Poll: 65% Favor Voting All the Bums Out

From Rasmussen:

…A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 65% of Likely U.S. Voters say if they had the option next week, they would vote to get rid of the entire Congress and start all over again. Only 20% would opt to keep the entire Congress instead. Fifteen percent (15%) aren’t sure…

This is just a sign of how disgusted people are with the current state of affairs. No matter what happens on November 2nd, the key to the future lies in understanding that the people are furious and which ever party does the right thing the fastest will win a generation of power. Right now, the GOP is in the driver’s seat but we’ll have to see if we’re capable of doing the people’s business or whether we’ll blow it.

UPDATE: A prediction that Frank will be defeated. Nothing would better signal a new day in America than getting this corrupt political hack out of office.

Daily Election Open Thread

Ok, so now that Ms. Stompee has been exposed, what other “October Surprise” events do you think the Democrats have up their sleeve? In a lot of ways, I don’t think it matters – unless you’ve got video of GOP leaders having an affair with a goat, I don’t think anything is going to stop the tidal wave.

EP: Harry Reid is Doomed

I agree with the analysis, especially this bit:

I didn’t see the Big Debate, but I’ve read the consensus coming out of it was that Angle beat Reid – not just held her own. On the other hand, Reid performed nothing like the second most powerful man in Washington, which he arguably is. Not only did voters get a view of Angle as a credible option for the office of senator, they also saw the now-tarnished luster of their incumbent.

I, on the other hand, carried out my Nevada duty and watched the whole thing. I have to say, it was painful to watch – Reid was so incoherent and clearly out of touch that one wondered just why his handlers allowed him to even run this year. I’m sure his little boy, Rory, is regretting the old man’s decision…it is probably the fact that Harry is running that Rory is about to be utterly crushed in an embarrassing, my-goodness-why-did-you-think-you-could-win loss in the gubernatorial contest. Harry Reid should have retired – left the field clear for his son to run for governor, and leaving the Democrats an even shot at retaining the seat, even in this anti-Democrat year.

But now, Reid is doomed. With the usual sure-anything-can-happen caveat, I just don’t see a way for Reid to overcome the hostility Nevadans feels towards their senior Senator. Even liberals who are voting for him are doing so without enthusiasm…and everyone who is not a convinced liberal or a completely mindless Democrat is voting against, or just staying home. Beating Reid is the best way any American can register disapproval of the current state of affairs, and we Nevadans are ready to do our duty in this matter (I tend to vote on election day, but I’m thinking about picking up a slurpee in Searchlight tomorrow and casting my vote for Angle in that fair city).

It is time for Reid to go home to Searchlight – but, then again, Nevada has been the merest convenience for Reid and it wouldn’t surprise me if he stayed in DC as a lobbyists after we give him the boot.

Liberal Fascist Wonders if TEA Partiers Can be Arrested

From a conference at, and I’m not kidding, the Center for the Comparative Study of Right-Wing Movements at UC Berkeley:

“I wonder if we’re likely to see a Timothy McVeigh situation,” says Nicholas Robert, an attendee originally from Australia, who basically wonders if any Tea Partiers can be arrested. “It seems to be that we’re being very polite. I wonder if there are any legal mechanisms—one that comes to mind are the provisions used to crush the Wobblies.”…

Do read the whole article. It is absolutely astounding to read the sentiments expressed by the gathered leftist academics. In their view, the TEA Party movement isn’t a majority, is motivated entirely by hate (especially racial hatred of Obama) and is gravely threatening to all that is good…with one of the problems for America being that we’ve got this idiot idea that everyone has a right to put their two cents in to the debate. When I call these people “liberal fascists”, I’m being deadly earnest…I’d prefer to call them “junior-league Leninists”, to be even more accurate, but “liberal fascist” is apt, and rolls off the tongue better. These people are convinced that they know what is best and are determined to fit us in to their leftist box…and if we refuse, they get quite angry.

One thing we must remember to do is to de-fund the left. They mostly live off of government support of one form or another, and if we can cut their funding, they won’t have a means of support which allows them time to bother the rest of us.

Stomping "Victim" Not So Innocent

From Legal Insurrection:

As I suspected, provocateur Lauren Valle was not so innocent.

In an amazing videotape obtained by Redstate, Valle is shown rushing Rand Paul’s car and shoving something into the window before it had come to a stop and again charging him as he exited the vehicle — clearly provocative and threatening actions which should have alerted bystanders that she posed a danger.

This completely debunks the left-blogosphere’s narrative that Valle was an innocent bystander who just happened to speak out against Paul when she was attacked by “Brownshirts.”…

If you click on the link to watch the video, it is clear the woman is acting in a very odd manner…a manner which, if it were the President, the Secret Service would have taken her down (and they don’t take people down gently). If you’re going to do that, don’t go whining about getting hurt…whether it was a deliberate provocation or just a lefty woman acting like a screwball is unknown and likely unknowable, but it is clearly not a case of TEA Party activists just stomping on someone they don’t agree with.

Democrats Start Digging for 2012 Dirt

The Chicago Way – from ABC:

The Democratic National Committee formally has asked the Pentagon for reams of correspondence between military agencies and nine potential Republican presidential candidates, a clear indication that Democrats are building opposition-research files on specific 2012 contenders even before the midterm elections…

They are shameless, aren’t they? Just trolling for whatever they can find because they know come 2012 they simply won’t be able to run on their record.

We’ve got them on the run, good people…

Daily Election Open Thread

So much is happening so fast and we just can’t be at the blog 24/7 to cover it, I’ve decided that it will be worthwhile each day from now until Tuesday to have an open thread. Please keep the topics to the election – polls, candidates, issues, that sort of thing. Lets have a free-flowing discussion of the races, the issues and what we think may happen.

Obamunism! Junk Bond Bubble Grows

All sorts of good effects from Obama’s policies – from Bloomberg:

The lowest-rated junk bonds are the most expensive corporate debt following a Federal Reserve- induced rally in high-risk assets, adding to concern fixed- income securities are overvalued…

Yeah, no freakin’ kidding. Look, this is what happens when you bail out banks, print a couple trillion dollars and just shovel money through the financial sector: all sorts of BS investments become attractive. If you really want to grasp what is happening here – our Federal Reserve is picking our pockets and handing our money to others…and they are buying junk bond with it!

Mish best describes what is happening:

In fact, the Fed’s policies are helping neither the real nor unreal economies unless you consider creating another opportunity for Goldman Sachs and select hedge funds to short at the opportune time, appropriate “help”.

Boil it down: the banksters and bureaucrats are having a ball, and getting ready to stick us with the bill as they will know when to short everything and get out with their wealth intact.

There never was an easy way out of this – but the longer Obama runs the government, Democrats run the Congress and Bernanke runs the Fed, the worse this will get. Voting Republican in 2010 is not a cure-all, but it is the very best first step we can take to right our financial ship.