As America’s Mid-term Elections draw closer, the tone-deaf members of the Democratic Party are poised for the biggest political defeat in our nation’s history.   They are saddled with an un-American President who is more intent on accomplishing the tenets of his Far Left, Marxist Ideology than he is in dealing with the economic crisis and enemies, foreign and domestic, that besiege us.  Their members are besotted by greed, power, and an overblown sense of self-entitlement, blindly following the wishes of their president and his Far Left base, instead of following the wishes of the majority of Americans.  Let’s take a look at 3 problems that are presently roadblocks to the Democrats’ Mid-term hopes:

1)  Fox News told us Friday that charming Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.)will go through an ethics trial akin to the one likely on the docket for Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY).

People familiar with the investigation, who choose to remain anonymous, predict the charges will be announced next week. The House ethics committee declined Friday to make any public statement on the matter.

Waters, 71, is accused of using her position to help arrange for federal bailout funds for a bank associated with her family.   They have already investigated her for communicating with an executive at a bank in which her husband owned stock. That same bank was applying for a federal bailout. She serves on the House Financial Services Committee.

Waters responded:

I am confident that as the investigation moves forward the panel will discover that there are no facts to support allegations that I have acted improperly.

Waters came under scrutiny after former Treasury Department officials said she tried to arrange a meeting between regulators and executives at Boston-based OneUnited Bank without mentioning her husband’s financial ties to the institution.

Her husband, Sidney Williams, held at least $250,000 in the bank’s stock and previously had served on its board. A spokesman for Waters claims that Williams was no longer on the board when the meeting was arranged.

Sources indicate that the House Ethics Committee is close to issuing a report in Waters case and will announce her punishment soon.

2)  Meanwhile, calls for Rep. Charlie Rangel, Democrat from  New York, to resign amid reports that all the House was going to do to him for his 13 ethics violation was reprimand him.  Way to take a stand, Dems!

A reprimand is the most lenient of the three formal modes of discipline in the House. The other two are censure and expulsion.

A Congressional Research Service report tells us that “reprimand expressly involves a lesser level of disapproval of a Member than that of Censure, and is thus a less severe rebuke by the institution.”

If Charlie is reprimanded, he must stand in the well of the House and be reprimanded by the speaker. The full House would likely have to vote to reprimand Rangel.

Rangel racked up 13 allegations of violations relating to his tax filings for properties he owns in the Dominican Republic and the use of four lucrative rent-controlled apartments in pricey New York City.

If an agreement with Rangel is not reached, the case goes to another ethics committee panel that will likely hold a public “trial” in September against the 20-term lawmaker. The four-member panel that recommended a reprimand is composed of Reps. Green, Jo Ann Bonner, R-Ky., Doc Hastings, R-Wash., and Bobby Scott, D-Va., who joined the investigative subcommittee in August 2008.

Already a handful of Democrats has called for Rangel to resign, most recently Rep. John Yarmuth, D-Ky. The others include Rep. Walter Minnick of Idaho, Betty Sutton of Ohio, Zack Space of Ohio, Ann Kirkpatrick of Arizona and Mary Jo Kilroy of Ohio.

Kirkpatrick said in a statement:

Too many politicians, both Democrats and Republicans, have fallen victim to the idea that they are ‘different’ than regular folks and nothing could be further from the truth.

It is our job as members of Congress to hold each other accountable to a higher standard regardless of party.  If the serious charges against (Rangel) are accurate, he needs to resign.

And it appears that  President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) is throwing Good Time Charlie under the bus in an interview with CBS News:

I think Charlie Rangel served a very long time and served his constituents very well, but these allegations are very troubling.  And he’s somebody who is at the end of his career, 80 years old. I’m sure that what he wants is to be able to end his career with dignity, and my hope is that it happens.

Rangel denies the charges and says the indictment released Thursday contains factual errors.

3)  Finally, there’s the matter of Illegal Immigration, the 600 pound gorilla sitting on the sofa.  The fight over Arizona’s immigration law showed no signs of letting up Friday as the federal judge who blunted its force faced threats and the Republican governor who signed it considered changes to address any legal problems.

Since Clinton appointee, U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton,  put on hold the strongest parts of the law, hundreds of e-mails and phone calls — including some threats — have poured into the courthouse.

Seventy people were arrested in demonstrations.

And a fund set up to help defend the new law added $75,000 Wednesday alone, leaving the state with more than $1.6 million to get Bolton’s ruling overturned.

Gov. Jan Brewer has vowed not to back down, saying she’ll challenge Bolton’s decision all the way to the Supreme Court.

But Brewer said Friday she may “tweak” the law to respond to the parts Bolton faulted.

Brewer told The Associated Press:

Basically we believe (the law) is constitutional but she obviously pointed out faults that can possibly be fixed, and that’s what we would do. 

She said she’s talking to legislative leaders about the possibility of a special session, but said no specific changes had been identified.

Bolton delayed the most Liberally-opposed provisions of the law in her temporary injunction, including a section that required officers to check a person’s immigration status while enforcing other laws.   Bolton believes that the federal government’s case has a good chance at succeeding in its argument that federal immigration law trumps state law.

On the other hand, she allowed police to enforce the law’s bans on blocking vehicle traffic when seeking or offering day-labor services and a revision to the smuggling ban that lets officers stop drivers if they suspect motorists have broken traffic laws.

Bolton also let officers enforce a new prohibition on driving or harboring illegal immigrants in furtherance of their illegal presence.

Democrats did not believe that Brewer was being honest in her stated desire to change the law, with a key state House of Representatives minority leader calling it laughable:

Rep. Kyrsten Sinema of Phoenix asked:

Why would we help her?  This bill is so flawed and clearly a federal judge agrees.  Besides that, we got to get these new Hispanic voters on board in time for the Mid-terms.

House Speaker Kirk Adams said there would not be much support among fellow Republicans to weaken the law.

Attorneys have begun reviewing the law to identify possible changes, he said.

The law’s chief sponsor, state Sen. Russell Pearce, said he would only back changes to make it stronger.

Even though the ruling clearly pandered to them, immigrant rights supporters still held passionate demonstrations near the federal courthouse in downtown Phoenix after the parts of the law that weren’t blocked took effect Thursday.

Federal officials in charge of court security wouldn’t say whether anyone made a death threat against Bolton and wouldn’t provide specifics of the threats they were examining, but said a majority of the e-mails and phone calls to the judge’s chambers and the court clerk’s office are from people who are upset about her ruling, officials said.

While the Arizona lawsuit waits in front of the Ninth Circuit Court of appeals, the most brilliant president ever and his minions are trying to figure out how they can just bypass Congress and grant amnesty to illegal immigrants.

These three situations clearly provide evidence to back the prognostication that the Democrats are going to face their own Little Big Horn in November.  Pseudo-intellectualism, Beltway Elitism, an absence of ethical behavior, and a ‘we-know-better-than-you-do” attitude toward the American public, is all adding up to indicate the coming of an electoral tsunami of Biblical proportions.  Nancy and Harry had better start building an ark. 

Sources:  drudgereport, foxnews.com, washingtontimes.com