Back In The Saddle Again, And Beating On The MSM
It does feel good to be back on the Internet after the unforseen hiatus that had both of us fiending to get back in the game like a couple of drug addicts. But we're back, and we're not in a mood to be trifled with. And for the "re-opening" of our site, I'd like to focus on this poor fool from the Boston Globe. (HT: Hugh Hewitt
LIKE A LOT of conservatives, I won't be voting Republican in the congressional elections this fall. Admittedly, I won't have a choice -- in Massachusetts, Republican candidates for Congress generally spare voters the trouble of defeating them by not bothering to run in the first place.
This column by Jeff Jacoby starts off like a seminar caller to a talk show. That's not to say that he really isn't a Republican, or even a conservative, but rather that is the tone that's being taken. And as for his choice, that's a cop out. Pennsylvania's "earthquake" in the primaries showed that for change to succeed, one has to work at it. Does Mr. Jacoby think that the voters of California don't push for conservatives despite the apparent liberal slant of the state? Please. Excuses don't equate change.
But millions of conservatives will have a choice. And the closer Election Day draws, the clearer it becomes that plenty of them will choose not to vote Republican. Unless something changes dramatically -- and soon -- the GOP is poised to lose its most reliable voters, and with them any hope of keeping its congressional majority.
No offense to the Tapscottians out there, but that's a loser's strategy. We have to fight this year--more than ever--to ensure the majority in Congress, and continue the president's agenda. This goes deeper than making the GOP pay this year for their ineptitude of the first five years of President Bush's tenure in office. This goes to the war, above and beyond anything else, and the confirmation of originalist jurists. Those that preach staying home on Election Day seem to have forgotten that should the Democrats win, the war is over.
The Democrats will follow the Jack Murtha approach to finishing a mission, and retreat. Likewise, there will be no defense of the troops in harm's way. We see with Haditha that Murtha's allegations aren't just confined to these few Marines. His words are an indictment on all of our troops, and that's not right. (Marcie is most displeased with this bloviating windbag; to the point that she sees red everytime this doddering old fool opens his yap.) We can't abandon the mission. The enemies of freedom are simply lying in wait. Their licking their chops, hoping that the Democrats will win, and leave them to continue wreaking havoc on a free nation.
Not only will the war against terrorism be over, but the war for the courts will most assuredly end. Right now the GOP stands with 55 votes in the Senate nearly filibuster-proof. Imagine if the GOP had lost seats in the 2004 election, and ask yourself if we would have gotten Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Alito, or Judge Kavanaugh advanced. If your answer is "yes," then you're not paying atrtention to the climate in DC. The Democrats gave each nominee a serious go-round, but the problem they faced, in the end, was that there was enough support to pass all three. Likewise, the three judges listed in the Gang of 14 deal--Janice Rogers Brown, William Pryor, and Prscilla Owens--all passed through the Senate with a better than fifty vote majority.
The Gang of 14 deal was a trick to get the GOP to dump the other seven nominees overboard. Like a compliant, abused dog, the GOP gave the Democrats what they wanted. However, with the deal in place, the GOP warned that any sort of hold-up on the aforementioned trio would trigger the Constitutional Option, thereby killing the filibuster for good in the Senate over judicial nominees. The Democrats, with their hands tied, had no choice but to pass Roberts, Alito, and Kavanaugh.
Losing the majority in the Senate, and coming close to losing it in the House would be a death knell for the last two years of the president's last term in office. That's a proposition that good, solid, reasoned pundits in the base aren't willing to let happen. We're a couple of them. And while Mr. Jacoby's sentiments are noted, as is his frustration (which is matched by our own), we can't sit idly by and watch what we've worked for fall by the wayside in some petty display of stupidity.
We earn change through hard work. That hard work is already underway by the likes of many within the blogosphere. And I hate to disagree with many of the pundits out there, but the GOP will carry the day on Election Day. That is, if they don't manage to shoot themselves in the foot too badly between now and then. Regardless, even if they do, we're not giving up.
Publius II
It does feel good to be back on the Internet after the unforseen hiatus that had both of us fiending to get back in the game like a couple of drug addicts. But we're back, and we're not in a mood to be trifled with. And for the "re-opening" of our site, I'd like to focus on this poor fool from the Boston Globe. (HT: Hugh Hewitt
LIKE A LOT of conservatives, I won't be voting Republican in the congressional elections this fall. Admittedly, I won't have a choice -- in Massachusetts, Republican candidates for Congress generally spare voters the trouble of defeating them by not bothering to run in the first place.
This column by Jeff Jacoby starts off like a seminar caller to a talk show. That's not to say that he really isn't a Republican, or even a conservative, but rather that is the tone that's being taken. And as for his choice, that's a cop out. Pennsylvania's "earthquake" in the primaries showed that for change to succeed, one has to work at it. Does Mr. Jacoby think that the voters of California don't push for conservatives despite the apparent liberal slant of the state? Please. Excuses don't equate change.
But millions of conservatives will have a choice. And the closer Election Day draws, the clearer it becomes that plenty of them will choose not to vote Republican. Unless something changes dramatically -- and soon -- the GOP is poised to lose its most reliable voters, and with them any hope of keeping its congressional majority.
No offense to the Tapscottians out there, but that's a loser's strategy. We have to fight this year--more than ever--to ensure the majority in Congress, and continue the president's agenda. This goes deeper than making the GOP pay this year for their ineptitude of the first five years of President Bush's tenure in office. This goes to the war, above and beyond anything else, and the confirmation of originalist jurists. Those that preach staying home on Election Day seem to have forgotten that should the Democrats win, the war is over.
The Democrats will follow the Jack Murtha approach to finishing a mission, and retreat. Likewise, there will be no defense of the troops in harm's way. We see with Haditha that Murtha's allegations aren't just confined to these few Marines. His words are an indictment on all of our troops, and that's not right. (Marcie is most displeased with this bloviating windbag; to the point that she sees red everytime this doddering old fool opens his yap.) We can't abandon the mission. The enemies of freedom are simply lying in wait. Their licking their chops, hoping that the Democrats will win, and leave them to continue wreaking havoc on a free nation.
Not only will the war against terrorism be over, but the war for the courts will most assuredly end. Right now the GOP stands with 55 votes in the Senate nearly filibuster-proof. Imagine if the GOP had lost seats in the 2004 election, and ask yourself if we would have gotten Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Alito, or Judge Kavanaugh advanced. If your answer is "yes," then you're not paying atrtention to the climate in DC. The Democrats gave each nominee a serious go-round, but the problem they faced, in the end, was that there was enough support to pass all three. Likewise, the three judges listed in the Gang of 14 deal--Janice Rogers Brown, William Pryor, and Prscilla Owens--all passed through the Senate with a better than fifty vote majority.
The Gang of 14 deal was a trick to get the GOP to dump the other seven nominees overboard. Like a compliant, abused dog, the GOP gave the Democrats what they wanted. However, with the deal in place, the GOP warned that any sort of hold-up on the aforementioned trio would trigger the Constitutional Option, thereby killing the filibuster for good in the Senate over judicial nominees. The Democrats, with their hands tied, had no choice but to pass Roberts, Alito, and Kavanaugh.
Losing the majority in the Senate, and coming close to losing it in the House would be a death knell for the last two years of the president's last term in office. That's a proposition that good, solid, reasoned pundits in the base aren't willing to let happen. We're a couple of them. And while Mr. Jacoby's sentiments are noted, as is his frustration (which is matched by our own), we can't sit idly by and watch what we've worked for fall by the wayside in some petty display of stupidity.
We earn change through hard work. That hard work is already underway by the likes of many within the blogosphere. And I hate to disagree with many of the pundits out there, but the GOP will carry the day on Election Day. That is, if they don't manage to shoot themselves in the foot too badly between now and then. Regardless, even if they do, we're not giving up.
Publius II
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