Well, the Democrats/Press “August strategy” had an unexpected flaw.
The strategy was this: take a series of pro-Clinton polls from the “Democratic convention bounce.” (The NBC/Wall Street Journal polls—full of pro-Democratic polls in “key states”—were notably rigged.) Then exploit those polls (generally based on “registered voters” rather than “likely voters”) to fuel the August narrative that a Republican victory was hopeless and that Republican candidates needed to destroy their national ticket to achieve salvation.
This strategy failed because while some Republican Party idiots followed the left’s tune, Donald Trump failed.
And when the Clinton “bounce” inevitably came, the press had a strenuous time explaining why that didn’t mean Hillary’s career was taking a back seat.
Now Trump is running TV ads. Polls are shifting from “registered voters” to “likely voters.” And the events of this fall—email leaks, terrorism, the collapse of Obamacare, WikiLeaks, and the 4% pro-GOP Electoral Glitch—will work against Democrats.
So what can be done to change the race so gaunt that it will have a better result? I recommend two things:
(1) ATTACH INDEPENDENT LEGAL COUNSEL FOR THE CLINTON FOUNDATION TO THE PENDING RESOLUTION
Amend the continuing resolution to include an independent counsel to investigate the Clinton Foundation. For procedural reasons, it would be better to do this in the “speaker’s seat” of the House. However, this is possible at any stage of the legislative process.
The press will try to make the fall election cycle a reality because of its Jesuitical misreading of Trump’s latest statement. But it won’t be able to ignore the attempt to investigate Hillary Clinton’s criminal conduct.
But you say Obama will veto CR and blame Republicans for “shutting down the government.” And it will be a repeat of the GOP’s 2014 election disaster.
What?
You mean the “disaster” in which Republicans gained nine Senate seats and control of the Senate? And in which Republicans gained more seats in the House of Representatives than they had controlled in over 80 years? And control of almost two-thirds of the governorship and 68 state legislatures?
This disaster?
What if Obama vetoes CR? Let him veto it. Every day spent talking about it is a reminder that political crook Loretta Lynch vetoed the FBI’s request to investigate the Clinton Foundation.
McConnell/Ryan’s “Bipartisan Era of Good Feelings” gave Barack Obama a 53% approval rating. That’s not good news for Republicans, and Obama will spend the next two months exploiting that favor to destroy the GOP.
It doesn’t matter if Americans hate Congress. They always do, and it doesn’t matter in individual races. But if Americans hate Obama, that means defeat for Hillary Clinton—and for Democrats down the line.
And by the way, for sensible Republicans like McConnell who were racing to get Loretta Lynch’s nomination confirmed —— How do you like that?
(2) OBJECTED TO “SLIME DUCK” SESSION IF NOT BLOCKED FROM CONSIDERATION OF (1) MERRCIK GARLAND, (2) TPP, (3) FIREARMS SENTENCES ACT, AND (4) FIREARMS TERRORISM ACT
Mitch McConnell promised that Merrick Garland would not appear in “slime duck.” Let him stick to that. Garland is not a moderate, unless we consider, something for something simultaneous abolition of the Second and Fourth Amendments as an act of moderation.
Hillary Clinton promised TPP wouldn’t happen after the election. Call her bluff NOW. With Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker publicly predicting ratification in slime-duck, you could hurt Clinton in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia, and North Carolina by forcing her to condemn Fritzker.
Now it is clear that intention “bipartisan” sentencing bill aims to create millions of fresh Clinton voters. Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe made that obvious when he launched his crusade to turn Virginia’s 209,000 murderers, rapists, and drug dealers into Hillary voters.
If that weren’t enough, the bill that supposedly repeals mandatory minimum sentences also introduces a fresh mandatory five-year prison sentence for people who post “how to” information about guns online (Section 108 of S. 2123). This is because of the State Department’s Trafficking in Arms Regulations (ITAR), which mandates that Internet communications be sent to any terrorist who also uses the Internet.
Now the State Department, in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), has issued “guidance” stating that ITAR effectively prohibits gunsmithing.
Oh my!!!!
Finally, we have Paul Ryan’s terrorism and gun control bill, which was created to reward Democrats for turning the House of Representatives into a kindergarten – shortly before the session went into recess.
The idea of deceiving the American people by introducing these items in November and December — when it’s too tardy to do anything about them — is truly abhorrent. But a miniature group of Republicans in the Senate and House can prevent these things from happening if they act early in September and oppose the unanimous consent agreements necessary to hold a “slime duck” session where they can be considered.
And, by the way, it might also support if Republican leaders guaranteed us that amnesty would not be the first item on their agenda in 2017. And that they would not automatically confirm leftist Supreme Court nominees the way they did Loretta Lynch.
Why, you ask, does this have any bearing on the election?
The answer is that conservatives in places like New Hampshire and Pennsylvania, especially “Second Amendment folks,” are now wondering whether RINOs like Pat Toomey and Kelly Ayotte will stab them in the back if they are allowed to get re-elected.
And if they come to that conclusion and lose the election, as they did in Scott Brown’s race against Jeanne Shaheen, the Senate race could easily tip in Democrats’ favor.
So, Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan: show us that leaving you in power would be better than a four-year fight with Chuck Schumer. Not long ago, that would have been a crazy question. But after two years of “bipartisanship” under Republican control (after four years of relative gridlock under Democrats), maybe it’s less so.
