Well, well, well, my Republican friends. You did it, didn’t you?
So, do you think everything’s just hunky dory now? Can you put down the newspaper and pick up your People magazine? Can you tune out the news programs and start planning your evening around Entertainment Tonight or Inside Edition?
A few days of celebrating is great; you worked for it and you earned it. But there’s a reality to be faced, and no better time to start than now.
Did you listen carefully to Nancy Pelosi this week? She seems to think that Democratic election losses came about because the Democrats just didn’t do enough. Harry Reid? He’s saying the Republicans need to find a way to compromise with the Democrats, not the other way around.
The Community Organizer? He said that the message was clear that he just didn’t do enough. President Barack Obama thinks the message was that the voters want the Republicans to work together with Democrats to “change the tone in Washington.”
It’s not the tone that needs to be changed, Mr. Obama. It’s the legislation, the intrusiveness, the arrogance, the class warfare and the denunciations of our country by our president.
The voters want you and your Democrat pals to stop your demonization of American businesses and recognize that the American people do not belong to the federal government.
The voters want you to admit that America’s greatness does not flow from government, but rather from the dynamic of free people working together in a system based on the rule of law and economic liberty.
In short, the Democrats don’t understand why you, the voters, fired so many of them. Fine. Let them wallow in their confusion. Right now you need to start worrying about whether or not the Republicans your hired understand.
Consider this: Over the past two years of Democratic rule you’ve always known, no matter how bad things seemed, that Nov. 2, 2010, would roll around.
The Democrats wanted to enable unionization through intimidation. They didn’t have the votes, and the midterms were on the way. Obama wanted cap-and-tax, but the votes weren’t there, and the midterms were on the horizon. Obama managed to virtually seize control of our health care. The cost estimates were increasing on a daily basis. Private companies were announcing that they were going to drop their coverage. Private insurers were dropping health insurance products for children. This was all bad enough, but you knew that you could change things Nov. 2.
Month after month the employment numbers came in, and month after month the numbers were dismal. We need 150,000 new jobs every month just to keep up with population growth, but under Obama and the Democrats you were lucky to see one-third of that.
OK, a question. You’ve done it. You threw a Category 4 hurricane at the Capitol and washed out quite a bit of debris. What do you do now if the Republicans don’t perform? What do you do if we start to see a repeat of the GOP class of 1994? Republicans then promised to get rid of the useless Department of Education. Instead, they doubled its size.
I’m not trying to be the proverbial foreign object in the punch bowl here, but you need to know that you have no more midterm escape valves. If the Republicans don’t perform, who you gonna call? What are you going to do? Throw them out of office in favor of what — Democrats?
The point here is that your vote Tuesday was the beginning, not the end. Now you have some of your people in office, don’t walk away assuming they’re going to do well. Washington power is corrosive. Continued voter involvement is the solvent.
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