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And, Tomorrow Is Another Day

by on Nov. 07, 2012, under Uncategorized

Suffice it to say, the gang at Fort Buckley is beaucoup bummed about last night. The entire garrison, unanimously, thinks America made a bad decision last night.

I don’t see our economy reviving, under our current leadership in Washington. The regulators are about to be unleashed. Expect businesses to cringe, shelter their assets and not expand. Soon we will feel the full effects of Obamacare. How much more of our children’s and grandchildren’s money are we going to spend on stimulus spending? There aren’t enough rich people who are willing to stand by and be taxed outrageously, in order to pay for everything the Democrats want.

Nevertheless, the electorate has spoken. Loudly. Now, we will see what the Democrats do with the next four years. They have won power; with that comes responsibility. Let’s see what path the administration wants America to travel. (Its next budget should tell us a lot, because budgets force you to make tough decisions and set priorities).

Congratulations to President Obama for waging a tough-but-effective campaign. Politics is a contact sport; both the Democrats and the GOP dished out tough stuff. Such is the nature of American politics. As a people we debate meaningful things, which affect all of us. Moreover, we are a nation whose people hold many different, and often diametrically-opposed, viewpoints. That’s a recipe for turmoil. But, consider the alternative. Would you want to live in a country where the people have no voice? As Winston Churchill said, democracy is a terrible form of government, except for all the other alternative forms.

Today, we conservatives move into the opposition. I am thankful that the House of Representatives stayed in GOP hands. That ensures a vigorous debate over the next few years, as to the extent that government should intrude into our everyday lives. I am looking forward to seeing LOTS of Paul Ryan, doing the math that shows the folly of sustained deficit spending.

Now, there are wounds to lick, and lots and lots of work to do. The sun came up this morning, just like it does everday.

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  • Jonathan_Duhamel

    Abe Lincoln was right, you CAN fool some of the people all of the time.

    • BajaDemocrats

      That’s news? I thought that was the guiding principle of climate change deniers.

  • CarlosJM

    From “The New New Deal” by Michael Grunwalk, here’s what McConnell did at a Jan. 2009 retreat — before Obama even took office:

    At the (Republican Senate) retreat (January, 2009), McConnell reminded the Republican senators that there were still enough of them to block the Democratic agenda – as long as they all marched in lockstep…Politically, they had nothing to gain from me-too-ism.

    McConnell recognized that Obama’s promises of bipartisanship gave his dwindling minority real leverage. Whenever Republicans decided not to cooperate, Obama would be the one breaking his promises…”We thought – correctly, I think – that the only way the American people would know a great debate was going on was if the measures were not bipartisan,” McConnell explained later in one of his periodic outbreaks of candor. “When you hang the ‘bipartisan’ tag on something, the perception is that the differences had been worked out.”

    And McConnell in an interview that appeared in the National Journal on Oct. 23, 2010 — a mere two years after Obama was elected president:

    “The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.”

    Anyone else kind of get a sense, a hunch, maybe, that this strategy by the most conservative, obstructionist, all-we-have-to-do-is-say-No-and-we’re-in-with-America bunch in Congress will not be used much — not much, right — over the next two years?

    Karma is a five letter word. After all.

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