Election 2014 can be a good year for Republicans if we play our cards correctly. The United States Senate will be the most vulnerable. This is great for Republicans and terrible for the Democrats. There are 33 Senate seats up for reelection. Two seats are up for election in special elections. These Senate seats are in Hawaii and South Carolina. Including the special election Senate seats, 21 Senate seats are in the Democrats hands and 14 Senate seats are in Republican hands. 6 Democrats and 2 Republicans have announced they are retiring and not seeking reelection. In my view Alaska, Montana, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Michigan, Arkansas, Louisiana, North Carolina, West Virginia, and New Hampshire are the swing seats. The election might be over a year away, but we have to think about it now. We must figure out who is the best Republican to run in the Democratic controlled Senate seat elections. I am just going to pick a few Senate seats and give my prediction. First I want to talk about Alaska. Joe Miller who ran for the Republican party in 2010 filed his paperwork to run for a second time in Alaska for Senate. I believe he will unseat incumbent Democrat Mark Begich. Montana, with Democratic Senator Maucus not running for reelection, I see it going into Republican hands. The only problem Republicans run into is if the former Democratic Governor of Montana Brian Schweitzer decides to run. I also predict South Dakota will be going into Republican hands. Democratic Senator Johnson is not running for reelection, and with no clear strong candidate from the democrats I don’t expect them to win that seat. This situation is also evident in Iowa. Democratic Senator Harkin is not running for reelection. It will be a bit of a challenge for Republicans to win, but I think they can do it, since the incumbent is not running for reelection. Finally I want to talk about New Hampshire. Republicans can win that state if former Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown runs for that seat. If he does not I see little chance for Republicans to win there. Other states I see going into Republican hands would be Louisiana, Arkansas, West Virginia, and North Carolina. I predict 53 seats will be in the Republican control and 47 seats will be in Democrats control. Anything can happen in the next years and a half, but this is just my early prediction. First off stop blaming Bush for every little thing that goes wrong under the Obama administration. Somehow, some way, Democrats always find a way to shift the blame on someone else. Nancy Pelosi is now blaming President George W. Bush for the IRS scandal that unfolded in the past week. This makes absolutely no sense. Why would President Bush, a Republican, target Republican support groups? Thats the basic question. The answer is, he would not. In fact many of the groups that have formed lately are all off springs off the Tea Party movement, which started in late 2009, early 2010 because the Democrats were not listening to the American people. Now why would Pelosi make up the lie that this is President Bush's fault? Well simply to plant the seed, and to shift the blame. This will ultimately lead some Americans to believe this crazy statement and not to know the true facts of the matter. Nancy also goes on to say that there is no possibly way for Obama to know everything that is happening under his administration. Well the fact that his IRS director knew about it, and the fact that his IRS director is as close as you can get to the President, its hard to believe that Obama did not know about it. If Obama did not know about it, than maybe Obama is not fit to be President. (I don't believe he was ever fit to be President in the first place) A President is suppose to know what's going on in his administration. If he doesn't then there is a problem and that is how we get all this corruption and scandals. Pelosi also says if we expect Obama to know about this scandal, Speaker John Boehner should have knew about it as well because the IRS headquarters is in Boehner's district. Based on the simple fact that the IRS works for Obama and not Speaker Boehner refutes any idea that Boehner would somehow know about this scandal that happened under Obama's watch. Two days ago someone on twitter made a hashtag that started trending. The hash-tag was #DoYourJobGOP. The post below is what Pelosi tweeted with that hashtag My response to that tweet is right below it. Within a hour, Republicans on Twitter essentially took over the hashtag and was using it more than the Democrats were. I find that hashtag to be more of a moving hashtag than a hashtag against the GOP. The GOP has certain priorities. Some of their priorities are Benghazi, IRS, and Obamacare. They also have the priority to block every single liberal bill that is in Obama's agenda. We saw the failures from Obama's other policies he put in place, we need to stop every new bill Obama and the Democrats will try to make to prevent future failures. Now I know some democrat will comment and say "well that is not bipartisan," and I will say if Obama was bipartisan we would not have Obamacare, the stimulus, the sequester, tax increases on the middle class... The list goes on. I would also say, Obama was the one that told Republicans "to get to the back of the bus." In response to the Democrats hashtag I made my own. Its called #DemocratsStartYourJob. Obama has controlled the White House for 4 years now, and they controlled the Senate since 2007. In that time span have they done anything to help this economy? NO. In that time span have they kept any of their campaign promises? NO. Its time for the Democrats to start their job.
Wile Obama was giving his speech yesterday in the Rose Garden of the White House, it began to rain for a few seconds. What does Obama do, he tells two highly trained Marines to hold an umbrella over himself and the Prime minister of Turkey. He can tell Marines to hold an umbrella for himself but he can't send Marines in to save Americans in Benghazi. After Obama was taking some hear from this event, Democrats began to post the picture below of President Ronald Reagan, with a man holding a umbrella over his head. Well first off the man holding the umbrella over Reagan is not a marine. Second off this picture was taken the day President Reagan came home from the hospital after he was shot. Lets also not forget Obama is suppose to be the young hip guy, and comparing him to the oldest President in American history is not a good fit for his image he tries to portray. Many people, especially liberals do not know how the economy works. In order to implement policy's that are supposed to improve the economy, you should first know how the economy works. In this column I will give a watered down version of how the economy works and how we can use this knowledge to improve the economy and not make it worse like Obama did over the last four years. First there is three items that help an entrepreneur create a business. They need a favorable tax code, capital, and an idea for a product or service. If you wont make a profit because of the tax code you wont open a business. If you can't get any investors, or loans from the bank, chances are you wont have enough money to open the new business. If there is no room in the industry for your product or service, you wont open your company as well. That's the basis of a company. The economy works in a cycle. You disrupt any part of the cycle it all falls apart. We can start from any part of the cycle and show how it works. I like to start from the business. Lets begin. First if a company has low taxes they will have more money. If a company has more money they will use that extra money to expand their company to make more money. When that company expands they need to hire more workers to work for the company. If more Americans get hired there will be less unemployed Americans, thus having the government spend less money on government services. If more Americans have jobs more Americans are paying taxes which will expand the government's tax base. This would bring more revenue in for the government. If Americans have low taxes, Americans will have more money to spend. If they spend that money extra money, this in return would expand the company's they bought the product or service from and overall expanding the economy. Lower taxes and basically more capital for Americans and companies is what drives this economy to be great. Election 2016 is not very far away. The election really started the day after Election Day 2012. It wont officially begin until the 2014 midterm elections are over. The Republican Party will have a very tough decision, the Democrats will not, as long as they have the right person run to win their primary. With the Republican Party, history shows the man who came in second in the prior Republican primary becomes the nominee. We saw this since the 1970′s. In the 1976 Republican primary, Ford beat Reagan in the Republican primary. Ford went on to lose to Carter in the general election. Four years later Ronald Reagan ran again for the Republican primary against George H.W. Bush. Reagan ended up winning that nomination and selected Bush has his Vice President. Reagan went on to defeat Carter in a landslide. In 1984 Reagan defeated Walter Mondale in another landslide. In 1988 George H.W. Bush ran for the Republican party nomination against Bob Dole. Bush ended up winning that election and went on to win the Presidency against Michael Dukakis. Four years later George H.W. Bush ran for reelection and lost to Bill Clinton. In 1996 Bob Dole ran for the Republican nomination. He ended up losing to Bill Clinton. In 2000 George W. Bush won the Republican nomination. He broke the trend because he did not run in any past Presidential elections. He defeated John McCain. In 2004 Bush ran for reelection and defeated John Kerry. In 2008 John McCain ran again against Mitt Romney in the Republican nomination. He won the Republican nomination and lost to Barack Obama. Now we are up to election 2012. Mitt Romney ran for the Republican nomination. When it came to the primary’s his top two opponents were Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich. Romney beat both of them and ended up losing to Barack Obama. |
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