Continetti: "Crises? You ain’t seen nothing yet."
That's how Matthew Continetti's excellent WS piece ends. Here's how it begins:
The liberal line is that President Obama has secured his place in history by signing into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. And secured it he has. Henceforth Obama will be remembered as the man who accelerated America’s mad dash toward bankruptcy. He will be remembered as the leader who promoted a culture of dependency. He will be remembered as the figure who sacrificed a dream of national unity upon the altar of big government liberalism. It’s true: Obama is now a president of consequence. And almost all of those consequences are bad.
Michael Medved is stating something very wise on his show today which relates to the whole Obamacare debacle. He proposes that the Republicans' challenge is keep everyone on this important topic of the fiscal irresponsibility of Obamacare and its devastating impact while the tendency will be for Americans to move onto the "next thing". The Tea Parties will help hopefully, and GOP campaigns are already running against candidates based on their Obamacare votes. But there is a long time before November and the news media is practically insisting that everyone get side-tracked on how great Obama is, imaginary racism, etc.
BTW, there is no "next thing" after you go bankrupt.
My worry, and I've already seen examples of this, is that the Republicans are focused on "taking back the House" as their ultimate goal. The sad recent history of Republicans in Congress is that this is all they are concerned about: being in the majority. Once that happens, the work is done and they do nothing (or the wrong thing).
ReplyDeleteThat is exactly what will doom us should that happen again. We must not elect mere Republicans. We must elect conservatives who will act to repeal, and then mind their own business instead of asserting their own power and control.
I fear a GOP majority that wants to show us how much better they can run Big Government than the Dems.
I understand, Pik, and in a large part I agree. But here's the problem: when it comes to governing in a conservative fashion the Democrats aren't even applying for the job. So conservatives are forced into a GOP-is-better-than-the-other-guy choice.
ReplyDeleteThe only long-term solution is for more conservatives to become politically active. And if/when they do, which party to you think they'll align with?