Posted by
Christopher Van on Saturday, August 02, 2008 7:31:04 AM
Only time will tell if the GOP can parlay the current energy crisis into success this November, but as it stands now it is their only chance. The mainstream media and Congressional Democrats have done a tremendous job in a assassinating the character of President Bush while concurrently tarnishing the Republican brand. The moveon.org Democrats are effectively leading a deaf, dumb and blind electorate down a path towards nanny state socialism that may come to a screeching halt as even the most economically illiterate Americans understand the pain at the pump.
Nancy Pelosi is refusing to allow a vote on offshore drilling because she knows full well that many in her party will break ranks with her to support what America wants and needs. If this happens before November, the GOP can effectively pin the Democrats with the label as the party of energy dependence. They are the party that would rather send money to terrorist nations than keep it at home. There continued refusal to exploit our domestic oil resources which are four times the known reserves of Saudi Arabia could very well be their death knell this fall.
It is time that the GOP focuses more on this. Taking over Congress was a start, but how many Americans really know that the Democrats left town for their summer break while sticking the rest of us with high gas prices? The GOP needs to demand that George Bush call Congress into a special session. The Republicans then need to refuse to fund a continuation of government as their budget expires at the end of September. They need a radical departure from the status quo, as that will translate to victory this fall. What they need are bold ideas that will cause Americans to sit back and recognize the havoc the moveon.org Democrats have wrought on our nation and our economy since their election in 2006.
The undeniable reality is that our economy was strong during the majority of the Bush years. After inheriting the Clinton/Gore recession in 2000, Bush immediately implemented tax cuts which improved the economy. Even after a devastating impact from 9/11, further tax cuts put us on the right track. Housing values skyrocketed, energy was cheap, inflation and unemployment were low. The only common denominator that has changed during the Bush years was the introduction of liberals to Congress.
Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have partnered in an endeavor of sedition to undermine everything that America stands for. They have led the majority of Democrats to vote against making English the official language yet supported giving socialist security to gate crashing illegal aliens. They have demanded that we surrender to Islamic fascists while at the same time denouncing out men and women in uniform. They have denigrated traditional marriage, Christianity and family values while extolling the virtues of their perverted and deviant constituents such as NAMBLA (the National Man Boy Love Association). They passed the largest tax increase in history and a failed energy policy that has resulted in our economy imploding while causing the price of food and energy to skyrocket.
As has been the case throughout the history of our nation, liberals are once again the cause of failure. Their defeatist attitude governs their policy and their negativity are the guiding principles of this failure. They stand in the way of success and accountability seeking to keep people down and dumb in exchange for government handouts and votes. Anyone who is too stupid, blind or uninformed to recognize this is part of the problem and should do us all a favor and stay home on Election Day. Remember, America was founded on the very principles that liberals loathe economic freedom and individual liberty. We fought a revolution to escape confiscatory taxation and regulation that was a lot less burdensome than Democrats have given us today. What’s it going to take to get the idiot portion of the electorate to wake up?
Christopher Van