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I can almost guarantee that 2010 is going to be “Meet the New Boss,same as the old boss”

By: Richard Mullins (Diary)  |  December 8th, 2009 at 03:59 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

Nothing really changes and 2010 is more than likely to be the same. Yes, parties in power change and ideologies change as well. The people in highest positions of their prospective parties change too, but the overall focus stays the same. It moves in a predicted pattern.

This is not to take away from a larger movement(like the TEA party) but a reminder that populous movements haven’t changed things in the right direction. In fact, populous movements have moved things more to the left than to the right. Progressive tendencies haven’t been altered.

Single point conservatism has played well in the hands of those that wish to keep the status quo. Yes, social conservatives that have no fiscal conservatism then to allow those without fiscal conservative principals to do as they please. Likewise for the Fiscal Conservative and Defense Conservative. In order to not make sure that things don’t move anymore in the wrong direction and perhaps to towards the more correct direction, a single point conservative needs to adopt another point of conservatism.

Don’t be alarmed, the sun still appears in the sky in the day and it’s still a blue sky when it’s clear in the day. Things will and most likely stay on the same muddled political path. Let’s hope that things really change for the better.

I’m not betting on it.

Crossposted at Richard Phillip Mullins’ Blog

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  • Richard Mullins

    Really, I do because most of electorate isn’t quite smart.

    • Achance
      • Richard Mullins

        For a while there, some people wanted to call heresy on me for having a little cynical thought. I’d still love to be proven wrong.

  • Richard Mullins

    So sometime I’d like to proven wrong on this but it’s getting less and less likely.

  • penguin2

    It is a discouraging picture. Still, if they pass this bill, there will be a backlash, and 2010 is going to present an opportunity to show both sides that the country cannot continue down this path. I personally believe that the current administration is driving us off a cliff, and perhaps when that happens, the people will wake up. The spending excesses of money we don’t have and will not have, only add to the bigger picture of a country far weaker, than we were one year ago.

    More than the just health care bill is impacting this nation, and it isn’t going to be just one group, in angst.

  • Richard Mullins

    So if “really” changes, it would be a surprise(BTW, I’m wondering why I don’t have a Recommend this button at the top?).

  • newsentinel

    Really, I was thinking, as I read your diary. Really? 2010 won’t bring any change to the egotistical “business as usual” Republican Party and to the stupendously arrogant U.S. Congress? But, then, you said you are 32 and 1/2 years old. Knowing your age came as a relief to me. I’m a lot older than you and I read the mood of American voters from the standpoint of someone who has been watching politics closely for decades. I think numerous Republican incumbants will be turned out of office in 2010 and will be replaced by true conservatives. And, I think the same thing will happen in 2012. Increasing the number of true conservatives in Congress is bound to have a salutary effect on Washington DC. The winds of change are definitely blowing.

  • Third Street

    Democrats will be swept out in huge numbers next year; maybe enough to change control of the House, maybe not. However, the Republicans will win largely by default. Like Richard, I’m not confident that the Republicans have really learned anything, or that if they do get into a position to turn the clock back on Obama’s policies they’ll take advantage of it.

    I will say, though, that I don’t recall anything close to this level of fury in America even in 1994. I get the sense we are rapidly approaching a tipping point, one that may not wait for November.

    As for ’12, who knows. I’m learning not to try predicting more than one cycle at a time. And I don’t trust the American electorate not to go back to sleep.

  • Richard Mullins

    I really do and when that happens, I’ll be the happiest man alive. If you really looked at the history of the last 100+ years as far Congresscritters are concerned, you’d see things are the same as they were. It’s a good thing,Glenn Beck is working hard with others(His IQ is well above room temperature) to make changes. I think you might have forgotten that I said Almost in the title. The reason that 2010 is their is that 11/2/2010 is less than 11 months away and we haven’t even gotten to primary stage.

  • pilgrim

    I decided to post after I saw this diary of yours.

    http://www.redstate.com/pilgrim/2009/12/09/2010-us-senate-freshman-class/

  • Richard Mullins

    I can bet real money on that and win for sure. Changes like what party is in power change a lot. That pendulum moves from one side to another, but they same results happen all the time. When our electorate start to use the brains they have in their heads, things will really change.

  • newsentinel

    And what is worse, Republicans leaders have deluded themselves into thinking that it is their “leadership” which is making it more and more clear that the GOP will take seats away from Democrats in 2010. Fools that they are, they cannot see, or will not admit, that it is the fierce anger of the conservatives in America, the success of the Tea Party grassroots movement, that is turning the tide toward a Republican sweep of Congress in 2010. My fervent hope is that conservative voters will have a list of true conservative Republicans to vote for in 2010. If we don’t have that list of names, then, Richard could be right–it will be the same old boss. Perish the thought!

  • Richard Mullins

    but the realist in me see things a bit more pessimistic.

  • Richard Mullins

    There are those times I’m dead wrong. I’d love to be proven wrong but somehow, I as things go, I’m right on this.

  • pirate55

    First and foremost as more and more of our citizens awaken to what is happening, let us spread the word loud and clear that as conservatives we need to return to Constitutional values and the idea of term limits should not frighten the GOP, it should enlighten the GOP. Let’s start with 3 terms for senators and 9 terms for representatives. Let’s remind them they work for the people.

  • Richard Mullins

    It would have to be done via constitutional amendment, but would help. Terms limits do work for cities and states.