Obama on the Ballot :Americans Scream “No!” to the President’s Uber-Government. By Deroy Murdock
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/392270/obama-ballot-deroy-murdock
Wipeout!
Voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected Obama’s über-government. Republicans romped. They picked up (at this writing) seven seats in the Senate and 13 in the House while yielding zero Senate spots and only two in the House. Expected squeakers became GOP blowouts: Georgia’s David Perdue beat Michelle Nunn 53.0 percent to 45.1. Kansas’s Pat Roberts whipped Greg Orman 53.3 to 42.5. Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell trounced Alison Lundergan Grimes 56.2 to 40.7. Arkansas’s Tom Cotton flogged Mark Pryor, 56.6 to 39.4.
In the governors’ races, the loss of Pennsylvania’s Republican incumbent, Tom Corbett, accompanied two major surprises: Maryland and Massachusetts elected GOP governors. Obama’s own Illinois also will enjoy Republican management.
In neighboring Wisconsin, the highly effective governor, Scott Walker, endured his third baptism by fire in four years. He withstood ferocious, free-spending unions and ethically challenged, leak-happy prosecutors, surviving these flames by more than five points. He richly deserves the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.
On October 2, Obama said his policies — “every single one of them” – were on the ballot. Voters then repudiated Obama’s in-your-face, deeply invasive, grossly inept, high-cost brand of government. The body politic regurgitated Obama’s poisoned meal. This was the first, convulsive step toward restored health.
Among 3,894 respondents in a Fox News exit poll, 41 percent believe that “Government should do more to solve problems.” However, 54 percent think “Government is doing too many things better left to businesses and individuals.” While 20 percent said they trusted Washington “to do what is right” “Just about always or “Most of the time,” 79 percent believe this occurs “Only some of the time” or “Never.”
Americans spurned Obama’s handiwork — a government that resembles a hyperactive, morbidly obese repairman who, uninvited, stumbles through your house, tries to fix everything, breaks whatever he touches, barks insults at you, finishes nothing, and then sticks you with an unpayable bill for poor to zero services rendered.
This may explain why only 34 percent of Americans say they are likely to support Hillary Clinton in 2016; 40 percent would back “the Republican candidate.” (“It depends,” replied 24 percent.)
Democrats’ corrosive, evil race-baiting failed to terrify enough black voters to save vulnerable Democrats. Meanwhile, South Carolina’s Senator Tim Scott — who prevailed by 61 to 37 percent — Texas’s Representative-elect Will Hurd, and Utah’s Representative-elect Mia Love are black Republicans who will frustrate Democrats’ relentless, un-American efforts to yank open and grind Crystal Drano into America’s old, still-tender ethnic wounds.
The Democrats’ “War on Women” bandwagon also is wheezing badly. Colorado’s Senator Mark Udall monomaniacally parroted the paranoid fantasy about Republicans banning birth control. He was re-christened “Mark Uterus.” His “Equal pay!” mantra became a punchline when voters learned that he pays female staffers 86 percent of what he pays men.
Republicans should immobilize Democrats even further by adopting GOP Senator-elect Cory Gardner’s idea that stymied Udall: Let adults buy birth-control pills over the counter. Why must grown women secure medical appointments, and tie up doctors’ precious time (and their own), simply to get prescriptions for The Pill? If Obama signs such a measure, the Democrats’ War on Women lie will go pffffffffffffft. If he vetoes it, female voters will know that the War on Women is just a Democratic campaign tool.
Strong, freshly elected Republican women further refute this hoax. Iowa’s Joni Ernst and West Virginia’s Shelley Moore Capito are Senate bound. New York’s Elise Stefanik, 30, will be the youngest congresswoman — ever. And she’s a Republican.
With their “Racism!” and “Sexism!” battle cries now laryngitic, Democrats should try developing actual solutions to America’s problems, beyond raising the minimum wage — their panacea for everything but Ebola.
“We don’t have any jobs,” one black Chicagoan pleaded in a video produced by a black activist group. “A minimum-wage raise for what?”
Come 2015, Republicans should liberate the 347 House-passed bills now locked in outgoing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s desk. They should send Obama two or three significant measures each week. These would repeal Obamacare, let Americans who like their health plans keep their health plans, free consumers to buy coverage across state lines, reform medical malpractice, kill the medical-device tax, provide an on-time budget, commence the Penny Plan (a real, 1 percent overall budget cut every year for five years), approve the Keystone pipeline, fully fund school vouchers in Washington, D.C., and more.
As Republicans construct this exit from the wrong track — on which 65 percent of Americans feel stuck — Mr. Hope and Change can use his world-famous pen either to help build that brighter path or to trap the United States in two more years of Obama-imposed paralysis.
— Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor and a media fellow with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University.
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