Readers Write: Most Americans are now Tea Partiers

The Island Now

Stop gloating, all you Republicans. Forget the excuses, all you astonished Democrats. It’s only been a week since the election, and all of you politicians are really starting to annoy me. 

Why don’t you just stop talking and get back to work? Or better yet, why don’t you just “start” working ? Period. There are certainly enough problems to keep you busy.

On Election Day, the landslide was nothing more than a repudiation of President Obama’s failed and amateurish handling of :

1 – the Ebola pandemic,  

2 – ISIS,  

3 – Ukraine

4 – Iraq

5 – Syria

6- Obamacare and its infamous rollout 

7 – the VA, 

8 – the CIA,

9 – the IRS 

10 – the Benghazi coverup

11 – lack of border security 

12 – Iran’s nuclear capability and 

13 – the extremely slow economic recovery. 

That’s quite a list, isn’t it? Not since Jimmy Carter, has the electorate been asked to vote for such a record of incompetency and absolute failures. Come on guys!!  Do better!

However, there were some Election Day happenings which you may have missed:

1 – In Tennessee, 53 percent of the voters (that’s about the same as Obama received in his last re-election), passed Amendment One. 

This changed Tennessee’s ultra-liberal abortion law. From now on, Tennessee’s own state Legislature, the elected representatives of the people, will have broader powers to regulate abortion. 

Before all you pro-choice’ers condescendingly point out where these “unsophisticated rednecks” went wrong, please read their plan:

A – There will be a mandatory waiting period to give a woman a chance to change her mind. Can anyone really object to that one? B – There will be counseling to help get the woman through the most traumatic decision in her life. Sounds really good to me.

C – Abortions will now only be performed in a safe, ambulatory surgery center!

Can anyone, with the possible exception of Planned Parenthood and Debbie Wasserman Schultz, seriously object to any of these new guidelines?

2 – Detroit, the largest municipal, fiscal disaster in U.S. history, came out of bankruptcy last week. This followed decades, yes decades, of Democratic administrations who refused to address and control their extravagant and politically correct, myopic spending. 

It was the unaffordable and unrealistic union pensions which finally did them in. These benefit packages were one of the main reasons Detroit spiraled into bankruptcy. 

The new plan will cut the existing pensions of thousands of public-worker retirees by 4.5 percent. 

From now on, existing employee pensions are not guaranteed anymore. Now, when you promise your municipal workers automatic pay raises ( like those tied to inflation), extravagant pensions and “free” lifetime healthcare, I hope you will remember Detroit’s disastrous descent.

3 – The U.S. Supreme Court announced last week that it will hear a major challenge to Obamacare. As of now, Obamacare subsidizes healthcare for 7 million previously uninsured people. 

Do you know how much this is costing ? Obamacare pays, on average, $264 dollars per month of their insurance premiums, while the average enrollee only pays $82.

Only 16 states have healthcare exchanges while 34 states decided not to participate. 

However, the new law mandates payment of their subsidies, even if they reside in a state that turned it town. If the Supreme Court strikes down this portion of Obamacare funding, the entire plan falls apart.

It may fall apart anyway, since the Congressional  Budget Office estimates that 13 million people must sign up for Obamacare for it to be solvent!

The Court’s decision is expected in June.

4 – The myth that only the Democratic Party represents minority Americans, has finally been broken.

A – In Utah, Mia Love was elected as the first black Republican woman in the history of the U.S. House of Representatives.

B – 30 year old  Republican, Elise Stefanik of upstate New York is the youngest woman ever elected to congress. And

C – Carlos Curbelo is a Republican  Cuban-American elected in Florida.

Obama’s minority supporters turned against him last week. What took them so long?

A – Under Obama and the Democrats, the plight of African-Americans has gotten much worse. Welfare, unemployment and poverty levels, have skyrocketed! Average income has lowered and the worsening of inner city educational systems has made it worse. In some areas, young black unemployment has reached 50%!

B – Catholic voters are finally waking up to the fact that Obamacare forces them to pay for birth control and abortion.

C – Jewish voters are astonished as the Obama administration continues to put Israel at risk by still refusing to stop Iran’s nuclear capability.

D – Young voters are finding it impossible to find a full time job in their chosen field. And that’s after their education saddled them with huge college loans.

Fewer of all these groups voted Democratic this time.

5 – Alabama passed a referendum which prevents the use of any foreign law, especially Sharia Law, to ever be used within their own state legal system. Wow !!!

6 – An ultra liberal, climate-change lobbying group, spent $65 million dollars supporting seven candidates who represented their Left wing agenda.  Four of those candidates lost!! Amazing!!!

7 – Teacher’s unions around the country spent hundreds of millions of dollars supporting candidates who put teacher salaries and pensions ahead of students and the taxpayers. Not one of them won. Wisconsin governor Scott Walker and Ohio’s Gov. John Kasich led the way.  

It still amazes me that these results received very little air time in the mainstream media. The New York Times did say that “heaven forbid” (that’s my words), there is now a distinct possibility that the Republicans may win the next presidential election (that’s their words). 

The Times still believes that the voters will “come to their senses”, excuse all of Obama’s failures, and still vote Democratic. 

They just can’t accept the fact that most Americans are now in favor of the following Tea Party principles: 1- lower taxes  2- less government intrusion 3- American exceptionalism, 4- balanced budgets 5-adherence to the constitution. 6- strong national defense 7 – individual freedoms.

24 months till we get a new president.

I hope we last that long.

Dr. Stephen Morris

North Hills

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