Comments on: Smackdown from the ‘Burbs

By: The Greenroom » Forum Archive » Post-Script on the Off-Year Elections: Goodbye to the Big Mandate and other Big Lies

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:17:16 +0000

[...] at Zombie Contentions (under “Smackdown from the ‘Burbs,” a piece by Howard Portnoy cross-posted in the GR), we recently had a couple of commenters arguing the “Tuesday’s elections mean nothing, [...]

By: rocketman

rocketman — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:38:09 +0000

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Look out Blue Dogs and RINOS. INCOMING!!
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John Bibb
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By: Nahanni

Nahanni — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:21:01 +0000

They are staring at a Christmas when they might not be able to afford any presents for their kids at all.

Just wait until the retail figures come in for the Christmas season. They will be terrible and many retailers will be going out of business afterwards because they know that things will only get worse with the massive tax increases, “fees” and everything else coming next year to pay for “Hope and Change(TM)”.

That will set off another round of massive job losses as those businesses and the businesses who supply them go under. The Commercial real estate market will crumble to dust as they lose tenants and can not rent their properties because no one is opening any businesses and the people who still have homes are foreclosed on because they can no longer pay their mortgages because they lost their jobs. That will place a further burden on the financial system which, of course, we will end up bailing out the banks again with our tax dollars which will mean even more taxes.

Add this together will all the other crap coming out of the Obama regime and it makes for a very bad situation.

By: rockmom

rockmom — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:53:46 +0000

That won’t happen, acat. Suburbanites are scared about falling house prices, lost or endangered jobs, and college costs. They don’t understand all the bailouts for union workers while their companies are shrinking and they and their neighbors continue to lose their jobs and are unable to find new ones. They can’t sell their houses because nobody is buying. They are staring at a Christmas when they might not be able to afford any presents for their kids at all.

And they see a White House and Congress continuing to borrow and spend like drunken sailors, kowtowing to unions, demonizing the businesses they work for, and ramming a trillion-dollar health care bill down their throats. It’s Chicago on the Potomac, and suburbanites see nothing there for them.

By: acat

acat — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:54:21 +0000

Robert17 on November 5, 2009 at 10:12 AM
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Heh. That’d get both the far-right *and* far-left going against ‘em.

No, the way they’re going to try to win back the independents is by turning the economy with all the stimulus dollars that weren’t spent yet. If they can pump enough dollars into local economies between now and November to make the average pocketbook look good, they win.

Mew

By: Robert17

Robert17 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:12:49 +0000

However is the White House going to regain their favor between now and then?

Simple: admit they were wrong on everything, withdraw all pending legislation, take a pay cut, actively engage in gutting most of the regulations that hinder our economy, and lead the charge to vote in term limits, keep the knuckleheads in Gitmo, finish the border fence, cut taxes, apologize to the American People for apologizing around the world about us (maybe bomb something as an emphasis), and after all that’s done, pass into obscurity

You asked..