Midterm 2018 Election

By Rich Kozlovich

Over the last year I've been saying the 2018 midterm election is going to be one of the most important midterm elections in American history, and a bloodbath for both parties. 

For the Republicans the bloodbath will occur during the primaries, although not as bad as it could have been since many Republicans who could easily and clearly be labeled as RINO's are either retiring or not running, but for the Democrats - it will be in the general election. Today Dov Fischer posted this article, How to Know When Democrats Are Jerking Around, saying:

Remember these names: Heitkamp, McCaskill, Donnelly, and Manchin. They need to be shut down.

Under the rules of the Senate which requires a 60 vote majority to pass the budget (which in spite of his protest that this is unconstitutional, the fact is the Senate has the right to make its own rules on how the Senate should run) He goes on to inform us all but five Democrats in the Senate chose to shut down the government. 

And according to him they're not heroes.  He calls them "five brazen liars, five frauds as phony as a promise by Barack Obama that you can keep your doctor and your health plan."  They are:

• Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota,
• Claire McCaskill of Missouri,
• Joe Donnelly of Indiana,
• Joe Manchin of West Virginia.
• Also the Democrat placeholder in Alabama, [what's his name]. 

Pretty harsh language.  So why wasn't this an act of conscience on their part?  The author goes on to list bullet points of those things they've supported.  A clear demonstration of what "their conscience" supports.

• They voted with Obama on Obamacare and its modifications.
• They made the Iran Deal possible.
• They supported the Obama socialist economic agenda that focused on taking away Middle Class assets to support a burgeoning welfare state, from expanded food stamps to paying the physically able to sit on couches.
• They backed Obama’s agenda that inhibited the creation of new wealth, that excessively penalized efforts to repatriate American corporate assets to America.
• They supported trade agreements that stifled American enterprise and put Americans out of work.
• They sustained Obama’s choking regulations on the economy and industry.
• They presided over the multi-million-dollar Solyndra disaster and other disasters like it.
• They sustained the choking of new energy development, regulation of new and more environmentally friendly fuel exploration techniques, and supported efforts against hydraulic fracturing that offered to expand newly robust shale production.
• They abided the continued obstruction preventing opening the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines.
• They sustained and supported an Obama-Clinton-Kerry foreign policy that frittered away the gains of the Surge in Iraq, that tipped off the Taliban and ISIS as to the day we would be downgrading our efforts in Afghanistan.
• They allowed Obama to try closing down Gitmo, handing over the worst five murderers in today’s world in exchange for Bowe Bergdahl.
• They facilitated the shipment of billions in cold cash to the Iran mullahs and a policy that allowed the shaming and disgracing of American servicemen humiliated by the Iranians.
• They backed a policy that saw “red lines” drawn in Syria and then disregarded, that justified playing down ISIS as a “junior varsity,” that saw overseas allies like Israel brutalized and regularly criticized while love and financial aid incentives were gleefully extended to dictators like Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and the Castros of Cuba.
• They stood with the Lois Lerners, the Eric Holders and his “Fast and Furious” DOJ, then Loretta Lynch and her support for injustices and Clinton cover-ups. Remember them: Heitkamp of North Dakota, McCaskill of Missouri, Donnelly of Indiana, Manchin of West Virginia. They enabled the Democrats’ agenda under Obama, and they have been card-carrying members of “The Resistance” under President Trump.
• They have tried blocking President Trump’s judicial appointments, have stymied his appointments to positions in agencies.
• They all voted against tax reform and tax reductions for the middle class — each and every one of them.

And the author asks the question everyone should be asking:  Why have they now decided to vote to keep the govenment open? 

And the answer is - they're all up for re-election in pro-Republican pro-Trump states.  States who sent them to Washington six years ago after promising to be moderate in their approach to government.  But once they got in - they reverted to who and what they really are, far left loons, because the left now dominates and controls the Democrat party, numerically and monetarily.  In the Democrat party if you're not left - you're not right.  And now the electorate in those states get to take them to task for their performance.  There's no "affirmative action" in politics when you end gerrymandering and voter fraud. 

But that's only part of the story.  How many "never Trump" Republicans in Congress will have to face their party in the primaries?  Politicians who've been either as guilty of supporting those schemes, or have done little or nothing to stand against them.  I think there will be a lot, and I also think they're going to be facing voters who've become far more educated on the issues than they've ever faced in the past.

As for the answer the author's question - how to know when Democrats [ and RINO's] are jerking [you] around?  The answer is simple.  They're talking! 

I know that's a bit trite and over used, but there's a reason for that - it's true, and we know it's true because this trend of facing a far more informed electorate has been the result of a lava flow of information that has become the destruction of the leftist agenda, and we can thank the Internet and the bloggers, AKA the pajamahadeen, who publish information the main stream media hides from the public.  They've become a powerful force in the world of information due to the sheer volume of publications, and the world needs to thank them for it.

As for me - you're welcome.