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Politics Too optimistic about 2012? This will cure you

File this under “Well, Crap.”

Kimberley Strassel has a real upper of a column at the Wall Street Journal today: “Reimagining Speaker Pelosi.”

While the GOP and the Right are focused on the fight for the White House and getting rid of President Obama, there’s a creeping political menace that too many are not seeing: The 2010 takeover of the House could be short-lived.

Conservatives are by nature optimists. They are intensely focused on retaking the White House and the Senate. But what if, in that optimism, they are missing a growing threat?

That threat is to the House of Representatives. Republicans claimed a sweeping victory there in 2010, a win that stopped President Obama’s marauding legislative agenda. Yet that has led to a certain Republican nonchalance about the House in 2012.

What the optimists are missing is that the House remains the linchpin of all their future ambitions. A Republican presidency will mean little with Speaker Nancy Pelosi redux. Mr. Obama may well win re-election. What leverage will a Republican-run Senate have in the face of that, and a Democratic House? Or consider the possibility that Republicans botch both the Oval Office and the Senate.

True, the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), under Texas Rep. Pete Sessions, is aware of the challenge and is energetically fund-raising and recruiting. True, the party is already coaching its newer members about the rigors of re-election. And true, John Boehner and Eric Cantor are going all out to collect money for their members. The speaker alone raised some $46 million in 2011—nearly double his take for the entire last election cycle.

What Messrs. Boehner and Cantor know is that they’ll need all this, and more. The House is no sure thing.

Read the whole thing for a sobering account of what could happen if the Right and the GOP don’t get their act together.

Comments (6)

  • gemmeri
    Posted on February 4, 2012 at 4:48pm

    I have just two words for all the shenanigans going on-civil unrest. Think of all the possibilities THAT represent. State of emergency, martial law, dictatorship, etc. The ramifications could be startling. The problem is that if an enraged or incited populace buys into an idea that is presented as a fundamental ideal & they perceive that ideal to be threatened, it appears that all sense of proportion goes haywire & all common sense goes out the nearest window. We euphemistically called it ‘pushing someone’s buttons’ at one time… I prefer to think the corrupt individuals who move money around in this country to the detriment of its people & the eventual demise of this nation in the foreseeable future play us like a big strategic board game similar to the one called ‘Risk’ where players move blocks of military symbols around a world board in order to try & conquer the entire map. Various moves & rolls of the dice present unknown situations to overcome in order to pursue board dominance. Self-indulgement on a rather grand scale. Real life, however, is not a board game & people cannot be accurately predicted, which may present a challenge to those persons who are endeavoring to play. What I can surmise from this analogy, which I believe to be an accurate one is that the players don’t know anything about anyone & are sick & twisted & self-delusional because they don’t understand it was never a game, never about a game & it will never be a game. They failed the test.

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  • gemmeri
    Posted on February 4, 2012 at 4:27pm

    Hey, last year I was a critic. This year I am a pessimist. Next year I may be completely cynical. What a country…

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  • tarpon
    Posted on February 4, 2012 at 11:59am

    So tell me, what has Boehner done that was conservative?

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  • smv803
    Posted on February 4, 2012 at 10:19am

    I actually think the possibility of Pelosi as House Speaker…again, is an even bigger threat than the prospect of Obama’s re-election. The woman is a snake; vermin in my estimation.

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  • garyleehorn
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 12:02pm

    Recent Fed and FDIC warnings to over 190 US banks, about keeping their reserves as liquid as possible, should have been a RED flag to all of us, as to just how fragile the banking system still is. All of them are still carrying a huge amount of toxic “assets” (foreclosed and underwater loans) that are ticking timebombs (like Greese), and the absurdity of thinking that adding to your debt will solve your debt crisis, is beyond belief. And all these institutions are so intertwined in each others “assets” around the world, that one fair sized institution like Lehman Bro’s or Greese will topple it all again.

    The bailouts didn’t create or save any jobs except at banks, because $15 trillon of these institutions net worth was in these “Ghost” assets. So the banks are not lending to recoup their losses…, so buisness‘s can’t borrow to grow…, so jobs are not coming back, and it’s going to get worse soon. The Fed‘s been preparing the banks for bank runs and FDIC doesn’t have the funds to cover them. As long as people are still losing jobs, homes are still being foreclosed and banks net “worths” are getting worse, no matter what the stock market says, because too much of their worth is in toxic or ghost assets.

    It’s time to run on the banks, 401K‘s and even Annuitie’s on purpose. Without our real dollars invested in the system, billionaires’ ghost dollars go up in smoke around the world. This is what Soros is worried about.

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  • Freedom Keeper
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:36am

    The truth about Occupy Wall St. http://oleglorynews.com/2011/10/22/occupy-wall-street-the-true-agenda-exposed/

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