It’s a Monday current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog.
REMINDER: 2014 – In the midterm elections of Barack Obama’s second term, the Democrats were massively blown out and lost SIXTY-THREE seats in the House and NINE MORE in the Senate. Republicans claimed Obama had been “rebuked for all time” and would be remembered as the man whose presidency was the nail in the coffin for leftism in America. FOR MORE REMINDERS OF RIDICULOUS OVERREACTIONS LIKE WHAT WE’RE SEEING THIS YEAR CLICK HERE. I cover 1986 up to today.
And like Trump this year, Obama wasn’t on the ballot in 2014. Sounds like voters were angrier at Congress in both cases.
DEMOCRAT HAKEEM JEFFRIES SNIVELS AS EVEN CRAZIER DEMOCRATS TARGET HIM FOR DEMOTION.
DEMOCRAT SEIZURE OF CONGRESS CAUSES THE STOCK MARKET – AND THEREFORE PEOPLE’S 401(k)s TO LOSE TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS. More HERE. And HERE.
COTTO POINTS OUT THAT NOW IS THE TIME FOR REPUBLICANS TO RALLY AROUND PRESIDENT TRUMP.
ATTORNEY GENERAL BLANCHE HUMILIATES DEMOCRAT PROPAGANDIST DANA BASH … AGAIN.
AS TRUMP PREDICTED, COLLUSION NOW HAS GAS PRICES DROPPED BELOW FOUR DOLLARS PER GALLON. More HERE.
DON SURBER ON HOW THE REPUBLICAN ESTABLISHMENT CAUSED THE MIDTERM RESULT, NOT PRESIDENT TRUMP. Continue reading
HERE AT BALLADEER’S BLOG I USED TO RUN THIS ITEM EVERY FEW YEARS. IT’S ABOUT THE WAY BOTH MAJOR POLITICAL PARTIES – AND MANY OF THEIR VOTERS – DRASTICALLY OVERREACT TO ELECTION RESULTS. The words below have reflected my effort to cheer up the losing party and temper the gloating of the winning party ever since 2012. Here we go: 
“THE REALITY: The Democrats GAINED congressional seats in the 1996 election and Bill Clinton won a second term by trouncing Republican Bob Dole.
THE MASTER MYSTERY (1918-1919) – The first film footage of Harry Houdini performing his stage act dates to 1907, but it wasn’t until this 15-part serial that he hit the big screen in a series of adventures. Chapter One of The Master Mystery debuted on November 18th, 1918 and starred Houdini as a federal agent named Quentin Locke. 
Every cliffhanger ending for the chapters of the serials involves a deathtrap which Houdini escapes from at the start of the following installment. 
Yes, it’s once again Guy Fawkes Day, the day Balladeer’s Blog celebrates figures who became symbols of the exact opposite things they represented in their actual lives! 
“Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any enemy that falls in my hands! My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood.” 
Read more of this animal’s own words and you will see what a callous, unfeeling political fanatic this hate-filled scumbag was. He never wanted to overthrow dictatorships to help “the people”, he just wanted to overthrow them to install dictatorships more to his liking.
NOTE: Well, another Midterm Election cycle went the usual and expected way. Long time readers of Balladeer’s Blog may recall that – no matter who is in the White House – since 2010 I have been saying that America’s congressional candidates from BOTH parties should stop blaming their midterm losses on whoever the president is and accept responsibility. 
AND A REMINDER FOR ANYONE BLAMING TRUMP ALONE FOR THE “DO-NOTHING” REPUBLICAN LOSSES THIS YEAR. IN BARACK OBAMA’S FINAL MIDTERMS IN 2014 HIS PARTY, THE DEMOCRATS, LOST IN A SWEEP, TOO. They lost SIXTY-THREE SEATS IN THE HOUSE and ANOTHER SIX IN THE SENATE. The Republicans ended up with – you ready for this – 54 seats in the Senate and 247 seats in the House. Almost identical to what this year’s result was for Democrats. So, unless you’re saying that 2014 result meant that the country was rejecting Barack Obama in disgrace, don’t bother saying that about Trump, either. 
