Your local DMV has just been surpassed by the employees at Los Angeles International Airport in terms of sheer incompetence.   It’s no secret that government employees in general lack the skills needed to hold down real jobs, but at LAX they take this to a whole new level.  

Having spent my morning at what can only be described as the worst run airport in the nation, I will now recount my tale of woe as I stood in security lines at the mercy of the products of the California public schools.   I actually wonder if there is any employee, anywhere within LAX, that did not vote for Barack Obama.   The only silver lining with LAX is that those employed would otherwise be living on welfare in the projects of Inglewood. Then again, it can be argued that working for the government is tantamount to being on welfare.

Being familiar with the airport, one that I vow time and time again to never fly through, I planned my day carefully and arrived ninety minutes early only to find an equally long wait in the security lines.   Mind you, this isn’t like a normal airport where you have one security line, but rather multiple lines where you check your bag, after you have already checked your bag.   Yes, you check your bag twice after you check in twice.  Hey, it’s California and keeping those union employees on the payroll is job number one. 

Since the first government employee was too busy with the bags he already had, I was sent clear across the terminal to another government employee who was busy rambling away in Espanol with his co-worker.   So much for those laws that require English only in the workplace, passed by a large majority of California voters.  

Using common sense, I gave him my bag and went to the closest escalator to ascend to the next security line.   Big mistake as the Obama voting TSA agent informed me that I would have to go to the other line, back at the other end of the terminal by the first baggage check in.   At least I think this is what she said, but subtitles would have helped as I have never taken Ebonics as a second language.

Vote Republican because we all can’t be on welfare!

Now that the dust has settled and the Bolshevik’s have vacated Chicago’s Grant Park, how do you feel? I’m actually feeling pretty good, not about the outcome of the election nor the realization that Obama won’t be paying my mortgage, but rather about the future of our great nation.   I wonder if Michele Obama feels this good as the stupor of euphoria wears off and the lines of voters gather to collect on promises that simply can’t be fulfilled.

Democrats now control both houses of Congress, but this is no change.   Sure, their majorities have grown, but they are at least not supermajorities as many pundits had anticipated. The executive branch is now in the hands of the most liberal president ever elected who will be in a dire predicament if he doesn’t appease his far left constituents and power brokers. But to do that he will alienate those to whom he promised change, resulting in an inevitably cataclysmic failure.  Either way, someone will be upset and Obama will be called a liar, a sham and a fraud as he is in a no win situation.

It was interesting to watch the world stock markets yesterday, which rallied on the news of an Obama win. From Tokyo to London, investors were ecstatic until it came time for Wall Street to close, with the Dow falling more than it ever had in one single post election day.   Perhaps those closest to Obama foretell the future, which is certainly the first I told you so moment of his term and he is not even in office yet.   Mark my words; we will have many more I told you so moments to come in the next four years which will be the worst four years since Jimmy Carter wrought havoc on our nation. 

So why am I so happy today? Because I recognize that Obama is going to give the mainstream media their wakeup call.   The lifeblood of the media is negative publicity and for the past eight years they have had George W. Bush, a president they singlehandedly made unpopular, to use as their scapegoat.   He’s gone, the Democrats aren’t. Bad news isn’t going away.   In fact it is going to get worse. Who can they possibly blame; their beloved Democrat who control Congress or their messianic, untested, little known President elect. 

For conservatives, I see the best years yet to come.   According to election day data, 33% of voters were self described conservatives, 22% self described liberals.   We had gay marriage bans passed in Arizona, Florida and even the perpetually blue California.   Despite what the pundits think, we are a center right country with the Reagan generation just beginning to reach the peak of our money making years.   As this new generation of power brokers emerges, we will embrace Republicans such as Sarah Palin, Jeff Flake, Mike Pence and Bobby Jindal because they, like us, are true Reagan conservatives who have not lost their direction.

While John McCain is a great human being and America, he was a marginal candidate at best.   Certainly he understands the danger posed by Islamic fascism, but his assaults on free speech and his support of amnesty were always red flags.   In many ways, his losing will turn out to be a long term win as liberals will be exposed for who they really are over the next four years.   We have far too many in the younger generations who don’t understand the grave threat to freedom, liberty and sovereignty posed by liberals who embrace Marxism far too easily.   We have an entire northeast and midwest that are economic basketcases and just so happen to be dominated by liberal politics.   We have a south and mountainwest that continue to thrive and of no surprise are dominated by conservatives.  It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what is wrong, but it will take four years of bad economic news to wake up the government educated, economically illiterate sheep.

My hope is that the change we can count on begins in Alaska, where Ted Stevens won re-election as a convicted felon and now must resign. Governor Sarah Palin will then be able to call a special election and would win in a landslide.  Let the change begin there and begin a snowball effect that will have liberals and their insidious socialist ideals running for the hills beginning with the 2010 mid-term elections that take place in just 769 days.

Christopher Van

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