To The Metal

November 7th, 2006 was a referendum on the Democratic Party and their Liberal Democrat base in the United States of America. They no more earned their seats in Congress than a two-bit dictator earns his seat of power on a single-candidate ballot.

The simple fact that the Republicans completely dropped the ball in regard to the election of 2006 is undeniable. We stand at a pivotal time in the history of this nation. Now more than ever we face a guerilla force the likes of which mankind has never seen. Make no mistake; September 11th, 2001 was a clear and unmistakable message to the west.

After 6 years of the Republican way to do things (be clear, I am not saying the Conservative way), the party of Roosevelt, the party of Kennedy, the party of Carter, the party of Clinton has been given the greatest opportunity in history to secure the sovereignty of this great nation.

Right now our economy is booming. Unemployment is low. Where we stand in Iraq is unclear, partly because of media spin, and partly because of the state of politics in this great land of ours. George W Bush and the powers that be had 6 years to get their message straight, and they failed.

Every day I hear another idea from the Democratic Party which leads me to believe that our best option is to cut and run. Redeploy to Okinawa. Redeploy to Alaska. I ask you my fellow Americans why in God’s name can we not redeploy to Baghdad and render the entire city to ash if that is what it takes to eliminate the hub of the Islamic-Fascist insurgency!?

If history has proven anything, when free people ignore the suffering of their neighbors, the suffering is eventually shared. We simply cannot ignore the plight of the Iraqi people as we have continuously done for the past 30 years in the name of politics. In 1993 we quit the war in Kosovo because we lost a handful of pilots. When we cut and run from Kosovo we sent a message to Osama Bin Laden and his Islamic-Fascist cohorts that America is a paper tiger incapable of putting up a fight worthy of those brave men and women who would be fighting. What sort of message would failure in Iraq send to our mortal enemies, even to the world?

European appeasers and dictators around the globe may have rejoiced at the news of a Democrat victory; however it is in this 2 year span before the 2008 elections that the Left has a chance to truly be great. They have a chance to further allow our economy to grow. They have a chance to eliminate the wasteful spending which has destroyed the balanced budget and ballooned the deficit.

In short, they have a chance to act on the Conservative ideas which got them elected despite the desires of their kook base and the Liberal elite. Mark my words, if there is even a shot glass of Conservative talent up for election in 2008, Washington will once again be a cold place for the Left.

Illegal immigrants only take jobs that nobody else wants.

Bullshit. They only have jobs because the existing laws aren’t enforced. Plain and simple. Remove the incentive for an illegal worker to fill a position, and a real American will happily take the job. The cost of produce might go up as a result, or it might not. Minimum wage, remember?

I just love it when I get shouted over by someone who states that the solution is ‘complex’ but he’s ‘not getting into it.’

I’ve found that when complex solutions fail, most often the simple solution will work. Tis why politicians rarely get anything right.

In a stunning upset, the Republicans have lost control of the House of Representatives. While that means I owe my dad $5, it also means that if America wants politics as usual – they’ll vote Democrat. No point in wasting votes on RINO’s (that’s Republican in Name Only for those of you from Warwick).

When Republicans run on Conservative values, they win every time. When they run as politicians, you get what we had last night – a clear message to the Right in the shape of Democrat victories.

In 1994, for the first time in decades, the Republicans won control in a landslide by running on Conservative values and backing them up with the “Contract for America.” From about day 2 however, they’ve been dropping the ball. It is easy to blame Clinton and the Democrats for the .com burst, as well as the subsequent recession.

If anything has become undeniably clear – it took 50 years for the Democrats to fuck up bad enough to get voted out of power. It only took the Republicans 10. People wonder why I switched parties.

I catch talk radio all the time where if things go good, whoever the present Republican in charge is – will get the credit. If things go bad, it’s the Democrats. IMHO, both sides – when in power – are crooked.

I won’t hand the media a pass, they’ve had as much to do with the current state of affairs as any politician… It did not help that the Republicans made it extremely easy for the media. Quite frankly, if my President gives one more speech extolling the virtues of Freedom in Iraq, I will happily offer my vote in 2008 to the first trash-can I see.

I hear the stories from friends who have returned from Iraq – and voluntarily gone right back. The media has it wrong. The politicians have it wrong. With the never ending echo of Freedom at the pulpit of GWB, there is no incentive to report the good news from Iraq. Not even the current administration has made the slightest effort to extol it.

We talk about the Liberals using a tired playbook. This time with exception to that complete dolt John Kerry and that pathetic series of ads by Michael J Fox, the extreme Left kept silent while more moderate voices won control. I think it’s time the Republicans stopped taking lessons from the old Democrat playbook and try a new direction.

So here we are, a red-state Senate, a red-state Presidency, and a blue-state House. If anything other than politics as usual ensues, I shall be completely amazed. So congratulations to the Democrats who won. I doubt they’ll accomplish anything positive, but who knows, maybe some fresh ideas might come out of it.

Anyone up for eliminating the commercial use of eminent domain? Anyone?

It’s staggering how messed up the electronic voting situation is.

Me? I changed districts today. I had to re-register to vote, at my new polling site.

I even changed parties. I then voted on a paper ballot with an ordinary Paper Mate black pen.

I was in and out the door within 10 minutes… all because of a pen, and paper. I tell ya, the old folks who helped me out seemed to know their stuff. Every question had an exact answer, and they knew exactly what I needed to get the job done.

I thought we introduced these devices to ensure that Liberals could be fairly elected. After all, the people who wanted to vote for a Liberal were too stupid to handle a paper ballot, thus the simplified touch-screen. Now we’ve got a touch-screen, obviously no testing has taken place, no training has been performed for poll workers, and we’ve got tons of stories of problems with these voter machines.

I’d put real money on the possibility that electronic voting machines were not introduced to facilitate voting – they were introduced to make it easier to challenge the results of a vote if your guy or gal does not win. WIth paper it was easy. There’s a hole, a mark, etc… With electronics, it’s a 1 or a 0 specifically designed with no paper trail so that when a politician loses, they can question and challenge the results without the accountability that a simple paper ballot offers.

The big problem with the 2000 election? It wasn’t that the endless illegal recounts were stopped. It wasn’t that we had people trying to determine the intent of a voter. It’s that at the end of the day, Bush won. A Republican won at the hands of a Blue county. Instead of the Left looking inward and wondering just how it could have happened, what they could have possibly done to warrant such a sound trouncing in counties that they should have won by a large margin… Point. Scream. Accuse. Lose. Oh well.

Ever wonder what would be said if the Democrats really were a shoe-in for the various elections today, and they didn’t have to worry whether the machines actually worked? The silence would be deafening.

I don’t know what tomorrow brings for the state of politics in this country, but you can be sure of one thing… if the Libs lose, the bullshit will never end. Hip Hip Hazzah.