Chicago Republicans

Summer is over and the kids are all back in school. You would think that as a conservative who, like Rush, hopes our President's policies...don't succeed, I would have been delighted by his struggles over the last couple of months. I should have been heartened by the Democrats' failure to pass their version of healthcare reform, the strong grassroots reactions at townhalls across the country from independents, not just Republicans, the Gates/Crowley fiasco where Obama instinctively claimed that police acted "stupidly"and his failed attempt to gloss it over with beer, the outcry over cap and trade, the trillion dollar deficit and the lukewarm stimulus, the furor over his many czars culminating with the resignation of radical advisor Van Jones, and finally the innocuous back to school speech forced upon him by parents across the country outraged by the lesson plan that taught us more about group think and Alinsky methodology. I don't yet feel energized by the rapidly dropping poll numbers that only Fox News seems to report, I just feel uneasy. If this last election taught me anything, it is that this Administration will manage to do the unbelievable. I don't trust the Democratic party, run by its left wing, to let Obama fail among its constituents. They will continue to bargain ith and manipulate their moderate members in order to keep this President and his agenda as the starting point for all political discussion. I just have this feeling that Obama will get away with a lot of what he wants to do in attempting to transform our government and society. Tonight, he will use linguistics to resell his health care plan, with the overall objective being to have a government plan, whether it is called an option, a single payer system, a trigger or whatever he now calls it. Remember, a rose is a rose by any other name and the morning star and the evening star are still Venus. This summer showed me that the tactic of this Administration is not to listen to the people and to work from their concerns but to start with the most liberally ideal legislation and hope it can survive a death by a thousand public outcry cuts. Keeping the public in the dark about the text of various bills, renaming various components, pooh-poohing legitimate concerns and outright denying or lying about its contents may work over time. It takes a lot of energy to disagree and dispel something and the liberal Democrats are banking on wearing down its critics, or at least making them look like angry mobsters who only seem to cry wolf. This is the source of my discontent - can independents and conservatives maintain the momentum to keep Congress and Obama honest? With a complicit liberal media, will their outcries be heard or honestly reported? Can Republicans effectively remind the public of these failures and the reveal the smokescreens or the "man behind the curtain"?

 

The important thing is that people need to feel connected to their government and their representatives and today they do not. One thing that is clear at these townhalls is that people do not trust their government. It is up to the Republicans to translate this mistrust and disconnectedness into political action. The hurdle is that most people are focused on making a living and providing for their families rather than listening to politicians and their polls. Who can we find to connect the right dots?