The 2014 Midterm elections promise to be a carnival of gore. The opportunity for conservatives to take control of our nation’s government in 2014 is within our grasp – all we need to do is show the intestinal fortitude to reach out and harness the power of the American people at the ballot box 300 days from now. The Dems biggest fear: Republican’s winning control of the Senate and the House and turning Barack Obama into a lame duck political eunuch in his final year of office. And America will be saved!
From the Editor of ICE News
In Illinois, there is another lame duck ready to be plucked from office; Senator Dick “Tricky Dick” Durbin. More
on him later.
Barack Obama’s former White House Chief of Staff, current Chicago mayor and eternal Democrat godfather Rahm Emanuel advised: “You never let a serious crisis go to waste.” In keeping with the philosophy of the hollow-eyed Gollum of Grant Park on turning public tragedy into political treasure conservatives must pound away on the poor record of Barack Obama and the Democrats to ensure them taking control of the U.S. Senate while keeping a firm grip on the U.S. House of Representatives.
The economic numbers and trends are so grim that three more years like the last five will virtually guarantee a poor country for decades. Falling real wages, declining GDP, lower employment and rising entitlements and debt service have us looking at catastrophe. If we have even few more years of this, then the next election won’t really matter.
Looking ahead to the midterm elections set to take place in the fall, Republicans have a pretty decent chance of regaining control of the Senate; 21 Democrat and 14 Republican seats are on the ballots. The GOP needs only six seats; and seven of the most vulnerable seats belong to Democrats in Alaska, Arkansas, Louisiana, Montana, North Carolina, South Dakota and West Virginia, more than enough to end the Democrat majority. Control of the Senate and the House will turn Barack Obama into a lame duck political eunuch in his final year of office.
And the Democrats are running scared because the party, much to its detriment, has been so fixated on single-issue, special interest legislation such issuesw as global warming, taxes, federal regulations on small business and gun control.
According to Mediate.com, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) do not want Senators like Mark Pryor (D-AR) “targeted” for opposing gun control. MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell noted that Bloomberg is viewed as a single-issue activist “focused on guns at the risk of jeopardizing the Senate for Democrats.”
The TEA Party ground game prior to the 2010 Midterm elections was the decisive factor in the repudiation of the Democrat Party. It was you — your neighborhood teams, canvasses, phone banks, and your donations that helped give Republicans the resources it needed — that changed the face of American politics and gave the GOP the U.S. House of Representatives. Now we have the opportunity to do it again in 2014, this time with the Senate.
For the first time in American history, we run the risk of allowing our children to inherit an America inferior to the one in which we grew up. Americans deserve better – it’s that simple, and when you look at those in Congress who are selling us out to special interests, it’s frustrating. We are talking about Republicans who campaigned one way and are voting with the liberal agenda of Obamacare, Amnesty and out of control deficit spending and the Democrats who follow the socialist/progressive dogma of One World Government. They must be replaced with solid conservatives we can count on in order to turn back the devastating policies of the Democrat Party.
Overall, 2014 should be a pretty exciting political year with the potential for major conservative shake-ups akin to the Tea Party explosion of 2010. But that depends on whether Americans continue to seek answers for the various scandals and failures that came out of Washington in 2013.
All the experts keep telling us the ‘other’ Illinois Senate seat (Dick Durbin) is unattainable, impossible for Republicans to win. In 2012, Durbin publicly said he planned to retire and not seek reelection: Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi pressured him to retract his declaration. Now, Durbin is back in the race.
But Durbin is vulnerable…very vulnerable despite the fact the media chooses to either ignore or lightly report his mistakes and miscues. Durbin, an acknowledged liberal who counts the Senate’s only socialist Bernie Sanders, independent from Vermont, as a friend and ally, is totally out of touch with Illinoisans.
One of Durbin’s opponents is Illinois State Senator Jim Oberweis a wealthy conservative who led the fight to remove Illinois GOP Chairman Pat Brady after Brady made public his “personal” support for homosexual marriage, saying his party was “on the wrong side of history.”
In the Jan. 28, 2013 issue of ICE News, Oberweis, Jerry Clarke, former chief of staff for U.S. Rep. Randy Hultgren, and the face of Illinois conservatism, former Congressman Joe Walsh, called for the ouster of Brady and refocusing of priorities by Illinois Republicans.
On March 25, a suddenly beleaguered Brady announced he was postponing a high-profile fundraiser until a vote concerning his removal from office for support of same-sex marriage was decided. The March 19 event featured Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus honoring former Exelon Corp. CEO John Rowe – a supporter of gay marriage. The event was expected to raise $250,000 for the state party.
Despite the efforts of Illinois GOP insiders like Senator Mark Kirk and Illinois GOP House Leader Tom Cross, the fundraiser never happened because of the outrage exhibited by state conservative groups like the TEA Party. Brady resigned a short time later.
Oberweis has the backing of many conservatives in Illinois and we believe stands a very good chance to defeat Durbin. Why? Because Durbin is viewed by many as something of a “waterboy” who carries Barack Obama’s socialist doctrine in Washington. His extreme positions over the years have been an embarrassment to voters in Illinois.
On June 15, 2005, in a fit of hysteria and historical illiteracy, not to mention irrational moral equivalency, Durbin compared the U.S. military’s treatment of a suspected al Qaeda terrorist at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay with the regimes of Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin and Pol Pot, three of history’s most heinous dictators, whose regimes killed millions. He dared to compare the American military to Nazis, Stalinist thugs, and the genocidal Pol Pot?
Durbin then added to the insults when he likened the treatment of terror suspects at the prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq to President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s decision to authorize the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
In June of 2011, Durbin proposed legislation, which would make it difficult for over-budgeted states and cities to lease public transportation assets to private investors. The proposal would require the federal government to be reimbursed for its investment in a piece of infrastructure before any deal could be made. Additionally, it promotes transparency, requiring the disclosure of any depreciation or other tax benefits that would accrue to private investors and estimates of savings from the reduction of jobs, pay, or benefits.
The bill was largely in response to the discussions of selling MidwayAirport and Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor, its most profitable route. This at a time when Illinois was so deep in debt it could not pay its bills. Under Obama, then Democrat Party and Durbin, Illinois still cannot pay its bills
In February 2011, Republican and Democrat state senators condemned a specific amendment from Durbin and the corresponding proposed rule from the Federal Reserve implementing a debit price control scheme that benefited Walgreens, Home Depot, and some of the nation’s biggest retailers and shifts costs to consumers in terms of loss of free checking, higher bank fees, and reduced card rewards.
Referring to “Section 1075,” also known as the Durbin Amendment, the resolution states: “We urge Congress to stop or delay the implementation of Section 1075 so that statutory changes can be made… to ensure Section 1075 does not result in increased fees on consumers.” The resolution also expressed concern that the Durbin Amendment would harm credit unions and community banks, which were given technical exemptions that turned out to hardly shield them from the law’s costs.
Another credible candidate for the office is Doug Truax, a West Point graduate, U.S. Army veteran, and a self-made businessman. As founder of a business dealing with healthcare costs, benefits, retirement plans and business risk, Doug is uniquely qualified to challenge the incumbent Durbin and meet the demands of the US Senate.
Others are Armen Alvarez, of Chicago and William Lee, of Rockton. More on these men in future articles.
