Posted on 11/02/2010 7:19:00 AM PDT by The Pack Knight
The expected Republican upset at the voting booth today is bound to leave many inside the Beltway confused. What on earth do the American people want? After all, just two years ago they threw out the Republicans, and now they are throwing out the Democrats.
What Americans want is a government that stays out of their pocketbooks and out of their private lives. Under Presidents Bush and Obama, we've gotten just the opposite: government program after government program created with our money to socially engineer the economy.
Evidence of voters’ desires lies in the huge swing we are seeing in the so-called independents. They are leaning heavily Republican in every poll. Pundits and political observers use the word independents frequently, but rarely do they define it. Now would be a good time.
I believe independents are fiscally-conservative, yet socially-liberal. How do I know? I’m one of them. I don’t want to be taxed to death, and I don’t want to tell other people how to live their lives.
Yet, for decades the choice has been either A.) a party that didn’t want to overtax me, but seemed awfully concerned about what happens in people bedrooms, or B.) a party that was far more tolerant on social issues but loved spending taxpayer money to “fix” things.
But many believers in small-government think it is a concept that should dictate every aspect of Washington, not just the size of say, the Department of Commerce. Laws designed to legislate social values run contrary to the idea of small government because making laws about peoples private lives is about making government bigger, not smaller.
Now to today’s election and the supposed flip-flop of the American public. To independent voters, Presidents Obama and Bush look awfully similar. Both have presided over enormous increases in government spending, and deep government intervention into large portions of the economy. From President Obama we got health care reform, from President Bush we got the largest federal intervention into education in the nations history, and huge subsidies for people to buy homes. Both have given us protectionism. Both bailed out the banks. Both bailed out the auto industry. For 10 years now we’ve had no difference in governing policies regardless of who was in power.
So now what?
After the Republican sweep of 1994, President Clinton was forced to find fiscal religion, and independents finally got policy changes they wanted: welfare reform, an embrace of the free markets with the passage of NAFTA, and a balanced budget driven in large part by less spending. (Thank you Newt Gingrich.) With the glaring exceptions of the tax-hike of 1993 and the Defense of Marriage Act, President Clinton looks pretty good to the independent voter of today.
Will President Obama learn from President Clinton? Only if he corrects his view of history.
Right now, the President consistently blames a lack of government oversight and regulation under the Bush years, as one of the key reasons for the nations economic woes. The truth is just the opposite and the American people know that. President Bush may have been Republican, but he didn’t preside like one. We haven’t seen a Republican president who truly believed in keeping government small in the lives of its people since Ronald Reagan.
Despite an enormous amount of new legislation (the stimulus bill, health care reform, financial regulatory reform, and education finance reform) President Obama’s ratings have never been lower.
He needs to ask himself why.
The answer: because he is doing exactly the same thing his predecessor did. Spending too much, regulating too much, and intervening too much, with little to show for it in the way of economic improvement.
To the American people, less is more. They know exactly what they want. Now if only the politicians they vote for would give it to them.
Michelle Caruso-Cabrera is an anchor of CNBCs Power Lunch and author of 'You Know I’m Right, More Prosperity, Less Government.'
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2619618/posts?page=60
Send to your address lists; expose this outrage!!!
But really the issue is abortion. Not exactly “in peoples bedrooms” but close enough. A lot of fiscally conservative independents are locked into voting for Democrats because of abortion.
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I still think that Abortion probation/regulation like many other issues including murder, belongs with the states. Every-time ‘conservatives’ try to counter liberals by demanding another expansion of federal government power (meaning when a Republican is president) it is another precedent, like another jail cell bar to cage us in when the liberal takes power and decides we have to buy Obama-care, or what-ever. Same for the federal government telling private businesses who get no federal money who they must have as customers or who they must hire. It always comes back, like the Ring in 'Lord of the Rings'. Remember how everyone thought that they would be different and use the Ring power for good?
except you forgot 'homos and gypsies'...adolf isnt pleased with ya there...
[Michelle Caruso-Cabrera] What Americans want is a government that stays out of their pocketbooks and out of their private lives... Evidence of voters' desires lies in the huge swing we are seeing in the so-called independents. They are leaning heavily Republican in every poll. Pundits and political observers use the word independents frequently, but rarely do they define it. Now would be a good time. I believe independents are fiscally-conservative, yet socially-liberal. How do I know? I'm one of them. I don't want to be taxed to death, and I don't want to tell other people how to live their lives.How does she know? She looks in the mirror and thinks she sees everyone else as well as herself. When she says socially-liberal, she means pro-quotas, pro-abortion, cut defense spending, kowtow to Islamofascists and world gov't a-holes.
Thanks bro.
RE Adolf:
F*** him. My old man kicked his SS Ubermensch soldaten arsches all over Europe.
Heeheehee
“..Remember how everyone thought that they would be different and use the Ring power for good?...”
Yes, I do - but I also remember Burke - “evil men triumph when good men do nothing...”
If we don’t find a way to stop the slaughter when we are able, what good are we?
Agree about the States’ part - but that’s just a smaller version of government. But it still comes down to the extermination of the helpless under color of law - or not.
Perhaps teaching people to respect human life again would be a start...
I am talking about state's power versus federal power. Yes many Republicans believe the means (increased federal power to control us) justifies the ends (saving innocent unborn lives) versus the less powerful/effective method of having the state voters decide for their state.(as we did before Roe.)
But liberals easily extend that argument to their own ends and make it sell as: “The Federal government cannot allow people to remain sick if the states do” and becomes “The federal government cannot allow us to live unhealthy lives” if the states do allow us because that is life or death of important people(except the old and unborn naturally). And the same Republicans that argued for increased federal power above cry unconditional for this.
I am talking federal vs state power and the US constitution and Roe vs Wade. Sooner or later the other side wins and uses that power. Example: I always tell liberals that President Palin will put Dick Cheney in charge of the death panels and they are first on the list.
“..Example: I always tell liberals that President Palin will put Dick Cheney in charge of the death panels and they are first on the list...”
I just spit coffee all over my screen...HAHAH!!
My friend, that is the quote of the week...!!!
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