Keep the House - Take the Senate

 

 

"The place is a mess - a disaster. Who is to blame? The landlord of course!"

I will be the first to admit that I sometimes get confused easily. This morning, as I was clearing out the cobwebs, I had on the seldom watched Morning Joe. The Lefties on MSNBC were "licking their chops" as POTUS was going to be "hitting the trail" today. Why you might ask? He is sliding back into his comfort zone, to do the ONLY thing he can do well - campaign.

The cheer leading section on Morning Joe thought this was absolutely brilliant. POTUS has the Republicans on the ropes after the two week shutdown. Many think their approval numbers are about the same as Josef Mengele. Winning the House back and getting the gavel once again into the hands of Ms. Nancy should be "easy peasy". You know - low fruit on the tree branches, just waiting to be picked.

I have a much, much different take on the matter. The place is a mess. Our government, and our country, under the leadership of this President, has become so much worse. So much so, that the only thing the Republicans have been able to do in the past three years is keep it from getting even more worse. If the President's party was in charge of everything for his entire two terms, I could only imagine the damage - possibly permanent.

If I was a Republican running for either re-election or to unseat a Democrat, here is what I would run on:

• Jobs - I would tell the real story with real numbers. The U6 unemployment number is still sky high. Most of the new jobs created are less than full time with lower pay and low or now benefits. Our workplace participation is at an all time low. What is being done? Not much. What is proposed to be done in the next two years? Not much.
• ACA - This is a "steak fry" all by itself. It is a colossal mess, and many think this is just the tip of the iceberg. It was passed into a giant law by people who never read it, amended by almost 20,000 pages of regulations by people who are not elected, and it is being administered by people better suited for a "works program". Even though many of the messier things are being hid by the Administration (like the true costs), I would "peel back this onion" as quick as I could, and tell all.
• Benghazi - I would tie this around Hillary's neck like a 1,000 pound weight. The Administration and the National Democratic Party are hoping the American people have either amnesia or ADD. This is a HUGE scandal in the State Department, and time will not heal. It has gotten lost in the headlines because of all the other static on the radar screen. We need to stay focused on this. People died and Hillary lied.
• Energy - Checked your electric bill lately? Mine is outrageous. And it is going to get worse since we are allowing unelected bureaucrats in the EPA to pile more costly regulations on our energy producers. And Keystone - what in the world ever happened to that? The Saudis are about ready to throw us overboard because how we mucked up Syria, and we still have NO energy policy. We are still stuck in energy Groundhog Day.
• Farm Bill - The "Farm Bill" has become anything but. It is now a welfare bill, loaded up with SNAP (food stamps). It has grown like a fertilized weed under this Administration. Rather than ascertain WHY there are so many people on food stamps (and why the graft is so high), POTUS just wants to keep it growing. Can anyone spell u-n-s-u-s-t-a-I-n-a-b-l-e?
• Debt - Stay tuned. The elevator is still going up. We are on the 17th floor, headed to the 20th if nobody stops this madness. The true story of debt needs to be told to the American people so they know how this cancer is ruining the country for us and generations to come.

Oh, there is no much more I could list, but I am trying to keep this short. Republicans should be able to have a field day in 2014. They have NOTHING to apologize for - they did not create any of the above problems. Be brave, be truthful, and you will do fine.