If Democrats Win...

I have a couple questions of Democrats if their party wins as many of them expect will happen come November and if they control all three branches no longer having the scapegoat of the Republican Party they have now with President Bush.

1) Will they start taking credit for the problems their policies create?

2) Will they have the balls to do all the things the say they will do in order to get elected (like all those things they said they would do in '06 such as get us out of Iraq, lower the cost of oil, improve the economy etc etc etc)?

3) When their party leaders fail to follow through on the things they promised or when their polices are enacted and cause greater problems will they take them to task and hold them accountable?

4) If the "rich" begin to shelter their money or leave the country to protect themselves from the higher taxes Obama has admitted he wants for them will Democrats admit the Laffer curve is true?

5) When Democrats begin stripping away our Constitutional rights will we see the same level of protesting we see when Republicans attempt to do it?

6) If the national debt continues to go up will you take the Democratic party to task for uncontrolled spending (still waiting for Democrats to admit to the fact that the national debt went UP under Bill Clinton)?

7) Will you continue to track the number of American troops who die overseas and blame the Democrats for putting them in harms way?

8) Will you continue to claim every non US military death reported in world media is a civilian even when your party is in charge as you do now?

9) If there is another attack on American soil will you admit Democrats fail to protect us?

10) If the standard of living for the average middle class family does not go up will you admit your party failed in what it claimed it would accomplish?

Based on what we see currently in NH where Democrats have taken control of all branches of government I don't expect to see any of the above answers being YES.  Instead I suspect we'll see the same thing we saw here in NH... news failing to cover the major stories or downplaying them when they do leaving the public unaware of things like the multimillion dollar deficit this state faces or the vast number of new taxes and fees that have been levied on the NH public.  People will be left for the most part uninformed about the rights and personal liberties they've had stripped away and the out right horrible policies such as letting children of any age walk in and get abortions without their parents even having to know.

Democrats know that people would never support them knowing what they support and what policies the push for so they seek to keep power by making sure people don't know about the double digit spending increases or immoral policies.

Will that change if they gain national level control?  Sadly I suspect it wont.

Comments

[Scoonie]

Richard,

You Republicans controlled everything, all three branches of government on the federal level and in New Hampshire. You screwed everything up, foreigh-policy wise and domestically. It's no wonder that the voters now overwhelmingly favor the Democrats. You can whine all you want, but you have no one to blame but yourselves. .

I know it's hard to accept, but that's the truth. The Democrats will now get their shot thankfully. You can write all the "doomsda" scenarios you want about the Democrats, but the truth is that the American citizen has already experienced the worst possible outcomes under the Republicans.

Take some responsibility for your party's horrible performance for once..

[Andrew Sylvia]

Rick,

I think you should re-title your entry "WHEN Democrats Win", since somebody is going to have to clean up the messes of the Republican Party over the past 8 years.

[Chaz Proulx]

Richard

Obviously you intend to be bitter for the forceable future.

I'll take a pass

[Rick Barnes]

Scoonie, NH was going along quite well. We had the 2nd lowest tax burden in the country. We had a surplus budget.

Now since 2006 when democrats have taken full control we fell to 4th lowest tax burden and look to continue to fall. We have seen 17.5% spending increases, budget deficits, bad laws such as the one allowing KIDS to walk in and get abortions without their parents even knowing.

Even on the federal level have things really been that bad prior to 2007? As Bob pointed out in his article, the economy continued to grow even after 9-11, the things we complained about were not nearly as bad as they've gotten since 2006 and now other then the president which I admit is controlled by a dunce, we see democrats controlling every other branch of state and federal government. I don't see Republicans that badly at fault here.

Maybe you can share with my the laws, acts etc that they passed to cause the state and federal level problems we see today?

[Ed Naile]

Rick:

I'm still thinking these guys are hot for Jimmy Carter's second term.

This Obama character is the Black Jimmy Carter policy for policy:

Hates Israel, his only foreign policy
Hates the military
tax and spender
regulate everything that moves
spread the wealth around
AND he started the mortgae mess with affermative action loans to people who could not pay them back in the first place.