Did we trade the Dobbs decision for control of Congress?

"Time for the red team to do some real soul searching. 2024 will be here before you know it. If we don't fix what is broken, we will end up with a President Harris or President Pete, with a blue Congress to support them." 

Last night, the news many were dreading, but surprised few, came in. The senate seat in Nevada went from Republican lead, to Republican concession. That means the Democrats will keep control of the Senate, regardless of how Georgia turns out. In addition, the red trickle could even be less of that, when the final seats in Congress are adjudicated. The Republicans will either end up with the thinnest of margins, or none at all.

So, what happened? With the economy hanging on by a tread, the open borders looking more like an invasion, and brown outs and black outs threatened for this winter. This should have been a cake walk, with a red tsunami the size of Denali sweeping over the capitol. Nope. Not even close. What was it then? Biden's persona? Ah - no. It was the Dobbs decision last summer. We took the blue team, who had nothing to run on, and gave them a whopper.

Don't get me wrong. I am very pro-life. I also believe that abortion should have NEVER been a federal issue. That being said, it was cemented in our federal law for so many years, many on the left thought abortion was a Constitutional "right". It was not. Never was.

The election of 2022 will go down in history as opportunity lost. Abortion was kicked back to the states, but in return for that, we have two more years of Biden running rough shod over the nation. How bad did abortion really hurt the election process? Let me just say the name of Fetterman. Let that sink in. Or Minnesota getting shut out of every state wide office. Were there some bright spots? Sure. Florida taking Miami Dade county. Iowa winning the trifecta by turning the state from purple to red. 

Time for the red team to do some real soul searching. 2024 will be here before you know it. If we don't fix what is broken, we will end up with a President Harris or President Pete, with a blue Congress to support them. 

Cheer up. Things could be worse. So we cheered up, and things got worse. Sigh...

As the country further divides itself...

"To me, this election was a defining moment. A true revelation. A moment of truth. We can no longer live together."

I remember reading an article not too long ago, about a concept called "Greater Idaho". For those who have vacationed in Idaho, know it is a drop dead beautiful state. It is also a red state. It has a Republican governor, two Republican senators, and its two congressmen are also Republicans. It is a deep red state, with only one very small patch of blue.

This has not gone unnoticed by a neighbor to the west. Eastern Oregon is trapped with two Democrat nut ball senators, and a socialist governor. And a good portion of the eastern part of the state - wants out. They want to be a part of "Greater Idaho".

The same can be said for California. Many in the state want it broken up into three states. There are many reasons for it, but one is politics. Many normal Californians are sick of being ruled by socialists and idiots. If you look at a political map of California, it is over half red. It is mostly the coastal cities in California, Oregon and Washington which have spoiled the party. But - it does not just end with the west coast cities.

The very blue state of New York is also over half red. It is only a couple of densely packed areas which have turned this state deep blue. Very similar to California. In fact, Michigan (a blue state) is about 80% red in territory. Illinois, same way. Even the now very blue state of Minnesota is that way. Not as red as Michigan, but still very red in territory.

There are some in Minnesota which stand ready to throw in the towel. To win a statewide election with the socialist regimes of Hennepin and Ramsey counties standing in the way, might be a bridge too far. Choices then? 1) Move out of state, leaving friends and family behind, or 2) Lay down and let the Democrats and socialists continue to run and ruin this state, or 3) Secede. Become a new state called "Eastern Dakota".

What has happened in many of our states (including Minnesota), is tyranny. Plain and simple tyranny. Many good folks are now being ruled (not governed - ruled), by petty tyrants who have a power base in the cesspools we once called cities. To get into the cesspools, and change their secular humanist and socialist thinking - is all but impossible.

Election cycle after election cycle, good candidates are put forward by conservative Christians. Many of whom, have won easily in outstate Minnesota. But when the cesspools vote, it is the end of the trail. This last election was a case in point. Many good candidates died in the goo of the cesspools. They did well in most of Minnesota, but not in socialist strongholds.

To me, this election was a defining moment. A true revelation. A moment of truth. We can no longer live together. Too many of us don't want to be "ruled" any longer. Freedom loving people who live outstate, are like the American colonies. The socialists who live in cesspool cities, are like King George.

Many of us don't want an armed revolution, but we want out. We want to govern ourselves again, by electing American conservatives. 

 

Ugh! And the day after the shock...

"Going forward, we can either lay down and give up, move, or fight. This state does not have to be blue. That is not a natural law. We need to look to Iowa, and how they 'red waved' the 2022 election. They kicked it, and kicked it hard."

Yesterday was a terrible day for me. And I am sure it was terrible for many others. I woke up feeling empty. Lost. Of all the outcomes which I could envision coming out of this election, this was not one of them. Why? We were the ones who had not mucked things up. It was the blue team which set the table for us. They broke things. The feast was prepared, and it all depended how much we wanted to consume. I mean, it was either going to be a red wave or a red tsunami. A "red trickle" was never in the cards.

The post mortem analysis had already started. It was quality of candidates, it was the softness of MNGOP, it was the iron clad metro area, it was the abortion issue, it was fear of Donald Trump, blah, blah, blah. Then yesterday, in the middle of this murky day, as I sat in a frumpy grump, I saw something interesting on the news. It was a pundit who might have nailed it. How we lost, and how to fix it in the future.

Early voting. We not longer have voting day. Accept it. That is now history. Instead we have "voting month". The Democrats have realized that, grabbed it, and ran with it. The Republicans have stubbornly held on to voting day. And it is making just enough of a difference in a sharply divided country, to tilt the balance over to the Democrats.

To lose an election, where 75% of those polled say we are going in the wrong direction, we have to now make sense out of the non-sense. To accept early voting as the new norm, means we need to learn how to maximize the benefits which accrue from it. In other words, we need to learn from the Democrats. 

Everything the Democrats are doing, we need to do. We are better than they are. There are more of us. We live on the right side of the issues. It makes no sense for us to lose - ever again. The good news going forward, is Biden and company will continue to set the table for us. By 2024, things should even be more mucked up than they are now. We fix our voting issues, and we WILL have that red tsunami. We will keep the House, take the Senate, AND the White House.

In 2020, it was the suspicions of trickery in the election. In 2022, it was getting hoodwinked by early voting. The planning for 2024 needed to start yesterday. And by the way - a destructive battle between Trump and DeSantis, is the LAST thing we need right now. One of them needs to stand aside and support the other. A destructive primary will only hurt us - and hurt us bad. 

Going forward, we can either lay down and give up, move, or fight. This state does not have to be blue. That is not a natural law. We need to look to Iowa, and how they "red waved" the 2022 election. They kicked it, and kicked it hard. We on the other hand, got kicked in Minnesota. In 2024, we can be like Iowa. Or better.

 

  

What the hell just happened????

"Where do we go from here? Some will move south, to Texas, Arizona, or Florida. Some will regroup, and take another run at the wall. Will the results be any different two years from now? Probably not. If we could not win this year, we will not be able to win in any year."

The question I have heard more than once this morning, bears to be asked again. Now that the dust is settling, and wounds are being licked, many are wandering around dazed and confused. As a veteran of being on Jeff Johnson's team for two cycles in a row, I know the feeling of seeing a very good red team go down in flames. But here is the question: When the polls said, that 3/4 of the nation said we are on the WRONG TRACK, how in the world can 1/2 the citizens keep voting for the people who have put us on that wrong track? Answer: In this state, we are Minnesota Morons.

Some say it was the abortion issue. Others say it was still the specter of Donald Trump. I discount that one. But the abortion issue tells us something very important about ourselves. Are we that secular as a people, that abortion trumps issues like open borders, inflation, energy, and crime? The killing of the unborn is that important? Wow! That is a head scratcher, and head shaker at the same time.

But this disease of "moronism", goes far beyond the borders of Minnesota. How so? New York is a bigger mess than Minnesota. Governor Kathy Hochul, who is a poster child for crime in New York, won re-election easily. Even though New York is a criminal's paradise right now, and people are leaving in droves for safer (and less expensive states), pulling the lever for "blue" was the most important thing. 

However, the most telling election happened in PA. John Fetterman, who before his stroke was a moron, and after his stroke was medically impaired to the extent he would be unable to be in the United States Senate - won. He is pro-crime. Seen the crime stats in Philly as of late? More of the same, coming up. Fetterman also is anti-fracking (regardless of the fact he said otherwise in his "debate"). 1/3 of PA is energy producing. But who cares? Pull that blue lever. Where else can a moron beat out a heart surgeon. Oh yes - Fetterman also loves abortion. Case closed.

I have argued with people until I am blue in the face, that Minnesota is not lost. We have some good conservative people who live here. We run good candidates - some are great candidates. But the result on the second Wednesday of every other November is always the same. Licking our wounds, moaning and groaning. 

The epiphany I had this morning, was one I should have had years ago. For Minnesota, and many other blue states, there is an age old axiom. You can't cure stupid. And the stupidity in this state runs deep and wide. We had Walz set up like a deer in the headlights. How he let Minneapolis burn, was enough by itself, to have him fired. Nope. Not even close. Okay, then let's seal the deal by his administration being asleep at the wheel during the mega theft by Feeding our Future. Nope. People did not care that $250M went bye-bye.

Where do we go from here? Some will move south, to Texas, Arizona, or Florida. Some will regroup, and take another run at the wall. Will the results be any different two years from now? Probably not. If we could not win this year, we will not be able to win in any year. Sound dour? That is the way I feel right now. Maybe tomorrow I will be better.   

    

 

Closing arguments for a RED Minnesota

"Turning Minnesota red is an idea whose time is long overdue. Now is the time to fix many wrongs. Here is my deal. If we turn this state red, and after two years it is more mucked up than it is now, I will be leading the bandwagon to have them thrown out of office. I think that is fair enough. We have tried it the socialist way, now lets try it the American way."  

This is it. The day before. For those who have not voted as of yet (including me), tomorrow is the big day. It is the day many of the pundits feel the sea change will start. The end of the socialist oligarchs ruling the country. Hopefully, the end of socialists ruling Minnesota. 

Before I dig into Minnesota, a few words about the national scene. Yesterday, the human gaffe machine was on the trail in New York. He was heckled by a climate alarmist. Seems that Joe was not doing enough to save Mother Earth. Biden looked right down at the heckler and said (clearly) into the mic, "We are done drilling. No more drilling". Huh? That is not what he told the country. Not what he told Manchin. This is a day after he told the minions he was going to shutter every coal mine in the country. Wonder why your energy rates are so high? Don't blame the energy companies. Blame the White House.

Speaking of which, one of the reasons we need to get rid of Mr. "One Minnesota" city burner Walz, is he is siding with California on the move to EVs. We will NOT be ready for all cars to be EV by 2035. That will kill us. A smooth transition to an EV future as the technology matures might be acceptable. But this is madness. The governor who let Minneapolis burn, the governor who let the state be raped and pillaged by Feeding our Future, the governor who supports very expensive choo-choo trains to nowhere, also wants to ruin our automobile future. Tim Walz has to go. Why? He has failed us. He needs to be fired. 

Speaking of criminals, how about an AG who is so soft on crime, he has allowed our crime stats to go off the charts. Ellison was never fit for this position. Just like Walz was never fit to be governor, Ellison was never fit to be AG. Then how in the world did they get elected? Beating out Jeff Johnson and Doug Wardlow? Because of the legions of Yellow Dog Democrats who live in this state. Now we are stuck with morons. But tomorrow we can, and should, change that. Elect Dr. Scott Jensen as governor, and Jim Schultz as our AG.

Minnesota needs people in state government who know how to govern. Know how to be good stewards of our tax dollars. Know how to be good stewards of federal money we manage for them. Right now, we do not. But we can change that. We can elect logical, smart, and ethical people to pull the levers of power in our state. We need a red House, red Senate, and red constitutional officers. Plus, we need to replace Angie Craig, Ilhan Omar and Dean Phillips with responsible people who will represent this state with dignity and honor. We need better people than those three serving in the United States Congress.

Turning Minnesota red is an idea whose time is long overdue. Now is the time to fix many wrongs. Here is my deal. If we turn this state red, and after two years it is more mucked up than it is now, I will be leading the bandwagon to have them thrown out of office. I think that is fair enough. We have tried it the socialist way, now lets try it the American way.      

Not the hill to die on...

This is it. Monday will be my closing argument for a red wave in Minnesota. The most important thing we can all do is vote. Not voting is what has caused us to lose close races in the past. We CANNOT repeat those mistakes - ever again.    

The Democrats are pulling out all the stops this weekend. In fact, they even have the "leader" of their party out on the campaign trail. One would think, that Biden would be talking about all the kitchen table issues that most Americans are concerned about. Nope. He is talking climate, wind, solar, and most importantly, getting rid of all our coal mines. Huh? Oh, yea he is. And Joe Manchin is sputtering mad.

Is this really who the Democrats want on the trail articulating their closing argument? To seal the deal? Is this their hill to die on? The White House was furiously trying to walk back the latest gaffe the President said (again). Blamed the Republicans for "twisting" Biden's words. Huh? No, I am sorry. His words were played over and over on the news. They were crystal clear. 

Truthfully, it does not matter. The cake is baked. We have seen almost two years of ruin and devastation in our great nation. Who is responsible for it? The list is long, but the one who is going to have it hung around his neck is the "leader" of the Democrat Party. How bad will it be on Tuesday? Even CBS news (not a right wing outlet), is saying the Democrats have a 0% chance of holding on to the House. The only two questions which remain are: 1) How many seats will the Republicans get, and 2) Will the Senate flip to red. 

However, the real story might lie out in the hinterland. How many state races will go red. How many governors will flip colors. How many school boards will go back to supporting parents rather than the unions. This could be a real harbinger of things to come in 2024. But the proof will lie in the pudding. This time around, REPUBLICANS HAVE GOT TO GOVERN. When solid legislation is passed, and if held up via veto by Biden, the case has to be taken to the people. We need to follow Article One of the Constitution like an absolute roadmap. Period. If we cannot prove we can govern our way out of this mess, our victory will be short lived.

This is it. Monday will be my closing argument for a red wave in Minnesota. The most important thing we can all do is vote. Not voting is what has caused us to lose close races in the past. We CANNOT repeat those mistakes - ever again.    

Our new norm - diesel (or lack thereof)

"Failure to act, will lead us to fail. It is as simple as that. We are in deep weeds right now, and the weeds will only get deeper." 

Saw a very informative story on our diesel mess last night. This is one of those issues, which kind of snuck up on many of us. So, getting informed on it, is a matter of "catch up", and doing it fast. The other day I penned an article wondering if this was a real issue, or a canard. The more research I do on this matter, I am finding out this is as real as real gets. And it is not going away. 

First off, this is not just an American problem. It is worldwide. And why is that? Because the world, whether we like it or not, runs on diesel. Europe is especially hard hit right now. What little diesel we have, we are sharing with our international friends. Is Russia to blame? Partly. Then who is the real culprit? Seems we have looked in the mirror, and it is us. Especially the "greenies".

Things have gotten worse since 2020. We have had older diesel refineries go offline, as they are too expensive to upgrade. The new regulations in the past couple of years have not helped. The diesel refineries we have left, are running at 100% capacity. It does not take a rocket scientist to figure out if you run just about anything at 100% long enough, soon something will break, and you will need to take the refinery offline. And then our thin line of reserves, will get even thinner.

Again, the world runs on diesel. Some may not like that fact, and wish we had solar or windmill transportation instead. But we do not. Facts are facts, and we need diesel. We are also getting somewhat thin on jet fuel. And gasoline. All because of our bottleneck at refineries. 

How do we fix this? It will take a Manhattan type project, with government and industry working as partners, instead of foes. The Biden Administration needs to strip many of the recent pollution regulations off the refineries. Some have shut down because they can't meet the new standards.

Can we just build some new refineries? Sure we can - but it will take years and boatloads of money to do so. Plus - the payback on that kind of investment goes out a decade or two. And what company would want to commit those kinds of resources, when the President has vowed to kill your industry? DUH!

It is going to be a tough winter. It will be an even tougher spring when the farmers needs tons of diesel for their farming needs. What is the best time to address this most critical issue? Like Wednesday morning, right after the election. The new Congress has GOT to jump all over this issue.

Failure to act, will lead us to fail. It is as simple as that. We are in deep weeds right now, and the weeds will only get deeper.