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And that's the problem. The elitists are the Democrats who are going to be running the show from Washington for the next eight years. I think the people have shown that they don't want to be Citizens, they want to be Subjects. At least, that's my take on it this morning.

People know that it is my practice when I write these kinds of things to put all my worst thoughts out there first. Taking a worse-case reading of the recent fighting here on Redstate and the other news that's trickling in, I have come up with this scenario. It's not the only one, but when I sat down this morning to try to write something overarching, this was the result.

It doesn't have anything to do with Happy Pills: I received this morning an email from the McCain campaign in which he as much as said that he is not going to run his campaign as a Reagan Republican, at least not the kind of Reagan Republican people here at Redstate want to see. Here are his words:

I'm not interested in partisanship that serves no other purpose than to gain a temporary advantage over our opponents. We are all compatriots. We are fellow Americans. I intend to prove myself worthy of the office, of our country and of your respect. I won't judge myself by how many elections I've won. I won't spend one hour of my presidency worrying more about my re-election than keeping my promises to the American people.

The media is having none of that, and it hasn't since the beginning of this campaign. John McCain is still the enemy, and he is going to continue to be the enemy. I can only hope that Americans are wise enough to realize that his magnanimous words are not going to be reciprocated by the things they read in the newspaper and on television. So far, his "outreach" strategy has drawn a huge goose-egg. Howard Dean went on the attack against him in the pages of the New York Times without ever having had the benefit of reading his speech. In other words, to the Democrats and their friends in the media -- it doesn't matter what John McCain says.

At least he is being honest, he isn't really a Republican, mush less a Reagan Republican.

We are looking at enduring the wrath of the most hateful people on earth, (Pelosi,Clinton et. al.) because of eight years of "reaching out" and lack of conservative leadership. (bigger government, Homeland security, spending like a drunken sailor on leave.)
The man with the veto pen refused in most cases to rock the boat, and went along with the Demoncrats.

The punishment does actually fit the crime, although it's going to be heck to pay until we can turn it around.

It's time to turn out some of the lily livered senators and reps like Sen Dole, who vote with the demoncrats frequently, and put some conservatives in office. Turn up the heat, subscribe to a service that emails their votes on each bill. Give them the dickens every time they cave to liberalism! Then...
worry the daylights out of your friends until they do the same.

These people (even Rep) have an elitist attitude that they can do anything they want , you'll ignore it and vote for them anyway.

We lit a fire under Burr on the amnesty bill, and he's been on the straight and narrow since. Dole thinks she is above the fray and has a lifetime position. Well, we will see,

Get off your collective butt and follow the votes , write the letters and make the phone calls.

Make them change just to get you to shut up!

With much tough love,

Regards

Hmmm. Perhaps our so called Leaders have really been engaged in active appeasement of the left and were avoiding a fight.

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Maybe if we give them Poland....?!

Thinking back to the unified (R) government, I'm not sure why they felt they had to appease anyone. They had control. There was no (D) president to veto anything they passed - they didn't need a veto-proof majority to accomplish their professed goals of smaller government.

Rather than appeasement, it appears to be an act of defection.

It will take a little time to get their agenda passed an implemented. Say 6 months to pass it and another year before it's actually put into effect. If we're REAL lucky they won't use a retroactive tax increase like Clinton did.

People will complain about the taxes and higher energy prices at first, but they'll pony up. This will limit the spending they have available for other items and the economy will slow to a crawl (probably recession). Layoffs and business closures will start to become commonplace, unemployment will creep up towards European levels (about year 3). All this time the Dems will be blaming the wrongheaded Bush economic policies for the problems. About year 4, their policies will REALLY start to hit home. They'll pass protectionist legislation that will make the mass of unionists happy, but will further erode our economy. This will take another 2 years.

I give it till about year 6 of the Barry administration before things get bad enough for long enough that most people start to pine for the good ol' days of the Bush era. That gives us at least 8 years of wandering in the wilderness.

Then trying to UNDO all the socialist crap will be nearly impossible. We MIGHT be able to get some free trade deals passed if any country would trust us enough to believe us again and that would help. But how do you undo socialized medicine or the newly "saved" social security plan or any of the other bureaucratic monstrosities that the Dems envision?

It's far easier to NOT do them in the first place which is why we MUST elect McCain.

Socialism doesn't work. It looks nice on paper, but it's been tried and it's failed miserably every time (usually accompanied by widespread death and suffering).
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I think once an agency is created, whether it's Education or OSHA or anything in between, there's no strong political will to eliminate them. Obama's expansions will probably be just as permanent.

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I was born in 1970. Back in the days when people were artificially limited to buting $X worth of gas (forcing people to go into more than one gas line to fill up), I remember telling my dad that adults aren't very bright.

If Obama is President, what are the Vegas odds that they pull out the Carter playbook?

The problem is, Game, that a lot of people are willing to lie (which is the strong way of saying it) or historicize (which is the weak way of saying the same thing) the genius of the American Way into oblivion.

Present company excluded, the facts are that in terms of the economy (especially its resilience), pollution, the threat of nuclear war, treatment of disease, the kinds of products and services that are available to more people at lower costs (with only a couple of notable exceptions) America is a better country than it ever has been.

But that message is routinely buried.

Let's take what was supposed to be the largest fear of the liberal and leftist baby boomers who now currently have their rosy fingers wrapped around the dawn in the media and in our Universities. Is the world really a more dangerous place in terms of standard conceptions of nuclear war, or is the GWOT and the possibility of rogue states getting nukes more important:

42. Number of designated targets for U.S. weapons in the Single Integrated Operational Plan (SIOP) in 1976, 1986, and 1995: 25,000 (1976), 16,000 (1986) and 2,500 (1995)

We have fewer than 1/10th the nuclear warheads targeted through SIOP than we did just 30 years ago. Meanwhile the threat of rogue nations as asymmetrical threats has increased by several orders of magnitude. A straightforward reading of those facts would tell you that the Bush administration was correct to concentrate on the GWOT, but nobody (including John McCain) will ever get credit for that.

There are hundreds of other ways in which the United States is by every measure a better place than the world I grew up in as a child. In virtually every respect it is better, particularly because of the Reagan years. But you cannot say those things to people in Universities. Almost to a person, the professors I knew in Chicago despised Ronald Reagan and everything about him. They are still there, and he is dead. You tell me what's going to happen?

BTW, the link to some of those interesting facts is the Brookings Institution Nuclear Weapons Cost Study which was completed in 1998.

threat now than ever, BUT I doubt it, given that despite the great depression and wwii, we did not devolve into european style socialism and that when we faced dire straits in the late 70s we chose the message of Reagan and it worked. I think we still have the heart and soul within us to learn the lesson again beacuse of our religious faith, judeo-christian values and intangibles.

But it is crucial that when the times get tough in the next 2 years that conservatives teach the lessons in a loud voice.

Plus, 'ski, Marx died in the 19th C. His vision has not been right, ever, even in europe, since the USSR died in 70 yrs and europe is dying now. Marx's policies kill.

I think the word "right" is too vague though.

more later

pilgrim is actually my guru on this

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And there were *no* legitimate reasons for that, outside of putting model rocketeers off their games, yes? So scale it on back.

Just ask the people who used to make chemistry sets.
Or any other product with a hint of danger.

And I feel your pain. I spent many a childhood day launching countless hours of work into the sky only to watch them shatter on impact because of chute failure.

P.S. The mars lander does work as advertised they gyroc not so much

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