The Politics Of The Theft/Pork Act

This should give you some idea of how badly this bill has hurt the Democrats:

Astonishing news on the generic ballot question. Pollster Scott Rasmussen reports that Democrats are currently ahead of Republicans by only 40 percent to 39 percent. Given that this generic ballot question over the years has tended to understate Republicans' performances in actual elections, one gathers that if the 2010 election for House seats were held today, Republicans would win or come close to winning a majority of seats—which is to say, they would gain about 40 seats. By way of comparison, they gained 52 seats when they won their majority in 1994. This result may just be a momentary blip, which will pass away as quickly as it appeared, and we are a long, long, long way from the November 2010 elections. But if I were a Democratic member of Congress in even a marginally marginal district, I would be just a little bit worried. And if I were a conservative cheerleader against the Obama/Pelosi stimulus package, I would be concentrating less of my fire against the three Republicans who supported the Senate version and more on Democratic members of the House and (at least those who are up for reelection in 2010) the Senate.

That's true - there is a LONG time until the next election. But, if this keeps up and the Democrats continue to push their radical Leftist agenda over the objections of the American majority, there will be dire consequences in 2010. The problem is, as I see it, that much of what Obama and the Dems want to do between now and 2010 are things that can't be rolled back. A couple examples would be universal health care and the number of people who don't pay any taxes. Once people become accustomed to 'free' health care, they aren't likely to go back to paying insurance premiums. And, when a majority of the country realizes that they can just vote themselves a new handout (via Democrats in office), the minority simply cannot prevent it.

And, of course, don't forget that a majority of the Theft/Pork bill gets spent in the last half of 2010. Hmmm...I wonder why they planned it for that particular point in time? It couldn't be because they're going to use that money to try to buy themselves the election, could it? Nah, surely not...

Elections have consequences, and the 2008 was a biggie. The question now is whether or not we can survive those consequences for two full years.

There's my two cents.