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Vincent
10-29-2010, 10:02 AM
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=221125

Obstructionism reaps its reward
Pat Buchanan
Posted: October 28, 2010
8:43 pm Eastern
© 2010

The polls and pundits are all in alignment now.

The Republican Party is headed for a victory Tuesday to rival the biggest and best of those that the party has known in the lifetime of most Americans.

In 1938, the GOP won 72 seats in the House.

In 1946, Republicans swept both houses and presented Harry Truman with a "fighting 80th Congress" that contained three future presidents: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon.

In 1966, Republicans picked up 47 House seats to set up the comeback of Nixon, who had led the party out of the wilderness of Goldwater's defeat.

In 1994, the Republican Revolution added 52 House seats and captured both chambers for the first time since Eisenhower's first term.

Looking back on those Republican triumphs, and forward to Tuesday's, what do these Republican off-year victories have in common?

In all four – 1938, 1946, 1966 and 1994 – the GOP won not because of what the party had accomplished or the hopes it had raised, but because Republicans were the only alternative on the ballot to a Democratic Party and president voters wished to punish.

Read more: http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/10/28/victory-for-the-party-of-no/

BnG_Hevn
10-30-2010, 08:12 AM
One can only hope that the Reps can take charge. Otherwise this country is severely doomed because that means enough people either support Obama OR blindly vote Democratic, either case of which will further Obama's rule in the next primary.