Mike ChambersAs has been the case for decades, many Americans went to the booth last Tuesday and held their nose – and the GOP now controls both the House and the Senate. But, many ask, “so what?”
I am among the two-thirds of Americans who, pollsters say, believe we are on the “wrong track.”
America has a true unemployment reaching into the middle teens, according to some economists, thanks to taxation that runs businesses abroad and thousands of burdensome regulations — not the least of which is the Affordable Care Ac — that stifle employment and growth.
President Obama is also promising amnesty for millions of illegal aliens, a.k.a. undocumented Democrats, who can take jobs from citizens. Some health care professionals are quietly acknowledging statistics that point to “unaccompanied minors” as having brought the deadly enterovirus EV-D68 into our schools.
Many individual candidates hammered those issues to voters (along with alphabet scandals in the IRS, VA and NSA), but the Republican National Committee did not enter the fray with a plan, a vision. Republicans were not voted for, but the current administration was voted against.