Posted on 06/13/2009 7:47:47 AM PDT by Publius
Last Spring, I was rooting for Obama to beat Hillary in the Primaries, because I figured that SHE was the one that would come in with guns blazing and turn us into a Socialist State. I thought that he was too much of a green-horn to be able to do much at all. I imagined that he would just keep the status quo going. Geez, was I wrong!
Actually, I firmly believe that if Hitlery were President, we’d be in much worse shape.
What we have to do is slow Obozo down, and then ensure that the LIEberal/Socialist/Marxist Bastards (and, some of them are Republican) lose big-time in 2010.
In the meantime, I sure hope there are a large number of smart Conservative thinkers/strategists plotting right now to undo everything Obozo has/is doing to destroy the USA.
No doubt, plenty of big government spenders & regulators all the way from the statist in chief down to dogcatcher. Charged with the mission of expanding their power base no matter what.
And y’know it goes back to the roots of the modern conservative movement in the immediate post-LBJ era. While the socialist left is ever expansive, the Republican answer for the 40+ years of the movement has been only to slow it. So at the core of the platform remains expansion of government. The last 12 years or so makes that clear enough.
I have been yelling at the television for 30 years, and especially the ‘93-’06 period when Republicans held significant power, that 99% of what they accomplish is borrowing or taxing to pay for pure unadulterated crap.
Ike was in the WH when I was born, and Reagan is the best man we’ve had there in my lifetime, but he shouldn’t have accepted even 25% of what he signed into law. That’s the bottom line </rant>.
So looking forward, I remain seeking honest devolution of government to it’s constitutional powers, and the expansion of personal opportunity that would naturally bring.
Who in the Republican (or any) party is running on that platform?
Not arguing for a Randian "Utopia of Greed" in the literal sense. Indeed, her writing seems to display an ignorance of our constitution, the enumerated powers, and the reasons we allow the government to have them - and simply argues her personal philosophy in a vacuum as a magical end to all that is wrong with society and government.
We know one size doesn't fit all or even most. Reading this book it's not evident that she does. It displays many of the problems we face today with remarkable foresight, but offers nothing to solve them that would actually work.
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