Don's Tuesday Column

THE WAY I SEE IT   by Don Polson  Red Bluff Daily News   11/04/2014

An election, and victory, that’s really about important things

Providing a venue for Republican and Tea Party Patriot brothers and sisters to share what promises to be an evening of celebratory cheer, Tehama County Republicans are inviting folks to their 508 Main Street headquarters tonight. There’ll be refreshments, pizza and a big screen showing election returns as they come in. I can’t think of a better way to commemorate what I believe will be an historic night of Republican gains across the nation in U.S. Senate, House and state contests. Our local contests will, moreover, provide great cheer and affirmation that we live among the sane, right-leaning and –thinking part of what could once again become a great state were it to depart from the fanatical anti-business, anti-resource use, pro-public employee union and pro-tax and –regulatory path.

You will see a Republican landslide in which taking the Senate from the Harry Reid/Barack Obama’s leftist grip will be but one indication of the American electorate’s repudiation of Obama-ism. In “Democrats about to pay for supporting the failed President Obama,” by Hugh Hewitt, major Democrat candidate pratfalls—“Landrieu thinks Louisianans are bigots. Orman thinks Dole’s a clown. Braley thinks Iowans are hicks. Will Coakley now attack Paul Revere?”—are noted.

Hewitt says this midterm march began when, in his inauguration, Obama simply declared a decade of conflict over while our Islamic enemies were still fighting us. “The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria on the border of Turkey and in the suburbs of Baghdad tell us all we need to know about the president who lost a peace by bolting from Iraq even as he prepares to do the same in Afghanistan…

“Americans are tired of him and his eager loyalists. A big knock down is coming and hopefully it will clear the president’s head and remind him that the other branches, and the other party are equal to him and his; and that executive orders, the endlessly divisive rhetoric and continuing stonewalls on the IRS and Benghazi are not going to help his legacy, but merely cement it as the worst president of modern times.”

Our Beltway, Obama-centric MSM have predictably 1) held off on the most accurate (and devastating to Democrats) polling until the last weekend of the race and 2) attempted to downplay the importance of the coming tsunami by telling their readers and viewers that it’s “an election about nothing” (Washington Post, followed in short order by a dozen or so of the usual liberal suspects in unbiased wolf’s garb).

Au contraire says Stephen F. Hayes (Weekly Standard) in “An Election About Everything” (11/3 edition): “It is being fought over exactly the kinds of things that ought to determine our elections…the size and scope of government…the rule of law…the security of the citizenry…competence…integrity…honor.

“It’s about a government that makes promises to those who have defended the country and then fails those veterans. A president who offers soothing reassurances on his sweeping health care reforms and shrugs his shoulders when consumers learn those assurances were fraudulent;” websites that cost billions but don’t function; “smart power” that isn’t very smart; Obama caring more about ending, not winning, wars; a president who ignores restrictions on his power and rewrites laws that inconvenience him; federal agencies that target citizens because of their political beliefs; a White House that claims ignorance of what its agents are up to because government is too ‘vast.”

A note of follow up on the deadly, debilitating Enterovirus, EV-D68, that many have strongly suggested was brought into American via the many tens of thousands of illegal alien children that, with no small encouragement from Obama’s agencies and policies, flagrantly flooded our borders: Look up “Obama’s Border Policy Fueled Epidemic, Evidence Shows,” by Neil Munro (DailyCaller.com) and “The Case of the Mystery Virus, Cont’d,” by Scott Johnson (Powerlineblog.com).

It is no longer a case of “coincidence doesn’t prove causation” but rather “reasonable suspicion,” close to “probable cause,” that diseases known and medically identified to exist in elevated levels, in Central American countries, accompanied those children to American cities. The evidence and tracked outbreaks are such that it behooves the CDC to undertake the meticulous steps of viral analysis warranted whenever communicable diseases enter this country. The burden of proof in the negative is on the CDC; mapping and tracking EV-D68 is essential to satisfy reasonable suspicions.

Obama sycophants should research, before engaging in knee jerk attacks, by troubling themselves with hard news and papers such as “Human rhinoviruses and Enterovirus in influenza–like illness in Latin America” (virologyj.com). MSM like ABC News have been keen to try to characterize the cause as “unidentified” and a “mystery.” Internist Dr. Foley wrote at Powerlineblog.com that while “there will be a good deal of epidemiological work to be done before this can be scientifically associated, there is a deafening silence on the part of public health officials and the mainstream media in even speculating about this association. This is not a simple case of being politically selective about the news, it is downright dangerous and could be just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the emergence of diseases long absent from daily life in America…”