Last night, the Republicans won big, with two significant gubernatorial victories in Virginia and New Jersey. It appears the independents who just months ago voted for “hope” and “change” have seen enough, and the political tides are turning. The key to McDonnell and Christie’s success? Pocketbook issues and limited government. Seems like the word is getting around. Hi friends, I’m Scott Hennen, Chairman of the Common Sense Club sounding off. In a minute, conservative victories force Democrats to look in the mirror—and at the deficit—in today’s Common Sense Commentary!

“Electoral liability”:  that’s the word of the day, ladies and gentlemen, the key phrase tossed around in Washington as we speak, on the heels of big Republican victories in New Jersey and Virginia. What does it mean? It simply denotes the political consequences of committing generational theft by spending mind-boggling amounts of cash. “Electoral liability” is what democrats are beginning to feel right now, as the writing on the wall finally begins to materialize. Allow me to put this into perspective: currently, the US National Debt stands at nearly 12 trillion dollars….or $109, 781 bucks per taxpayer. There’s one million seconds in eleven days….there’s one trillion seconds in over 32,000 years! And now it’s an issue?

But don’t worry. The democrat party—co-sponsored by our very own Kent Conrad—is here to the rescue, with a bipartisan commission to form a new plan to narrow the gap. Make no mistake, given his voting record, Conrad leading this thing is pretty absurd (like Chris Christie instructing Pilates). Obviously this “electoral liability” is becoming more of an electoral reality…so to protect their political futures, democrats like Kent Conrad are now feigning concern for the exploding deficit even though they continue to support policies that will make it astronomically worse. But I don’t care anymore about the hypocrisy. Bipartisan or not, it’s time we finally became adults and started addressing this issue. The problem with a commission co-sponsored by Conrad is that we already know what his solution will be: increase taxes. But given what we witnessed last night in Virginia and New Jersey—two states that voted Obama—Americans are rejecting that model. We may finally be returning to Common Sense.

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