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The toughness of Americans in the next few years will determine our course more so than the results of the election in November.

I have been saying for weeks that the return of the horse as transportation was not far off given the 30-year liberal democrat fake environmental self suicide prohibitions against expanding oil exploration and refineries and the resulting lack of any short term solution to rising gasoline prices.

I was not kidding. Below is proof that I wasn't a fool to not be kidding. I was remiss in not foreseeing the return of 1950's stubborn Francis, but that was before my first television in room as a child for the sole purpose of hearing Wilbur!

MCMINNVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - High gas prices have driven a Warren County farmer and his sons to hitch a tractor rake to a pair of mules to gather hay from their fields. T.R. Raymond bought Dolly and Molly at the Dixon mule sale last year. Son Danny Raymond trained them and also modified the tractor rake so the mules could pull it.
T.R. Raymond says the mules are slower than a petroleum-powered tractor, but there are benefits.

"This fuel's so high, you can't afford it," he said. "We can feed these mules cheaper than we can buy fuel. That's the truth."

Read it all.

I do not mean to discount the importance of the election in which I will be voting for McCain, but even he has yet to see the light on the hoax of Man-made global warming acolytes, the vision of the drop in standard of living that is happening now and how steep the drop will be in the next several years, nor the opening he has to slam dunk the democrats by seizing the issue.

Dave Hinz, in The HinzSight Report, does see it, and, incredibly, found some elected republicans in Congress that have a plan to address that issue, the larger issue of the middle and lower income family squeeze, and most every other issue that conservatives should be championing just now:

The Politico is reporting today that Congressional Republicans met in a special session called by Rep Jeb Hensarling, R-TX, to attempt to arrive at a unified agenda for the 2008 election. According to reporter Patrick O'Connor the meeting achieved little consensus.

Rank-and-file Republicans met to clear the air Tuesday in a crowded, members-only session on the fifth floor of the Longworth House Office Building. Members who attended said the summit was typical of previous meetings, with lawmakers offering their individual visions for the party but failing to come to a consensus about a way forward.

The Republican Study Committee headed by Hensarling came up with An Action Plan for House Republicans. This document articulates eight principles that the Committee believes that Congressional Republicans should focus upon, including:

LIMITING WASHINGTON TAXES AND SPENDING TO WHAT MIDDLE CLASS FAMILIES CAN AFFORD House Republicans are committed to eliminating the Alternative Minimum Tax and preventing the scheduled tax increases in 2010 from taking more from the paychecks of hard-working, middle class families. We are also committed to amending the U.S. Constitution to limit the growth of federal spending to the level at which middle class Americans can afford. Except in time of war or national emergency, our spending limit amendment would prohibit federal spending from growing faster than the economy.

and

5) AMERICAN ENERGY INDEPENDENCE THROUGH INCREASED EXPLORATION House Republicans are committed to increasing American energy supplies to lower prices and reduce dependence on Middle Eastern Oil by incentivizing conservation and allowing energy exploration in Alaska and the Outer Continental Shelf, as well as the development of cleaner coal technologies and alternative fuels.

The American people are eventually going to see pictures of Cubans and Chinese drilling for oil 40 miles from Miami, where the Democrats say we dare not drill for fear of another non-fatal to humans, once in 100 years Exxon Valdez spill that nature cleaned up quicker than liberals cleaned up Obama's past. (Come to think, its still not cleaned up, but I digress)

They will eventually see the self suicide of a 30-year ban on nuclear plants for fear of another non-fatal to any humans Three-Mile-Island.

They will see the above as they gaze upon $4.00+ gas and imagine the miles not traveled, the changes in their diets and the whining children.

When they see, it is imperative that they turn to the proven result producing policies of Reagan, Freidman and the Republican Study Group, and not the proven failed liberal policies that put us in this mess.

America is being tested now, and the test is going to be brutal, especially for a population that is dominated by people that don't know they are spoiled, relatively speaking, with respect to world history and the rest of the existing world today.

Too many don't remember the late 1970's and too many think the late 90's were the given. They are ignorant of what it took for Reagan, Volcker and Greenspan to kill inflation. They don't know how crucial have been the tax rate cuts.

But the latter can be sold easily as they gaze upon the pump. They can learn that oil companies hire lots of non-college grads.

We must teach.

Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns
The HinzSight Report
The Minority Report
Race 4 2008
"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson