The Conservative Ascendency

How is it that our government has become so far removed from the people? I mean, everyone that I talk to has a very hard time squaring the venomous bills being penned in the halls of congress with the will of the people. If you read any one of them, it quickly becomes apparent that the administration has a private agenda that it is desperately trying to enact, despite the will of the people. Obama promised hope and change. He is denying the former, and delivering the later. Where are the jobs? Only jobs can restore the hope. But Obama does not seem too concerned with restoring hope. He keeps blathering on about fundamentally transforming our economy, but what he really means to transform is our society as a whole by changing the fundamental relationship between the people and government.

Instead of receiving power at the behest of the people, he seeks to usurp it because he feels entitled to it. He knows what is best for our society. There is no need for discussion. There is no need for public discourse. That would only get in the way of progress. He has said "stop all the talking. I don't mind cleaning up the mess". He is so damned full of himself. He raised all kinds of campaign money from both inside and outside the country over the Internet, purchased his way into the White House. And now thinks that he can force his will on the entire population. He didn't count on meeting up with any resistance from conservatives. He failed to comprehend the sheer number of conservatives in this country and the magnitude of their outrage over his animus towards our Constitution, and the values and traditions upon which it is built.


Rush Limbaugh has said that the Conservative movement is on the ascendancy and he is right. Witness the Congressional race in N.Y. district 23 where there was a three way between a liberal Democrat, a moderate Republican (incumbent) and a Conservative. Today the incumbent Republican withdrew from the race and endorsed the Conservative candidate! her record was tainted with several inconsistencies regarding conservative positions, and by the latest polls she could not have won re-election anyways. But the real thing that is noteworthy about this is that the National Republican Congressional Committee which had poured over $900,000 into Dede Scazafava's campaign is now suddenly left without a candidate in the race. This district has been a solidly red district since the beginning of the Civil War. Instead of it switching to blue, the republican incumbent has dropped out of the race and endorsed the Conservative party candidate. Simply stunning! The NRCC and the RNC should take notice here. The base will find a party that best matches their values, and in New York that party is the Conservative Party.


I believe that this is the start of something that will spread faster than H1N1 across the entire country. It is high time that the values of the majority of the people in our country hold dear are given face in Washington D.C. The Republicans will be marginalized by their own ineffectiveness at recapturing their base. Their base has moved on, and found a new voice in the Conservative movement. We are not lost; we just found a new voice.

Sewage by any other name, still stinks!

Now, in eleventh-hour secret deliberations behind closed doors over a complete socialistic takeover of one-sixth of our economy (the health care industry), Nazi Pelosi has a "flash of Genius"; to rename the distasteful "Public Option" as the "Consumer Option". As if it will magically become more palatable to the public at large, and therefore become easier to ram through their holy grail of power grabs and enslave the public to government. She must have revisited her marketing 101 book from community college for that stroke of genius!


No matter what they decide to call it, it still can't pass the smell test. They should just incinerate the rotten corpse of an idea and start over by actually sitting down and talking with the conservative Republicans in Congress.

I spoke with one of my doctors today at the Infectious Disease Clinic at the hospital about the whole debacle.  I lamented that the same government that can't even grow a damned virus competently (H1N1 shortage anyone?) desires to take over our entire health care system. She countered that it was private companies that actually are manufacturing the virus. I didn't correct her, but I have heard otherwise. Or at the very least, the government sets all the standards for the manufacturing of flu viruses. So in one way or another, the government is ultimately responsible for the failure of the system to produce mass quantities in a timely manner. As is usually the case, government "regulations" create barriers to creativity, and hamper the natural process of creative destruction that is required for any economy to grow and thrive.


When government controls the means of production and distribution, that is by definition, statism also known as socialism. Where is the "choice and competition" in that?


In late breaking news today, independent Joe Leiberman, and even Olympia Snow have announced that they are not backing Harry Reid's push for a government option! Way to go Joe! Now the only bi-partisan action regarding the whole health care debate is with the opposition! LOL.


The thousand plus page legislation is becoming more and more gangrenous by the minute, and the putrefied stench of decomposition hangs heavy in the rarefied political air on Capitol Hill. The liberal horde should smell defeat and cut its losses, but instead they may just be lurching in the death throws, posturing in that telltale fetal position; one can only hope!