was generations in the making and it will be generations before damages have been repaired if it is going to be repaired at all.

Not to take away from the point of this diary, surely had McCain been elected things would not have been much different. We wouldn’t have Obamacare perhaps, but likely some kind of McCaincare and/or the size of the bailouts to wall street and the banks received might have been different. But the house and senate would still have driven us down this path. By electing Obama we merely accelerated the timetable and magnified the problem. And, this may not have been a bad thing.

While it may be convenient to hand off the blame to Obama, let’s not forgot that this curse burdening the average American was brought upon by both houses and both parties.

Electing a true Constitutional conservative is the only hope we have of returning to prosperity and even then it will take every bit of two terms to get us pointed in the right direction.

I am not an Obama fan, but I am also not going to be spoon fed the idea that things would have turned out different had he not been elected. In fact, one could argue that he was the right man at the right time to wake up the sleeping conservatives across this country.

In the Republican party’s zeal to seize the moment, they would be wise to recognize who handed them the victory in 2010 and setting the standard for which their representatives are expected to meet in the future. Many of us are disappointed at the Republican performance and recognize who needs to go in 2012.

The economy is far from recovered and with a middle of the road, appeasing conservative President, things will not improve to the point that the problem of crony capitalist standing at the intersection of big business and big government for profit will go away. We will need a fire breathing Constitutional conservative to repair the American dream and from where I’m sitting, truly there are none in the offering. However, only one that if elected would illuminate a path that all predecessors would be wise to follow. Otherwise, the confused and less knowledgeable electorate will again go looking for another pied piper!

I pinched my nose and voted for McCain!

…is this delicious-clip from Chris Matthews!

http://hotair.com/archives/2011/11/21/why-should-we-vote-for-an-obama-second-term-asks-chris-matthews/

We just need him to hold on until the election.

None of this ‘hand the reins’ to Hillary stuff. Just keep working on your golf score. Please.

Would we be better off or worse off? Easily, we would be better off. We would not have Obamacare hanging over the economy and we would not have Dodd-Frank suffocating the financial industry.

Without those two train wrecks, more time would have likely have been spent on the actual problems facing the country: Unemployment and mounting debt. On the other side of the ledger is the likelihood that the Republican sweep of the 2010 elections and the resulting majority in the House would not exist and that the RINO leadership, so eager for compromise and comity, would be even more entrenched.

But I’m of the opinion that the net result would have been far better for the country. As bad as McCain would have been, I can’t imagine how he could have been the disaster for the country that BHO has been and continues to be.

But then the left is all about double standards and corruption as an acceptable way of life for their side…

will run ads with Obama speaking his very own words. He should indeed be held accountable.

However, there are plenty of Republicans who should be held accountable as well. Many conservatives are not happy with those who hide behind the “R” next to their name and think they remain safe from accountability. It’s time to demand that an “R” stand not only for Republican but the conservative principles as noted on the GOP platform as well.

“On the stimulus: He predicted unemployment below 8 percent. Today: We’re not even close.”

In fact, in 2009 Christina Romer had predicted that the unemployment rate would be around 6.5% by now. IOW, we could expect full employment in another year or so.

“By the standards the left seem want to hold any Republican to Obama should be impeached”

That’s what OWS is for.

By chanting and demonstrating against a different emotional target (Wall Street, banks, “inequality,” whatever), it’s supposed to distract the public from Obama’s track record.

Wall Street and the banks certainly screwed up, and the bailouts left a bad taste in my mouth too. But that was 3 years ago. It’s a little late to be protesting that. But the Left is hoping that by continuing to focus on that, it takes the heat off of Obama.

as we move closer to the election. You may also see starry eyed projections on the economy, all sorts of wondrous and unexpected, really unexpected, things. And all, we will be assured, due to the stewardship of Obama and the benign hand of government.
With a nod to Congress, saved from disgrace by it’s Democrat members.

But this has been going on since 2008 and our messaging in the press still sucks. We have different members of Congress saying different things and a Speaker more interested in his next golf game and a “good deal” than anything else.

Right now, we have Democrats all singing the same refrain, albeit fallaciously, that the Super-Committee will fail because of Republicans. With the exception of Mr. Toomey, who has been brilliant on the issue, we hear either defensive befuddlement or crickets. How hard is it to explain we made a reasonable offer and the Democrats made none at all, then outright rejected our advance because they are set on raising taxes? Again, by the way? Wow, I think I just did it in two sentences.

Is the aforementioned to hard for our beloved Representatives to remember…or do they just not believe in it, are scared and on the cusp of cutting another bargain because they fear the blame?

Fear is a terrible motivator. It causes one to abandon sensible principles and yield to the worse instincts. It’s about time the Party got everybody singing from the same sheet of music. It’s also time to ditch the faint-hearted, no matter which seat they occupy. Otherwise you can look forward to 4 more years of the destructive rubbish we are currently experiencing.

is criticizing Obama. He says Obama is campaigning against a “do nothing Congress” and has not spelled out anything he will do in his second term. Not only do Republicans need to highlight Obama’s failures but also his absent (or secret) vision for a second term.