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Things are looking great!

By: kowalski (Diary)  |  May 28th, 2009 at 03:28 PM  | 

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No, seriously folks, things are looking great these days from the point of view of Republicans and Conservatives. It’s one of those perspectives that comes from watching everything happen exactly as you said it would, even though it’s unpleasant.

First of all, Republicans are starting to realize they shouldn’t act like Democrats any longer. Never should have in the first place, but I guess some of them were counting on mulligans.

Second we have Nancy Pelosi saying to the Chinese that every aspect of everyone’s lives has to be subjected to inventory — which inventory I can suppose will be conducted by the federal government in excruciating detail. Again, not that much of a surprise.

We have the Prez. talking about how Jeffrey Katzenberg made him King at the same moment Burris’ tapes are released in which he admits Rod Blagojevich was going to make Burris king…

We have the President’s Press Secretary telling people “who are a part of the debate” to be VERY CAREFUL about what they say, GET IT, pal? when it comes to Sotomayor. Question for the audience: since when did the President’s Press Secretary officially consider it a part of his/her job to chill free speech with pronouncements like that?

We have Obama’s first SC pick, who is an identity politics liberal whose 2nd Amendment views are essentially that the 2nd Amendment only applies to Obama’s Army…

We have enormous amounts of stimulus money going to places where there aren’t any unemployed people on a hugely disproportionate basis…

We have North Korea restarting the Korean War while waiting for American checks cashed by the U.S. State Department to arrive…

We have Iran still disavowing that it’s helping the North Koreans…

And we have Harry Reid’s spokesman saying with a straight face that Republicans caused the current financial problems.

Last but certainly not least we have Nancy Pelosi getting away with undermining America’s national security by just shutting her mouth and taking a trip to China.

So folks, with all of this, why are we not in power right now?

Maybe it’s one of those times that will focus the mind and force Republicans to stop whining over their relatively minor differences and get back to the business of winning elections again, without destroying each other. Anyone, anyone?

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  • Mike gamecock DeVine

    with the economy the way it is and where it is headed, Obama will own in by then, and we will make a huge comeback.

    • http://beaglescout.wordpress.com LJ “Beaglescout” Miller

      Presidential interference in the judicial process of discharging Chrysler’s bankruptcy, including keeping or getting rid of car lots based on whether they gave money to Democrats or Republicans. How many ways is that illegal?

    • Kowalski

      Mike that’s only true if four things are true:

      1) Colin Powell is wrong and most Americans really don’t want bigger government.

      2) Arlen Specter is wrong and most Americans really aren’t more liberal than even their voting in the recent election demonstrates.

      3) The American People in aggregate really believe that politics isn’t a game of showbiz

      and

      3a) Charles Schumer is wrong when he proclaims that the average American doesn’t care.

      I’ve spent a lot of time on Facebook recently with people I grew up with and I’m not optimistic.

      • Mike gamecock DeVine

        Reagan owned the 1982 recession he inherited but hadn’t fixed by Election Day of that year. Obama will own a worse one.

  • penguin2

    Consider your comment about your Facebook friends “I’m not optimistic.” that’s how I feel. Everyday something new breaks about the leftist Dems, but with MSM covering up for them, as they have been for decades, I don’t see how we will win. Obama’s approval ratings show the public is going right along with him.

    • Kowalski

      I don’t think the public is really aware yet of what the consequences of electing Barack Obama and a Congressional Democratic Majority really mean. They certainly don’t know what electing him meant based on the campaign he used to get elected, which was all showbiz, smoke and mirrors. As a result they’re still kind of lviing in the Land of Oz without knowing what’s actually behind the curtain.

      The liberal interest groups and activist pressure groups that are driving the policy don’t represent a majority of the American people, who in my view are still kind of hypnotized by the razzle-dazzle of the Obama Story. They haven’t really started being skeptical yet of the traveling circus they bought into.

      They’re going to learn quickly, though, because Obama’s health plan to lower costs is going to cost 1.5 trillion dollars. Obama’s energy plan is going to require everyone to either change the roofs on their houses and pay more for electricity, gasoline and heating oil. Obama’s hug-a-thug diplomacy is going to mean that the United States pays our enemies instead of countering them. And Obama’s economics are going to mean that the United States deliberately turns its economy into a more inefficient, less competitive economy to please Old Europe.

      Those things are givens at this point, but the real question is how much longer the suspension of disbelief will last.

      • Kowalski

        That’s one of the reasons why Obama is pushing so hard right now to get his health care plan done: it has to happen inside the window of the suspension of disbelief, or it won’t happen at all.

        He’s going to have real trouble if oil and gasoline prices continue to rise, however, because that will have a major dampening effect on economic recovery, and it’s already begun. Of course, the problematic thing for Obama is that he needs the economy to be looking up in order to get health care “reform” passed at the same time that most of his hard core supporters want the price of energy to RISE and continue to RISE.

        So he has to ram that through in the next six months, before the energy prices force a double dip recession, which they will do.

        His economic recovery in 2010 isn’t going to happen. I believe Roubini. In the meantime he’s giving the Democratic Congress a charge to spend, spend, spend on health care, hoping he can get it through before the consequences become evident. It’s the slickest presidency in American history.

      • bk

        Candidate Obama promised you a tax cut plus $2,400 in lower health care costs. Have you seen ANY of that?

        The average voter may be ignorant, but they’re going to know they didn’t get an extra three grand or so in their wallets.

        • Kowalski

          They’re going to be looking at higher energy costs, higher health care costs, still-record unemployment, higher taxes, probably a more disarrayed and dangerous world internationally, and a double-dip recession is going to be looming with unemployment hovering around 10-12%.

          It’s going to be a good time to start asking the question of what they really thought they were voting for.

          Because they got what they were voting for, whether they realized it or not.

          • Kowalski

            One interesting thing that might happen this time next year is the evaluation of the worthiness of American debt. Moody’s gave Obama a pass this year because so far none of his economic plans have really come into effect.

            It will be very interesting in 2010 to see whether Moody’s changes its mind, since they apparently decided to keep that rating based on the resiliency of the American economy.

            Well, in 2010 they will have another year of data and spending and negative economic growth to look at, and they may very well change their minds. They gave the Obama administration a pass this year, but I view it as very tenuous.

            If they downgrade the debt, it all comes apart.

          • bk

            is to blame Bush for the bad and credit Obama for the good. Again, many voters are ignorant, but they will know that Obama had two years of owning all branches of government to do whatever he wanted to do, so he will own the good, the bad and the ugly.