| As I write, I am listening to the President | | | | take 3 million illegals to walk those across, a few |
| announce the resignation of Don Rumsfeld. While I | | | | dedicated followers will find the necessary cover |
| for one do not hold Rumsfeld solely responsible | | | | underneath the flood).So, what do we do? For |
| for the current situation in Iraq (there is plenty of | | | | one, we need a clean sweep of the leadership in |
| responsibility to share) I do somehow wonder | | | | the Republican branches of the Congress, Hastert, |
| what would have been had the President started | | | | Boehner and Blount must go in the house. Frist is |
| with a fairly clean slate of Secretaries and fresh | | | | already gone in the Senate, but maybe the |
| eyes after the 2006 elections. It reminds me that | | | | automatic choice of McConnell should not be so |
| the end effect of stasis is often disease.The | | | | automatic. This is part of the problem that got us |
| Democrat Party now holds the reigns of power in | | | | here, we need to select leaders on the basis of |
| the House and probably the Senate. If we are | | | | their Integrity (do not get me wrong -McConnell is |
| smart, we will not fall into the trap that the | | | | a man of integrity), I mean integrity to the |
| Democrats fell into in 2000. Allen should concede | | | | principles of the party. Seniority cannot trump |
| and put this to rest. We can gain nothing here in | | | | commitment to the principles of the party.We |
| fighting to overturn a result that appears solid | | | | need leaders ready, willing and able to fall on the |
| enough to resist the challenge.The Republican | | | | sword in furtherance of freedom, less |
| Party has fallen because it forgot who it was and | | | | government, and national security. We need party |
| became just another "Party In Power". Its' greed | | | | leaders that will fight the fight with the same |
| in managing the treasury of the people has been | | | | intensity that the Democrats showed over the |
| unequaled since the era of Johnson. The earmark | | | | last 6 years. We cannot sit back on traditions and |
| mechanism corrupted every aspect of the | | | | decorum when our opponents will not do the |
| process (only in favor of those powerful enough | | | | same. I am not sure about you, but I do not for |
| to lobby) and even had the proponents believing | | | | a moment, believe that the Democrats will afford |
| the rewards far outweighed the risks. You cannot | | | | us the same accommodations on power sharing |
| expect the blatant greed made infamous by Ted | | | | that Trent Lott gave the Democrats in 2002.We |
| Steven's outrageous greed in support of a very | | | | need to also now clarify in our hearts the purity |
| small portion of his constituency would not | | | | of our ideals and assert the authority of our |
| eventually fall on the enablers to pay the price. | | | | convictions to not just be led down a dead end. |
| And he was not alone.The arrogance of the | | | | We must reassert the grassroots control of the |
| party's approach to governing, diminished its ability | | | | party to reestablish the solidarity of the |
| to argue the morality of the important issues of | | | | underpinnings. We must be ready. Two years |
| the day. It also distracted them from fighting the | | | | hence, the love fest the Democrat Party |
| fights that needed fighting. Consequently, they | | | | currently is enjoying will have eroded severely |
| could point to no substantial accomplishments the | | | | because they will find their base eroded by the |
| last 2 years (other than a very dubious Medicare | | | | brilliant strategy that got them the win here |
| Prescription Drug Bill-one that hastens the | | | | (moving the critical races into the center ideology |
| bankruptcy of the system and further erodes | | | | by selecting conservative candidates to run). Their |
| any semblance of free-market governance over | | | | left wing base will find it very difficult going if they |
| the health care economy).Further, we had a party | | | | think they have clear sailing to assert a far-left |
| continuously assert leadership on the national | | | | agenda.The Democrat Party is not so short |
| security issue, selling it's soul to big business and | | | | sighted and will be looking down the road as they |
| to hispanic voters by allowing 2-3 million illegals to | | | | move forward. The retreat from the extreme |
| flow across the border every year arguing all the | | | | positions of the left will fracture the coalition. Sure |
| while that this flow is critical to the economy and | | | | they will throw some fresh red meat to the base, |
| comes at no net cost, with no security risk and | | | | but I do not expect any moves to impeachment |
| no inherent unfairness in forgiving the breach of | | | | and despite what they have been declaring about |
| the law they engage in, including the felony of ID | | | | solutions to the situation in Iraq, I think they will |
| Theft.Even those (few) of us who have not seen | | | | be hard pressed to hold the majority to effect a |
| the very real tangible costs of the influx, knew | | | | pullout. Despite the love between Harry Reid and |
| intuitively this was not true and understand the | | | | KOS, this will cause great problems internally.One |
| very, very, very, real danger it poses to us. The | | | | last thing, Mr. President, I know that you were |
| next terrorist attacks will be facilitated by our | | | | probably absent the week they discussedthe veto |
| inability or unwillingness to secure the borders. The | | | | in Poli Sci class. You would do very well to study |
| next attacks may very well be nuclear and be | | | | up and begin to understand the power and |
| sufficient to collapse our great Republic if Osama | | | | usefullness of the power embodied in this |
| and his followers execute on his plan to detonate | | | | constitutional tool. |
| nuclear weapons in our 7 largest cities (it won't | | | | |