
Spending on all fronts will be an immediate target, and this is where things could get sticky. One small example: Over the weekend, U.S. Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, a Republican from Coweta County certain to gain influence in the next Congress, made an open suggestion to President Barack Obama.
Westmoreland said Obama should send hundreds of millions of dollars to Georgia for the dredging of the Port of Savannah – an act that he said would create 10,000 or so new jobs.
The former Home Depot computer programmer said Westmoreland’s proposal was news to her, and declined comment on it.
Martin is emblematic of this election year in more ways than her tea party affiliation. Perhaps not since the Great Depression has economic stress become such an intimate part of the political scene.
Despite his victory Tuesday, Republican nominee for governor Nathan Deal was forced to battle questions of his fiscal solvency over the last three months of his campaign. State Rep. Jill Chambers, an Atlanta Republican and chairman of the legislative committee that oversees MARTA, filed for Chapter 7 relief last month.
Her campaign funds were frozen. On Tuesday night, Chambers was losing a battle with Democrat Elena Parent.
Martin, a native of Rome, married her husband Lee in 1992. She became the stay-at-home mom, managing a large upscale house in Woodstock on the income generated by Lee Martin’s temp worker company.
But the company went bust, bankruptcy arrived in 2008, and the Martins moved to a small rental. She was a blogger writing about the shame and pain of bankruptcy when the tea party movement erupted in February 2009. Jenny Beth Martin became a ground-floor convert.
By the time charges of racism and extreme rhetoric hit the tea party movement this summer, Martin was one of the movement’s most visible defenders. “Anger is okay as long as it’s channeled in the appropriate manner,” she said on CNN.
Her role in the tea party movement was featured in a documentary. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. It is a fair guess that she is one of the few residents of Cherokee County ever interviewed on Finnish television.
“It’s really a strange feeling. It’s not something I planned or intended. It’s just something that’s happened,” Martin said.
Tea Party Patriots won’t establish a headquarters anywhere near Congress. She’ll remain in Woodstock. “I try to stay out of Washington, D.C., as much as possible. This city is so corrupt,” Martin said.
Tea Party Patriots policy is determined by consensus, using group discussions on social networks. If everything goes right, she said, the movement will remain amorphous and its leadership will remain ambiguous.
This is an important point. With no figurehead to bargain with, Republicans could be hard put to find any tea party leader willing to endorse tempting, some might argue necessary, compromises with Democrats in the next two years.
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60 comments Add your comment
tom watson
November 2nd, 2010
11:46 pm
O. M. G. I know this woman. It’s not OMG in a good way.
Ralph
November 2nd, 2010
11:59 pm
Months of AJC shilling for Barnes down the drain. Lots of headlines about a likely runoff when polls indicated a LANDSLIDE for Deal was in the offing. The AJC simply does not care that they don’t have a shred of credibility.
John
November 3rd, 2010
12:00 am
Where is cupcake kramer?
JustMe
November 3rd, 2010
12:35 am
The Tea Party Sucks and hey Tom … I know her too.
showmeinatl
November 3rd, 2010
12:44 am
Georgia will get what and who they voted for and more importantly exactly what they deserve…..it may be time to move
Ga Native
November 3rd, 2010
12:53 am
Hey showmeinatl, the proverbial ” Delta is ready when YOU are.”
Jason
November 3rd, 2010
1:15 am
Great idea, defund healthcare, no more insurance for your kids, no coverage for pre existing conditions, no co-pay free mamagrams, colonoscapies, or any oyher preventive care. No, private insurance dosen’t have to pay out 85% in bennifits, let them keep taking 50% for profit while people die.
Hey TEA PARTY, while you’re at it, defund Medicare and Social security too. No to unemployment, right?
This is the most discusting day i have ever witnessed in my life. Corporations now own 1/2 of congress thanks to these idiots that voted against there own intrests.
Dave
November 3rd, 2010
1:41 am
So the Tea Party was formed in February 2009? We all had to suffer for 8 years under George W. Bush, but these people had simply had enough after 3 WEEKS under Barack Obama? Sound more like opportunists than patriots to me.
The Centrist
November 3rd, 2010
1:44 am
The next two years will be fun to watch.
Food for Thought
November 3rd, 2010
1:50 am
The “temp worker business”? Anyone who is angry about lost jobs, outsourcing and lousy pay/benefits ought to think about that.
Uncle Joe
November 3rd, 2010
3:15 am
Its interesting to note how few men are left in this world, and how it is more and more the women that wear the pants and challenge the flabby, the corrupt and the egocentric. Talk is and name-calling are cheap; especially in the light of women of action like Mrs. Martin.
Wez better strap of some spheroids, guys!
Uncle Joe
November 3rd, 2010
3:19 am
Its interesting to note how few men are left in this world, and how it is more and more the women that wear the pants and challenge the flabby, the corrupt and the egocentric. Talk and name-calling are cheap; especially in the light of women of action like Mrs. Martin.
Wez better strap on some spheroids, guys!
lester maddox
November 3rd, 2010
3:48 am
centrist, fun’s not the term I would use for the next two years. Depressing and disgusting will probably fit better.
Fire Eater
November 3rd, 2010
3:53 am
Not just a win but a MANDATE to sweep Georgia free. Angry leftists should sulk less and pack their bags for the People’s Republic of Kalifornia and People’s Kommissar Jerry Brown. There they can sooth their lost souls with “therapy,” (possibly legal) pot and “alternative lifestyle.”
Looks like the Buford Highway crowd might need to pack their vehicles for La-La Land too with new laws making it difficult for illegal aliens to function…10% fee on sending money to foreign countries if the sender has no legal ID, English as the only language of government, bans on quaint practices of the newcomers (voodoo, child brides, mutilation, burkhas, animal sacrifice, etc) and the general mobilization of state and local law enforcement to REMOVE them from our midst.
I wonder what the long-term results of a mass migration of illegal aliens from America to Kalifornia would be…a breakaway “Republica de Atzlan?”
It would be most informative if the operators of this thread would do a demographic breakdown of the vote in Georgia…I suspect that even more so than the well-known “Red State-Blue State” breakdown is the Red County-Blue County map with the demographic divide that it would imply.
@showmeinatl
November 3rd, 2010
5:15 am
You said “Georgia will get what and who they voted for and more importantly exactly what they deserve…..it may be time to move”. That’s exactly what we said when Obama won…and look where we are. What did you expect? We weren’t going to sit still for another 2 years of his rhetoric.
Rick Patel
November 3rd, 2010
5:16 am
Good for Jenny Beth, good for Sarah Palin, and good for Nikki Haley. Tea Party is so relevant and rockin’.
the mehlman rings twice
November 3rd, 2010
6:59 am
Oh well. We lost big. But the good news after the results in Delaware is that we now know who the next contestant on Dancing With The Stars will be.
dylandawg
November 3rd, 2010
7:20 am
Thank goodness the republicans won. Now a return to the peace and prosperity of the Bush years. Yeah.
Vod Kanockers
November 3rd, 2010
7:21 am
Uh…Pops….it looks like your boy Roy did not win.
@ @showmeinatl
November 3rd, 2010
7:34 am
You said “Georgia will get what and who they voted for and more importantly exactly what they deserve…..it may be time to move”. That’s exactly what we said when Obama won…and look where we are. What did you expect? We weren’t going to sit still for another 2 years of his rhetoric.
We went through 8 years of BS, tom foolery, and just plain stupidity. But you couldn’t take 2 years of sanity to start getting the country on the right foot. It’s that kind of attitude that will continue to send jobs overseas, corporations getting tax breaks for doing it, and having your interests take a back seat to those that just paid for this election. Give me a break with this foolishness, after 8 years of “prosperity”…and you call us crazy.
Robert Daniell
November 3rd, 2010
7:45 am
Don’t get me wrong…I love this political revolution brought on by the teap party! However, an oppressive government that over-regulates and over taxes business is the reason we need a port dredged!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Stop this insanity and let’s get back down to business in America….the damn government needs to be supportive…not adversarial!!!!! WE DO NOT NEED MORE CHINESE CRAP IN THIS COUNTRY…WE NEED TO BUILD THINGS HERE IN AMERICA THE WAY IT USED TO BE!
RD
hoopdog
November 3rd, 2010
7:55 am
this woman is a kook, there is simply no other way to put it
Ordinary Woman
November 3rd, 2010
8:12 am
What’s the problem? Why are you men always putting down women? Give it a rest.
So her ideas aren’t exactly aligned with yours, but why the hate on her being a woman. Dislike her policies, but not the woman. The same goes for our President. Show some respect to the office.
GA politics will sure be interesting
Casper
November 3rd, 2010
8:12 am
tom watson, are you a thirteen year old girl????
rod
November 3rd, 2010
8:16 am
Congratulations Lets slam an activist the first day of the resounding victory against socialism. Given the choice of the ACORN activist sans President and this lady, I would choose her since she actually had a real job trying to provide for her family. I guess the AJC still cant figure out why no one subscribes anymore even with these results.
I guess King Roy got hit by the arrows he started slinging first.
Carol
November 3rd, 2010
8:27 am
Robert Daniell, I could not agree more!!! But did you know Obama proposed a tax plan that would encourage companies to keep jobs in the US instead of rewarding them for shipping jobs overseas? Do you know who got their bloomers in a twist about it? Well the republicans of course! They want to keep low taxes and cheap labor for their buddies. I’m not saying Obama is the greatest president ever, but anyone who thinks the republicans have the in mind the best interests of the working class needs to get their heads out of the their you-know-what. The republicans are not for the middle class even if they sell them self that way. And the tea party people are being played and used by these people and don’t even know it. I would feel sorry for them if they were making things worse for the rest of us. As soon as the new ‘leaders’ are settled in their office I intend to write them letters voicing my support of any tax plan for companies that will help keep jobs in the US. I stopped buying anything made in China a long time ago – it was not easy but I did it. Won’t you do the same?
Harold
November 3rd, 2010
8:28 am
The mad hatter called. . . he wants his tea party back.
LaLaLa
November 3rd, 2010
8:38 am
Guess she forgot what it is like to be “without.” It is okay for her to blow other people’s millions and fly around on a private jet as long as it is “corporate” money, right? But a semiconductor maker sells mainly to government and government contractors, not exactly a consumer retail item, y’know. So, without the gummint money being shoveled at her private sector benefactors, this “activist” will be back in her rental without health care, and without the millions to blow, and probably without her cleaning job because immigrant labor is recovering faster than US born labor.
Oh, I know, she can be a “consultant” or a “lobbyist”, but she ought to stay out of those private jets because the FEDERAL air traffic controllers and their already dangerously outdated equipment will probably not be up to maintaining safe traffic patterns, nor will the Atlanta airport be getting all that federal boost. But also, it will take 15 hours for her to drive to DC, not 10, because the federal transportation funding will also be gone, and all those interstates will continue to fall apart.
Private sector does not exist to produce public goods like safe air space, interstate highways, or national defense, dears, it is purely about making money for owners or shareholders.
bart
November 3rd, 2010
8:42 am
People who are dumb enough to vote against their own best interests deserve what they get. The problem is the rest of us have to suffer too. Sadly, the Republican Party is not for the working class but for big government. We’ll see what happens, but now we have a crook for a governor and an adulterer fo a lt. governor. Guess where the money to get Deal out of debt is going to come from?
The Grinch
November 3rd, 2010
8:51 am
There is nothing wrong with her being a woman; there’s everything in the world wrong with her being a moron. One of the “100 most influential people in the world?” No wonder she’s been interviewed by Finnish TV; this kind of retarded horse-$%$# can only happen here and the rest of the world is both fascinated and horrified.
Sarah Palin without the style or charisma? That’s like Kim Khardashian without the butt. Way to go, Tea Party!
khc
November 3rd, 2010
9:20 am
congrats to repubs……hope there’s not repeat of w, sonny or glenn type policies/leadership! watch the rich get richer and your jobs moved off shore and more illegals allowed to work for less than minimum wage. as recent 60 minute segment with dave stockman (reagans guy) tax cuts are a sham…..
lmno
November 3rd, 2010
9:37 am
Congratulations to GA’s Future Governor David Ralston. I believe he is who will take over after Deal’s indictment and Cagle leaves office in disgrace over his multiple affairs.
Seriously? You people couldn’t shell out 10 dollars for a trauma system. How selfish can a person be?
And who in the heck would possibly vote to give corporations teeth in their non-compete contracts? Who? Are you nuts?
And why on Earth do you think that Industrial Property owners should get some sort of break in property taxes?
Dumber than a rock
November 3rd, 2010
9:38 am
Ummm…LaLaLa? Semiconductors are integral parts of every electronic device there is. Like, your computer, your cellphone, your iPad, iPod, iPhone, Blackberry, etc., etc., etc.
boots
November 3rd, 2010
9:42 am
I don’t know her, but here is something I will observe: you have a story about a woman who was upset and she got involved. She was obviously very successful in making an impact, and she has made a difference. Meanwhile, several anonymous posters here sit on their butts and throw stones and criticize her.
I would rather have her as my leader, neighbor or friend than “Tom Watson” or “just me.”
Michael
November 3rd, 2010
9:51 am
FEAR BEATS SANITY! FEAR BEATS SANITY! Time to get my yankee butt back to Maryland.
JustMe
November 3rd, 2010
9:54 am
Hey aladawg – get your facts straight. For your information, I am an Independent and a conservative (I’m just not that conservative – the tea party is crazy, up against the wall conservative whereas I’m middle of the road, open-minded conservative).
JustMe
November 3rd, 2010
9:56 am
boots – I don’t have anything against Jenny Beth. She is a good person. I just don’t care for the tea party. They have it right about taxes (except when they vote against a tax that would go to funding trauma care, which is a good thing and sometimes you have to go against your basic instincts and do the right, good thing), but they have it wrong about just about everything else.
SmittyATL
November 3rd, 2010
10:02 am
LaLaLa @ 8:38: I’m not sure I agree with (or even understand) your entire diatribe, but you make an excellent point at the end: taxpayer money should indeed be used to pay for public goods such as safe airspace, interstate highways, and national defense.
The problem is 70 years of scope creep. Over these past seven decades, Congress has continually expanded its reach and wants to provide individuals with everything from houses to cars to retirement plans — goods and services that SHOULD be paid for with private funds. Furthermore, the federal government is funding controversial social programs that many taxpayers do not agree with; many of these programs address very worthy causes, but should be funded VOLUNTARILY via charitable donations. It’s bad enough that the government is committing to pay for all this with taxpayer money; but what’s even worse is that they’re sticking our children with a $13 trillion tab to pay for our greedy largesse.
Let’s get back to using taxpayer money for public safety, infrastructure, security, education, and national defense; and let’s leave the rest to private industry and charity. And let’s at least start to pay back the IOU’s that we’ve issued, so that future generations won’t be driven into poverty or overtaken by other nations.
LaLaLa
November 3rd, 2010
10:11 am
Hey Dumb as a Rock… You sure are… Without the R&D investments and purchases by the federal government, especially in the early years of industry development, you would be typing on a typewriter right now. Industry has benefited from sales to government as well as R&D investment and favorable (protectionist trade policies). From the Semiconduct Industry Association’s own report..”.Federal, state, and local governments spent $109 billion cumulatively on computers from 1995-2009; however if this computing
power was purchased at 1995 prices, the government would have spent $1.2 trillion” http://www.sia-online.org/galleries/Publications/Doubling_Exports_Paper_0610.pdf
You realize that the Semiconductor trade association has been whining for years about need for protectionism from the big bad COMPETITIVE Chinese and Indian semiconductor industries. Check out the association’s web page for 2010 news on urging FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PROTECTIONISM of sales of final products at the same time they have shipped more and more production offshore. The industry sells a lot to the automotive industry too – oops, FEDERAL GOVERNMENT bailout of two of the big 3 automakers protected that market from those nasty overseas COMPETITORS. China just announced a $50 billion federal government investment in semiconductor research.
Jethro
November 3rd, 2010
10:24 am
Here’s what I know: This country’s in deep doo-doo. Largely because people are more interested in creating sound bites than in creating good legislation. Until Dems and Repubs can start talking to each other instead of at each other, we’ll continue this spiral until we eventually become the United States of China.
Since neither party seems capable of engaging in productive discourse, the Tea Party comes along and says “Enough. We’re tired of listening to you idiots blather about. If you won’t steer the conversation, we will.” And they have. They steered the conversation last night, that’s certain.
So to all of you who put more effort into creating snide put-downs than you do in your stewardship of government, here comes the Tea Party. Don’t think it’s a Republican offshoot; it’s not. If the Repubs don’t listen and go back to business as usual, their a$$ is gone too. It’s not about liberal or conservative. It’s about elected officials doing what we elected them to do. If we can’t start talking to one another – not insulting one another, but talking to one another – it won’t matter. We will have frittered away the hard-earned right of self-determination our forefathers fought and died for.
SmittyATL
November 3rd, 2010
10:27 am
That’s the smartest thing I’ve ever heard from someone named Jethro! (Except maybe Jethro Tull.)
Jobu
November 3rd, 2010
10:32 am
The big four Tea Party bottom feeders — Sharron Angle, Carl Paladino, Joe Miller, and Christine O’Donnell — lost. The Tea Party is nothing more than older, ignorant, extreme right-wingers. Only 3% of them know that federal taxes have gone down under Obama. Oh well, I guess they will have to try to seize power via the Second Amendment.
TestingWaters
November 3rd, 2010
10:40 am
Jethro…It would be great if one could participate in government. I contacted Rep. Paul Broun 5 times last year about the foreclosure and loan crisis – after waiting 2 years to save enough for a house and resisting the mortgage broker’s effort to get us to buy a house twice as expensive because she said “you can afford it”, we bought and then the value dropped 35% in one year, putting us underwater. Paul Broun’s own aide told me he would probably not respond because he was busy with some anti-abortion proposal. And she was right – he did not respond to my letters or phone calls, but I did receive several handsomely crafted full color mailers at election time telling me how “concerned” he is (about what?? his son’s multiple drunk driving and drug arrests?). Yet, PB received one of the largest victory margins in the state. Getting action isn’t possible when the people of Georgia just fall into line. Two of my friends told me “He IS a doctor, you know.” (And 2 out of 3 doctors recommend voting Republican, I guess is the implication. What does it take to get action?
SmittyATL
November 3rd, 2010
10:59 am
Jobu: I certainly wouldn’t back all “Tea Party” candidates, andy more than I would back all Republicans or all Democrats. I do agree with the original premise of the Tea Party movement: the federal government has far overstepped its bounds. It’s not just taxes, and it’s not just excessive spending (although those are clearly two major problematic symptoms); rather, it’s ignoring the fundamental Constitutional principle of limited federal government, with all powers not expressly granted in the Contstitution remaining with the states (i.e. the people).
Obama is a lightning rod because of his activist agenda; but many others — both Republicans and Democrats — have already been felled by the Tea Party movement.
You don’t have to believe that Carl Paladino, Christine O’Donnell, or Sarah Palin are fit for prominent national offices in order to agree with the Tea Party principles.
Finally, it’s ignorant to assume that all Tea Party backers are “older ignorant, extreme right-wingers.” There are many Americans of all ages, races, and political affiliation who believe we need a more responsible government.
SmittyATL
November 3rd, 2010
11:16 am
TestingWaters: I’m truly sorry that your investment went south. I can sympathize, in that my company went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and I lost a huge chunk of my retirement savings and part of my income.
What are you looking for Rep. Broun to do about it? If you’re asking the federal government to butt out, rather than forcing lenders to make risky loans to people who can’t afford houses (which led to an unsustainable run-up in housing prices), I’m with you. If you’re looking for taxpayer money to compensate you for your unfortunate investment, I think you’re barking up the wrong tree. No one compensated me for my unfortunate investment, and I sure don’t want to pay taxes or rack up debts to pay for others’.
TestingWaters
November 3rd, 2010
11:38 am
I would have settled for Paul Broun actually paying attention to legislation that affects mortgage lending – I don’t even care whether it was more or less regulation. Just paying attention, for goodness’ sake. The man is fixated on saving his own immortal soul through interfering with social issues that of all things, the federal government has no business being involved with. How can someone vote for Paul Broun just because he is a doctor?? But the point was, it isn’t easy to get active in government when the elected representative is 100% unresponsive, and just rides in by his party’s coattails. The guy hasn’t done anything to help NE Georgia – no jobs bill, against health care, against extended unemployment benefits (paid for by people when they worked), no stand at all in the mortgage/foreclosure crisis.
I don’t expect compensation, it is always a risk to make any investment, and I never banked on the home as anything but a place to live. I am just thinking of all my acquaintances who bragged about their $600,000 homes, big SUVS, vacation places, and expensive furnishings, bought on credit (consumer and mortgages) who brought me down with them. I am lucky enough to still have a job and able to pay the mortgage company, but it does burn me that my money is going right back into the pockets of the people who developed instruments that caused the problem, sold them like hucksters, and failed to back them with the capital needed to cover the bad bets.
SmittyATL
November 3rd, 2010
11:45 am
TestingWaters: I’m with you 100%. Our representatives do need to listen. And it also makes me angry that those of us who show restraint and pay our debts have to cover those “hucksters” (great word choice!) who rolled the dice and lost.
Sorry if I sounded cavalier. You deserve more from your government than you received.
RtTrack
November 3rd, 2010
12:06 pm
A couple of points to consider.
First – anyone attempting to down play this historical election in anyway has serious credibility problems
Second – Liberals and Progressives AKA Socialist and Communists – Take note. The spin is that this response was due to economic woe but I assert that a great part of the enthusiasm from Conservatives had to do with a perceived assault on American way of life by Obama and his lackeys. Regardless, the message has been sent that your agenda is to no longer have a seat at the table.
Third – Blah blah blah Christine O’Donnel, blah blah Harry Reid… whatever… the in-roads made this cycle have launched a metamorphosis that will sweep thru the 2012 elections and then Conservatives will have all three branches. No one involved with the GOP or Tea Party buys into the spin that the Tea Party costs the GOP. Nice try but anyone with half a brain (I understand this excludes most of the Left) knows without doubt that the Tea Party is responsible for the momentum and success of this cycle, no, there will be no cannibalism over this point.
Last but not least is the reality that the outcome of the election simply could not have been any better for Conservatives. The truth of the matter is that winning seats but not the control of the Senate at this point is a probably best when looking at 2012 and beyond. Control of the House means we control the Legislation presented to the Senate. The onus will be on the Left to decide whether to advance or kill our attempts at rebuilding the country. I dont know about you but I have little doubt that the Left will not play nice. Since they will sink their claws in and hold on for the long fight this will position them for another round of defeats come 2012 and most likely is the death nail in the coffin of an Obama second term.
It is a joyous day to be an American. It is re-assuring to know that me and my like are the great majority, to know that the anti-American sentiment and agenda is not the way of the future. It is great to know a vast majority of the Country leans Right when it counts.
We want to thank President Obama for motivating Conservatives of every creed and color in a way that hasnt happened since Ronald Reagan. Nothing brings a group of people together faster or builds bonds stronger than a common enemy. Obama and his sheep have been recognized for what they are, a threat to the exceptionalism that is the American Experiment.
The sleeping giant is awake and alert.
ROBOCOP
November 3rd, 2010
12:29 pm
I agree with Centrist @ 1:44am. This is going to be fun to watch for the next 2 years. If Republicans think that this election was an endorsement of the GOP, they’ve missed the mark. This was a repudiation of Obama and his policies. But those who have now been handed the reigns on the wagon better be mindfull of what will be expected of them If politics is, at least in part, the art of distraction, then the distractions are over with. The Republicans at both the national and state level will have to show why their policies and principles are better or are more productive for America and that will have to be in the form of results…not just that generalized, old “free market” rhetoric. It’ll be up to them to put ideas on the table that actually show results and not just say “No” to everything they can’t get credit for supporting. In short, there’ll be no more time for blaming Obama if they can’t get things done. With Mitch McConnell still being the minority leader in the Senate, he’ll have to stop all the “I’m-going-to-spend-my-time-preventing-Obama-from-getting-a-second-term” chatter. That will prove to be nonproductive. Perhaps the Senate Republicans will do what’s smart and get themselves a new Minority leader, since McConnell wasn’t able to win the Senate with a Republican majority. I also hope the Senate Democrats will do the same with Harry Reid. Time for a new majority leader in the Senate.
The future will tell us all whether the choices made by this midterm election turn out to be correct ones. If not, what next?
LaLaLa
November 3rd, 2010
1:31 pm
Little Jenny Beth – just one of us. Except I never owed $510,000 in federal taxes. Math 123 quiz – how much income (personal or corporate, you choose the rate) does it take to produce a federal tax bill of $510,000? Think that has anything to do with her hissy fit about taxes?