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    Another Democrat Falls. Republicans Still Won't Listen.

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    The Republicans now have their largest majorities in Congress since World War II.



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    Another Democrat Falls. Republicans Still Won’t Listen.

    By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | December 8th, 2014 at 04:00 AM | 51

    The Republicans now have their largest majorities in Congress since World War II. Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA)Heritage ActionScorecard

    Sen. Mary Landrieu

    4% Senate Democrat Average 3% See Full Scorecard 4% has been defeated in a runoff in Louisiana. Former Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards went down to defeat too.
    Republicans will have a solid majority in both houses of congress in January. They will have that majority because they ran opposed to Barack Obama. They ran campaigning on the eradication of Obamacare and stopping the President’s then planned executive amnesty plan.
    The Republicans told the voters that if the voters would stand with the GOP, the GOP would stand for them against Barack Obama.
    The voters listened, gave the GOP what it wanted, and the GOP immediately thereafter moved the goalposts. They preemptively surrendered and now want to both nibble at Obamacare instead of end it and they want to fund the President’s immigration plan.
    House Republicans, this week, are set to fund Barack Obama’s amnesty plan with the help of House Democrats.
    If you want to stop amnesty, you must flood the offices of members of congress with phone calls. There’s no other way. They need to hear from you and that you demand they keep their promises.
    RedState has a call center. Click this link and you can put in your zipcode. That will show you your member of congress’s phone number. Call them.
    But when you call, you must do something specific. You must tell your congressman to oppose the rule on the continuing resolution in addition to the continuing resolution itself.
    If your congressman votes for the rule, the continuing resolution can come to the floor of the House and Rep. John Boehner (R-OH)Heritage ActionScorecard

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    A race that took less than 20 seconds to call:

    If Bill Cassidy's victory speech channeled the authentic voice of the Republican Party for the next two years, Democrats are in deep trouble.
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    Landrieu out in Louisiana



    By: John Hayward
    12/8/2014 09:36 AM

    several videos at the page link:

    The 2014 Republican wave grew to +9 in the Senate over the weekend, as Senator Mary Landrieu was crushed by Republican Bill Cassidy in the runoff election. Cassidy won by 56-44, a result that would suggest things went pretty much as predicted on Election Night: the other Republican candidate in the general race, Rob Maness, endorsed Cassidy in the runoff, and his supporters mostly switched to Cassidy. According to some post-election notes from the Associated Press, Landrieu’s overall turnout flagged quite a bit from the general election, while some Maness voters sat the runoff out:
    Cassidy won 49 of Louisiana’s 64 parishes. Six years ago, when Landrieu defeated Republican John Kennedy without a runoff, the Democratic senator carried 38 parishes.

    Turnout was down from the primary, but that appeared to hurt Landrieu more across the board. Her vote total went down by 58,298 votes. Cassidy’s went up by 109,282.
    Cassidy fell 93,274 votes short of the combined total that he and third-place primary finisher Rob Maness, a tea party Republican, got in the primary. That suggests some drop off in enthusiasm among arch-conservatives who never fully embraced Cassidy ? Maness got 202,556 votes in November ? but it didn’t affect the final outcome.
    Landrieu has always depended heavily on her advantage in cities, but she couldn’t drive up her margins there enough to make up for the support she and her party have lost in small towns and rural precincts.
    In the eight parishes that contain Louisiana’s largest municipalities, Landrieu managed an 18,568-vote advantage over Cassidy’s and Maness’s combined total in November. She managed only to widen the gap to 21,037 on Saturday. Both figures would have been steep deficits if not for Orleans Parish, Landrieu’s hometown and still a principal source of African-American and white liberal votes for Louisiana Democrats.
    Cassidy managed to tighten the margin in other urban parishes. He lost his home parish of East Baton Rouge by 7,130 votes. But that shaved off almost 500 votes from Landrieu’s advantage over Cassidy and Maness in the primary. Landrieu again won Orleans Parish by an overwhelming margin. But Cassidy closed the gap by more than 5,000 votes.
    Landrieu got smashed hard enough to erase her from the mainstream media; none of the Big Three networks has a story about her loss on their main Web page as of Monday morning, even though a lot of people outside Louisiana would expect to see news and analysis of the event as they leave their weekend revels behind and return to the news cycle. It looks like the Democrat media doesn’t want to do any hard thinking about her loss right now.
    The reasons are obvious enough, from a poorly-run campaign littered with gaffes that alienated her from voters, to the general unpopularity of Democrats and President Obama in this election cycle, to the one reason Democrats and their media friends refuse to discuss openly: ObamaCare. With Landrieu’s defeat, half of the senators who voted for ObamaCare are gone now. Democrat Party dogma, which is of course reflected in their media organs, is adamant that ObamaCare isn’t a major political issue any more – it’s a story they plan to will into existence by repeating it over and over again, seeking to marginalize and isolate voters who are still angry about the failures of the law, and the endless lies peddled to secure its passage. One reason the Republican wave of 2014 came as such a huge surprise to the media was that Democrat mouthpieces spent all year assuring their newsroom buddies that ObamaCare was no longer a major liability for the Party.
    According to CNN’s account of Landrieu’s concession speech, she was still peddling that line even as the flaming wreckage of her campaign sank beneath the waves:
    Once seen as Democrats’ strongest incumbent, Landrieu ended up such a long-shot in her runoff with Cassidy that the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee cut its investment in the state, a move that Landrieu decried as leaving “a soldier on the field.”
    In her concession speech, Landrieu touted her own “record of courage, honesty and integrity and delivering for the state when it mattered the most.”
    The senator also said she didn’t regret her vote for Obamacare, which the GOP used to attack her and every other vulnerable Democratic senator this cycle.
    “This is something to be proud of, and I’m glad we fought for it,” she said, touting some of the benefits of the law.
    “Shake it Off,” Taylor Swift’s pop anthem to moving past defeat and ignoring critics, played as Landrieu hugged the staff and family members gathered on the stage.
    And tears could be seen throughout the crowd as the event wound down on Saturday night.
    You didn’t “fight” for ObamaCare, ex-Senator Landrieu. You and your party stole it. You lied to the American people on matters large and small, using fraud, deceit, and backroom payoffs to ram a poorly-designed, half-written bill none of you even bothered to read through Congress in the dead of night. You’re arrogantly refusing to hear what the electorate is clearly saying about ObamaCare. They’ve never liked it much, but all of their “wait and see how it works out” indulgence drained away after the program actually went into effect, its arrival heralded by the billion-dollar fireworks of an exploding website.
    Before the conventional wisdom of Landrieu as a hapless zombie shuffling through both general and runoff elections she could never have won has a chance to quicken, let’s remember that going into this election cycle she was, as CNN puts it, “the Democrats’ strongest incumbent,” reinforced by the advantages of incumbency, a solid personal track record of past political success, and a popular family name (her father is the former mayor of New Orleans, her brother the current mayor.) Her Senate seat hasn’t gone to a Republican in over 130 years.
    And yet, she only survived the general election because of Maness, and not even her Party’s cheerleading squad made much pretense that she could prevail in the runoff. The Hill notes that some Democrat insiders are furious that party leadership abandoned her after the general election, but it’s really not surprising. Not only was her goose cooked in the polls, but her efforts to distance herself from the left-wing loons who run the Party were irksome to the loons. Her last-ditch effort to stay in office involved picking a showy fight with President Obama over the Keystone XL pipeline, a bit of theater in which she essentially called Obama a madcap extremist for holding the project up. The failure of this effort will only make it harder for the remaining Democrat “moderates” to run against their Party’s extremism in 2016. And it still wasn’t good enough to keep Landrieu in the Senate.
    CNN opines that Landrieu “was never able to effectively localize the race and distance herself from the president, while Republicans tied her to him at every opportunity.” If Republicans don’t screw up their moment in power – a distinct possibility which the leadership seems to be working on already, with its budget surrender to the defeated Democrats – the inability to localize races will be brutal for Democrats in ’16. The national mood is trending away from managerial liberalism, suffocating Big Government, and the elite Ruling Class. Just about every media analysis of the Louisiana runoff expresses incredulity that Cassidy was out-of-state during the final weekend; CNN reports he was “taking a professional development course at the hospital where he works” on Election Day. People admire that. They’ve had enough of regal dynasties and arrogant elites. Cassidy made that point in his victory speech, as did Senator David Vitter, who introduced him:

    There’s been some post-election s******ing from conservative pundits about liberals claiming, just one election ago, that the GOP was on its way to becoming a “regional party” without national appeal. I would counsel against falling prey to the same hubris, but it does appear that the Democrats’ appeal is growing rather selective: they have nothing to say to anyone who isn’t part of a big-city blue-state political machine. Their best bet for 2016 is to intimidate Republicans out of making that point to voters and capitalizing on the Democrats’ disdain for middle-class taxpayers and opportunity-seeking entrepreneurs. If Cassidy’s victory speech channeled the authentic voice of the Republican Party for the next two yeas, Democrats are in deep, deep trouble.
    Also in deep trouble, as Senator Rand Paul impishly reminds us: a certain 2016 presidential contender who backed a long string of losers in 2014.




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    The Democrats want to blame everybody but themselves for losing the South.



    Democrats Still Confused as to Why the South Has given up on Them
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    Democrats still confused as to why the South has given up on them.

    By: Moe Lane (Diary) | December 6th, 2014 at 08:00 PM | 22

    I can tell you the Democrats’ problem with running candidates in the South (and everywhere else that isn’t the Pacific Coast and/or the Northeast) without trying hard, and it’s nothing that’s in this Politico article:
    [Former Tennessee governor Phil] Bredesen said Democrats who are thinking about running for office need to adopt what he calls “the Walmart test.”
    “When you think about what your platform is going to be, go to the nearest Walmart and stop someone in the aisle and tell them what you’re going to run on,” he said. “If that engages them and they’re interested, then you have a plan.”
    …and then the aforementioned bicoastal ‘elites’ that actually run the Democratic party will scream, browbeat, fold, spindle, and mutilate the poor so-and-so because he dared go into a Wal-Mart because it’s a non-union shop that encourages non-bicoastal-Americans to think that they deserve to have stuff, too. And that’s the problem. It’s not demographics, and it’s certainly not gerrymandering, and shoot, it’s not even Barack Obama. It’s that the people who run the Democratic party [expletive deleted] hate the South.
    And Southerners have noticed. It really does astound me that the national Democratic apparatus apparently thought that they could defecate on an entire section of the country for fifty years and still get that section to vote for them at the end of it. What did they think Southerners are, hard Left progressives or something? Folks below the Mason-Dixon line have basic self-respect and dignity, is what I’m saying. Try to heap scorn on their heads, and they’ll vote with their feet.
    My Republican colleagues: note that, by the way. We shouldn’t take that vote for granted. Look what happened to the Democrats, when they did…

    (H/T: Hot Air Headlines)

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    Trent Lott is another example of what people rightly cannot stand about politics & Washington

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    Who Needs Trent Lott?

    By: Jen Kuznicki
    December 8th, 2014

    Former Senate Majority Leader now lobbyist Trent Lott, made some hyperbolic statements recently, acting as the go-to quote machine for the entrenched revolving door establishment of the Republican Party. Lott compared Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) to the left's Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), calling him a, "problem," encouraged his former pal Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to "co-opt" new members of the Senate, and toldMother Jones, "That Ted Cruz. They have to teach him something or cut his legs out from under him."

    If Ted Cruz weren't an effective voice for so many Americans, nobody would bother coming up with strategy to silence him

    Now, if Ted Cruz weren't an effective voice for so many Americans, nobody would bother coming up with strategy to silence him. Once again, a grandstanding Mississippi politician turned lobbyist gives his view of how things should be done in Washington D.C.
    Earlier this year, we saw Mississippi’s other legacy, ex-Governor Haley Barbour, expend time and effort trying to keep Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) in office even after announcing he didn't wish to run, just so the Mississippi-business-as-usual political machine can appoint his replacement as soon as he announces his retirement. It was Haley Barbour who appointed Mississippi’s other “top porker,” Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) to replace the retiring Trent Lott in 2008. Wicker is a quiet liberal Republican who has been a reliable vote for cloture for Democrats and whose Liberty Score is a depressing 40%, far worse than most Republicans in both chambers of congress. But the Republican tradition in the State of Mississippi remains intact because of these self-serving politicians as it is tied with New Mexico as the most dependent on the federal government.
    The truth is if more members of Congress were in Washington for the right reason - to serve as an effective voice for their constituents back home - it would mean the end of Lott and Barbour’s thick wallets. As lobbyists beholden to massive industries, corporations dependent on government, foreign countries and special interests, getting paid ridiculous amounts of money to get key Senators and Congressman to vote a certain way on bills, is the only game Lott and Barbour pay attention to. All the while lecturing all of us on how we don't know what's good for us.

    That powerful perch in the Senate can be used for a lot of things, and Trent Lott has taken full advantage of it.

    Trent Lott passed the Mississippi bar exam in 1967 and immediately moved to Washington D.C. where he has worked ever since. After working four years as an assistant to segregationist Democrat William M. Colmer, Lott stepped into Colmer's seat, switched his party to Republican, and subsequently served 36 years in the House and Senate. In late 2007, a day before his brother-in-law Dickie Scruggs was indicted for bribing a judge, Lott announced his resignation from the Senate, saying it was time for him and his wife to, "do something else." That something else just happened to be lobbying, his departure timed so that he would not have to obey new legislation that made it mandatory to wait two years after his service ended to begin his new career.
    Lott joined his friend and former neighbor Democrat John Breaux in his lobbying firm in 2008. Since then, the Breaux/Lott partnership has been swallowed up by Patton Boggs, where Lott serves as a major lobbyist today.
    Back when Lott was Senate Majority Leader, he was known as a gregarious dealmaker. As Senator Inhofe (R-OK) said of him during the impeachment proceedings of President Clinton, "I think he perceives his job to be one of coalescence. I don't think coalescence is as necessary as he thinks it is."
    Of course the idea that both sides of the aisle could pull together during a political trial of the Commander-in-Chief is ridiculous, but if Lott felt that way under such circumstances, his comments today about a Senator who just doesn't seem to want to go along with the crowd make complete sense. But to that end, Lott the lobbyist has a completely different list of bosses than Ted Cruz does.
    In order for a person to jump out of political office and directly into the lobbying field you have to be thinking of one person, yourself. Trent Lott's number one client is Trent Lott, and one could make the argument that after 36 years of serving the public interest, it's high time a legislator took something for themselves. But as a legislator, Lott wasn't thinking of his constituents when he used the power of government to punish private industry, as he did after his home in Pascagoula was ruined by Hurricane Katrina. State Farm told the Senator that the damage to the home was due to flooding, not the winds, therefore his claim could not be paid. His brother-in-law, Dickie Scruggs, just released from prison this year, represented Lott in a lawsuit against the insurer. Lott responded to the State Farm snub by going after the insurance industry's anti-trust exemptions and calling into question whether insurance companies paid enough in taxes. Lott was paid $350,000 by the federal government for flood insurance he bought, but pursued federal punishment for state regulated private insurance companies.
    That powerful perch in the Senate can be used for a lot of things, and Trent Lott has taken full advantage of it.

    It isn't hard to see why Trent Lott wants Republicans to fix Obamacare, and executive amnesty to go unpunished, he's getting paid to open his mouth and advocate for amnesty as well as Obamacare.

    Today, whenever Trent Lott opens his mouth he is speaking for Russia's Gazprombank, numerous defense contractors like Lockheed Martin, airlines, healthcare alliances, investment banks like Goldman Sachs, General Electric, Aerospace technologies, pharmaceutical companies, and a company in Mississippi that I have tripped over before when researching Haley Barbour, Sanderson Farms.
    Haley Barbour has observed that amnesty is necessary because of Mississippi’s chicken plant employee shortage. The more people who are granted amnesty from third world countries and would work in a dirty environment like chicken processing, the better it is for Mississippi's interests and the state's powerful politicians-turned-lobbyists like Trent Lott and Haley Barbour. So it isn't hard to see why Trent Lott wants Republicans to fix Obamacare, and executive amnesty to go unpunished, he's getting paid to open his mouth and advocate for amnesty as well as Obamacare. As a co-chairman of Alliance for Connected Care, Lott along with Breaux and ex-Senator Tom Daschle are working together to make room in the ACA for mobile apps and other technological advances to connect patients with healthcare providers, noting that as more people are covered through Medicaid, a shortage of doctors might become a problem. Can't find a doctor because the federal government took over the healthcare industry? Don't worry, Lott, Breaux and Daschle have an app for that.
    Patton Boggs has a political action committee that keeps Democrats in office. Why else would Lott tell McConnell to reverse the nuclear option, now that Republicans have won the Senate, but to appease the Democrats all around him? Trent Lott no longer works for the people, he works for Democrats and the political sewer they have made of the nation's capital. So, who cares what the former Republican Majority Leader has to say now, or in the future? He's just another lobbyist, just another person with his hand out running block for the Democrats.
    What should irritate American voters is not that lobbyists exist, but that nearly every piece of legislation becomes an entrepreneurial playground for private companies to gain work through taxpayer-funded government. But it isn't legitimate entrepreneurial spirit that attracts ex-lawmakers and their numerous former staff. The creation of government programs encourages innovation to fix the problems created by the creation of government programs, and creates entire industries out of government programs that are not only not supposed to work on their own, but that were never designed to work from the beginning. What ensues is a constant feeding off of your tax dollars to keep both government and private industry working in unison and to keep people like Trent Lott happy to help continue the short-term stimulation time and time again.
    Now, what man could stand in the way of Trent Lott’s future deals? Which person introduced the will of the American people into the lucrative deals of D.C., highlighting the need for reform, for defunding of Obamacare-otherwise known as Trent Lott's gravy train? Who is standing tall, calling for Congress to fight Obama's executive amnesty? Who does Trent Lott smear? Of course, Lott and thousands of other bottom-feeders in the cesspool of D.C. can't stand Cruz and others who went to Washington to serve the people instead of serve themselves.
    The American people deserve better. We deserve representation, not the status quo of old, where you park your butt in Washington D.C. for 46 years and argue against what's best for the American people since they no don't pay your salary. Trent Lott doesn’t speak for us, who needs him?

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