The Real Revolution Has Begun

[BlueStateSaint]

Found this on the American Thinker website.

February 21, 2011
The Real Revolution Has Begun

By J. Robert Smith

How delicious is irony, how fickle fate? 

Just a little more than two years ago, liberals were ecstatic about Barack Obama's election and Democrats' control of Congress.  Liberal pundits were all atwitter about the brand new Democratic Era that voters had ushered in.  America would finally become what America should have been years ago: a European-style social democracy.

Boy, did Democrats misread their mandate!  With very little hindsight needed, it's apparent to all but ideologically-blinkered liberals (Saint's note:  Such as we see on the Democrat Underground site) that the Democrats' gross overreach isn't what voters wanted or expected.  Voters wanted a redo of the Clinton years.  Instead, in the person of Barack Obama, voters got an amalgam of FDR and LBJ with a dash of Neville Chamberlin thrown in. 

But here's the real kicker.  Two years of Obama-Reid-Pelosi overreach and excesses may have been the table-setter for the real revolution now unfolding.  Voters and taxpayers first needed to see the irresponsibility and recklessness of unalloyed liberalism to appreciate that conservative government is far superior.  Thank you, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid.

Of course, the real revolution began last year with the 2010 midterm elections.  Yes, the GOP made the largest gains in U.S. House seats since 1948.  But the underappreciated story is that the GOP racked up huge gains in state legislative contests, and further down ballot, Republicans swept plenty of local offices.  State legislatures control congressional redistricting.  Republicans now dominate enough key statehouses to lock-in GOP congressional electoral advantages for a decade.

Yes--be careful what you ask for, Dems . . .

The rest is at:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/02/the_real_revolution_has_begun.html

[GOP Congress]

Yes, the GOP overtook the Democrats in the house and made gains in the senate. But more importantly was the DEGREE of conservative/libertarian (re: constitutional) fortitude that the GOP currently constitutes. In 1995, the GOP capitulated within the year to the moderate / RINO wing of the GOP. This time, however, not only have the constitutionalists stayed the course, they are showing that they are not moving from their position one iota, and providing a base for constitutionalists to run in 2012.

Democrats are retiring in record numbers, but just as importantly, the RINO faction is ALSO declining in importance. What was the mainstream media's last hope, the RINO's, to deflect the constitutionalists enough for the democrats to recover and retake the agenda, is failing.

Wisconsin is the first major win by the Tea Party in the many battles that the constitutionalists will endure, not just in this country, but around the world.