Wednesday, June 11, 2014

BloggeRhythms

Last night a major national Republican figure, and many other politicians of all stripes, received the shock of their lives.
 
Dave Brat, an economics and ethics professor at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia ousted House Majority Leader Eric Cantor from his seat representing Virginia’s 7th Congressional District, despite Cantor’s power-base and 28-to-1 cash advantage.
 
Democrats, such as the ever-dense Debbie Wasserman Schultz and even thicker Charles Schumer, were quick to claim that a Tea Party radical had now become a major threat to the nation.  
 
The truth, however, is that according to Fox News.com, “While tea party groups are stampeding to Richmond to lay claim to Brat’s success, they’re late in coming. Brat had zero backing from any of the national groups that are forever raising money for their fight against the GOP old guard. Brat is certainly more conservative than Cantor, but he hardly fits the preferred national narrative.”
 
Reading the reactions, curious to learn what Professor Brat was all about, I went to his website to find the issues he presented to voters, which are:
 
  • “That the free enterprise system is the most productive supplier of human needs and economic justice,  
  • That all individuals are entitled to equal rights, justice, and opportunities and should assume their responsibilities as citizens in a free society, 
  • That fiscal responsibility and budgetary restraints must be exercised at all levels of government, 
  • That the Federal Government must preserve individual liberty by observing Constitutional limitations, 
  • That peace is best preserved through a strong national defense, 
  • That faith in God, as recognized by our Founding Fathers is essential to the moral fiber of the Nation.”
Now, if those are the beliefs of a loose cannon lunatic, as leading Dem’s would have you believe, it seems that the Founding Fathers were dangerous radicals too and their British captors were the one’s that were right.
 
However, what really took place yesterday was a significant indication that voters have now had enough. And, regardless of party, entrenched DC denizens are all now vulnerable. While what’s even worse for them all is, it obviously doesn't matter how money they can raise, how much they advertise, or how much political power they might hold, when representatives won’t deliver what voters want… those voters will seek out those they prefer all by themselves.
 
Which brings us to Bill Clinton’s wife once again, who was interviewed by ABC New’s Diane Sawyer. And, apparently, Ms Sawyer, just like the Virginia voters above, didn’t roll over either.
 
Instead of throwing softballs and bowing in deference, according to Erik Wemple of the Washington Post: “ABC News Diane Sawyer destroys Hillary Rodham Clinton on Benghazi.”
 
The article itself contains several examples of typical Clinton bobbing, weaving and avoidance of direct, self-implicating answers but is very well-worth reading, so here’s a link-diane-sawyer-destroys-hillary-rodham-clinton-on-Benghazi
 
That’s it for today folks.
 
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