The Citizens for Government Accountability and Transparency’s effort to overturn the city of Chattanooga’s domestic partners ordinance in August could be a precursor to what the November elections will bring across the country.
A vote to overturn the ordinance, which was passed by the Chattanooga City Council last fall and allows benefits to same-sex couples and other unmarried domestic partners, might be an indication the electorate has had it with hearing the definition of marriage is not just between one man and one woman, is tired of lies from a White House that shoved a health-care system down its throats and said members could keep their insurance if they liked it, and is fed up with a government that wants to reserve more and more power for itself and leave less and less for the people it governs.
It could foreshadow a repeat of the 1994 midterm elections, often called the Republican Revolution, when the Republican party captured majorities in the U.S. House, U.S. Senate and governors’ mansions. The GOP won 54 House seats, eight Senate seats and 10 governorships.
That election, which gave the Republicans a majority in the House for the first time in 40 years, followed the attempted overreach of the Clinton White House in trying to force a health-care system it didn’t want on the public (sound familiar?), tax increases, and incidents like the Democrat-led House Bank and House postal system scandals.
Or it could be a repeat of 2010, when tea party-spurred Republicans gained 63 House seats (the largest seats change since 1938), six Senate seats and 680 seats in state legislative races (breaking the previous 628 mark set by Democrats in the post-Watergate election of 1974).