People Voted for Change in 2008. In 2010 They Voted to Change it Back

From Don Surber's column:

Elections have consequences.

Voters voted for hope and change in 2008. They saw the change in 2009. In 2010, they voted to change it back.

Not only did Republicans mop up the Democrats in the House, they now control more statehouses than they have since 1928.

Those statehouse Republicans want to bust up that longstanding sweetheart deal in which public employee unions elect Democrats, who turn around and give the unions anything they want.

This arrangement between the unions and Democrats has led to unfunded liabilities for pension and benefits for retirees that now total $1.5 trillion to $3 trillion among the states.

Thus, they have overextended the rest of us. We are not dealing with the demographic realities: There are too few private-workers to keep those pension promises.

Republicans are trying to rein in state government, state by state.

The Associated Press identified the battlegrounds as Florida, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, Ohio, Missouri, New Hampshire, Maine, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and of course, Wisconsin.

Barack Obama carried 10 of those states in 2008. That their state governments are in Republican hands just two years later says a lot about the president.

He needs to carry at least four of those 10 states to win in 2012.

Read the whole thing at the link. Obama's decision to throw in with every element that's dangerous to America will be dangerous to his second term.