Elections have consequences: Does Obama regret saying that now? – CSMonitor.com
Newly elected President Obama infamously espoused this view shortly after his 2009 inauguration, during a meeting with congressional Republicans about his economic proposals. Mr. Obama told GOP leaders that “elections have consequences,” and, in case there was any doubt, “I won.”
Looking toward next week’s election it appears that the majority of voters in America have grown tired of the progressive agenda pushed by the Democrat Party. Perhaps President Obama now regrets this flippant remark as Republicans have now been given a mandate by the American people to enact their agenda and vision for the future of America.
So, what will this exactly mean and how will this shape our future? For starters, Kevin McCarthy has laid out his plans when he takes the gavel as speaker of the House from the incumbent Nancy Pelosi.
“On the very first day, we’ll repeal the 87,000 new IRS agents because we think the government should be there to help you, not to go after you.” This is mandated by the Democrats’ “Inflation Reduction Act” which President Biden signed into law in August. This would grant an $80 billion boost to the IRS over a 10-year period, with more than half of the funds intended to help the agency crack down on tax evasion by hiring tens of thousands of agents that would more than double the agency’s current size.
In addition, he also stated “We will become energy independent and focus on energy in America to make the price of gasoline less, the price of home heating less, to make America stronger and the world more secure. We will secure our border, we will make sure we don’t defund the police, but we’ll fund the police.”
“We will go after tackling inflation that Democrats have created,” he said. “We’ll pass a Parents’ Bill of Rights so that parents have a say in their kids’ educations, and then, we’ll hold government accountable so the people have a say in how their money is being spent, and we will eliminate waste.”
For years the Democrat Party has pushed a false narrative of Russian collusion which the Mueller Investigation determined to be unfounded. The only collusion was between the campaign of Hillary Clinton and Russian political operatives. We also now know that the Hunter Biden laptop story was suppressed prior to the last presidential election by the mainstream media.
In addition, Marc Zuckerburg acknowledged that Facebook suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop story before the 2020 election based on a general request from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. This alone by itself could have altered the last Presidential election. In addition, President Trump was impeached twice by Democrats in a purely partisan effort to maintain and expand their political power.
So yes, elections “do have consequences” and let’s just hope the Republican Party is up to the challenge of governing and for once facing the Democrat party head on.
