Re: Time for taxpayers to take back their money

On 1/20/2010 8:41 AM, vict0r wrote:
> Dionysus wrote:
>> FROM DETROIT NEWS AND AP
>>
>> HEAD: Dems thrown by voters’ about-face
>>
>> SUB-HEAD: Year after party swept into power, distrust of Washington
>> remains
>>
>> Washington — The stunning Republican victory in Tuesday’s
>> Massachusetts Senate race will force Democrats to fundamentally
>> rethink the meaning of Barack Obama’s election to the presidency,
>> especially the notion that Americans want more government help in
>> matters such as obtaining health insurance.
>>
>> Scott Brown’s win in a liberal state will do more than vastly
>> complicate Obama’s bid to overhaul the U.S. health care system and
>> pass climate-change legislation. It will prompt politicians of every
>> stripe to redouble their efforts to understand voters’ anger and
>> desires ahead of the November elections for Congress, governorships
>> and state legislatures.
>> Many Americans saw the 2008 election as a repudiation of George W.
>> Bush’s presidency, with Obama as the fresh new leader promising to
>> harness the government to expand health coverage, discipline banks
>> and stimulate the moribund economy.
>>
>> But Brown’s victory over Democrat Martha Coakley suggests that many
>> voters still harbor suspicions or outright resentment of the federal
>> government, no matter who’s in charge.
>>
>> Conservatives, perhaps sensing the mood better than liberals, have
>> accused Obama of big-brotherism and even socialism as he pushes his
>> health plan and pours billions of dollars into economic stimulus
>> programs.
>> The president rightly notes that he campaigned precisely on those
>> issues. But that’s small comfort to nervous and perplexed Democratic
>> lawmakers who now expect stiff anti-incumbent winds in November and
>> heightened GOP attacks against “big government.”
>>
>> Even the smartest political consultants may need time to sort out
>> Tuesday’s lessons.
>>
>> American voters rejected Republican control in the 2006 congressional
>> elections and the 2008 presidential election. Democrats widely
>> assumed that a top priority, and a winning political issue, was to
>> make health insurance more accessible and competitive.
>>
>> But now, just 14 months later, voters are snarling at the Democrats
>> they put in charge, leaving them to wonder how to expand services
>> without invoking public wrath.
>>
>> John Triolo, a Massachusetts independent who voted for Obama in 2008
>> and for Brown on Tuesday, exemplified the confusing message.
>>
>> “I voted for Obama because I wanted change,” said Triolo, 38, a sales
>> manager from Fitchburg, Mass. “I wanted change, I thought he’d bring
>> it to us, but I just don’t like the direction that he’s heading.”
>>
>> Everyone should have health coverage, Triolo said, “but I think we
>> should take the time to look at it, but not ram it down our throat.”
>>
>> Karla Bunch, a 49-year-old teacher who also voted for Brown in
>> Fitchburg, said, “It’s time for the country, for the taxpayers, to
>> take back their money.”
>> *******************
>> Hear, hear! Take back their country, too.
>>
>> “Everybody in Washington gets all wee-weed up.” –Da Lyin’ Prick
>>
>> “The American dream is not an entitlement.” –Author Unknown
>>
>> “Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we
>> should soon want bread.”–Thomas Jefferson
>>
>> No surrender!
>>
>> Dionysus
>
>
> This morning the spin from the Left and the Media (same thing) is that no
> exit polling was done in MA so we “don’t really know” why the voters voted
> how they did.
>
> Seriously.
>
> I mean Brown blared it from the highest mountain top that he would vote
> against Obamacare, and likewise “Marcia” Coakley said she would vote for it.
> And here we are in MA were all a Dem candidate has to do to be elected is
> not fall down too much during the campaign, yet the GOP Brown crushed her.
>
> But hey, we “don’t really know” what he voters were thinking now do we?

Good call…. the Progressive candidate should have been campaigning in
the bars like Kennedy did and then stumbled out and fallen face-first
onto the dog-pile by the fire hydrant.

Her problem was that she just couldn’t hold her Liquor like Teddy.

OH….. and only insane Leftists want Obamacare.