America has too many elections, says the left. The GOP elite who know everything do nothing. No wonder the NY Times loves them, starting with their boy John McCain.*
6/21/11, "The Democrats' Recall Bomb," American Thinker, J.R. Dunn
"Over the next week, we're going to hear a lot, good or bad but not indifferent, about the Wisconsin recall elections. To recapitulate: the climax of last winter's wild and lengthy campaign against Gov. Scott Walker's public-employee reforms was a threat to recall a number of state representatives who had voted in favor of the bill. The Wisconsin left carried out the threat and now
- the day of reckoning is at hand.
- (A smaller number of Democrats who fled to Illinois to deprive the state Senate of a quorum were also hit with recall petitions.)
The question of the public employee bill was settled permanently by the State Supreme Court last week in a decision that overthrew Judge Maryann Sumi's attempt to interfere with implementation of Walker's reform plan. But the recall elections are still hanging over Wisconsin's politicians. The left-liberals have got themselves a new political weapon.
- Democrat inability to prevail at the ballot box has led to tactics of desperation.
- Frivolous recall elections are simply the latest of these.
A recall election is one of those things in which the perpetrators win even if they lose. An incumbent surviving a recall has wasted money, time, and energy, has suffered diversion from his actual work, and must deal with the bad publicity inevitably arising from the effort. Recall elections have no apparent downside for the left; it's a wonder they haven't been using them all along.
If successful in Wisconsin, we can expect hundreds if not thousands of attempted recalls across the country, on any pretext or none. It will become a standard part of the electoral cycle, much the same as accusations of fraud and frivolous lawsuits have since the 2000 presidential election. Fraud accusations, legal action, and demands for recounts that can be manipulated each have had some success, but each has limitations as well. With the bogus recall, leftists are obviously hoping to have found a political neutron bomb that can be used at will with no damage to them.
Current such efforts are not limited to Wisconsin. In Arizona, a campaign to recall Russell Pearce, the worst enemy of illegal immigration in this country, has been kicked off with some success. Pearce is the man who stood up to both the illegals and their enablers on this side of the border -- not forgetting the ones in the White House. He is close to being the indispensable man on this issue. And that's the point: recalls can be used to target key figures who are otherwise invulnerable, from Michele Bachmann to Chris Christie. It's evident we're in the Spanish Civil War phase of this particular development cycle, in which the new weapons are tried out and perfected. Soon enough -- perhaps in 2012 -- our friends on the left will set out to invade Poland.
So what is our team doing about it? Not very much at all, it seems. The Republican National Committee has shown no sign of even being aware of the threat. The Northeast conservatives, evidently considering it to be some sort of Midwestern problem beneath their notice, are busily handicapping the 2012 election and have no time for lesser issues. It's all quite typical of the conservative establishment: look the other way until the ceiling falls in, then panic, then write policy papers
- telling somebody else what to do.
- Wisconsin's method is as good as any."
*"John McCain's main constituency is the New York Times Editorial Board." Jed Babbin on the John Batchelor Show, Monday night 6/20/11, about 11:26PM.
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1/17/11, "China-style dictatorship of climatologists," Washington Times, Patrick Michaels
9/8/09, "Our One-Party Democracy ," Tom Friedman, NY Times. Below, Tom Friedman's estate.
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