It started Tuesday with the overwhelming loss in Wisconsin. The Democrats depend on their union boss allies to deliver the goods (i.e., campaign donations) based of mandatory union dues. The Democrats in turn scratch the backs of the union bosses by passing laws that keep such dues mandatory and give the unions monopolies in certain areas like health insurance. But the taxpayers of Wisconsin appear to be tired of this game. They elected a Republican governor named Scott Walker who vowed to curtail such practices. The Democrats and union bosses responded with a tantrum year of demonstrations. Democrat state senators fled the state in order to avoid having to vote on Walker's proposals. They mounted a noisy recall campaign that culminated in Tuesday's recall election. But the people of Wisconsin responded that they are tired of the tantrums and in fact like the fiscal results emanating from Walker's program of fiscal restraint.
The Democrat on Wednesday whined that they were outspent by -- heaven forbid -- outside money. It is true that Walker raised more money through lots of small donations (under $50) from concerned citizens outside of Wisconsin. The Democrats did the same and added huge union contributions to boot. But the popular support financially and electorally went to the Walker side.
Then on Wednesday we received the news that the Romney camp raised more money than the Obama camp in the month of May. Despite having cast his lot with wealthy celebrities making huge donations, Obama is not able to raise as much money as Romney who is like Walker getting numerous donations from average Joes.
Also on Wednesday we heard about the big dog, Bill Clinton, going rogue and contradicting the Obama machine message. He said that Romney's record in the business sector was "sterling" after weeks of attempts by the Obama camp to paint Romney as a vulture capitalist. The Obama camp couldn't quite shut him up like they did with Corey Booker, the mayor of Newark, and it wasn't until late Thursday that we heard that Clinton expressed real "sorrow" for going off message.
On Thursday we heard complaints coming from both sides of the aisle in the Senate about the intelligence leaks that seem to come straight from the White House. An investigation is about to start and the Administration will no doubt try to squash it.
Also, on Friday there was more bad news for Obama. A new poll found that nearly 70% of Americans are rooting for ObamaCare to be overturned by the Supreme Court.
So now it is Friday and we are learning that Obama's $25,000,000 dollars worth of advertising buys in May have yielded nothing in terms of polling numbers and may have even hurt him slightly in the polls. And, even more entertaining is that prominent Dems like Nancy Pelosi and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, DNC chair, are trying hard to acquire the Republican vocabulary. Pelosi, for her part, used phrases like "private sector oriented" and "market oriented" to describe ObamaCare. Wasserman-Schultz, on the other hand, is spinning the loss in Wisconsin as a failed attempt on their part to stop "government overreach" while they ensure that "the voices of middle-class families were heard."
So the spinning will continue and Democratic donors will continue to throw good money after bad and invest in the losing proposition of the Democratic machine. They will continue to say that "up" means "down" and "down" means "up". They will continue to have rockstar fundraising parties for their Rockstar-in-Chief with the Hollywood elites. And it looks like they will not hear the two watchman on the bow saying, "Iceberg ahead!"
Here's another author's take on this week's election news.
See also the blog Universal Christian.
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