- They could rein in the UAW. The Dems know they are largely responsible for Detroit’s ruin.

- They could prod action on tort reform, which they know is a growing problem especially WRT health care and especially the drug companies.

- They could address entitlements, which they know will bankrupt us within a few short years. And more.

But if this pep talk is any indication, they’re gonna blow it on same-old, same-old. That will open the doors to a return of the GOP, and frankly, I’m heartily sick of the GOP; they’ve demonstrated that they can’t (or won’t) address these problems, either.

Many liberals like the Great Depression, because that’s how the New Deal was created. Without the massive unemployment, FDR’s programs would never have been supported. Then, as now, “compassion” will give the government more power than was ever intended. In truth, this compassion is nothing more than short-sighted payoffs to buy support. FDR’s social programs, by and large, hurt the country more than they helped. The biggest increases in our economy came when welfare programs were rolled back.

What’s really compassionate? Giving someone free cheese, or cutting taxes so a company can grow, and give that person a job? Republicans need the will to say “the check you’re writing to compassion will be paid with the suffering of future generations.”

Sure sounds like it.

“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste,” Mr. Emanuel said.

That, my friend, is what this is all about.

He will address the syptoms, but not the root of the illness.

The revolution is coming.

ctmom on November 20, 2008 at 7:38 AM
I am ready for it! Lets not just talk lets act! Anybody serious about it, lets get our marching orders and dates right so we can do this!

Mercy4Me on November 20, 2008 at 7:46 AM

All we are is TALK. Conservatives never have a MILLION MAN MARCH to DC, because we HAVE JOBS, responsibilities… BUT WE BETTER START CHANGING OUR PRIORITIES!!!

WE NEED TO BE IN THE STREETS, ON THE NEWS, GETTING RADICAL IN OUR OPPOSITION! WE BETTER LEARN FROM THE DAILY KOOKS, the MoveOn’s, the MMA’s… ORGANIZE, FIGHT, PROTEST or as the Messiah said to his followers, “GET IN THIER FACES”!!!

Otherwise, we lose, America loses… “toast”!

Mark Garnett on November 20, 2008 at 7:57 AM

You both are so right. So right. I’m convinced that conservatives are RIGHT/CORRECT but we’re not “in your face” type people. By God, we better get that way quick! I guess we’ll just have to have our marches on the weekends when most of us aren’t working!

We can sit here all day and comment on this blog, but we’re preaching to the choir here! The elites in DC and NYC don’t even know we’re here! The left thinks the right voted AGAINST The Big O because of race! They don’t EVEN know how we feel, what we stand for, or the fact we’re highly intelligent people. We know why we voted for McCain and we know why the opponent was bad. Sure, there might be a few conservatives with a public forum (Rush, Sean, Levin, Laura, etc.), but for the most part we’re silent and we’re no longer the silent MAJORITY.

We’re going to have to get off our butts and away from out computers and take it to the streets.

We need a ring-leader obviously! Some one give us a date or series of dates, locations, and tell us what we’re marching for on that particular day (we have so many things to protest), and we’ll do it!

Now we’re gonna’ get Socialised Medicine shoved down our throats, whether we like it, or not.

Funny,

how I get severely chastised and roundly criticised, whenever I tell someone I blindly pull the lever on a straight Republican ticket,

isn’t it.

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“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. What I mean by this is, it’s an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.”

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They were already planning dramatic changes and now they seem to feel they have a license to go hog wild on us. The MSM keeps saying they “have to govern to the center”. No they don’t.

How I wish Romney were Prez instead of what we have now.

petefrt on November 20, 2008 at 8:23 AM

Ditto, but between the religious right that was afraid of a Mormon, and the conservatives who were suspicious of Mitt’s credentials, we ended up with John “Reach across the aisle” McCain, who couldn’t articulate a coherent argument for the whole campaign.

Did anyone see Mitt’s op-ed piece in the NY Times yesterday? “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt,” he wrote, and he’s right.

Let Mitt toil in the the rubber-chicken circuit for the next few years, and maybe he’ll emerge, as Ronald Reagan did, as the candidate in 2012. That’s assuming Obambi and his enforcer Emmanuel don’t have Obambi’s mindless brownshirts so hypnotized by then that no opposition is possible.

‘The American people in two successive elections have voted for change, and change cannot be allowed to die on the doorsteps of Washington,’ Mr. Emanuel said.

Can’t it though?

Obambi is the figurehead President they wanted, with the Congress they wanted, and it’s going to be full-speed ahead with the radical-left socialist agenda.

No it’s not. They are smarter than that, so it will just be an accelerated creep, sleight of hand, beachhead by beachhead.

He can vote “PRESENT”.

Just keep the teleprompter in front of him.

Carter 2.0

BHO has brought in all the OLD farts from the past for Carter / Clinton part 2!!! No one in the MSM, or really even in so called Conservative blogs are “calling the Messiah out on his BLATENT lies to the fools in America that voted for “CHANGE”! Why can’t people just start mentioning all the SAME OLD NAMES and ask THE ONE about his cliams, his lies of “CHANGE”? Because we have no one as the Conservative voice that has the “nads” to hammer this point home… We should be repeating “THIS IS NOT CHANGE” over and over and over and over . . .
Mark Garnett on November 20, 2008 at 7:42 AM

Unfortunately this will be change. All of these Clinton-era retreads were frustrated by Slick Willie’s ineffectual approach to governance, compounded by a Republican Congress after 1994 and Ol’ Slick chasing after interns.

Obambi is the figurehead President they wanted, with the Congress they wanted, and it’s going to be full-speed ahead with the radical-left socialist agenda.

The only chance is that the crashing economy that Mr. Emmanuel hopes will give them the excuse to midwife a socialist nation will instead turn into a “giant sucking sound” that will leave their folly stillborn.

Obama Hears a Giant Sucking Sound
His legacy is spent before he gets his hands on it.

Mr. Obama’s one deeply false note during the campaign was his harping on “deregulation” as if that were the source of current troubles. His real problem is the crack-up of the world FDR built.

Mr. Obama must be looking around and beginning to suspect he will be pouring his political capital, along with considerable taxpayer capital, down bottomless holes for the next four years. He won’t be building a legacy as the new FDR, but cleaning up after the last one.

MB4 on November 19, 2008 at 11:55 PM

Throwing long and deep means to me that they’ll spend for their ‘new New Deal’ programs over and above all the bailouts. Since their policies won’t sustain economic growth, inflation will be used to moderate debt. Inflation big time. Maybe stagflation.

How I wish Romney were Prez instead of what we have now.

AMEN, my fellow blogger. We must at the first sign of “overreach” is march to DC and start our protest!

Mercy4Me on November 20, 2008 at 7:42 AM

A problem that I see is that The ONe has such a huge ego that anything less than 2 million people would be ignored or laughed at…

However, the old Chinese “Death by a thousand cuts” might work better. IE. a series of local protests of 50 people or so targeting your communist democrat communist congresscritter. Make it so that every time they venture out for a photo op there are a bunch of pissed off people with signs. If our local appartchick were going to be giving some award to my kid, I’d ask my kid if he wanted to rip it up and throw it back at him.

IOW a local effort is easier to maintain and might rattle the dem congresscrappers.

onlineanalyst on November 20, 2008 at 8:00 AM

That’s like asking the Leopard to change his spots. Ain’t gonna happen. In any case Obama is an authoritarian who is not interested in honest brokers; he is interested in power.

That’s the Chicago way.

One of Mr. Obama’s first decisions was to make Rahm Emanuel his chief of staff. This smart, aggressive Chicago pol may turn out to be a wise pick. But first he must decide what his role is. Will he be the opinionated enforcer who ran the Clinton White House political office? Or will Mr. Emanuel fashion himself into a more traditional chief of staff?

The phrase former chiefs, Republican and Democrat, seem to prize is “honest broker.” President Ronald Reagan’s chief, James A. Baker III, once cautioned, “Don’t use the process to impose your policy views.” Effective chiefs of staff don’t short circuit the decision-making process. Instead, they strive to impartially present the views of others and become a trusted channel of communication to the president for leaders on both sides of the aisle.

Being an impartial manager who constructively encourages individuals to marshal data, strengthen arguments and shape options is hard for anyone. It will be particularly hard for a combative advocate like Mr. Emanuel. His success may depend on his ability to submerge lifetime habits and offer his opinion sparingly.

Already Tiny Dancer displays his true colors and agenda. It will not be a pretty scenario for the next several years if our loyal opposition forces in the Republican party don’t call out this Emanuel bulldozing style and its central planning agenda NOW.

WE NEED TO BE IN THE STREETS, ON THE NEWS, GETTING RADICAL IN OUR OPPOSITION! WE BETTER LEARN FROM THE DAILY KOOKS, the MoveOn’s, the MMA’s… ORGANIZE, FIGHT, PROTEST or as the Messiah said to his followers, “GET IN THIER FACES”!!!

Otherwise, we lose, America loses… “toast”!

The revolution is coming.

ctmom on November 20, 2008 at 7:38 AM

I am ready for it! Lets not just talk lets act! Anybody serious about it, lets get our marching orders and dates right so we can do this!