Denial: Democrat House Whip Jim Clyburn Claims Midterm Losses Had “Nothing to do with Nancy Pelosi” (Video)

I guess that is why the RNC put this banner on their headquarters.



Democrat Leader Says 2010 Midterm Losses Had "Nothing to do with Nancy Pelosi"


Disingenuous.

Great News: Alvin Greene isn't ruling out another run for office (video)

Failed South Carolina democratic senatorial candidate Alvin Green refused to say if he would run for another public office, but he didn't rule it out. He seemed more interested in promoting his comic book and gulping down at his post election event. There was plenty because less than 10 supporters showed up.

Is this the most disappointed Democrat after last night's election?

Guess who won't be Senate Majority Leader in 2011.

Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid hung on to win Nevada's grueling Senate race yesterday, dashing any hope that Sen. Charles Schumer may have had of taking over the powerful Senate post.

The senior New York senator -- who cruised to a third term and declared his own decisive victory shortly after the polls closed -- had been well positioned to become majority leader if Reid had lost and Democrats kept control of the Senate.

Delusional Nancy Pelosi Has No Regrets

Nancy Pelosi may not have any regrets. The same may not be true for blue dog Democrats Pelosi strong-armed into voting for Obamacare.

ABC News reported:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said today she has “no regrets” one day after a Republican landslide stripped her of the power that defined her historic tenure as the first female Speaker of the House.

The California Democrat, who won a new two year term in Tuesday’s election, also said she has yet to consider what she will do now.

Nancy Pelosi Remained Delusional to the End (video)

Nancy Pelosi claimed yesterday Democrats were "On pace to maintain majority." Calling Pelosi delusional is being kind and giving her the benefit of the doubt. More likely, Pelosi was lying through her teeth.

GOP Gives House Dems a Bloody Nose

Republicans are expected to pick up 60+ seats in the House after the finally votes are tallied. This historic wave election is the largest gain for either party since 1948. Among the big name losers are Ike Skelton, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and John Spratt in South Carolina, who led the House Budget Committee. In one of the sweetest victories of the night, one term lunatic Alan Grayson of Florida has been defeated.

AP reported:

WASHINGTON – Republicans drew on the support of independents and the energy of tea party activists to fashion a resounding victory in the House in midterm elections, increased their strength in the Senate and quickly served notice they intend to challenge President Barack Obama with a conservative approach to the economy.

"We hope President Obama will now respect the will of the people, change course, and to commit to making changes they are demanding," Ohio Rep. John Boehner, the House speaker-in-waiting, told cheering partisans as GOP gains mounted Tuesday night....

Mainstream Media is Afraid Republican Win Will Mean Gridlock That Hurts Recovery

After our government took-over GM and Citibank and gave Chrysler to the UAW, gridlock is just what Wall Street is hoping for.

AP reported:

WASHINGTON — Political gridlock is supposed to be good for business. If bickering lawmakers can't agree on anything, the thinking goes, they can't pass laws and regulations that make the economy worse.

So will the midterm elections, which are expected to leave Congress at least partially controlled by Republicans and squaring off against a Democratic White House, be a help to the economy?

Don't count on it.

A standoff between the Obama administration and emboldened Republicans will probably block any new help for an economy squeezed by slow growth and high unemployment.

How big will the House Tsunami be?

Here is the RCP Generic Congressional Ballot poll average.




Here are the House predictions via Key House Races.

Dick Morris	73
Fred Barnes	60
Unlikely Voter	57
RCP	67
Freedom's Lighthouse	57
Sabato	55
NYT-Silver	53
Cook	50+
KHR	52
EP	62
Rothenberg	55-65
Rasmussen	55
40Seats	66

It has come to this: Barney Frank calls in Michael Dukakis to rally base

Michael Dukakis? Dukakis lost in 1988 to George H.W. Bush, carrying only 10 states and the District of Columbia. Perhaps, Michael Dukakis will loan Barney Frank his tank!

fleming and hayes reported"

October 30, 2010 - In a last-minute move of desperation,dukakis-tank-717905 Barney Frank called in former governor and presidential-nominee, Michael Dukakis, to help him rally support...amongst his base in the liberal town of Brookline (well, maybe not so liberal anymore). Finding a Barney Frank event these days is harder to do than one might think. Despite the fact that Frank is truly fighting the reelection campaign of his life to republican challenger Sean Bielat, he's staying peculiarly quiet and randomly popping up at small events amongst democrats. Ever since we organize a counter-rally to protest former President Bill Clinton's visit to stump for Frank, Barney has avoided publicly announcing his campaign events...

Obama 2009: "Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won." Obama 2010: "We Need to Come Together'"

Eric Cantor went to the White house on day three of President Obama's presidency. At the time, Obama and Democrats had total control of the White House, Senate and House. Cantor tried to share ideas with President Obama for stimulating the economy and creating jobs. When Cantor pushed for small business tax-cuts, President Obama said,

"Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won."

Instead of business tax cuts that would have actually stimulated the economy, we got the failed Porkulus bill that only stimulated unions and other democratic special interest groups. Unemployment has skyrocketed to 9.5% since the Stimulus was passed and even President Obama is indirectly admitting Democrats made a mistake. Now a Republican and Tea Party Tsunami is about to wash control of the House, and perhaps the Senate, from Democrats hands. President Obama is "troubled" to hear Republicans aren't going to be in a compromising mood.

In his weekly address Saturday, Obama called recent comments made by two Republican leaders “troubling.”

He pointed out comments made by House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), who said this week that “this is not the time for compromise.”...

"Whatever the outcome on Tuesday, we need to come together to help put people who are still looking for jobs back to work," Obama said.

Go pound sand President Obama.

Is this the coolest political ad this year?

I vote for this ad.



From http://atrueobamanation.blogspot.com/2010/10/2010.html via The Jawa Report.

Robert Gibbs Starts Lowering Expectations for Next Weeks Election

In particular, Gibbs is downplaying the effect President Obama's campaigning for Democrats will have. Actually, he pretty much admits Obama will be ineffective at swinging votes to the Democrats he has went on the campaign trail for.

The Politico reported:

But Gibbs also sought to tamp down expectations, partly stoked by Obama and his top advisers in the run-up to the midterms, that a series of presidential visits might tilt tight races to Democrats.

“I think that the way we’ve seen the president deployed in different races is much as we expected the president would be used,” Gibbs told reporters. “I think if you looked at last week’s [polling], when you asked people the role that the president played in their voting, it wasn’t — it wasn’t a huge role on either side.”

Cook Political Report Upgrades Voter Hurricane Headed Democrats Way to Category 5

The nonpartisan Cook Political Report is now predicting a huge wave of voter discontent will wash 48 to 60 (or more) democrats out of their House seats.

The Cook Political Report’s pre-election House outlook is a Democratic net loss of 48 to 60 seats, with higher losses possible. A turnover of just 39 seats would tip majority status into Republican hands. The midterm maelstrom pulling House Democrats under shows no signs of abating, if anything it has intensified.

Whereas fewer than a third of Democratic Senate seats are up for election, House Democrats are suffering the full violence of this national undertow. Over a quarter of the entire 255-member House Democratic caucus have trailed GOP opponents in at least one public or private survey, and nearly half have tested under 50 percent of the vote in at least one poll.

Flashback: Obama Reportedly Told Democrats, "Well, the big difference here and in ’94 was you’ve got me."

Rep. Marion Berry tried to warn Democrats of the bloodbath coming this November. They ignored him and listened to President Barack Obama instead. According to Berry,

“I’ve been doing that with this White House, and they just don’t seem to give it any credibility at all,” Berry said. “They just kept telling us how good it was going to be. The president himself, when that was brought up in one group, said, ‘Well, the big difference here and in ’94 was you’ve got me.’ We’re going to see how much difference that makes now.” [snip]

The phrase "We’re going to see how much difference that makes now” sounds prophetic, doesn't it? Not only is President Obama not helping Democrats, most of them don't want him to visit their district for fear it will actually hurt their chances. Democrats are running away from President Obama and their own legislative record. In one sense, President obama is correct. The difference between now and '94 is him and his left-wing agenda. It's just going to make the opposite of the difference he was promising.

Liberal Heartache: Desperate Barney Frank Loans His Campaign Money

Liberal Barney Frank is in the re-election fight of his life. He has given been forced to give his campaign $200 thousand of his own cash. Scott Brown won his district in the election to fill Ted Kennedy's seat. Frank's opponent this November is Republican Sean Bielat. There has been little polling in this race, but Bielat may be closing to within striking distance. If Frank is loaning his campaign his own money, he must have some internal polling data that is unsettling.

The Politico reported:

Longtime Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank has given his re-election campaign $200,000 as he faces his toughest race in years.

A campaign finance report filed Tuesday showed that Frank, the chairman of the powerful House Financial Services committee, lent himself the money Tuesday.

Frank, a 15-term lawmaker from Newton, Mass., raised $316,644 last quarter and reported more than $1 million on hand with no debts.

His campaign didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Liberal Heartache: Loony Lefty Rep. Alan Grayson Down by 16-points in GOP Poll

Demo Representative and left-wing favorite Alan Grayson is looking very much like a one-term wonder.

The Washington Post reported:

Grayson, a well-funded liberal firebrand in a swing Orlando-area district, trails former state Sen. Daniel Webster (R) 46 percent to 30 percent in an OnMessage poll conducted last week. Just 29 percent of voters say the freshman congressman deserves another term.

Bad News for Harry Reid

Early voting in Nevada's shows heavy turnout by Republicans. Reid is one of the most despised Democrats in the counrty and faces a Tsunami of Republican enthusiasm.

The Politico reported:

Some 47 percent of early voters in Reno’s bellwether Washoe County so far have been Republicans, while 40 percent have been Democrats, according to the Washoe County Registrar. Nearly 11,000 people had voted in Washoe over the first three days of early voting, which began Saturday.

Voter registration in the county is evenly split, 39 percent to 39 percent. The disproportionate turnout is a concrete indication of the Republican enthusiasm that is expected to portend a nationwide GOP wave.

The Republican Tsunami Builds

The latest NPR Battleground survey has found 86 Republican candidates are either tied or ahead of their democratic opponent in democrat-held districts.

The Hill reported:

Republicans maintain an edge over Democrats in some of the most highly contested congressional districts, a new poll found Friday.

GOP candidates have a four-point edge among likely voters in the 53 most competitive congressional districts held by Democrats, and they’re tied with Democrats in an additional 33 seats that make up a group of the next-most-competitive Democratic-held seats, the new NPR Battleground Survey found.

Hat tip Gateway Pundit.

George Soros on Upcoming Republican Electoral Gains: "I don’t believe in standing in the way of an avalanche.”

George Soros didn't become a billionaire manipulating playing market fluctuations without discerning an unstoppable trend.

The NY Times reported:

Mr. Soros, a champion of liberal causes, has been directing his money to groups that work on health care and the environment, rather than electoral politics. Asked if the prospect of Republican control of one or both houses of Congress concerned him, he said: “It does, because I think they are pushing the wrong policies, but I’m not in a position to stop it. I don’t believe in standing in the way of an avalanche.”

Tip to Democrats: Do Not Call for Economic Boycott of Your Own State if You Want to be Re-Elected

Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Arizona) lives in a very blue district where Democrats outnumber Republicans 2-1. However, he made the unfortunate mistake, for him, of calling for a boycott of his own state in response to the Arizona immigration enforcement law. Now, Grijalva is in a very competitive race with Republican challenger Ruth McClung.

The Politico reported:

Party operatives say there’s increasing concern that the Arizona Democrat’s reelection bid could turn into a “sleeper” race for Republicans after Grijalva — responding to enactment of a tough new immigration law — called for an economic boycott of his own state amid a housing crisis and record unemployment...

And a recent poll, obtained by POLITICO, found that Grijalva and Republican challenger Ruth McClung, a real-life rocket scientist, were in a dead heat, even though Washington prognosticators have declared the deep-blue seat safely Democratic.