Gay Conservative

I love Dick Morris.  It’s bewildering that he ever worked for Bill and Hillary.  He is now a regular on Hannity.  And I guess that somewhere along the line – he saw the light.  Just like Paul on the road to Damascus.  He now sees the danger and horror of the very party that he once served.  The outlook he has for this nation is a gloomy prophecy….much like the one Paul eventually prophecized for our planet.  But it’s important that we understand what he has to say.

Now that Obama is the president, fasten your seat belts. During his first year in office, and particularly during his first hundred days, we are about to witness the most prodigious output of legislation since 1981-2 (under Reagan), 1964-5 (under Johnson), and 1933-36 (under Roosevelt). The combination of top heavy Democratic majorities in Congress and a mood of public fear bordering on panic over the financial crisis and the looming depression will speed his legislation through a compliant Senate and House.

We will enter his Administration as the United States, buoyed by an aggressive free market economy. We will exit his first year – and even the first hundred days – as France, burdened with massive government regulation, a vast public sector, and permanent middle class entitlements. And Obama will take care to arrange things so that massive and permanent political change accompanies his and protects his legislative achievements in the future.

Morris is correct.  This election and the two Congressional elections preceding it allowed the stars to align for liberal socialism in this nation.  All of those people who longed to see us fall into the mode of Scandanvian-type socialism must be overjoyed now.  Our nation is still plagued with the socialist entitlements that were introduced under FDR and LBJ.  Obama and his minions are set on, not only entrenching those policies further, but also expanding them.  I fail to understand their motives except to think that there are those who believe that a socialist/Marxist model of economic governance still has the possibility of succeeding despite their historic failure.  Morris goes on -

He will call this radical change a stimulus package. He will dress up a generation of liberal priorities as necessary steps to fight the economic crisis. His programs and policies won’t do much to end the depression. It will end only after the massive burden of debt is lifted from the shoulders of American and foreign households and companies, a process which will take years. At most, his stimulus will act as methadone while we withdraw from our debt addiction, mitigating the pain, smoothing over the trauma, and soothing our system.

But Obama’s strategy is to hide inside the Trojan Horse of stimulus an army of radical measures to change America permanently.

There is much more to this.  Everyone needs to read the full article.  The sad thing is that Republicans enabled this type of government expansion – especially GW – during the last few years.  And now we will pay the price for generations to come.  Everything that Ronald Reagan did to undo the economic misjudgements of the past was all in vain.  And Congressional Republicans set a precedent during their time in power as accomplices to a psedo-conservative president in order to make it all possible.

We should all be afraid.  Obama will weaken our defense and foreign policy.  That’s bad enough.  But he will destroy us from within with his economic policy.  And I have very little faith that Republicans in Congress have the cajones to stand up to him or to stand for fiscal conservatism.  We have always heard about RINOs who were socially moderate and fiscally conservative.  That was an abberation.  We will soon see that many of the current Congressional Republicans were neither.

I hope for a shift in 2010, but I’m not counting on it.  Morris says -

Most likely, Obama’s inability to tame the depression will erode his popularity during his first two years in office. But, by then, his proposals will be statutes. The fiscal parameters, the middle class’ expectations of no taxes and government handouts, and the demographics of our electorate will be changed forever.

Nevertheless, Dick slipped on Hannity today and mentioned the 2010 elections in a positive light for Republicans.  I don’t think he was counting on it, but I was a little amused when he said “we” in terms of Republicans making gains.  Our only hope at mitigating the devastating effects of Obama’s economic policies is to erode the Dem majorities in Congress in 2010 and taking it all back in 2012.  Our journey begins now.  And it is imperative that each and every one of us does the most that we can to make sure that the oligarchy of liberalism does not continue.  The future of our nation is at stake.