Abandonment! The Repetition of History!


One of the most popular refrains from conservatives comes from the fact that many of them were once Democrats. “I didn’t leave the Democrat Party, it left me”, is an often overheard motto that Republicans cite regarding their transition from one party to another. It is most likely true. Given the fact that President Kennedy was a strong defense Democrat, an argument can be made that he would today be somewhat conservative. Given the times in which he lived, he would likely be considered a liberal on some social issues, but might be socially conservative on some as well. There is truth that as the 1960’s diminished the banners that Democrats once carried, and the electorate with them was abandoned.

Over the next fifteen years those displaced Democrats, and true conservatives, gravitated toward the Republican Party. By the time Ronald Reagan came on the Presidential scene in 1976 the party-less, found a home. When Reagan became President many the folks who still considered themselves Democrats sided with the Gripper. They too joined in the Reagan Revolution.

The original Kennedy Democrats and Reagan conservatives flourished; reaching a zenith when Newt Gingrich stormed Congress with “the Contract with America.” There in print for all American’s to see were conservative Republican’s own principals in a blueprint declaration as to how the country should be governed, and what accomplishments were left to be achieved.

Unfortunately, for that traveling band of conservatives, it was the last time that their core values were in the limelight, enjoined by action. Over the next fourteen years the conservatives, who were cajoled into service by the notion that supporting another Bush in the White House, would assure maintenance and strength of those core values. However, President George Bush governed much more from the political middle than from the political right, where most of these purists reside.

These once staunch supporters have been disillusioned over the second Bush term. Immigration amounting to amnesty, abandonment of Social Security reform and privatization, along with exponential governmental growth, fiscal irresponsibility, and an attempt to place Harriet Meyers on the Supreme Court, have illuminated the “Bush conservative credentials” fraud.

The conservatives did like Bush’s strong stand on defense, though most had trepidation about a preemptive strike foreign policy. The 30 percent of support that remained for the President in public opinion polls were from those strict hawkish conservative Republicans that believe in a strong national defense.

2008 brought John McCain to the front of the political race to succeed President Bush. This was the last straw for those out of sorts’ conservatives. The talk shows scream it, the media took advantage of it, and the Kennedy conservatives turned Reagan Republicans were left with no place to go, again!

McCain had an even worse record than Bush on abundantly more issues that resulted in the push of executive governance to the center, and with President Obama, far left of center. True conservatives cannot abide such an occurrence. The current administration is over reaching and ignoring lessons from history. Someone needs to tell President Obama that "talk is cheap.” It is his legislative actions and agenda that will haunt him despite his current flippant, glee.

The first black man in the Presidency is a fresh face with a silver tongue that can seduce many. He is a unique flirtation with Americas own ideals, however that reality is marred by politics, and made worse by talk that doesn't match his actions!

All of those who had seen Obama as the new way have already begun to take note of the disconnect between words and actions. This inevitably will lead to disenfranchisement with the great Black hope! Once again a political party train is leaving the station, and its supporters are not on it!

Back Over the Hill

What more does one need to know that the campaign 2008 buzzword “Change” means get out of my way, I’m taking your money and giving it to some other guy? When Joe the Plumber hit the nail on the head the Obama Campaign teetered on the razors edge of melt down. Fortunately for them they were running against John McCain who belonged to the wrong party, made a mockery of suspending his campaign, coming back to D.C. to address the looming spending fiasco that House Republicans wanted to thwart. McCain riding in on his white horse would be President today had he not knuckled under to agree with Obama on the need to pass a massive bill Bush was pushing at the time. Had he stood with House Republicans your grandchildren would not be facing the “Obama-Spend-Our-Wealth-Now train.

In the 1970’s NFL Football Coach George Allen made history with “the over the hill gang, a group of old seemingly useless no name football players that came together for an exciting brand of football that took the Washington Redskins to the Superbowl. Allen’s operational theory was summed up in the slogan “The Future Is Now!” In other words I don’t want to grow talent and wait for up and comers to make things happen, I value experience and I want it all right now. For the most part it worked to a point. However Allen and the gang never won a Superbowl and the aftermath of the philosophy set the Redskins back a number of years. There was a price to pay when the over the ill gang became the "can’t function anymore gang."

President Obama would have George Allen smiling. Here he is with his hands on the till of your money and he wants it now. And he’s taking it now. And he’s spending it now to the tune of a record $3.5 billion fiscal budget. Never mind that we don’t have the money to spend. It’s really in somebody’s pocket; yours. We’ll he’s gonna spend it to hell with you and your children. Who might pay for it? Your grand children will pay!

Yes my friends change has come to Washington though It is not the togetherness we were promised. No it is not the “we’re not looking back administration any more. Obama is now ready to make legal scapegoats of the past administration, something he vowed he would not. So, the change is" blame the other guys and when you’re distracted enough I'll take your money and give it to whomever I want;” Sort of a welfare redistribution plan. Like the days of old. Didn’t we find out that it didn’t work for the Redskins? Why does the inside the Beltway crowd think that this version of "The Future is Now" will fare us any better? It won’t, so don’t expect it. Be prepared for years of rebuilding before we can field a valuable team again after the current administration rapes your purse and calls it just.

A Whirl, A Twist and a Puff of Smoke

Harry Houdini never had to sink to a whirl, a twist and a puff of smoke to disguise his illusion and antics. He was quite a showman and might have used these devices, but he was so good, he didn’t need such devices. The current administration is not quite so good.

The mea culpa tour is well underway from the Obama administration. Like Clinton before him, President Obama leans on the liberal tendency to blame America not only for its own ills, but those that permeate the globe.

To aid in his attempt to gain support for his point of view he rewrites history. He claims accomplishments that he has little to do with, that court future disaster and, seeks to deflect blame onto anyone else but himself. These are classic liberal signs despite his perpetual Madison Avenue quality advertising campaign team.

Claiming to guide the budget process and stimulus packages for instance, he was really hands off. He handed the ultra liberal, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid the reigns and let them formulate what would eventually become law. Unfortunately, the views of these two are not only out of step with the mainstream, they are out of whack with any semblance of traditional America. Obama supports them because he really is one of them.

Allowing a bloated budget of the size and dimension that is our future might very well cost us most of it. The Obama administration opened the candy store and let the children inside to pick what they want. When the parents come home however, they will find a mess of governance run amok. Until, that day comes there will be little control on left wing tax, spend and redistribution. These are the enemy of capitalism and destined to drag out a recession and move the economy forward at the rate of oozing sludge.

Of course the President is still trying to blame the crisis on the previous administration and eight years of failed policies. For the seven and a half year stretch that the economy was booming and humming are tossed aside and the new history lay in its place. Deception, but what the heck, the guy looks good in a suit. He is a better speaker than the last guy (as long as there is a teleprompter around). He may be smart, but his suit is a lot less empty since he has taken office. We’ve passed socialism and headed toward some intimations of fascism including the intimidation, and confrontational nature that all suggests.

It is too bad that the promise that was conjured for the American electorate wasn’t based in truth, but rather like a magic trick, a slight of hand, a whirl, a twist and a puff of smoke. Abracadabra and misdirection are now the official policies of our leaders (once again).

Only A Motion Away

Paul Simon once wrote about “a strange and mournful day.” Today, the brewing discontent within the country regarding its government and how it is being run brings it citizenry closer to the sad conclusion that talk alone will not alter the actions of their representatives. The headlines screamed today that “Livid Democrats demand AIG return bailout bonuses,” according to the Associated Press. The lead “Talking tougher by the hour, livid Democrats confronted beleaguered insurance giant AIG with an ultimatum Tuesday,” belies the ineptitude of those making the claim. A worthwhile demand perhaps, but as with every other entity the government touches their “black thumb” is really the result of their own double standards, unwillingness to stand accountable, and the corruption of their very soul.

The Democrats themselves as well as the administration’s naked incompetence is showing. The process is controlled entirely by one party. The strings of legislative power control are in Democrat hands. They command the purse strings, the budget, and have little check on them, yet in passing the bailout, of A.I.G., specifically they not only didn’t forget to address the issue, but they struck down efforts by Republican’s to thwart this very eventuality. Now Democrats scream like wailing fishwives, whose husband’s have stayed out past their bed times. The hypocrisy would be incredible, if it were not par for the mode of Democrat operations.

Before Obama was elected the Republican worry was, maybe he would be as good as his rhetoric. That unfounded fear has been put to bed. His compatriots in the Senate and House headed by Hysterical Harry and Nagging Nancy compound the light shining upon their routine insincerity. All this was accomplished in a matter of two short months. Harry and Nancy were well known quantities before this, but Obama now completes the “Three Amigos of Arrogance.” Does anybody in Washington think that the people are not watching?

Compounding the Carter-like malfeasance is the repeated aid from media outlets to prop up the notion that any effort is better than no effort. In the short term that may look fair, but over the long haul, the landscape changing decisions are being made under the nose of the sleeping giant population. At least that is how the mindset in the White House and Democrat halls of Congress seems to be interpreting the bubbling voter silence.

Unfortunately, the stupidity of the left is matched only by the ineptitude of the right. Had we been under these circumstances in the early 1990’s, Newt Gingrich could have parlayed his power to the Presidency, instead of merely the House of Representatives. The battle of stupidity rages in Washington despite the bleeding heart party’s ascent to power, and the cold hearted bastards’ ouster. The only folks, who are going to be hurt by the D.C. hijinks once again, will be the people.

Most of the public are up for changing they system from within, but given the uselessness and dismissal of the people’s point of view in the eyes of both parties, and barring the next unforeseen Newt, the turn toward violent dissention is as Paul Simon said, “only a moment away.”

Hot Talk and the “New” Washington

The battle of the titans which was either hatched or brewed from of none other places than the White House, more than simply demean the office of the President. It makes apparent the overly sensitive nature of the new brain trust in Washington. What did you expect? The new administration is filled with folks who are use to swimming in the Illinois political cesspool. The chief among the skin-challenged is the chief executive himself. It seems as if he has hung around the basketball court too long, and that every move has to prove something. This is a classic adolescent side effect of a man not sure of his own masculinity. It reeks of a street war mentality. How many folks could have imagined however, before the election of the “new tone” and “change” that candidate Obama promised, would amount to a head to head confrontation with a political talk show host?

Par for the course is it to exploit any daylight that these operatives see is their enemy’s weakness. It is their modus operandi. Seeking to position anyone who stands in their way as the ogre, the troll under the bridge or the boogey man that hides in your closet, the government has exacerbated a bad situation. This is not unusual, for these guys, but this is how they define change! It means tossing out old Washington style politics and installing Chicago style politics.

The result is instead of the welcome breath of fresh air a gigantic leap in reverse which has landed our policies and politics back in the 1930’s. The populous prefers the 1980’s or 1990’s frankly, to the decade of the depression. Who would Franklin Roosevelt have demonized? The only record we have to go on is his words, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Now there’s a change. The new group in D.C. is now the perpetrator of a “sky is falling” outlook and that around every corner lurks a crisis. When they are not finding one, they are creating one; hence, the distraction of the Limbaugh versus White House controversy.

If history is any guide, the scare tactics won’t work, and neither will a massive infusion of government into where it doesn’t belong; the marketplace and a wrestling match with talk-radio. In the latter case we all are a bit poorer, but that is going to be the likely result of the polices too.

The Psycho-Bubble

The last two decades have shown that bubbles are not only prevalent, but that they are dangerous. In the 1980’s the me generation rode a bubble of self indulgence rivaled only by that of that of the late 1960’s. The 1960’s imagery of Camelot and innocence was an idealistic bubble thought to be shattered by the violent decade. Yet the 1970 hippie movement was a bubble of idealism too. However, it slowly deflated as everyone grew tired of making love with each other because it came with strings attached, namely herpes and then AIDS.

The 1980’s “throw caution to the wind” attitude was a bubble. At the time the country thought it was large. That generation “hadn’t seen nothing yet.” The 1990’s computer dot-com boom made millions of dollars for people who owned and invested in companies. It was however, smoke and mirrors. The bubble was mammoth as companies raked in money that produced little. Their value so overblown that there was no where to fall but off of a cliff like it was 1929.

Still, America recovered and had faith in its system. Little did they know that since the 1960’s everything was ruled and regulated by something more sinister that corporate executives. Things were being run by emotion. Talk about volatility! The housing boom, created by sub prime mortgage financiers out to rake in billions, related to reality only in name. Everyone was getting a home (the great American dream) without having to work real hard for it. What could be wrong with that? Well, like a proverbial city on a hill, most everyone was dismayed when the FED popped that bubble. The hill under their houses and their feed took a nose dive.

Finally the bubble in energy last year had the price of gasoline rising from about 2.25 per gallon to over $4 per gallon. The friction became quickly obvious, unrest and worry rose, and the speculators drove the price up until the commodity resembled nothing based in reality. After July, the "pop" sound was swiftly followed by a "whoosh" and the bubble of that inflated delusion was over. Unfortunately, the whole financial sector which was built on mortgages that many people couldn’t afford, did the same. Wall Street was exposed for the “air pump” (or is that pimp?) that it really had become.

Now the latest hysteria is hysteria itself. Leading the charge down the hill is the new President. Every word out of his mouth is doom and gloom. We’re on the verge of catastrophe he says. His talk, he says, is an honest warning, not a method. He says he’s an optimist. Unfortunately, he sounds more like Jimmy Carter than Ronald Reagan. Obama has been drinking out of the same half empty glass since long before his Presidency. If this is leadership, someone needs to point out the direction he is headed; down.

Positive noise makes for productivity, and over time success. Being told that the world is going to come to an end just so you can get your agenda passed is political suicide, and the fear bubble is the first vestige of a fool. When the American populace wakes up it may be too late. The only hope to deflate the negative psycho bubble being inflated by the Administration and Democrats is for the entire Republican Party to pop it. Let’s hope they have a pin that’s big enough for the job before folks start jumping out of windows. After all it’s allegedly the worst economy since 1929 despite plenty of signs to the contrary.

Winkin' Lincoln

The Rock band “Faces” utilized a clever phrase with their 1971 album “A Wink is as Good as a Nod to a Blind Horse.” That axiom comes in handy when looking in retrospect at the gala Presidential inaugural held recently in the shadow of the Smithsonian. The astronomically priced festivities remind us of the excess found at a full blown pink-satin Rod Stewart post concert party. The Capital, where all of the important swearing-in occurred, lies at one end of the Washington Mall. Given the tons of garbage left behind, the aftermath reveals that those in attendance were surely not “earth-friendly” but rather a Styrofoam generating throng of star struck drooling followers. If you could cut through the astral plain you might have heard a few different choice words coming from the Lincoln Memorial at the other end of the Ellipse. The large white statue depicting arguably the most important U.S. President, Abraham Lincoln, could have been the place to hear after-life murmurs of a different kind of swearing.


That is not to say that Lincoln wouldn’t like Obama, or the people he attracts, he probably would. The pair does share some connections. Both now belong to quite an exclusive club consisting of a mere 44 males. No it is not a Dumbo-sized ear club for men! All the President’s have been men of course. It sounds a bit sexist, but why would anyone want to be ruled by an administration headed by a woman anyway? Heck that would be just like being married! Perhaps that is the reason that both Hilary and Sarah bumped their noggins on that glass ceiling.


The similarities between Abe and Barrack don’t simply end with the fact that both of these bean-poles are from Illinois. With a little make up and some straw they could be used in corn fields to scare crows. Lincoln’s tall gangly countenance reminds us that his hideously large sized ears were the things holding up those top-hats. The current large-lobe challenged President hasn’t yet discovered the virtue of hats, but nevertheless has magically been deemed qualified to be placed among the D.C. marble. This, despite the fact that he hasn’t even served a hundred days yet! Lincoln had to put up with Mary Todd, but still gave it his all. Obama merely gave us a good campaign and some wild dancing on Oprah. Still, there were no less that 3 commercial products depicting smiling Barack on coins, plates and guacamole dip.


No freshman rookie gets their face plastered on the Mount Rushmore of Mexican dishes until he has done phenomenal feats such as inventing the sombrero. Occasionally however, along comes a personality so revered that the entire population takes a siesta for four years, or the cacophony inverts so loudly that the poles reverse. Obama is just such a figure. In his case no one is sleeping because the grating noise of well wishers is loud enough to make a grown man squint.


So would the man who freed the slaves be happy about America’s election of a man of color? In Honest Abe’s case, there is no telling if his response to Obama’s ascension is a wince of distain, or an approving wink to go with the invisible nod. To the masses who are the blind horses in all of this, it doesn’t matter because once you are big enough to be pictured on food, it doesn’t matter how well sighted the horse. All that matters is that we giddy up!