What Lies Ahead
9 November 2006The elections are over. For politicians it’s time to start working on ‘08. But what about the rest of us? What do we do now?
‘08 is a long way off. I don’t know about you but I’m not prepared to spend two years in campaign mode. While the ‘08 elections are important, there is little any of us can do today to impact them. But there are many other issues to be looked at and dealt with in the mean time.
For one thing, with dems in control of the Senate we know right off that judicial appointments will be far more difficult for President Bush. It is likely that there will be one more vacancy on the Supreme Court in the next two years and I expect the President to avoid judicial activists and appoint someone who will strictly interpret the Constitution rather than superimpose his/her own ideology on it. That will, of course, mean a battle. It will be difficult to even get such a nominee through the Senate Judiciary Committee. We need to be prepared for that fight because it is likely to be coming. Even for normal appointments to the federal bench there will be much difficulty.
Comprehensive immigration reform now seems much more likely. Conservatives oppose reforms so far offered and those are just the kinds of reforms that will be offered again. Amnesty, by what ever name, will sail through both Houses of Congress and the President is likely to sign such legislation. Unless we are prepared with strong grassroots efforts to stop it, it will be a slam dunk.
Future Speaker Nancy Pelosi has indicated the raising the minimum wage will be a top priority. Few issues have been subject to such demagoguery than the minimum wage. And few issues are so poorly understood by the electorate. We know that any significant increase in the minimum wage will have two effects. First, it will increase unemployment for those at the bottom of the wage scale. Second, it will further slow the economy when it has already been slowed too much by aggressive fed interest rate policy. If Democrats are not checked, we will likely be headed into a new recession. That might be good for Republican prospects in ‘08 but it isn’t good for the American people and only strong grassroots efforts can stop it.
The biggest and by far most important issue is the war with Islamic fascism. To date, Democrats have appeared not to take it seriously, preferring to handle terrorist events through law enforcement. If dems truly believe what they’ve preached, they will work diligently to get us out of this war and hunkered down back home. If that should happen, we will see many more 9/11 style attacks on the US. Again, this may be good for Republican prospects in ‘08 but it is decidedly bad for American and we have to do whatever we can to prevent such an eventuality.
It is incumbent on all of us to communicate with our members of Congress and let them know that we will not sit back and allow them to make America vulnerable. Most conservatives I know have a pretty good understanding of the enemy we face. It is an enemy that only understands strength and weakness. It is an enemy that will interpret any move by the US to withdraw as a sign that our will is failing us and that will embolden them. Indeed, they are already taking credit for the Republican defeat and for Rumsfeld’s resignation. In the coming days look for the Islamic fascists to move aggressively to increase and consolidate the power this election has given them.
We face dark and dangerous days ahead. We must face them with resolve and determination. I believe that all of civilization is threatened and we must face that threat head on and unified. To this point we have been anything but unified. I desperately hope that it will not take a few more 9/11 style attacks to convince the electorate that we cannot win unless we are united.
We will face these and other issues over the next two years. All of us must work to educate ourselves. No one is going to come to us and teach us what the truth is on any of these issues. The one thing you can count on politicians to do is demagogue the issues. Even the best of them is driven by elections and they are motivated to do and say what they think is necessary to be reelected. If we want to know the truth we have to do the work to discover it. We have to research the issues. We have to educate ourselves so we understand what is at stake and so we can, in turn, work to educate others. I’ve always believed that truth ultimately prevails over lies and deceit but that can only be true when people know the truth.
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November 9th, 2006 at 2:18 pm
I check your blog out a lot, and agree with your stance on everything. I am glad that there are people like you out here. I posted to my blog today *Tired of all the Liberal Rhetoric out there….* [http://robertgarding.tripod.com/index.blog} and I mentioned your blog in mine today….hope that is okay.
Keep up the good work….
And God Bless America
God Bless our troops
-Robert-
November 9th, 2006 at 2:56 pm
LOL, I can’t imagine a blogger who didn’t want his blog mentioned. Thanks for the plug and feel free to do it again. Encouragement is always appreciated! I’m about to visit your blog and check it out now.
November 9th, 2006 at 8:11 pm
You bookmarked me at BlogExposion…..but I post most days….and I do read yours a lot…..Glad that there are more of people who believe like I do out there.
-Robert-
November 9th, 2006 at 9:32 pm
Now I remember. I knew I’d read your blog before. I’ve added you to my blogroll.
November 10th, 2006 at 2:42 pm
Hi Ron,
it was great chatting with you on the election night.
I like your analysis so far, however, I don’t agree completely.
Looks like Republicans are taking this election the wrong way. The message now is that the pro-open border electorate won. That the country is not for enforcing the border laws. I think this shows that it’s going to get much worse before it will get better.
The points that you and I agree upon which lost the election for the Republicans, the scandals, the corruptions, the losing of the base, is not completely sinking in within the Republican party yet. Looks like Bush is capitulating already to the Dems, starting immediately by firing Rummy.
Well, anyways, enough said. We’ll have to watch carefully and hold their feet to the fire.
November 10th, 2006 at 5:33 pm
I didn’t imply that Republicans would get it, I merely hoped that they would. I did not, however, place a lot of hope in the notion. While Republicans are probably better positioned for ‘08 than they would have been had they won, that does not mean they will use that position to their advantage. Indeed, it appears they will not because they do not understand it.
I agree that it may well get worse before it gets better. Unfortunately, it may be after the ‘08 election before Republicans get it. I hope that is not the case and that is where we come in. We have to keep on applying the pressure to our House and Senate members whether Republican or Democrat. That is the only thing that can slow or stop the headlong rush toward comprehensive immigration reform that is about to begin.
The problem for us, however, is where do we go in ‘08 if not for Republicans? If a Democrat Congress, with willing assistance from Republicans, does enact comprehensive immigration reform that includes amnesty for illegal aliens and leaving the border uncontrolled, who are we supposed ot support in ‘08?