What I’m trying to get at, is that conservatives shouldn’t worry about kissing the media’s rear end, or cowering to liberal extremist special interest groups. Americans don’t pay attention to the Stop People from Breathing to Save the Endangered Germs extremists, and neither should we. Once the dissenters see how well conservative policies work, they’ll follow along. The Republican Congress and governorships have actually bred Clinton’s success, so don’t let the Left interfere. It’s time to lead the country to a newborn prosperity of not just wealth, but also values and virtue unseen for the last eight years.
I am very heartened by President Bush’s comments to Brit Hume on Fox regarding Democrats needing to reach out to him as well. "We're going to find ways to work together," he predicted. "Either that or they're going to be left behind."
Some tidbits about George W. Bush as the 43rd president of the United States of America.
It's official, the Clinton energy policy could be summed up by one word: begging. And they couldn't even do that well.
As Bill Richardson's failed trip to the Middle East proved last weekend, OPEC will not obey our commands. Which begs the question: Isn't it time we had control of our own destiny? Isn't it time we looked into more domestic drilling and building more refineries? Certainly it couldn't be any more harmful - and is certainly less humiliating - than Clinton's failed policy.
This, and the current California energy crunch, is what happens when you allow environmentalists to control your office. But at least there are an abundance of snail darters (there’s an oxymoron) and rare spotted leopard starfish whales (okay, I made that one up).
Thank God (I can still say that, can’t I?) that eight years of the most classless president since Andrew Jackson is over. And at least Jackson had a sense of honor that overcame his "redneck" status. Do you think Clinton would ever kill a man to defend Hillary's honor, the way Jackson did for Rachel?
It’s too bad that John Ashcroft is such a nice guy. The far-Left Senators on the Judiciary Committee could have used a little talking down to. When you have a whoremongering boozehound who left a woman to die in order to save his political career, questioning a man of integrity like Ashcroft on whether he’s a racist, something’s very wrong. It should be Ashcroft doing the questioning, as to how a sensible society can allow such a loon to work in D.C. since 1962, never having to work a real job.
The Left even violated the Constitution. That’s right, they’re accusing Ashcroft of seeking to not enforce the law, yet they’re breaking it at the same time. As they attacked Ashcroft’s religious beliefs, asking if he’d be able to abandon them in order to follow the rule of law in this country, they violated Article VI, which stipulates that "no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States."
Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said that: "The issue boils down to this: When you have been such a zealous and impassioned advocate, how do you just turn it off? This may be an impossible task." Besides being incredibly bigoted towards any conservative Christian, Schumer is saying that Democrats can’t follow the law by putting aside personal beliefs, so how can Republicans? What manner of politician can actually avoid trying to change the law rather than follow it? I guess he forgot how Republicans unanimously voted for Janet Reno as Attorney General (which was a bad idea in retrospect), in spite of her outspoken anti-death penalty views, clearly out of the mainstream of America.
Dems are throwing out "racist" and "fascist" at conservatives just as they hate being called Communists and blacks hate the word "nigger," and don’t understand that it is just as offensive. The constituents on the Left have become so entrenched in disgust for anyone who disagrees with them, they can’t even accept a patriotic even like the inauguration. For example, after Ricky Martin agreed to participate in the pre-inaugural bash on Thursday, his songwriter, Robi “Draco” Rosa issued a statement that calls Martin’s performance “a betrayal of everything every Puerto Rican should stand for.”
As such hatred spews from the Left over conservatives like Ashcroft, for the 2004 election the Democrat candidate will have to run as a Compassionate Liberal in order to win.
Only Russ Feingold, D-Wis., has been levelheaded on the Left: "Let me also repeat my conviction, as this hearing begins, that voting records and conservative ideology are not a sufficient basis to reject a Cabinet nominee, even for attorney general." He’s one of the few Democrats to realize that what the Left is doing to Ashcroft is unprecedented in the annals of American history.
For those who listen to Dave Barry, Clark Howard or whatever financial guru on talk/radio, you already know this, but I am amazed that nowhere on the political television shows do the talking heads talk about personal debt that has carried the weight of the 90’s economic boom.
Howard points out that credit card debt almost tripled in the 1990's. The average household carries $8,000 in credit card debt that is not supportable with income. The average interest for a credit card is 17%. Most credit cards are used to purchase lifestyle items - or items that we don't need, but just want.
This debt is in conjunction with the question I’ve had for the last four years: how can the Left still call the 80’s the “decade of greed,” yet the 90’s were somehow virtuously making people even richer! Yet while the rich have gotten richer, the rest of us have plenty of material goods (must have that new Super Duper Pillow Defroster!) but are carrying loads of debt.
“The self-perception of the newly rich changed in significant ways. The media managed to label the Reagan years the ‘decade of greed,’ symbolized by corporate takeovers, a booming stock market and Nancy Reagan's dresses. The Clinton years, which have seen even larger corporate takeovers, a headier stock market, and Monica Lewinsky's stained dress, thought much better of itself and its own ‘remarkable,’ even ‘exuberant,’ prosperity. This contrast is due in part to the fact that the baby boom generation, which includes much of the media and the opinion leaders of the chattering classes, themselves got rich only in the 1990s and could no longer point a resentful finger at other people who were making off like bandits. ” – Francis Fukuyama, Wall Street Journal
When it was time to put up or shut up at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights hearing in Florida over the disputed vote count, the NAACP fled for cover.
Minority after minority stepped up to the mic to talk about their experience, none of which were denied the right to vote. We have a man who said that he saw unmanned police cars near a polling precinct on Election Day. He thought that was unusual. He went ahead and cast his vote. We had a preacher who said he had been taken from the voting rolls when he was misidentified as a convicted felon. One call to the election supervisor settled things and … he cast his vote. Then we had a woman who was stopped at a police license check roadblock two miles from her precinct. They asked for her driver’s license. She produced it and was allowed to proceed. She says she was “intimidated,” but she still voted.
On and on, the NAACP had nothing, no evidence of impropriety, and seeing as how Jesse Jackson and his cronies decided not to show up tells me and the world that they're all talk, no proof. I even heard rumors of there being unmanned cop cars at a voting precinct next to a police station! The voters were obviously so afraid and intimidated by such a presence of law enforcement that they couldn't fully punch a hole in their ballot.
I admit it: I’m gloating. I’m ecstatic that the GOP is in control of the White House, Senate and House of Representatives for the first time since the early 50’s. I think talk of bipartisanship is hooey, since Democrats never cared as long as they had control of Washington. What I want is for Republicans to ram home their policies and forget the Democrats’ ranting and ravings and charges of racism, homophobia, throwing starving children in the streets, killing old people and forcing Alec Baldwin to move to Europe as promised. Actually, that last one wouldn’t be a bad idea; it’s not like he’d be missed.