The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over hoping for a different result. Or perhaps that’s the definition of stupid. It would certainly define today’s Democrat party.
Let’s start with the major losses the Democrat party has had since Obama became President in 2008. When Obama took office his party held both the Senate and the House. In the Senate the Democrats dominated with 58 seats in 2008. Today they hold 48 Senate seats. In 2008 Democrats held 257 House seats, Republicans held 178. Now Republicans hold 239 House seats, Democrats hold 193.
Changes in state Governorships and state legislature changes are even more dramatic. Under Obama 35 state legislatures flipped from Democrat to Republican. Currently Republicans control 68 of 99 legislatures across the country. Republicans now hold 34 Governorships. In 26 states Republicans control all three branches of Government, Governor, State Senate, and State House. Democrats have this trifecta in a grand total of five states. Democrats have lost 900 legislature seats since 2009.
More on this year’s losses here.
Changes under Obama:
It’s evident that the American people do NOT want what the Democrat party is peddling. They rejected Hillary and her move to the left in her effort to get the support of Bernie’s voters. Hillary chose to align with “Black Lives Matter” and against the police. She supported free college and forgiveness of college loans. She wanted tax hikes amounting to $3 trillion. Hillary advocated an end to coal mining. She called Trump supporters ‘Deplorables’.
When Democrats lost the election they scratched their heads over why they lost the white, working class, vote. Democrats can’t figure out why working class people would object to a tax increase to help the politically correct, special snowflakes, attend college for free. They can’t figure out why coal miners would object to losing their jobs. Democrats cannot understand why people have come to despise political correctness.
Now it seems Democrats don’t care about being the party of working people, particularly white people. The party wants to move even further to the left! Losing Governorships, state houses, the House and the Senate has not made them wake up and realize the country does not want their policies.
Instead of trying to attract more voters, they double down on stupid. They are likely to make Congressman Keith Ellison the party chair. Not only is he the first Congressman to be sworn in using the Quran and not a Bible, he is also a member of the Nation of Islam. He is strongly supported by Congressman Bernie Sanders, Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer, and outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid. That may tell you all you need to know.
After 9/11 Congressman Ellison compared President Bush to Hitler. More fast facts on Ellison can be found here. Ellison is a supporter of Louis Farrakhan and has been accused of being anti-Semitic. Democrats would be hard pressed to find someone more far left to chair their party.
Democrats have learned nothing by their losses over the last 8 years. They still believe they need to move further to the left! Good news for Republicans! We will take over even more offices across the country because Democrats are completely clueless about what Americans want.
The Boston Globe says Democrats know why they lost but refuse to fix it. Exactly!
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Speaking of doubling down on stupid:
The good folk of Clay County, KY voted by the huge margin of 86-11 for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton in last week’s presidential election.
It also turns out that about 60 percent of Clay County’s 21,000 residents are covered
by Medicaid, up from about a third before the expansion. The county’s
uninsured rate for non-elderly adults has fallen from 29 percent to
10 percent.
The dramatic drop in uninsured is because Kentucky adopted Medicaid expansion under Obamacare . . . . the same Obamacare that Trump and Ryan promise to repeal on Day One.
Which means that a good portion of the residents of Clay County just
voted to have their own medical coverage taken away from themselves,
their families and their neighbors.
As Forrest Gump’s momma used to say: “Stupid is as stupid does.”
I suspect a number of you heard about the disgusting behavior of the cast and audience of the play “Hamilton”. Mike Pence and some of his family were attending – and the left took the opportunity to lecture and boo him. Again, the tolerant left shows its intolerance.
Don’t interrupt them, we couldn’t ask for better press.
I think back to that huge issue of what bathroom trans people are going to use that drove so much of the left in this election cycle. I look around at the Trump voters I know, and you know what … most of them don’t even know what the word “trans” even means. I cannot think of an issue that is more insignificant to people in rural areas than bathrooms for trans people. Yet the left convinced itself that Trump voter’s number one aspiration was to stop trans bathrooms, and they fought hard against it, and now you’ve got the cast of Hamilton fighting their own imaginary demons. Hell, let them. You think most rural people even know WTF the cast of Hamilton is going on about ? They voted for Trump because of the economy, jobs, etc, and most of them couldn’t care less about the stuff that the cast of Hamilton thinks they care about – the cast of Hamilton believes this has something to do with race, or gender issues, or sexual preference, so let them keep thinking that, let them all protest in the streets, etc, while Republicans keep winning on the economy and talking about jobs.
You’d think losing so many governor’s mansions, state legislatures, the House, Senate, and the Presidency, along with the Supreme court by extension might make leftists think … hmm, maybe we’re focused on the wrong thing, but NOPE, they just stay in their bubble, keep reading the BS their own leftists journalists write for them, keep watching the movies their own leftists hollywood directors make for them, etc, all the while being COMPLETELY CLUELESS about what the 50% of people they never come into contact is thinking.
If the cast of Hamilton had any idea how hysterically funny their little rant appears to working people who are surviving on approximately $30/k year income was they would be so embarrassed they wouldn’t show their face in public for a month, but thankfully for us the little privileged actors and actresses have NO CLUE how absurd they are.
I’m not Jewish but I found out my high school classmate was one when he told me he didn’t celebrate Christmas. I thought at the time that really sucked, but later figured that was probably OK after he got his ass shot up in the Nam. So does that kinda sorta make me honorary Jewish or something? How about if my grandmother from 1740 was Jewish? I never really understood all this stuff and fifty years later I still don’t.
Bring in the tomatoes
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NOOOOO……….
Man I hope the dems make Ellison X their chairman.. smack some sense into jews. Ellison’s open support for the Nation Of Islam is a matter of public record. Ellison wrote columns under the pseudonym Keith E. Hakim and Keith X Ellison, in which he spoke respectfully of Farrakhan and defended the NOI’s national spokesman and Farrakhan’s right hand man, Khalid Abdul Muhammad, notorious for his anti-white, anti-Jewish, and anti-gay opinions.
Disgusting, and yet the Democrats embrace him.
I can’t believe they are that stupid. But, I could could not see Trump winning either. However, Trump losing was based entirely on the information provided by the crooked right and left media. My mistake.
Trump ultimately won because he doubled down on open borders, illegal immigration, and Communist China. (trade)If he moves away from that, the voters who put him in, will kick him out. The seed for the Trump victory was planted in his speech attacking Illegal’s and Communist China. Out of that seed grew the entire Trump victory.
Look for Democrats to quickly shore up union support in the rust belt states. How? I don’t know yet. But, they will have to have jobs to do it.
PS- Does anyone think Romney will take orders from Kusner, or Trump’s children? Do you think a globalist like Romney will slap tariffs on China? Do you think the alt. right will embrace Romney?
You were far from alone in thinking Trump couldn’t win. Everything I predicted about him over the last two years as been wrong!
That’s OK Jeanine, you still run the best blog.
It is funny to read all the statements about Trump not winning. I had two candidates, Trump and Cruz, both made it to the final but Trump won. As I watched, I saw him grow from a boor to a near statesman. As this happened, his crowds grew and grew. I would have been surprised if Hillary won and it would only have happened if the illegal vote (some 3 to 5 million) had not been swamped by the outpouring of the working middle class who had it with the leftist anti-Americanism.
I am Jewish, by birth to a Jewish mother. And even though I am a staunch Zionist, In a way, Israel is indeed an apartheid, Jewish supremacist state. Some of you may not know this, but it is against Israeli law for a Jew to marry a non-Jew. That smacks pretty much of Jim Crow. So, there are legitimate beefs people have with Israel. And criticism of the Jewish state does not necessarily equate to anti-Semitism.
In the Old Testament story of Ruth, it was also illegal under jewish law to marry a Moabitess, and yet Ruth’s sons did just that, as did their kinsman redeemer Boaz. Yet both Ruth and Rahab, a prostitute, are listed in Matthew’s account of the lineage of Jesus Christ. Thank God we live under grace today and not just the (rule of) law or sharia.
I do believe that you have opened the door, so now let me put my foot in it with Jude1:4;
“For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord.”
OK, thanks for the Bible lesson, but I don’t see what that has to do with the point I am making, which is that in some regards Israel is a Jewish Supremacist state and that people are not wrong or evil to bring that up.
I am not Jewish but I am a Zionist and I think Israel is just fine. My goodness, they get this little spit of land, about the size of New Jersey, in the desert and people want to begrudged them even that.
No one is begrudging Israel or its right to exist, but do you think it is kosher that our ally have laws barring marriage between Jew and Gentile? Furthermore, if an Israeli student goes abroad and while in a country such as the USA finds Jesus and becomes a Messianic Jew, then that person is subject to fine and imprisonment should he or she try to preach the Gospel in Israel. Why should Israel be the only country in the West with such laws? To me, it does indeed smack somewhat of apartheid.
The first sentence, first clause is utterly wrong. How you could be jewish and make such a statement in light of history is beyond insane.
I’m not saying you are wrong or evil Mark. There are legitimate beefs we all have with our own country, much less with Israel or any other country. Yet each country is a sovereign nation with its own set of legal and religious traditions and practices which in some cases are codified in law. While it may be against the law in Israel to marry a non-Jew it certainly did not prohibit Anthony Weiner from marrying Huma Adedini in this country or the two to subsequently seek a divorce either. Both Russia and Greece and almost every muslim nation I know have laws against proselytizing, but some still bravely challenge such laws. At least Israel allows muslims to serve in its Kinneset. By contrast, can you name any Jew currently serving in any legislature in a muslim country?
I am glad to see the Democrats put up Ellison. It is virtually certain that their will be many more radical islamic terrorist attacks here in the USA and Europe. Each such attack will force the Democrat Party further and further into the type of insanity we see in Western Europe today. It is most unfortunate that good people will have to be injured and die to expose fully the horror that is the islamic ideology.
The one question I would love to hear anybody in the media ever ask Keith Ellison is; “When you took your oath of office “to defend the constitution” on the Koran instead of the Bible, how do we ever know if or when you are ever telling the truth, since your Koran says it is alright to lie to advance islam, while Jesus acquaints lying with murder in John 8, and telling the truth will be judged both in this world (as perjury when caught) and in the next?”
Check this out;
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/bond-guru-bill-gross-says-trump-voters-will-suffer-most-from-election-result-2016-11-16?siteid=yhoof2&yptr=yahoo&ref=yfp
Over the past few days I’ve been prodding Democrats on these same point and they have retorted with an astounding level of delusion. You’d think large doses of reality and consistently heavy losses would sober them up, but they haven’t. Then I thought, why wake them up from their fantasyland? They are writing their own obituary. They will get the Alt-Left vote but the other 85% of the country is going to reject them completely. Glad to see them self-destruct. They are addicted to some strange stuff and, like all addicts, they either snap out of it or they keep hitting that smack until they die. Democrats appear to have chosen a death march. Good riddance.
Another amazing parallel set of maps a friend should me at work yesterday was how this year’s Republican voting Electoral College map and the U.S. crop production map coincided and how the Democratic Party Electoral map and the U.S. highest crime areas map coincided. Absolutely astonishing.