EU Elections lean hard to the right
European Socialists are taking a beating in this years European Union election cycle.
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It appears the Socialist approach does not set well with the majority in Europe as nations went out and voted on the EU parliament over the weekend. Early election projections show the center/right parties with a strong lead in the Parliament with approximately 263-273 seats in their possession, with the center/left leaning parties only taking approximately 155-165 seats.
Germany’s Social Democrats had an abysmal showing, in what will be a major boost to Chancellor Angela Merkel and her conservative approach. Elections in Italy, Belgium, France, Britain and Spain showed a similar trend. Greece showed the only rapproachment to the trend, as the conservative leaders in that country have been racked with scandal, the citizens soundly rejecting them.
Hopefully this will be a sign of things to come for the 2010 United States mid-term elections. The Democrat controlled Congress has all but run the economy in to the ground, House speaker Nancy Pelosi has been an absolute failure at her position, and they have shown a shocking hypocrisy after preaching fairness and reaching across the aisles to Republicans. They have instead forced through an extreme left agenda, bolstered by the recent election of Barack Obama. One could argue that his hurried approach to all of these major agenda items (health care, cap and trade) could be his foresight to the upcoming elections. I for one am looking for a Republican revolution like we saw in with Newt Gingrich at the helm, during the Clinton presidency.
One quick qualifier to that last statement. A Republican Revolution is meaningless if the party continues to put forward spineless hypocrites into office. We need a complete cleaning of the House chamber and the Senate chamber. The Congress of the United States of America has become an embarrassment. Hope and Change will be coming in 2010!!
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