Good bye America

Did I actually hear Bob Scheiffer say Obama’s campaign did not go after Sarah Palin during the election?

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The honeymoon period will be used to push for reform of these, which will come with a catastrophic price tag for the country. May I predict that Conservatives and Small Government Republicans will rise against this and that the party in power will thereby villify all nonliberals as selfish and meanspirited partisans?

This is change? What would be a change is if The Administration Elect is honest with the people and tells them we can’t afford to do everything we would like (or not like) to do. Instead of gutting our military to expand the welfare state, we must expand choice, trade and freedom from oppressive taxation.

Why not expand incentives for investment instead of sending out a government check? One tires of the populist hooey, regardless of the party who is spewing it. Did anyone who received a $600 stimulant this year decide to hire another worker? No? I thought not.

Note 2 Mark: Your review is awesomely awesome every dang week.

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says that President-elect Obama has a wealth of people who are eager to become Treasury Secretary.

By definition, anyone “eager” to become Treasury Secretary in the present climate is disqualified for that position.

When the first Bailout Sham came up for the first vote, I watched the Republicans come out to speak to the press as soon as it failed. I may be wrong, but it appeared to me that Eric Cantor did all he could to get in front of the camera immediately with his voice, and a copy of the speech Pelosi gave right before the vote. He held the letter up to the cameras and said that that was why the Bailout was not passed. It was obvious he wanted it to pass. I was very dissapointed that he backed the legislation to begin with, but to say Pelosi’s partisan speech was the reason for the failure gave me the creeps. If he really is the conservative that he claims to be, and his voting record before was pretty conservative, then why did he not stand up against legislation that a majority of We The People (something like 80%) said no to. And, then he added his stupid insurance language to the legislation, which is voluntary and worthless. Because of that I was not going to vote for him as he is my district rep.

This morning has sealed the deal for me, I will not vote for him again in 2010. To say that he didn’t think the country voted for an ideology, but because the R’s lost their way was speaking out of the side of his mouth. The R’s surely did lose their way, however, a majority that voted for Obama do in fact want the government to take care of them from cradle to grave. They may not understand what a Socialistic Type of Government is, but they know they want the Government to do everything and give them everything. They want a free ride. And then, he spilled his real beans when he said that the R’s are going to work with Obama and his administration and Congress to pass important legislation for example Global Warming legislation. To me that means compromise compromise compromise. Didn’t the conservatives just learn the very hard way that to be moderate and to reach across the isle on the most important issues facing us will only spell defeat after defeat not only for the Conservatives but the R’s as a whole. Did we not just learn that we need to hold to our core principles and not be such a pale color that we appear as D lights.

Cantor is trying hard to become the Minority Whip. What do you think he will do with his already showing true colors? He will run right across the isle along with McCain and Graham and yep that’s right- Conservatism will be dead forever. After all, he ran right out to support McCain almost before his nomination was securely in the bag.

Cantor is a RINO!

Among the Dems plans for our collective future their plans for energy scare me the most.

They seem to have not done their math at all as it regards their preferred alternatives as http://charlemagne-the-hammer.blogspot.com/2008/11/solar-follies.html.

The Dems will be in thrall to the eco-Marxists who are little more than modern day Chicken Littles who literally believe the sky is falling.

They claim to be the party of the average working class people yet are determined to raise the price of energy. Obama said, when gas prices were at $4/gal that he just would have preferred for prices not to have risen so fast. More recently he said that electricity prices would necessarily “skyrocket” as he implemented his cap & trade plan.

Not only will consumers be hit hard, many of the employers will also be hit hard and possibly either lay off workers or offshore additional jobs to escape punishing energy costs *imposed *on us by zealots.

Will the Democrats accept responsibility for the results of their policies? Will voters understand why their energy costs are out of control and vote accordingly?

Time will tell.

Barack Obama’s “call for action” is considered leadership by Rahm-bo, but John McCain’s was a publicity stunt? Double-standard, much?

If the conservatives are ever to take back a leadership role they must figure out some way to counter the liberal indoctrination of our students from pre school to the University level. I firmly believe that a balanced education in all forms of government will be very necessary. I don’t know how we will ever accomplish that with the Teachers Union being so in the tank for Obama/Liberals as are the rest of the unions. When we see home schooling and voucers go by the wayside we are in deep trouble. It must be tremendously difficult for parents to try to teach their children one way, and then watch them come home from school inundated with liberal ideologies pumped into their impressionable minds. How do we get past that?

Again- If you are 20 and not a Democrat, you have no heart. If you are 40 and not a Republican, you have no brains.

I didn’t watch the interview, but I guess I’m part of that “Progressive Wing of the Republican Party that Died Off 30 Years Ago.”

I’m not a Rockefeller Republican, I’m a Kowalski Responsibilist, and my progressivity consists in what trying to help America continue to thrive and survive as the preeminent power in the world. My belief is that we accomplish this the old-fashioned way: through low taxes, rewarding individual initiative, inclucating a sense of moral and social responsibility for adults and children, taking control of our energy supply and making it cheaper and more abundant and also less environmentally deleterious, maintaining a completely frightening and overwhelmingly powerful military, and teaching people to learn English as a precondition for becoming citizens.

And don’t try to take my guns, Bubba. They’ve never hurt you, and they’re not going to unless you try to take them on the basis of a pile of conterfactual claptrap.

I am willing to tolerate some of the wilder stuff if those basic conditions are met. On gay marriage I say, for example: “Ok. Please try to make it beautiful, not tawdry and sad.”

My apology to Paul Cella is coming, and this post should probably be longer. I’ll save it for now.

without wanting to slap him around.

Seriously, who the hell does this guy think he is?

I highly doubt that Bob Gates sticks around for the Obama Administration. I saw him on CSPAN about 2 months ago, and he commented that he wanted to go to the Pacific Northwest after his current stint is over. Can’t blame him one bit.

I believe that in a few short months it’s likely that he will be one of Obama’s least liked people. I don’t see him changing his ham-handed ways, & will push for over-reaching by the Democrats in the senate.

What we Republicans need is leadership to fix the stool. The leg of small government conservatism/spending restraint is broken, & we need leaders to fix that so we can once again be balanced. I’m not sure if it will be Newt, Palin, Jindal, or someone else who will step up or if a group will step up for this. When that happens & we have all three legs of the stool, the game will change dramatically.

Watching all this garbage. Although the Cantor/Pence thing was refreshing and encouraging.