After winning NY23, Bill Owen said this about voters there: “They put aside partisanship and declared they’re ready to move forward, not backward.”

Just wanted to think about going backwards for a minute… back to when the DOW was over 14,000 (as on the day Obama won the nomination over Hillary). Back to when unemployment was under control? Back to when the Feds weren’t owners of GM and taking over banks? Or forward to the new administration surrounding itself with self-proclaimed Marxist advisors? With professional students who hate small business, and big business for that matter… who hate Capitalism, and profit, and oil, coal, nuclear, natural gas… basically anything that makes economic sense?

Can we go backwards please? Progressive is a misnomer to be sure, but who didn’t know that? (Quoting Sammy Farha… he likes to say that once a poker hand is revealed. The guy had squadoosh and was bluffing… who didn’t know that? There’s an analogy in there somewhere.) Progressives have been bluffing with squadoosh. Empty promises of hope and change that are without substance. But as in poker you play the player, not the hand, and in order to gain power, you play the voters. If you listened to voter interviews after the ’08 elections, it seemed pretty clear that large numbers of voters were not politically aware of much. The good news is that voters are becoming increasingly aware of what the Progressive movement is all about, and the gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey indicate that voters are talking back… wards.