Thursday, November 4, 2010

You've seen the butcher.

I'll let the regular news prognosticators prognosticate about the historic nature of Tuesday's election in which voters butchered Democrats, liberals and leftists all about the fruited plains.  Here are some of the election lessons I think are important.
This election, while a monumental achievement for conservatives, or to more accurately describe voters -- Mainstream America -- is really just the opening salvo.  To borrow a phrase, "There be no shelter here."
Conservatives must keep up the momentum that's been building the past two years.  This is really just the beginning of a long and very difficult war to subdue leftism in America and reverse the monumental damage progressives, liberals, socialists and communists have done to destroy the individual liberties and freedoms of American citizens and to dismantle the very structure of America.  Progressives have been at it for a hundred years, trying to undo the principles of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, trying to squash the idea that a man can be free to govern himself.  This is a process.  It's taken a hundred years to take apart this much of America, how long will it take to put America back together again?
Having kept the Senate in Democrat hands, the president will not have any sort of legislative cover for his agenda that he might have believed he had losing both houses.  He can't blame a Republican congress for obstructing his agenda when his party still controls the Senate and the White House.  Though he will continue to blame Republicans, just as illogically as he did even with his party controlling the House, Senate and White House prior to the election, nobody's falling for it.  But whoever said narcissism was logical?
It also keeps pressure from the American voters on Obama and especially on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who miraculously was able to retain his seat.  He benefited from the very visible House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as an arrogant, flamboyant lightning rod for much of the voters' anger.  Now the boot of the American electorate lands squarely on his neck.  (Don't you just love those nice, friendly colloquialisms Democrats have introduced into mainstream political discourse?)
To be honest, conservative enthusiasm and momentum is the least of my worries.  President Obama will not moderate his agenda.  I think he is unable to move to the center and will continue to push his leftist agenda, only much more stealthily.  Fully aware that he would lose the House and possibly even the Senate, the president threatened "hand to hand combat" after the election.  Furthermore, in the weeks leading up to the election it was reported he would pursue his agenda via executive order and regulatory fiat.  For two years he pushed his agenda fully aware he was sacrificing many of his own party members at the alter of a leftist authoritarian, paternal ideology.  After two years of intense opposition to his policies by large majorities of Americans, why would the fully expected results of this election change his mind? 
I fear it will only strengthen his resolve.  After all, like most leftists, he knows better than us.  The goal of conservatives, in fact, the mainstream of America, is to support the newly elected opposition to President Obama's agenda.  They need us to be their backbone.
The president still seems to indicate he believes he has a communications problem.  His agenda is good and wonderful, but his messaging is still not getting through to the American people.  We should have loved and thanked him by now, but perhaps we are too hard headed, too ignorant, too unsophisticated to fully understand his magnificence.  Being president is a hard job, he admitted.
Apparently the American people have a communications problem too.  We're still not getting through to him.

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