Voters to show 'Dem' no mercy By GEOFF EARLE, Post Correspondent Last Updated: 5:48 AM, November 2, 2010 Posted: 12:53 AM, November 2, 2010
WASHINGTON -- Angry voters head to the polls today and are set to throw out Democrats across the country -- a wave of pink slips that Republicans say reflects the nation's deep dissatisfaction with President Obama's economic policies.
"This election is entirely about him and this big majority in Congress and what they've been doing for the last two years," said Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
With the GOP expected to take over the House and make gains in the Senate, a new CNN survey found that 56 percent of likely voters believe the president hasn't paid attention to the most important problems, while just 42 percent of likely voters said Obama has the right priorities.
A stunning 75 percent of likely voters said things in the country were going pretty badly or very badly -- the worst rating since the poll started asking the question in the 1970s.
Polls show widespread frustration over Obama -- who remained off the campaign trial, holed up in the White House yesterday -- failing to turn the economy around, while increasing government spending and deficits.
"The American people are in charge," declared GOP leader John Boehner (Ohio), vowing to shrink the size and cost of government if his party wins power today.
"Our first priority will be to create new jobs . . . to get our economy moving again by end ing the uncertainty facing small businesses," he added.
By a margin of 62 percent to 33 per cent, likely voters believe the country is on the wrong track and 47 percent cited the economy as the biggest problem facing the United States today, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll yesterday.
"It just reconfirms the present environment in which we are in, a bad economy that has been prolonged," said Ipsos pollster Cliff Young.
"People are basically not optimistic about the near future and they are going to take it out on the party in power, specifically the president and his administration."
According to the other Bush (The Good Bush Brother Jeb):
"The looming victories for Republican candidates next Tuesday is not a validation of the Republican Party at all" Instead, they would reflect “a repudiation of the massive overreach” by Mr. Obama and Democrats and "DISGUST WITH THE POLITICAL CLASS" FOR IT'S FAILURE TO COOPERATE AND DELIVER RESULTS!" (Former Gov. Jeb Bush)
Michael Steele agrees: STEELE:I think there is a degree of truth to that. I think the American people right now are much more skeptical of the direction that the President and Mrs. Pelosi and Mr. Reid are taking the country but they also have some concerns about the direction that Republicans will then lead when we take control of the Congress in 2011.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
This rhetoric has been historically spewed during elections and after. It is ALWAYS the last administration's/party's fault!! That is just what they do at every level of government.
Defending or criticizing this rhetoric is a waste of time!!! It is just 'politics'....and they clearly all do it!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
The Republicans are on probation and failure to follow the promises they made before the election will result in them being voted out of office just as the Dems were. Both parties are guilty of wasteful spending, earmarks, and ignoring we the people and they do so at their own risk.
BT unless you live under a rock, everyone knows the problems this country faces are the result of the inept actions of GWB Even REps know that one. Stop touting him as part of the brain trust. The last and only President who was truly brilliant was Clinton.
I agree in part with Boom. GWB liberal entitlement policies compounded by King Obama's trillion dollar partisan HC entitlement policy got us to this point.
The only thing Newt Gingrich is good for was his Contract with America. The 94 Republican revolution balanced the budget and kept Clinton's liberal agenda in check.
Conservatives need to stop just showing up to stop a liberal agenda, they need to become more active and start ADVANCING a Constitutional Conservative agenda. IMO
The Republicans are on probation and failure to follow the promises they made before the election will result in them being voted out of office just as the Dems were. Both parties are guilty of wasteful spending, earmarks, and ignoring we the people and they do so at their own risk.
Both dems and reps have both fallen FAR from their ideology and FAR from the constitution!!
Hey....did Pelosi ever decide to tax 'botox' injections?
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
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