PrintNovember 4, 2010
A Broad-Based Conservative Victory
When words like "huge" or "massive" don't seem big enough to describe the scale of the conservative victories of the midterm election of 2010, the pundits reach for words like "tsunami" and "hurricane." Everybody knows that the sweeping victories -- including the largest House turnover in seventy years and an expected six-seat pickup in the Senate -- portend massive, perhaps seismic, changes, but who can say exactly at this point what those changes will look like or what they will mean politically and legislatively in the long run? The presumptive new House Speaker, Ohio Rep. John Boehner, promised, "Change course we will," as he acknowledged the voters' mandate to reduce the size of government, cut the deficit, and repeal ObamaCare. He said, "The American people spoke, and I think it is pretty clear that the Obama-Pelosi agenda is being rejected by the American people." Only die-hard ideologues in the legacy media deny...(Read Full Article)
