Republicans Win 2014 Elections -- America Dodges a Bullet

[jordan179]

The Republicans have swept the 2014 elections, picking up 7+ seats in the Senate and 10+ seats in the House of Representatives to secure majorities in both Houses of Congress.  This is a very good thing for the Republic, because the Democrats had been in the process of using the same techniques of voter fraud and the increasingly-credible threat of

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[igorilla]

God bless America !

[xiphias]

Still not clear on what Obama's done that rises to the level of impeachable offense. I've read all the lists of supposed impeachable offenses, and some of them, if proven, would be improprieties, but none would reach the level of impeachment. Support for impeachment is even lower than it was for Clinton, and no higher than it was for Bush.

I really don't understand what my fellow citizens think is impeachment.

In 1972, impeachment didn't seem likely, but once Woodward and Bernstein tied the breakin to Nixon, it did. I've seen nothing that suggests that such a tie exists for anything that's been listed and Obama.

[jordan179]

Here's a list of 25 such impeachable offenses:

https://www.committeeforjustice.org/content/25-violations-law-president-obama-and-his-administration

To summarize:

(1) Political use of the IRS against conservative organizations, which strikes at the heart of the freedom of speech most important in maintaining representative democracy, the freedom to speak politically.

(2) Political use of the Justice Department to target FOX News reporters with criminal investigations for reporting critically upon Obama's Administration. Also a threat to freedom of political speech.

(3) Refusal to enforce existing immigration law, including in at least one case (the rejected DREAM Act) treating the law as if it had been passed and enforcing it by Executive Order.

(4) Refusal to comply with the 2006 Secure Fence Act, which mandated the construction of a border wall against Mexican illegal immigration.

(5) Obama'

[xiphias]

Yes, that's the list I found. And I don't see any of them as impeachable.

I've never understood the IRS thing. What the IRS did to conservative groups was to determine whether they were political groups. Political groups are not tax-exempt. So the IRS had to look at potentially politically conservative groups to figure out if they were politically conservative, because they would only be tax-exempt if they were NOT political. And most of them were found NOT to be political -- which I think is the REAL scandal here. A whole bunch of conservative political groups got a pass from the IRS.

The same scrutiny is given to liberal political groups that try to pass themselves off as non-political, and an unfortunate number of them get a pass, too.

Fast and Furious definitely was a problem, and a scandal. THAT one I might be able to see an argument about, but I have trouble seeing it as impeachable, because it wasn't Obama's actions directly. That said, I WOULD like to see some people in prison for it.

[jordan179]

Yes, that's the list I found. And I don't see any of them as impeachable.

So, will you go on record as stating that you don't believe the President has to enforce or obey the existing laws? After all, many of these acts were in direct violation of existing law.

I've never understood the IRS thing. What the IRS did to conservative groups was to determine whether they were political groups. Political groups are not tax-exempt. So the IRS had to look at potentially politically conservative groups to figure out if they were politically conservative, because they would only be tax-exempt if they were NOT political. And most of them were found NOT to be political -- which I think is the REAL scandal here. A whole bunch of conservative political groups got a pass from the IRS.

The same scrutiny is given to liberal political groups that try to pass themselves off as non-political, and an unfortunate number of them get a pass, too.No. That's the point. The scrutiny was directed against the groups on the basis of their perceived

Take back the schools? Okay... who's going to step up?

[inverarity]

In the long run, we need to take back the educational institutions which are lying to and corrupting our younger generations. This can be done either by reforming them, removing the worst offenders among their personnel; or alternately by encouraging the opening of new educational institutions which focus more on education and less on ideological indoctrination.

Here's where conservatives always miss the boat - if schools are lying, corrupt, liberal indoctrination centers, the only real way to take them back is for conservatives to take up careers in education.

But very few want to do that, because there isn't much money in education, and conservatives are usually the ones trying to strip away the few incentives there are to go into teaching.

So instead, they rail about how liberal teachers are teaching liberalism in liberal institutions run by liberals, and your solution is... to make those teachers stop being so liberal, dammit

Re: Take back the schools? Okay... who's going to step up?

[marycatelli]

The best solution would be to break the education degrees' stranglehold on entry into the profession. The sort of thing that the Institute for Justice does.

Plus break the union.

Re: Take back the schools? Okay... who's going to step up?

[ford_prefect42]

Just to kind of narrow this down a little, conservatives do get involved in teaching, and in schools. We just don't get involved in government schools run by communist unbreakable unions

Alaska is still in a dark.

[zomba_fett]

Alaska is still in the dark. Dark? Yes, It is dark. It is called WINTER! HA! Anyhow, we are still counting ballots. It looks like Dan Sullivan is winning by 9000 vote, but Mark Begich is like Muammar Gaddafi. This mo~fo just does not want to go away! Arrg!

Re: Alaska is still in a dark.

[jordan179]

When I heard that returns from some polling places in Alaska wouldn't be coming in for two weeks, I was thinking of the Balto movies :)

[silent_o]

Combined with recent news from my state capitol today has been good.