The final gasp for the country club republicans

First off I like Peggy Noonan.  I like much of her writing, she’s fairly intelligent and understands Washington like very few others.  There in lies the problem, Peggy is not a dying breed but one of increasing irrelevance.  Her column column today, Palin’s Failin, illustrates much of what most people hate about the media in general.  They are either biased extreme left or they are the can’t we all get along type of republicans that just drive people nuts.  Objective journalism is dead, 95% are socialists but Peggy’s column today shows much of what’s wrong with the other 5%.

People like Peggy still want to go to all the fancy parties and such so she has to jump on the lib bandwagon and bash Palin.  Sarah represents everything that Peggy is opposed to which is conservatism.  Sarah is clearly more conservative than McCain is and that drives the Country Club crowd nuts.  They actually thought that by getting McCain nominated they would really be done with conservatives.  After all McCain was supposed to nominate someone that anti-conservatism like he is right?  Well a funny thing happened on the way to Minneapolis.  McCain decided he couldn’t win without the base.  Yes Peggy the base, there is a reason why it is called the base, because it represents the majority.  Anyway McCain’s internal polling told him he was going to lose this election by numbers not ever before seen unless he did something drastic to satisfy the base.

McCain saw an opportunity to out do Obama with the female voters and figured he either go with a solidly liberal African American or he had to find a solidly conservative woman.  He chose Sarah Palin and she inspires the conservative base.  Most conservatives actually wish she was at the top of the ticket.  She is far more intelligent than Obama and Biden combined and she connects with voters in a way that few ever have.  It was this appeal to normal everyday people that helped get Bush elected twice, and it was the disconnected style that cost his father a second term.

Peggy rants against Sarah because she still subscribes to the belief that politicians in Washington still owe the media for their very existence.  Peggy rails against those that give the finger to the Washington media.  How dare they, don’t they know that the natural order is for the country club republicans to have a few seats, sit down and not make so much noise and this way they still get invited to the cool parties and such?  These damn conservatives just go a screw everything up and try fix it when the liberals turn the Constitution up side down.

So read with glee my friends as you are witnessing the last gasp of the country club republicans.

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It’s the spending stupid!!!

Everyone is standing around wondering why the Dow is diving, I thought it was supposed to be better now that we passed the bailout.  Nope because the bailout doesn’t help Wall St, it doesn’t help small investors, it doesn’t help people on main street.  The only people helped by the bailout were the libs in congress and the Republicans who were too weak to say NO.  The Libs (Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, etc) refused to heed the warnings and embrace the oversight of Freddie and Fannie back in 2003 when the President tried to fix it.  Barney was actually quoted as saying that he doesn’t see a problem with it.

No this bailout was simply to cover the tracks for officials tied to the Clinton Administration who profited from this, and to cover for another failed liberal idea of having government give houses to people that had no ability to pay for them.  Even after all that though we still couldn’t get this passed without a whole lot of pork that isn’t needed.

This is no longer about the two party system, this is about a two ideology system.  The ideology of liberalism and big government taking over everything, and the ideology of conservatism that is less government, lower taxes (on everyone), preserving freedom.  The democratic party is now defined by its socialists, the communists run that party now, that’s fine but the problem is that Republicans have become defined as weak.  Yes there are a few conservatives that stood up and said no, and that is great but will they be allowed to run the party?  I doubt it.  Next time you talk to your republican congressman or senator ask them if they are conservative, if they answer yes which the undoubtedly will then ask them what they think that means.  I doubt they will talk about lower spending, less government intrusion, lower taxes, preserving freedom through a strong military.  You will here words like compromise, working together, things like that.

Ask them to name one program in the federal budget that actually spent less money than the year before.  They won’t be able to because it hasn’t happened in at least 30 years.  I am talking about real cuts, not reductions in rates of growth like what libs think a cut is.  Nope we as a society and as a voting public have some unpopular decisions to make in the next several years.  We need to wean our selves off the government dependency train.  We need to reduce the number of people getting checks from the government.  We need to cut the federal work force by at least 25% if not 50%.  We must eliminate 50% of the departments and garbage in the federal government.  We must begin to push things like education, emergency services, and about 50% of everything else the federal government does back down to the states where the constitution says it should be in the first place.

The federal government needs to get out of the business of regulating everything the private sector does, free markets work but only when they are free of bureaucratic interference.  The federal government is responsible for defending out borders.  They must start doing that, states can and should be able to deport illegal aliens they catch but securing the border is primary focus 1 for the federal government.

A strong national defense is prescribed by the constitution.  The commander of the military is the President.  Period, no debate, the constitution is very clear about this.  Congress’ role in military matters is simply funding only, they don’t get to be generals that tell the President how to manage the military, they don’t get to decide on what weapons the military uses, they are limited to funding the military.

Common Currency is also one of the roles of the federal government.  This is fine, even a high level federal banking system is fine but the constitution doesn’t provide for the Treasury Secretary and the Chairman of the federal bank the power to be lord and master of all monetary structure and banking for the entire country.  It is not government’s job to tell banks who they can loan to and who they can’t, and it’s not the governments job to bailout investors who make bad loans.  That’s called risk.  Depositors can be insured for money they deposit up to an established level and that’s fine but there is a difference between depositing your money in a bank and buying stock in a bank.

We have to start cutting spending at least 5% per year and eliminating departments for the next ten years at least if we’re to survive as a representative republic!

VP debate moderator a lib, big surprise!

So it has leaked out that tonight’s moderator, Gwen Ifill, is writing a book about Obama to be published on inauguration day.   The surprise here is there some genuine outrage and I for one don’t understand it.  I can’t think of too many debates that were moderated by “objective” journalists, why, BECAUSE THERE AREN’T ANY!

Take away the book deal for a moment and look at one fact.  She works for PBS, can you point to one objective person at PBS, maybe a janitor or someone who has to fetch a latte for the elitist snobs there but let’s be real.

I think it is time we actual have someone who is objective moderate the next Presidential debate.  This person is clearly not in the tank for either candidate, he has been critical of both candidates equally, he will ask tough questions that are of particular interest to most Americans, he has over 20 years experience in media.  So with all that build up it is my contention that Rush Limbaugh is the only person objective enough and qualified to moderate the next Presidential debate.

Won’t ever happen, I doubt either candidate has the stones to actually agree to it but it would be the most entertaining debate in 100 years…