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I won’t give the benefit of a backlink to the Huffington Post to advance their page rank, but wish to respond to several comments made on their blog in reference to Senator Mitch McConnell. As a fellow Kentuckian, as well as an American, I feel qualified to speak.

In his post “Mitch McConnell Challenges Obama With Bold Speech” on 11/4/2010, Charles Babington made mention of the following points:

* after President Barack Obama invited congressional Republicans to post-election talks to work together on major issues, the Senate’s GOP leader had a blunt message: His party’s main goal is denying Obama re-election.

Yes, Charles he did say that and not without good reason.

President Obama never asked McConnell or other major Republican players over to the White House in the past two years to discuss anything. Republicans were told “they could go along with his plans if they chose to, and didn’t mind riding in the back of the bus,” I believe he said.

I’m not even going to qualify with a repremand the repugnant nature of that overt racist slur by our president but there is little doubt as to the connotation intended. Had that same statement been uttered by a white president to a senator of color there would have been hell to pay. It was deeply offensive to all conservatives to be referenced with that comeuppance jeer.

Now all of a sudden, out of the blue, he talks in a conciliatory tone that he is “open to discussing things in a bipartisan way and finding common ground,” as he put it. If past performance is an predictor of future behavior, I believe we all know how much compromise Obama intends to mete out over the issues conservatives wish to address.

None, nada, zip would be a good guess.

McConnell spoke for conservatives as a whole in his statement in that unless Obama allows the repeal of his most egregious programs, his removal from office is the only alternative to get them removed. Even moderately intelligent Americans don’t see Obama making those concessions, so what other choice do we have?

* The Senate Republican leader’s confrontational tone was in sharp contrast to the posture Obama took Wednesday in the face of a new GOP-controlled House and Republican gains in the Senate.

Typical liberal response to any conservative position that differs from their own: if you don’t agree with us every inch of the way, you are being “confrontational” or “obstructive.” I think more than anything else McConnell simply used candor to present the conservative position in a realistic way.

“If the Senate and the President won’t sign off on the legislation we forward to them, we have no choice but push for a change of the Senate and the president to accomplish our goals.”

How much different is that than the Democrat’s position whenever they run for offices? None is the correct answer here.

* “If the administration wants cooperation, it will have to begin to move in our direction,” McConnell said.

And he spelled out a strategy for undermining Obama’s health care law, calling for repeated votes to repeal the measure.

“But we can’t expect the president to sign it,” he said. “So we’ll also have to work, in the House, on denying funds for implementation, and, in the Senate, on votes against its most egregious provisions.”

This is just the way the government is supposed to work, guys. If unpopular laws need revision or repeal, it is the job of the congressional majority to put together a proposal to do just that. If the Senate or president veto the offer, it is them who are acting as the obstructionists then.

The only acceptable solution for some issues, like health care reform, is its repeal. The current Senate and president are most likely going to try to stop or stall that. The only way to correct that is to change the Senate and the president at the polls. It’s just the way it works, regardless of which side is doing it.

* Reid, D-Nev., said that in light of the election, “Republicans must take the responsibility to solve the problems of ordinary Americans,” although he added, “people expect us to work together.”

Pretty strong words from the man who ignored his contemporaries for the last two years. But just to put his mind at ease, conservatives are looking to give the majority of Americans what they want and demand. That can be done in a bipartisan way or at the exclusion of the left – that choice is up to the left.

RINO’s who are not helping advance the conservative position will be dealt with in 2012, 2014 and 2016. If they are obstructing conservative progress they have to go – and they will. The people elected what they thought was conservative majority to the House and they should have it.

* “I think the most interesting thing to watch in the next Congress is how many Democrats start voting with us,” McConnell said.

“Every one of the 23 Democrats up [for re-election] in the next cycle has a clear understanding of what happened Tuesday,” he said. “I think we have major opportunities for bipartisan coalitions to support what we want to do.”

“As I see it, the White House has a choice: they can change course, or they can double down on a vision of government that the American people have roundly rejected. If they choose the former, they’ll find a partner in Republicans. If they don’t, we will have more disagreements ahead.”

I don’t see anything confrontational or hostile in those comments from McConnell. He simply laid out the new reality for Democrats to deal with looking forward. No need beating around the bush, there is a new sheriff in town – a conservative one.

All meetings have been held, all speeches have been made and now it is time to decide our fate as a nation. We sit on the edge of a great crevice. Will we turn back away from it or plunge ourselves over the edge into oblivion?

The liberal left has controlled both Houses of Congress for the last four years. They can scream and shout about obstruction from conservatives all they want, but we all know that is a falsehood.

Here is a quick review of what the liberal left has done for (to) us over the last four years:

Remember this legacy when you step into the booth to vote tomorrow. You are the only chance we have left to turn this mess around.

It bears repeating; when Democrats took control of Congress in January 2007, unemployment was 4.6%. Now, after four years of their harebrained policies, unemployment is somewhere between 9.6% — 17%.

Vote your conscience and good luck on the outcome.

It’s almost never a good idea to count your chickens before they hatch, but it doesn’t hurt to make an educated prediction. That being the case, things are looking pretty glum for Democrats next Tuesday.

But if you’re conservative, that’s good news, right?

The Hill 2010 Midterm Election poll, surveying nearly 17,000 likely voters in 42 toss-up districts over four weeks, points to a massive Republican wave that, barring an extraordinary turnaround, will deliver crushing nationwide defeats for President Obama’s party.

Read the full article:

Midterm blowout: 50 or more Dem seats set to fall in the election