Representative Eric Cantor (R-VA), warns of the dangers should the Democrats attempt to ram through Obamunism between November and January:
…In the wake of the November election, the Democratic majorities of 2008 will be frozen in place until a new Congress is sworn in at the beginning of 2011. It appears likely that scores of defeated Democrats will head back to Washington to serve out their terms with nothing to lose. And with President Obama’s promises of tax increases, cap-and-trade, card check, and immigration reform left unfulfilled, what’s to stop Speaker Pelosi and Leader Reid from using the lame-duck session to pass the remaining parts of their agenda that their so-called moderates are currently too jittery to support?…
Not much – in a more rational time, we could rely upon good sense, good manners and a sense of patriotism to prevent a lame duck Congress from enacting an agenda just rejected at the polls. Trouble is that our Democrats have no sense, no manners and a highly atrophied sense of patriotism. Quite honestly, all that stands between us and a lame duck revolution are those Democrat Senators up for re-election in 2012 and already starting to look over their shoulders.
But Democrats will do such a thing at their extreme peril. The American people have a highly developed sense of fair play – indeed, it is some times a bit over-developed and leads to giving a someone a break who really doesn’t deserve it. But that is ok – if we are to err, then better to do so on the side of mercy and generosity. But the flip side of this is a white hot anger when someone really takes advantage of a generous heart.
There is a revolutionary ferment in America today – people are furious with a corrupt and out of touch Ruling Class. This looks as though it will strongly advantage Republicans in November. Not so much because everyone has falling back in love with the GOP (far from it), but that there is at least a perception that the GOP has learned some lessons and, at any rate, they aren’t the guys screwing things up at the moment. If the American people troop to the polls and return a GOP majority – or even just a strong GOP minority – then the expectation on the part of the people will be a strong modification in the course being pursued. If Democrats try to ram through the agenda which has failed, then a revolutionary ferment will explode in to revolutionary demands.
And it would not quiet down. It would not abate and become a non-issue by 2012. It would just mount higher and higher – at the end of the road for the use of a Lame Duck is the Democrat party being a dead duck. We’ll see what happens – but let no Democrat say they weren’t warned.
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