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11-10-2006
I had a bad feeling about this election, and it was right on the money. I had hoped that Republicans would at least keep the Senate, as many conservative pundits thought. It has to do with judicial appointees, which will now be liberal and leftist. Abortion, homosexual rights, and terrorist rights, anyone? It also had to do with the ability of the Senate to reign in an out-of-control Democrat-controlled House.
With that check out of the way, I look for bad times for conservatives. The liberals will immediately try to pull the troops out of Iraq, leaving that country to descend into worse chaos than we now see. Terrorists will be emboldened, having "defeated" the superpower, and will come after us with renewed vengeance.
The Democrats will make impotent any and all programs designed to catch terrorists before they strike us here at home.
They will raise our taxes, of that you can be sure.
They will try to shred the remaining two years of George W. Bush's presidency. They will either try to impeach him, or else they will keep him busy defending himself on the war in Iraq, and every other imaginable thing. They intend to paint him as inept and corrupt.
My fellow Republicans in Washington thought that they had this election in the bag. But, when we look at what is important to the American people, what did they accomplish? The big thing, of course, is that they have kept the terrorists off our doorstep for several years. Somehow, that fact has caused people to return to business as usual. Sadly, I remember our President urging people right after 9-11 to do just that. I am sure that it was because he did not want to see an uprising against Muslims in this country. However, he wasted a wonderful opportunity to lay out the changes needed in our policies, but also in the mindset of the citizens of this great country.
Beyond the Big Thing, we see little else. We did get a tax break, but few saw much of an increase in their income. Too little to make much difference in their lifestyles.
We saw a bill pass for a wall on our southern border, but no real commitment to bring the immigration problem under control. What about the millions of illegal aliens among us already? Are they to get amnesty? What about a guest worker program and legal work permits? Why didn't we get that?
We didn't get Social Security reform, and that program is still waiting to go bust..
They say that the economy is booming, but ordinary folks are still having it hard.
The Republicans are never able to articulate what they stand for, and this election, they ran as far away from the President as they could. Since he seemed to be the only one standing for anything, why should the citizens vote them back in?
And George Allen's immature and asinine "macacca" remark may have cost our party the Senate. Is this leadership?
God help us all, is all that I can say!
11-06-2006
Vote!
Amidst dire predictions that the Democrats will control one or both houses of Congress after the November 7 election, I wonder if voters are even thinking about such an outcome.
The Democrats are running on a campaign of "We're not Bush", and "Throw the bums out!" They offer no alternative plans to anything that the current administration and Congress are doing.
The voters seem to be buying into all of this rhetoric. Those who do so are not imagining the consequences. If the Democrats author an immediate troop withdrawal from Iraq, the Muslim militants will declare victory, and will be emboldened to attack us without expectation of military response.
If Democrats control the Senate, we will lose the chance of the appointment of more judges who will abide by the constitution. Instead, we will return to the liberal era of rewriting the constitution to fit the social engineering of the socialists and leftists that control the Democrat party.
After years of Democrats intoning that they will move to impeach President George W. Bush, why do voters now accept the explanation that this will simply not happen?
At the very least, the obstructionist tactics of the Democrats will become the order of the day, and the President will be blocked from doing anything that he sees as important in his remaining two years in office.
Our taxes will rise--that has already been promised.
We will return to the status quo on Social Security, and we will see the funds run out over the next few years. The Democrats don't want the citizens to have control of the money that they pay into Social Security. Instead, they want to tap the funds as they have done historically, using them to expand the government.
Millions of illegal aliens will be given citizenship, and the porous borders will continue to offer an easy entry for terrorists and drug runners.
The Republicans may have been a disappointment during their tenure, but a return to Democrat politics will be disastrous.
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Read the Republican Contract With America that liberals still refer to contemptuously, and see what you think (notice that Bill Clinton took credit for much of what it undertook).
Now that the dust from the 2000 Presidential election has settled, we need to lobby for:
(1) Election day should a national holiday to allow an equal chance for all voters to go to the polls, not just union members, welfare recipients, and retirees.
(2) All polls must be closed in the entire United States before news people can start projecting winners.
(3) News stations, newspapers, and magazines must state their party affiliation or leaning. Opinions must be identified as such and not passed off as "news".
(4) In close elections, there must be a
four-member canvassing board to review hand counts. They should consist of two
representatives of each party whose candidate stands to win or lose on the strength of the
recount. A minimum of three people must decide for whom the ballot was cast, else it is
rejected as a non-vote.