I want to assure any progressive who may be reading this post that the above title is not a sacred number for a shadowy right-wing extremist group and it has nothing to do with “2012.” It’s actually way more interesting. Dr. Milton Wolf uses this number series to point out that voters are less and less patient with politicians who fail to keep the promises upon which they were elected:
American voters managed to tolerate the Democrats’ reign in the House of Representatives for 46 years from the “Dewey Defeats Truman” upset of 1948 to Newt Gingrich’s Republican Revolution of 1994. Voters were only able to stomach that spendthrift crop of Republicans for 12 years before pulling the plug on them in 2006. A mere four years later, increasingly frustrated voters wasted little time before ousting the subsequent Democratic replacements …
So, what’s the good doctor’s point? The Republicans had better do what they were elected to do:
Obamacare has become ground zero in the fight for America’s future. It is a struggle, as Mark Levin would say, between liberty and tyranny, between self-determination and central control. It is a crossroads for our nation. Will the grand experiment of self-governance survive, or will we be the first generation of Americans to surrender ourselves as wards of the state in a second-class, European-style social welfare system?
In other words, kill the job-killing ObamaCare law (Oops. Did I just incite violence?). The GOP had better not do what the Democrats and their MSM accomplices want them to do. Since the Giffords shooting, both have been trying to intimidate the new House majority into “tempering” their rhetoric. This is code for “Don’t tell the truth about ObamaCare or the crooks who passed it.”
As I pointed out earlier, this is another Lucy-and-the football moment for the GOP. Typically, when the Dems get out the football and promise not to pull it back at the last moment, the Republicans believe them. And they only realize they’ve been had when they once again find themselves lying in the dirt looking up at the sky. They had better be smarter this time:
A growing majority of Americans, approaching a margin of 2-to-1, agree that Obamacare must be repealed. What’s more, a majority of Americans think it will be repealed. Expectations are high, and the stakes are even higher … Democrats are counting on this entitlement program to do just what all entitlement programs do: grow. Once the would-be wards of the state become addicted to the wealth-redistribution goodies of Obamacare, it’s game over.
So, the Republicans had better do what it takes to repeal the thing. Otherwise they will be on the outside looking in. Meanwhile, to keep your gray matter engaged while we wait for the Republicans to do the job they were hired to do, go to The Wolf Files for some interesting doctor talk about Gabrielle Giffords’ prognosis.
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