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